Queering Representation
LGBTQ People and Electoral Politics in Canada
Queering Representation explores what happens when LGBTQ people move out of the closet and into the political arena.
Trustees at Work
Financial Pressures, Emotional Labour, and Canadian Bankruptcy Law
Trustees at Work explores what is means to be considered a deserving debtor in under contemporary Canadian personal bankruptcy law.
The Motivation to Vote
Explaining Electoral Participation
An original, parsimonious, and elegant explanation of why we vote or abstain in elections.
Changing Neighbourhoods
Social and Spatial Polarization in Canadian Cities
Changing Neighbourhoods offers revealing insights into the way that Canadian cities have grown increasingly unequal and polarized since 1980, identifying the causal factors driving neighbourhood change and their troubling implications.
The Aging–Disability Nexus
The Aging–Disability Nexus explores the complex and competing narratives we create about aging and disability, providing fresh perspectives on how these markers interact with each other and with other indicators of power and difference.
Invested Indifference
How Violence Persists in Settler Colonial Society
Invested Indifference exposes the tenacity of violence against Indigenous people, arguing that some lives are made to matter – or not – depending on their relation to the settler-colonial nation state.
Out of Milk
Infant Food Insecurity in a Rich Nation
Out of Milk reveals the experiences of mothers struggling to feed their children and the policy gaps that put babies at risk of going hungry in a high-income nation.
Getting Wise about Getting Old
Debunking Myths about Aging
By exploring the social issues of aging and debunking the common myths, Getting Wise about Getting Old paints a more accurate and nuanced portrait of old age in our society.
A Complex Exile
Homelessness and Social Exclusion in Canada
A Complex Exile challenges the medicalization of homelessness, which emphasizes individual causes and solutions to homelessness, and argues that we must transform how we respond to homelessness in Canada.
Activism, Inclusion, and the Challenges of Deliberative Democracy
Activism, Inclusion, and the Challenges of Deliberative Democracy investigates the failure of deliberative democracy to acknowledge the democratic contribution of activism, offering an alternative theoretical approach that makes a key distinction between contributing to and deliberating with.
Neighbourhood Houses
Building Community in Vancouver
Neighbourhood Houses documents how the neighbourhood house model, a century-old type of community organization, can help overcome isolation in urban neighbourhoods by creating welcoming places.
Frontiers of Feminism
Movements and Influences in Québec and Italy, 1960–80
Frontiers of Feminism shines new light on the recent history of feminist movements, using the examples of Italy and Québec to bring an international perspective to major themes, strategies, and modes of organizing.
The Social Life of Standards
Ethnographic Methods for Local Engagement
The Social Life of Standards reveals how political and technical tools for organizing society are developed, applied, subverted, contested, and reassembled as local communities interact with standards created by external forces.
Assisted Suicide in Canada
Moral, Legal, and Policy Considerations
Assisted Suicide in Canada provides an accessible, up-to-date introduction to this vitally important topic of ongoing public debate.
Transformative Media
Intersectional Technopolitics from Indymedia to #BlackLivesMatter
In an era of social media dominance, Transformative Media reveals the often invisible, transformative media practices of marginalized groups.
Twice Migrated, Twice Displaced
Indian and Pakistani Transnational Households in Canada
Twice Migrated, Twice Displaced reveals the impact of discriminatory labour markets, precarious work, and transnational family relationships on Gulf South Asians in Canada.
White Space
Race, Privilege, and Cultural Economies of the Okanagan Valley
White Space offers a compelling analysis of how whiteness sustains settler privilege and maintains social inequity in the BC interior.
Disability Injustice
Confronting Criminalization in Canada
In Disability Injustice, scholars and activists deliver a much-needed and long overdue analysis of disability and criminalization in Canada.
Religion at the Edge
Nature, Spirituality, and Secularity in the Pacific Northwest
Religion at the Edge shows how the distinctive social and physical landscape of the Pacific Northwest proves fertile ground for an expansive exploration of contemporary spirituality and secularity.