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.
Conflict in Caledonia
Aboriginal Land Rights and the Rule of Law
A powerful account of how land disputes reflect complex and often competing understandings of law, landscape, and identity among First Nations and non-Aboriginal people in Canada.
2012, Winner - Canadian Law & Society Association Book Prize
- Copyright year: 2011
Canada's Road to the Pacific War
Intelligence, Strategy, and the Far East Crisis
An intriguing account of Canada’s role as a Pacific power during the crisis that led to war with Japan.
2012, Shortlisted - John W. Dafoe Book Prize, J. W. Dafoe Foundation
- Copyright year: 2011
Voluntary Sector Organizations and the State
Building New Relations
This book traces developments in the voluntary sector in Canada since the early 1990s, offering an up-to-date portrait of the federal government’s evolving relationship with voluntary organizations.
2014, Winner - ANSER/ARES Book Prize, Association for Nonprofit and Social Economy Research
- Copyright year: 2011
Against Orthodoxy
Studies in Nationalism
This volume challenges conventional approaches to the study of nationalism in the context of its violent resurgence.
, Commended - The Hill Times List of Top 100 Best Books for 2013
- Copyright year: 2011
Westward Bound
Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society
Through the study of hundreds of criminal cases, Westward Bound explores how encounters between the courts and ordinary people on the Canadian Prairies contributed to the construction of race, class, and gender hierarchies in a settler society.
2012, Commended - Canadian Law & Society Association Book Prize
- Copyright year: 2011
Feminist Ethics and Social Policy
Towards a New Global Political Economy of Care
This volume addresses the theoretical and practical relationships among the feminization of migrant labour, the ethics of care, and social policy in the new global economy.
, Commended - The Hill Times List of Top 100 Best Books for 2012
- Copyright year: 2011