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Empires and Autonomy

Moments in the History of Globalization

UBC Press

This collaborative study explores moments in the history of globalization and autonomy to provide insights into changes overtaking the contemporary world.

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Surveillance

Power, Problems, and Politics

UBC Press

This book examines surveillance as both cause and effect of social and political problems.

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Identity/Difference Politics

How Difference Is Produced, and Why It Matters

UBC Press

Identity/Difference Politics offers a new direction for the study of identity/difference, one that moves beyond liberal multiculturalism’s preoccupation with culture.

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Opening Doors Wider

Women's Political Engagement in Canada

UBC Press

This book asks whether the doors to women’s participation in Canadian public life are more open than in the past and probes how they can be opened further.

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Language Matters

How Canadian Voluntary Associations Manage French and English

UBC Press

Canadian voluntary associations have proven that they can effectively manage bilingualism -- this book shows how and why.

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The Paradoxes of Peacebuilding Post-9/11

Edited by Stephen Baranyi
UBC Press

What kind of peace is possible in the post-9/11 world? Is sustainable peace an illusion in a world where foreign military interventions are replacing peace negotiations as starting points for postwar reconstruction? Grappling with these questions, this book presents six provocative case studies authored by respected peacebuilding practitioners in their own societies.

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Renegotiating Community

Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Contexts

UBC Press

Using original case studies to show how a range of communities deal with the forces of globalization, this book redraws the conceptual maps through which community, globalization, and autonomy are understood.

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Makúk

A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations

UBC Press

This award-winning work explores Aboriginal people’s displacement from the new economy from the arrival of the first Europeans to the 1970s.

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Global Ordering

Institutions and Autonomy in a Changing World

UBC Press

This innovative, interdisciplinary work explores key institutional fault lines between the tectonic plates of globalization and the insistent demands for individual and collective autonomy.

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Contributing Citizens

Modern Charitable Fundraising and the Making of the Welfare State, 1920-66

UBC Press

A social and political history of Community Chests, and the development of Canada's welfare state.

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