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Series: Field Notes
On Risk
Paperback
Mark Kingwell
9781771963923
$14.95
PHILOSOPHY
Oct 13, 2020
With COVID-19 comes a heightened sense of everyday risk. How should a society manage, distribute, and conceive of it? As we cope with the lengthening effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic, considerations of everyday risk have been more pressing, and inescapable. In the past, everyone engaged in some degree of risky behaviour, from mundane realities like taking a shower or getting into a car to purposely thrill-seeking activities like rock-climbing or BASE jumping. Many activities that seemed high-risk, such as flying, were claimed basically s...
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Series: Field Notes
On Decline
Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year is the Worst One Ever
Paperback
Andrew Potter
9781771963947
$14.95
PHILOSOPHY
Aug 17, 2021
A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 What if David Bowie really was holding the fabric of the universe together? The death of David Bowie in January 2016 was a bad start to a year that got a lot worse: war in Syria, the Zika virus, terrorist attacks in Brussels and Nice, the Brexit vote—and the election of Donald Trump. The end-of-year wraps declared 2016 “the worst … ever.” Four even more troubling years later, the question of our apocalypse had devolved into a tired social media cliché. But when COVID-19 hit, journalist and professor of pub...
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Series: Field Notes
On Killing a Revolution
Paperback
Andray Domise
9781771964050
$14.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Feb 01, 2022
An argument against the liberal paradigm of allyship in favour of movements based on Black self-determination Blackout Tuesday was the pivotal moment, Andray Domise argues, when street-level protests were uploaded to corporate boardrooms and the grassroots protest movement begun after the murder of George Floyd turned from rebellion against white supremacist state violence to a corporatized love-in—what Malcom X dubbed “the circus.” In On Killing a Revolution, Domise analyzes the co-opting by liberal interests of Black liberation movements ran...
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Series: Field Notes
On Property
Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition
Paperback
Rinaldo Walcott
9781771964074
$14.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Feb 02, 2021
A Globe and Mail Book of the Year A CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021 From plantation rebellion to prison labour's super-exploitation, Walcott examines the relationship between policing and property. That a man can lose his life for passing a fake $20 bill when we know our economies are flush with fake money says something damning about the way we’ve organized society. Yet the intensity of the calls to abolish the police after George Floyd’s death surprised almost everyone. What, exactly, does abolition mean? How did we get here? And w...
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