Wilfrid Laurier University Press imprint: 403 books
Governing Cities Through Regions
Canadian and European Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
The region is back in town. Galloping urbanization has pushed beyond historical notions of metropolitanism. City-regions have experienced, in Edward Soja’s terms, “an epochal shift in the nature of the city and the urbanization process, marking the beginning of the end of the modern metropolis...
Sustaining the West
Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
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Deception in High Places: The Making and Unmaking of Mounts Brown and Hooker
Zac Robinson and Stephen Slemon
Few conceptual controversies in Canadian Rockies' history have proven more persistent than that occasioned by the young Scottish botanist David Douglas (1799-1834), who, in 1827, incorrectly...
Ethnic Armies
Polyethnic Armed Forces from the Time of the Habsburgs to the Age of the Superpowers
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 1990
Ethnic Armies is a combination of essays focused on the subject of polyethnic armed forces from the time of the Habsburgs to the age of the superpowers and is a publication of the proceedings of the thirteenth Military History Symposium, held at the Royal Military College of Canada in March 1986.
Multi-ethnic...
Subversive Action
Extralegal Practices for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Subversive Action presents cases that explore the use of extralegal action undertaken in pursuit of human rights and social justice, and locate that action with reference to the boundaries of social work. Definitions of social work often include goals of social change, social justice, empowerment,...
Bodied Mindfulness
Women’s Spirits, Bodies and Places
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
“I see spirituality and social change to be integrally related to each other. I believe that liberation efforts that are supported by spiritual experiences of integration promote human dignity as well as social equality.”
Bodied Mindfulness combines spiritual, social and analytical perspectives...
Understanding the Consecrated Life in Canada
Critical Essays on Contemporary Trends
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Part I: Numbers and Definition
The authors trace demographics and definitions of religious life in Canada.
The Eighteenth-Century Wyandot
A Clan-Based Study
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
The Wyandot were born of two Wendat peoples encountered by the French in the first half of the seventeenth century—the otherwise named Petun and Huron—and their history is fragmented by their dispersal between Quebec, Michigan, Kansas, and Oklahoma. This book weaves these fragmented histories...
Developments in Buddhist Thought
Canadian Contributions to Buddhist Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Nine Canadian scholars of Buddhism consider philosophical and cultural issues in Buddhist thought. Part I, “On Being,” discusses the philosophical problem of Being in the school of the Middle Way, Mādhyamika Buddhism, and in the Tantric School of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Part II, “On the Indian...
The Foreigner
A Tale of Saskatchewan
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
The Foreigner (1909) tells the story of Kalman Kalmar, a young Ukrainian immigrant working in rural Saskatchewan. It addresses the themes of male maturation, cultural assimilation, and a form of “muscular Christianity” recurring in Connor’s popular Western tales. Daniel Coleman’s afterword...
Moving Environments
Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Chapter 10
“Moving Home: Documentary Film and Other Remediations of Post-Katrina New Orleans,”
Janet Walker
Janet Walker draws on affect theory to analyze the emotional appeal of Katrina documentaries and their solemn contemplation of the voices of the dispossessed. Luisa...
by Terrence Craig
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Racial Attitudes in English-Canadian Fiction is a critical overview of the appearances and consequences of racism in English-Canadian fiction published between 1905 and 1980.
Based on an analysis of traditional expressions in literature of group solidarity and resentment, the study screens...
Watermelon Syrup: A Novel
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Lexi, a young Mennonite woman from Saskatchewan, comes to work as housekeeper and nanny for a doctor’s family in Waterloo, Ontario, during the Depression. Dr. Gerald Oliver is a handsome philanderer who lives with his neurotic and alcoholic wife, Cammy, and their two children. Lexi soon adapts to...
Feminist Pedagogy in Higher Education
Critical Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
In this new collection, contributors from a variety of disciplines provide a critical context for the relationship between feminist pedagogy and academic feminism by exploring the complex ways that critical perspectives can be brought into the classroom.
This book discusses the processes employed...
Minds of Our Own
Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women’s Studies in Canada and Québec, 1966–76
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2009
This book of personal essays by over forty women and men who founded women’s studies in Canada and Québec explores feminist activism on campus in the pivotal decade of 1966-76. The essays document the emergence of women’s studies as a new way of understanding women, men, and society, and they...