Transformative Media
Intersectional Technopolitics from Indymedia to #BlackLivesMatter
In an era of social media dominance, Transformative Media reveals the often invisible, transformative media practices of marginalized groups.
- Copyright year: 2021
Big Data Surveillance and Security Intelligence
The Canadian Case
In a critical analysis of the profound shift to big data practices among intelligence agencies, Big Data Surveillance and Security Intelligence highlights the challenges for civil liberties, human rights, and privacy protection.
- Copyright year: 2021
Digital Lives in the Global City
Contesting Infrastructures
Digital Lives in the Global City asks how digital technologies are remaking urban life around the world, from migrant work in Singapore to digital debt in Toronto, illegal buildings in Mumbai, and targeted policing in New York.
- Copyright year: 2020
Fixing Niagara Falls
Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World’s Most Famous Waterfall
Long considered a natural wonder, the world’s most famous waterfall is anything but. Fixing Niagara Falls reveals the engineering and politics behind the transformation of Niagara Falls.
- Copyright year: 2020
Medicine and Morality
Crises in the History of a Profession
The first historical study of morality and science in Canadian medicine, Medicine and Morality shows how moments of doubt in doctors’ impartiality resulted in changes to how medicine was done, and even to the very definition of medical practice itself.
- Copyright year: 2019
Delivering Policy
The Contested Politics of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Canada
Delivering Policy explores how the tension between science and politics shaped the long and fraught path to Canada’s Assisted Human Reproduction Act.
- Copyright year: 2019
Made Modern
Science and Technology in Canadian History
The first major collection of its kind in thirty years, Made Modern explores the role of science and technology in shaping Canadians’ experience of themselves and their place in the modern world.
- Copyright year: 2019
Health Advocacy, Inc.
How Pharmaceutical Funding Changed the Breast Cancer Movement
In this unsettling analysis of the breast cancer movement in Canada, health activist, scholar, award-winning journalist, and cancer survivor Sharon Batt investigates the changing relationship between patient advocacy groups and the pharmaceutical industry, as well as the contentious role of pharma funding.
- Copyright year: 2017
Disarming Intervention
A Critical History of Non-Lethality
Disarming Intervention traces the social, historical, and legal legitimization of non-lethal weapons in the United States.
- Copyright year: 2015
Our Chemical Selves
Gender, Toxics, and Environmental Health
This collection provides a critical, interdisciplinary analysis of how everyday exposures to common chemicals are adversely affecting the health of Canadians and reveals the connections between social inequity, environmental risks, and the gendered division of health burdens in Canada.
- Copyright year: 2015
Living Dead in the Pacific
Contested Sovereignty and Racism in Genetic Research on Taiwan Aborigines
A consideration of the impact of racism and questions of sovereignty on genetic research, which details the exploitative history of research on Taiwanese Aborigines.
- Copyright year: 2014
Northscapes
History, Technology, and the Making of Northern Environments
Northscapes examines concepts of North and the way in which different northern environments are shaped by the intersection of technology and human societies.
- Copyright year: 2013
Resistance Is Fertile
Canadian Struggles on the BioCommons
A critical look at the social, environmental, and economic impacts of agricultural biotechnology in Canada.
- Copyright year: 2013
Public Engagement and Emerging Technologies
This book examines current theory, methods, and ethics underlying global trends in involving publics in the governance of new technologies.
- Copyright year: 2013
Age, Gender, and Work
Small Information Technology Firms in the New Economy
A unique examination of how age and gender inform the workplace and its culture in the new knowledge-based economy.
- Copyright year: 2011
Media Divides
Communication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada
Media Divides offers the first comprehensive, up-to-date account of the democratic deficits in Canada’s communications law and policy.
- Copyright year: 2010
The Technological Imperative in Canada
An Intellectual History
This highly original, seminal study of Canadian theorists of technology and morality shows that Canadian thinkers were not only original and intellectually au courant but also engaging and insightful.
- Copyright year: 2009
Emerging Technologies
From Hindsight to Foresight
Addresses the ethical, legal, and social dimensions of emerging technologies and assesses their social and policy implications.
- Copyright year: 2009
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
Communication Technology
Darin Barney takes a piercing, nuanced look at how communication technologies are changing democratic life in Canada, and whether technological mediation of political communication has an effect on political practice.
- Copyright year: 2005