Publications
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À l’ombre de l’INCO : Étude de la transition d’une communauté canadienne-française de la région de Sudbury (1890-1972)
(2001)
Se plaçant dans une optique résolument matérialiste, l'auteur étude l'histoire socio-économique d'une communauté canadienne-française de la région de Sudbury entre 1890 et 1972. L'étude décrit le passage, après la Deuxième ...
Accounting for Culture : Thinking Through Cultural Citizenship
(2005)
Many scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved substantially and that traditional ...
À la défense d’un idéal contesté : Le principe de mérite et la Commission de la fonction publique, 1908-2008
(2008)
En 1908, afin de lutter contre le favoritisme qui mine autant l’efficacité de l’administration publique que la démocratie, le Parlement canadien décrète que les fonctionnaires de l’État seront dorénavant nommés selon le ...
Aux origines de l’identité franco-ontarienne : Éducation, culture, économie
(1993)
Durant les années 1880, les francophones de l’est de l’Ontario ont formulé une définition de leur communauté à la fois enracinée dans le passé et issue de circonstance contemporaines. En effet, c’est par suite de la ...
Borderlands : Comparing Border Security in North America and Europe
(2007)
Border security has been high on public-policy agendas in Europe and North America since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City and on the headquarters of the American military in Washington ...
Building New Bridges - Bâtir de nouveaux ponts : Sources, Methods and Interdisciplinarity - Sources, méthodes et interdisciplinarité
(2005)
Questions of methodology and the use of sources are fundamental to all academic disciplines. In recent years, this topic has become far more challenging as scholars are increasingly adopting an interdisciplinary approach ...
Caring and Curing : Historical Perspectives on Women and Healing in Canada
(1994)
This collection of essays takes the reader from the early 19th century struggle between female midwives and male physicians right up to the late 20th century emergence of professionally trained women physicians vying for ...
Charting the Future of Translation History
(2006)
Over the last 30 years there has been a substantial increase in the study of the history of translation. Both well-known and lesser-known specialists in translation studies have worked tirelessly to give the history of ...
The Canadian Distinctiveness into the XXIst Century - La distinction canadienne au tournant du XXIe siecle
(2003)
In this collection of essays some of Canada's foremost writers and thinkers, including John Ralston Saul and Margaret Atwood, call for equilibrium among economics, culture, and technological change. While promoting the ...
Changing the Terms : Translating in the Postcolonial Era
(2000)
This volume explores the theoretical foundations of postcolonial translation in settings as diverse as Malaysia, Ireland, India and South America. Changing the Terms examines stimulating links that are currently being ...
Chercheurs de dieux dans l’espace public - Frontier Religions in Public Space
(2001)
By their nature, emerging religions explore unfamiliar territory and probe unchartered regions of human creativity. For these same reasons, religious transactions that venture beyond the boundaries of traditional religious ...
The China Challenge : Sino-Canadian Relations in the 21st Century
(2011)
With the exception of Canada’s relationship with the United States, Canada’s relationship with China will likely be its most significant foreign connection in the twenty-first century. As China’s role in world politics ...
Myth, Symbol, and Colonial Encounter : British and Mi'kmaq in Acadia, 1700-1867
(1995)
From the time of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, people of British origin have shared the area of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, traditionally called Acadia, with Eastern Canada's Algonkian-speaking ...
Not Written in Stone : Jews, Constitutions, and Constitutionalism in Canada
(2003)
Using long-ignored constitutions of various Jewish organizations, this unique book uncovers the political history of Canadian Jewry since its beginning during the 1700s. Building on the premise that Jews, since time ...
A Quarter-Century of Normalization and Social Role Valorization : Evolution and Impact
(1999)
During the late 1960s, Normalization and Social Role Valorization (SRV) enabled the widespread emergence of community residential options and then provided the philosophical climate within which educational integration, ...
Le piège de la violence et les jeunes
(2008)
La violence a multiples faces, toutes celles qu'on lui donne selon les soucis de l'heure et les jeunes font toujours partie de ces soucis. Le piège de la violence dans lequel le jeune peut tomber ne dépend pas uniquement ...
Pluralisme et délibération : Enjeux en philosophie politique contemporaine
(1999)
Cet ouvrage à voix plurielles se place résolument dans une perspective interdisciplinaire. Neuf auteurs de premier plan, œuvrant sous des horizons diversifiés, se confrontent à la crise actuelle de la démocratie. Une thèse ...
Sexual Assault in Canada : Law, legal pratice and women’s activism
(2012)
Sexual Assault in Canada is the first English-language book in almost two decades to assess the state of sexual assault law and legal practice in Canada. Gathering together feminist scholars, lawyers, activists and ...
La Rénovation de l’héritage démocratique : Entre fondation et refondation
(2009)
Les expressions politiques du Québec et du Canada donnent l’impression d’une quête identitaire perpétuelle. L’obsession du moi est passée du « je » au « nous ». Ce collectif pluridisciplinaire donne une portée philosophique ...
Stephen Leacock: A Reappraisal
(1986)
This collection of essays explores the many dimensions of the writings of Stephen Leacock, the well-loved Canadian author of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.
Revolution or Renaissance : Making the Transition from an Economic Age to a Cultural Age
(2008)
In "Revolution or Renaissance," D. Paul Schafer subjects two of the most powerful forces in the world - economics and culture - to a detailed and historically sensitive analysis. He argues that the economic age has produced ...
Sport Policy in Canada
Sport Policy in Canada provides the first and most comprehensive analysis of the new Canadian Sport Policy adopted in 2012. In light of this new policy, the authors, top scholars in the field, provide detailed accounts of ...
Rethinking Canadian Aid
In 2013, the government abolished the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), which had been Canada’s flagship foreign aid agency for decades, and transferred its functions to the newly renamed Department of ...
Rethinking the Future of the University
(1998)
This distinguished collection of essays, edited under the direction of David Lyle Jeffrey and Dominic Manganiello, emerged from the discussions that surrounded the 1995-1996 McMartin Lectures. Dedicated to studying the ...
Understanding History : An Introduction to Analytical Philosophy of History
(1992)
Has any question about the historical past ever been finally answered? Of course there is much disagreement among professional historians about what happened in the past and how to explain it. But this incisive study goes ...
Transfert : Exploration d’un champ conceptuel
(2014)
L’ouvrage propose trois axes de réflexion sur le concept de transfert. Dans la première partie du volume, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink évoque les changements contemporains qui augmentent les communications interculturelles. Walter ...
La violence, la peur et le crime
(2001)
La violence et la peur font tellement partie de nos vies que, parfois, elles se confondent avec elles. Elles s'insinuent aussi bien dans le social que dans l'individuel et déterminent l'histoire de l'un et de l'autre. Le ...
Vision-Division : L’œuvre de Nancy Huston
(2004)
Canadienne, Parisienne, musicienne, écrivaine de rénommée internationale, Nancy Huston séduit aussi bien par ses essais provocateurs que par ses romans audacieux. Vivant entre deux langues et deux cultures, elle a conquis ...
The Way Ahead : Meeting Canada’s Productivity Challenge
(2008)
Canada is a prosperous country, but this prosperity is being stressed by demographics, pressures on the public purse, and low productivity growth. To maintain the nation's high quality of life, prosperity must increase ...
Whence They Came : Deportation from Canada 1900 - 1935
(1988)
Until recently, immigration policy was largely in the hands of a small group of bureaucrats, who strove desperately to fend off “offensive” peoples. Barbara Roberts explores these government officials, showing how they not ...
Le Deuil d’un pays imaginé : Rêves, luttes et déroute du Canada français
(1997)
Depuis 1960, les relations entre le Québec et la francophonie canadienne n'ont pas cessé de s'effriter. En fait, la Révolution tranquille a apporté dans son sillage le renouvellement du discours identitaire au Canada ...
La Démocratie
(2001)
Pour le profane, la gouvernance fait d'abord penser au fonctionnement des organisations, ou des institutions, et à la distribution du pouvoir dans ces structures. Le jargon dans ce domaine nous vient des spécialistes de ...
Defending a Contested Ideal : Merit and the Public Service Commission, 1908-2008
(2008)
In 1908, after decades of struggling with a public administration undermined by systemic patronage, the Canadian parliament decided that public servants would be selected on the basis of merit, through a system administered ...
Cyberidentities : Canadian and European Presence in Cyberspace
(1999)
This innovative study explores diverse aspects of Canadian and European identity on the information highway and reaches beyond technical issues to confront and explore communication, culture and the culture of communication.
The Copyright Pentalogy : How the Supreme Court of Canada Shook the Foundations of Canadian Copyright Law
In the summer of 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada issued rulings on five copyright cases in a single day. The cases represent a seismic shift in Canadian copyright law, with the Court providing an unequivocal affirmation ...
Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China : Chinese and Canadian Perspectives
(2009)
Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China focuses on the most challenging areas of discrimination and inequality in China, including discrimination faced by HIV/AIDS afflicted individuals, rural populations, migrant ...
Amériques transculturelles/ Transcultural Americas
(2010)
Transculturalism is a new way of viewing culture that sees cultures not as separate islands, but as connected and interacting webs. The Americas in particular offer many examples of transcultural identities: Chicanos, ...
Droits et voix / Rights and Voices : La Criminologie
(2010)
This volume commemorates the 40th anniversary of the University of Ottawa’s Department of Criminology, founded in 1968. It relates the history of the department from its origins to today, focusing on the theoretical debates ...
Anne Hébert : Le secret de vie et de mort
(2000)
Très rapidement, Anne Hébert trouve sa voie, singulière entre toutes celles de notre littérature : le matérialisme. Entendons par là que, récusant l'enseignement religieux, c'est dans les profondeurs du moi que l'auteure ...
Enseignement de la traduction et traduction dans l’enseignement
(1998)
Cet ouvrage sonde deux grands types de transfert interlinguistique : la traduction professionnelle, enseignée dans les écoles et instituts de formation de traducteurs, et la traduction didactique (thème/version), pratiquée ...
Le Droit de traduire : Une politique culturelle pour la mondialisation
(2009)
Cet ouvrage étudie les conditions d’émergence historiques et discursives du « droit de (la) traduction » et du droit qui l’administre : le droit d’auteur. Privilégiant une approche essentiellement archéologique, l’auteur ...
Esthétique et recyclages culturels : Explorations de la culture contemporaine
(2004)
De nos jours, artistes et créateurs de toutes orientations, et dans différents champs de production culturelle, ont de plus en plus recours à des procédés impliquant le traitement de matériaux qui sont déjà disponibles ...
Femmes francophones et pluralisme en milieu minoritaire
(1996)
Comment le discours féministe se porte-t-il au sein de la francophonie minoritaire canadienne ? Quelle est l'ampleur réelle de son champ de recherche et comment qualifier la variété des registres à partir desquels il se ...
The Forgotten Peace : Mediation at Niagara Falls
(2009)
In the early hours of April 22, 1914, American President Woodrow Wilson sent Marines to seize the port of Veracruz in an attempt to alter the course of the Mexican Revolution. As a result, the United States seemed on the ...
Feminist Success Stories - Célébrons nos réussites féministes
(1999)
Abuses by international corporations, withdrawal of social services and implementation of regressive legislation continue to impoverish women and reduce the quality of their everyday lives: women have reason to be demoralized. ...
L'ère électrique. The Electric Age
(2011)
The scientific discovery and mastery of electricity created as many important changes in modern society as did the invention of alphabetical writing in antiquity and movable type in the fifteenth century. It is more than ...
From Cognition to Being : Prolegomena for Teachers
(1999)
In this book, McHenry challenges the still-regnant paradigm of knowledge acquisition as the end and means of schooling, supplanting it with an inquiry into what knowledge is. Tracing the development of the idea of knowledge ...
Governance Through Social Learning
(1999)
Governance connotes the way an organization, an economy, or a social system co-ordinates and steers itself. Some insist that governing is strictly a top-down process guided by authority and coercion, while others emphasize ...
Homelessness & Health in Canada
(2014)
Homelessness & Health in Canada explores, for the first time, the social, structural, and environmental factors that shape the health of homeless persons in Canada. Covering a wide range of topics from youth homelessness ...
Home-Work : Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature
(2004)
Canadian literature, and specifically the teaching of Canadian literature, has emerged from a colonial duty to a nationalist enterprise and into the current territory of postcolonialism. From practical discussions related ...
De l'écrit
(2005)
De l'écrit à l'écran est le premier ouvrage qui aborde la question de la réécriture filmique du roman africain francophone. Il se sert de la sémiologie de l'image, de la poétique et des théories post-coloniales pour définir ...
Language Testing Reconsidered
(2007)
Language Testing Reconsidered provides a critical update on major issues that have engaged the field of language testing since its inception. Anyone who is working in, studying or teaching language testing should have a ...
De la couleur des lois : Une histoire juridique du racisme au Canada entre 1900 et 1950
(2010)
Malgré l’ouverture proclamée des Canadiens face à la diversité ethnique et culturelle, l’histoire canadienne n’en est pas moins marquée par la discrimination systématique. Cet ouvrage expose la ténacité juridique de cette ...
Images of Canadianness : Visions on Canada’s Politics, Culture, and Economics
Images of Canadianness offers backgrounds and explanations for a series of relevant--if relatively new--features of Canada, from political, cultural, and economic angles. Each of its four sections contains articles written ...
Life, Fish and Mangroves : Resource governance in costal Cambodia
(2012)
In Life, Fish and Mangroves, Melissa Marschke explores the potential of resource governance, offering a case study of resource-dependent village life. Following six households and one village-based institution in coastal ...
Margaret Laurence: Critical Reflections
(2001)
This book highlights the accomplishments of one of Canada's most acclaimed and beloved fiction writers, Margaret Laurence. The essays in this collection explore her body of work as well as her influence on young Canadian ...
eGirls, eCitizens
(2015)
eGirls, eCitizens is a landmark work that explores the many forces that shape girls’ and young women’s experiences of privacy, identity, and equality in our digitally networked society. Drawing on the multi-disciplinary ...
Law, Privacy and Surveillance in Canada in the Post-Snowden Era
(2015)
Years of surveillance-related leaks from US whistleblower Edward Snowden have fuelled an international debate on privacy, spying, and Internet surveillance. Much of the focus has centered on the role of the US National ...
Laïcité et humanisme
(2015)