
The University of British Columbia Press is Canada’s leading social sciences publisher. With an international reputation for publishing high-quality works of original scholarship, our books draw on and reflect cutting-edge research, pushing the boundaries of academic discourse in innovative directions. Each year UBC Press publishes seventy new titles in a number of fields, including Aboriginal studies, Asian studies, Canadian history, environmental studies, gender and women’s studies, health and food studies, geography, law, media and communications, military and security studies, planning and urban studies, and political science.
Signs of the Time
Nlaka'pamux Resistance through Rock Art
- Publication year: 2023
Sea Change
Charting a Sustainable Future for Oceans in Canada
Sea Change takes stock of what we know about Canada’s changing oceans, offering a wealth of practical information to support the task of building resilient, sustainable oceans and ocean communities.
- Publication year: 2024
Suing for Silence
Sexual Violence and Defamation Law
Suing for Silence exposes the phenomenon of lawsuits whose purpose is to silence those who disclose sexual violence, revealing the gendered underpinnings of Canadian defamation law and its chilling effect on public discourse including formal reports of sexual violence.
- Publication year: 2024
Discovering Nothing
In Pursuit of an Elusive Northwest Passage
Quests to discover a navigable or usable Northwest Passage ended in failure, but as Discovering Nothing shows, the many attempts to find what nature did not provide led to the construction of its transcontinental equivalent, changing the landscape of North America forever.
- Publication year: 2024
Judging Sex Work
Bedford and the Attenuation of Rights
Judging Sex Work argues that a decision widely considered to be a victory for social justice weakened sex workers’ rights far more than it strengthened them.
- Publication year: 2024
Sites of Conscience
Place, Memory, and the Project of Deinstitutionalization
In a time of deinstitutionalization, Sites of Conscience takes an international view of the actions and engagements taking place in and around these shuttered institutions in pursuit of social justice for their former residents.
- Publication year: 2024
Sex in Canada
The Who, Why, When, and How of Getting Down Up North
Sex in Canada offers a unique, definitive, and surprising exploration of sex and sexuality among Canadians.
- Publication year: 2024
Refugees Are (Not) Welcome Here
The Paradox of Protection in Canada
Refugees Are (Not) Welcome Here details the paradox of the simultaneous expansion and restriction of access to refugee rights in Canada.
- Publication year: 2023
Sustainable Energy Transitions in Canada
Sustainable Energy Transitions in Canada brings together experts from across the country to share their perspectives on how energy systems can respond to climate change, enhance social justice, respect local cultures and traditions – and still make financial sense.
- Publication year: 2023
The YWCA in China
The Making of a Chinese Christian Women's Institution, 1899–1957
The YWCA in China traces the history of this Christian organization – and the social philosophies of the Chinese women who led it – through the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century.
- Publication year: 2023
Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport
Is sexual assault tolerated in Canadian sport? After reaching the provocative conclusion that sexual assaults are not only accepted but normalized and even promoted, Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport offers constructive strategies to make sport safer.
- Publication year: 2023
Resistance and Recognition at Kitigan Zibi
Algonquin Culture and Politics in the Twentieth Century
Resistance and Recognition at Kitigan Zibi illuminates the traditional values and cultural continuity underlying twentieth-century politics in the largest and oldest Algonquin reserve in Canada.
- Publication year: 2023