“Here Is Hell”
Canada's Engagement in Somalia
One of the first scholarly examinations of the Somalia operation, this book will undoubtedly play a seminal role in informing further scholarly debate on this important period in Canada’s military and diplomatic past.
Race and the City
Chinese Canadian and Chinese American Political Mobilization
Presents an elegant analysis of the mechanisms of political mobilization under systemic racism that draws on case studies, interviews, and a detailed understanding of the racialized legal and sociocultural histories of the United States and Canada.
Nutrition Policy in Canada, 1870-1939
Examines the beginnings and early evolution of nutrition policy developments in Canada from the late nineteenth century to the beginning of the Second World War.
Sex Workers in the Maritimes Talk Back
Sex workers in three Maritime cities discuss violence and safety, health, politics, and public perception of the trade, portraying the best and the worst facets of their working lives.
Misrecognized Materialists
Social Movements in Canadian Constitutional Politics
A book with provocative implications for students and scholars of social movements and identity politics, Misrecognized Materialists offers a fresh and important perspective on Canada’s constitutional struggles over civic symbolism and identity.
Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier
Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928-49
A counterpoint to erroneous historical assumptions, this book argues that Nationalist sovereignty over Tibet and China's other border regions was the result of rhetorical grandstanding by Chiang Kai-shek and his regime.
International Ecopolitical Theory
Critical Approaches
Gambling with the Future
The Evolution of Aboriginal Gaming in Canada
Slots, cards, and casinos: what does gambling mean to First Nations communities in Canada?
Dimensions of Inequality in Canada
Is Canada becoming a more polarized society? Or is it a kind-hearted nation that takes care of its disadvantaged?
The Other Quiet Revolution
National Identities in English Canada, 1945-71
José Igartua traces the under-examined cultural transformation of English-speaking Canada woven through key developments in the formation of Canadian nationhood, from the 1946 Citizenship Act to the federal multiculturalism policy in 1971.