Rethinking social evolution

A wide-ranging exploration of how language and increased cognitive abilities constitute the motor of social evolution.

La migration forcée au canada

La migration forcée au Canada met en lumière les expériences vécues de déplacement et les politiques migratoires aux paliers municipal, provincial, territorial et fédéral, avec une attention particulière pour l’expérience québécoise et les minorités francophones.

It’s nation time

In It’s Nation Time, Jerry White argues that nationalism is an enduring and valuable social movement that functions to increase and uphold progressive globalisation.

Divided province

A groundbreaking assessment of subnational politics in Canada’s largest province.

Redefining the situation

The writings of a distinguished sociologist and accompanying original essays that reflect on the development of his social theory.

Governing

A provocative discussion of the key debates, themes, and issues related to political governance, public administration, and regional development.

Bodily subjects

Historical understandings of gender and health that raise important questions about how health care works today.

From righteousness to far right

An innovative ethnography of refugee resettlement in Sweden.

The sweet sixteen

How a train ride to the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904 revolutionized the journalism field for women.

Putin kitsch in america

How the image of Russian president Vladimir Putin permeates contemporary American material, political, and digital culture.

Neoliberal governance and health

A critical dissection of the politics of health in neoliberal society.

Getting a life

This book recentres our understanding of geek culture, drawing on fieldwork in comic book shops, game stores, and conventions, including interviews with ordinary members of the overlapping communities of fans and enthusiasts. Woo offers an accessible introduction to the subculture while exploring...

Thinking with water

An exploration of the relationship between water's cultural meanings and urgent ecological issues.

Mourning nature

A pioneering work exploring the implications for politics, ethics, and praxis.

The language of the inuit

A historical and anthropological overview of Inuit peoples through the study of language.

Democratic society and human needs

As anti-globalization protests show, the public is searching for ways to explain and rethink material inequity between developed democracies and those across the development divide. Jeff Noonan provides a strategy for analyzing these issues.

Regulating screens

How are children protected in today's multi-screen environment?

The material city

Redirecting examinations of the culture of the city away from its customs, art, and amenities to focus on the mental life of modern society, The Material City translates contested views of everyday life and its management into a deeper reflection on urbanity as a system of desire.

Disrobing the aboriginal industry

Despite the billions of dollars devoted to aboriginal causes, Native people in Canada continue to suffer all the symptoms of a marginalized existence - high rates of substance abuse, violence, poverty. Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry argues that the policies proposed to address these problems -...

Shut off

A critical analysis of the most significant technological change in Canadian television history.

On their own

Cutting edge research on the contradictions of race, class, and gender in post-apartheid urban South Africa.

Needy media

Surveying products and practices across a half century, in Needy Media Stephen Monteiro argues that the appeal of portable, networked personal media devices lies as much in how they behave as it does in the information they convey.

Twenty-first-century immigration to north america

A revealing assessment of the policies, practices, and impact of immigration to Canada and the United States.

Peronism as a big tent

Argentina’s populist government, led by Juan Perón, challenged the traditional model of the melting pot and granted legitimacy to hybrid identities. Peronism as a Big Tent examines Peronism’s efforts to garner the support of Argentines of Middle Eastern origins, be they Jewish, Maronite, Orthodox...

The limits of trust

Why Mexico didn’t meet the maternal health Millennium Development Goal, in spite of health care reform and NGO initiatives.

Canadian public-sector financial management

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

Tigers and the internet

The Udege, a small Indigenous group in Russia’s far east, have a rich oral storytelling tradition. Kira Van Deusen befriended and interviewed Udege storytellers during her travels in Russia. Tigers and the Internet shows their fascinating culture and provides a valuable collection of their storie...

The transcultural streams of chinese canadian identities

Investigating the conditions that shape Chinese Canadian identities from various historical, social, and literary perspectives.

Together we survive

Essays exemplifying collaborative research, respectful advocacy, and a deep appreciation of continuity within changing Aboriginal identity and expression.

Trump, trudeau, tweets, truth

A consideration of the ways that technology has led to an irreversible transition in power distribution, political journalism, and public discourse. Discussing how the military-industrial complex of the 1950s gave way to today's celebrity-distribution complex, Bill Fox examines the amount of powe...

Fight, flight, or chill

Rave is one of the first distinct and significant youth subcultures to emerge since the early days of punk rockers and skinheads. A middle-class culture renowned for drug use, computer-generated "techno" music, and all-night dance parties, rave has been described as everything from a drug cult to...

A house of one's own

An intimate study of everyday humanitarianism in post-earthquake El Salvador.

The new twenty years' crisis

The liberal order is decaying. Will it survive, and if not, what will replace it? On the eightieth anniversary of the publication of E.H. Carr's The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939, Philip Cunliffe revisits this classic text, juxtaposing its claims with contemporary debates on the rise and fall o...

Chiefs of the plantation

An inside look at the ways in which labour relations are constituted and contested in South African agriculture.

New media and revolution

Investigating the root causes of the Syrian uprising of 2011, this book shows how acts of online resistance prepared the ground for better-organised street mobilisation. It interprets the uprising not as the start of Syria's social mobilisation but as a shift from hidden practices of digital diss...

The agricultural economy of manitoba hutterite colonies

The Hutterite way of life originated in central Europe nearly 450 years ago. Today, Hutterite colonies are unique features of the agricultural landscape of Manitoba. This pioneering study, based on years of field research, presents a thorough account of every aspect of the agricultural base of th...

The native peoples of atlantic canada

These selections date from early contact of the native peoples of Atlantic Canada with, among others, Norse sailors, and a French priest in 1612. Some excerpts look at the now-extinct Beothuk people of Newfoundland, but most pertain to the Micmac peoples.

Discrepant parallels

An examination of the divergent Canadian cultural investments in the Canada-US border.

Asia today

A small town in modern times

Alexandria -- a town of about 3,500 people in Glengarry County in Eastern Ontario -- conforms in some respects to the stereotype of small towns as friendly communities without the strains of city life. Although David Rayside found Alexandria to be a pleasant town, in this penetrating study he rev...

In search of paradise

In Search of Paradise is the story of an Italian family which, having lived for generations in an isolated mountain town in Abruzzi, Italy, is forced by World War II and economic hardship to pull up roots and re-establish in Canada. Presented as a series

Freshwater pollution, canadian style

Multicultural variations

How symbolic rather than institutionalized multiculturalism characterizes ethnic social incorporation for new groups experiencing the recognition of ethnic pluralism.

A canadian climate of mind

Looking at climate change not only as a feature of the physical world but also as a state of the human spirit.

Against the current and into the light

An examination of historical performances in an iconic Vancouver park demonstrating how it remains an Indigenous place despite colonial efforts.

People pollution

Welcome to greater edendale

A mid-sized South African city’s struggle against its legacies of environmental injustice.

Awkward politics

A cutting-edge study that shows how awkwardness uncovers feminist politics at work in the digital age.

Self-stabilizing systems

Self- governing control is a defining characteristic of autonomous computing machinery. Autonomy implies some degree of independence, and when a system's ability to achieve its mission is independent of how it is initialized, the system is self-stabilizing. Application of self-stabilization to sy...

Tales and traditions of the eskimo

Medium is the rear view mirror: understanding mcluhan

Missed opportunities

In Missed Opportunities, Marc Raboy reveals the short-sightedness behind the traditional view of Canadian broadcasting policy as an instrument for promoting a national identity and culture. He argues that Canadian broadcasting policy has served as a political instrument for reinforcing a certain ...

Amateurs, professionals, and serious leisure

For fifteen years, Robert Stebbins has conducted extensive research on amateurs and professionals in theatre, music, archaeology, astronomy, baseball, football, magic, and stand-up comedy. His publications are the only ones to give the theme of serious leisure such in-depth scholarly attention. I...

Police officer

This insightful study provides a look at policing in Canada from the viewpoint of rank and file members of the police community. This revised edition of the landmark Policeman (1979) examines police officers as an occupational culture and the way they become socialized into this stressful and oft...

Getting used to the quiet

How citizens in small town New Brunswick mobilize community resources to encourage improved integration of young immigrants.

Perspectives on the north american indians

Aboriginal peoples and the law

Ascription and achievement

Human rights and social technology

In this controversial critical analysis of Canada's anti-discrimination policy, the author addresses doubts

Public violence in canada, 1867-1982

Judy Torrance introduces the concept of public violence to denote acts widely considered to be violent and of importance to society. Public violence differs from related concepts like political violence in explicitly recognizing that the subject matter is socially constructed.

Cheap wage labour

Using the fishing industry in British Columbia as a case study, Alicja Muszynski examines how Marx's labour theory of value can be applied to a specific industry and the creation of a specific labour force. She reworks Marx's theory in order to incorporate race and gender as principles that not o...

The irish in ontario, second edition

For most of the nineteenth century, the Irish formed the largest non-French ethnic group in central Canada and their presence was particularly significant in Ontario. This study presents a general discussion of the Irish in Ontario during the nineteenth

Voices for the watershed

Voices for the Watershed is a unique look at the singular and ecologically inter-connected region of the Great Lakes-St Lawrence watershed, including the headwater and upland regions. With contributions from experts from the United States, Quebec, and Ontario, this book offers an accessible intro...

Class, ethnicity, and social inequality

In Class, Ethnicity, and Social Inequality Christopher McAll discusses the increased juxtaposition of ethnically distinct groups in the same social environments which has resulted from labour migration since the Second World War. He shows that, in the co

Spreading misandry

Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young argue that since the 1990s men have been portrayed in popular culture as evil, inadequate, or honorary women, from Designing Women, Home Improvement, Oprah, and Cape Fear to Hallmark cards, comic strips, and the New York Times columns of Anna Quindlen. The first...

Cottage country in transition

The cottage is a powerful image of rural Canada. This image, however, often ignores the rural community that surrounds it, producing a geographically and socially divided landscape and creating friction between cottage owners and rural communities. Cottage Country in Transition is a wide-ranging ...

Convergence or divergence?

A cross-national study of social trends in the United States, Germany, France, and Quebec, Convergence or Divergence? is a revealing exploration of the patterns of social evolution in modernized societies. The analyses in this volume are based on the four national profiles already published in th...

Feminist research

Significant progress has been made in feminist research over the last decade; this collection of articles, selected from those presented at the 1986 Conference of the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, is representative of both the strength of previous work and prospects fo...

The challenge of class analysis

Clement uses class analysis to explore the complexities of contemporary Canadian society in this revealing study. He also explores the relationship between class and gender, ethnicity and region, comparing illustrations from Canada with those from countries such as Sweden and the U.S. An extensiv...

Structure, information and communication complexity, iis 1

The ultimate goal of research in Distributed Computing is to understand the nature, properties and limits of computing in a system of autonomous communicating agents. To this end, it is crucial to identify those factors which are significant for the computability and the communication complexity ...

The periglacial environment

Canadian science, technology, and innovation policy

An extensive and in-depth account and explanation of Canada’s changing policies for science, technology, and innovation.

National survival in dependent societies

Both Quebec and Poland have undergone considerable change in the past few decades, change that can be described as a "quiet revolution." This collection of essays by Polish and Canadian sociologists provides comparative analyses of the two societies and highlights institutional, political, cultur...

The virtual marshall mcluhan

Marshall McLuhan was a satirist and prophetic poet who explored subjects from the occult and the esoteric to everyday popular culture and the emerging digital revolution. Written in an accessible, engaging manner, The Virtual Marshall McLuhan sheds new light on McLuhan's goals and the background ...

Canadian social structure

As well as statistical tables, the author has provided a fascinating introduction to the problem of working with statistics and a detailed commentary on the selection of the tables.

Hungochani, first edition

Challenging the stereotypes of African heterosexuality - from the precolonial era to the present.

The women founders of the social sciences

Ground-breaking and original, this book debunks the myth that empirical social science has been dominated by its male founders and methodologists. The author re-analyses the critical role British, French and American women played in creating the field from the 16th through the early 20th centurie...

Shattered images

Beyond the indian act

Should Canada's First Nations have full ownership of reservation lands?

A reconstructed world

The first biography of Gertrude Richardson (1875-1946), A Reconstructed World reveals her key role in the development of feminism and pacifism in England and Canada and her remarkable accomplishments as both an activist and a writer.

Chemotaxonomy of flowering plants

Mobilities, knowledge, and social justice

An original, thought-provoking synthesis of interdisciplinary perspectives on the movement of people and ideas in the contemporary world.

Coasts under stress

While coasts are often places of unsurpassing beauty, many coastal communities suffer from poverty, unemployment, health risks, and the effects of environmental degradation. Coasts Under Stress is a unique interdisciplinary exploration of the complex interplay of economy, culture, environment, an...

Protecting biological diversity

The most species-rich regions of the globe, the tropics, are economically the poorest. How can biologists work toward effective protection for endangered species in countries hungry for food and basic resources? And why should local people in those countries trust the advice of scientists from we...

Prehistory of western siberia

The reordering of culture

Political, economic and social barriers among Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada are giving way to global forces and the "global dreams" they inspire. This collection of original articles and essays examines popular culture, literature, theatre, belief systems, indigenous practices and quest...

How long have we got?

The origin of species revisited

Major inconsistencies in Darwin's theory of the origin of species by natural selection remained unresolved for over a century until the results of recent research in various genome projects led to the theory's reinterpretation. Reviewing this new information, Donald Forsdyke, a laboratory scienti...

Origin and evolution of the universe

Origin and Evolution of the Universe: Evidence of Design? not only raises important questions about our understanding of the world and its origins, but also provides a fascinating view of the different perspectives on this topic.

Living factories

How biotechnology is changing the definition of "life."

Social and environmental impacts of the james bay hydroelectric project

Planning and construction of the James Bay Hydroelectric project began in the early 1970s, when the effect of such projects on the physical and social environment was seldom considered. As the project matured, however, its unique and diverse environmental impacts came under intense scrutiny on bo...

Risks, dangers, and rewards in the nova scotia offshore fishery

Risks, Dangers, and Rewards in the Nova Scotia Offshore Fishery describes the hidden cost paid by workers in the Nova Scotia offshore fishery, a cost measured not in dollars and cents but in deaths and injuries.

Changing structures of inequality

The international sociological community has engaged recently in a controversial discussion on social inequality. There is a vigourous debate on whether the traditional concepts of social class and social stratification are still useful. Some researchers argue that social classes still offer a ke...

Challenging genetic determinism

Compelling essays on understanding the interplay of genes in society.

Recent social trends in canada, 1960-2000

Canadian society has changed dramatically since 1960. This work captures the scope and range of these changes through a systematic documentation of seventy-eight social trends.

Inside ethnic families

Inside Ethnic Families is a rich and lively ethnography that describes the perceptions, illusions, and life experiences of three generations of Portuguese-Canadians. Edite Noivo provides an insider's perspective on a number of family-related issues, rangi