Total Defence Forces in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Joakim Berndtsson, Irina Goldenberg, and Stéfanie von Hlatky

Series: Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies

Total defence, as a concept, combines and extends military and civil defence: in a state of war or emergency, all social institutions mobilize to defend the state. Total defence forces, led by a diverse ...

The Afterworld

Edited by Frédéric Mérand, Jennifer Welsh
Contributions by Anthony Amicelle, Valérie Amiraux, Vincent Arel-Bundock, Ari Van Assche, Daniel Béland, Karim Benyekhlef, Mark R. Brawley, Dominique Caouette, Allison Christians, Ryoa Chung, Crépeau, François, Delphine Nakache et Idil Atak (dir.), Pierre-Marie David, Magdalena DEMBIŃSKA, Peter Dietsch, Thomas Druetz, Pearl Eliadis, Philippe Fournier, François Furstenberg, Pablo Gilabert, Timothy Hodges, Maya Jegen, Juliet Johnson, Nicholas King, Erick Lachapelle, Justin Leroux, Pierre Martin, Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé, María Martín de Almagro Iniesta, Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Theodore McLauchlin, Frédéric Mégret, Cynthia Milton, Laurence Monnais, Christian Novak, Mireille Paquet, T.V. Paul, Krzysztof Pelc, Pierre-Olivier Pineau, Vincent Pouliot, René Provost, Lee Seymour, Thomas Soehl, Maïka Sondarjee, Samuel Tanner, Jean-Philippe Thérien, Hamish van der Ven, Luna Vives, Marie-Joëlle Zahar, and Alain Gagnon

Series: Health and Society

COVID-19 sparked the largest and most global crisis of the 21st century. For some, the impact has been swift and dramatic, with the pandemic pushing tens of millions into poverty and creating extreme ...

Truth Commissions and State Building

Edited by Bonny Ibhawoh, Jasper Abembia Ayelazuno, and Sylvia Bawa

More than just an opportunity to uncover fact after conflict, truth commissions can also offer restorative power to nations across the globe. Truth Commissions and State Building presents the first comparative ...

Population Control

Edited by Jen Rinaldi & Kate Rossiter

Violence is an inescapable through-line across the experiences of institutional residents regardless of facility type, historical period, regional location, government or staff in power, or type of population. ...

Follow the Leader, Lose the Region

By Jeff Reeves

As competition among the traditional great powers in the Asia region intensifies, Canada faces a stark choice: Should it align its foreign policy with the US-led free and open Indo-Pacific strategy? Shared ...

Raymond Klibansky

By Raymond Klibansky & Georges Leroux
Translated by Peter Feldstein
Foreword by Alberto Manguel

Born in Paris in 1905 to a German-Jewish family from Frankfurt and dying a century later in Montreal, Raymond Klibansky lived a life indelibly coloured by the history of the twentieth century. His thought ...

Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals

By Bruce Granville Miller
Foreword by Sharon Venne-Manyfingers

On the twelfth floor of an undistinguished-looking high-rise, a tribunal adjudicates the human rights of Indigenous individuals. Why isn’t the process working? Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals draws ...

Sustainable Energy Transitions in Canada

Edited by Mark Winfield, Stephen Hill, and James Gaede

Canadian energy systems need to evolve. Beyond providing essential energy services, they must respond to climate change, enhance social justice, and remain sensitive to local cultures and traditions. ...

Political Activist Ethnography

Edited by Agnieszka Doll, Laura Bisaillon, and Kevin Walby

As activists strategize, build resistance, and foster solidarity, they also call for better dialogue between researchers and movements and for research that can aid their causes. In this volume, contributors ...

The Elephant Has Two Sets of Teeth

By Alice Neikirk

This ethnography of Bhutanese refugees reveals how the language of compassion in humanitarianism is used to oppress vulnerable communities and erode their rights. Alice Neikirk conducted fieldwork with ...