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Canada is often held up as an example of a healthy democracy. However, the Canadian public is less enthusiastic about the way our democracy works.

In recent decades, educators have been seeking ways to improve outcomes for Indigenous students.

Canada is at a critical juncture in the evolution of its communications policy.

Despite being dubbed “the world’s oldest profession,” prostitution has rarely been viewed as a legitimate form of labour. Instead, it is often criminalized, sensationalized, and polemicized.

Both lionized and vilified, Claire L’Heureux-Dubé has shaped the Canadian legal landscape – and in particular its highest court.

Growing inequality within Chinese society has led to public indignation, petitions to Party and state agencies, strikes, and large-scale protests.

In Mixed Company explores taverns as colonial public space and how men and women of diverse backgrounds – Native and newcomer, privileged and labouring, white and non-white – negotiated a plac

Children and youth occupy important social and political roles, even as they sleep in cribs or hang out on street corners.

The rationalist ideal has been met with cynicism in progressive circles for undermining the role of emotion and passion in the public realm.

Thomas Isaac looks at the broad picture of trends that are developing in the law and the background, highlighting aspects of Canadian law that impact Aboriginal peoples and their relationship with

Since the 1970s, the closure of mines, mills, and factories has marked a rupture in working-class lives.

Sporting Gender is the first book to explore the rise to fame of female athletes in China in the early twentieth century.

Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes poses a number of probing questions about the role and responsibility of museums and anthropology in the contemporary world.

Drawing on Samuel Hearne’s gruesome account of an alleged massacre at Bloody Falls in 1771, Emilie Cameron reveals how Qablunaat (non-Inuit, non-Indigenous people) have used stories about the Arcti

Museums and the Past explores the central role of museums as memory keepers and makers.