After Morgentaler
The Politics of Abortion in Canada
A long-overdue update on the dynamics of abortion politics in Canada, After Morgentaler explores the role of both state and non-state actors in the creation and maintenance of access to abortion services following the 1988 Morgentaler decision.
- Copyright year: 2017
Engagement Organizing
The Old Art and New Science of Winning Campaigns
At a time of heightened concern about what our future holds and how we can shape it, Engagement Organizing shows how combining old-school people power with new digital tools and data can win campaigns today.
- Copyright year: 2017
Mothers and Others
The Role of Parenthood in Politics
The first major comparative analysis of the role of parenthood in politics, this book raises important questions about the intersection of gender, parental status, and political life.
- Copyright year: 2017
Contemporary Slavery
Popular Rhetoric and Political Practice
This volume brings together a cast of leading experts to carefully explore how the language of slavery has been invoked to support a series of government interventions, activist projects, legal instruments, and rhetorical and visual performances.
- Copyright year: 2017
Religion and Canadian Party Politics
A unique and timely exploration of the important ways that religion shapes political conflict across Canada.
- Copyright year: 2017
Permanent Campaigning in Canada
This book provides a provocative look at the growth of non-stop election campaigning in Canada and its implications for Canadian democracy and how we are governed.
- Copyright year: 2017
Caring for Children
Social Movements and Public Policy in Canada
Caring for Children interrogates Canadian public policies on the care of children, asking why the burden of care falls so heavily on women as mothers and caregivers, and what social movements are doing to try to redesign the politics of caring for children.
- Copyright year: 2017
Prime Ministerial Power in Canada
Its Origins under Macdonald, Laurier, and Borden
Using innovative methods, this book shows how prime ministerial power was centralized from the very beginning of Confederation by Macdonald, Laurier, and Borden.
- Copyright year: 2017
Dominion of Race
Rethinking Canada’s International History
Challenging well-entrenched ideas and mythologies, this book shows how race has informed Canada’s international history and is woven into the fabric of understandings of Canada in the world.
- Copyright year: 2017
Unions in Court
Organized Labour and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
This book demonstrates how and why labour’s long-standing distrust of the legal system has given way to a Charter-based legal strategy designed to protect workers’ rights and freedoms.
- Copyright year: 2017
On the Side of the Angels
Canada and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Documenting six decades of Canadian engagement within the UN human rights system, this book offers insights into the complexity and nuance of Canadian diplomacy as well as the evolution of UN’s universal human rights project.
- Copyright year: 2017
Debating Hate Crime
Language, Legislatures, and the Law in Canada
Delving into the language used by parliamentarians, senators, and committee witnesses to debate Canada’s hate laws, this book analyzes passionate discourse surrounding victimization, rightful citizenship, social threat, and moral erosion.
- Copyright year: 2017
State of Exchange
Migrant NGOs and the Chinese Government
This exploration of the interactive relationship between Chinese NGOs and the Chinese state provides fresh insights into how the Chinese government operates and why it needs non-governmental organizations to survive.
- Copyright year: 2017
Trudeaumania
This book examines the origins, dynamics, and enduring significance of Trudeaumania, which swept Canada’s political and cultural landscape in the late 1960s.
- Copyright year: 2016
The Moral Economies of Ethnic and Nationalist Claims
Leading scholars investigate the complex role that competing moral economies play in ethnic and nationalist conflicts.
- Copyright year: 2016
Mobilizing Metaphor
Art, Culture, and Disability Activism in Canada
Mobilizing Metaphor illustrates how radical and unconventional forms of activism, including art, are reshaping the vibrant tradition of disability activism in Canada, challenging perceptions of disability and the politics that surround it.
- Copyright year: 2016
Exhibiting Nation
Multicultural Nationalism (and Its Limits) in Canada’s Museums
This exploration of museums as sites for representing and defining national identity encourages us to reconsider the idea of the multicultural nation.
- Copyright year: 2016
Building a Collaborative Advantage
Network Governance and Homelessness Policy-Making in Canada
This comparison of three major Canadian cities over a twenty-year period draws on network governance theory to show that effective homelessness policy must be built on inclusive, collaborative decision making that includes policy makers and civil-society actors.
- Copyright year: 2016
Engaging the Line
How the Great War Shaped the Canada–US Border
Engaging the Line explores how the First World War forever changed the Canada–US border by examining reactions to increasingly strict security measures in six adjacent border communities.
- Copyright year: 2016
Uncertain Accommodation
Aboriginal Identity and Group Rights in the Supreme Court of Canada
A bold analysis of what happened when Canada attempted to extend group rights to Aboriginal people in the early 1980s and why it went wrong.
- Copyright year: 2016