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        Secularism, Race, and the Politics of Islamophobia

        Secularism, Race, and the Politics of Islamophobia

        Edited by Sharmin Sadequee

        ISBN: 9781772127928

        Publisher: University of Alberta Press

        Publication date: May 1, 2025

        272 Pages

        Secularism, Race, and the Politics of Islamophobia shows the ways secularism produces and enables racism and normalizes the racial categorization of “Muslim.”

        Indigenous Healing as Paradox

        Indigenous Healing as Paradox

        Re-Membering and Biopolitics in the Settler Colony

        by Krista Maxwell

        ISBN: 9781772125740

        Publisher: University of Alberta Press

        Publication date: January 9, 2025

        208 Pages

        A social history of the ways Indigenous Peoples have engaged and navigated the welfare state to promote survival and well-being amidst Canadian settler colonialism.
        Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities

        Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities

        Colonial Extractivism and Wet’suwet’en Resistance

        by Tyler McCreary

        ISBN: 9781772127041

        Publisher: University of Alberta Press

        Publication date: February 29, 2024

        376 Pages

        McCreary explores how colonial forces seek to control Indigenous claims, and how the Wet'suwet'en resist.
        The Elephant Has Two Sets of Teeth

        The Elephant Has Two Sets of Teeth

        Bhutanese Refugees and Humanitarian Governance

        by Alice Neikirk

        ISBN: 9781772127034

        Publisher: University of Alberta Press

        Publication date: October 2, 2023

        264 Pages

        This ethnography shows how the language of compassion is used to oppress Bhutanese refugees.
        Walking Together, Working Together

        Walking Together, Working Together

        Engaging Wisdom for Indigenous Well-Being

        Edited by Leslie Main Johnson and Janelle Marie Baker

        ISBN: 9781772125375

        Publisher: University of Alberta Press

        Publication date: January 10, 2023

        272 Pages

        Indigenous Elders, healers, Western physicians, and scholars seek complementarities between Indigenous practices and Western biomedicine.
        Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidandài’ Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih

        Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidandài’ Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih

        Stories from the People of the Land

        by Leslie McCartney and Gwich'in Tribal Council

        ISBN: 9781772126297

        Publisher: University of Alberta Press

        Publication date: February 1, 2022

        776 Pages

        Life-stories of 23 Gwich’in Elders from the Northwest Territories in Canada speak to changing times.
        Contemporary Indigenous Cosmologies and Pragmatics

        Contemporary Indigenous Cosmologies and Pragmatics

        Edited by Françoise Dussart and Sylvie Poirier

        ISBN: 9781772125825

        Publisher: University of Alberta Press

        Publication date: December 29, 2021

        344 Pages

        Thirteen contributors examine Indigenous peoples’ negotiations with different cosmologies in today’s globalized world.
        Wisdom Engaged

        Wisdom Engaged

        Traditional Knowledge for Northern Community Well-Being

        Edited by Leslie Main Johnson

        Series edited by Earle H. Waugh

        ISBN: 9781772124101

        Publisher: University of Alberta Press

        Publication date: July 21, 2019

        416 Pages

        Collaboration between traditional knowledge and Western bio-medicine aims to improve health care in Northern communities.
        Traditions, Traps and Trends

        Traditions, Traps and Trends

        Transfer of Knowledge in Arctic Regions

        Edited by Jarich Oosten and Barbara Helen Miller

        ISBN: 9781772123722

        Publisher: University of Alberta Press

        Publication date: July 23, 2018

        352 Pages

        An edited collection that surveys Indigenous knowledge practices in northern Canada, Greenland, and Scandinavia.

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