A riotous excursion through the contemporary sportscape. Genosko's exhilarating approach employs an idiosyncratic mix of cultural studies, contemporary theory, and a lifetime of collection sports cards as he celebrates the heroic amateurs and the radical losers, from poolside to nationhood, bodybuilding to swimsuit magazines, hockey and bike messengers. A collection of short, sharp and sweet essays that owe more than a touch to that other fine sportswriter, Eduardo Galeano.

Contest: Essays on Sports, Culture and Politics

Literature & Fiction

Gary Genekso

Essays & Correspondence

Arbeiter Ring Publishing

A beautiful book full of hard numbers. Located at the intersection of the statistical and the artistic, this catalog of corporate horrors—poverty, exploitation, and injustice—is a damning indictment of capitalism created with both love and rage. One in five American children live in poverty. One hundred, thirty-five million of the world's women and girls have undergone genital mutilation. In Bangladesh, an estimated 500,000 people are slaves. The amount of money spent on ice cream in Europe would be enough to provide reproductive health for all women in developing countries.....unfortunately, there's a lot more to learn. Illustrated by the author and with an introduction by his Mecca Normal band-mate Jean Smith.

The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism

Science & Math

David, Lester

Mathematics

This book is a primer to the history of aboriginal resistance to capitalism in Canada since first contact and a polemic against the continuing racist and economic oppression using various theoretical perspectives.

The Red Indians (Semaphore)

History

Peter Kulchyski

Americas

This remarkable collection of essays by leading Indigenous scholars focuses on the themes of freedom, liberation and Indigenous resurgence as they relate to the land. They analyze treaties, political culture, governance, “environmental issues,” economy and radical social movements, from an anti-colonial Indigenous perspective. Editor Leanne Simpson has solicited Indigenous writers that place Indigenous freedom as their highest political goal, while turning to the knowledge, traditions and culture of specific Indigenous nations to achieve that goal.

Lighting the Eighth Fire: The Liberation, Resurgence, and Protection of Indigenous Nations

Leanne Simpson

Imperialist Canada exposes Canada s imperialist past and present, at home and across the globe. Todd Gordon interweaves histories of aboriginal dispossession in Canada with the cold facts of Canadian capital s oppression of indigenous peoples in the global South. The book digs beneath the surface of Canada s image as global peacekeeper and promoter of human rights, revealing the links between the corporate pursuit of profit and Canadian foreign and domestic policy. Drawing on examples from Columbia, the Congo, Sudan, Haiti and elsewhere, Imperial Canada makes a passionate plea for greater critical attention to Canada s role in the global order.

Imperialist Canada

Business & Money

Todd Gordon

Economics

John Loxley has worked in community economic development as a practitioner, advisor, teacher and scholar for over 30 years. A passionate voice for economic and social equality, his innovative work is informed by broad experience at the community and senior government levels in Africa and Canada. The wealth of that experience is reflected in this book, which grapples with the conceptual and political complexities of addressing northern and Aboriginal poverty. Loxley examines a number of possible approaches to economic development, placing each within a broader theoretical and policy perspective, and considering its growth potential and class impact. Accessible and theoretically sophisticated, the book blends international development theory with northern Canadian and Aboriginal realities. It includes important reflections on Aboriginal values and culture, and the Aboriginal relationship to the land in Canada's north. The book also evaluates the successes and failures of urban community development, and the role community economic development can play in achieving Aboriginal equality in Canada.

Aboriginal, Northern, and Community Economic Development

John Loxely

Many promote Reconciliation as a new way for Canada to relate to Indigenous Peoples. In Dancing on Our Turtle s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence activist, editor, and educator Leanne Simpson asserts reconciliation must be grounded in political resurgence and must support the regeneration of Indigenous languages, oral cultures, and traditions of governance. Simpson explores philosophies and pathways of regeneration, resurgence, and a new emergence through the Nishnaabeg language, Creation Stories, walks with Elders and children, celebrations and protests, and meditations on these experiences. She stresses the importance of illuminating Indigenous intellectual traditions to transform their relationship to the Canadian state. Challenging and original, Dancing on Our Turtle s Back provides a valuable new perspective on the struggles of Indigenous Peoples.

Dancing On Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence

The Winter We Danced is a vivid collection of writing, poetry, lyrics, art and images from the many diverse voices that make up the past, present, and future of the Idle No More movement. Calling for pathways into healthy, just, equitable and sustainable communities while drawing on a wide-ranging body of narratives, journalism, editorials and creative pieces, this collection consolidates some of the most powerful, creative and insightful moments from the winter we danced and gestures towards next steps in an on-going movement for justice and Indigenous self-determination.

The Winter We Danced

Politics & Social Sciences

The Kino-nda-niimi Collective (Editor)

Social Sciences

By combining provocative prose with photo-essay, Time and the Suburbs explores the disappearance of cities in North America under the weight of suburban, exurban, and other forms of development that are changing the way we live. Pointing to the complex experience of time in traditional cities, the book warns that our new suburban regions are the materialization of a homogenous and uniform experience of time that threatens the possibility of social change.

Time and the Suburbs: The Politics of Built Environments and the Future of Dissent (Semaphore Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Rohan Quinby

Psychology & Counseling

Practicing Feminist Mothering explores the realities of feminist mothering for both mothers and their children. It scrutinizes the discourse of motherhood by examining the material spaces that feminist mothers create to struggle with patriarchy. The book is based on indepth interviews of sixteen feminist mothers conducted from 1995 to 2007 and includes interviews with some of the adult children, one who is now a mother. These interviews provide a rich understanding of the tensions within feminism surrounding issues of mothering and the reproduction of feminism itself. It illuminates the complexities of generational dynamics by exploring how the children mothered by self-consicous feminists think of feminism and mothering in their adult lives. By developing concepts of matroreform and motherlines, this book provides a powerful perspective on mothering as a central aspect of feminism.

Practicing Feminist Mothering

Fiona Joy Green

Women's Studies

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