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British Columbia Politics and Government
British Columbia’s unique geographical location and relative isolation in Canada makes for an interesting study of how politics can be done differently in the federation. The contributors to British Columbia Politics and Government highlight the...
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 144-5
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Seeking Balance: Conversations with BC Women in Politics
BC women have made important gains in electoral politics over the past century. In the national context, British Columbia has led the way, being the first province to elect a female premier, the first to...
BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 132-133
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The Politics of Voting: Reforming Canada’s Electoral System
The audience for The Politics of Voting is likely an informed public that is grappling with the arguments for and against electoral reform in Canada. In this book, Dennis Pilon has two goals, each of...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 205-6
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Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture.
The unique circumstances of indigenous women are often overlooked in the literature on both mainstream feminism and indigenous activism. Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture is thus a welcome addition to the existing scholarship....
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 146-7
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Svend Robinson: A Life in Politics
I vividly remember when I first heard the name “Svend Robinson.” I was attending the wedding of a distant cousin I had never met before and have not seen since. At the reception, in Burnaby,...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 223-25
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Protest and Politics: The Promise of Social Movement Societies
Over the last ten years, Canada has seen recurring waves of protest including Occupy, Idle No More, and Black Lives Matter, among others. This collection provides an account of the role of protest in contemporary...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 165-166
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Pro-Family Politics and Fringe Parties in Canada
One of the most contentious aspects of politics is the legislation of morals. How much should governments be beholden to any one set of religious beliefs held by influential minorities or a major ity? Chris...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 99-101
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Negotiating Demands: The Politics of Skid Row Policing in Edinburgh, San Francisco and Vancouver
Negotiating Demands originates from Huey’s PhD dissertation of the same title completed at UBC in 2005 under the supervision of Dr. Richard Ericson, a professor of criminology and law. Unfortunately, due to the above fact,...
BC Studies no. 158 Summer 2008 | Page(s) 131-3
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Métis in Canada: History, Identity, Law and Politics
A decade has passed since R v Powley determined that the Métis in Sault Ste. Marie have an Aboriginal right to hunt, and we are still coming to terms with its significance. The multidisciplinary collection...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 141-42
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The Campbell Revolution? Power, Politics and Policy in BC
This is one of those rare collections that focusses on a recent significant political transition. In doing so Jason Lacharite and Tracy Summerville have produced a needed and worthwhile book. For those not cognizant of recent...
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Transforming Provincial Politics: The Political Economy of Canada’s Provinces and Territories in the Neoliberal Era
Provincial specialists can have crowded bookshelves. Because good material is dispersed and rare, many things grace my shelves “just in case.” But this anthology arrives just in time — and I will work it hard...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 170-172
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Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom
Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las; Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom follows one woman’s involvement with “colonial interventions” (407) into Kwa’waka’wakw economics, government, and religion in the late nineteenth and early...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 228-229
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People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia
This is the most important book now available on children and public policy in British Columbia. Its contributions by engaged and thoughtful scholar-advocates should be required reading for all Canadians interested in the welfare of...
BC Studies no. 155 Autumn 2007 | Page(s) 137-9
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Canadian Liberalism and the Politics of Border Control, 1867-1967
Always among the more contentious of Canadian public policies, the control of immigration, legal and illegal, is once again on the front burner. Political scientist Christopher Anderson sets himself the task of explaining the broad...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 143-44
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Municipalities and Multiculturalism: The Politics of Immigration in Toronto and Vancouver
Kristin R. Good, a political scientist, accomplished two main objectives in this book: (1) investigating how and why municipalities responded to dramatic changes in their ethno-cultural composition and (2) evaluating her findings about municipal multicultural...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 177-179
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No Laughing Matter: Adventure, Activism and Politics
For some readers, Margaret Mitchell’s title will bring to mind a turning point in Canadian feminists’ struggle for women’s equality: an outrageous uproar of male shouting and laughing when Mitchell, MP for Vancouver East, told...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 143-144
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Before and After the State: Politics, Poetics, and People(s) in the Pacific Northwest
The authors of Before and After the State: Politics, Poetics, and People(s) in the Pacific Northwest attempt to expand our understanding of the development of two nations, and a border between them, from a mostly political story...
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The House (Convention Centre, Stadium, Rapid Transit System, Etc.) That Jack Built: Jack Volrich and Vancouver Politics
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 53, Spring 1982
BC Studies no. 53 Spring 1982 | Page(s) 72-5
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International Rivers: The Politics of Cooperation
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 41, Spring 1979
BC Studies no. 41 Spring 1979 | Page(s) 61-3
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The New Reality: The Politics of Restraint in British Columbia
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 68, Winter 1985
BC Studies no. 68 Winter 1985-1986 | Page(s) 73-6
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The Politics of Racism: The Uprooting of Japanese Canadians During the Second World War
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 53, Spring 1982
BC Studies no. 53 Spring 1982 | Page(s) 66-8
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