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Pepper in Our Eyes
The APEC Affair

(University of British Columbia Press, 2000)
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In November 1997, the world media converged on Vancouver to cover the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. The major news story that emerged, however, had little to do with the crisis unfolding in the Asian economies. At the UBC campus, where the APEC leaders’ meeting was held, a predictable student protest met with an unusually strong police response. A crowd of students was pepper-sprayed, along with a CBC cameraman. The dramatic video footage of the incident that appeared on the evening news shocked Canadians. The use of noxious chemicals to attack non-violent protesters somehow seemed un-Canadian. It looked more like something that police and soldiers in less democratic countries would do.

Other news stories developed. Two dozen law professors wrote to Prime Minister Chrétien to report that a number of serious constitutional violations that had taken place on campus. One protester, held for fourteen hours for displaying a sign saying “Free Speech,” initiated legal proceedings. Other lawsuits followed. The RCMP and the government of Canada were named as defendants, and a public inquiry was launched. A central issue was whether the Prime Minister’s officials gave orders of a political nature to the police that resulted in law-abiding citizens being assaulted and arrested.

But why all the fuss? So what if the Prime Minister gave orders to the police? The contributors to Pepper in Our Eyes maintain that the “so what” question is of vital importance. The events at APEC raised serious questions about constitutional principle, the role of police in a democratic society, public accountability, and the effects of globalization on rights and politics. The contributors, experts in a variety of fields, draw upon their knowledge to explain – in plain English – the background issues and the values at stake. Some of the authors, such as Gerald Morin, chair of the first RCMP Public Complaints Commission, and CBC journalist Terry Milewski, had a direct connection with the APEC affair.

By getting at the fundamental issues behind the APEC affair, Pepper in Our Eyes seeks to raise our civic consciousness. It shows that there was much more at stake that day than the questionable use of pepper spray.

(Description Source: University of British Columbia Press)


Author

William Wesley Pue was appointed Johnston Professor of Legal History at the University of Manitoba in 1990. In 1993, he transfered to the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) as Nemetz Professor of Legal History. At UBC (Vancouver), he served as Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President for Academic Resources, and at UBC (Okanagan) he served as Provost. He also held visiting-scholar positions at La Trobe University, the University of Adelaide and the University of London, and served as President of the Canadian Law and Society Association before passing away in 2019.


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The Postcolonial Intellectual
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o in Context

(Ashgate Publishing, 2015)
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Oliver Lovesey examines the conundrum of the postcolonial intellectual, a central yet critically overlooked figure in the postcolonial project. He focuses on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o within his cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts, primarily with respect to his non-fictional prose writings, including his neglected early journalism and his most recent autobiographical and theoretical work. Lovesey argues for Ngũgĩ’s position as a major postcolonial theorist who helped establish postcolonial studies.

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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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Forgiving the Gift
The Philosophy of Generosity in Shakespeare and Marlowe

(Duquesne University Press, 2012)
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Forgiving the Gift challenges the tendency to reflexively understand gifts as exchanges, negotiations, and circulations. Lawrence reads plays by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare as informed by an early modern belief in the possibility and even necessity of radical generosity, of gifts that break the cycle of economy and self-interest.

The prologue reads Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus to show how the play aligns gift and grace, depicting Faustus’s famous bond as the instrument simultaneously of reciprocal exchange and of damnation. In the introduction, the author frames his argument theoretically by placing Marcel Mauss’s classic essay, The Gift, into dialogue with Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, and Paul Ricoeur to sketch two very different understandings of gift-giving. In the first, described by Mauss, the gift becomes a covert form of exchange. Though Mauss contrasts the gift economy with the market economy, his description of the gift economy nevertheless undermines his own project of discovering in it a basis for social solidarity. In the second understanding of gift exchange, derived from the philosophy of Levinas, the gift expresses the radical asymmetry of ethical concern.

Literature and philosophy scholars alike will benefit from the original readings of The Merchant of Venice, Edward II, King Lear, Titus Andronicus, and The Tempest, which constitute the body of the text. These readings find in the plays a generosity that exceeds the social practice of gift-giving, because extraordinarily generous acts of friendship or filial affection survive the collapse of social norms. Antonio in Merchant and the title character in Edward II practice a friendship whose extravagance marks its excess. Lear, on the other hand, brings about his tragedy by attempting to reduce filial love to debt. Titus also discovers a love excessive to social convention when rape and mutilation annihilate his daughter’s cultural value. Finally, Prospero in The Tempest sacrifices power and even his own life for the love of his daughter, giving a gift rendered asymmetrical by both its excess and its secrecy.

While proposing new readings of works of Renaissance drama, Forgiving the Gift also questions the model of human life from which many contemporary readings, especially those characterized as new historicist or cultural materialist, grow. In so doing, it addresses questions of how we are to understand literary texts, but also how we are to live with others in the world.

(Description Source: Duquesne University Press)


Author

Sean Lawrence is an associate professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, and is a past fellow of the Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dalhousie University. His work has appeared in the European Journal of English Studies, English Studies in Canada, Renascence, and other journals.


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War, Strategy and the Modern State, 1792-1914

(Routledge, 2017)
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This book is a comparative study of military operations conducted my modern states between the French Revolution and World War I. It examines the complex relationship between political purpose and strategy on the one hand, and the challenge of realizing strategic goals through military operations on the other. It argues further that following the experience of the Napoleonic Wars military strength was awarded a primary status in determining the comparative modernity of all the Great Powers; that military goals came progressively to distort a sober understanding of the national interest; that a genuinely political and diplomatic understanding of national strategy was lost; and that these developments collectively rendered the military and political catastrophe of 1914 not inevitable yet probable.

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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 the 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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The Ghost of Equality
The Public Lives of D.D.T. Jabavu of South Africa, 1885-1959

(Ohio University Press, 1997)
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Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu was born in the Cape Colony in British southern Africa on October 20, 1885, when a few African men could vote and the prospects for black equality with the ruling whites seemed promising. He died on August 3, 1959, in the Cape Province of the Union of South Africa, eleven years after the apartheid state had begun stripping blacks of their rights and exorcising the ‘ghost of equality’ with a completeness unparalleled in the country’s history. The ‘ghost of equality was the last vestige of the Cape liberal tradition — itself best summed up by the dictum ‘equal rights for all civilized men’ — finally erased in 1959 with the passage of legislation that would, the following year, remove from parliament the last elected white representatives of Africans.

If D.D.T. Jabavu’s life reveals anything about South Africa’s political history, it is that this history was not monolithic. It was not simply a lengthy confrontation between a black elite represented by the African National Congress and the white segregationist state. Rather, there was a range of black political opinion and activity, of which Jabavu, an active participant in virtually every government-sponsored and every major extra-parliamentary conference between 1920 and the late 1940s, represented one prominent historical strain.

This book, however, is about more than D.D.T. Javavu’s politics; it is about his public life, or perhaps more accurately, his public lives. The book is arranged thematically, divided according to the parts Jabavu played: student, teacher, Methodist, and politician.

(Description Source: Ohio 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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Thomas Reid
Selected Philosophical Writings

(Imprint Academic: Library of Scottish Philosophy, 2012)
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Thomas Reid (1710-1796) is the foremost exponent of the Scottish “common sense” school of philosophy. Educated at Marischal College in Aberdeen, Reid subsequently taught at King’s College, and was a founder of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society. His Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense was published in 1764, the same year he succeeded Adam Smith as Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He resigned from active teaching duties in 1780 to devote himself to writing and published two more books — Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1785) and Essays on the Active Powers of Man (1788).

Within a short time of publication, Reid’s works were translated into French and German, and greatly influenced debates in philosophy and psychology in Europe. His influence in the emerging colleges and universities of post-revolutionary America was even greater. Reid was widely regarded as David Hume’s most sophisticated contemporary critic. His critique of the “theory of ideas” that lay behind both Hume’s scepticism and Berkeley’s immaterialism, his critique of Locke’s theory of personal identity, and his defence of “moral liberty” against determinism, are all of enduring interest and significance.

The aim of this comprehensive selection of his writings is to make the key elements of Reid’s philosophical work available to a new generation of readers. Two other philosophers of the “common sense” school are featured in the Library of Scottish Philosophy— James Beattie and Dugald Stewart.

(Description Source: Imprint Academic)


Author

Giovanni B. Grandi is an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Western Ontario, working with Lorne Falkenstein on topics of perception in early modern philosophy. Now, he researches and teaches the history of economic thought and early modern philosophy.


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Breath Tracks

(Williams-Wallace Publishers/Theytus Books, 1991)
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The writings of Jeannette Armstrong, who is an Okanagan Indian, are eloquent, forceful and innovative. Her tone is clear, her stance honest, her words shimmer in beauty. This book of poems tracks with words the lives, pain and resilience of Native peoples and their long memoried past. Jeannette Armstrong, novelist, poet, children’s story writer, and educator lives in Penticton, B. C.

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Author

Jeannette Armstrong is a Canadian author, educator, artist and activist. She is a professor at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan and is the Executive Director of the En’owkin Centre in Penticton, BC.


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The African Diaspora in Canada
Negotiating Identity and Belonging

(University of Calgary Press, 2006)
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What does it mean to be African-Canadian?

The African Diaspora in Canada addresses the conceptual difficulties and political contestations surrounding the term “African-Canadian.” In the midst of this fraught terrain, it focuses on first-generation, black continental Africans who have immigrated in the past four decades. In highlighting their experiences, this book addresses the empirical, conceptual, and methodological gaps that homogenize all black people and their experiences.

Rooted in the specific experiences of continental Africans in Canada, this book examines the social constructions of African-Canadians, their experiences within the political and education systems, and with the labour market. It explores the forms of cooperation and tension that characterize African-Canadian communities, and how multiple transnational spaces are negotiated and occupied. The book also explores the circumstances of children, as they try to define their identities vis-à-vis their parents and the larger Canadian society.

(Description Source: University of Calgary Press)


Author

Wisdom Tettey served as Dean of the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies and as Dean of the Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences at UBC Okanagan before moving to the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is a leading researcher on African diaspora, politics and the media.


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Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli
Fashion, Femininity and Modernity

(Berg, 2012)
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Through a highly original and detailed analysis of the memoirs, interviews and other life writings of Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli, this book explores changing notions of femininity in the early decades of the twentieth century, when the democratization of fashion began.

Examining the idea of modernity, eternity and the ephemeral in the writings of these haute couturiers, the book reflects on fashion’s ambivalent approach to women, which both celebrated and vilified them, presenting them as both ultra-modern style leaders and irrational creatures stuck in the past.

This fascinating text is key reading for scholars and students of fashion, gender studies, cultural studies and history.

(Description Source: Bloomsbury Academic)


Author

Ilya Parkins is an associate professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada. She specializes in feminist theory, mass culture, fashion, and femininities. Her new project is about the wedding attire of folks who identify as feminist and/or queer. It is supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.


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ePub ISBN: 9780857853295
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Promise of Eden
The Canadian Expansionist Movement and the Idea of the West 1856-1900

(The University of Toronto Press, 1992)
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Through the last half of the nineteenth century, numbers of Canadians began to regard the West as a land of ideal opportuniy for large-scale agricultural settlement. This belief, in turn, led Canada to insist on ownership of the region and on immediate development.

Underlying the expansionist movement was the assumption that the West was to be a hinterland to central Canada, both in its economic relationship and in its cultural development. But settlers who accepted the extravagant promises of expanionism found it increasingly difficult to reconcile the assumption of easstern dominance with their own perception of the needs of the West and of Canada.

Doug Owram analyses the various phases of this development, examining in particular the writings – historical, scientific, journalistic, and promotional – that illuminate one of the most significant movements in the history of nineteenth-century Canada.

(Description Source: The University of Toronto Press)


Author

Doug Owram is a professor Emeritus of History at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. He was Deputy Vice-Chancellor of UBCO from 2006 to 2012. During his term, he oversaw the expansion of enrollment from 3,200 to 8,000 full-time students and a $400 million construction program. He was formerly Vice President (Academic) and Provost at the University of Alberta. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1990.


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Paper ISBN: 9780802073907
eBook ISBN: 9781442678811


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