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An insightful look at why the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom failed to intervene in the Bangladesh crisis. In 1971, the western powers did nothing as Pakistani authorities perpetrated mass atrocities against the Bengali people in a failed attempt to thwart their independence. The West and the Birth of Bangladesh explores the initial reactions and heated debates between officials in Washington, Ottawa, and London during the first months of the crisis. The United States favored appeasement and Canada did not want to endanger bilateral ties with Islamabad. Only the United Kingdom, eventually, under extreme public pressure, showed a greater willingness to coerce Islamabad into ending its actions. In this insightful book, Richard Pilkington reveals how shortsighted officials chose national interests over humanitarian justice in the face of harrowing atrocities.

Making and Breaking Settler Space deftly explores how power and space are organized under settler colonialism in order to uncover decolonization opportunities for Indigenous and settler people alike.

Gillian Ranson weaves front-wave boomers' stories of life and aging before and during the pandemic into a powerful account of how to make growing old more humane, for this generation and for everyone.

Reconciling Truths is a forthright examination of commissions of inquiry that demonstrates the need for astute leadership and an engaging process if they are to lead to meaningful change.

In Disability Injustice, scholars and activists deliver a much-needed and long overdue analysis of disability and criminalization in Canada.

Activism, Inclusion, and the Challenges of Deliberative Democracy investigates the failure of deliberative democracy to acknowledge the democratic contribution of activism, offering an alternative theoretical approach that makes a key distinction between contributing to and deliberating with.

Bead by Bead lays bare the failure of judicial doctrine and government policy to address Metis rights, and offers constructive insights on ways to advance reconciliation.

Feel confident stepping into your role as a TA with help from this short, practical guide, which demystifies everything from how to interact with course instructors to giving students feedback on their work.

To Share, Not Surrender presents multiple views and lived experience of the treaty-making process and its repercussions in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, and publishes, for the first time, the Vancouver Island Treaties in First Nations languages.

In this essential guide, university counsellor Janet Miller draws on her wit, wisdom, and decades of experience to help first-time students - of whatever age - prep for and survive their first year of university.

Women, Film, and Law questions the criminalization of women through an engaging exploration of the women-in-prison film genre.

In A People and a Nation, the authors, most of whom are themselves Metis, offer readers a set of lenses through which to consider the complexity of historical and contemporary Metis nationhood and peoplehood.

Rising Up shows how living wage movements have transformed, or are campaigning to transform, labour policy in Canada and stimulated broader public debate about income and social inequality.

Building the Army's Backbone reveals how the creation of Canada's Second World War corps of non-commissioned officers helped the force train, fight, and win.

A behind-the-scenes investigation into how global activists use technology. In 1999, Seattle activists adopted cutting-edge live stream technology to cover the World Trade Organization protests and forever changed the global justice movement's relationship to media. Transformative Media traces subsequent developments in technopolitics, revealing the innovative digital efforts of activist groups such as #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo today. Drawing on participatory research, Sandra Jeppesen examines how a broad array of anti-capitalist, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ people rely on alternative media and emerging technologies in their battle against overlapping systems of oppression.

Exporting Virtue? critically explores the ways in which China is attempting to change international human rights standards to accommodate its interests.

Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds explores the lives and careers of women, famous and forgotten, who influenced Canada's place in the world during the twentieth century.

Making the Case provides clear explanations of how law protects sexual minority rights, making it an essential resource for supporting LGBTQ2S+ students in Canadian schools.

Invested Indifference exposes the tenacity of violence against Indigenous people, arguing that some lives are made to matter - or not - depending on their relation to the settler-colonial nation state.

The Laws and the Land, an original and impassioned account of the history of the relationship between Canada and Kahnawa:ke, reveals the clash of settler and Indigenous legal traditions and the imposition of settler colonial law on Indigenous peoples and land.

Assisted Suicide in Canada provides an accessible, up-to-date introduction to this vitally important topic of ongoing public debate.

A Long Way to Paradise is a lively account of the personalities and ideas that shaped the first hundred years of BC politics and created one of Canada's most fractious and dynamic political scenes.

Based on the experiences of evacuees from seven First Nations communities, this book offers guidance to Indigenous communities and external agencies on how to successfully plan for and carry out wildfire evacuations.

In examining how the technologies of museum bureaucracy - the ledger book, the card catalogue, the database - operate through a colonial lens, Cataloguing Culture shines a light on access to and the return of Indigenous cultural heritage.

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.

The Shoe Boy is an evocative exploration of Indigenous identity and connection to the land, expressed in guise of a unique coming-of-age memoir set on a trapline in northern Quebec.

Based on innovative recent empirical research, The Justice Crisis assesses what is and isn't working in efforts to improve access to civil and family justice in Canada.

Writing the Hamat sa critically surveys more than two centuries worth of published, archival, and oral sources to trace the attempted prohibition, intercultural mediation, and ultimate survival of one of Canada's most iconic Indigenous ceremonies.

Queen of the Maple Leaf reveals the role of beauty pageants in entrenching settler femininity and white heteropatriarchy at the heart of twentieth-century Canada.

Fossilized reveals how Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador - blinded by exceptional economic growth from 2005 to 2015 - undermined environmental policies to intensify ecologically detrimental extreme oil extraction.