New Releases: July 2025

MQUP is excited to announce five new books this month! We have new additions to the Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series, Democracy, Diversity, and Citizen Engagement Series, McGill-Queen’s/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History Series,  McGill-Queen’s Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Series, and Queer Film Classics!

A History of Photography in Canada, Volume 1

Anticipation to Participation, 1839–1918

By Martha Langford

From early reports of the invention to its wide application during World War I, photography created anticipation and participation in the modern world. A History of Photography in Canada, Volume 1 captures this phenomenon by looking at hundreds of early photographs and by listening to the chords they struck in the collective imagination.

SCAR/CITY

By Daniela Elza

SCAR/CITY steps outside binary conversations and poetically interrogates a system that results in depravity and scarcity leaving us homeless literally and metaphorically. These poems walk streets and take snapshots of the impact financialization of our homes has on our sense of community and belonging.

Territories of Inequality

How Federalism and Redistribution Interact

Edited by Olivier Jacques and Alain Noël

This volume analyses the effect of decentralization and federalism on policy outcomes and on public preferences, as well as the connections between fiscal federalism, political forces, and inequality.

Tomboy

By Cristina Johnston

An exploration of Céline Sciamma’s Tomboy, a quiet, understated examination of childhood, gender, and queer selfhood amidst the shifting sands of late childhood and early adolescence.

Unequal Access

Categorising Refugees in European Resettlement and Humanitarian Admission Programmes

By Natalie Welfens

Unequal Access explores the politics of categorization practices in European resettlement and humanitarian admission programs and the complex boundaries of inclusion and exclusion they produce.