Ubc Press: 266 books
Am I Safe Here?
LGBTQ Teens and Bullying in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
This book is written for teachers, administrators, pre-service teachers, guidance counsellors, social workers, trustees, parents, and other LGBTQ allies who want to promote student safety and school improvement by creating a safe and inclusive school for LGBTQ students.
by Colin M. Coates, Graeme Wynn
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Intended to delight and provoke, these short, beautifully crafted essays, enlivened with photos and illustrations, explore how humans have engaged with the Canadian environment and what those interactions say about the nature of Canada. Tracing a path from the Ice Age to the Anthropocene, some of...
Breaching the Peace
The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand against Big Hydro
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Breaching the Peace tells the story of the ordinary citizens who are standing up to the most expensive megaproject in BC history and the government-sanctioned bullying that has propelled it forward. Starting in 2013, journalist Sarah Cox travelled to the Peace River Valley to talk to locals about...
A Healthy Society
How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy, Updated and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
A Healthy Society, Updated and Expanded Edition, is one doctor’s vision for a new approach to politics – and a new approach to building a healthier world. Drawing on his experiences as a family physician, Dr. Meili argues that health delivery too often focuses on treatment of immediate causes...
A Healthy Society
How a Focus on Health can Revive Canadian Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Income, education, employment, housing, the wider environment, and social supports; far more than the actions of physicians, nurses, and other health care providers, it is these conditions that make the greatest difference in our health. Drawing on his experiences as a family physician in the inner...
by Tony Penikett
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Canadian politicians, like many of their circumpolar counterparts, brag about their country’s “Arctic identity” or “northern character,” but what do they mean, exactly? Stereotypes abound, from Dudley Do-Right to Northern Exposure, but these southern perspectives fail to capture northern...
Postcolonial Sovereignty?
The Nisga’a Final Agreement
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
In 1999 the Nisga’a First Nation in northwestern British Columbia signed a landmark agreement which not only settled their land claim but outlined significant powers that could be exercised by its government. The Nisga’a Final Agreement granted powers over land, resources, education, and cultural...
Decolonizing Education
Nourishing the Learning Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Drawing on treaties, international law, the work of other Indigenous scholars, and especially personal experiences, Marie Battiste documents the nature of Eurocentric models of education, and their devastating impacts on Indigenous knowledge. Chronicling the negative consequences of forced assimilation...
Breathing Life into the Stone Fort Treaty
An Anishnabe Understanding of Treaty One
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
In order to interpret and implement a treaty between the Crown and Canada’s First Nations, we must look to its spirit and intent, and consider what was contemplated by the parties at the time the treaty was negotiated, argues Aimée Craft. Using a detailed analysis of Treaty One – today covering...
Upstream Medicine
Doctors for a Healthy Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
When patients visit a clinic or hospital, they bring stories of the everyday life conditions that made them sick in the first place – stories about where they work, live, and play; stories about income, food security, and housing. Doctors today are listening. Personal stories and patient encounters...
Beyond Blood
Rethinking Indigenous Identity
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
The current Status criteria of the Indian Act contains descent-based rules akin to blood quantum that are particularly discriminatory against women and their descendants, which author Pamela Palmater argues will lead to the extinguishment of First Nations as legal and constitutional entities. Beginning...
Making a Living
Place, Food, and Economy in an Inuit Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Until recently, most residents of Puvirnituq, an Inuit settlement in Northern Quebec, made their living off the land. Successful hunting, fishing, trapping and gathering, so vital to people’s survival, were underpinned by the expectation that food should be shared. As the Inuit moved into – both...
Aboriginal Peoples and the Law
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Can Canada claim to be a just society for Indigenous peoples? To answer the question, and as part of the process of reconciliation, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission urged a better understanding of Aboriginal law for all Canadians.
Aboriginal Peoples and the Law responds to that call,...
Practising Community-Based Participatory Research
Stories of Engagement, Empowerment, and Mobilization
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
There is increasing pressure on university scholars to reach beyond the “ivory tower” and engage in collaborative research with communities. But what exactly is community-based participatory research (CBPR) and what does engagement look like? This book presents stories about CBPR from Manitoba...