A Timeless Place
The Ontario Cottage
An exploration of the personal, social, and cultural meanings of the iconic Canadian cottage.
- Copyright year: 2013
The Industrial Diet
The Degradation of Food and the Struggle for Healthy Eating
A searing look at the socioeconomic, technological, and political forces that have transformed our food into edible commodities.
- Copyright year: 2013
On the Outside
From Lengthy Imprisonment to Lasting Freedom
Drawing on the narratives of men who have served lengthy prison sentences, this book illuminates the tumultuous journey from life in a penitentiary to success in the community.
- Copyright year: 2013
Keeping Canada British
The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Saskatchewan
This provocative book provides a new interpretation of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Saskatchewan, arguing that it should not be portrayed merely as an irrational outburst of intolerance but as a slightly more extreme version of mainstream opinion that wanted to keep Canada British.
- Copyright year: 2013
Game-Day Gangsters
Crime and Deviance in Canadian Football
This book argues for a review of the systems by which Canadian football is governed and analyzes the reforms proposed by football leagues and by players.
- Copyright year: 2013
The Wages of Relief
Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929-39
- Copyright year: 2013
Sociocultural Systems
Principles of Structure and Change
- Copyright year: 2013
Red Stamps and Gold Stars
Fieldwork Dilemmas in Upland Socialist Asia
A multi-disciplinary volume reflecting on the fieldwork practices and dilemmas of researchers studying ethnic minorities in upland socialist Asia, specifically China, Vietnam, and Laos.
- Copyright year: 2013
Photography, Memory, and Refugee Identity
The Voyage of the SS Walnut, 1948
A nuanced look at the relationship between memory and photography as reflected in the experiences of Estonian refugees en route to Canada aboard the SS Walnut in 1948.
- Copyright year: 2013
Targeted Transnationals
The State, the Media, and Arab Canadians
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
Selling Sex
Experience, Advocacy, and Research on Sex Work in Canada
A diverse and comprehensive dialogue between sex workers, advocates, and researchers that looks at sex work in a new way.
- Copyright year: 2013
Solidarités Provinciales
Histoire de la Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Nouveau-Brunswick
On enseigne l’histoire tous les jours à l’école; pourquoi alors ne pourrait-on pas enseigner un peu d’histoire du travail de la province ou même du pays?
- Copyright year: 2013
Social Transformation in Rural Canada
Community, Cultures, and Collective Action
A series of stories, ideas, and insights into the social dynamics of change within rural Canada that help communities forge new ways of understanding and relating to each other and to the broader world.
- 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
Father Involvement in Canada
Diversity, Renewal, and Transformation
Exploring the diverse roles fathers play in their children’s lives, Father Involvement in Canada provides a timely synopsis of current knowledge while challenging many long-held assumptions about fatherhood.
- Copyright year: 2012
Canadian Liberalism and the Politics of Border Control, 1867-1967
This book chronicles the first century of Canadian border control, revealing how policies have been influenced by changing perceptions of the rights of non-citizens.
- Copyright year: 2013
Intoxicating Manchuria
Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China's Northeast
Examines how alcohol, opium, and addiction were portrayed in the culture of China’s Northeast during the first half of the twentieth century.
- Copyright year: 2012
Reasonable Accommodation
Managing Religious Diversity
Reasonable Accommodation is a collection of essays examining the meaning of reasonable accommodation of religious diversity through law and public discourse in Canada and abroad.
- Copyright year: 2012
Academic Careers and the Gender Gap
An analysis of the institutional, academic, family, and personal contributors to the academic gender gap in liberal-state universities.
- Copyright year: 2012