The University of British Columbia Press is Canada’s leading social sciences publisher. With an international reputation for publishing high-quality works of original scholarship, our books draw on and reflect cutting-edge research, pushing the boundaries of academic discourse in innovative directions. Each year UBC Press publishes seventy new titles in a number of fields, including Aboriginal studies, Asian studies, Canadian history, environmental studies, gender and women’s studies, geography, health and food studies, law, media and communications, military and security studies, planning and urban studies, and political science.
Key subject areas
Canadian Studies
Education
Sociology
Law & Society
Asian Studies
Indigenous Studies
Politics
Ecology
UBC Catalogues
UBC Featured Titles
Pleasure and Panic
New Essays on the History of Alcohol and Drugs
15 January 2023
Banning Transgender Conversion Practices
A Legal and Policy Analysis
1 December 2022
Feeling Feminism
Activism, Affect, and Canada’s Second Wave
1 December 2022
The High North
Cannabis in Canada
1 December 2022
Disability Injustice
Confronting Criminalization in Canada
15 October 2022
In the Name of Wild
One Family, Five Years, Ten Countries, and a New Vision of Wildness
15 October 2022
The Solidarity Encounter
Women, Activism, and Creating Non-Colonizing Relations
15 June 2022
Making and Breaking Settler Space
Five Centuries of Colonization in North America
15 May 2022
The West and the Birth of Bangladesh
Foreign Policy in the Face of Mass Atrocity
15 April 2022
Demanding Equality
One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism
24 February 2022
The Social Life of Standards
Ethnographic Methods for Local Engagement
15 January 2022
Neighbourhood Houses
Building Community in Vancouver
15 November 2021
Women, Film, and Law
Cinematic Representations of Female Incarceration
15 November 2021
Adjusting the Lens
Indigenous Activism, Colonial Legacies, and Photographic Heritage
15 November 2021
Governing Canada
A Guide to the Tradecraft of Politics
25 October 2021
Exporting Virtue?
China’s International Human Rights Activism in the Age of Xi Jinping
1 October 2021
So Much More Than Art
Indigenous Miniatures of the Pacific Northwest
1 October 2021
Fixing Niagara Falls
Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World’s Most Famous Waterfall
1 March 2021
UBC Featured Series
Communication, Strategy, and Politics
Series editors: Thierry Giasson and Alex Marland
Communication, Strategy, and Politics is a ground-breaking series from UBC Press that examines elite decision making and political communication in today’s hyper-mediated and highly competitive environment. Publications in this series look at the intricate relations between marketing strategy, the media, and political actors and explain how this affects Canadian democracy.
Inside the Campaign
Managing Elections in Canada
What’s Trending in Canadian Politics?
Understanding Transformations in Power, Media, and the Public Sphere
The New NDP
Moderation, Modernization, and Political Marketing
Gendered Mediation
Identity and Image Making in Canadian Politics
Opening the Government of Canada
The Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age
Political Elites in Canada
Power and Influence in Instantaneous Times
Breaking News?
Politics, Journalism, and Infotainment on Quebec Television
Law and Society
Founding editor: W. Wesley Pue
The Law and Society Series explores law as a socially embedded phenomenon. It is premised on the understanding that the conventional division of law from society creates false dichotomies in thinking, scholarship, educational practice, and social life. Books in the series treat law and society as mutually constitutive and seek to bridge scholarship emerging from interdisciplinary engagement of law with disciplines such as politics, social theory, history, political economy, and gender studies.
The Laws and the Land
The Settler Colonial Invasion of Kahnawà:ke in Nineteenth-Century Canada
Women, Film, and Law
Cinematic Representations of Female Incarceration
A Better Justice?
Community Programs for Criminalized Women
The Justice Crisis
The Cost and Value of Accessing Law
Inalienable Properties
The Political Economy of Indigenous Land Reform
Crossing Law’s Border
Canada’s Refugee Resettlement Program
By the Court
Anonymous Judgments at the Supreme Court of Canada
Trustees at Work
Financial Pressures, Emotional Labour, and Canadian Bankruptcy Law
Seeking the Court’s Advice
The Politics of the Canadian Reference Power
Ruling Out Art
Media Art Meets Law in Ontario’s Censor Wars
Condo Conquest
Urban Governance, Law, and Condoization in New York City and Toronto
Resisting Rights
Canada and the International Bill of Rights, 1947–76
Enforcing Exclusion
Precarious Migrants and the Law in Canada
Class Actions in Canada
The Promise and Reality of Access to Justice
Truth and Conviction
Donald Marshall Jr. and the Mi’kmaw Quest for Justice
Health Care and the Charter
Legal Mobilization and Policy Change in Canada
Claire L’Heureux-Dubé
A Life
Unions in Court
Organized Labour and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Debating Hate Crime
Language, Legislatures, and the Law in Canada
Behind the Walls
Inmates and Correctional Officers on the State of Canadian Prisons
Uncertain Accommodation
Aboriginal Identity and Group Rights in the Supreme Court of Canada
Parole in Canada
Gender and Diversity in the Federal System
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