Using rare interviews with former inmates and workers, institutional documentation, and governmental archives, Claudia Malacrida illuminates the dark history of the treatment of "mentally defective" children and adults at the Michener Centre in Red Deer, Alberta.
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Using rare interviews with former inmates and workers, institutional documentation, and governmental archives, Claudia Malacrida illuminates the dark history of the treatment of "mentally defective" children and adults at the Michener Centre in Red Deer, Alberta.
Using rare interviews with former inmates and workers, institutional documentation, and governmental archives, Claudia Malacrida illuminates the dark history of the treatment of "mentally defective" children and adults at the Michener Centre in Red Deer, Alberta.
"Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to 'cut a hole in the sky to world inside.' Billy-Ray Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder sadness and pain like theirs without giving up on the future. H…
"From 1928 to 1972, the Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act, Canada's lengthiest eugenic policy, shaped social discourses and medical practice in the province. Sterilization programs--particularly involuntary sterilization programs--were responding both nationally and international…
''This book explores key ethnographical issues concerning the Canadian oil sands, in particular how people struggle to make and hold on to a sense of home in the region. Through case studies, the authors illuminate the complexities of race, class, Indigeneity, gender, and ontolo…
This book explores key ethnographical issues concerning the Canadian oil sands, in particular how people struggle to make and hold on to a sense of home in the region. Through case studies, the authors illuminate the complexities of race, class, Indigeneity, gender, and ontologi…
Twelve-year-old Matthew Dunn learns about the traditional ways of his Chipewyan, Cree, and Métis ancestors on a trip to Fort Chipewyan, in Alberta, Canada.
Seeking new definitions of ecology in the tar sands of northern Alberta and searching for the sweetness of life in the face of planetary crises. Confounded by global warming and in search of an affirmative politics that links ecology with social change, Matt Hern and Am Johal se…
The authors embark on a series of road trips to the tar sands of northern Alberta in order to gain a better perspective on one of the world's largest industrial sites.
"Selections from six previously published books plus new material. Essays originally published in her biweekly column for the Didsbury Review."--Publisher.
The image of the outlaw biker is widely recognized in North American society. The reality is known only to insiders. To study the phenomenon of outlaw biker clubs, anthropologist Daniel Wolf bridged the gap between image and reality by becoming an insider.
The image of the outlaw biker is widely recognized in North American society. The reality is known only to insiders. To study the phenomenon of outlaw biker clubs, anthropologist Daniel Wolf bridged the gap between image and reality by becoming an insider.
