Ubc Press: 266 books
Where the Rivers Meet
Pipelines, Participatory Resource Management, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Northwest Territories
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Oil and gas companies now recognize that industrial projects in the Canadian North can only succeed if Aboriginal communities are involved in the assessment of project impacts. Are Aboriginal concerns appropriately addressed through current consultation and participatory processes? Or is the very...
Disrupting Queer Inclusion
Canadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Offering a fresh analysis of the complexity of queer politics and activisms within a Canadian context, this book will interest activists and scholars from a broad range of disciplines including: queer and sexuality studies, women and gender studies, Canadian studies, diaspora studies, law and society, political science, and sociology.
by Donald G. Dutton
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Rethinking Domestic Violence is the third in a series of books by Donald Dutton critically reviewing research in the area of intimate partner violence (IPV). The research crosses disciplinary lines, including social and clinical psychology, sociology, psychiatry, affective neuropsychology, criminology,...
by Alex Marland, Thierry Giasson, Anna Lennox Esselment
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Featuring contributions from a variety of scholars, this book offers fresh perspectives about the political marketplace that will be of interest to students of Canadian government and politics.
by Paul Litt
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
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From Treaty Peoples to Treaty Nation
A Road Map for All Canadians
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
This accessible book will be of interest to scholars, politicians, students, Aboriginal leaders, government officials, business people, media commentators, and all Canadians who care about the future of their country.
One Hundred Years of Struggle
The History of Women and the Vote in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
The achievement of the vote in 1918 is often celebrated as a triumphant moment in the onward, upward advancement of Canadian women. Acclaimed historian Joan Sangster looks beyond the shiny rhetoric of anniversary celebrations and Heritage Minutes to show that the struggle for equality included gains...
After Morgentaler
The Politics of Abortion in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The landmark decision R. v. Morgentaler (1988) struck down Canada’s abortion law and is widely believed to have established a right to abortion, but its actual impact is much less decisive; and women’s access to abortion in Canada remains uneven and at risk of being curtailed. In After Morgentaler,...
The Inner Bird
Anatomy and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Birds are among the most successful vertebrates on Earth. An important part of our natural environment and deeply embedded in our culture, birds are studied by more professional ornithologists and enjoyed by more amateur enthusiasts than ever before. However, both amateurs and professionals typically...
Claire L’Heureux-Dubé
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Both lionized and vilified, Claire L’Heureux-Dubé has shaped the Canadian legal landscape – and in particular its highest court. The second woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, and the first from Quebec, she was known as “the great dissenter” on the bench, making judgments that...
Health Care and the Charter
Legal Mobilization and Policy Change in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Since the introduction of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, individuals and organizations have increasingly turned to the courts to try to bring about policy change in areas such as health care. Health Care and the Charter explores the systematic use of Charter litigation in the...
Stalled
The Representation of Women in Canadian Governments
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Following significant increases in women’s electoral representation in the 1980s and '90s, progress has stalled. Today, there are only a few more women in Canada’s parliament and legislatures than a decade ago. What has happened to the representational gains for women and why does gender parity...
Behind the Walls
Inmates and Correctional Officers on the State of Canadian Prisons
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Despite falling crime rates, more rights for inmates, and better training for correctional officers, Canada’s prisons are overflowing, and outbreaks of violence continue to grab headlines. Applying Goffman’s frame theory and drawing on interviews with inmates and correctional officers in provincial...
Give and Take
The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Can a book about tax history be a page-turner? You wouldn’t think so. But Give and Take is full of surprises. A Canadian millionaire who embraced the new federal income tax in 1917. A socialist hero, J.S. Woodsworth, who deplored the burden of big government. Most surprising of all, Give and Take...