FERNWOOD PUBLISHING www.fernwoodpublishing.ca SPRING 2015 BOOK CATALOGUE SPRING 2015 meSSAGE MESSAGe From the PublISHERS CONTENTS Terrorism and car companies. On the surface, the two seem unconnected. In October, two Spring 2015 Frontlist 3 – 14 young Canadian soldiers died at the hands of other young men who are being called terrorists. At the same time, CBC’s The Fifth Estate reported on the deaths of almost thirty car drivers. Roseway Publishing 15 – 19 Also in October, the Minister of Public Safety said that the first responsibility of government is to “keep Canadians safe … to stop under-reacting to the great threats against us.” The About Canada Series 20 connection is in identifying the real under-reaction. Fernwood Basics Series 21 The car deaths were purportedly caused by a faulty 57 cent ignition switch in General Motors cars. GM knew since 2002 about “the switch from hell,” as the engineer who Selected Backlist 22 – 40 approved its production called it. Yet, they did not notify their customers or transportation Aboriginal Studies 22 safety regulators of the problem. It wasn’t until 2014 that GM was forced to recall millions of cars because an individual was suing them. Agrarian Change and Peasant Studies 23 The Minister and Transport Canada claim they were unaware of this car safety problem Canadian Studies 23 until GM’s recall notification in February 2014. However,The Fifth Estate found documents Criminology / Law 24 indicating that Transport Canada knew about this problem for years. Equally disturbing is the toothless product safety legislation. The department itself cannot order a recall of dangerous Development Studies 25 vehicles; it can request a company to do a recall and take them to court if they ignore the Disability Studies 26 request. As the Minister of Transport told CBC, “auto companies don’t want ministers to Economics 26 have those kinds of powers.” When we add this latest corporate transgression to the litany of Education 27 dangerous cars, tainted meat and deadly working conditions, it seems that the greatest threat 27 to our safety is coming from Canadian corporations. Environment / Ecology Food Studies 28 The federal government is certainly not under-reacting to the deaths of those two soldiers. Gender 28 They should take those deaths seriously. Senseless killing should not be taken lightly and Health Studies 29 perpetrators must be held accountable. However, the government has chosen to portray these deaths as evidence of a great terrorist threat against Canadians. “For our protection,” History 29 CSIS (and other law-enforcement agencies) will be given more power to pry into the lives of International Studies 30 Canadians — expanded surveillance and powers of arrest are in a bill before Parliament, with Labour in Canada Series 31 a promise of even more to come. Media and Cultural Studies 32 While much is not known about the young men who killed the soldiers, it is questionable Political Economy 33 that they are seriously connected to plots to terrorize Canada. They were clearly troubled, Political Science 34 both psychologically and economically. Both recently found religion as an antidote to their Public Policy 34 troubles. Yet, the government and its proponents are creating “terrorists” out of those who act Race / Racism 35 alone. They refer to “radicalization” and present the “lone wolf” as a calculating and coherent terrorist in order to heighten our collective fear. Research 36 Social Movements 36 In the bigger picture, the far greater threat to Canadians is cars, processed food and unsafe Social / Political Theory 37 working conditions. So, why isn’t the government legislating the same intense surveillance of car companies that it will impose on its citizens? Why aren’t they as concerned about the Socialist Register 37 senseless deaths of Canadians caused by corporations as those caused by troubled individuals? Social Work 38 Maybe it is religion. We wouldn’t want to pry into the lives of the zealots who pray at the altar Sociology 39 of unlimited profits. Women 40 Titles in Print 41-47 IN memoRY Fernwood Publishing 41 – 46 In the past year we lost another of our beloved authors. Renate Eigenbrod passed away Print on Demand 46 –47 on Thursday, May 8, 2014. Renate worked tirelessly researching and teaching theories of Roseway Publishing 47 decolonization in relation to Aboriginal literatures in Canada and Indigenous literatures globally. She will be greatly missed by her many friends and colleagues. Ordering Information back cover 2 • FERNWood Publishing SPring 2015 cATALOGUE Spring 2015 frontliST Becoming an Ally Breaking the Cycle of Oppression in People, 3rd Edition Anne Bishop Becoming an Ally is a book for men who want to end sexism, white people who want to end racism, straight people who want to end heterosexism, able-bodied people who want to end ableism — for all people who recognize their privilege and want to move toward a more just world by learning to act as allies. Has oppression always been with us, just part of “human nature”? What does individual healing have to do with social justice? What does social justice have to do with individual healing? Why do members of the same oppressed group fight one another, sometimes more viciously than they fight their oppressors? Why do some who experience oppression develop a life-long commitment to fighting pb 9781552667231 / $27.95 oppression, while others turn around and oppress those with less power? 208pp Rights: World / July In this accessible and enlightening book, now in its third edition, Anne Bishop examines history, economic and political structures, and individual psychology CONTENTS in a search for the origins of racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, ageism and all Big Words • Preface to the Third Edition • Preface to the First Edition • Why the other forms of oppression that divide us. Becoming an Ally looks for paths to Write a Book About Becoming an Ally? • Step 1: Understanding Oppression justice and lays out guidelines for becoming allies of oppressed peoples when we — How Did It Come About? • Journal Entry: “They Wouldn’t Be Able to Pick are in the privileged role. Us Off One by One” • Step 1: Understanding Oppression — How Is It Held in Place? • Morality, Duty and Being True to Yourself • Step 1: Understanding A new chapter in this third edition offers a greatly expanded discussion of Oppression — The Personal Is Political • A Story: Racism and Sexism • Step 2: Understanding Different Oppressions • Two Quotes: Breaking Silence, Healing effective approaches to educating allies, which is meant for teachers of adults, • Step 3: Consciousness and Healing • Step 4: Becoming a Worker in Your Own particularly those who teach about diversity, equity and anti-oppression. In this Liberation • Journal Entry: Racism and Sexism • Step 5: Becoming an Ally • chapter, Bishop examines the ways in which Western culture prevents us from Journal Entry: How Not to Be an Ally An Open Letter to the Young Man Who recognizing our roles as members of privileged groups and explores how to Spoke at our Memorial Rally on December 6th • Notes on Educating Allies • challenge this with participatory exercises and group discussion. Step 6: Maintaining Hope • Glossary • Appendix: Toolkit • References • Index Anne Bishop has been an activist for four decades. She makes a living doing adult education, facilitation, research, writing and editing, and has a particular love for teaching equity and community leadership. She has written a number of books, including Beyond Token Change: Breaking the Cycle of Oppression in Institutions (2005). Anne and her partner operate a small farm, raising sheep, chickens, veggies, berries and tree fruit. She is addicted to spinning and knitting wool. FERNWood Publishing SPring 2015 cATALOGUE • 3 SPRING 2015 FRONTLIST An Act of Genocide Colonialism and the Sterilization of Aboriginal Women Karen Stote During the 1900s eugenics gained favour as a means and she explores the ways Canada has managed of controlling the birth rate among “undesirable” to avoid this charge. This lucid, engaging book populations in Canada. Though many people were explicitly challenges Canadians to take up their targeted, the coercive sterilization of one group responsibilities as treaty partners, to reconsider has gone largely unnoticed. An Act of Genocide their history and to hold their government to unpacks long-buried archival evidence to begin account for its treatment of Indigenous peoples. documenting the forced sterilization of Aboriginal women in Canada. Grounding this evidence within Karen Stote is an assistant professor of women pb 9781552667323 $22.95 the context of colonialism, the oppression of and gender studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. ebook 9781552667545 $22.95 women and the denial of Indigenous sovereignty, She teaches courses on the history of Indian 192pp Karen Stote argues that this coercive sterilization policy and Indigenous-settler relations, feminism Rights: World/ March must be considered in relation to the larger goals of and the politics of decolonization, and issues of Indian policy — to gain access to Indigenous lands environmental and reproductive justice. and resources while reducing the numbers of those CONTENTS to whom the federal government has obligations. Preface • Introduction • Eugenics, Feminism and the Woman Question Stote also contends that, in accordance with the • Indian Policy and Aboriginal Women • Sterilization, Birth Control original meaning of the term, this sterilization and Abusive