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Luckily, every day is book day when one works in publishing. But today is the 18th annual UNESCO celebration of books & reading, marked in over 100 countries all over the world.
To mark this big day, we’re highlighting a few of our recent book releases that address important political and environmental issues around the world.
TROJAN-HORSE AID
Seeds of Resistance and Resilience in the Bolivian Highlands and Beyond
By Susan Walsh
A frank account about Andean aid that asks development workers to leave their hubris and Western recipes at home.
In light of growing global concern over the worsening food crisis and interconnected climate extremes, Trojan-Horse Aid offers an important critique of development practices that undermine peasant strategies as well as suggestions for more effective approaches for the future.
WHEN GREEN GROWTH IS NOT ENOUGH
Climate Change, Ecological Modernization, and Sufficiency
By Anders Hayden
A systematic and thorough comparison between Canada’s and Britain’s actions on climate change.
Is the pursuit of endless economic growth compatible with the deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions required to avoid the worst extremes of climate change? In When Green Growth Is Not Enough, Anders Hayden analyzes the political battle between three competing approaches to this question and how it has played out in Canada and Britain.
TURKEY AND THE ARMENIAN GHOST
On the Trail of the Genocide
By Laure Marchand and Guillaume Perrier; translated by Debbie Blythe
A compelling portrait of the aftermath of the Armenian genocide and the enduring struggle to have it officially recognized.
Taking the reader into remote mountain regions, tiny hamlets, and the homes of traumatized victims of a deadly persecution that continues to this day, Turkey and the Armenian Ghost reveals little-known aspects of the history and culture of a people who have been rendered invisible in their ancient homeland.
From the McGill-Queen’s Native and Northern Series:
OUR ICE IS VANISHING / SIKUVUT NUNGULIQTUQ
A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change
By Shelley Wright
A remarkable and moving journey through Arctic history into an uncertain future, highlighting Inuit as well as European and Canadian perspectives.
Climate change is redrawing the boundaries of what Inuit and non-Inuit have learned to expect from our world. Our Ice Is Vanishing demonstrates that we must engage with the knowledge of the Inuit in order to understand and negotiate issues of climate change and sovereignty claims in the region.
MAPS AND MEMES
Redrawing Culture, Place, and Identity in Indigenous Communities
By Gwilym Lucas Eades
A critical introduction to Canadian cartography and counter-mapping in indigenous, legal, and educational contexts.
Focusing on Cree, Inuit, and northwest coast communities, Maps and Memes explores intergenerational aspects of mapping, landscape art practice, and identity. Eades lays the groundwork for understanding current struggles of indigenous youth to strengthen their identities and foster greater awareness of traditional territory and place.
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