UBC Press is proud to publish outstanding scholarly works by some of the world’s preeminent scholars. We congratulate our authors and volume editors who have been recognized with awards and citations.
Preserving What Is Valued
Museums, Conservation, and First Nations
What are the “right ways” to preserve heritage? Are the aims and purposes of museums necessarily at odds with those of First Nations? This thoughtful book explores the concept of museum conservation in light of cultural repatriation issues, and helps readers understand the complex relationship between museums and Aboriginal peoples.
2002, Winner - Outstanding Achievement Award, Conservation Category, Canadian Museums Association
- Copyright year: 2002
Gendering Government
Feminist Engagement with the State in Australia and Canada
This comparative study examines feminist engagement with a broad range of political institutions in Australia and Canada.
2004, Winner - Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine
- Copyright year: 2002
Anatomy of a Conflict
Identity, Knowledge, and Emotion in Old-Growth Forests
Explores the cultural aspects of the fierce dispute between activist loggers and environmentalists over the fate of Oregon’s temperate rain forest.
2002, Winner - K.D. Srivastava Award, UBC Press
- Copyright year: 2002
Making Native Space
Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia
It presents the most comprehensive account available of perhaps the most critical mapping of space ever undertaken in BC – the drawing of the lines that separated the tiny plots of land reserved for Native people from the rest.
2003, Winner - Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association
2003, Winner - Clio Award (British Columbia), Canadian Historical Association
2002, Shortlisted - Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Book Prize, British Columbia Book Awards
2003, Winner - Massey Medal, Royal Canadian Geographical Society
- Copyright year: 2002
Modern Women Modernizing Men
The Changing Missions of Three Professional Women in Asia and Africa, 1902-69
Explores how professionalism, religion, and feminism came together to enable missionary women to become the colleagues and mentors of Western and non-Western men.
2003, Shortlisted - Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association
- Copyright year: 2002
Personal Relationships of Dependence and Interdependence in Law
This collection explores the intersection of interdependency and the law, and contemplates some of the key issues at stake in the way the law interprets and addresses human relationships.
2002, Winner - Canadian Policy Research Award for Outstanding Research Contribution
- Copyright year: 2002