Ubc Press: 266 books
Sporting Gender
Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making during China’s National Crisis, 1931-45
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
This book will appeal to those interested in Chinese history, gender studies, cinema studies, and sports history.
Community Forestry in Canada
Lessons from Policy and Practice
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.
The People and the Bay
A Social and Environmental History of Hamilton Harbour
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...
In Defence of Home Places
Environmental Activism in Nova Scotia
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,...
Mothers and Others
The Role of Parenthood in Politics
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...
Lock, Stock, and Icebergs
A History of Canada’s Arctic Maritime Sovereignty
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...
by David Rayside, Jerald Sabin, Paul E.J. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
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...
Dominion of Race
Rethinking Canada’s International History
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,...
Protection of First Nations Cultural Heritage
Laws, Policy, and Reform
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...
Fraught Intimacies
Non/Monogamy in the Public Sphere
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...
Gendered Mediation
Identity and Image Making in Canadian Politics
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.
Class Actions in Canada
The Promise and Reality of Access to Justice
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...
After '08
Social Policy and the Global Financial Crisis
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,...
The Political Economy of Resource Regulation
An International and Comparative History, 1850-2015
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...