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.
Beyond Mothering Earth
Ecological Citizenship and the Politics of Care
Provides an original and empirically grounded understanding of women’s involvement in quality-of-life activism.
2008, Shortlisted - Book Award, Canadian Women’s Studies Association
- Copyright year: 2006
National Visions, National Blindness
Canadian Art and Identities in the 1920s
An insightful analysis of how art was used to create an independent Canadian national identity, often at the expense of First Nations representation.
2008, Winner - Raymond Klibanksy Prize, The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Copyright year: 2006
Teachers’ Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897-1937
This innovative account examines the social and political impacts of Chinese teacher's schools in the early 20th century, their role in a society in transition, and their production of grassroots forces that lead to the Communist Revolution.
2008, Winner - Academic Award for Excellence, Chinese Historians in the US
- Copyright year: 2007
Multicultural Education Policies in Canada and the United States
This volume compares and contrasts foundational myths and highlights the sociopolitical contexts that affect the conditions of citizenship, access to education, and inclusion of diverse cultural knowledge in educational systems.
2008, Winner - Critics' Choice Award, American Educational Studies Association
- Copyright year: 2007
Resisting Manchukuo
Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation
2009, Winner - Canadian Women's Studies Association Book Prize
- Copyright year: 2007
Hunters at the Margin
Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories
Hunters at the Margin examines the conflict in the Northwest Territories between Native hunters and conservationists, arguing that game regulations and national parks helped assert state authority over traditional hunting cultures.
2008, Winner - Clio Award (North), Canadian Historical Association
2008, Winner - Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award, Forest History Society
- Copyright year: 2007