Ubc Press: 266 books
by Lindsay Keegitah Borrows
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Storytelling has the capacity to address feelings and demonstrate themes – to illuminate beyond argument and theoretical exposition. In Otter’s Journey, Borrows makes use of the Anishinaabe tradition of storytelling to explore how the work in Indigenous language revitalization can inform the emerging...
Indigenous Storywork
Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Jo-ann Archibald worked closely with Coast Salish Elders and storytellers, who shared both traditional and personal life-experience stories, in order to develop ways of bringing storytelling into educational contexts. Indigenous Storywork is the result of this research and it demonstrates how stories...
The Intellectual Property–Regulatory Complex
Overcoming Barriers to Innovation in Agricultural Genomics
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
Advances in agricultural genomics could help address pressing global issues, such as world hunger, by improving crop yield. However, overlap and conflict in intellectual property and biosafety regimes – known collectively as the “Intellectual Property–Regulatory Complex” – create significant...
Grit
The Life and Politics of Paul Martin Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
“I am not afraid to be called a politician,” declared Paul Martin Sr., defending his life’s work in politics. “Next to preaching the word of God, there is nothing nobler than to serve one’s fellow countrymen in government.” First elected to the House of Commons in 1935, Martin would serve...
Selling Sex
Experience, Advocacy, and Research on Sex Work in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Despite being dubbed “the world’s oldest profession,” prostitution has rarely been viewed as a legitimate form of labour. Instead, it is often criminalized, sensationalized, and polemicized across the socio-political spectrum by everyone from politicians to journalists to women’s groups.
In...
Colonial Proximities
Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Encounters among Aboriginal peoples, European colonists, Chinese migrants, and mixed-race populations generated a range of racial anxieties that underwrote colonialism in BC. By focusing on these points of contact, this book forges critical links between histories of migration and dispossession. The...
Going Public
The Art of Participatory Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Going Public responds to the urgent need to expand current thinking on what it means to co-create, to actively involve the public in research, and to reconceptualize research for public consumption. As researchers are increasingly taking their research from the campus to the public arena, what are...
A Family Matter
Citizenship, Conjugal Relationships, and Canadian Immigration Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
How do we define family? In an attempt to police incoming migrants, the Harper government adopted a strict definition of family in order to limit access to citizenship for certain immigrants. Even when immigrants had no intention of sponsoring family members, their familial networks affected their...
Gendering the Nation-State
Canadian and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Gendering the Nation-State explores the gendered dimensions of a fundamental organizational unit in social and political science -- the nation-state. Yasmeen Abu-Laban has drawn together work by both high-profile and emerging scholars to rescue gender from the margins of theoretical discussions on...
Caring for Children
Social Movements and Public Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Social inequality. Selective political attention. Insufficient funding and access. Caring for Children provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of the crisis in care for Canadian children and their caregivers. The contributors explore the complex issues surrounding caring for children,...
by Heather E. McGregor
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
This book will be welcomed by educators, administrators, and researchers in Inuit and First Nations communities across the North and anyone interested in the history of education in Canada.
The Politics of Procurement
Military Acquisition in Canada and the Sea King Helicopter
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
In 1993, Canada’s Liberal Party cancelled an order to replace the navy’s Sea King helicopter. It claimed that the Tory plan was too expensive, but the cancellation itself actually cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. Aaron Plamondon connects this incident to the larger evolution of...
“Métis”
Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Ask any Canadian what “Métis” means, and they will likely say “mixed race.” Canadians consider Métis mixed in ways that other indigenous people are not, and the census and courts have premised their recognition of Métis status on this race-based understanding.
According to Andersen,...
Mixed Blessings
Indigenous Encounters with Christianity in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Scholars in a range of fields interested in Indigenous history, Native-newcomer relations, religious and missionary studies, and Canadian studies will welcome this fresh exploration of Indigenous peoples and Christianity.