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  • Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women

    Settler Colonialism and the Difficulty of Inheritance

    by Amber Dean ...
    Between the late 1970s and the early 2000s, at least sixty-five women, many of them members of Indigenous communities, were found murdered or reported missing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. In a work driven by the urgency of this ongoing crisis, which extends across the country, Amber Dean offers a timely, critical analysis of the public representations, memorials, and activist strategies ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Memorializing Violence

    Transnational Feminist Reflections

    by Carmela Murdocca, Amber Dean, Karine Duhamel, Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj, María de los Ángeles Aguilar, Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, Shahrzad Mojab, Chowra Makaremi, Ayu Ratih, Honor Ford-Smith, Juanita Stephen, Erica S. Lawson, Ola Osman, Alma Cordelia Rizzo Reyes, Charlotte Henay, Camille Turner, Mila Mendez, Malathi de Alwis ...
    Series series Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
    Memorializing Violence brings together feminist and queer reflections on the transnational lives of memorialization practices, asking what it means to grapple with loss, mourning, grief, and desires to collectively remember and commemorate–as well as urges to forget–in the face of disparate yet entangled experiences of racialized and gendered colonial, imperial, militarized, and state violence. ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Remembering Air India

    The Art of Public Mourning

    Edited by Chandrima Chakraborty, Amber Dean, Angela Failler ...
    On June 23, 1985, the bombing of Air India Flight 182 killed 329 people, most of them Canadians. Today this pivotal event in Canada’s history is hazily remembered, yet certain interests have shaped how the tragedy is woven into public memory, and even exploited to advance a strategic national narrative. Remembering Air India insists that we “remember Air India otherwise.” This collection ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Feminist Praxis Revisited

    Critical Reflections on University-Community Engagement

    Edited by Amber Dean, Jennifer L. Johnson, Susanne Luhmann ...
    In Feminist Praxis Revisited, Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) practitioners reflect on how the field has sought to integrate its commitment to activism and social change with community-based learning in post-secondary institutions.Teaching about and for social change has been a core value of the field since its inception, and co-op, practica, and internships have long been part of the curriculum ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    by Malory Nye ...
    Series series The Basics
    From the local to the global level, religion is – more than ever – an important and hotly debated part of modern life in the twenty-first century.From silver rings to ringtones and from clubs to headscarves, we often find the cultural role and discussion of religion in unexpected ways.Now in its second edition, Religion: The Basics remains the best introduction to religion and contemporary culture ... Read more

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  • Religion and Ethnicity in Canada

    Edited by Paul Bramadat, David Seljak ...
    As the leading book in its field, Religion and Ethnicity in Canada has been embraced by scholars, teachers, students, and policy makers as a breakthrough study of Canadian religio-ethnic diversity and its impact on multiculturalism. A team of established scholars looks at the relationships between religious and ethnic identity in Canada's six largest minority religious communities: Hindus, ... Read more

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  • Religion, Culture & Society

    A Global Approach

    by Andrew Singleton ...
    "The reader is taken on a global exploration of the forms and diversities of religions and their social and cultural contexts... It is up to the minute in research and theory, and comfortably grounded in the traditions of the social explanation of things religious and spiritual."- Gary Bouma AM, Monash University"Tells how sociology of religion originated in the work of key nineteenth and ... Read more

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  • Religious Radicalization and Securitization in Canada and Beyond

    Edited by Paul Bramadat, Lorne Dawson ...
    After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, those in London and Madrid, and the arrest of the “Toronto 18,” Canadians have changed how they think about terrorism and security. As governments respond to the potential threat of homegrown radicalism, many observers have become concerned about the impact of those security measures on the minority groups whose lives are “securitized.”In Religious ... Read more

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  • Queer Spiritual Spaces

    Sexuality and Sacred Places

    by Kath Browne, Sally R. Munt, Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip ...
    Drawn from extensive, new and rich empirical research across the UK, Canada and USA, Queer Spiritual Spaces investigates the contemporary socio-cultural practices of belief, by those who have historically been, and continue to be, excluded or derided by mainstream religions and alternative spiritualities. As the first monograph to be directly informed by 'queer' subjectivities whilst dealing with ... Read more

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  • Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams

    Identity and Modernity Among Jat Sikhs

    by Nicola Mooney ...
    Renowned as the predominant farmers and landlords of Punjab, and long possessed of an autocthonous agricultural identity, Jat Sikhs today often live urban and diasporiclives. Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams examines the formation and meaning of Jat Sikh identity in the contemporary Indian city.Nicola Mooney describes a number of Jat Sikh social practices and narratives through which ... Read more

    $56.89 USD

  • Violence and New Religious Movements

    Edited by James R. Lewis ...
    The relationship between new religious movements (NRMs) and violence has long been a topic of intense public interest--an interest heavily fueled by multiple incidents of mass violence involving certain groups. Some of these incidents have made international headlines. When New Religious Movements make the news, it's usually because of some violent episode. Some of the most famous NRMs are known ... Read more

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  • Gender, Alterity and Human Rights

    Freedom in a Fishbowl

    by Ratna Kapur ...
    Series series Elgar Studies in Legal Theory
    'Long admired for her pioneering work on gender, neo-liberalism and human rights, in this volume Ratna Kapur builds on that scholarship to offer a bold and wide ranging set of arguments that will add immensely to the many current debates about human rights and their efficacy in this age of inequality. Kapur' s trenchant critique of rights and her vision of an alternative to the liberal concept of ... Read more

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