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Postcolonial George Eliot

(Palgrave MacMillan, 2017)
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This book examines the range of the colonial imaginary in Eliot’s works, from the domestic and regional to ancient and speculative colonialisms. It challenges monolithic, hegemonic views of George Eliot — whose novelistic career paralleled the creation of British India — and also dismissals of the postcolonial as ahistorical. It uncovers often-overlooked colonized figures in the novels. It also investigates Victorian Islamophobia in light of Eliot’s impatience with ignorance, intolerance, and xenophobia as well as her interrogation of the make-believe of endings. Drawing on a range of sources from Eugène Bodichon’s Algerian anthropological texts, the Persian journals of John Martyn, and postmodern re-engagements, Postcolonial George Eliot has implications for an understanding of the globalization of English, the decolonization of disciplinarity and periodization, and the roots of present-day conflict in the wider Mediterranean world.

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Author

Oliver Lovesey is an associate professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Canada. He has authored a number of monographs on George Eliot and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, and edited Victorian Social Activists’ Novels, The Mill on the Floss, Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ngũgĩ, and a Popular Music and Society special issue: ‘Popular Music and the Postcolonial’.


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Elements of Indigenous Style
A Guide for Writing By and About Indigenous Peoples

(Brush Education, 2018)
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Elements of Indigenous Style offers Indigenous writers and editors—and everyone creating works about Indigenous Peoples—the first published guide to common questions and issues of style and process. Everyone working in words or other media needs to read this important new reference, and to keep it nearby while they’re working.

This guide features:

  • Twenty-two succinct style principles.
  • Advice on culturally appropriate publishing practices, including how to collaborate with Indigenous Peoples, when and how to seek the advice of Elders, and how to respect Indigenous Oral Traditions and Traditional Knowledge.
  • Terminology to use and to avoid.
  • Advice on specific editing issues, such as biased language, capitalization, and quoting from historical sources and archives.
  • Case studies of projects that illustrate best practices.

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Author

Gregory Younging, of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation, was the publisher of Theytus Books, the first Indigenous-owned publishing house in Canada. Elements of Indigenous Style began as the house style guide Greg developed at Theytus. Greg also served as Assistant Director of Research to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and taught in the Indigenous Studies Program at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan).

 

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US – Hodge – ART106

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U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy
From 1789 to the Present

(ABC-CLIO, 2007)
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This work is a unique single source for information on the foreign policy―wars, treaties, initiatives, and doctrines―of all 43 presidents of the United States.

From George Washington’s isolationism to the Monroe Doctrine of hemispheric right to domination to Teddy Roosevelt’s imperialism through George W. Bush’s global war against terror, U.S. foreign policy has charted a varied course. As the area where the president has the most freedom of action, foreign policy can, and often does, change precipitously, according to the incumbent’s view of the world. No other branch of government rivals the president’s role in America’s rise from liberal republic to global superpower.

This work brings together the scholarship of leading historians and political scientists to present in-depth examination of the foreign policy of each president of the United States. This thorough presentation covers all aspects of international relations; although the work is not primarily interpretive, it does not shy from pointing out both notable successes and failures. The book’s 43 essays present quick access to the whole of the history of American foreign policy.

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Author

Carl Cavanagh Hodge is a professor emeritus of Political Science at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan). He is a former Senior Volkswagen Research Fellow with the American Institute of Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University and a former NATO-EAPC fellow. He is the author or editor of nine books and numerous articles on European and American politics and history. His titles include The Age of Imperialism, 1800-1914 (Greenwood, 2008); U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy, From 1789 to the Present (ABC-Clio, 2007); Atlanticism for a New Century: The Rise, Triumph and Decline of NATO (Prentice-Hall, 2004); The Trammels of Tradition: Social Democracy in Britain, France, and Germany (Greenwood,1994).


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Philosophy of Mathematics

(Elsevier, 2009)
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One of the most striking features of mathematics is the fact that we are much more certain about the mathematical knowledge we have than about what mathematical knowledge is knowledge of. Are numbers, sets, functions and groups physical entities of some kind? Are they objectively existing objects in some non-physical, mathematical realm? Are they ideas that are present only in the mind? Or do mathematical truths not involve referents of any kind?

It is these kinds of questions that have encouraged philosophers and mathematicians alike to focus their attention on issues in the philosophy of mathematics. Over the centuries a number of reasonably well-defined positions about the nature of mathematics have been developed and it is these positions (both historical and current) that are surveyed in the current volume.

Traditional theories (Platonism, Aristotelianism, Kantianism), as well as dominant modern theories (logicism, formalism, constructivism, fictionalism), are all analyzed and evaluated. Leading-edge research in related fields (set theory, computability theory, probability theory, paraconsistency) is also discussed.

The result is a handbook that not only provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments but that also serves as an indispensable resource for anyone wanting to learn about current developments in the philosophy of mathematics.

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Author

Andrew Irvine is a professor of Philosophy at UBC’s Okanagan Campus. He received his PhD from the University of Sydney for work in the Department of Traditional and Modern Philosophy on mathematical truth and scientific realism. Since then he has published and lectured on topics in the Philosophy of Mathematics, the History and Philosophy of Logic, and the Philosophy of Law. He is especially interested in the work of the twentieth-century philosopher, essayist and social critic, Bertrand Russell. He is co-author of the logic textbook Argument and author of the stage play Socrates on Trial.


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Confessions of a Teenage Leper

(Penguin Teen, 2018)
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Abby Furlowe has plans. Big plans. She’s hot, she’s popular, she’s a cheerleader and she’s going to break out of her small Texas town and make it big. Fame and fortune, adoration and accolades. It’ll all be hers.

But then she notices some spots on her skin. She writes them off as a rash, but things only get worse. She’s tired all the time, her hands and feet are numb and her face starts to look like day-old pizza. By the time her seventeenth birthday rolls around, she’s tried every cream and medication the doctors have thrown at her, but nothing works. When she falls doing a routine cheerleading stunt and slips into a coma, her mystery illness goes into overdrive and finally gets diagnosed: Hansen’s Disease, aka leprosy.

Abby is sent to a facility to recover and deal with this new reality. Her many misdiagnoses mean that some permanent damage has been done, and all of her plans suddenly come tumbling down. If she can’t even wear high heels anymore, what is the point of living? Cheerleading is out the window, and she might not even make it to prom. PROM!

But it’s during this recovery that Abby has to learn to live with something even more difficult than Hansen’s Disease. She’s becoming aware of who she really was before and what her behaviour was doing to others; now she’s on the other side of the fence looking in, and she doesn’t like what she sees. . .

Darkly comic but ultimately touching, Confessions of a Teenage Leper is an ugly duckling tale with a surprising twist.

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Author

Ashley Little received a BFA in Creative Writing and Film Studies from the University of Victoria and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. Her book The New Normal won the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize, and Anatomy of a Girl Gang won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award, longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and has been optioned for television. Confessions of a Teenage Leper is Ashley’s fifth novel. Ashley lives in British Columbia with her partner, their daughter, and her toy poodle, Huxley.


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Social Forces and the Revolution in Military Affairs
The Cases of Columbia and Mexico

(Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
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This book applies Revolution in Military Affairs theories to explain the various strategic victories and losses for assorted social forces in Colombia and Mexico. These countries form the ideal comparative case study of RMA, both from above by the state, and below by civil society.

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Author

James Rochlin is a professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia – Okanagan, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at York University. He has published widely in the areas of Latin American Politics, Global Theory, and Critical Security.

 

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Island Rivers
Fresh Water and Place in Oceania

(Australian National University Press, 2018)
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Anthropologists have written a great deal about the coastal adaptations and seafaring traditions of Pacific Islanders but have had much less to say about the significance of rivers for Pacific island culture, livelihood and identity. The authors of this collection seek to fill that gap in the ethnographic record by drawing attention to the deep historical attachments of island communities to rivers, and the ways in which those attachments are changing in response to various forms of economic development and social change. In addition to making a unique contribution to Pacific island ethnography, the authors of this volume speak to a global set of issues of immense importance to a world in which water scarcity, conflict, pollution and the degradation of riparian environments afflict growing numbers of people. Several authors take a political ecology approach to their topic, but the emphasis here is less on hydro-politics than on the cultural meaning of rivers to the communities we describe. How has the cultural significance of rivers shifted as a result of colonization, development and nation-building? How do people whose identities are fundamentally rooted in their relationship to a particular river renegotiate that relationship when the river is dammed to generate hydro-power or polluted by mining activities? How do blockages in the flow of rivers and underground springs interrupt the intergenerational transmission of local ecological knowledge and hence the ability of local communities to construct collective identities rooted in a sense of place?

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Editors

John R. Wagner is an associate professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. He conducts research on human/water relations in the Okanagan Valley, the Columbia River Basin in Canada and the United States, and in Papua New Guinea. His current Papua New Guinea project, undertaken in collaboration with the Kala Language Committee and other university researchers and students, is focused on documenting the Kala language through a study of their aquatic environment. In his Columbia River Basin research, John focuses on water governance and the relationship of the Columbia River Treaty to irrigation, food security and food sovereignty. In the Okanagan Valley, he is working on the Water Ways Project in collaboration with other university researchers and community organizations to develop a museum exhibition that will bring together Indigenous Syilx knowledge and western scientific knowledge, in support of wiser water stewardship, decolonization and reconciliation.

Jerry K. Jacka is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado in Boulder.


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The Social Life of Biometrics

(Rutgers University Press, 2020)
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In The Social Life of Biometrics, biometrics is loosely defined as a discrete technology of identification that associates physical features with a legal identity. Author George Grinnell considers the social and cultural life of biometrics by examining what it is asked to do, imagined to do, and its intended and unintended effects. As a human-focused account of technology, the book contends that biometrics needs to be understood as a mode of thought that informs how we live and understand one another; it is not simply a neutral technology of identification. Placing our biometric present in historical and cultural perspective, The Social Life of Biometrics examines a range of human experiences of biometrics. It features individual stories from locations as diverse as Turkey, Canada, Qatar, Six Nations territory in New York State, Iraq, the skies above New York City, a university campus and Nairobi to give cultural accounts of identification and look at the ongoing legacies of our biometric ambitions. It ends by considering the ethics surrounding biometrics and human identity, migration, movement, strangers, borders, and the nature of the body and its coherence. How has biometric thought structured ideas about borders, race, covered faces, migration, territory, citizenship, and international responsibility? What might happen if identity was less defined by the question of “who’s there?” and much more by the question “how do you live?”

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Author

George C. Grinnell is an associate professor of English and Cultural studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.


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International NGO Engagement, Advocacy, Activism
The Faces and Spaces of Change

(Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
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The world of international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) has dramatically changed during the last two decades. The book analyses how INGOs engage northern publics on issues of international development in changing political landscapes, and critically analyses the ways INGOs engage publics utilizing a set of values, the conflicting business models of INGOs, and their use of networked, deliberative and digital spaces.  The author focuses on INGOs within the contemporary international development landscape, enabling readers to further understand INGOs involvement in the politics of social change.

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Author

Helen Yanacopulos is the head of the department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan). She was previously a professor in International Politics and Development at the Open University, UK. She has worked with and researched international NGOs and civil society networks since 1995. She has been an academic consultant for the BBC on documentary series such as African School, Syrian School, Why Poverty? and Why Slavery? She has also worked for a number of international NGOs and multilateral organizations, and was also Series Editor for the Zed Book series Development Matters.


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In India and East Africa / E-Indiya nase East Africa
A travelogue in isiXhosa and English

(Wits University Press, 2020)
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In November 1949 D.D.T. Jabavu, the South African politician and professor of African languages at Fort Hare University, set out on a four-month trip to attend the World Pacifist Meeting in India. He wrote an isiXhosa account of his journey, which was published in 1951 by Lovedale Press. This new edition republishes the travelogue in the original isiXhosa, with an English translation by the late anthropologist Cecil Wele Manona.

The travelogue contains reflections on Jabavu’s social interactions during his travels, and on the conference itself, where he considered what lessons Gandhian principles might yield for South Africans engaged in struggles for freedom and dignity.

His commentary on non-violent resistance, and on the dangers of nationalism and racism, enriches the existing archive of intellectual exchanges between Africa and India from a black South African perspective.

The volume includes chapters by the editors that examine the networks of international solidarity – from post-independence India to the anti-colonial struggle in East Africa and the American civil rights movement – which Jabavu helped to strengthen, biographical sketches of Jabavu and of Manona, and an afterword that reflects on the historical and political significance of making African-language texts available to readers across Africa.

(Description Source: Wits University Press)


Author

Catherine Higgs is a professor of History in the Department of History and Sociology at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus. She earned her PhD in modern African history at Yale University. Her scholarship has focused on the intersections of religion, politics, labour, and activism; her approach is interdisciplinary and transnational. She is the author of The Ghost of Equality: The Public Lives of D. D. T. Jabavu of South Africa, 1885-1959 (Ohio University Press, 1997), and Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery and Colonial Africa (Ohio University Press, 2012). She is co-editor of Stepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and the Americas (Ohio University Press, 2002), and In India and East Africa/E-Indiya Nase East Africa: A Travelogue in IsiXhosa and English (University of the Witwatersrand Press, 2020). She is completing a book about the anti-apartheid activism of Catholic sisters in South Africa, which considers whether and how small actions can shift national policy.

Her research has been funded by the National Humanities Center, the American Philosophical Society, the Luso-American Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Before joining the University of British Columbia, she taught at the University of Tennessee, the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. She teaches about Africa, Southern Africa, and the Atlantic World; newer courses focus on commodities, markets, labour and public policy, including China’s investment in Africa.


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