
The University of British Columbia Press is Canada’s leading social sciences publisher. With an international reputation for publishing high-quality works of original scholarship, our books draw on and reflect cutting-edge research, pushing the boundaries of academic discourse in innovative directions. Each year UBC Press publishes seventy new titles in a number of fields, including Aboriginal studies, Asian studies, Canadian history, environmental studies, gender and women’s studies, health and food studies, geography, law, media and communications, military and security studies, planning and urban studies, and political science.
Research with Refugee Children and Families
Ethical Dilemmas and Methodological Insights
- Copyright year: 2025
Handing Over the Keys
Indigenous Peoples and Carceral Injustice
Handing over the Keys explores the intergenerational impacts of carceral injustice on Indigenous peoples and suggests policy approaches that will disrupt the harm.
- Copyright year: 2025
Foreign Affairs in the Canadian Constitution
Foreign Affairs in the Canadian Constitution is a meticulously argued case for having the Canadian foreign affairs power rest firmly within the federal sphere.
- Copyright year: 2025
Fatal Confession
A Girl’s Murder, a Man’s Execution, and the Fitton Case
Fatal Confession is a gripping account of a 1950s sex murder and execution set against a backdrop of public concern about sex crimes and the justifiability of the death penalty.
- Copyright year: 2025
Claiming the Right to the City
Rethinking Urban Transformations in Brazil
Claiming the Right to the City explores Brazilian efforts to apply the right to the city in local planning practice, offering lessons for other jurisdictions and underscoring the importance of bottom-up citizen engagement.
- Copyright year: 2025
Challenging Exile
Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution
Challenging Exile delves into the origins, experience, and aftermath of a shameful moment in Canada’s past: the government’s attempt to exile thousands of Japanese Canadians after the Second World War.
- Copyright year: 2025
The Enduring Riddle of Mackenzie King
The Enduring Riddle of Mackenzie King assembles a who’s who of political historians to untangle the legacy of Canada’s longest-serving, most controversial, and possibly greatest prime minister.
- Copyright year: 2025
Autism and the Culture of Therapy
The Politics and Practice of Applied Behaviour Analysis
Autism and the Culture of Therapy investigates the larger systems that regulate applied behaviour therapies, their negotiation and application by practitioners and parents, and how they have redefined what autism means.
- Copyright year: 2025
Planting Thistles
Scottish Islander Colonization in Late Victorian Canada
Planting Thistles explores how state-sponsored settlement of Scottish Islanders in Western Canada at the height of Victorian imperialism brought core conceptions of race, class, gender, and modernity itself into question.
- Copyright year: 2025
Mega Pipelines, Mega Resistance
Tar Sands, Social Movements, and the Politics of Energy Infrastructure
Mega Pipelines, Mega Resistance reveals how and why social movements have frustrated major pipeline development in North America.
- Copyright year: 2025
Chrétien and the World
Canadian Foreign Policy from 1993 to 2003
Chrétien and the World, the first book-length study of the former prime minister’s foreign policy, reveals a far more ambitious, coherent engagement in international affairs than has been understood to date.
- Copyright year: 2025
Watching the Bear
Canadian Intelligence Assessments of the Soviet Threat to North America, 1946–1964
Watching the Bear draws on recently declassified documents to offer a wholly new perspective on Canada’s policies for the defence of North America in the decades following the Second World War.
- Copyright year: 2025