Books published by University of British Columbia Press

Examines the doctrine of Aboriginal title thirty years after the Supreme Court of Canada's landmark Calder decision. This book places Calder in its legal, historical, and political context by addressing pertinent issues.

Set against a backdrop of war and revolution, this book brings sixty years of missionary nursing out of the shadows by examining how Canadian nurses shaped health care in the province of Henan and how China, in turn, influenced the nature of missionary nursing.

Covering all agricultural regions and a wide variety of commodity production and farming systems, this comprehensive survey synthesizes twenty years of research on climate change and Canadian agriculture.

The most thorough review of the national political ethos written in a generation, In Search of Canadian Political Culture offers a bottom-up, regional analysis that challenges how we think and write about Canada. It will interest specialists in Canadian political culture and generalists in Canadian politics.

This final volume to Patricia E. Roy's pivotal trilogy exploring racial discrimination against Chinese- and Japanese-Canadians examines the removal of all Japanese-Canadians from the BC coast during WWII, while Chinese-Canadians gained the right to vote in 1947.

A provocative study of public and professional responses to female teacher sex scandals, this book employs queer theory, psychoanalysis, and feminist film theory to examine sensationalized legal cases, including Mary Kay Letourneau, Amy Gehring, and Heather Ingram.

Contributors contemplate the evolution of child protection policy and practice in BC, addressing political influences on structural arrangements, cultural traditions of First Nations clients, and establishing community control over services.

The essays in this book present important perspectives on the role of Indigenous legal traditions in reclaiming and preserving the autonomy of Aboriginal communities and in reconciling the relationship between these communities and Canadian governments.

Demonstrates the profound effect of globalization on relations between the state, civil society, and markets, as well as on collective and individual rights.

Examines three waves of property, inheritance, and maintenance law reform, arguing that each wave of legislation was related to a broader political vision, and was intended to precipitate vast social and economic effects. This book analyzes the impact of various reforms, focusing on the ambitions of regulated populations.

In the early 1900s, British Columbia embarked on a brief but intense effort, with long consequences, to manufacture a modern countryside. For the first time, the state directly intervened in planning and implementing land settlement. This title examines how this process unfolded and assesses its consequences.

Reveals the literary world of Japanese-occupied Manchuria (Manchukuo, 1932-45) and examines the lives, careers, and literary legacies of seven prolific Chinese women writers during the occupation. This book covers women's history in twentieth-century Manchuria. It is suitable for those who study the history of East Asia, imperialism, and women.

Sex workers in three Maritime cities discuss violence and safety, health, politics, and public perception of the trade, portraying the best and the worst facets of their working lives.

Brings together the views of Aboriginal leaders, anthropologists, historians, archaeologists, and linguists about how Coast Salish lives and identities have been reshaped by two colonizing nations and by networks of kinfolk, spiritual practices, and understandings of landscape. This book provides a different view of the Coast Salish world.

Examines the policy-making process for national parks since the mid-1950s and interrogates the rationale and policies that govern them. This book argues that national parks and park policy reflect not only environmental concerns but also Canadian political and social attitudes. It analyzes the role and contribution of various policy participants.

Provides an overview of the critical approaches to global environmental politics. Guided by questions of how to understand the ecological predicaments and the global dimensions of the environmental policy questions they raise, this book is a contribution to fostering an approach to IR and ecological theory.

Few serious scholars or policymakers believe that the connection between environmental problems and International Relations (IR) can be ignored. This volume aims to synthesize these two interrelated branches of study within international ecopolitical theory. It provides an overview of the critical approaches to global environmental politics.

This book examines women lawyers' attempts to reconcile their professional obligations with other aspects of their lives.

Critical Policy Studies describes how new policy problems such as border screening and global warming have been catapulted onto the agenda in the neo-liberal era.

This book represents a landmark consideration of the diverse meanings, causal foundations, and positive and negative consequences of social capital, with a particular focus on its role in mitigating or enhancing social inequalities.

This book represents a landmark consideration of the diverse meanings, causal foundations, and positive and negative consequences of social capital, with a particular focus on its role in mitigating or enhancing social inequalities.

This fascinating investigation into the machinations of a divided navy tackles important questions of military professionalism, leadership, and identity.

From hunting ethics to animal rights to tensions between hunting sub-groups, this towering collection of essays address important historical and contemporary issues regarding the culture and practice of hunting.

While poverty persists as a major social problem, Canadians are increasingly framing their concerns over poverty and its consequences as issues of human rights and citizenship. This volume examines the ideas and practices of human rights, citizenship, legislation, and institution-building that are crucial to addressing poverty in this country.

Iinvestigates and clarifies the murky evolution of waste treatment - in a time when community water quality can no longer be taken for granted.

This is the first collection in Canada to provide a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of transnationalism.

Kimberly White provides an essential point of reference from which to evaluate current criminal law practices and law reform initiatives in Canada.

The first significant examination of the historical development of anthropological study addresses key issues in the evolution of the discipline.

The first significant examination of the historical development of anthropological study addresses key issues in the evolution of the discipline.

Presents the letters of Emma Crosby, wife of the well-known Methodist missionary Thomas Crosby, who came to Fort Simpson, near present-day Prince Rupert, in 1874 to set up a mission among the Tsimshian people.