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Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between
the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the
1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social
sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of
those important works which have since gone out of print, or are
difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total
are being brought together under the name The International
Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the
Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was
originally published in 1968 and is available individually. The
collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of
between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between
the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the
1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social
sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of
those important works which have since gone out of print, or are
difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total
are being brought together under the name The International
Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the
Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was
originally published in 1968 and is available individually. The
collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of
between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.
Resisting Eviction centres tenant organizing in its investigation
of gentrification, eviction and the financialization of rental
housing. Andrew Crosby argues that racial discrimination, property
relations and settler colonialism inform contemporary urban
(re)development efforts and impacts affordable housing loss. How
can the City of Ottawa aspire to become "North America's most
liveable mid-sized city" while large-scale, demolition-driven
evictions displace hundreds of people and destroy a community?
Troubling discourses of urban liveability, revitalization and
improvement, Crosby examines the deliberate destruction of
home--domicide--and tenant resistance in the Heron Gate
neighbourhood in Ottawa, on unceded Algonquin land. Heron Gate is a
large rental neighbourhood owned by one multi-billion-dollar real
estate investment firm. Around 800 people--predominantly
lower-income, racialized households--have been demovicted and
displaced from the neighbourhood since 2016, leading to the
emergence of the Herongate Tenant Coalition to fight the evictions
and confront the landlord-developer. This case study is
meticulously documented through political activist ethnography,
making this book a brilliant example of ethical engagement and
methodological integrity.
In recent years, Indigenous peoples have lead a number of high
profile movements fighting for social and environmental justice in
Canada. From land struggles to struggles against resource
extraction, pipeline development and fracking, land and water
defenders have created a national discussion about these issues and
successfully slowed the rate of resource extraction. But their
success has also meant an increase in the surveillance and policing
of Indigenous peoples and their movements. In Policing Indigenous
Movements, Crosby and Monaghan use the Access to Information Act to
interrogate how policing and other security agencies have been
monitoring, cataloguing and working to silence Indigenous land
defenders and other opponents of extractive capitalism. Through an
examination of four prominent movements -- the long-standing
conflict involving the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, the struggle
against the Northern Gateway Pipeline, the Idle No More movement
and the anti-fracking protests surrounding the Elsipogtog First
Nation -- this important book raises critical questions regarding
the expansion of the security apparatus, the normalization of
police surveillance targeting social movements, the relationship
between police and energy corporations, the criminalization of
dissent and threats to civil liberties and collective action in an
era of extractive capitalism and hyper surveillance. In one of the
most comprehensive accounts of contemporary government
surveillance, the authors vividly demonstrate that it is the norms
of settler colonialism that allow these movements to be classified
as national security threats and the growing network of policing,
governmental, and private agencies that comprise what they call the
security state.
From feeling like a maggot which spreads diseases, to the feeling
of euphoria as it is raining. From the doubt of all that can be
doubt, to the faithful belief in romance. - Parted in four
chapters, this book illustrates an inner conflict James Andrew
Crosby went through. Each poem can be seen as its own tale, or can
be connected to all others. However, what you, the reader,
interpret, is yours to decide.
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