Beyond Survival - Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Editor); Ejeris Dixon (Editor)
$42.99 AUD
Category: Activism and Social Change
Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at the grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. Community-based approaches to preventing crime and repairing its damage have existed for centuries. However, in the putative atmosphere of contemporary crimin ...Show more
Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk
$59.95 AUD
Category: Activism and Social Change
Drawing on the archives of the Black Panther Party and the National Black Women's Health Project, Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present.
Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers? by Junauda Petrus
$39.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Reference
Petrus first published and performed this poem after the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. With every subsequent police shooting, it has taken on new urgency, culminating in the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, blocks from Junauda's home. In its pict ...Show more
Caste: The origins of our discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
$26.99 AUD
Category: Activism and Social Change
The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power - which groups have it and which do not' Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hi ...Show more
Catastrophe Ethics: How to Be Good in a World Gone Bad by Travis Rieder
$34.99 AUD
Category: Activism and Social Change
From the small stuff like single-use plastics to major decisions like whether to have children, Rieder defines exactly how we can change our thinking and lead a decent, meaningful life in a scary, complicated world.
D. I. V. E. R. S. I. T. Y. - A Guide to Working with Diversity and Developing Cultural Sensitivity by Vivian Okeze-Tirado
$33.99 AUD
Category: Activism and Social Change
Being culturally competent in practice is an essential skill for any practitioner working with people. Award-winning social worker and diversity trainer Vivian Okeze-Tirado has developed an applied practice model to help you to increase your understanding of diversity and improve your cultural competenc ...Show more
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
Decolonising The Mind by Ngugu Wa Thiong'o
$45.99 AUD
Category: Activism and Social Change | Series: Studies in African Literature Ser.
Ngugi describes this book as 'a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, theatre, criticism and in teaching of literature.'East Africa [Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda]: EAEP
Deconstructing Racism - A Path Toward Lasting Change by Joseph Barndt
$52.99 AUD
Category: Activism and Social Change
Barbara Crain Major and Joseph Barndt bring ninety combined years of experience as community organizers, teachers, and anti-racism trainers in community and church settings to this book. In Deconstructing Racism, they propose the deconstruction of racism's roots within systems and institutions that have ...Show more
Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism by Vanessa Machado De Oliveira
$37.99 AUD
Category: Activism and Social Change
For fans of Everything Is F*cked and Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, a book about facing the multiple crises of modernity--and hospicing modernity--with maturity, humility, and integrity. This book is not easy: it contains no quick-fix plan for a better, brighter tomorrow, and ...Show more
Human Rights - The Case for the Defence by Shami Chakrabarti
$49.99 AUD
Category: Activism and Social Change
A powerful and urgent explanation and vindication of our human rights and freedoms After the devastation of World War Two, the international community came together to enshrine fundamental rights to refuge, health, education and living standards, for privacy, fair trials and free speech, and outlawing t ...Show more
Intertwined - Women, Nature, and Climate Justice by Rebecca Kormos
$49.99 AUD
Category: Activism and Social Change | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A powerful argument that greater inclusion of women in conservation and climate science is key to the future of the planet Women are disproportionately impacted by climate change--floods, droughts, and extreme temperatures overwhelmingly affect women in the short and long term. In some cases, women mak ...Show more