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It's Attachment

How do we make sense of our relationships -- successes and failures, preferences and challenges, past and present. And after we make sense of them all -- what do we do to increase the successes that we ...

Disfigured

By (author) Amanda Leduc
Categories: Sociology
Series: Exploded Views

Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty? | If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? ...

Naissance d'une population

By (author) Hubert Charbonneau
Categories: Population and demography
Series: PUM

Quand les Français entreprennent d’occuper la région du Saint-Laurent, ils s’installent dans un territoire inhabité, où seuls des nomades séjournent temporairement pour chasser et pêcher. Leur ...

Inuit, Oblate Missionaries, and Grey Nuns in the Keewatin, 1865-1965

Over the century between the first Oblate mission to the Canadian central Arctic in 1867 and the radical shifts brought about by Vatican II, the region was the site of complex interactions between Inuit, ...

Making Surveillance States

Edited by Robert Heynen & Emily van der Meulen
Categories: Sociology

Making Surveillance States opens up new and exciting perspectives on how systems of state surveillance developed over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book challenges us to rethink the presumed ...

BlackLife

By (author) Rinaldo Walcott & Idil Abdillahi
Categories: Social theory
Series: Semaphore

What does it mean in the era of Black Lives Matter to continue to ignore and deny the violence that is the foundation of the Canadian nation state? BlackLife discloses the ongoing destruction of Black ...

Disrupting Breast Cancer Narratives

By (author) Emilia Nielsen
Categories: Sociology

Disrupting Breast Cancer Narratives examines the power and potential of unruly personal breast cancer stories and what the disruptive elements of such stories do both personally and politically. The book ...

La laisse du tigre

If a Bengal tiger anxiously splashes around in a small plastic pool in the summer and feeds on supermarket meat, is it still a tiger? By examining the troubled existence of so-called wild animals now ...

Miscarriages of Justice in Canada

By (author) Kathryn M. Campbell
Categories: Sociology

 

Innocent people are regularly convicted of crimes they did not commit. A number of systemic factors have been found to contribute to wrongful convictions, including eyewitness misidentification, false ...

Tout ce que la science sait de la religion

By (author) Daniel Baril
Categories: Sociology and anthropology

La littérature scientifique regorge d’informations sur le phénomène religieux qui, malheureusement, atteignent rarement le grand public. L’auteur a parcouru des centaines de ces travaux et nous ...