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Variable Conditions
Truth Commissions and State Building
Reimagining Illness
Population Control
Cette science nécessaire
Place Matters
The Handbook of Ethnic Media in Canada
Honouring Age
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New Releases: November/December 2023
As 2023 draws to a close, we are pleased to release ten new titles to wrap-up the year! From contemporary art in Canada to nation-building in Africa, these books span a wide range of topics and spaces in the social sciences and humanities. Also included is our latest French-language release on the history of medical education in Quebec.
Check out the complete list of November and December releases below!
Variable Conditions
Para-computational Arts in Canada, 1965–1995
Variable Conditions recovers Canadian instances of early encounters between computational media and contemporary art in the late twentieth century. The book provides valuable new perspectives and new contexts for understanding computer art pioneers, sketching a new landscape of surprising connections between scientific and artistic institutions.
Truth Commissions and State Building
Truth Commissions and State Building demonstrates that the work of both institutions is interlinked and intrinsic to reform in post-conflict and post-authoritarian settings. Chapters examine truth commissions as transitional justice mechanisms for civic inclusion, identity formation, institutional reform, and nation-(re)building.
State of Disappearance
State of Disappearance brings together abstract artistic testimony and witnessing with critical voices to ask deeper questions about extreme violence, the normalization of human vanishing, state and ideological complicity, and memorialization, along with wider concerns about what it means to be human in the twenty-first century.
Reimagining Illness
Women Writers and Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Reimagining Illness analyzes works by eighteenth-century British women writers alongside contemporaneous medical texts to argue that the circulation of medical knowledge in this period was not determined only by scientific rationalism and male expertise but rather shaped in part by women’s accounts of illness.
Population Control
Theorizing Institutional Violence
Violence is an inescapable through-line across the experiences of institutional residents. While Canada closes many of its large-scale facilities, institutional violence continues to spill over into community settings. Population Control explores the relational conditions that give rise to this violence across all spaces of care.
Cette science nécessaire
Dissections humaines et formation médicale au Québec
Pourquoi des étudiants en médecine ont-ils enlevé des cadavres dans les lieux de sépulture durant près de six décennies (c. 1820-1883) au Québec ? Cette science nécessaire fait la lumière sur une histoire originale et méconnue, en nous plongeant dans l’univers macabre des étudiants en médecine du XIXe siècle.
Total Defence Forces in the Twenty-First Century
This volume considers the various groups that make up total defence forces: the military, reservists, civil defence servants, and contractors working for private military and security companies. It offers an essential analysis of civilian-military personnel integration and collaboration toward defence goals in the twenty-first century.
Place Matters
Critical Topographies in Word and Image
Bordo and Fitzpatrick coin the term critical topography to describe how thought and symbolic forms invent place through text and image. International in scope, Canadian in spirit, and grounded in singular sites, Place Matters presents critical topography as an approach to analyze, interpret, and reflect on place.
The Handbook of Ethnic Media in Canada
Ethnic minority groups in Canada have set up their own communication infrastructure that has evolved from the analogue to digital age, and continues to remain relevant across generations. This volume asks how ethnic media have changed, how they continue to be relevant, and what that means for multicultural Canada.
Honouring Age
The Social Dynamics of Age Structure in 1 Timothy
Mona Tokarek Lafosse
Exploring age, intergenerational relationships, and the social power of reputation across ancient Mediterranean cultural contexts, Honouring Age positions age as an essential aspect of communal identity and familial roles in the early Christian experience as represented in one of the most contentious texts in the New Testament, 1 Timothy.
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