Books published by University of British Columbia Press

Laws and definitions of sexual abuse may have changed since the 1980s, but this book demonstrates that interpretation of the law still depends on the social construction of children and on judges' own understanding of what constitutes child sexual abuse.

Examines contact stories from indigenous and newcomer populations from New Zealand and throughout North America. Focusing on misunderstandings embedded in the stories of "first contacts" and these narratives' contemporary relevance, production, and performance, this book introduces different tools for understanding the genre.

Acclaimed historian and author Tim Cook (At the Sharp End) analyses where the practice of academic military history has come from and where it needs to go.

Aims to establish a Canadian presence in the sustainable production debate by analyzing the opportunities and constraints facing both the public and private sectors as Canada strives to move public policy and industrial practice forward. This work is useful for those in business, public policy and engineering.

Based on materials not previously available to Canadian scholars, The Middle Power Project presents a critical reassessment of the traditional and widely accepted account of Canada's role and interests in the formation of the United Nations.

Media coverage of the Supreme Court of Canada has emerged as a crucial factor not only for judges and journalists but also for the public. It's the media, after all, that decide which court rulings to cover and how ...

Examines Inuit relations with the Canadian state, with a particular focus on regulating Inuit based on government animal counting methods, and the emerging regime of government intervention.

Critically examines the challenge of protecting rights in diverse societies.

Critically examines the challenge of protecting rights in diverse societies.

With examples from the lives of immigrant girls and women of colour, this book uncovers how racism, sexism, and violence interweave deep within the foundations of our society.

What makes the textual image of a woman with a penis so compelling, malleable, and persistent?

Seeks to address displacement as a broader and more multi-layered phenomenon. This work provides causal accounts of why and how displacement occurs, what its effects on communities, ecosystems, and economies look like, and the normative or ethical positions held by key actors involved.

In this illuminating history of Montreal, readers will discover the links between identity, place, and historical moment as they meet vagrant women, sailors in port, unemployed men of the Great Depression, elite families, shopkeepers, reformers, notaries, and social workers.

Stephen Clarkson, one of Canada's most respected political analysts, tells the engaging history of Canada's leading political party, an insightful case study in Canadian political campaigning, and an ideal primer for the next federal election.

Commander A.F.C. Layard, RN, wrote almost daily in his diary from 1913 until 1947. The pivotal 1943-45 years of this edited volume offer an extraordinarily full and honest chronicle, revealing Layard's preoccupations, both with the daily details and with the strain and responsibility of wartime command at sea.

Demonstrating the linkages between law and risk, these essays tackle some difficult topics, including dangerous offenders, sex offender notification, drug courts, genetic research, pesticide use, child pornography, and tobacco advertising.

This fascinating account offers a new understanding of Captain Cook's voyages and how they affected the European world view.

This innovative book offers an interdisciplinary framework with which to think through ecological, political, economic, and social issues, provding one of the most comprehensive analyses of Canadian natural resource and environmental policy to date.

Challenging myths about a peaceful west and prairie exceptionalism, the book explores the substance of prairie legal history and the degree to which the region's mentality is rooted in the historical experience of distinctive prairie peoples.

Traces 20th-century Canadian criminal justice responses to women who kill their newly born babies. This work provides an interdisciplinary feminist approach to the study of infanticide law, examining and linking historical, sociological, and legal scholarship. It is useful for readers interested in law, sociology, criminology and gender studies.

Examining the altered roles of courts, politics, and markets over the last two decades, this book explores the evolving concept of the citizen in Canada at the beginning of this century.

Offers a study of the Russian bar (advokatura) that provides a portrait of how, after the USSR's collapse, practising lawyers called advocates began to assume new, self-defined roles as contributors to legal reform and defenders of rights in Russia. It is useful for specialists on Russia, post-communism, human rights, and legal studies.

In Carefair, Paul Kershaw urges us to resist this private/public distinction, and makes a convincing case for treating caregiving as a matter of citizenship that obliges and empowers everyone in society.

A close look at the laws, policies, and practices of detention and deportation in Canada since the Second World War.

Illustrates the links between two normally disparate literatures-social capital and sustainable development-within the overall context of local community development.

This provocative book examines how women were uniquely positioned at the axis of the colonial encounter - the so-called "contact zone" - between Aboriginals and newcomers.

Examines the joint efforts of Aboriginal people and individuals of European ancestry to counter injustice in Canada when colonization was at its height, from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century.

This provocative book examines how women were uniquely positioned at the axis of the colonial encounter - the so-called "contact zone" - between Aboriginals and newcomers.

From UI to EI examines the history of Canada's unemployment insurance system and the rights it grants to the unemployed.

This book is about poor women, many of them single mothers, Aboriginal, or both, who have defied the odds to become apprenticing carpenters.