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November 13-17 2023 is University Press Week, a time to reflect on the important work undertaken by university presses to disseminate knowledge by publishing cutting-edge scholarship.
The theme this year is #SpeakUP: showcasing how university presses are “giving voice to the scholarship and ideas that shape conversations around the world.” We’re happy to be participating in the University Press Week blog tour.
At McGill-Queen’s University Press, as our mission statement states, we aim to advance scholarship, promote public debate, and contribute to culture. With over 4,000 titles in print, including numerous award-winners and bestsellers, our goal is to produce peer-reviewed, rigorously edited, beautifully produced, intelligent, interesting books.
When thinking about what #SpeakUP means at our press, what comes to mind is our goal to amplify diverse voices and foster a culture of public debate. We chose the six titles below because they exemplify the type of scholarship that moves culture forward.
Huda Mukbil shares her experiences as a Black Arab-Canadian Muslim intelligence officer with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Her dazzling account reveals how racism, misogyny, and Islamophobia undermine not only individuals, but institutions and the national interest – and how addressing this can tackle populism and misinformation.
Aki-wayn-zih is a story about the land and its spiritual relationship with the Anishinaabayg, from the beginning of their life on Turtle Island to the present day. Through storytelling, spiritual teachings, historical accounts, and personal anecdotes, Baxter reveals how the residential school system impacted him, transformed his family, and forever disrupted his reserve community and those like it.
Chris Kaposy reflects on parenting his son with Down syndrome in the midst of a supposed disappearance of people with this condition. Writing from a pro-choice, disability-positive perspective, Kaposy presents decades-old bioethical controversies, revealing the prehistory that has shaped current attitudes toward intellectual disability.
Drawing on interviews and focus groups with nearly 200 women from a range of backgrounds and occupations – including healthcare workers, educators, and parents – Conscripted to Care reveals how structural inequalities put women on the frontlines of the COVID-19 response, yet with inadequate resources and little voice in decision-making.
Dark Days at Noon provides a broad history of wildfire in North America, from pre-European contact to the present. Edward Struzik sheds light on what may happen in the future if we do not learn to live with fire as Indigenous people once did, so that we may learn from how we managed fire in the past and apply those lessons in the future.
Doing Harm recounts a critical chapter in the recent history of psychology: the field’s enmeshment in the “war on terror,” and the ensuing reckoning over do-no-harm ethics during times of threat. Eidelson exposes the challenges that the American Psychological Association faced when government agencies called upon health professionals to assist with their abusive and sometimes torturous detention and interrogation operations.
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