Ubc Press: 266 books

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Sporting Gender

Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making during China’s National Crisis, 1931-45

by Yunxiang Gao
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013

This book will appeal to those interested in Chinese history, gender studies, cinema studies, and sports history.
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Community Forestry in Canada

Lessons from Policy and Practice

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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016

This book is key reading for community forestry organizations, government policy makers, environmental NGOs, as well as students and scholars of forest policy, environmental studies, rural sociology, geography, and Canadian studies.
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The People and the Bay

A Social and Environmental History of Hamilton Harbour

by Nancy B. Bouchier, Ken Cruikshank
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016

This masterful social and environmental history raises questions about how decisions being made about the natural world today will shape the cities of tomorrow. In 1865, John Smoke braved the ice on Burlington Bay to go spearfishing. Soon after, he was arrested by a fishery inspector and then...
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In Defence of Home Places

Environmental Activism in Nova Scotia

by Mark R. Leeming
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017

As environmental deterioration became a major political issue near the end of the twentieth century, activists in Nova Scotia stood together to defend the places they called home. They cooperated to protect local environments and economies, but they disagreed about the causes of environmental problems,...
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Mothers and Others

The Role of Parenthood in Politics

by Amanda Bittner, Melanee Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017

When women in politics interact with reporters, opponents, and constituents, they are forced to confront their parental status. If they have children, they are questioned about their competence in both their public and private lives. If they don’t, they face criticism for not understanding or relating...
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Lock, Stock, and Icebergs

A History of Canada’s Arctic Maritime Sovereignty

by Adam Lajeunesse
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016

In 1988, after years of failed negotiations over the status of the Northwest Passage, Brian Mulroney gave Ronald Reagan a globe, pointed to the Arctic, and said “Ron that’s ours. We own it lock, stock, and icebergs.” A simple statement, it summed up a hundred years of official policy. Since...
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by David Rayside, Jerald Sabin, Paul E.J. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017

Religion is usually thought of as inconsequential to contemporary Canadian politics. This book takes a hard look at just how much influence faith continues to have in federal, provincial, and territorial arenas. Drawing on case studies from across the country, it explores three important axes of religiously...
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Dominion of Race

Rethinking Canada’s International History

by Laura Madokoro, Francine McKenzie, David Meren
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017

How has race shaped Canada’s international encounters and its role in the world? How have the actions of politicians, diplomats, citizens, and nongovernmental organizations reflected and reinforced racial power structures in Canada? In this book, leading scholars grapple with these complex questions,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009

Indigenous peoples around the world are seeking greater control over tangible and intangible cultural heritage. In Canada, issues concerning repatriation and trade of material culture, heritage site protection, treatment of ancestral remains, and control over intangible heritage are governed by a...
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Fraught Intimacies

Non/Monogamy in the Public Sphere

by Nathan Rambukkana
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015

Adultery scandals involving politicians. Dating websites for married women and men. Raids of polygamous communities. Reality shows about polyamorists. It seems that non-monogamy is everywhere: in popular culture, in the news, and before the courts. In Fraught Intimacies, Nathan Rambukkana examines...
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Gendered Mediation

Identity and Image Making in Canadian Politics

by Angelia Wagner, Joanna Everitt
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019

This book will be of interest to researchers and students of gender and politics and political communication, as well as journalists, politicians, and public relations professionals.
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Class Actions in Canada

The Promise and Reality of Access to Justice

by Jasminka Kalajdzic
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018

Whatever deficits remain in the Canadian project to make justice available to all, class actions have been heralded as a success. The theme of access to justice runs throughout the discourse on collective litigation, but what do access and justice mean in this context? Class actions have been...
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After '08

Social Policy and the Global Financial Crisis

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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016

The 2007-08 financial crisis marked a turning point for social policy. World leaders were forced to take a position: Should they entrench neo-liberal policies in response to the crisis? Or should they implement alternative measures to challenge economics as usual? After ’08 examines how global institutions,...
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The Political Economy of Resource Regulation

An International and Comparative History, 1850-2015

by Andreas R. Dugstad Sanders, Pål R. Sandvik, Espen Storli
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019

Industrialist John Paul Getty famously quipped, “The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.” Throughout history, natural resources have been sources of wealth and power and catalysts for war and peace. They are natural objects for political regulation. The Political Economy...
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