FERNWOOD PUBLISHING SPRING 2014 BOOK CATALOGUE www.fernwoodpublishing.ca SPRING 2014 meSSAGE MESSAGe From the PublISHERS CONTENTS For this spring 2014, Fernwood Publishing’s lead book is The Answer Is Still No: Voices of Spring 2014 Frontlist 3 – 14 Pipeline Resistance, which gives voice to First Nations people along the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway oil pipeline, designed to take Athabasca tar sands oil from Edmonton Roseway Publishing 15 – 19 to Kitimat on the west coast of British Columbia. As illustrated in this book, First Nations people are taking a leading role in the fight against the interests of the corporation, who, with the support of governments, want to increase their profits without regard for the About Canada Series 20 environment or the people they affect. John Ridsdale, hereditary chief Na’Moks of the Wet’suwet’en, said, “If we don’t speak up for the animals, the fish and the birds who will?” Fernwood Basics Series 21 In Canada today, it is the First Nations people who are speaking up. Selected Backlist 22 – 40 In New Brunswick, the Elsipogtog Mi’kmaw First Nation is leading an extended protest Aboriginal Studies 22 against shale gas extraction (fracking). Ontario First Nations people shut down a highway Agrarian Change in solidarity with them. The head of the Assembly of First Nations, Shawn Atleo, says that and Peasant Studies 23 the Idle No More movement “is part of what so many of us have been saying is a moment of reckoning.” From round dances in shopping malls, to highway blockades, to hunger Canadian Studies 23 strikes, First Nations people are rising up to fight against the corporate juggernaut that is Criminology / Law 24 devouring their land. Development Studies 25 Disability Studies 25 It seems to us that a time of reckoning for all of us may be near. First Nations’ resistance Economics 26 has implications beyond colonialism and Canadians living up to our treaty obligations. Environment / Ecology 27 First Nations people are fighting capitalism as well. What is happening on their land indicates that the unmitigated viciousness of capitalism’s drive to accumulate profits is Food Studies 27 reaching new, unspeakable heights. Nothing appears to sway its quest. If this shakedown Gender 28 is not stopped, the very Earth on which we live is at stake. And the most galling part of all Health Studies 29 of this is that most Canadian governments are solidly behind the capitalist agenda. Stories History 29 about arrests, incarcerations and beatings of people who stand in protest are the sorry International Studies 30 evidence of this state complicity. Labour in Canada Series 31 Labour Studies 32 As we send the Spring 2014 edition of the Fernwood Publishing catalogue to the printer, we are reminded by First Nations people that this fight is expanding, and we are challenged Media and Cultural Studies 32 to follow their lead. We must stand beside them all, and we must all be Idle No More. Political Economy 33 Public Policy 34 in memorY Race / Racism 35 Research 36 In the past year we lost two of our beloved authors. Social Movements 36 Nick Ternette passed away in March 2013. For over forty years, Nick was Winnipeg’s best- Social / Political Theory 37 known and most persistent political activist. He was a champion of the rights of the poor Socialist Register 37 and the disabled, sustainable ecology and public transit, as well as a leader in Winnipeg’s Social Work 38 peace movement. Nick’s memoir, Rebel Without a Pause, was released last year. Sociology 39 James McCrorie passed away in November. Jim authored the book The Guy in the Green Women 40 Truck. He was a life-long fighter for working people and the oppressed. Jim was a long time friend of and ambassador for Fernwood Publishing. He will be greatly missed by his many Titles in Print 41-47 friends and colleagues. Fernwood Publishing 41 – 46 Print on Demand 46 –47 Roseway Publishing 47 Ordering Information back cover 2 • FERNWood Publishing SPring 2014 cATALOGUE Spring 2014 frontliST The Answer Is Still No Voices of Pipeline Resistance Paul Bowles & Henry Veltmeyer, eds. “The oil and gas industry has wanted into the west coast for decades. This is an ongoing struggle between the people who live here and have access to the marine resources now, the fish, and the industry, which wants in either for tanker traffic or offshore drilling. The government is on the oil industry side and they implement policies to weaken us.” — Luanne Roth, Prince Rupert “[There is] is a great saying: ‘If we don’t speak for the animals, the fish and the birds, who will?’ Simple, very simple, very to the point. And how could we give up something that our great-great-grandchildren will ask us one day ‘Why don’t we have this anymore? Why didn’t you stop this then?’ We don’t have a right to let that happen.” — John Ridsdale, Hereditary Chief Na’Moks, Office of the Wet’suwet’en pb 9781552666623 / $22.95 156pp The Answer Is Still No is an important, urgent book that compiles interviews with Rights: World / April people who live along the route of the proposed Enbridge pipeline in Northern British Columbia. The oil pipeline and supertankers — linking the tar sands of CONTENTS Alberta to the demand of the growing Asian market — are a key component of Introduction • Karyn Sharp, Prince George • Jasmine Thomas, Saik’uz Canada’s strategy of natural resource extraction. But for the people living along Traditional Territory • John Phair, Burns Lake • John Ridsdale, Hereditary the proposed pipeline route, Enbridge poses a massive environmental risk, which Chief Na’moks, Wet’suwet’en First Nation • Pat Moss, Smithers • Nikki Skuce, ForestEthics • Shannon McPhail, Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition threatens their way of life. This edited collection takes the passionate words and • Roy Henry Vickers & John Olson • Murray Minchin, Kitimat • Des Nobels & voices of twelve citizens and activists and results in one powerful position when Luanne Roth, Prince Rupert it comes to blind economic development at the expense of our environment and communities: The answer is still “no.” Paul Bowles is a professor in economics and international studies at the University of Northern British Columbia. Henry Veltmeyer is a professor of international development studies at Saint Mary’s University and Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas. FERNWood Publishing SPring 2014 cATALOGUE • 3 SPRING 2014 FRONTLIST Stitched Up The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion Tansy E. Hoskins Stitched Up delves into the exclusive and alluring controls our aspirations and self-worth through world of fashion to expose class division, gender a set of impossible beauty standards. At a time stereotyping and wasteful consumption. Tansy E. when high spending on clothes persists despite Hoskins illuminates the political and sociological the economic recession, Stitched Up provides a dimensions of an industry that promotes and unique critical examination of fashion in relation to supports the dominant values of our age: image, contemporary culture and the distorting priorities glamour, money and sex. Hoskins also provides of capitalism. a fascinating historical narrative, showing that in pb 9781552666630 / $24.95 today’s world, the clothes we wear are as indicative Tansy E. Hoskins is a writer, commentator and 216pp of who we are as they were during the reign of activist. She has worked for the Stop the War Rights: Canada / March Louis XIV. Coalition, CND and Respect. CONTENTS Hoskins tackles key contemporary issues, such as Introduction • The Road to Linkenholt • The Fashion Media • the controversy over “size zero” and the impact of Consuming Fashion • Fashion and Labour • A Bitter Harvest • Fashion fashion in depleting the world’s natural resources. and Size • Is Fashion Racist? • Resisting Fashion • Reforming Fashion • In a provocative move, Hoskins argues that fashion Revolutionizing Fashion Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power Capitalism, Creativity and the Commons Max Haiven How do we move beyond austerity and the movements, Haiven provides a powerful argument colonization of creativity? Today, when it seems for creating an anti-capitalist commons. Not only is like everything has been privatized, when capitalism a crisis itself, but moving beyond it is the austerity is too often seen as an economic or only key to survival. political problem that can be solved through better policy and when the idea of moral values Max Haiven is an activist, writer and teacher has been commandeered by the Right, how can working in New York and Halifax. we re-imagine the forces used as weapons against CONTENTS community, solidarity, ecology and life itself? Introduction: Crises of the Imagination • Re-imagining Value: pb 9781552666654 / $24.95 Economic and Moral Worth in an Age of Austerity • Publics, Commons, 176pp In this stirring call to arms, Max Haiven argues that Occupations: Organizing Against Capitalist Enclosure • The Crisis of the Rights: Canada / April capitalism has colonized how we all imagine and Financialized Imagination: Fictitious Capital and Everyday Life • Within express what is valuable. Looking at the decline of and Beyond the Edu-Factory: The Fate of the Neoliberal University the public sphere, the corporatization of education, • The Enclosure of History, the Debt of the Past, the Commons of Memory • The Privatization of Creativity: Art, Economics and Spaces of the privatization of creativity and the power of Resistance • What Is the Radical Imagination? • Conclusion: Fatalism finance capital in opposition to the power of the and Its Discontents • Works Cited imagination and the growth of contemporary social 4 • FERNWood Publishing SPring 2014 cATALOGUE Spring 2014 frontliST Locating Law Race/Class/Gender/Sexuality Connections, 3rd Edition Elizabeth Comack, ed. Praise for the second edition: “This book is the best available for teaching the role of law in society and making sense of how it operates within the (inter)connections of race, class and gender dynamics often perpetuating oppression.