Whose Cosmopolitanism?

Contributors from different disciplines and theoretical backgrounds examine cosmopolitanism’s possibilities, aspirations and applications The book investigates when, where and how cosmopolitanism emerges as a contemporary social process

Searching for a Cultural Diplomacy

International panel of distinguished scholars Perspective from the outside in: foreign scholars offer their interpretation of emotions in American history Focuses on an innovative field of study and one that also appeals to the broader public Brings together different disciplines...

Social Torture

As Director of the Refugee Law Project at the University of Makerere, Kampala, Uganda, Dolan offers a behind-the-scenes, cross-disciplinary study of one of Africa's longest running and most intractable conflicts. This book shows how, alongside the activities of the Lord's Resistance Army, gover...

Genocide on Settler Frontiers

Focuses on conflicts between hunter-gatherers and commercial stock farmers. Highlights destructive impact of commercial stock farming and its connection to international markets. Raises the question of whether these conflicts were inherently genocidal, an issue not yet addressed by s...

Crisis of the State

The Mirage of China

Today’s world is one marked by the signs of digital capitalism and global capitalist expansion, and China is increasingly being integrated into this global system of production and consumption. As a result, China’s immediate material impact is now felt almost everywhere in the world; however, t...

Figurations of the Future

Contributes to anthropological literature on contemporary Euro-American politics foreshadowing recent waves of public dissent. Explores the forms politics is taking among left-wing radical and anarchist activists in Northern Europe pointing to how forms of action engender time. This ...

Enduring Socialism

Against the historical backdrop of successive socialist and post-socialist claims to have completely remade society, the contributors to this volume explore the complex and often paradoxical continuities between diverse post-socialist presents and their corresponding socialist and pre-socialist...

Economic Persuasions

The State and the Social

Analyses the transformation of modern Botswana from the perspective of precolonial and colonial genealogies as well as the rise of structures of domination propelled by changing global forces An ethnographic and anthropological study of the unique formation of postcolonial Botswana T...

Traveling Models and Practical Norms

Traveling Models and Practical Norms examines how different modes of governance that deliver services of general interest experience significant gaps between explicit rules of the game and implicit practices, between planned actions and daily routines.

Bodies of Evidence

In the course of hostilities between Greek and Turkish Cypriots between 1963 and 1974, over 2000 persons, both Greek and Turkish Cypriots, went "missing" in Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean with a population distribution of 80% Greeks and 18% Turks. This represents a significant number fo...

Enhancing Democracy

This volume provides a comprehensive framework of the democratic movements in Chile since the end of the Pinochet regime Uses empirical data to form an overview of the country's political sphere Expertly adds to the debate on the relationship between politics and civil society in C...

Economy's Tension

Presents small ethnographic contexts and global financial markets to show that economy is made up of two value realms, mutuality and impersonal trade Explains how capital and derivatives can control an economy Offers an approach for dealing with environmental devastation Examines...

Gender Politics in the Expanding European Union

In May 2004, after bringing their legislation into accordance with EU regulations, ten more countries joined the European Union. The contributors to this volume assess the impact of this historical development on gender relations in the new and old EU member states. Instead of focusing on eithe...

Picturing Pity

Picturing Pity is the first full length monograph on missionary photography. Empirically, it is based on an in-depth analysis of the published photographs taken by Norwegian evangelical missionaries in Northern Cameroon from the early nineteen twenties, at the beginning of their activities in t...

Racism in the Modern World

Features historians from various regional specialisations Explores racism from comparative and transnational perspectives Seeks to answer questions relating to the diffusion of racial belief systems around the globe

Globalization

The effects of globalization have led to accentuated social inequality in most first-world countries, above all the U.S. and U.K. International trade and capital flows have tended to redistribute income in ways that aggravate inequality in advanced industrialized nations where relative income l...

Neo-nationalism in Europe and Beyond

By the early twenty-first century neo-nationalist forces have established themselves in a number of the world’s large regions and subcontinents. From Australia to South Asia, in Eastern and Western Europe, comparable parties and movements have positioned themselves in national parliaments and g...

Urban Violence in the Middle East

Aims to foster a new understanding of violence beyond that of a meaningless and destructive social and political act, countering notions of a violent Middle East. Explores processes sparked by the transition from empires to the formation of nation states, and the resulting changes in cit...

Ethical Consumption

Increasingly, consumers in North America and Europe see their purchasing as a way to express to the commercial world their concerns about trade justice, the environment and similar issues. This ethical consumption has attracted growing attention in the press and among academics. Extending beyon...

Peace At Last?

Spanning more than thirty years, and costing over 3000 lives, the conflict in Northern Ireland has been one of the most protracted ethnic conflicts in Western Europe. After several failed attempts to resolve the fundamental differences over national belonging between the two communities in Nort...

A Sad Fiasco

Comparative studies on concentration camps have tended to neglect the African colonial experience at the turn of the twentieth century. A Sad Fiasco delves deeper into the daily lives led in the colonial concentration camps in southern Africa and the motives behind the mass extinction of thousa...

The Assetocracy

Parliament’s second chamber may no longer be home to hereditary peers, but elitism remains. This detailed analysis of the financial and political activity of the members of the House of Lords exposes the extent of the wealth elite's grip on power at the heart of British government.

Singing the Blues

From the party's beginnings in the Territories through its convulsive 1929 campaign and first victory that year under J.T.M. Anderson to its shadowy dissolution nearly 70 years later, the Saskatchewan Conservative Part struggles for relevance and survival. After their 1929 win, Conservatives wait...

Whistleblowing and Retaliation in the United Nations

The United Nations aims to maintain international peace and security, while protecting human rights and upholding international law. However, United Nations whistleblowers over the years have revealed deep dysfunction within the organisation. This illuminating book combines first-hand accounts o...

New Directions in Saskatchewan Public Policy

In this new scholarly compilation by David P. McGrane, established and emerging trends in Saskatchewan public policy are the foundation for setting new directions for the province in the 21st century.In what direction should Saskatchewan be headed in the 21st century? To answer this question, aca...

Disengaged?

Elections are a critical componenet of democracy, yet civic engagement has reached a post-war low in Manitoba. Barely half of all eligible voters showed up to vote in the last three provincial elections. Surveys show that many of these non-voters feel alienated from the political process, or have...

Grateful Prey

Grateful Preyuncovers the interaction between magico-religious ideology and hunting strategies among the Asinskawoiniwak, or Rock Cree, of Northern Manitoba. Brightman maintains that subsistence strategies need to be analyzed in terms of the foragers’ own ethnoecological categories and postulates...

The Democratic Dilemma

An overview of the Supreme Court of Canada and the changes that need to be made.

Unravelling MAiD in Canada

Since its legalization in 2016, health care professionals in Canada have provided more state-facilitated euthanasia and assisted suicide, or MAID, than in any other country. MAiD has quickly become one of the leading causes of death in Canada. Unravelling MAiD in Canada provides critical reflecti...

Organizing Equality

Organizing Equality engages activist and scholarly debates about the organization of social and economic equality movements around the globe. The collection highlights a myriad of issues, approaches, and experiences, forging a link between critical scholarly studies and artistic works that offer ...

Seven Absolute Rights

Redeeming the forgotten history of our rule of law and its categorical limits on executive power.

The Public Sector in an Age of Austerity

Challenging conventional wisdom on austerity in Canada after the global financial crisis.

Canada: The State of the Federation, 2011

In this edition of Canada: The State of the Federation, contributors consider whether and to what degree the relationship between the central government and the provincial and territorial governments has changed in the past decade. The authors address three overarching questions. First, is the po...

Swingback

How Stephen Harper changed Canadian foreign policy, and how Justin Trudeau is trying to turn it around.

Policy Governance in Multi-level Systems

An examination of trends towards increasing state-society partnerships and intergovernmental collaboration in the face of global economic restructuring.

Countering Violent Extremism and Terrorism

How to improve responses to extremism and terrorism while avoiding past mistakes.

Making EI Work

Since the inception and design of Canada's Employment Insurance (EI) program, the Canadian economy and labour market have undergone dramatic changes. It is clear that EI has not kept pace with those changes, and experts and advocates agree that the program is no longer effective or equitable. Mak...

The Criminalization of Migration

A comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and comparative evaluation of the criminalization of migration both within Canada and abroad.

Across Boundaries

Robert (Bob) Andrew Young (1950–2017) was Canada Research Chair in Multilevel Governance at the University of Western Ontario and one of Canada's most distinguished political scientists. In Across Boundaries Young's former colleagues and students bring together contributions from his extensive ne...

Negotiating Our Economic Future

Navigating diplomacy and trade in an age of humans and intelligent machines.

The Legacy of 9/11

While 9/11 was understood at the time as a world-changing event in international relations, the uneven long-term effects for North America could not have been predicted. Twenty years later, The Legacy of 9/11 explores the political, economic, trade and border and security and defence, implications.

International Perspectives

How the rising tide of international migration is impacting state policy across the globe.

Report on Social Security for Canada

Public welfare and social security in Canada as envisioned by Leonard Marsh.

Without Walls or Barriers

In June 1985, David Peterson was sworn in as the leader of Ontario’s first Liberal government in forty-two years. This collection of speeches explores the activist agenda the London, Ontario, lawyer pursued through his premiership, which sought to ensure all Ontarians were able to participate ful...

Making and Moving Knowledge

How to combine scholarly research with practical knowledge to maximize its scientific and social impact.

Work in a Warming World

Global warming is perhaps the greatest challenge facing the twenty-first century. Environmental polices on the one hand, and economic and labour market polices on the other, often exist in separate silos creating a dilemma that Work in a Warming World confronts.The world of work - goods, services...

The Higgs Years

Drawing on original data from the Polimeter, a non-partisan tool that measures whether politicians keep the promises they make, contributors assess Blaine Higgs and his Progressive Conservative Party’s record in New Brunswick.

Capitalism and the Alternatives

A proposal for a new society liberated from the cult of frenetic growth and from multiculturalism and political correctness.

Image-building in Canadian Municipalities

How cities use image-building to define themselves to the world.

Resilience and Contagion

An in-depth study of why civil society advocacy groups working on HIV choose the language of rights.

The Multiculturalism Question

A detailed analysis of the meaning of multiculturalism in Canada.

Witch Hunts

Witch hunts are the products of intense fear and paranoia and the results are often terrible. The accused in three famous witchcraft cases - in Bamberg and Wurzburg, Germany, in Loudun, France, and in Salem, Massachusetts - were assumed to be guilty without proof. Secret accusations were accepted...

Dilemmas, Challenges, and Ethics of Humanitarian Action

A study of the perception issues and ethical dilemmas faced by humanitarian organizations.

Coping with Geopolitical Decline

As the US challenges the liberal international order, fights back China's ascendency, and reconsiders its traditional alliances, this book analyses key lessons from Europe's experience and provides comparative insight into the likely dynamics of cooperation and conflict in the 21st century.

Lives Altered by War

Lives Altered by War examines civilian mobilization during the Donbas war in Ukraine, illuminating how it created shifts in collective identification and belonging.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1948-1957

During NATO's formative years, its leadership tried to develop an economic, social, and political role for the organization in an effort to transform it into a community of nations. Using material from Canadian, American, French, and British archives, John Milloy analyses these unsuccessful attem...

Should We Change How We Vote?

An evaluation of the current electoral system in response to calls for its reform.

The Harper Factor

A clear-eyed, balanced analysis of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s legacy and impact on Canadian public policy and institutions.

A New Synthesis of Public Administration

In an increasingly interconnected environment, shocks, crises, cascading failures, and surprising breakthroughs are features of our age. The ability to anticipate, intervene, innovate, and adapt is now seen as essential for governments. Public officials serve in an expanded public space that is b...

The Shifting Terrain

Why nonprofit sector advocacy persists in Canada, despite the ongoing threat of regulation.

Canada: The State of the Federation 2013

Traditionally associated with the federal government, Aboriginal policy has arguably become a far more complex reality. With or without formal self-government, Aboriginal communities and nations are increasingly assertive in establishing their own authority in areas as diverse as education, land ...

A Capitol Idea

A Capitol Idea reveals the extent to which think tanks in the United States have become active and vocal participants in the foreign policy-making process. In this timely exploration, Donald Abelson re-evaluates the role of these complex organizations and looks at how political influence is achie...

Settler-Indigeneity in the West Bank

Since Israel conquered the West Bank from Jordan in 1967, Israeli settler organizations have used narratives of indigeneity to claim divine rights to the land. Settler Indigeneity in the West Bank asks what indigeneity means to Israeli settlers, and how settler-indigeneity interacts with transnat...

The Power of Diversity in the Armed Forces

This collection investigates how different countries approach the inclusion or exclusion of immigrants in their armed forces, and offers immigrant military participation as a way to provide a pathway to citizenship, foster greater societal integration, and achieve a more equitable, diverse, and i...

Struggling for Effectiveness

A critical and constructive examination of Canada's assistance to developing countries.

Harper's Team, Second Edition

In five years, Stephen Harper went from private citizen to prime minister of Canada. Tom Flanagan was his chief campaign organizer for most of that period. In Harper's Team, Flanagan tells the story of Harper's rise to power - how a small group of colleag

Turkey in the Global Economy

A rising power takes its place in an economically precarious world.

On the House

A former House of Commons official’s personal account – a learning experience that will surprise.

Canadian Public-Sector Financial Management

A primer on managing public funds and a sophisticated presentation of how governments actually work.

Accountability and Responsiveness at the Municipal Level

Are municipal governments democratic simply because they are elected?

Knowledge, Power, and Migration

Knowledge, Power, and Migration asks how research practices can change the conversation on immigration, encouraging curiosity about how scholarship in this field can shape global, social, and epistemic justice.

Constant Struggle

Constant Struggle examines how Canadian democracy has been understood by its advocates and resistors, exploring key historical realities that have shaped it. Scholars from a range of disciplines tackle the methodological issues of this elusive concept, offering a renewed, sometimes unsettling dep...

Winning Power

How money and technology are changing Canadian political campaigns.

Communing Data Literacy

Communing Data Literacy offers practical strategies for engaging communities in productive dialogue about datafication inspired by Latin American perspectives.

The Boundary Bargain

The interplay of institutions and urban sprawl collide in once-rural Ontario.

Neoliberalism and Everyday Life

A penetrating analysis and critique of the neoliberal policies that prompted the global economic crisis of 2008.

Sober Reflections

Alcohol policies reflect conflicting ideological, social, health, and commercial agendas. Sober Reflections describes the development of alcohol policies at the national level and in Alberta, Quebec, and Ontario between 1980 and 2000. Using qualitative research methods, the essays examine the rol...

Ecosystems, Society, and Health

International perspectives on the interdependence of ecological, health, and societal problems.

Blockades or Breakthroughs?

Can blockades and occupations be catalysts for positive change in Canada's Aboriginal communities?

The Geography of Aging

The Geography of Aging provides an essential perspective for gerontologists, community planners, service providers, and caregivers, as well as provincial and local policy-makers, to enable them to better respond to the needs of senior citizens now and in the future.

Policing the Banks

From 1999 to 2004 Maartje van Putten served as a member of the World Bank's Inspection Panel. Using personal experience and extensive interviews with principal decision-makers and stakeholders in the Panel's work, she chronicles the history of accountability in the World Bank and other major fina...

How Ottawa Spends, 2008-2009

Analyzing the Harper government's agenda in the context of changing federal-provincial relations.

The Politics of Conflict

A new look at the politics and legitimation of violence.

Outsourcing Control

The first comprehensive study to trace the emergence of extraterritorial migration control agreements across nations, Outsourcing Control reveals the international and domestic pressures behind the complex, brutal, and often deadly situation facing migrants today.

Canada: The State of the Federation, 2012

Regional resource disparities and the tensions they generate are a perennial Canadian topic. This edition of Canada: The State of the Federation presents essays on regions, resources, and the resiliency of the Canadian federal system. Contributors consider questions such as: to what extent do Can...

Federalism and the Welfare State in a Multicultural World

A timely evaluation of Canadian social welfare policy.

Twenty-First-Century Feminismos

Twenty-First-Century Feminismos provides a compelling account of the important victories attained by Latin American and Caribbean organized women over the course of the last forty years. Ten case studies are examined to better understand the ways in which women’s and feminist movements react to, ...

Shared Responsibility

The challenges facing the United Nations as it takes on the critical global issues of the twenty-first century.

Water as a Social Opportunity

Often when water is thought about, the focus is on problems, challenges, and crises. In November 2012, a group of researchers came together at Queen’s University with the idea that it is more illuminating and constructive to think about water as an opportunity.Water as a Social Opportunity convey...

Navigating on the Titanic

The challenges inherent in managing disaster risk in periods of rapid growth.

First Nations? Second Thoughts, Second Edition

Over the last thirty years Canadian policy on aboriginal issues has come to be dominated by an ideology that sees aboriginal peoples as "nations" entitled to specific rights. Indians and Inuit now enjoy legal privileges that include the inherent right to self-government, collective property right...

Order and Disorder

An exploration of the dynamics between the state, the market, and civil society in Middle Eastern cities.

Change and Continuity

An up-to-date analysis of the political-economic transformations shaping contemporary Canadian society.

The Practice of Fiscal Federalism, Vol. 4

Leading scholars and practitioners examine constitutional design and taxing, spending, and regulatory responsibilities at the federal, state/provincial, and local/municipal levels in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and the Un...

At the Centre of Government

An insider's account of democracy in Canada and its relationship to liberalism, constitutionalism, and good public policy.

The Canadian Federal Election of 2019

The Canadian federal election of 2019 is extensively analysed in this collaborative volume. Bringing together leading political scientists and media scholars, the book examines the strategies, successes, and failures of each of Canada's major political parties.

Canada: The State of the Federation 2017

In October 2015, the federal Liberals came to power with sweeping plans to revamp Canada's democratic and federal institutions - a modernizing agenda intended to revitalize Canada's democratic architecture. The centrepiece of the agenda was the replacement of Canada's first-past-the-post electora...