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.
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.
- Copyright 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.
- Copyright 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.
- Copyright 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.
- Copyright 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.
- Copyright 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.
- Copyright year: 2023
Boosters and Barkers
Financing Canada’s Involvement in the First World War
“Back him up! Buy Victory Bonds.” Boosters and Barkers examines the unrelenting financial demands of Canadian participation in the First World War, exploring the aims, methods, and implications of securing public support.
- Copyright year: 2023
The Notorious Georges
Crime and Community in British Columbia's Northern Interior, 1905–25
The Notorious Georges is an engaging exploration of the alchemy of community identity and reputation in Prince George, BC, once branded Canada’s most-dangerous city.
- Copyright year: 2023
Fighting Feelings
Lessons in Gendered Racism and Queer Life
Fighting Feelings investigates the lived experiences of women of colour to reveal the complex ways that white supremacy is felt, endured, and navigated.
- Copyright year: 2023
The Challenges of a Secular Quebec
Bill 21 in Perspective
The Challenges of a Secular Quebec opens up the debates that gave rise to a controversial law on state religious neutrality, taking an open-minded look at how secularism is understood and how it has imposed itself in the Quebec social space.
- Copyright year: 2023
Silent Partners
The Origins and Influence of Canada’s Military-Industrial Complex
Silent Partners delves into the shadowy world of security and national defence to shine a light on the influence they hold in Canadian society.
- Copyright year: 2023
Messy Ethics in Human Rights Work
Messy Ethics in Human Rights Work invites readers to engage reflexively in critical human rights practice by admitting discomfort and dilemma into conversations about ethics.
- Copyright year: 2023