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New projects and partnerships on armed group taxation
Hosted by the United Nations University-World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, a workshop was held on March 27-28 in Helsinki to discuss the Fiscal Foundations of State-building in Fragile Settings and Strengthening Fiscal and Institutional Capacity in Fragile Contexts.
Book review: The ‘elusive’ Northwest Passage is reconsidered in this exhaustive history of efforts to navigate between oceans
“Discovering Nothing: In Pursuit of an Elusive Northwest Passage” By David L. Nicandri; UBC Press, 2024; 328 pages; $37.95. The search for a northern sea passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans is legendary. Numerous expeditions from both sides of the continent ended in failure, some in disastrous frozen-in-ice situations.
Broken City - Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis, By Patrick M. Condon
Patrick M. Condon is a professional city planner, teacher, and researcher with over forty years of experience in sustainable urban design. Patrick has taught in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia since 1992. He is the author of three previous books, including Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities and Five Rules for Tomorrow’s Cities.
Cripping Intersex
Intersex and/as/is/with disability. The political, discursive, and embodied connections between intersex and disability deserve nuanced attention if we are to strengthen intersex human rights claims and reflect the experiences of intersex people living with the disabling consequences of medical intervention.
Fighting Feelings, By Gulzar R. Charania
Racialized women and girls often feel racial injustice before they have the words to name it. Sometimes they fight these feelings, and sometimes they use these feelings to fight. In this important and revealing book, Gulzar Charania puts the experiences of women of colour at the centre of her investigation, sharing how they endure everyday racism, as well as its lasting impacts and exacting costs in their lives and educational trajectories.
"UBC Press Publishing Seminar with Randy Schmidt" by Randy Schmidt and Trevor C. W. Farrow
Abstract Presentation by Randy Schmidt, Senior Editor, UBC Press on November 24, 2022 at Osgoode Hall Law School. Repository Citation Schmidt, Randy and Farrow, Trevor C. W., "UBC Press Publishing Seminar with Randy Schmidt" (2022). Osgoode Events. 54. https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/video_events/54
The Political Party in Canada
William P. Cross is a professor of political science at Carleton University. Among his many publications are Regional Battles, National Prize? Elections in a Federal State and Politics at the Centre: The Selection and Removal of Party Leaders in the Anglo Parliamentary Democracies, which received the 2013 Donald Smiley Prize. Scott Pruysers is an assistant professor of political science at Dalhousie University.
What Nudism Exposes, By Mary-Ann Shantz
268 pages, 6 x 9 24 b&w photos What Nudism Exposes offers an original perspective on postwar Canada by situating the nudist movement within the broader social and cultural context and considering how nudist clubs navigated changing times. As the nudist movement took root in Canada after the Second World War, its members advanced the idea that going nude and looking at the nude bodies of others satisfied natural curiosity, loosened the hold of social taboos, and encouraged mental health.
Scandalous Conduct, By Matthew Barrett
Matthew Barrett is a military historian and a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the Canadian War Museum. His work has appeared in Canadian Military History, the Canadian Journal of History, and Histoire sociale/Social History, and he is the co-author and illustrator of a forthcoming graphic history about the First World War.
Reconciling Truths, By Kim Stanton
Public inquiries have often been appointed to examine troubled aspects of Canada’s treatment of Indigenous peoples. Kim Stanton’s insights into what has worked and what has not offer valuable guidance on how to create an inquiry that will truly contribute to reconciliation.
Behind Closed Doors
As a former clerk of the Privy Council, I am delighted to see a book that so comprehensively and rigorously explores the ins and outs of the doctrine of Cabinet secrecy in a contemporary context. Yan Campagnolo’s excellent book is rigorous, learned, very well written, clear, and to the point. It is a must-read for scholars as well as public officials and judges. The scholarship in Behind Closed Doors is of very top quality. There is no doubt that it will become a reference work in the field.
Governing Canada
Michael Wernick was Canada’s twenty-third clerk of the privy council – the top public servant in the federal government. His appointment capped a distinguished public service career in which he served three prime ministers and their cabinets, as well as four ministers as deputy. Wernick has worked as a deputy minister in the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, as well as in the Privy Council Office. He lives in Ottawa.
First Nations involvement is critical to planning a safe and successful wildfire evacuation
by UBC Press, July 8, 2021 (Vancouver BC, June 28, 2021) It is wildfire season, and First Nations are taking preparedness into their own hands.
Octavio Paz - A Meditation, By Ilan Stavans
Octavio Paz: Nobel Prize winner, author of The Labyrinth of Solitude and Sor Juana, or, the Traps of Faith, precursor and pathfinder, a guiding light of the Mexican intelligentsia in the twentieth century.
Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture
Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture is an outstanding book that will help direct conversations around queerness in YA culture for some time to come. In valuing the blurriness of affect over content when defining queer YA, Derritt Mason brilliantly acknowledges alternative ways of locating queerness and invites readers to think about how definition participates in a larger affective history.
Whipped - Party Discipline in Canada, By Alex Marland
480 pages, 6 x 9 5 b&w photos, 10 charts, 8 tables Paperback Release Date:15 Nov 2020 ISBN:9780774864978 Ebooks require the Glassboxx app. Learn more >> EPUB Release Date:15 Sep 2020 ISBN:9780774864992 PDF Release Date:15 Sep 2020 ISBN:9780774864985 GO TO CART SAMPLE CHAPTER Canadians often see politicians as little more than trained seals who vote on command and repeat robotic talking points. Politicians are torn by dilemmas of loyalty to party versus loyalty to voters.
In Search of Canadian Political Culture
Nelson Wiseman is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. An expert on social democracy as well as current political trends, he is frequently called upon by the media.
Fossilized - Environmental Policy in Canada's Petro-Provinces : By Angela V. Carter
Angela V. Carter is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and a fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs.
Trudeaumania, By Paul Litt
Paul Litt is a professor in the Department of History and the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa. His research explores the intersection of culture, nationalism, and the mass media in twentieth-century Canada. He is the author of several books, including The Muses, the Masses and the Massey Commission and Elusive Destiny: The Political Vocation of John Napier Turner.
Crossing Law’s Border
Refugee resettlement in Canada has been a surprisingly under-studied topic. Shauna Labman addresses this gap with her in-depth examination of the historic evolution and current complexities of resettlement in Canada and its relationship to asylum. This is a highly original and important book. A must-read – this is an authoritative account of how existing laws and policies both at home and abroad dictated the contours of Canada’s resettlement program.
UBC Press | Perverse Cities - Hidden Subsidies, Wonky Policy, and Urban Sprawl, By Pamela Blais
Analytical and detailed in its approach and consistently daring in challenging accepted views of the causes of and solutions for urban sprawl. An even greater restraint on a back-to-the-city movement is cost ... Eventually, rising gas prices will reduce the disparity, but probably not enough. How do you reduce the gap? Greenberg points to a fascinating recent book by a fellow Toronto urban planner, Pamela Blais.
My Dad Thinks I’m a Boy?!, By Sophie Labelle
48 pages, 9 x 7 Full colour illustrations throughout A Trans Positive Children's Book Jessica Kingsley Publishers "My Dad thinks I'm a boy named Stephen who likes wrestling and fishing. But that's what my Dad likes." Stephie is 7 years old. She likes bugs, books and spaghetti. Also, she's a girl... which should be pretty easy to understand, right? Well, not for her Dad! He's been mistaking her for a boy since she was born and struggles to see her for who she is.
The Shoe Boy - A Trapline Memoir, By Duncan McCue
At the age of seventeen, an Anishinabe boy who was raised in the south joined a James Bay Cree family in a one-room hunting cabin in the isolated wilderness of northern Quebec. In the five months that followed, he learned a way of life on the land with which few are familiar, where the daily focus is on the necessities of life, and where both skill and finesse are required for self-sufficiency.
Soft City - Building Density for Everyday : By David Sim
In Soft City, David Sim, partner and creative director at Gehl, shows how cities with well-designed density can result in a higher quality of life. He presents ideas and graphic examples from around the globe. He draws from his vast design experience to make a case for a dense and diverse built environment at a human scale, which he presents through a series of observations of older and newer places, and a range of simple built phenomena, some traditional and some totally new inventions.
Vancouverism, By Larry Beasley
Larry Beasley is the Distinguished Practice Professor of Planning at the University of British Columbia and the founding principal of Beasley and Associates, an international planning and urban design consultancy. He sits on the boards of TransLink (British Columbia’s integrated transportation agency), the National Capital Commission in Ottawa, and the Canadian Urban Institute. He is a registered professional planner in Canada and the retired co-chief planner for the City of Vancouver.
The Man Who Invented Gender, By Terry Goldie
In 1955, the controversial and innovative sexologist John Money first used the term “gender” in a way that we all now take for granted: to describe a human characteristic. Money’s work broke new ground, opening a new field of research in sexual science and giving currency to medical ideas about human sexuality.
Keeping Canada British
The Ku Klux Klan had its origins in the American South in the post-Civil War period. It was suppressed but rose again in the 1920s when it enjoyed widespread support throughout the United States and spread into Canada, especially Saskatchewan, where it took root and flourished. There it won widespread support and helped bring down the Liberal government and elect the Conservative party in the 1929 provincial election.
Inventing Stanley Park, By Sean Kheraj
In the early hours of 15 December 2006, a powerful windstorm ripped through Vancouver. The city’s residents awoke to discover Stanley Park, their most treasured landmark, transformed into a tangle of splintered, fallen trees. Their anguish revealed more than just an attachment to their memories of the park – it marked the end of a romanticized vision of timeless natural space.
Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision, By Marie Battiste
314 pages, 6 x 9 17 b&w photos This book seeks to clarify postcolonial Indigenous thought beginning at the new millennium. It represents the voices of the first generation of global Indigenous scholars and converges those voices, their analyses, and their dreams of a decolonized world. -- Marie Battiste, Author. The essays in Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision spring from an International Summer Institute held in 1996 on the cultural restoration of oppressed Indigenous peoples.
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