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The Politics of Restorative Justice

by Andrew Woolford – Fernwood Publishing (May 27, 2020)

This book invites the reader to reconsider restorative justice and its politics. Through an examination of restorative themes, theories and practices, three distinct ways in which politics affect restorative...

Becoming an Ally, 3rd Edition

by Anne Bishop – Fernwood Publishing (May 27, 2020)

Becoming an Ally is a book for men who want to end sexism, white people who want to end racism, straight people who want to end heterosexism, able-bodied people who want to end ableism -- for all people who...

Research for Social Justice

by Adje van de Sande & Karen Schwartz – Fernwood Publishing (May 27, 2020)

Most social work research texts are written from an empiricist and positivist perspective, emphasizing the scientific method and the value of objectivity in research. While acknowledging that certain aspects...

Building a Better World, 3rd Edition

by Stephanie Ross, Larry Savage, Errol Black & Jim Silver – Fernwood Publishing (May 27, 2020)

This third edition of Building a Better World offers a comprehensive introductory overview of Canada's labour movement. The book includes an analysis of why workers form unions; assesses their organization and...

Research Is Ceremony

by Shawn Wilson – Fernwood Publishing (May 27, 2020)

Indigenous researchers are knowledge seekers who work to progress Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing in a modern and constantly evolving context. This book describes a research paradigm shared by Indigenous...

Accounting for Genocide

by Dean Neu & Richard Therrien – Fernwood Publishing (May 27, 2020)

Accounting for Genocide is an original and controversial book that retells the history of the subjugation and ongoing economic marginalization of Canada’s Indigenous peoples. Its authors demonstrate the ways...

Locating Law, 3rd Edition

by Elizabeth Comack – Fernwood Publishing (May 27, 2020)

Praise for the second edition: “This book is the best available for teaching the role of law in society and making sense of how it operates within the (inter)connections of race, class and gender dynamics...

Kaandossiwin

by Kathleen E. Absolon (Minogiizhigokwe) – Fernwood Publishing (May 21, 2020)

Indigenous methodologies have been silenced and obscured by the Western scientific means of knowledge production. In a challenge to this colonialist rejection of Indigenous knowledge, Anishinaabe researcher...

Security, With Care

by Elizabeth M. Elliott – Fernwood Publishing (May 21, 2020)

“I learned that the problems were much deeper than a flawed criminal justice system, and that our work needed to begin in our relationships with each other and the natural world, and most importantly, with...

Restless Ideas

by Tony Simmons – Fernwood Publishing (May 21, 2020)

How do we make sense of the rise of political strongmen like Trump and Erdo?an, or the increase in hate crimes and terrorism? How can we understand Brexit and xenophobic, anti-immigrant sentiments and policies?...

State union 2020

by Pascale Joannin – Marie B (May 09, 2020)

The Schuman Report 2020 on the State of the Union offers a complete panorama of the European Union.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Pascale Joannin is managing director of the Schuman Fondation.

Missing Women, Missing News

by David Hugill – Fernwood Publishing (May 06, 2020)

Missing Women, Missing News examines newspaper coverage of the arrest and trial of Robert Pickton, the man charged with murdering 26 street-level sex workers from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. It demonstrates...