Storied Communities
Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community
An exploration of the role of storytelling in community and nation building that disrupts the assumption in many works that indigenous and immigrant identities fall into two separate streams of analysis.
Between Consenting Peoples
Political Community and the Meaning of Consent
This book examines how consent might be understood as the foundation of legal and political community, especially in relations between indigenous and nonindigenous peoples.
In Defence of Principles
NGOs and Human Rights in Canada
This exploration of the activities of four Canadian NGOs in advancing and defending human rights principles sheds new light on the fragility and resilience of human rights norms in liberal democracies.
Globalizing Citizenship
This book traces how border controls and detention practices, particularly in the post-9/11 era, are transforming citizenship into a globalizing regime to regulate mobility.
Panoptic Dreams
Streetscape Video Surveillance in Canada
A definitive study of the implementation and implications of streetscape video surveillance systems in Canada.
The Politics of Acknowledgement
Truth Commissions in Uganda and Haiti
This book examines the failure of truth commissions in Uganda and Haiti and develops a rigorous framework to evaluate truth commissions around the world.
The Practice of Execution in Canada
The first comprehensive examination of execution as a social institution in Canada.
Constructing Crime
Contemporary Processes of Criminalization
Five unique case studies reveal how crime is being constructed and enforced in contemporary Canada.
Realizing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Triumph, Hope, and Action
A multidisciplinary collection analyzing the development of the Declaration, the triumph of its adoption, and the hopes and actions for its implementation.
Aboriginal Title and Indigenous Peoples
Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Offers a perspective on Aboriginal title and land rights that extends beyond national borders and the contemporary context to consider historical developments in common law countries.