QPIRG Library: New Arrivals (January 2009) :: QPIRG Concordia

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Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 08:02 AM

Here are some new arrivals in the QPIRG-Concordia Resource Library. All our library materials are searchable online via the Alternative Libraries database. Alternative Libraries includes the collectives of QPIRG-Concordia, the 2110 Centre, QPIRG-McGill, the Union for Gender Empowerment, and soon the DIRA Anarchist Library.

Books:

Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex
Edited by Julia Sudbury
An original, smart, and provocative volume, Global Lockdown makes a compelling case for the convergence of abolitionist prison and anti-globalization work in the age of global capitalism, neo-liberalism, and U.S. economic and political hegemony. An urgent wakeup call for scholars, activists, and social justice workers, this volume crafts a visionary and wide-ranging anti-racist, transnational feminist praxis. A critical book for these critical times.
PRI SUD 2005

A Patch of Eden: America’s Inner-City Gardeners
By Hynes, H. Patricia
This is the delightful story of the resurgence in urban community gardening, describing the rehabilitation of jail inmates through raising organic vegetables, teaching inner city youngsters where food comes from, and laying out an inspirational plan to help all of us world-worn urbanites get involved once again in raising delicious food in the midst of our paved-over, formerly bleak, urban landscapes. This is about making the World a Better Place, about getting our fingers in the dirt, touching our planet with loving hands, and creating a vision of hope for our cities and our children.
ENV HYN 1996

Orgasms of History: 3000 Years of Spontaneous Insurrection
By Fremion, Yves
Every now and then, things explode. Riots, uprisings, revolutions, new and bizarre social groups spring up seemingly from nowhere. Our standard histories tend to treat these as oddities, if treated at all, or as misguided responses to hard times, limited by lack of responsible leadership. Here's an illustrated people's history to puncture that balloon.
UNP FRE 2002

The Modern School Movement: Anarchism and Education in the Unites States
By Avrich, Paul
Based on extensive interviews with former pupils and teachers, this Pulitzer Prize-nominated work is a seminal and important investigation into the potential of educational alternatives. Between 1910 and 1960 anarchists across the United States established more than 20 schools wherein children studied in an atmosphere of freedom and self-reliance. The Modern Schools stood in sharp contrast to the formality and discipline of the traditional classroom and sought to abolish all forms of authority. Their object was to create not only a new type of school, but also a new society based on the voluntary cooperation of free individuals. Among the participants were Emma Goldman, Margaret Sanger, Alexander Berkman and Man Ray.
EDU AVR 2006

A Girl Among the Anarchists
By Meredith, Isabel
Isabel Meredith is the narrator of A Girl among the Anarchists and the pseudonym of Helen and Olivia Rossetti, daughters of William Michael Rossetti and nieces of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Their fin-de-siècle tenure as editors of the renowned British anarchist journal The Torch provided the experience that went into this entertaining and knowing novel. Young Isabel’s description of her upbringing echoes the eccentricities of the Rosetti household. Isolated, restless, she feels a strong desire to "free" herself from "all the ideas, customs, and prejudices" of her class and to throw herself "into the life and work of the masses." She becomes immersed in a subversive community that was seldom seen by bourgeois women in late Victorian England. In picaresque fashion she recounts outlandish vignettes of the anarchist life-style. But in growing from a girl to a woman Isabel undergoes more than physical change.
FIC MER 1903

Chrysanthemum
By Henkes, Kevin
Chrysanthemum thinks her name is absolutely perfect, until her first day of school. "You're named after a flower!" teases Victoria. "Let's smell her," says Jo. Chrysanthemum wilts. What will it take to make her blossom again?
CHI CHR 1991

Collectif Liberterre: une monographie
Par Guilbert, Amandine; Kruzynski, Anna; des membres de Liberterre
Cette monographie realisee par le CRAC est la premiere d'une longue serie sur les groupes antiautoritaires et anticapitalistes ayant emerge au Quebec depuis 1995. Les membres du collectif Liberterre ont activement participe a ce processus de recherche-action qui a en tout dure deux ans. Ce document comporte une premiere partie descriptive sur les differents aspects du groupe. La deuxieme partie rend compte des analyses politiques produites par les membre du collectif ainsi que de leurs reflexions sur les defis lies aux pratique d'autogestion dans un contexte stratifie.
ENV CRA 2008

Zines:

Primed: The Back Pocket Guide for Transmen & the Men Who Dig Them.
By Giambrone, Broden & Smith, Ty
There is very limited information available for trans people around sexual health and many misconceptions in various communities, including trans, queer, and mainstream. This resource is an effort to combat this, to bring together important info and make it available to transmen so that we know what risks we are taking, what choices we have, what questions we should ask and simply to remind ourselves that our health and bodies matter.
QUE PRI ZINE