Books published by University of British Columbia Press

This invaluable analysis of eighteen Lushootseed traditional stories includes interlinear grammatical analyses.

This book provides a comprehensive synthesis of the core concepts, strategies, and tools in adaptive co-management, where adaptive processes, feedback learning, and flexible partnerships that are reshaping environmental governance.

The voices of Chinese immigrants who settled in the pre-1950s Canadian prairies come alive in this extraordinary record of migration, settlement, and community life.

This book offers, for the first time, a balanced and probing textual analysis of John Money's writing, to assess the profound impact of this pioneering sexologist's work on the debates and research on sexuality and gender that dominated the last half of the twentieth century.

This book re-evaluates the role of recognition in analyzing relations between groups in plural societies, the position of indigenous peoples in settler societies, and the principle of the self-determination of peoples.

This volume re-examines 9/11's effect on North American security policy and international relations from a trilateral rather than a bilateral perspective.

This book examines how urbanization and pluralization are shaping the world's cities and what can be done to encourage integration and minimize ethnic and nationalist tensions.

An original and critical account of the evolution of the Canadian Army and Canada's relationship with NATO in the Cold War era.

This path-breaking book offers the first comprehensive, comparative examination of Asian religions in British Columbia. Its insightful and accessible community accounts offer intimate portraits of local religious groups, including Hindus and Sikhs from South Asia; Buddhist organizations from Southeast Asia; and Tibetan, Japanese, and Chinese religions from East and Central Asia.

This volume examines the normative and operational dimensions of China's legal performance related to international standards on trade and human rights.

A timely and insightful volume, The OECD and Transnational Governance fills an important gap in the literature on global governance.

Bridging the solitudes of constitutional law and international relations, this book offers a brand new interpretation of Canada's Constitution.

By unravelling the discourse and rhetoric of news coverage in Canada at the dawn of the 9/11 era, this book not only uncovers racist representations of Muslim communities but also reveals the discursive processes that rendered this racism invisible.

Eleven diverse scholars interrogate the belief that polygamy is inherently harmful, questioning the ways in which society assigns value to family and intimacy, and its right to do so.

This new collection of original research demonstrates the continued relevance of the feminist history project in Canada.

Northscapes examines concepts of North and the way in which different northern environments are shaped by the intersection of technology and human societies.

Reveals how local life and culture in selected colonies interacted with the rule of law that accompanied the British colonial project. This book presents an account of the 'incomplete implementation of the British constitution' in the colonies. It explores themes of legal translation, local understandings, and judicial biography.

Northscapes examines concepts of North and the way in which different northern environments are shaped by the intersection of technology and human societies.

This new collection of original research demonstrates the continued relevance of the feminist history project in Canada.

This revised and expanded edition of Community Mental Health in Canada offers a timely, critical overview of the provision of public mental health services in Canada, past, present, and future.

Drawing on trial transcripts, this book tells the stories of ten battered women who killed their male partners and one who did not, revealing why women don't "just leave" and the serious barriers to achieving acquittal.

Leading international scholars examine the production of culture during China's rise to global superpower in the last quarter of a century.

This book explores how the Canadian Army prepared for the possibility of a Third World War and how its innovations and adaptations laid the groundwork for the evolution of our national army.

Leading political scientists, sociologists, and economists explain how and why Canadian public policy has been falling behind in the race to contain surging income inequality.

Strong, Beautiful and Modern tells the story of the national fitness campaigns spanning the "British world" beginning in the 1930s.

This book analyzes the representation of women in elected and appointed office in Canada to explain why gender parity remains elusive.

An investigation into the intersection of Japanese imperialist politics and left-wing, avant-garde arts and culture in 1930s and '40s Manchukuo.

Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada is the first work to focus sustained and serious attention on the wider implications of Aboriginal peoples' involvement in sport.