Ubc Press imprint: 250 books

by Simon Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013

When it was first published in 2006, Community Mental Health in Canada was hailed as a much-needed critical overview of the provision of public mental health services in Canada. Comprehensive in scope, its coverage included: the prevalence and impact of mental illness in Canada the complementary...

So They Want Us to Learn French

Promoting and Opposing Bilingualism in English-Speaking Canada

by Matthew Hayday
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

So They Want Us to Learn French will be of interest to students, practitioners, activists, and policymakers in the fields of language policy, education, social movements, national identity, and Canadian political history.

When the Caribou Do Not Come

Indigenous Knowledge and Adaptive Management in the Western Arctic

by Brenda L. Parlee, Ken J. Caine
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018

In the 1990s, headlines about declining caribou populations grabbed international attention. Were caribou the canary in the coal mine for climate change, or did declining numbers reflect overharvesting or failed attempts at scientific wildlife management? Grounded in community-based research in northern...

Critical Suicidology

Transforming Suicide Research and Prevention for the 21st Century

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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015

This book is a must-read for practitioners, policy makers, and researchers working in mental health services, psychology, counselling, social work, psychiatry, medicine, philosophy, sociology, suicidology, feminism, anthropology, critical disability studies, and cultural studies.

The Secular Northwest

Religion and Irreligion in Everyday Postwar Life

by Tina Block
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016

The image of a rough frontier – where working men were tempted away from church on Sundays by more profane concerns – was perpetuated by postwar religious leaders troubled by the decline in church involvement. Tina Block debunks the myth of a godless frontier, revealing a Pacific Northwest that...

Patriation and Its Consequences

Constitution Making in Canada

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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015

Few moments in Canadian history are as intriguing as the “patriation” of Canada’s constitution from Britain. Over the years, the tale of the political battle between Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and the “Gang of Eight” provincial premiers opposing his patriation plans has developed mythical...

Braiding Histories

Learning from Aboriginal Peoples’ Experiences and Perspectives

by Susan D. Dion
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009

This book proposes a new pedagogy for addressing Aboriginal subject material, shifting the focus from an essentializing or “othering” exploration of the attributes of Aboriginal peoples to a focus on historical experiences that inform our understanding of contemporary relationships between Aboriginal...

In Search of the Ethical Lawyer

Stories from the Canadian Legal Profession

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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016

What options did Paul Bernardo’s lawyer have when his client directed him to retrieve hidden evidence? Where would David Milgaard be today if a lawyer hadn’t doggedly challenged his murder conviction? And what should a defence lawyer do when told her client is a danger to the public? In this book,...

Learning and Teaching Together

Weaving Indigenous Ways of Knowing into Education

by Michele TD Tanaka
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016

Across Canada, new curriculum initiatives require teachers to introduce students to Aboriginal content. In response, many teachers unfamiliar with Aboriginal approaches to learning and teaching are seeking ways to respectfully weave this material into their lessons. At the same time, many teachers...

The Right to a Healthy Environment

Revitalizing Canada's Constitution

by David R. Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013

Canada has abundant natural wealth, beautiful landscapes, vast forests, and thousands of rivers and lakes. The land defines Canadians as a people, yet the country has one of the industrialized world's worst environmental records. Building on his previous book, The Environmental Rights Revolution (2012),...

Hearts and Mines

The US Empire’s Culture Industry

by Tanner Mirrlees
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016

This timely and engaging interdisciplinary book will be invaluable to students and scholars of communications, media, and cultural studies, as well as to anyone interested in sociology, political-economy, geography, international relations, US foreign policy, propaganda, and the radical imagination.

Queer Mobilizations

Social Movement Activism and Canadian Public Policy

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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015

Undergraduate students in sexuality studies, political science, law, and social movement studies, as well as policy makers, political journalists, and queer activists.

Aboriginal Title and Indigenous Peoples

Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011

Delgamuukw. Mabo. Ngati Apa. Recent cases have created a framework for litigating Aboriginal title in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The distinguished group of scholars whose work is showcased here, however, shows that our understanding of where the concept of Aboriginal title came from – and...

Standing Up with G̲a'ax̱sta'las

Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom

by Leslie A. Robertson, the Kwagu'l Gix̱sa̱m Clan
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012

A must-read for scholars and students of anthropology, Aboriginal studies, Canadian history, and collaborative research and for anyone interested in the history of the Pacific Northwest.
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