New From Our Distributed Presses! Waiting Town, Warrior Life and More!
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From the Asia Shorts series
Waiting Town
Life in Transit and Mumbai’s Other World-Class Histories
Lisa Björkman
Drawing on a decade of ethnographic research in the Indian city of Mumbai, Waiting Town is an unconventional little book – experimental in form – about how we come to know the worlds about which we write.
Warrior Life
Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence
Pamela Palmater
From one of the most important, inspiring, and fearless voices on Indigenous rights, decolonization, Canadian politics, social justice, earth justice, and beyond, Warrior Life is an unflinching critique of the colonial project that is Canada and a rallying cry for Indigenous Peoples and allies alike to forge a path toward a decolonial future through resistance and resurgence.
Finding Our Niche
Toward A Restorative Human Ecology
Philip A. Loring
In Finding Our Niche, Philip A. Loring explores the tragedies of Western society and offers examples and analyses that can guide us in reconciling our damaging settler-colonial histories and tremendous environmental missteps in favor of a more sustainable and just vision for the future.
Defining Work Tools: Studying Effects of Digitalising Work Tools
Edited by Robert Helmrich and Michael Tiemann
This reader combines empirically grounded insights into how changes in work tools affect our work and how we react to it. It offers a hands-on approach to discovering the impacts digitalization might have on qualification and the labor market
