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Sites of Governance
Multilevel Governance and Policy Making in Canada's Big Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Policies forged by all levels of government affect the lives of urban residents. Contributors to this volume explore how intergovernmental relations shape urban policies and how various social forces are involved in - or excluded from - the policy process. Focusing on diverse policy fields including...
Cold Comfort, Second Edition
My Love Affair with the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
In 1936 Graham Rowley went to the still-unexplored west coast of Baffin Island as the archaeologist for a small British expedition - the last in the Canadian North that depended on traditional techniques. Cold Comfort, his acclaimed memoir of this period, captures the way of life in the North before...
by Margo Wheaton
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The day’s an old room / stripped of its furniture; there are / never enough beds in winter. / By late afternoon, the shadows / are forming a blue inconsolable hall // as sparrows retreat to makeshift / cots of pine bark and eaves. // Even the parched marsh grass / has stilled, every blade / become...
Translation Effects
The Shaping of Modern Canadian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Much of Canadian cultural life is sustained and enriched by translation. Translation Effects moves beyond restrictive notions of official translation in Canada, analyzing its activities and effects on the streets, in movie theatres, on stages, in hospitals, in courtrooms, in literature, in politics,...
Bilingual Being
My Life as a Hyphen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Written by a survivor of childhood abuse, this moving memoir traces the influence of the author's mother tongue in the formation of her identity, and the role her second language played in providing a psychological sanctuary. Kathleen Saint-Onge reflects on the ambiguities of growing up in a primarily...
Migrant Text
Making and Marketing a Global French Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The expression "littérature migrante," coined by Québécois critics in the mid-1980s, reflected the emerging body of literary works written by recent immigrants to the province. Redefining the concept of migrancy, Subha Xavier’s The Migrant Text argues that global movements of people have fundamentally...
From Drawing to Visual Culture
A History of Art Education in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Contributors show that the nature and character of art education in Canada reflects the influence of ideas and practices in art and education and their interaction with various aspects of culture, language, religion, government, and geography.
The Same but Different
Hockey in Quebec
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
From coast to coast, hockey is played, watched, loved, and detested, but it means something different in Quebec. Although much of English Canada believes that hockey is a fanatically followed social unifier in the French-speaking province, in reality it has always been politicized, divided, and troubled...
Out of the Basement
Youth Cultural Production in Practice and in Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Soulja Boy, Justin Bieber, and Tavi Gevinson are hardly representative of typical youth experiences, but their origins highlight many of the realities of youth doing independent creative work. Out of the Basement profiles the variety of youth cultural production in the twenty-first century, and asks...
Speaking Memory
How Translation Shapes City Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Speaking Memory evokes the complex "language-scapes" that form at the crossroads of culture and history in cities. While engaging with current debates on the nature and role of translation in globalized urban landscapes, the contributors offer a series of detailed and nuanced readings of “translational”...
Curatorial Dreams
Critics Imagine Exhibitions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
What if museum critics were challenged to envision their own exhibitions? In Curatorial Dreams, fourteen authors from disciplines throughout the social sciences and humanities propose exhibitions inspired by their research and critical concerns to creatively put theory into practice. Pushing the boundaries...
The Sixties
Passion, Politics, and Style
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Those who didn't live through the Sixties wonder what the fuss was all about, while many of those who were there have wrestled with how to describe and define the period. While the ultimate meaning of the Sixties remains elusive, there is no doubt that they had an immense effect on Canadians - culturally,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
In a context where linguistic and cultural diversity is characterized by ever-increasing complexity, adopting official multilingual policies to correct a country's ethno-linguistic, socio-economic, and symbolic imbalances presents many obstacles, but the greatest challenge is implementing them effectively....
by Mary Lynn Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
In the late nineteenth century, the first wave of female journalists began writing in the French daily press. Yet, while they undeniably opened doors for the next generations of educated women, sexist hiring practices, assumptions about women’s aptitudes as reporters, and more subtle gender biases...