Intoxicating Manchuria
Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China's Northeast
Examines how alcohol, opium, and addiction were portrayed in the culture of China’s Northeast during the first half of the twentieth century.
Reasonable Accommodation
Managing Religious Diversity
Reasonable Accommodation is a collection of essays examining the meaning of reasonable accommodation of religious diversity through law and public discourse in Canada and abroad.
Academic Careers and the Gender Gap
An analysis of the institutional, academic, family, and personal contributors to the academic gender gap in liberal-state universities.
Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives
Work, Social Assistance, and Marginalization
Documents the experience of poverty, unemployment, homelessness, and intervention, and their effects on young people’s lives and social networks.
Brokering Access
Power, Politics, and Freedom of Information Process in Canada
Drawing together the perspectives of social scientists, journalists, and ATI advocates, Brokering Access explores the policies and practices surrounding access to information in Canada, highlighting the struggle between the public’s desire for transparency and the government’s culture of secrecy.
Fractured Homeland
Federal Recognition and Algonquin Identity in Ontario
An examination of the struggle for identity and nationhood among non-status Algonquin during the negotiation of a major comprehensive land claim.
Epidemic Encounters
Influenza, Society, and Culture in Canada, 1918-20
A multidisciplinary exploration of Canada’s experience of illness and death during the 1918-20 influenza pandemic.
Rooted Cosmopolitanism
Canada and the World
Can national loyalties be reconciled with larger commitments to global well-being?
Becoming Multicultural
Immigration and the Politics of Membership in Canada and Germany
This book demonstrates how global human rights norms intersected with domestic political identities and institutions to transform Canada and Germany into diverse multicultural societies in the second half of the twentieth century.
Alternative Media in Canada
Examines the limitations and promise of alternative media in the context of Canada’s complex media and policy environment.