Athabasca University Press: 129 books
Strategic Nonviolent Power
The Science of Satyagraha
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
History indicates that there are powerful routes to liberation from oppression that do not involve violence. Mohandas Gandhi called for a science of nonviolent action, one based on satyagraha, or the “insistence on truth.” As Gandhi understood, nonviolent resistance is not passive, nor is it weak;...
Hard Time
Reforming the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Prisons have always existed in a climate of crisis. The penitentiary emerged in the early decades of the nineteenth century as an enlightened alternative to brute punishment, one that would focus on rehabilitation and the inculcation of mainstream social values. Central to this goal was physical labour....
Selves and Subjectivities
Reflections on Canadian Arts and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Long a topic of intricate political and social debate, Canadian identity has come to be understood as fragmented, amorphous, and unstable, a multifaceted and contested space only tenuously linked to traditional concepts of the nation. As Canadians, we are endlessly defining ourselves, seeking to locate...
How Canadians Communicate III
Contexts of Canadian Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
What does Canadian popular culture say about the construction and negotiation of Canadian national identity? This third volume of How Canadians Communicate describes the negotiation of popular culture across terrains where national identity is built by producers and audiences, government and industry,...
Wild Words
Essays on Alberta Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
As the first collection of literary criticism focusing on Alberta writers, Wild Words establishes a basis for identifying Alberta fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction as valid subjects of study in their own right. By critically situating and assessing specific Alberta authors according to genre, this volume continues the work begun with Melnyk's Literary History of Alberta.
Voices of the Land
The Seed Savers and Other Plays
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
The sound of the wind across a Prairie field, the smell of grass on the first day of spring, the vocalization of birds in the early morning woods, the silence of the lake at night interrupted by call of the loon – these are the shapes and sounds of the Prairie landscape. Katherine Koller invokes...
Development Derailed
Calgary and the CPR , 1962–64
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In June of 1962, the Canadian Pacific Railway announced a proposal to redevelop part of its reserved land in the heart of downtown Calgary. In an effort to bolster its waning revenues and to redefine its urban presence, the CPR proposed a multimillion dollar development project that included retail,...
Northern Love
An exploration of Canadian Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
In Northern Love, Paul Nonnekes proposes a conception of love suggestive of a distinctive model of Canadian masclinity. He pursues debates in psychoanalysis and cultural theory in relation to two representative male characters in novels by Rudy Wiebe (A Discovery of Strangers) and Robert Kroetsch (The Man from the Creeks
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Despite the market triumphalism that greeted the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet empire seemed initially to herald new possibilities for social democracy. In the 1990s, with a new era of peace and economic prosperity apparently imminent, people discontented with the realities of global...
Defying Expectations
The Case of UFCW Local 401
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
In October 2005, Jason Foster, then a staff member of the Alberta Federation of Labour, was holding a picket line outside Lakeside Packers in Brooks, Alberta with the members of local 401. It was a first contract strike. And although the employees of the meat-packing plant—many of whom were immigrants...
The Wages of Relief
Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929–39
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In the early part of the Dirty Thirties, the Canadian prairie city was a relatively safe haven. Having faced recession before the Great War and then again in the early 1920s, municipalities already had relief apparatuses in place to deal with poverty and unemployment. Until 1933, responsibilty for...
Rocks in the Water, Rocks in the Sun
A Memoir from the Heart of Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
When Joegodson Déralciné was still a small child, his parents left rural Haiti to resettle in the rapidly growing zones of Port-au-Prince. As his family entered the city in 1986, Duvalier and his dictatorship exited. Haitians, once terrorized under Duvalier’s reign, were liberated and emboldened...
How Canadians Communicate IV
Media and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Substantial changes have occurred in the nature of political discourse over the past thirty years. Once, traditional media dominated the political landscape, but in recent years Facebook, Twitter, blogs and Blackberrys have emerged as important tools and platforms for political campaigns. While the...
Learning in Virtual Worlds
Research and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Three-dimensional (3D) immersive virtual worlds have been touted as being capable of facilitating highly interactive, engaging, multimodal learning experiences. Much of the evidence gathered to support these claims has been anecdotal but the potential that these environments hold to solve traditional...