Book — ...of the penitentiary, and the first federal prison, Kingston Penitentiary, opened in 1835. It was not long, however, before the government of Upper Canada was compelled to acknowledge that the...
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Contributor — Joan Sangster is a professor of women's studies and history at Trent University, where she also teaches at the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Native Studies. Her most recent...
Book — This collection of essays stems from a joint conference held at the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth by the Committee on Canadian Labour History and the Society for the...
Book — In 1983 and 1984 the Canadian Studies Program of the Secretary of State funded four lecture series at Canadian universities on the history of the Canadian working class. This volume...
Book — ...harden into walls, are heavily securitized, and their primary function becomes keeping the unwanted out. Challenging Borders: Contingencies and Consequences sets out to explore the concrete, complex effects of borders...
Blog — ...Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez Indigenous knowledge is crucial to managing natural resources, mitigating climate change, and revitalizing communities. Indigenous women’s knowledge in particular has is rooted in relationships both human and spiritual...
Blog — ...women’s knowledge, its rootedness in relationships both human and spiritual, and its inseparability from land and landscape. From the reconstruction of cultural and ecological heritage by Naskapi women in Québec...
Blog — ...mother.” Reitman hopes that if the conditions that women face as both mothers and employees are made more visible, then the support and policy changes that women so desperately need...
Blog — ...on the Saturday with a pile of books for you to buy. We are looking forward to hearing Harsha Walia’s Saturday afternoon plenary, “Racism, Austerity, and Precarity: Canada’s Role in...