Canada’s Global Villagers
CUSO in Development, 1961-86
An authoritative history of an organization that engaged thousands of young Canadians in the practice and politics of international development.
Sex Work
Rethinking the Job, Respecting the Workers
A lucid and unflinching argument for the reframing of the debate on sex work, ending limiting moralistic approaches, and respecting the unique perspectives of workers.
Gendered News
Media Coverage and Electoral Politics in Canada
An examination of the gender differences in media coverage of politicians in Canada, and the barriers this poses to gender equality in political representation.
Inequality and the Fading of Redistributive Politics
Leading political scientists, sociologists, and economists explain how and why Canadian public policy has been falling behind in the race to contain surging income inequality.
Living Indigenous Leadership
Native Narratives on Building Strong Communities
Native women share their knowledge and insights about leadership at the community level.
“Don’t Be So Gay!”
Queers, Bullying, and Making Schools Safe
Queer students speak out in a book that seeks to address the problem of homophobic bullying in schools.
Indigenous Encounters with Neoliberalism
Place, Women, and the Environment in Canada and Mexico
A cross-comparison of gender and indigeneity in the neoliberal contexts of Canada and Mexico.
The Wages of Relief
Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929-39
Provincial Solidarities
A History of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour
A pioneering study of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour, this is the untold story of provincial labour solidarities that succeeded in overcoming divisions and defeats to raise the status of working men and women within New Brunswick society.
The Canadian Rangers
A Living History
A lavishly illustrated history of the Canadian Rangers and their evolving role as defenders and stewards of Canada’s remote regions.
Targeted Transnationals
The State, the Media, and Arab Canadians
This book shows how, in the post-9/11 era, Arab Canadians have become “targeted transnationals” through racialized immigration and security policies as well as negative media representations that legitimize their homogenization and racialization.
Resistance Is Fertile
Canadian Struggles on the BioCommons
A critical look at the social, environmental, and economic impacts of agricultural biotechnology in Canada.
Breathing Life into the Stone Fort Treaty
An Anishnabe Understanding of Treaty One
A comprehensive evaluation of how negotiations for Treaty One were shaped by Aboriginal Anishinabe laws
Unjust by Design
Canada’s Administrative Justice System
This book describes a Canadian administrative justice system in transcendent need of fundamental structural reform and provides a detailed blueprint for change.
Parties, Elections, and the Future of Canadian Politics
The first comprehensive account in decades of major party system change in Canada.
Action and Reaction in the World System
The Dynamics of Economic and Political Power
This book provides a multidisciplinary framework to understand the complexities of the post-Soviet international system, a system that is multipolar, ideologically heterogeneous, and highly unstable.
Strong, Beautiful and Modern
National Fitness in Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Canada, 1935-1960
Strong, Beautiful and Modern tells the story of the national fitness campaigns spanning the “British world” beginning in the 1930s.
Solidarités Provinciales
Histoire de la Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Nouveau-Brunswick
On enseigne l’histoire tous les jours à l’école; pourquoi alors ne pourrait-on pas enseigner un peu d’histoire du travail de la province ou même du pays?
Governing from the Bench
The Supreme Court of Canada and the Judicial Role
Governing from the Bench is a comprehensive and illuminating examination of the Supreme Court of Canada that draws on in-depth interviews to reveal the inner workings of this often-misunderstood institution at the heart of Canada’s justice system.