Politics and territory

Identity and industry

A detailed examination of the experiences of refugees and receiving communities during Canada's Operation Syrian Refugee from 2015 to 2016.

Play naked

Against the backdrop of Rio de Janeiro’s 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games, sex work is reclaimed as a site of puta economic and political resistance, where women’s, femme, and trans bodies assert value and visibility within state systems designed to erase them.

Forced migration in/to canada

Covering a broad swathe of time, from colonization to the present day, Forced Migration in/to Canada examines human displacement in a variety of contexts: Indigenous dislocation and settler colonialism, Black enslavement, human trafficking, statelessness, climate migration, and newcomer settlement.

From righteousness to far right

An innovative ethnography of refugee resettlement in Sweden.

Fighting for a hand to hold

Fighting for a Hand to Hold exposes the medical establishment's role in the displacement, colonization, and genocide of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Shaheen-Hussain's unique perspective combines his experience as a frontline pediatrician with his long-standing involvement in anti-authoritarian s...

The public work of christmas

A frank conversation about how Christmas spurs conflict and compromise in multicultural societies.

Iconoclasm

Case studies that investigate the paradoxical nature of iconoclasm, when destroying icons only enhances their iconicity.

These mysterious people, second edition

The story of how the Musqueam First Nation have used cultural objects to take control of their history and land.

Circulation and the city

How does movement affect the metropolis?

Petrocultures

A wide-ranging interdisciplinary study of oil and energy culture.

Forty narratives in the wyandot language

In 1911-1912, anthropologist Marius Barbeau spent a year recording forty texts in the Wyandot language as spoken by native speakers in Oklahoma. Though he intended to return and complete his linguistic study, he never did. More than a century later, this book continues Barbeau's work.

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.

Documenting displacement

This project explores the ethics and methods of research in diverse forced migration contexts and proposes new ways of thinking about and documenting displacement. Contributors reflect honestly on both what has worked and what has not, providing useful points of discussion for future research by ...

The laughing people

The Laughing People recounts Serge Bouchard’s anthropological research in the 1970s in Ekuanitshit, documenting the Indigenous Innu people and illuminating how wide-scale injustice and cultural meaning manifest in individual terms. The book invites readers to take part in preserving Innu history,...

Sacred as secular

Debates about Muslim societies have intensified in the last four decades, triggered by the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and 9/11. At the heart of these assumptions is Muslim exceptionalism: the idea that Muslims think and behave differently from other faith communities. This book debunks this ...

Transforming conversations

An accounting of feminism’s effect on Canadian education policy and practice since the Royal Commission on the Status of Women.

Eatenonha

An exploration of the historical and future significance of Canada's Native soul.

From peasants to labourers

Canadian immigration from the Russian Empire is often portrayed as consisting entirely of non-Slavic minorities and religious refugees. Vadim Kukushkin shows that a large number of immigrants were peasants from Russia's Ukrainian and Belarusan provinces attracted by Canadian wage-earning opportun...

Framing our past

Lavishly illustrated and written for a broad audience, Framing Our Past offers insights into the lives of individual Canadian women, the obscure as well as the better-known, who pioneered new activities or expanded the boundaries of women's traditional roles. On topics ranging from everyday life ...

Singing story, healing drum

A must read for anyone interested in Siberian culture.

Crass struggle

An original and cutting commentary on the bad side of the good life.

The transcultural streams of chinese canadian identities

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

Redefining the situation

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

Net privacy

In our digital world, we are confused by privacy – what is public, what is private? We are also challenged by it, the conditions of privacy so uncertain we become unsure about our rights to it. We may choose to share personal information, but often do so on the assumption that it won't be re-shar...

Everyone says no

Quebec has never signed on to Canada's constitution. After both major attempts to win Quebec's approval - the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords - failed, Quebec came within a fraction of a percentage point of voting for independence. Everyone Says No examines how the failure of these accords w...

Ancient pathways, ancestral knowledge

Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge both challenges and contributes to existing knowledge of Indigenous peoples' land stewardship while preserving information that might otherwise have been lost. A two-volume ethnobotanical tour-de-force that provides new and captivating insights into the anthr...

Population control

Violence is an inescapable through-line across the experiences of institutional residents. While Canada closes many of its large-scale facilities, institutional violence continues to spill over into community settings. Population Control explores the relational conditions that give rise to this v...

Studying arctic fields

A study of social and cultural life at a scientific research station in the Arctic.

Like everyone else but different, second edition

A timely analysis of the possibilities and challenges of multiculturalism as seen in the iconic case of Canada’s Jewish community.

The explorations of edmund snow carpenter

A thorough account of the cultural achievements of the anthropologist and media scholar Edmund Snow Carpenter.

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...

Our rural selves

Painting a picture of childhood and memory in rural Canada.

A neighborhood politics of last resort

The fragility of social justice and democracy within place-based movements.

The invisible community

The Invisible Community shares lived experiences of different subgroups of the South Asian population in Quebec in order to better understand wider social, political, and educational contexts of immigration in Canada.

Under siege

Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks, Under Siege examines how the global war on terror and heightened anti-Muslim racism have affected millennials who were socialized into a world where their faith and identity are under attack. Jasmin Zine explores the experiences of Canadian Muslim youth to unp...

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.

Odagahodhes

Odagahodhesfollows an Indigenous sharing circle, relaying teachings by Cayuga Elder Gae Ho Hwako Norma Jacobs and the diverse experiences and knowledge participants bring into reflective relation with the teachings. Each circle ends by inviting the reader into the sacred space of odagahodhesand c...

Becoming inummarik

A critical look at how Inuit men balance traditional values and social circumstances to find their place in the contemporary Arctic.

A lesbian queer utopia?!

A queer-feminist analysis of how real spaces can make utopia tangible – and how hope can remain a serious sociological question.

Anti-oppressive social work ethics

Departing from traditional approaches, this book presents an anti-oppressive model to help social workers make ethical decisions that adhere to professional mandates while pursuing systemic social change.

Cosmic missions

Cosmic Missions reveals the deep yet unacknowledged relationships between religion and the exploration of outer space.

Play with me

Following on his comprehensive guide to sex positions, Gaymasutra, Axel Neustaedter’s new book Play with Me! dives into the world of erotic role-playing. What happens when all the varieties of gay sexuality get harnessed for the purposes of transformation to lift you out of your familiar routine?...

Do it yourself!

Stephan Niederwieser brings us back to the 'basics': the high art of masturbation. Needless to say, that you don't have to always do it alone, but Do it Yourself puts the focus on your very own fantasies and instincts. Even though masturbation is the type of sex practiced most often, it is least ...

Blow me!

93% of all men are into oral, as a German survey claims. The fact that approximately 80% of them don't know how to perform a good job or how to contribute to a good performance as a receiver isn't mentioned in that survey. “Blow Me!” gives you a competent introduction to deep throat; it tells you...

Daddy & boy

In his new book "Daddy & Boy," Axel Neustädter addresses the promises and the problems in gay relationships between younger and older men. He takes an in-depth look at all the silver, muscle and sugar daddies and those who admire them. An essential guide for intergenerational gay love.

Bend over

“Bend over” - two words that can provoke a lot of anxieties. Will it hurt? Will I be able to relax? Will I enjoy it? Do I have judgments about myself for being a bottom? (Do I have judgments about intercourse in general?) What's the risk of infection? And tops are hardly anxiety-free: Am I stayin...

In your hands

Masturbation is an art. Mark Emme has studied, tested and compared every possible variety of masculine self-satisfaction, and he's produced a guide that every man can learn from. Unabashed and full of humour, Emme covers a remarkable variety of techniques, from the tried and true to the exotic an...

Barbaric civilization

Why have the largest mass murders in human history taken place in the past hundred years? Why have European colonizers so often denied the humanity of the colonized? In Barbaric Civilization, Christopher Powell advances a radical thesis to answer these questions: that civilization produces genoci...

Management of the mentally disordered offender in prisons

Possibly no area of human endeavour poses a greater ethical challenge to a free society than the safe control of mentally disordered persons who represent a significant social danger. Managing mentally disordered offenders (MDOs) is a major challenge for the clinician because they have multiple p...

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...

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.

The archaeology of bruce trigger

The life and work of a renowned archaeologist.

Toward equity and inclusion in canadian cities

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

Conflicted commitments

A critical look at the politics and paradoxes of race in humanitarian efforts.

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...

The republic of games

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

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,...

Oatmeal and the catechism

Oatmeal and the Catechism records the history and folk culture of the Gaels who emigrated to Canada from the Scottish Hebrides and settled in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. By looking at their history, examining the way of life and the values of the society from which they came, and recording t...

On their own

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

Alone in silence

It has been estimated that over 500 European women travelled or lived in Canada's Northwest Territories before 1940. They came as visiters, journalists, and artists, or worked as nurses, scientists, and missionaries. In Alone in Silence Barbara Kelcey describes the women who lived and worked in t...

Aboriginal music in contemporary canada

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

The sweet sixteen

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

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...

Thinking with water

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

Women who made the news

From the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, the press was the pre-eminent source of information in Canadian society. While the dominant voice of the Fifth Estate was undoubtedly male, a diverse and dispersed group of Canadian women sought and won access to this ...

Awkward politics

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

God, science, and self

Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1938) was one of the most influential modernist Islamic thinkers of the early twentieth century. His work as a poet, politician, philosopher, and public intellectual was widely recognized in his lifetime and plays a major role in contemporary conversations about Islam, modernit...

Under the weather

Under the Weather explores the relationship between human mobility and severe weather exacerbated by the climate emergency. Offering an ecological approach to mobilities, Sodero argues that mobility can be reimagined to work with, rather than against, the climate in ways that also benefit the hea...

Mobilities, knowledge, and social justice

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

Fertile ground

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

Guests never leave hungry

The story of James Sewid, a twentieth-century Kwakiutl Indian Chieftain, brings to life the experience of one man caught in conflict as the traditional Kwakiutl culture gave way to the demands of an expanding Western society in British Columbia. Born in 1910 into a rapidly disintegrating Indian c...

Cancer stories

Each of us will be touched by cancer in the course of our lifetime - as a person diagnosed with the disease or as a family member or friend who must witness its course in someone we love. For all of us, this encounter with cancer will entail an exploration of the margins of life and death. Too of...

Urban encounters

Exploring how art and the public interact in cities.

The mastery and uses of fire in antiquity

The material fabric of nearly all settled civilizations exists largely because of pyrotechnology - the generation, control, and application of the heat from fire to change the properties of materials. The technological achievements that make contemporary society possible, for instance, are the re...

Earth into property

A broad exploration of the colonial roots of global capitalism and the worldwide quest of Indigenous people for liberation through decolonization.

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...

Reproductive acts

A thought-provoking exploration of how fiction and film can provide ways of understanding reproductive politics.

Aleut identities

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