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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Centuries-old community planning practices in Indigenous communities in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia have, in modern times, been eclipsed by ill-suited western approaches, mostly derived from colonial and neo-colonial traditions. Since planning outcomes have failed to reflect...
Refugee Sandwich
Stories of Exile and Asylum
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2006
Showler uses satire to expose the prejudices, myopia, ignorance, provincialism, and lack of sensitivity that mark the decisions of officials. Refugee Sandwich attacks the patronage-based system of appointment and re-appointment and its sometimes tragic consequences, revealing the wide gulf between...
Toward Equity and Inclusion in Canadian Cities
Lessons from Critical Praxis-Oriented Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Housing insecurity, intensified employment anxiety, access to adequate services, and fear of personal and structural violence are some of the issues troubling today’s cities and municipalities. Often, these conditions most affect residents whose place in the social hierarchy makes them particularly...
Working Bodies
Chronic Illness in the Canadian Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
While significant research has been produced in the field of disability studies, little attention has been paid to experiences of chronic illness. Working Bodies emphasizes the workplace as an important site for understanding such experiences, as employment status has an enormous impact on social and...
Montreal Olympics
An Insider's View of Organizing a Self-financing Games
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Paul Howell, a planning consultant and key player in the Montreal Olympic Organizing Committee, offers an insider's perspective on how a vast, complex, expensive, and highly politicized event was organized within the constraints imposed by limited resources, an unyielding deadline, and intense pressures...
Satanic Purses
Money, Myth, and Misinformation in the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2006
Naylor argues that bin Laden's role in various terrorist activities has been grossly exaggerated and that the idea of al-Qa?idah as a well-financed, centrally directed movement is a fable akin to misconceptions about the Mafia. Satanic Purses makes clear that the myths surrounding the war on terror,...
The River Returns
An Environmental History of the Bow
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
Alberta's iconic river has been dammed and plumbed, made to spin hydro-electric turbines, and used to cleanse Calgary. Artificial lakes in the mountains rearrange its flow; downstream weirs and ditches divert it to irrigate the parched prairie. Far from being wild, the Bow is now very much a human product:...
Governing
Essays in Honour of Donald J. Savoie
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
To honour the distinguished career of Donald Savoie, Governing brings together an accomplished group of international scholars who have concerned themselves with the challenges of governance, accountability, public management reform, and regional policy. Governing delves into the two primary fields of...
Nightclub
Bouncers, Risk, and the Spectacle of Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
People go to nightclubs to see and be seen - to view others as aesthetic objects and to present themselves as objects of desire. Rigakos argues that this activity fuses surveillance and aesthetic consumption - it fetishizes bodies and amplifies social capital, producing violence and crises fuelled by...
Winning Power
Canadian Campaigning in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Campaigns are central to the practice of modern democracy and integral to political participation in the twenty-first century. In Winning Power, Tom Flanagan draws on decades of experience teaching political science and managing political campaigns to inform readers about what goes on behind the scenes....
Policy Unplugged
Dis/Connections between Technology Policy and Practices in Canadian Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2007
The authors conducted a two-year study on the implementation of computer technologies, including in-depth interviews and classroom observation at thirty-two elementary and secondary schools across Canada. Based on this research, Policy Unplugged explores the intersections and disconnections between...
Troubling Natural Categories
Engaging the Medical Anthropology of Margaret Lock
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Where do our conventional understandings of health, illness, and the body stem from? What makes them authoritative? How are the boundaries set around these areas of life unsettled in the changing historical and political contexts of science, technology, and health care delivery? These questions are at...
A Silent Revolution?
Gender and Wealth in English Canada, 1860-1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2008
Peter Baskerville situates women in their immediate gendered and familial environments as well as within broader legal, financial, spatial, temporal, and historiographical contexts. He analyses women's probates, wills, land ownership, holdings of real and chattel mortgages, investment in stocks and...
Shooting from the East
Filmmaking on the Canadian Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Atlantic Canada has a rich tradition of storytelling and creativity that has extended to critical and audience praise for films from the region’s four provinces. Until now there has been no comprehensive history of this diverse body of work. In Shooting from the East, Darrell Varga traces the emergence...