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The Civil Sphere in Canada

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The Civil Sphere in Canada shows why a socially just, inclusive society hinges on a robust and dynamic civil sphere.

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The Rise of Tzu Chi

The Making of a Global Buddhist Movement

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The Rise of Tzu Chi reveals a dynamic Asian religious movement that draws its global success from its capacity to incorporate diversity.

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Feminism’s Fight

Challenging Politics and Policies in Canada since 1970

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Feminism’s Fight shows how fifty years of feminist struggle over public policy can inform today’s fight for gender justice and against continued discrimination.

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What Nudism Exposes

An Unconventional History of Postwar Canada

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What Nudism Exposes offers a convincing new perspective on postwar Canada by revealing how nudist clubs navigated the social and cultural changes of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s.

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The Solidarity Encounter

Women, Activism, and Creating Non-Colonizing Relations

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This compassionate yet unflinching exposé of the pitfalls of Indigenous–non-Indigenous solidarity work offers a constructive framework for non-colonizing solidarity that can be applied in any context of unequal power.

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Feeling Feminism

Activism, Affect, and Canada’s Second Wave

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Feeling Feminism is a groundbreaking collection of interdisciplinary scholarship on second-wave feminist history and feminist social movements in Canada that puts emotions at the centre of the story.

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Transformative Media

Intersectional Technopolitics from Indymedia to #BlackLivesMatter

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In an era of social media dominance, Transformative Media reveals the often invisible, transformative media practices of marginalized groups.

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Frontiers of Feminism

Movements and Influences in Québec and Italy, 1960–80

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Frontiers of Feminism shines new light on the recent history of feminist movements, using the examples of Italy and Québec to bring an international perspective to major themes, strategies, and modes of organizing.

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Activism, Inclusion, and the Challenges of Deliberative Democracy

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Activism, Inclusion, and the Challenges of Deliberative Democracy investigates the failure of deliberative democracy to acknowledge the democratic contribution of activism, offering an alternative theoretical approach that makes a key distinction between contributing to and deliberating with.

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In the Spirit of ’68

Youth Culture, the New Left, and the Reimagining of Acadia

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In the Spirit of ’68 tells the story of how a unique blend of local circumstance and global influence transformed Acadian New Brunswick’s youth culture, spawning one of the most influential revolutionary student movements in Canada.

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