Bøker utgitt av University of British Columbia Press

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.

This is the first global survey of how natural resources have been regulated in the modern world.

Now in paperback, The Theatre of Regret uncovers ways reconciliation movements resist meaningful justice for Indigenous peoples. Public appeals to "reconciliation" between Indigenous and settler societies often undermine Indigenous cries for justice. In The Theatre of Regret, David Gaertner challenges state-centered reconciliation movements and explores ways Indigenous and allied artists and writers play in defining, challenging, and rejecting settler regret. Across the four key phases of reconciliation--acknowledgment, apology, redress, and forgiveness--Gaertner uncovers the failures of Canadian and global reconciliation efforts to hear Indigenous peoples. In so doing, he exposes the colonial ideologies that both define and limit reconciliation in settler-colonial states. Redirecting current debate, The Theatre of Regret points the way out from the state-centered language of regret toward a future of equitable justice.

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.

Canadian Foreign Policy brings together leading scholars in a lively, engaging meditation on the current state and future direction of the Canadian foreign policy discipline, and on how we see Canada in the world.

By exploring the social issues of aging and debunking the common myths, Getting Wise about Getting Old paints a more accurate and nuanced portrait of old age in our society.

War Junk recounts the surprising history of leftover military munitions and supplies, revealing their complex political, economic, social, and environmental legacies in postwar Canada.

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.

Challenge the Strong Wind recounts the story of Canadian policy toward East Timor from the 1975 invasion to the 1999 vote for independence, demonstrating that historical accounts need to include both government and non-governmental perspectives.

No Place for the State is an incisive study that offers complex and often contrasting perspectives on the Trudeau government's 1969 Omnibus Bill and its impact on sexual and moral politics in Canada.

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.

This first modern study to focus on James Cook's polar adventures, Captain Cook Rediscovered introduces an entirely new explorer who is more at home along the edge of the polar ice packs than the Pacific's sandy beaches.

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.

Planning on the Edge explores the reality behind the rhetoric of Vancouver's reputation as a sustainable city and paves the way for developing Vancouver and its region into a place that is both economically sustainable and socially just.

The Modern Chinese Folklore Movement coalesced at National Peking University between 1918 and 1926. A group of academics, inspired by Western thought, tried to revitalize the study of folklore to stave off postwar disillusionment with Chinese elite culture. By documenting this phenomenon's origins and evolution, Jie Gao opens a new chapter in the world history of the Folklore Movement. Largely unknown in the West and underappreciated in China, the Chinese branch failed to achieve its goal of reinvigorating the nation. But it helped establish a modern discipline, promoting a spirit of academic independence that continues to influence Chinese intellectuals today.

A sociological analysis of family life in three 'settler' societies: Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

To Be Equals in Our Own Country chronicles the bitter struggle for women's suffrage in Quebec, the last province to grant Canadian women this fundamental human right.

An original, parsimonious, and elegant explanation of why we vote or abstain in elections.

This extensively revised edition of Geography of British Columbia teaches students how to think like geographers as it takes them on a journey from the origins of the region's diverse and unique landscapes to its more recent history as a province being reshaped by the forces of globalization.