Kiviuq

How do shape-shifting shamans, a giant cannibalistic bumblebee, and human marriage with animals speak to Canadian Inuit and Siberian indigenous peoples today? How can artists present ancient legend in live performance and film with sensitivity to the source? Why are long multi-layered stories ess...

Obligation and opportunity

In the years between Confederation and the Depression nearly 500,000 Maritimers left their homes to work in the United States or other parts of Canada. Why they left and how their departure affected the region's economy have long been debated but, until now, a major component of that exodus has b...

Mapping postcommunist cultures

Drawing on the discourses of postmodernism, postcolonialism, and globalization, Vitaly Chernetsky maps out the new cultural developments in literature, architecture, painting, film, and performance art emerging in Russia and Ukraine, the two largest successor states to the Soviet Union, situating...

The chicago school diaspora

A collection of innovative essays from leading scholars in the Chicago School tradition of sociology.

Aboriginal music in contemporary canada

Contemporary Aboriginal music from powwow to hip hop, the people that make it, and the issues that shape it.

Pragmatic idealism

Providing an overview of Canada's role in international affairs in the post-war era, Pragmatic Idealism dispels some of the myths surrounding Canadian foreign policy and celebrates the distinctiveness and distinction of Canada's place in world politics. Costas Melakopides finds an impressive cont...

Refugee sandwich

Although more than thirty thousand refugee claims are decided in Canada every year, the personal stories behind them are never heard by the Canadian public. Peter Showler exposes the dilemmas and choices faced by participants in the refugee determination process in this collection of thirteen vig...

Listening in

Histories of Canadian broadcasting have tended to neglect the earliest days of the industry in the 1920s, focusing instead on public broadcasting policy after 1932. Listening In fills this gap.

Native people, native lands

The changing roles of native women, devices for assimilation, the re-birth of the Metis: these are among the issues examined in this collection of provocative essays which explore the link between aboriginal culture and economic patterns.

Inside the ndp war room

A first-hand account of how decisions to represent political parties are made.

Leading from between

How the voices, personal experiences, and understandings of Indigenous public servants make a difference in Canada and Australia.

Environment and good sense

Unsettling spirit

An unflinching examination of settler identity and its relationship to Christianity based on encounters with Indigenous traditions.

The yugoslav drama, second edition

Former Yugoslavian ambassador Mihailo Crnobrnja describes and analyses the deterioration of the Yugoslavian federation and the political forces that fostered it, particularly the presence of nationalism and the absence of democracy.

Aleut identities

A contemporary portrait of an Indigenous commercial fishing society in the Arctic.

Women in zones of conflict

Tami Amanda Jacoby investigates the constraints and opportunities for women's civic engagements in zones of conflict through a case study of three women's political movements in Israel: Women in Green, The Jerusalem Link, and the lobby for women's right to fight in the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF).

Social reproduction

Using a feminist political economy approach, contributors document the impact of current socio-economic policies on states, markets, households, and communities. Relying on impressive empirical research, they argue that women bear the costs of and responsibility for care-giving and show that the ...

Shaping the metropolis

How American and Canadian cities came to be governed differently – and what it means for the future.

Canada's francophone minority communities

By the late 1950s Canada's Francophone and Acadian minority communities were in rapid decline. Demographic, economic, socio-cultural, institutional, and political factors that had sustained both the concept and the reality of French Canada for well over a century were being eliminated or transfor...

A place to belong

A Place to Belong is a profusely illustrated, intimate, contemporary portrait of Calvert, a three-hundred-year-old fishing village on Newfoundland's southern shore. Often using its residents' own words, Gerald Pocius describes in detail the continual creative encounters between past and present, ...

White canada forever, third edition

Between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries white British Columbians directed recurring outbursts of prejudice against the Chinese, Japanese, and East Indians who lived among them. In White Canada Forever Peter Ward reveals the full extent and

Making and moving knowledge

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

Village politics and the mafia in sicily, second edition

Sicily has long been seen as an island whose people are plagued by governmental failings and general social disintegration, as well as the home of the mafia. In Village Politics and the Mafia in Sicily Filippo Sabetti examines more than two hundred years

Work in tumultuous times

This interdisciplinary volume offers a powerful critique of how social structures and relations as well as ideologies shape workplaces, labour markets, and households in contemporary Canada. Contributors dissect recent transformations in work and expose the uncertainty, insecurity, and instabilit...

The first public playhouse

Beyond the border

An interdisciplinary look at a neglected region of the Canada-US border.

Finance and governance of capital cities in federal systems

Capital cities are unique because they are the seat of the national government as well as the host for national institutions - legislative buildings, museums, arts centres - for which the federal government is responsible. They take on political, administrative, and cultural/symbolic roles that a...

The sweet sixteen

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

Capital cities/les capitales

An unusual look at the nature and role of capital cities around the world - past, present and future. The 24 papers by scholars from many countries and disciplines present their thinking on capital cities, with contributions from Amos Rapoport, Claude Raffestin, Peter Hall and Anthony Sutcliffe. ...

Fourth south american workshop on string processing (wsp 1997)

This is an original, thoroughly researched account of the image of Canada in Soviet writings - political, jounalistic and academic - over the entire course of Soviet history. A study of the role of ideology in Soviet foreign affairs, the book traces the influence of an adjusting Marxist-Leninist ...

Intolerance

Even in the midst of the reactionary backlash of the 1980s and 1990s, progressive aims endure. To achieve solidarity of action, however, thinkers and activists need to find common ground. Through a comparative, interdisciplinary analysis of how oppression is related to six parameters race, class,...

Social inequality in canada

Do Canadians believe they can succeed on the basis of their own abilities? And how do they compare with Americans, Germans, Italians, Australians and Russians? There is much debate as to how Canadians differ from or resemble citizens of other countries, particularly the United States. Is it true ...

The moral economy of welfare and migration

Britain's coalition government of 2010–2015 ushered in an enduring age of austerity and a "moral mission" of welfare reform as part of a drive for deficit reduction. Stricter controls were applied to both domestic welfare and international migration and asylum, which were presented as two sides o...

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...

Museum pieces

The ways in which Aboriginal people and museums work together have changed drastically in recent decades. This historic process of decolonization, including distinctive attempts to institutionalize multiculturalism, has pushed Canadian museums to pioneer new practices that can accommodate both di...

Toward equity and inclusion in canadian cities

Explorations of how research collaborations can address and advance social justice in cities.

Troubling natural categories

A collection of essays taking up Margaret Lock's enduring project to question our deeply held assumptions about biology, medicine, and culture.

Plants, people, and places

A powerful case for the essential role of plants and environments in recognizing Indigenous Peoples' land rights around the world.

We still here

We Still Here maps the edges of hip-hop culture and makes sense of the rich and diverse ways people create and engage with hip-hop music within Canadian borders.

Mourning nature

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

Daughters of aataentsic

Breaking new ground in both historical narratives and community-guided research in North America, Daughters of Aataentsic offers an alternative narrative by considering the ways in which individual Weⁿdat/Waⁿdat women resisted colonialism, preserved their culture, and acted as matriarchs.

Eyewitness textures

Journalists are increasingly incorporating user-generated content into news stories. Tracing recent shifts in journalism practice around the world, Eyewitness Textures examines the creative adaptation and strategies of journalists and news organizations in the face of transformative technological...

A dog pissing at the edge of a path

An innovative, in-depth exploration of animal metaphors in a non-Western society and a critique of current theoretical approaches in anthropology.

The republic of games

An exploration of the consequences of introducing game mechanics to digital platforms for the production and circulation of texts.

Canada's game

Almost every Canadian can hum the original Hockey Night in Canada theme - even those who don't think of themselves as hockey fans. For more than a century, Canadians have seen something of themselves in the sport of hockey. Canada's Game explores the critical aspects of this relationship. Contrib...

Africanism

Investigating the history of anti-Black racism in several canonical texts of Arabic culture, Africanism explores how Black people are perceived, imagined, and represented in the Arab imaginary from the Middle Ages until the nineteenth century in works of religion, literature, and history.

Unequal access

Unequal Access explores the politics of categorization practices in European resettlement and humanitarian admission programs and the complex boundaries of inclusion and exclusion they produce.

Talking reform

The result of a six-year collaboration between sociology professor Dany Lacombe and Mac, an ex-convict, Talking Reform highlights ongoing struggles of reintegration and the importance of compassion and inclusion in offering hope for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated persons.

The public sector in an age of austerity

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

Putin kitsch in america

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

Ellen smallboy

Ellen Smallboy's life spanned a period of immense change among the Cree of northern Ontario. Born in about 1853 near James Bay, for most of her lifetime Smallboy led a semi-nomadic life that revolved around seasonal hunting. By the time she was an old woman, however, Cree lifestyle and culture we...

Out of the basement

Mapping the changing realities of youth creative self-employment in the twenty-first century.

Second promised land

Exploring the realities behind the "Alberta Advantage" and the redistribution of the Canadian population.

Together we survive

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

Fertile ground

Interrogating and integrating the various aspects of women's reproductive lives to expose the political dimensions of reproduction.

Federalism and the welfare state in a multicultural world

A timely evaluation of Canadian social welfare policy.

Grossières indécences

Histoire de la culture gaie et lesbienne à Montréal au tournant du XXe siècle.

Restructuring the european state

Why European integration fuels state disintegration.

Canadian language policies in comparative perspective

A systematic examination of language policies in Canada based on domestic and international comparisons.

The handbook of ethnic media in canada

Ethnic minority groups in Canada have set up their own communication infrastructure that has evolved from the analogue to digital age, and continues to remain relevant across generations. This volume asks how ethnic media have changed, how they continue to be relevant, and what that means for mul...

What ukrainian elections taught me about democracy

In What Ukrainian Elections Taught Me about Democracy long-time election observer Jane Cooper recounts her experience monitoring a municipal election in Kirovohrad in 2015. Offering a framework for exploring what can go right or wrong during an election, at the core of this story is the inspirati...

Northern blood

Groundbreaking in its exploration of the politics of menstruation from a uniquely Canadian perspective, Northern Blood sheds light on the lived experiences, stories, and broader menstruation justice movement in Canada.

Missing the tide

How the global optimism that characterized the 1990s evolved into pessimism and chaos.

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.

Surveillance, privacy, and the globalization of personal information

An important review of opinions about surveillance and privacy.

Bodily subjects

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

Why dissent matters

An inquiry into dissent and how it might save the world.

Order and disorder

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

Alice in shandehland

Why a Jewish jeweller who shot and killed his wife's lover was acquitted after his sensational 1932 murder trial.

Conquest and survival in colonial guatemala, fourth edition

A landmark contribution to research on Mesoamerica, updated and expanded.

Canada in sudan, sudan in canada

How immigration can be beneficial to the host society, the source country and the immigrants themselves.

I confess!

A critique and excavation of sexual confession as the key ritual of twenty-first-century moving image culture, from the banal to the forbidden.

A practice of anthropology

Eminent anthropologists explore the nature of culture in essays honoring a colleague and teacher.

The twelfth of february

Rhonda Gossen explores how war in Afghanistan influenced the spread of violent Islamic extremism in Pakistan, following the ebbs and flows of aid to both countries. Drawing on her experience as a development worker and interviews with activists, NGOs, officials, and diplomats, she considers how w...

[volume 1:] systematics

100 Jahre zoologischer Forschung – dokumentiert im Handbuch der Zoologie Das Handbuch der Zoologie umschließt das gesamte Tierreich – Wirbeltiere und Wirbellose. Es bietet einen umfassenden und zugleich detaillierten Überblick zur Systematik und Morphologie der Tiere und beinhaltet ausführliche E...

Huellas de sangre: crónicas de crimen, impunidad y redención en ambos lados de la frontera / bloodstains: stories of crime, impunity, and redemption...

Una apasionante colección de crímenes reales surgida de más de treinta años de periodismo en la primera línea de la frontera México–Estados Unidos. A través de casos reales de asesinatos, desapariciones, crimen organizado e injusticia sistémica, la autora traza un panorama de impunidad y corrupci...

Poisoned play

Understanding toxic behaviour in online gaming.

Academia and cultural production in sweden

The fields of academia and cultural production in Sweden are explored through the lens of postmigrant struggles and alliances.

Insecurity and the eclipse of enlightenment

This century has been characterized by changes in the structure and functioning of global capitalism, transmuted from neoliberalism into varieties of neoauthoritarianism. This volume explores whether these shifts represent fundamental and transformational or adaptive, superficial changes in relat...

Rust in my blood

Rust in My Blood: Planning for Urban Population Decline explores why America’s postindustrial cities have tended to focus on rebounding at all costs, and how they can make strategic decisions that prioritize quality of life over population growth instead.

Punish me!

Intrigued about getting into kinky sex, but you don’t know how? With plenty of photos, interviews with experts and accounts from personal experience, this richly illustrated book answers all the important questions about BDSM. Where is the line that divides pain and pleasure? What do you need to ...

Gayma sutra

In, over and out? Not with the Gayma Sutra! This richly illustrated guide book will help spice up your sex life. More variety means more fun, and the variations are just about endless. Axel Neustaedter has tested all the ways to play and found the ones to give you all the pleasure you've always w...

The ass book

Finally a comprehensive guide to a man’s second most important sensual organ! Designed for practical use, “The Ass Book” tells you how you and your partner can get more pleasure from your backside. The authors not only provide you with crucial information about anatomy, but give you useful tips t...

Fluid flow and heat transfer modeling

Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer Modeling – Computational Dynamics, Numerical Modelling, Flow Simulation presents a comprehensive and contemporary treatment of transport phenomena in complex engineering systems. Integrating fundamental conservation laws with advanced numerical techniques, the book ex...

Critical geographies of youth

Geography is central to understanding young people’s diverse and complex societal positioning. This critical introduction to the geographies of youth, suitable for a range of courses, examines how place and mobilities shape young people’s identities and agency.

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

Motivational dimensions in social movements and contentious collective action

For years, students of social movements and other forms of contentious action have been sharply divided over what motivates people to engage in protest. Early on, analysts generally agreed that participation in acts of protest was motivated by various deprivations pushing toward action. Newer per...

A homeland for the cree

The Great Whale Hydro-Electric Project (James Bay II) has caused controversy not only in Canada but in the United States, especially New York and Vermont. The need to understand the Cree's struggle to oppose the devastation of their homeland is urgent.

Don't tell, second edition

Nearly one male in six has been the victim of sexual abuse during childhood or adolescence, yet this abuse remains a taboo subject, even among victims. In Don't Tell, Michel Dorais gives the victims a voice, providing a sensitive analysis of their traumas and self-questioning, and offering strate...