Books published by University of British Columbia Press

The Aging-Disability Nexus explores the complex and competing narratives we create about aging and disability, providing fresh perspectives on how these markers interact with each other and with other indicators of power and difference.

This intriguing study sheds light on Canada's relationship with Ireland, revealing the origins, trials, and successes of the intimate and at times turbulent connection between the two countries.

No Place for the State is an incisive study that offers complex and often contrasting perspectives on the Trudeau government's 1969 Omnibus Bill and its impact on sexual and moral politics in Canada.

Transforming the Canadian History Classroom is a call for a radically innovative practice that places students - the stories they carry and the histories they want to be part of - at the centre of history education.

Reframing Manitou Aki (North American) history from the perspective of the Ojibway-Anishinabe, Our Hearts Are as One Fire shares a vision for the leaders of today and tomorrow.

Through a comparison of juvenile justice systems in Canada and the United States, Law and Neurodiversity examines gaps of accommodation and consideration for youth with autism.

Changing Neighbourhoods offers revealing insights into the way that Canadian cities have grown increasingly unequal and polarized since 1980, identifying the causal factors driving neighbourhood change and their troubling implications.

An unmatched, up-to-date reading of religious and non-religious inclinations in Canada, accompanied by an examination of the consequences of such choices for Canadians and their way of life.

A meticulous account and vivid illustration of the influence of religious beliefs on health practices, this book is essential reading for health care practitioners and students working with religiously diverse populations in Canada.

Jody Wilson-Raybould outlines in impassioned, inspiring prose the actions that must be taken by governments, Indigenous Nations, and all Canadians to achieve true reconciliation in this country.

A timely work that examines how Canadian political elites are adapting to changes in digital media technology.

Enforcing Exclusion explores the multiple ways migration status functions to exclude temporary and precarious migrants from the law's benefits and protections.

Beyond the Amur charts the pivotal role that an overlooked frontier river region and its environment played in Qing China's politics and Sino-Russian relations.

By challenging the erasure of radical histories, this book makes an invaluable contribution to remembering and rethinking Canadian sex and gender activism from the 1970s to the present.

The first comprehensive analysis of Canadian foreign policy during the Harper era.

The first book of its kind in North America, this collection of original works promises to transform the future of social work education by equipping scholars and students with a new appreciation of queer strengths and experiences.

This vivid portrait of female friendship follows two Canadian nursing sisters who endured the trauma and privations of the Great War.

For years, the war in Afghanistan dominated Canada's foreign and defence policy. Now that the mission is over, what are the issues that will shape Canada's future international security agenda?

This book explores how the peoples and communities of northern British Columbia are responding to global demand for local resources.

Delving into some of the most challenging issues to confront legal professionals, this book raises important questions about what it means to be an ethical lawyer in Canada.

A fascinating and critical study of the Chinese Rescue Home, an iconic institution in Victoria, BC, where members of the Women's Missionary Society taught domestic skills to Chinese and Japanese women believed to be prostitutes, slave girls, or to be at risk of falling into these roles.

This vibrant examination of the museum's role as contemporary narrator of our past reveals that our perceptions of history and ourselves are shaped as much by how a museum presents information as by what information it presents.

How did Canada's Liberal Party become one of the most successful parties in the democratic world? Will it be able to reinvent itself for the twenty-first century?

Researchers Francis Fortin and Patrice Corriveau investigate the clandestine world of child cyberpornography to understand who produces, exchanges, and consumes pedo-pornographic images.

Canada is considered a leader when it comes to LGBTQ rights, but as Queer Mobilizations shows, this has less to do with progressive politicians than with the work of queer activists who have fought for policy changes from their local city halls to the chambers of Parliament.

This diverse and cutting-edge collection offers fresh insights into the complex and charged subject of Indigenous encounters with Christianity in Canada from the 1600s to the present day.

Disarming Intervention traces the social, historical, and legal legitimization of non-lethal weapons in the United States.

Twenty-seven traditional Lushootseed stories are presented in this two-volume set, complete with English translations and interlinear grammatical analyses.