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Monday, October 7, 2024

Book Launch: Philip Kaisary’s “From Havana to Hollywood” Challenges Cinematic Portrayals of Black Agency

Congratulations to Professor Philip Kaisary on the release of his new book, From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary. Professor Kaisary’s book critically examines how Black agency has been portrayed in cinema, focusing on the stark differences between Hollywood and Cuban cinema. In Hollywood, the representation of... More

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Read Prof. Balasubramaniam’s New Work on How Covid-19 is Testing Constitutional Democracies

In his March 2021 blog post for Verfassungsblog, COVID-19: Malaysia’s Fragile Constitutional Democracy, Department of Law and Legal Studies Professor Ratna Rueban Balasubramaniam probes the ways in which Covid-19 is perhaps the first ever uniform test for constitutional democracies world-wide. Balasubramaniam posits that the test implicates... More

Saturday, December 12, 2020

Read the new article by Garrett Lecoq, Dr. Dale Ballucci and Dr. Dale Spencer from The British Journal of Criminology

The new article, ‘Keep Them on the Straight and Narrow’: Understanding, Selecting and Governing Subjects Through Intensive Supervision Units by Garrett Lecoq (Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University) Dr. Dale Ballucci (Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario) and Dr. Dale Spencer (Department of Law and Legal... More

Monday, December 7, 2020

Read Dr. William Hébert’s new article in the December 2020 special issue of the Canadian Journal of Law and Society

Dr. William Hébert's latest article, "Trans Rights as Risks: On the Ambivalent Implementation of Canada’s Groundbreaking Trans Prison Reform" was published in the December 2020 special issue "On the Margins of Trans Legal Change" of the Canadian Journal of Law and Society. In this paper, Dr. Hébert analyses policy documents and interviews... More

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Prof. Gaucher Honoured for her Latest Book!

Congratulations to Professor Megan Gaucher whose book, A Family Matter: Citizenship, Conjugal Relationships, and Canadian Immigration Policy (2018, UBC Press), received an Honourable Mention distinction form The American Political Science Association’s Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award for 2020. A Family Matter analyzes the inconsistent... More

Friday, July 31, 2020

Insight Grants 2020: The Case of Métis Acadians

Professor Sebastien Malette has focused on unrecognized Métis and non-status Indigenous communities in the Eastern provinces of Canada. He is the co-author of three books on the subject, including his latest, entitled Bois-Brulés: The untold story of the Métis of Western Québec (UBC, 2020). His latest project, funded by a $203,999 SSHRC... More

Thursday, June 11, 2020

Prof. Sebastien Malette Wins the Prix du Canada en sciences humaines et sociales 2020

Professor Sebastien Malette, and his co-authors, have been awarded the  Prix du Canada en sciences humaines et sociales 2020 by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences his book Les Bois-Brûlés de l’Outaouais – Une étude ethnoculturelle des Métis de la Gatineau. The prize is awarded annually to the best scholarly book... More

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Unbound in War? International Law and Britain’s Participation in the Korean War

Unbound in War? International Law and Britain's Participation in the Korean War, written by Prof. Sean Richmond was published in the Asian Journal of International Law (Cambridge University Press). This interdisciplinary paper examines the influence and interpretation of international law in the use of force by an important but understudied... More

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Bois-Brûlés. The Untold Story of the Métis of Western Québec

Prof. Sebastien Malette has co-authored a new book, Bois-Brulés. The Untold Story of the Métis of Western Québec released by UBC Press. "Bois-Brûlés, previously available only in French, examines the archival and ethnographic evidence for a historical Métis community in the larger Outaouais region, piecing together a riveting and previously... More

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Will global corporations take responsibility for those they have long exploited?

"In the age of global supply chains which employs over 450 million people, the burden of COVID-19 continues to be borne by workers at the bottom of the chain who have no savings to survive on during such times." PhD candidate, Jay Ramasubramaniam, wrote a piece for Open Democracy on the matter. Click here to... More

Monday, March 30, 2020

Using the Rhetoric of Obscenity Against Vulnerable Migrants Amidst the Coronavirus Pandemic

Professor Robert Barsky's recent posting in the Yale Journal of Regulation discusses how the Coronavirus can teach us about exclusion. Click here to read the full article - Using the Rhetoric of Obscenity Against Vulnerable Migrants Amidst the Coronavirus... More

Friday, March 10, 2017

New Publication from Prof. Rebecca Bromwich

A new publication from Prof. Rebecca Bromwich is now available! The book, "Bad Mothers: Regulations, Representations, and Resistance" is released through Demeter Press and is co-edited by Prof. Bromwich, Dr. Michelle Hughes Miller, and Dr. Tamar Hager. About the Book While the image or construct of the “good mother” has been the focus of many... More

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