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The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies

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

Series Editors: 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

Expansive Discourses:
Urban Sprawl in Calgary 1945-1978
By Max Foran
978-1-897425-13-8 (SC)
978-1-897425-14-5 (e-book)

Icon, Brand, Myth: The Calgary Stampede
Edited by Max Foran
978-1-897425-03-9 (HC)
978-1-897425-05-3 (SC)
978-1-897425-12-1 (e-book)

The Importance of being Monogamous:
Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915
By Sarah Carter
(copublished with U of A Press)
0-88864-490-6 (SC)
978-1-897425-19-0 (e-book)

Liberalism, Surveillances and Resistance: Indigenous communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927
By Keith D. Smith
978-1-897425-39-8 (SC)
978-1-897425-40-4 (e-book)

One Step Over the Line:
Toward a History of Women in North American Wests
By Betsy Jameson and Sheila McManus
(copublished with U of A Press)
0-88864-501-5 (SC)
978-1-897425-20-6 (e-book)

Issues in Distance Education

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

Series Editor: 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 s 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

A Designer's Log: Case Studies in Instructional Design
By Michael Power
978-1-897425-61-9 (SC)
978-1-897425-46-6 (e-book)

Mobile Learning: Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training
Edited by Mohamed Ally
97978-1-897425-43-5 (SC)
978-1-897425-44-2 (e-book)

Theory and Practice of Online Learning, 2nd edition
By Terry Anderson
978-1-897425-08-4 (SC)
978-1-897425-07-7 (e-book)

Labour Across Borders

Series Editors: 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.

Global Peace Studies

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

Series Editor: 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

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

Cultural Dialectics

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

Series Editor: 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 (print)
978-1-897425-29-9 (e-book)

Northern Love
By Paul Nonnekes
978-1-897425-22-0 (SC)
978-1-897425-23-7 (e-book)

Canadian Plays

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

Series Editor: 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

Nightwood Theatre: A Woman’s Work Is Always Done
Edited by Shelley Scott
978-1-897425-55-8 (SC)
978-1-897425-56-5 (e-book)

Hot Thespian Action!
Edited by Robin Whittaker
978-1-897425-26-8 (SC)
978-1-897425-27-5 (e-book)

Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters

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

Series Editors: 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.

A Very Capable Life: The Autobiography of Zarah Petri
By John Leigh Walters
978-1-897425-41-1 (SC)
978-1-897425-42-8 (e-book)

Letters from the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery
By Helen Waldstein Wilkes
978-1-897425-53-4 (SC)
978-1-897425-54-1 (e-book)

Mingling Voices

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

Series Editor: 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 (print)
978-1-897425-71-8 (e-book)

Poems for a Small Park
By E. D. Blodgett
978-1-897425-33-6 (print)
978-1-897425-34-3 (e-book)

[upcoming title]
Windfall Apples: Tanka and Kyoka
By Richard Stevenson
978-1-897425-88-6 (print)
978-1-897425-89-3 (e-book)

Honouring our Ancestors: Indigenous Knowledge Series

Series Editors: Tracey Lindberg and Winona Wheeler

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

A scholar of Indigenous Studies, Dr. Winona Wheeler's professional and academic areas include Traditional Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous oral histories, and Indigenous anti-colonial inquiry.

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 Editors: 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 1801-1867 and is currently at work on the period 1868-1914. 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.