Protection of First Nations Cultural Heritage
Laws, Policy, and Reform
- Copyright year: 2009
The Technological Imperative in Canada
An Intellectual History
This highly original, seminal study of Canadian theorists of technology and morality shows that Canadian thinkers were not only original and intellectually au courant but also engaging and insightful.
- Copyright year: 2009
The Nurture of Nature
Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55
This book explores how antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape, child rearing, and identity shaped the history of summer camps.
- Copyright year: 2009
Surveillance
Power, Problems, and Politics
This book examines surveillance as both cause and effect of social and political problems.
- Copyright year: 2009
Emerging Technologies
From Hindsight to Foresight
Addresses the ethical, legal, and social dimensions of emerging technologies and assesses their social and policy implications.
- Copyright year: 2009
Undercurrents
Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong
Undercurrents engages the critical rubric of “queer” to examine Hong Kong’s screen, uncovering a queer media culture that has been largely overlooked by critics in the West, and demonstrates the cultural vitality of Hong Kong amidst political transition.
- Copyright year: 2008
Voices Rising
Asian Canadian Cultural Activism
Examines Asian Canadian political and cultural activism around community building, identity making, racial equity, and social justice.
- Copyright year: 2007
Discourses of Denial
Mediations of Race, Gender, and Violence
With examples from the lives of immigrant girls and women of colour, this book uncovers how racism, sexism, and violence interweave deep within the foundations of our society.
- Copyright year: 2006
Journalism of Attachment
Dutch Newspapers during the Bosnian War
Drawing on an extensive content analysis of news coverage about the Bosnian war, this study describes the phenomenon of “journalism of attachment” as reflected in Dutch newspapers covering the Bosnian war.
- Copyright year: 2005
Communication Technology
Darin Barney takes a piercing, nuanced look at how communication technologies are changing democratic life in Canada, and whether technological mediation of political communication has an effect on political practice.
- Copyright year: 2005
Last Word
Media Coverage of the Supreme Court of Canada
Media coverage of the Supreme Court of Canada has emerged as a crucial factor not only for judges and journalists but also for the public. It’s the media, after all, that decide which court rulings to cover and how ...
- Copyright year: 2005
Morals and the Media, 2nd edition
Ethics in Canadian Journalism
This revised edition of the groundbreaking text covers the many changes in the Canadian media in the last decade, including further concentration of media ownership, media convergence, the rise of the blog, and the tightening economic pressures on the industry as a whole, and new “Tough Calls” at the end of each chapter, inviting readers to test their own ethics in scenarios drawn from real news stories.
- Copyright year: 2005
Hometown Horizons
Local Responses to Canada's Great War
Alive with personal stories, this book considers how people and communities on the Canadian home front perceived the Great War.
- Copyright year: 2004
Masculinities without Men?
Female Masculinity in Twentieth-Century Fictions
This work explores how the construction of gender was thrown into crisis during the twentieth century, opening a permanent rupture in the gender system, destabilizing masculinity as an unstable category.
- Copyright year: 2003
Hidden Agendas
How Journalists Influence the News
A controversial study showing how the political beliefs of journalists significantly affect the ideological slant of the news, skewing it further to the left than the political stance of the average Canadian.
- Copyright year: 2003
Being a Tourist
Finding Meaning in Pleasure Travel
What is meaningful about the experience of travelling abroad? What feeds the impulse to explore new horizons?
- Copyright year: 2002
Hollywood North
The Feature Film Industry in British Columbia
This timely book recounts the story of British Columbia's rapid rise from relative obscurity in the film world to its current status as "Hollywood North."
- Copyright year: 2002
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.
- Copyright year: 2002
Wired to the World, Chained to the Home
Telework in Daily Life
Will working from home solve many of society's ills, or create new ghettos? This book analyzes the experiences to look at workload, mobility, work status and gender to understand the implications of telecommuting on employment policies, community planning and daily life patterns.
- Copyright year: 2001
Indigenous Cultures in an Interconnected World
Increasingly, Indigenous people are being drawn into global networks. In the long term, cultural isolation is unlikely to be a viable – even if sometimes desired – option, so how can Indigenous people protect and advance their cultural values in the face of pressure from an interconnected world?
- Copyright year: 2000