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Political StudiesWalls: Travels Along the BarricadesMarcello Di Cintio • Goose Lane EditionsIn this ambitious blend of travel and reportage, Marcello Di Cintio travels to the world’s most disputededges to meet the people who live alongside the razor wire and answer the question: What does it mean tolive against the walls? From Native American reservations on the US-Mexico border and the “Great Wall ofMontreal” to Cyprus’s divided capital and the Peace Lines of Belfast, Di Cintio seeks to understand whatthese structures say about those who build them and how they influence the cultures that they surround.Calgary writer Marcello Di Cintio’s first book, Harmattan: Wind Across West Africa, won the HenryKriesel Award. His second book, Poets and Pahlevans: A Journey Into the Heart of Iran, won the WilfredEggleston Prize. He has written for numerous magazines, journals, and newspapers, including The Walrus,EnRoute, Geist, and the Globe and Mail.Key words: Travel writing, Global cultures, Globalization, Political studies, History, Oppression,Class warfare, WallsISBN-13: 9780864926630hardcover / 288 pp6 x 9 / $29.95September 2012What We Talk About When We Talk About WarNoah Richler • Goose Lane EditionsThroughout the last decade, Canada’s identity crisis has deepened. The concept of the Canadian soldieras peacekeeper has been transformed into one of war-maker. Noah Richler examines the rhetoric ofconflict, how story and information is used to convince a society to pursue a particular path, or not.Richler suggests that our changing narrative about war speaks volumes about how we have conceivedand redefined ourselves as a nation as we talked ourselves into, through, and ultimately out of ourparticipation in war.Finalist for the John W. Dafoe Book Prize, Shaughnessey Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and theGovernor General’s Award for Non-fiction.Noah Richler made documentaries and features for BBC Radio for fourteen years before returningto Canada in 1998. He has contributed to numerous publications, including The Walrus, Maisonneuve,Saturday Night, and the Globe and Mail. He is author of This Is My Country, What’s Yours? A Literary Atlasof Canada.Key words: War studies, National identity, Epic narrative, Democracy, Peacekeeping, Government,Media, PropagandaISBN-13: 9780864926227paperback / 376 pp5 x 8 / $24.95April 2012People’s Citizenship Guide: A Response to Conservative CanadaEsyllt Jones & Adele Perry • ARP BooksIn 2009, Stephen Harper’s Conservative government changed the contents of the official citizenship guidethat is given to all recent immigrants. The new version contained more military history and plenty ofinformation about the monarchy, but little about public programs such as medicare or education, or ourrich history of social justice movements. Ignoring the work and democratic struggles of generations ofnewcomers, the official guide outlines an exceptionally narrow, conservative view of Canadian politics andsociety. In People’s Citizenship Guide, a group of progressive scholars offer a lively, political, humane—and more honest—alternative to Stephen Harper’s version of the story.Esyllt Jones studies the history of health, disease, and social movements, and is an associate professor ofhistory at the University of Manitoba. She is also a member of the ARP editorial collective.Adele Perry is an associate professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in the department of history atthe University of Manitoba.Key words: Canadian national identity, Democracy, Civics & citizenship, Canadian history,Criticism of conservative policyISBN-13: 9781894037563paperback / 80 pp7 x 10 / $14.95November 2011Literary Press Group / Congress 2013 45