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Title : Haiti's New Dictatorship Original title : The Coup, the Earthquake and the UN occupation Material Type: printed text Authors: Justin Podur, Author Publisher: Pluto Press Publication Date: 2012 ISBN (or other code): 978-1-7711-3033-2 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Political Thought
PovertyKeywords: Haiti Dictatorship Military Occupation Colonialism Violence Sovereignty Abstract: In 1804 Haiti became the world's first independent black Republic following a slave revolution. 200 years later, ravaged by colonialism and violence, it was placed under UN military occupation.Haiti's New Dictatorship charts the country's recent history, from the 2004 coup against President Aristide to the devastating 2010 earthquake, revealing a shocking story of abuse and indifference by international forces. Justin Podur unmasks the grim reality of a supposedly benign international occupation, arguing that the denial of sovereignty is the fundamental cause of Haiti's problems. A powerful challenge and wake-up call to the international NGO and development community, Haiti's New Dictatorship is essential reading for anyone concerned with justice in the global south and progressive development policies. Haiti's New Dictatorship = The Coup, the Earthquake and the UN occupation [printed text] / Justin Podur, Author . - [S.l.] : Pluto Press, 2012.
ISBN : 978-1-7711-3033-2
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Political Thought
PovertyKeywords: Haiti Dictatorship Military Occupation Colonialism Violence Sovereignty Abstract: In 1804 Haiti became the world's first independent black Republic following a slave revolution. 200 years later, ravaged by colonialism and violence, it was placed under UN military occupation.Haiti's New Dictatorship charts the country's recent history, from the 2004 coup against President Aristide to the devastating 2010 earthquake, revealing a shocking story of abuse and indifference by international forces. Justin Podur unmasks the grim reality of a supposedly benign international occupation, arguing that the denial of sovereignty is the fundamental cause of Haiti's problems. A powerful challenge and wake-up call to the international NGO and development community, Haiti's New Dictatorship is essential reading for anyone concerned with justice in the global south and progressive development policies. Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status 150POD2012 150POD2012 Livre/Book QPIRG-McGill Political Thought (QM) Available
Title : A History of Violence : Living and Dying in Central America Material Type: printed text Authors: Oscar Martinez, Author Publisher: Verso Publication Date: 2016 ISBN (or other code): 978-1-7847-8171-2 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Immigration and Refugees Issues
Poverty
Poverty Studies
TraumaKeywords: Central America Nicaragua Mexico Guatemala forced migration crisis narcos police patrols trafficking boats homicide rates. Abstract: El Salvador and Honduras have had the highest homicide rates in the world over the past ten years, with Guatemala close behind. Every day more than 1,000 people—men, women, and children—flee these three countries for North America. Óscar Martínez, author of The Beast, named one of the best books of the year by the Economist, Mother Jones, and the Financial Times, fleshes out these stark figures with true stories, producing a jarringly beautiful and immersive account of life in deadly locations.
Martínez travels to Nicaraguan fishing towns, southern Mexican brothels where Central American women are trafficked, isolated Guatemalan jungle villages, and crime-ridden Salvadoran slums. With his precise and empathetic reporting, he explores the underbelly of these troubled places. He goes undercover to drink with narcos, accompanies police patrols, rides in trafficking boats and hides out with a gang informer. The result is an unforgettable portrait of a region of fear and a subtle analysis of the North American roots and reach of the crisis, helping to explain why this history of violence should matter to all of us.A History of Violence : Living and Dying in Central America [printed text] / Oscar Martinez, Author . - [S.l.] : Verso, 2016.
ISBN : 978-1-7847-8171-2
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Immigration and Refugees Issues
Poverty
Poverty Studies
TraumaKeywords: Central America Nicaragua Mexico Guatemala forced migration crisis narcos police patrols trafficking boats homicide rates. Abstract: El Salvador and Honduras have had the highest homicide rates in the world over the past ten years, with Guatemala close behind. Every day more than 1,000 people—men, women, and children—flee these three countries for North America. Óscar Martínez, author of The Beast, named one of the best books of the year by the Economist, Mother Jones, and the Financial Times, fleshes out these stark figures with true stories, producing a jarringly beautiful and immersive account of life in deadly locations.
Martínez travels to Nicaraguan fishing towns, southern Mexican brothels where Central American women are trafficked, isolated Guatemalan jungle villages, and crime-ridden Salvadoran slums. With his precise and empathetic reporting, he explores the underbelly of these troubled places. He goes undercover to drink with narcos, accompanies police patrols, rides in trafficking boats and hides out with a gang informer. The result is an unforgettable portrait of a region of fear and a subtle analysis of the North American roots and reach of the crisis, helping to explain why this history of violence should matter to all of us.Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status 310MAR2016 310MAR2016 Livre/Book QPIRG-McGill Migration and Refugee Issues (QM) Available
Title : Intersectional Feminist Frameworks : A Primer Material Type: printed text Authors: Canadian Research Institue for the Advancement of Women, Author Publisher: CRIAW ICREF Publication Date: 2006 ISBN (or other code): ZINE ACT CAN 2006 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Family and Relationships
Feminism
PovertyAbstract: While Canada has experienced substantial economic growth over the last decade, poverty continues to persist and grow in Canada. If you're a woman or child, you may be counted among those most affected. One in seven (2.4 million) women live in poverty in this country.
What's worse- if you are an Aboriginal woman, woman of colour, immigrant woman, woman with a disability, lone mother, or senior woman, you face an even greater chance of being counted among Canada's poor. In 2003, 38% of lone-parent families headed by mothers had incomes that were less than the after-tax Low Income Cut-off.s In comparison only 13% of lone-parent families headed by fathers, and 7% of two parent families, faced this situation.
These numbers tell us that despite the efforts of many different groups to end poverty and create a more just society, we've made little headway. In fact, poverty is intensifying for those living closest to society's margins.Intersectional Feminist Frameworks : A Primer [printed text] / Canadian Research Institue for the Advancement of Women, Author . - [S.l.] : CRIAW ICREF, 2006.
ISSN : ZINE ACT CAN 2006
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Family and Relationships
Feminism
PovertyAbstract: While Canada has experienced substantial economic growth over the last decade, poverty continues to persist and grow in Canada. If you're a woman or child, you may be counted among those most affected. One in seven (2.4 million) women live in poverty in this country.
What's worse- if you are an Aboriginal woman, woman of colour, immigrant woman, woman with a disability, lone mother, or senior woman, you face an even greater chance of being counted among Canada's poor. In 2003, 38% of lone-parent families headed by mothers had incomes that were less than the after-tax Low Income Cut-off.s In comparison only 13% of lone-parent families headed by fathers, and 7% of two parent families, faced this situation.
These numbers tell us that despite the efforts of many different groups to end poverty and create a more just society, we've made little headway. In fact, poverty is intensifying for those living closest to society's margins.Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status ZINE ACT CAN 2006 ZINE ACT CAN 2006 Zine Sustainable Concordia Activism/Organizing (SC) Available
Title : Lessons in Taxidermy Material Type: printed text Authors: Bee Lavender, Author Publisher: Akashic Books Publication Date: 2005 Other publisher: Punk Planet Books Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Biography and personal stories
Health
PovertyKeywords: non-fiction autobiography pain coming of age Abstract:
Diagnosed with cancer at age twelve and perilously pregnant at eighteen, surviving surgeries and violent accidents: sometimes you can’t believe Bee Lavender is still alive; sometimes you think nothing could kill her. Lessons in Taxidermy is Lavender’s fierce and expressive search for truth and an elusive sense of safety. This autobiographical tale is stark and resolved, but strangely euphoric, tying together moments and memories into a frantic, delicate, and often transcendently funny account of anguish and confusion, pain and poverty, isolation and illusion. While staying conscious of the particulars of her circumstances, Lavender frames her life in the context of history, traveling, landscape, and freak show culture. Lessons in Taxidermy is apocryphal, troubling, cathartic, and important.Lessons in Taxidermy [printed text] / Bee Lavender, Author . - [S.l.] : Akashic Books : [S.l.] : Punk Planet Books, 2005.
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Biography and personal stories
Health
PovertyKeywords: non-fiction autobiography pain coming of age Abstract:
Diagnosed with cancer at age twelve and perilously pregnant at eighteen, surviving surgeries and violent accidents: sometimes you can’t believe Bee Lavender is still alive; sometimes you think nothing could kill her. Lessons in Taxidermy is Lavender’s fierce and expressive search for truth and an elusive sense of safety. This autobiographical tale is stark and resolved, but strangely euphoric, tying together moments and memories into a frantic, delicate, and often transcendently funny account of anguish and confusion, pain and poverty, isolation and illusion. While staying conscious of the particulars of her circumstances, Lavender frames her life in the context of history, traveling, landscape, and freak show culture. Lessons in Taxidermy is apocryphal, troubling, cathartic, and important.Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status 200LAV2005 200LAV2005 Livre/Book QPIRG-McGill Health (QM) Available
Title : London Labour and the London Poor: The classical study of the culture of poverty and the criminal classes in the 19th-century – Vol. II of IV. Material Type: printed text Authors: Henry Mayhew, Author Publisher: Dover Publications Publication Date: 1968 ISBN (or other code): LABMAY1968 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Poverty Keywords: Britain, London, Poverty, Poor Abstract: London Labour and the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a compelling portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour, earnings and opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition. In scope, depth and detail it remains unrivalled. Mayhew takes us into the abyss, into a world without fixed employment where skills are declining and insecurity mounting, a world of criminality, pauperism and vice, of unorthodox personal relations and fluid families, a world from which regularity is absent and prosperity has departed. Making sense of this environment required curiosity, imagination and a novelist s eye for detail, and Henry Mayhew possessed all three. No previous writer had succeeded in presenting the poor through their own stories and in their own words, and in this undertaking Mayhew rivals his contemporary Dickens. To pass from one to the other, writes one authority, is to cross sides of the same street. London Labour and the London Poor: The classical study of the culture of poverty and the criminal classes in the 19th-century – Vol. II of IV. [printed text] / Henry Mayhew, Author . - [S.l.] : Dover Publications, 1968.
ISSN : LABMAY1968
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Poverty Keywords: Britain, London, Poverty, Poor Abstract: London Labour and the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a compelling portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour, earnings and opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition. In scope, depth and detail it remains unrivalled. Mayhew takes us into the abyss, into a world without fixed employment where skills are declining and insecurity mounting, a world of criminality, pauperism and vice, of unorthodox personal relations and fluid families, a world from which regularity is absent and prosperity has departed. Making sense of this environment required curiosity, imagination and a novelist s eye for detail, and Henry Mayhew possessed all three. No previous writer had succeeded in presenting the poor through their own stories and in their own words, and in this undertaking Mayhew rivals his contemporary Dickens. To pass from one to the other, writes one authority, is to cross sides of the same street. Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status LABMAY1968 LABMAY1968 Livre/Book Labour Library Labour, Unionism, Working-Class Available
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