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Diasporic Chineseness after the Rise of China

Communities and Cultural Production

UBC Press

Leading international scholars examine the production of culture during China’s rise to global superpower in the last quarter of a century.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Food Will Win the War

The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front

UBC Press

A wide-ranging account of how millions of Canadians enlisted to fight on the kitchen front in order to win the war for food.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Transparent Lives

Surveillance in Canada

Edited by Colin J. Bennett, Kevin D. Haggerty, David Lyon, and Valerie M. Steeves; By The New Transparency Project
Athabasca University Press

This highly readable book tells Canadians what they ought to know to better understand the ways in which surveillance is expanding – mostly unchecked – into every facet of their lives, and what they can do about it.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Vivre á nu

La surveillance au Canada

Edited by Colin J. Bennett, Kevin D. Haggerty, David Lyon, and Valerie M. Steeves; By The New Transparency Project
Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2014
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Mission Invisible

Race, Religion, and News at the Dawn of the 9/11 Era

UBC Press

By unravelling the discourse and rhetoric of news coverage in Canada at the dawn of the 9/11 era, this book not only uncovers racist representations of Muslim communities but also reveals the discursive processes that rendered this racism invisible.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Gendered News

Media Coverage and Electoral Politics in Canada

UBC Press

An examination of the gender differences in media coverage of politicians in Canada, and the barriers this poses to gender equality in political representation.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Consuming Modernity

Gendered Behaviour and Consumerism before the Baby Boom

UBC Press

Placing Canada in an international context, this book explores the intersections of gender, modernity, and consumerism from 1919 to 1945.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Sporting Gender

Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making during China’s National Crisis, 1931-45

UBC Press

This book explores the casting of China’s earliest female Olympians as celebrities within the context of a national crisis, born of internal conflicts and external attack by Japan.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Canoe Nation

Nature, Race, and the Making of a Canadian Icon

UBC Press

An exploration of the canoe and its role in Canadian culture, nature, and colonial past.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Open Data Structures

An Introduction

Athabasca University Press

An introduction to the field of data structures and algorithms.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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The Undiscovered Country

Essays in Canadian Intellectual Culture

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2013
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Targeted Transnationals

The State, the Media, and Arab Canadians

UBC Press

This book shows how, in the post-9/11 era, Arab Canadians have become “targeted transnationals” through racialized immigration and security policies as well as negative media representations that legitimize their homogenization and racialization.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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The Struggle for Canadian Copyright

Imperialism to Internationalism, 1842-1971

UBC Press

The conflicts at the heart of international copyright are explored through the history of Canadian nation-building.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Reel Time

Movie Exhibitors and Movie Audiences in Prairie Canada, 1896 to 1986

Athabasca University Press

Reel Time depicts how the industry shaped the development of the Canadian Prairie West and propelled the region into the modern era.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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Public Engagement and Emerging Technologies

UBC Press

This book examines current theory, methods, and ethics underlying global trends in involving publics in the governance of new technologies.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Selves and Subjectivities

Reflections on Canadian Arts and Culture

Athabasca University Press

The self and the other in the works of Canadian contemporary artists.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Merry Laughter and Angry Curses

The Shanghai Tabloid Press, 1897-1911

UBC Press

Merry Laughter and Angry Curses investigates the proliferation of late-Qing-era tabloid journalism and the tabloids’ role in subverting the political and intellectual establishment.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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Connecting Canadians

Investigations in Community Informatics

Athabasca University Press

Connecting Canadians examines the burgeoning field of community informatics.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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How Canadians Communicate IV

Media and Politics

Athabasca University Press

A comprehensive, up-to-date, and probing examination of media and politics in Canada.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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Alternative Media in Canada

UBC Press

Examines the limitations and promise of alternative media in the context of Canada’s complex media and policy environment.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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