Athabasca University Press is Canada’s first open access scholarly press. Founded in 2007 with the principal aim of reducing barriers to knowledge and increasing access to scholarship, AU Press is committed to bringing the work of emerging and established scholars to the public. With both an open-access journal and monograph program, they make a significant contribution to the growing body of academic and literary work that is available to a global readership at no cost to the reader.
The Digital Nexus
Identity, Agency, and Political Engagement
The totalizing scope of the combined effects of computerization and the worldwide network are the subject of the essays in The Digital Nexus, a volume that responds to McLuhan’s request for a “special study” of the tsunami-like transformation of the communication landscape.
Speaking Power to Truth
Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual
Scaling Up
The Convergence of the Social Economy and Sustainability
Leaving Iran
Between Migration and Exile
An intimate portrait of one family’s displacement after the 1979 Iranian Revolution and their search for identity.
The Teacher and the Superintendent
Native Schooling in the Alaskan Interior, 1904-1918
Familiar and Foreign
Identity in Iranian Film and Literature
In Familiar and Foreign, Mannani and Thompson set out to explore the tensions surrounding the ongoing formulation of Iranian identity by bringing together essays on poetry, novels, memoir, and films.
Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada
This is a much needed critical assessment of the political peculiarities of Alberta and the impact the government’s relationship to the oil industry has on the lives of the province’s most vulnerable citizens.
“My Own Portrait in Writing”
Self-Fashioning in the Letters of Vincent van Gogh
An inspiring book that argues for Van Gogh’s letters to be placed alongside the literary work of Blake and Eliot.
Hobohemia and the Crucifixion Machine
Rival Images of a New World in 1930s Vancouver
Rocks in the Water, Rocks in the Sun
A Memoir from the Heart of Haiti
A poor man’s first-hand account of the punishing realities of daily life in Haiti from the final years of the Duvalier dictatorship to the year following the 2010 earthquake.