- Adventures in Marxism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
- Against the American Grain
Essays on the Effects of Mass Culture
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1962
Critical essays on American culture.
- American Dreams: Lost and Found
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
Interviews with 100 Americans who relate their dreams, disappointments, aspirations and experiences.
- The Arc of Justice and the Long Run
Hope, History, and Unpredictability
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
North American cicada nymphs live underground for 17 years before they emerge as adults. Many seeds stay dormant far longer than that before some disturbance makes them germinate. Sometimes cause and effect are centuries apart; sometimes Martin Luther King’s arc of the moral universe that bends toward justice is so long few see its curve; sometimes hope lies not in looking forward but backward to study the line of that arc.
- Arts Culture Media Communications Topic Index in Sources Directory
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Resource Type: Website
A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to arts, culture, media, and communicatins in the Sources directory for the media.
- Artscape
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Bad Marxism
Capitalism and Cultural Studies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Cultural Studies commonly claims to be a radical discipline. This book thinks that's a bad assessment. After an introduction critiquing the so-called 'Marxism' of the academy, Hutnyk provides detailed critical analyses of the approaches and theorists of cultural studies.
- Bertolt Brecht's Berlin
A Scrapbook of the Twenties
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
A testament, in words and pcitures to Berlin in the 1920s: "the age of anxious euphoria that gripped the German capital as it poised uneasily between two eras of unprecedented catastrophe."
- The Brain That Changes Itself
Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Doidge explains neuroplasticity and shows that the brain is not a collection of specialized parts but a dynamic organ and can rewire and rearrange itself as the need arises.
- Canada Council for the Arts
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Canadian City
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
Based on the belief that a healthy city life is possible, this volume collects articles, stories and histories about the city and its people, covering aspects such as human and social relations, art and architecture, urban planning, land development, and the greening of the urban environment.
- Challenging McWorld
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
- Charity Begins At Home
Generosity and Self-Interest Among the Philanthropic Elite
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- Charity Begins At Home
Generosity and Self-Interest Among the Philanthropic Elite
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- The City in History
Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1961
Beginning with an interpretation of the origin and nature of the city, Mumford follows the city's development from Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages to the modern world.
- Compass Points
Navigating the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
A radical history of the twentieth century by a wide of Canadian authors and essayists grappling with crucial developments in politics, economics, society, and culture in Canada and abroad.
- The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I
Economic Writings 1
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Annual 1989
A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
The Connexions Annual is simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives.
- Connexions Annual 1994
A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1994
Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
- Connexions Annual Overview: Arts, Media, Culture
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
The established wisdom has it that the media are neutral purveyors of news and entertainment, while the arts are about individual creativity and cultural values untainted by the vulgar concerns of politics and economics.
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Connexions Library: Arts, Media, Culture Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on media, culture, and art.
- Critical Theory
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
Essays by the founder of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt.
- Culture Against Man
Resource Type: Book
- Culture Inc.
The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Schiller defends democratic expression and free access to information while demonstrating the ways in which public expression, public space, and public access to information are becoming increasingly limited and controlled.
- Culture of Complaint
The Fraying of America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much a part of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasant realities in abstraction or sugar, is so perfectly endemic that we expect nothing else.
- "Culture", Science and State-Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Neither culture nor science can lead lives separate from the economic realities of the societies which nurture them. Science and culture, even as they are procliamed to be the harbingers of revolutionary change, are being used today by the existing social order to preserve itself.
- Dancing With A Ghost
Exploring Aboriginal Reality
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
Ross examines the differences between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal world views as it relates to culture, justice and values.
- The Dialectical Imagination
A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research
Resource Type: Book
- Discriminations
Resource Type: Book
- Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Resource Type: Book
- Finite and Infinite Games
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
Carse suggests that there are two kinds of games: One could be called finite, the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play. The rules of a finite game may not change, the rules of an infinite game must change.
- The Freudian Left
Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, Herbert Marcuse
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
Paul Robinson tries to define a particular tradition in the history of psychoanalysis - the "radical" or "left-wing" tradition - through an analysis of its three most important representatives: Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, and Herbert Marcuse.
- Gilroy and Reed on Race, Class & Culture
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The common theme has been the way that those who call themselves 'progressive' or 'anti-racist' often draw upon ideas that are deeply regressive and rooted in racial ways of thinking; and that the consequences of identity politics and of concepts such as cultural appropriation is to bring about not social justice but the empowerment of those who would act as gatekeeprs to particular communities. The articles have inevitably drawn much hostility, especially from would-be gatekeepers, who insist that to challenge such ideas is to challenge antiracism, even to 'defend white supremacy'.
- Global Imperative
Harmonizing Culture and Nature
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- The Great Turning
From Empire to Earth Community
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
- Healing the Wounds
The Promise of Ecofeminism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
An anthology of writings on ecofeminism.
- Tim Hector
A Caribbean Radical's Story
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
An account of the life of Antiguan activist Tim Hector.
- A History of Reading
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
An exploration of what it means to be a reader of books.
- How Culture Came to Appropriate Race
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Racism has historically played a major role in shaping adoption practices.
- Identity is that which is given
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
In this age of globalisation many people fret about Western culture taking over the world. But the greatest Western export is not Disney or McDonalds or Tom Cruise. It is the very idea of culture.
- Illuminations
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
Litearcy essasy, general reflections, and probings into cultural phenomena.
- Keywords
A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
Williams examines more than 100 familiar words and explores how they are used.
- Land and Community
Crisis in Canada's Countryside
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Sim's thesis is that rural society is overlooked due to urban dependence upon "great associations," economies of scale, and other socio-cultural institutions of unmanageable size.
- The Library at Night
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
The Library at Night tells the story of the important role of libraries in human civilization and how books are an essential link between the individual and the world.
- The Limits of Postcolonial Criticism: The Discourse of Edward Said
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
ONE OF THE fundamental discoveries of Marxist historiography is that capitalism as a world system has developed unevenly, with the operations of the “free market” determined by unplanned but (after analysis) “lawful” tendencies of accumulation of surplus value.
With the rise of merchant capitalism, diverse modes of production with varying temporalities and “superstructural” effects have since then reconfigured the planet. In a new cartography, we find...
- Living in a Dark Age
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- A Long and Terrible Shadow
White Values, Native Rights in the Americas 1492-1992
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
Against the odds, Native peoples have waged a tenacious struggle to survive and the re-emerge as distinct cultures.
- The Long Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
- Made in America
An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
A history of American English.
- Mass Culture
The Popular Arts in America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1957
- Not a Carwash
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
In the Albanian capital of Tirana, students, professors, activists and film lovers take to the streets when authorities attempt to redevelop the property of the city's only art house theatre for profit. The changing face of post-communist Albania is the backdrop for this classic battle between art, commerce, artistic passion and government indifference.
- Only Connect
On Culture and Communication
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
- Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Our Generation
Volume 7 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
- People's Aesthetics
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
An essay on self-proclaimed "progressives" and their hypocritical defense of cultural hierarchies and consumption of popular or lower middle class culture for camp value. He opines that the distinction between craft and art is class based.
- Problems of Everyday Life
And Other Writings On Culture & Science
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
The focus of this book is the impact of the Russian Revolution of the culture life of the country -- and conversely, the effect of the country's cultural backwardness on the course of the revolution. Among the topics discussed are religion, communications media, language, education, science, industry, cinema, marriage, the position of women, child care, "proletarian" literature, art, philoosphy, primitive rural conditions, the dangers of overspecialization and bureaucracy.
- Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Question of the Commons
The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- Radical Mass Media Criticism
A Cultural Geneology
Resource Type: Book
Examines the thinkers who have reacted against the increasing media power. From the critiqes of the corrupt press during the First World War, an analysis of the relationship between public opinion and propaganda diring the Nazi years and the bias of the supposed objective news of today. Contributors include Noam Chomsky, Slavko Splichal, Joost van Loon and many other leaders in the international field.
- Raids and Reconstructions
Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
A collection of essays on culture and poltics.
- Royal BC Museum
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- Sexual Anarchy
Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- A Short History of Progress
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
- Simon Fraser University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Sleeping On A Wire
Connversations with Palestinians in Israel
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- Socialism and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
- Society of the Spectacle
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
An analysis of modern society and how it can be changed, written in the form of 221 theses. The first thesis reads: "In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation." Translator Ken Knabb describes the book as "an effort to clarify the nature of the society in which we find ourselves and the advantages and drawbacks of various methods for changing it. Every single thesis has a direct or indirect bearing on issues that are matters of life and death."
- Sources welcomes the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT)
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
For the betterment of Canadian theatre, PACT provides leadership, national representation and a variety of programs and practical assistance to member companies, enabling members to do their own creative work.
- The Story of Language
The Classic Account by a World-Famous Linguist of Humanity's Most Important Invention
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
The author explores the origin and development of language from the first sounds spoken to the many languages used today.
- Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1962
Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
- Working Class Experience
Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.
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