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Series

The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies

1915-8181 The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies series (Print)
1915-819X The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies series (Online)

Series Editor(s): Alvin Finkel and Sarah Carter

Writing on the western halves of Canada and the United States once focused on the alienation of the peoples of these regions from residents of the eastern regions. The mythology of a homogenized West fighting for a place in the sun blunted interest in the lives of ordinary people and the social struggles that pitted some groups in the West against others, usually the elite groups that claimed to speak for the whole region on the national stage. This series challenges simplistic definitions of the West and its institutions. It focuses upon the ways in which various groups of Westerners—women, workers, Aboriginal peoples, and farmers, and people of various ethnic origins, among others—tried to shape the institutions and attitudes of the region. It also assesses why and how the people of the two Wests established local and regional myths and how these myths in turn contributed to cultural and social developments. The series demonstrates that the social structures and cultural attitudes in both Canada and the United States are in constant evolution, with echoes of established mythologies constantly being challenged by new understandings and changing constellations of social forces. This series draws on a variety of disciplines and is intended for both university audiences and lay audiences with an interest in the American and Canadian Wests.

Series Titles

[upcoming title]
Alberta's Day Care Controversy:
From 1908 to 2009 and Beyond

by Tom Langford
978-1-926836-02-7 (SC)
978-1-926836-03-4 (ebook)


Expansive Discourses:
Urban Sprawl in Calgary, 1945-1978

by Max Foran
978-1-897425-13-8 (SC)
978-1-897425-14-5 (ebook)


Icon, Brand, Myth:
The Calgary Stampede

by Max Foran
978-1-897425-03-9 (HC)
978-1-897425-05-3 (SC)
978-1-897425-12-1 (ebook)


The Importance of Being Monogamous:
Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada in 1915

by Sarah Carter
978-0-88864-490-9 (SC)
978-1-897425-19-0 (ebook)


Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance:
Indigenous Communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927

by Keith D. Smith
978-1-897425-39-8 (SC)
978-1-897425-40-4 (ebook)


One Step Over the Line:
Toward a History of Women in the North American Wests

edited by Elizabeth Jameson and Sheila McManus
978-0-88864-501-2 (SC)
978-1-897425-20-6 (ebook)

[upcoming title]
Recollecting:
Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands

edited by Sarah Carter and Patricia McCormack
978-1-897425-82-4 (SC)
978-1-897425-83-1 (ebook)


The West and Beyond:
New Perspectives on an Imagined Region

edited by Alvin Finkel, Sarah Carter, and Peter Fortna
978-1-897425-80-0 (SC)
978-1-897425-81-7 (ebook)


Issues in Distance Education

1919-4382 Issues in Distance Education series (Print)
1919-4390 Issues in Distance Education series (Online)

Series Editor(s): Terry Anderson, Ph.D.

Editor, International Review of Research on Open and Distance Learning
terrya@athabascau.ca

Distance education is the fastest growing mode of both formal and informal teaching, training and learning. It has many variants that include e-learning, mobile learning and immersive learning environments. This series offers informative and accessible overviews, research results, discussions and explorations of current issues, technologies and services used in distance education. Each volume focuses on critical issues and emerging trends, while noting the evolutionary history and roots of this specialized mode of education and training. The series is targeted at a wide group of readers including distance education teachers, trainers, administrators, researchers and students.

Series Titles


Accessible Elements:
Teaching Science Online and at a Distance

edited by Dietmar Kennepohl and Lawton Shaw
978-1-897425-47-3 (SC)
978-1-897425-48-0 (ebook)


A Designer's Log:
Case Studies in Instructional Design

by Michael Power
978-1-897425-61-9 (SC)
978-1-897425-46-6 (ebook)


Emerging Technologies in Distance Education
edited by George Veletsianos
978-1-897425-76-3 (SC)
978-1-897425-77-0 (ebook)


Mobile Learning:
Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training

Edited by Mohamed Ally
978-1-897425-43-5 (SC)
978-1-897425-44-2 (ebook)


The Theory and Practice of Online Learning, second edition
edited by Terry Anderson
978-1-897425-08-4 (SC)
978-1-897425-07-7 (ebook)


Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters

1921-6653 Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters series (Print)
1921-6661 Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters series (Online)

Series Editor(s): Janice Dickin

Our Lives aims at both student and general readership. Today’s students, living in a world of blogs, understand that there is much to be learned from the everyday lives of everyday people. Our Lives seeks to make available previously unheard voices from the past and present. Social history in general contests the construction of history as the story of elites and the act of making available the lives of everyday people, as seen by themselves, subverts even further the contentions of social historiography. At the same time, Our Lives aims to make available books that are good reads. General readers are guaranteed quality, provided with introductions that they can use to contextualize material and are given a glimpse of other works they might want to look at. It is not usual for university presses to provide this type of primary material. Athabasca considers provision of this sort of material as important to its role as Canada’s Open University.

Series Titles


Letters from the Lost:
A Memoir of Discovery

by Helen Waldstein Wilkes
978-1-897425-53-4 (SC)
978-1-897425-54-1 (ebook)


A Very Capable Life:
The Autobiography of Zarah Petri

by John Leigh Walters
978-1-897425-41-1 (SC)
978-1-897425-42-8 (ebook)


A Woman of Valour:
The Biography of Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle

by Claire Trépanier
978-1-897425-84-8 (SC)
978-1-897425-85-5 (ebook)


Mingling Voices

1917-9405 Mingling Voices series (Print)
1917-9413 Mingling Voices series (Online)

Series Editor(s): Manijeh Mannani

Manijeh Mannani is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature.
manijehm@athabascau.ca

“Give us wholeness, for we are broken
But who are we asking, and why do we ask“
— Phyllis Webb

National in scope, Mingling Voices draws on the work of both new and established novelists, short story tellers, and poets. The series especially, but not exclusively, aims to promote authors who challenge traditions and cultural stereotypes. It is designed to reach a wide variety of readers, both generalists and specialists. Mingling Voices is also open to literary works that delineate the immigrant experience in Canada.

Series Titles


Dreamwork
by Jonathan Locke Hart
978-1-897425-70-1 (SC)
978-1-897425-71-8 (ebook)


The dust of just beginning
by Don Kerr
978-1-897425-92-3 (SC)
978-1-897425-93-0 (ebook)


Poems for a Small Park
by E. D. Blodgett
978-1-897425-33-6 (SC)
978-1-897425-34-3 (ebook)

[upcoming title]
Roy & Me:
Inventing Memory

by Maurice Yacowar
978-1-926836-10-2 (SC)
978-1-926836-11-9 (ebook)


Windfall Apples:
Tanka and Kyoka

by Richard Stevenson
978-1-897425-88-6 (SC)
978-1-897425-89-3 (ebook)


Global Peace Studies

1921-4022 Global Peace Studies series (Print)
1921-4030 Global Peace Studies series (Online)

Series Editor(s): George Melnyk

George Melnyk is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary. He is a founder and co-chair of the Consortium for Peace Studies at the University of Calgary and the editor of Canada and the New American Empire: War and Anti-War (2004).
gmelnyk@ucalgary.ca

Global Peace Studies is an interdisciplinary series that publishes works dealing with the discourses of war and peace, conflict and post-conflict studies, human rights and international development, human security and peacebuilding. The series is global in perspective and welcomes submissions of monographs and collections from scholars and activists. Of particular interest are works on militarism, structural violence, post-war reconstruction and reconciliation in divided societies. The series encourages contributions from a wide variety of disciplines and professions including health, law, social work, education, the social sciences and humanities.

Series Titles


The ABCs of Human Survival:
A Paradigm for Global Citizenship

by Arthur Clark
978-1-897425-68-8 (SC)
978-1-897425-69-5 (ebook)


Bomb Canada and Other Unkind Remarks in the American Media
by Chantal Allan
978-1-897425-49-7 (SC)
978-1-897425-50-3 (ebook)


Labour Across Borders

1922-3552 Labour Across Borders series (Print)
1922-3560 Labour Across Borders series (Online)

Series Editor(s): Ingo Schmidt and Jeff Taylor

Labour studies once had a national and institutional focus that rarely allowed for "border crossings" that linked labour movements in different countries. A New Labour History arose that challenged both the national and institutional narratives, focusing instead on gender, occupational, racial and regional divisions among workers. Much of this work ignored social class and new work on globalization also often dismisses any notion of labour as a social force within the thin air of a borderless world.

Labour Across Borders attempts to resurrect both social class analysis and the perspective of labour as a potentially liberating social force. The series features analyses that at once recognize the divisions among workers that the New Labour History examined and explore possibilities of overcoming them.

Series Titles

[upcoming title]
The Anatomy of Ethical Leadership:
To Lead Our Organizations in a Conscientious and Authentic Manner

by Lyse Langlois
978-1-897425-74-9 (SC)
978-1-897425-75-6 (ebook)


The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada
by Bob Barnetson
978-1-926836-00-3 (SC)
978-1-926836-01-0 (ebook)


Cultural Dialectics

1915-836X Cultural Dialectics series (Print)
1915-8378 Cultural Dialectics series (Online)

Series Editor(s): Raphael Foshay

Associate Professor, MA Program in Integrated Studies
Athabasca University
rfoshay@athabascau.ca

"The difference between subject and object slices through
subject as well as through object."

— Theodore Adorno

The series provides an open arena of debate engaging questions of culture and dialectic: their practices, theoretical forms, and relations to one another and to other spheres and modes of inquiry.

Manuscripts from within or across disciplines that seriously engage the above and related questions are actively solicited. Approaches from or engaging with any of the following are especially encouraged: continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, Frankfurt and Birmingham school traditions of cultural theory, deconstruction, gender, postcoloniality, and interdisciplinarity.

Series Titles


Making Game:
An Essay on Hunting, Familiar Things, and the Strangeness of Being Who One Is

by Peter L. Atkinson
978-1-897425-28-2 (SC)
978-1-897425-29-9 (ebook)


Northern Love:
An Exploration of Canadian Masculinity

by Paul Nonnekes
978-1-897425-22-0 (SC)
978-1-897425-23-7 (ebook)


Canadian Plays

1917-5086 Canadian Plays series (Print)
1917-5094 Canadian Plays series (Online)

Series Editor(s): Anne Nothof

Anne Nothof is an English professor with a predilection for theatre. She has developed and tutors drama courses for Athabasca University and has edited several collections of plays and published numerous critical essays on Canadian and British drama.
annen@athabascau.ca

This series features a broad range of new Canadian plays, with at least one professional production, and with a particular emphasis on Alberta works. Publications will include single full-length plays, collections of plays by one playwright, and thematic collections by three or more playwrights. The target audience comprises theatre lovers, actors and playwrights, directors and producers, teachers and students.

Series Titles


Hot Thespian Action!:
Ten Premiere Plays from Walterdale Playhouse

edited by Robin C. Whittaker
978-1-897425-26-8 (SC)
978-1-897425-27-5 (ebook)


Nightwood Theatre:
A Woman’s Work Is Always Done

by Shelley Scott
978-1-897425-55-8 (SC)
978-1-897425-56-5 (ebook)


Honouring Our Ancestors: Indigenous Knowledge Series

Series Editor(s): Tracey Lindberg, Neal McLeod, and Leanne Simpson

Dr. Lindberg is a dedicated Indigenous rights advocate who researches and writes in the areas of Indigenous laws and Indigenous studies.

Dr. Neal Mcleod (Cree) possesses a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Saskatchewan and a Ph.D. from the University of Regina. His primary research areas include Cree culture and history, Western Canadian Indigenous history, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Research Methodologies, oral history research methodologies, Indigenous political history, Narrative Knowing, Anti colonial Theory, Treaties, Indigenous Art of Canada, and Canadian Indigenous Poetry.

Dr. Leanne Simpson (Mississauga) has a Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba. Her research interests include Indigenist theory and methodology, Indigenous political cultures and traditional governance, Nishnaabeg women, Indigenous Knowledge, and Indigenous philosophies on land and the environment.

Honouring Our Ancestors encourages studies that actively apply Indigenous Knowledge as a means of understanding, negotiating, and transforming the world around us. This series offers new, insightful and accessible teachings derived from studies in Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous ways of knowing, traditional ecological knowledge, and Indigenous pedagogy that are applied in a variety of sectors. This series seeks to address and include Indigenous knowledge by and for Indigenous peoples, inclusive and respectful of Indigenous understandings and protocols. It targets a wide audience including youth, students, teachers, policy makers, researchers and the general public.


Print Cultures in Context

Series Editor(s): Evelyn Ellerman and Abhijit Gupta

Evelyn Ellerman is an Associate Professor, Communication, Athabasca University. Her research interests are in the print culture histories of East and West Africa and the South Pacific Islands. She is currently involved in a cross-disciplinary, multi-national project to digitize documents related to the print cultures of Papua New Guinea. Dr. Ellerman can be reached at evelyne@thabascau.ca.

Abhijit Gupta is Reader in English at Jadavpur University. He is the co-editor, along with Swapan Chakravorty of the Book History in India series. He is also associate editor for South Asia for the Oxford Companion to the Book. He has just completed an electronic database and location register of all books printed in Bengali from 1801 to 1867 and is currently at work on the period from 1868 to 1914. Dr. Gupta can be reached at offog2@gmail.com.

This series invites new research into the study of authorship, dissemination, publication, and readership. It encourages transnational, historical and comparative approaches that contextualize print media, whether in their original form or in translation. Print Cultures in Context recognizes the relative youth of book history as a field and therefore welcomes innovative contributions to theory and methodology and to the exploration of relations between print and other media.


Historic Sites and Public Heritage

Series Editor(s): Mike Payne and Don Wetherell

Historic Sites and Public Heritage will include studies ranging across a broad spectrum of international, national, provincial, regional, and local historic sites and heritage locales. This series invites narrative histories as well as analytical and critical studies. A variety of disciplinary approaches will be accepted, including studies in history, archaeology, architecture, landscape architecture, planning, interpretation, and land use. Interdisciplinary studies will also be encouraged. Both historic and contemporary approaches will be accepted.