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BOOKWORLD on Robin Stevenson FREE AT BC FERRIES GIFT SHOPS • 44 PAGES BC ROBUST BOOKWORLD PUBLICATION MAIL AGREEMENT #40010086 VOL. 29 • NO. 3 • AUTUMN 2015 Paul Yee How Chinese labourers in 19th century B.C. fought for their dignity. THE P.29 BUZZ on Robin Stevenson A mother’s zeal clashes with her children’s need for Gerry freedom in the teen novel, David R. Bracewell The Summer We Boyd Annie Oakley Fighting PHOTO of the Saved the Bees. for the Chilcotin environment. SAWCHUK P.13 See page 31 P.9 LAURA MINERS’ STRIKE P.18 HOW TO GROW A FARM P.21 FLOUR POWER P.22 2 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2015 OPINION TOPSELLERS* Let them eat canned beans BCRaziel Reid Food banks, argues Graham Riches, are part Everything Feels like the Movies (Arsenal Pulp Press $15.95) of the problem, not the solution to food poverty. Vici Johnstone This Place a Stranger: Canadian Women N ARTICLE IN OUR SUM- Travelling Alone (Caitlin Press $24.95) mer issue to publi- Shelley Adams cize journalist An- Whitewater Cooks with Passion A (Sandhill Book Marketing $34.95) drew MacLeod’s A Better Place on Earth—an exposé of Nelly Arcan Breakneck (Anvil Press $20) the growing differential be- Sylvia Olsen tween wealth and poverty in Knitting Stories: Personal Essays B.C.—resulted in numerous and Seven Coast Salish-inspired Knitting Patterns responses, all appreciative. (Sono Nis Press $28.95) One of the respondents was food Kevin Paul and social policy expert Graham Study Smarter, Not Harder - 4th Edn. Riches, of Qualicum Beach, whose new (Self Counsel Press $21.95) book, First World Hunger Revisited: Susan Musgrave Food Charity or the Right to Food? & Esperanca Melo (Palgrave Macmillan $36.99), has also More Blueberries lambasted the neo-liberal agenda of (Orca Book Publishers $9.95) wealthy governments, of all political stripes, for embracing charity as the LESTER Alain Deneault primary response to domestic hunger. Canada: A New Tax Haven Graham Riches is professor emeritus DAVID (Talonbooks $29.95) BY and former director of the School of Social Lisa Kivirist Work at UBC. He taught at the Univer- & John Ivanko sity of Northern B.C. from 1994 to 1998 Homemade for Sale: and UBC from 1998 to 2008. His other ILLUSTRATION How to Set Up and Market a Food books are Food Banks and the Welfare taxes and the minimalist state. In First World Hunger Revisited, Business from Your Home Kitchen Crisis (CCSD, 1986); Unemployment and “As leading US food policy expert Riches explains why first world politi- (New Society Publishers $22.95) Welfare (co-editor, Garamond, 1990) and Janet Poppendieck argues, food char- cal parties should revisit the right to Johann Wolfgang First World Hunger: Food Security and ity’s primary function is one of “sym- food, which Canada ratified at the UN von Goethe Welfare Politics (ed, Macmillan, 1997). bolic value” … “relieving us of guilt and in 1976, and think through its practical Goethe’s Poems ✫ discomfort about hunger,” while serv- application for addressing food poverty. (Ronsdale Press $18.95) “THE SAD FACT IS,” WROTE GRAHAM RICHES in ing as a moral safety valve as hunger “Make the moral, legal and political The Guardian in December, marches on. case for its entrenchment in domestic Paulette Regan 2014, “that in Canada, with “Food banks are part of the law,” he has written, “and set an inter- Unsettling the Settler Within: its 30-year track record of problem, not the solution to national standard for first world wealthy Indian Residential Schools, Truth increasingly corporatized food poverty. societies. The point is this: charity is Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada (UBC Press $34.95) food charity, recent national “Tellingly, Canada’s na- never the answer to food poverty. data shows that one in eight tionally institutionalised food “In the words of Louise Arbour, Peter Johnson households or 3.9 million in- bank network lacks empirical former Canadian supreme court justice & John Walls dividuals (11.6% of the popu- evidence that food charity is and UN high commissioner for human To the Lighthouse: An Explorer’s Guide to lation) are still experiencing an effective response to sys- rights: “There will always be a place for the Island LIghthouses of Southwestern BC food insecurity.” temic food insecurity. Food charity, but charitable responses are (Heritage Group of Publishers $19.95) To combat increased hun- Graham Riches banks consistently run out not an effective, principled or sustain- George Bowering ger at home, Riches opposes of food, distribution is tightly able substitute for enforceable human the long-term institutionalisation of rationed, pressures mount to source The World, I Guess rights guarantees.” (New Star Books $18) food banking because it diminishes food, eligibility criteria are vague, vol- We need to change the conversation, political appetite for progressive reform. unteer fatigue grows, and the stigma of Riches maintains, to the right to food. Helen McAllister & “The long-term entrenchment of food aid keeps many away... Riches lives in Qualicum Beach Jennifer Heath the Canadian food charity indus- Meanwhile income inadequacy where he conceived First World Hun- Down to Earth: Cold Climate try,” he writes, “has fostered the de- (wages and benefits), the key determi- ger Revisited, co-edited with Tiina Gardens and their Keepers politicisation of hunger and its social nant of food poverty, remains unad- Silvasti and written with authors (Oolichan Books $29.95) construction as a matter primarily for dressed. Strikingly, 62% of the food from around the world. community and corporate charity, and insecure have jobs of some kind. It examines responses to domestic Roy Henry Vickers not a human rights question demand- “So what’s to be done? Even Food hunger and income poverty in twelve & Robert Budd ing the urgent attention of the state. Banks Canada now acknowledges that rich ‘food-secure’ societies and emerg- Orca Chief (Harbour $19.95) “Today, Canadian public perception food charity is unable to address food ing economies: Australia, Brazil, Can- Robert Budd of food charity is that it should take insecurity over the long term; and as ada, Estonia, Finland, Hong Kong, New Ted Harrison Collected care of domestic hunger. Governments Finnish food policy expert Tiina Silvas- Zealand, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, (D&M $19.95) can look the other way. ti says: “In spite of goodwill, charitable the UK and the USA. 9781137298720 “Ergo, public policy neglect, an food aid is nothing more than a gift. It increasingly broken social safety net is not a collective right or entitlement We welcome readers’ responses to books * The current topselling titles from major BC publishing companies, in no particular order. fed by punitive welfare reforms, the that can be claimed by a hungry person and articles in BCBW. See LETTERS sec- continuing neo-liberal mantra of lower or by a family in need of food.” tion on p. 41. Write to [email protected] Publication Mail Agreement #40010086 Contributors: Beverly Cramp, John Moore, Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Joan Givner, Mark Forsythe, Alex Van Tol, BC BC BookWorld, 3516 W. 13th Ave., Cherie Thiessen, Keven Drews, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6R 2S3 Caroline Woodward. Writing not otherwise credited is by staff. We gratefully acknowledge the unobtrusive BOOKWORLD Produced with the sponsorship of Design: Get-to-the-Point Graphics assistance of Canada Council, a continuous partner since Pacific BookWorld News Society. 1988, and creativeBC, a provincial partner since 2014. Publications Mail Registration No. 7800. Consultants: BC BookWorld ISSN: 1701-5405 AUTUMN 2015 Christine Rondeau, Sharon Jackson Advertising & editorial: Photographers: Barry Peterson, Laura Sawchuk Vol. 29 • No. 3 BC BookWorld, 3516 W. 13th Ave., Proofreaders: Wendy Atkinson, Tara Twigg Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6R 2S3 Deliveries: Ken Reid, Acculogix Publisher/Writer: Alan Twigg Tel/Fax: 604-736-4011 In-Kind Supporters: Email: [email protected] All BC BookWorld reviews are posted at Simon Fraser University Library; Editor/Production: David Lester Annual subscription: $25 www.abcbookworld.com Vancouver Public Library; UBC Library. 3 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2015 4 BC BOOKWORLD AUTUMN 2015 PEOPLE George Bowering RECOVERING WRITE-AHOLIC FTER A NEAR-FATAL CARDIAC ARREST in April, George Bowering was rushed to Vancouver AGeneral Hospital and in- duced into a coma for twelve days. By June, despite his broken ribs and broken sternum, the rehab department said Bowering was in better shape post-incident than most other 79-year- olds without an incident. “On the second assessment day they asked George if he could jump,” said his wife, Jean Baird. “He jumped. They said they’d never had another before who was able to jump.” Cover image from The New Arcadia: Tahiti’s Cursed Myth — a tourist poses with the local belles There is more to Tahiti than Paul Gauguin HE INITIAL REASON century Otaheite became twenty- Monique Layton first-century Tahiti. Consequently George Bowering: Back to Nat Bailey became interested Layton has self-published The in French Polynesia New Arcadia: Tahiti’s Cursed The walker was returned in early was escapism. Hav- Myth (FriesenPress $21.95). June and he began using a cane, im- Ting spent about five months in Based on historical records, proving his muscle tone. By the end of hospital and nine months in rehab sailors’ journals, Ma’ohi epic June he was back at Nat Bailey watch- following a serious accident, she poetry, European paintings, folk- ing Vancouver Canadians baseball and had started to research and write loric events, the film industry, and with tickets to the jazz festival. And he an ethnography of hospital life— novels by modern Tahitian writ- was working on a new novel. a tad depressing but within her ers, The New Arcadia follows the Indefatigable, Bowering has four wheelhouse as an anthropologist.
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