Books published by University of British Columbia Press

What's Trending in Canadian Politics? explores the changing nature of political communication and democratic governance in a digital age.

This is the definitive history of the Canadian experience, both its successes and failures, on the world's largest stage - the United Nations Security Council.

Queering Representation explores what happens when LGBTQ people move out of the closet and into the political arena.

This important study demonstrates that varied disciplinary approaches can illuminate the reach and impact of political ideologies on both politics and society.

Queering Representation explores what happens when LGBTQ people move out of the closet and into the political arena.

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

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.

The Creator's Game serves as a potent illustration of how, for over a century, the Indigenous game of lacrosse has served as a central means for Indigenous communities to activate their self-determination and reformulate their identities.

This bestseling guide helps readers interpret and enjoy the form and meaning of totem poles -- as ancestral emblems and ceremonial objects, as expressions of wealth and power, as mythological symbols and magnificent artistic works of the people of the Pacific Northwest.

Faith or Fraud? Fortune-Telling, Individual Spirituality, and the Law answers an emerging controversy: Should the law's understanding of religion include the "spiritual but not religious"?

The first major study to compare changes made to Canadian and US refugee law after and because of 9/11, Refugee Law after 9/11 uncovers crucial connections among refugee law, security relativism, and national self-image.

This groundbreaking volume assesses the power of residential school survivors to reframe - through memory, story, and testimony - how Canadians think about residential schools and their long-term impact on individuals, families, communities, and the nation.

David R. Boyd reveals striking weaknesses in Canadian environmental law, describes the damage these flaws are wreaking on human health, and identifies practical, proven, and affordable solutions to these problems.

Taking an original approach to the study of gender and political communication, this book examines how politicians, journalists, and citizens deploy intersecting notions of gender, sexuality, race, age, and class in Canadian politics.

Men, Masculinity, and the Indian Act reverses conventional thinking to argue that the sexism directed at women within the act in fact undermines the well-being of all Indigenous people, proposing that Indigenous nationhood cannot be realized or reinvigorated until this broader injustice is understood.

To Be Equals in Our Own Country chronicles the bitter struggle for women's suffrage in Quebec, the last province to grant Canadian women this fundamental human right.

Indigenous People and Dementia brings together research and Indigenous knowledge on memory loss and memory care in later life to assist students, practitioners, and educators to decolonize their work with Indigenous peoples.

The first major collection of its kind in thirty years, Made Modern explores the role of science and technology in shaping Canadians' experience of themselves and their place in the modern world.

A history of the activities and lives of undercover Canadian operatives in Europe and Asia during World War II.

Knowing the Past, Facing the Future offers a sweeping account of Indigenous education in Canada, from the first treaty promises and the failure of government-run schools to illuminating discussions of what needs to change now to work toward reconciliation.

Nested Federalism and Inuit Governance in the Canadian Arctic explores how three northern regions are reformulating the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the state, and transforming Canadian federalism in the process.

In the Spirit of '68 tells the story of how a unique blend of local circumstance and global influence transformed Acadian New Brunswick's youth culture, spawning one of the most influential revolutionary student movements in Canada.

Crossing Law's Border offers a comprehensive account of Canada's refugee resettlement program, from the Indochinese crisis of the 1970s to the current era of controversy and flux in refugee and asylum policy.

Good Governance in Economic Development examines what happens at the intersection of international and Chinese conceptions of transparency, accountability, and public participation.

Wide-ranging and theoretically sophisticated, Moments of Crisis offers a groundbreaking explanation for why religion continues to be implicated in national identity crises in Quebec.

Planning on the Edge explores the reality behind the rhetoric of Vancouver's reputation as a sustainable city and paves the way for developing Vancouver and its region into a place that is both economically sustainable and socially just.

By the Court is the first major study of unanimous and anonymous legal decisions: the unique "By the Court" format used by the Supreme Court of Canada.

Trustees at Work explores what is means to be considered a deserving debtor in under contemporary Canadian personal bankruptcy law.

This accessible but theoretically sophisticated volume reveals how neoliberalism - as both an economic project and a broader political approach - has come to govern our daily lives, our understanding of the world we live in, and even how we think about ourselves.