Books tagged: Colonialism & Post-colonialism

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Aboriginal, Northern, and Community Economic Development

By John Loxley

John Loxley has worked in community economic development as a practitioner, advisor, teacher and scholar for over 30 years. The wealth of that experience is reflected in this book, which grapples with the conceptual and political complexities of addressing northern and Aboriginal ... Read more

Aqueduct

By Adele Perry

1919 is often recalled as the year of the Winnipeg General Strike, but it was also the year that water from Shoal Lake first flowed in Winnipeg taps. For the Anishinaabe community of Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, construction of the Winnipeg Aqueduct led to a chain of difficult ... Read more

Burning in This Midnight Dream

By Louise B. Halfe – Sky Dancer

A deeply scouring poetic account of the residential school experience, and a deeply important indictment of colonialism in Canada.

Many of the poems in Louise Halfe's Burning in This Midnight Dream were written in response to the grim tide of emotions, memories, dreams and nightmares ... Read more

Burning in This Midnight Dream

By Louise B. Halfe – Sky Dancer

A deeply scouring poetic account of the residential school experience, and a deeply important indictment of colonialism in Canada.

Many of the poems in Louise Halfe's Burning in This Midnight Dream were written in response to the grim tide of emotions, memories, dreams and nightmares ... Read more

Decolonization and Afro-Feminism

By Sylvia Tamale

Why do so many Africans believe they cannot break the "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back" cycle? Six decades after colonial flags were lowered and African countries gained formal independence, the continent struggles to free itself from the deep legacies of colonialism, imperialism ... Read more

Enduring Relevance of Walter Rodney's 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa'

By Karim Hirji

Soon after its publication in 1972, Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa gained global popularity among students, scholars, activists and people concerned with African affairs. His innovative application of the method of political economy transformed the paradigm ... Read more

Episodes From a Colonial Present

Edited by Daniel Bendix, Chandra-Milena Danielzik, and Franziska Müller

Postcolonial critique deconstructs global inequality in its epistemic and material dimensions. This collective comic project illuminates everyday life's coloniality as well as the decolonising potential of everyday struggles in the spaces, discourses and practices of so-called ... Read more

Go Down Odawa Way

By Daniel Lockhart

Go Down Odawa Way is a poetry collection that explores the physical, historical, and cultural spaces that make up the southwestern traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy. This is the region currently inhabited by southwestern Ontario and southeastern Michigan. Individual ... Read more