Critical Policy Studies
Critical Policy Studies describes how new policy problems such as border screening and global warming have been catapulted onto the agenda in the neo-liberal era.
- Copyright year: 2006
The Courts
An insider's perspective on the role of judges, lawyers, and expert witnesses; the cost of litigation; the representativeness of juries; legal aid issues; and questions of jury reform.
- Copyright year: 2006
The Culture of Flushing
A Social and Legal History of Sewage
Iinvestigates and clarifies the murky evolution of waste treatment – in a time when community water quality can no longer be taken for granted.
- Copyright year: 2007
Hunters at the Margin
Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories
Hunters at the Margin examines the conflict in the Northwest Territories between Native hunters and conservationists, arguing that game regulations and national parks helped assert state authority over traditional hunting cultures.
- Copyright year: 2007
Genetically Modified Diplomacy
The Global Politics of Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment
This book traces the emergence of the 2000 Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety – and the discourse of precaution toward GEOs that the protocol institutionalized internationally.
- Copyright year: 2007
People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia
Contributors contemplate the evolution of child protection policy and practice in BC, addressing political influences on structural arrangements, cultural traditions of First Nations clients, and establishing community control over services.
- Copyright year: 2007
Alliance and Illusion
Canada and the World, 1945-1984
This is the definitive assessment of the domestic and international aspects of Canadian foreign policy in the modern era.
- Copyright year: 2007
Multiculturalism and the Foundations of Meaningful Life
Reconciling Automony, Identity, and Community
Theories of liberal multiculturalism seek to reconcile cultural rights with universal liberal principles. Some focus on individual autonomy; others emphasize communal identity. Andrew Robinson argues that liberal multiculturalism can be justified without privileging either ...
- Copyright year: 2007
From World Order to Global Disorder
States, Markets, and Dissent
Demonstrates the profound effect of globalization on relations between the state, civil society, and markets, as well as on collective and individual rights.
- Copyright year: 2007
The Triumph of Citizenship
The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67
This final volume to Patricia E. Roy's pivotal trilogy exploring racial discrimination against Chinese- and Japanese-Canadians examines the removal of all Japanese-Canadians from the BC coast during WWII, while Chinese-Canadians gained the right to vote in 1947.
- Copyright year: 2007
Social Capital, Diversity, and the Welfare State
This book represents a landmark consideration of the diverse meanings, causal foundations, and positive and negative consequences of social capital, with a particular focus on its role in mitigating or enhancing social inequalities.
- Copyright year: 2006
In Search of Canadian Political Culture
The most thorough review of the national political ethos written in a generation, In Search of Canadian Political Culture offers a bottom-up, regional analysis that challenges how we think and write about Canada. It will interest specialists in Canadian political culture and generalists in Canadian politics.
- Copyright year: 2007
Japan's Emergence as a Modern State - 60th anniv. ed.
Political and Economic Problems of the Meiji Period
"As provocative a touchstone as we will ever have for understanding the early encounter of Western historians with Japan's emergence as a modern state." - Jown Dower
- Copyright year: 2000
No Place to Go
Local Histories of the Battered Women’s Shelter Movement
The first history of the battered women’s shelter movement in Canada, this book traces the development of transition houses and services for abused women and the campaign that made wife battering a political issue.
- Copyright year: 2007
Organizing the Transnational
Labour, Politics, and Social Change
This collection articulates a multi-level cultural politics of transnationalism to frame contemporary analyses of immigration and diasporas.
- Copyright year: 2007
First Nations of British Columbia, Second Edition, The
An Anthropological Survey
A concise and accessible overview of First Nations cultures and issues in the province, this book familiarizes readers with the history, diversity, and complexity of First Nations to provide a context for contemporary concerns and initiatives.
- Copyright year: 2006
Nunavut
Rethinking Political Culture
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.
- Copyright year: 2007
Let Right Be Done
Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case, and the Future of Indigenous Rights
- Copyright year: 2007
Conventional Choices?
Maritime Leadership Politics, 1971–2003
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.
- Copyright year: 2007