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Opening Doors Wider

Women's Political Engagement in Canada

UBC Press

This book asks whether the doors to women’s participation in Canadian public life are more open than in the past and probes how they can be opened further.

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Language Matters

How Canadian Voluntary Associations Manage French and English

UBC Press

Canadian voluntary associations have proven that they can effectively manage bilingualism -- this book shows how and why.

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Makúk

A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations

UBC Press

This award-winning work explores Aboriginal people’s displacement from the new economy from the arrival of the first Europeans to the 1970s.

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Contributing Citizens

Modern Charitable Fundraising and the Making of the Welfare State, 1920-66

UBC Press

A social and political history of Community Chests, and the development of Canada's welfare state.

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Brock Chisholm, the World Health Organization, and the Cold War

UBC Press

This is the story of a man and an institution. A world-renowned psychiatrist and first director-general of the World Health Organization, Brock Chisholm was one of the most influential Canadians of the twentieth century, yet is little-known today.

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Emerging Technologies

From Hindsight to Foresight

UBC Press

Addresses the ethical, legal, and social dimensions of emerging technologies and assesses their social and policy implications.

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From Pride to Influence

Towards a New Canadian Foreign Policy

UBC Press

From Pride to Influence brings Canadian foreign policy into the twenty-first century.

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Electing a Diverse Canada

The Representation of Immigrants, Minorities, and Women

UBC Press

Covering eleven cities as well as Canada’s Parliament, this book presents the most extensive analysis to date of the electoral representation of immigrants, minorities, and women in Canada.

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The Provinces and Canadian Foreign Trade Policy

UBC Press

A fresh analysis of the evolving role of the provinces in Canadian foreign trade policy.

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Indigenous Diplomacy and the Rights of Peoples

Achieving UN Recognition

UBC Press, Purich Publishing

With a focus on international law, Henderson analyzes what the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples means for Indigenous peoples around the world and for Canada.

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Multiculturalism and the Canadian Constitution

UBC Press

The essays illustrate how deeply multiculturalism is woven into the fabric of the Canadian constitution and the everyday lives of Canadians.

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Criminal Artefacts

Governing Drugs and Users

UBC Press

By looking curiously on the criminal addict as an artefact of criminal justice, this book asks us to question why the criminalized drug user has become such a focus of contemporary criminal justice practices.

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Gendering the Nation-State

Canadian and Comparative Perspectives

UBC Press

Gendering the Nation-State explores the gendered dimensions of a fundamental organizational unit in social and political science – the nation-state.

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Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada, Third Edition

Current Trends and Issues

Foreword by John Hylton; Edited by Yale Belanger
UBC Press, Purich Publishing

An interdisciplinary guide for learning about government policy and the aspirations of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples.

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The Comparative Turn in Canadian Political Science

UBC Press

This volume is the first sustained attempt to describe, analyze, and assess the “comparative turn” in Canadian political science.

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Navigating Neoliberalism

Self-Determination and the Mikisew Cree First Nation

UBC Press

This remarkable book argues that neoliberalism, which drives government policy concerning First Nations in Canada, can also drive self-determination -- including the Mikisew First Nation, which successfully exploited opportunities for greater autonomy and well-being that the current political and economic climate has presented.

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Conventional Choices?

Maritime Leadership Politics, 1971–2003

UBC Press

Conventional Choices examines twenty-five different leadership elections over thirty-two years in three of Canada's maritime provinces to explore the backgrounds, attitudes, and motivations of those who select party leaders.

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Let Right Be Done

Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case, and the Future of Indigenous Rights

UBC Press
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Nunavut

Rethinking Political Culture

UBC Press

Original and provocative, Nunavut explores political attitudes, behaviour, and institutions in Nunavut before, during, and after the creation of the new territory, challenging our understandings of how political cultures are generated and sustained.

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Organizing the Transnational

Labour, Politics, and Social Change

UBC Press

This collection articulates a multi-level cultural politics of transnationalism to frame contemporary analyses of immigration and diasporas.

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