African-Print Fashion Now!
A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style

(Fowler Museum, UCLA, 2017)
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African-Print Fashion Now! introduces visitors to a dynamic and diverse African dress tradition and the increasingly interconnected fashion worlds that it inhabits: “popular” African-print styles created by local seamstresses and tailors across the continent; international runway fashions designed by Africa’s newest generation of couturiers; and boundary-breaking, transnational, and youth styles favored in Africa’s urban centers. All feature the colorful, boldly designed, manufactured cotton textiles that have come to be known as “African-print cloth.”

The book tells the global stories of these textiles—the early history of the print cloth trade in West and Central Africa, the expansion of production following independence movements, and the increasing popularity of Asian-made print cloth today. Popular African styles from Ghana, Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, and Senegal are featured, as well as groundbreaking runway fashions by some of Africa’s most talented couturiers: Ituen Basi, Gilles Touré, Lanre da Silva Ajayi, Titi Ademola, Lisa Folawiyo, Dent de Man, Adama Paris, Patricia Waota, Ikiré Jones, and Afua Dabanka. Black-and-white studio portraits illuminate print fashions of the 1960s and 1970s, while works by contemporary artists incorporate African print to convey evocative messages about heritage, hybridity, displacement, and aspiration.

Contemporary photographs by Omar Victor Diop, Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, and Hassan Hajjaj; paintings by Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga; and a mural by graffiti artist Docta suggest the ever-present role of fashion in African life. Throughout the volume, African-print fashions are considered as creative responses to key historical moments and the imaginings of Africa in the future.

(Description Source: University of Washington Press)

Editors

Suzanne Gott is an associate professor of Art History in the Department of Creative Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.  She has a Ph.D. in African Art History (Indiana University, Bloomington, 2002) and a Ph.D. in Folklore (Indiana University, Bloomington, 1994).

She served as lead curator for the UCLA Fowler Museum’s travelling exhibition, African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style, with three major 2017-2019 venues (Fowler Museum at UCLA; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN; and Mint Museum Randolph, Charlotte, NC). She is a co-editor and contributor to the multi-authored scholarly volume published in conjunction with the exhibition, which includes her essay, “ʻLife Dressing’ in Kumasi: African-Print Style in ‘Popular’ Fashion,” and two chapters co-authored with Kristyne Loughran, “Introducing African-Print Fashion” and “Vlisco–Rebranding into Fashion.”

She is co-editor with Dr. Kristyne Loughran of the book, Contemporary African Fashion (2010), in the Indiana University Press African Expressive Cultures series, which includes her essay, “The Ghanaian Kaba: Fashion That Sustains Culture.” Additional publications include: “Asante High-timers and the Fashionable Display of Women’s Wealth in Contemporary Ghana” (Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body, and Culture, 2009); and “The Power of Touch: Women’s Waist Beads in Ghana,” in Dress Sense: Emotional and Sensory Experiences of the Body and Clothes (Berg, 2007), edited by Donald Clay Johnson and Helen Bradley Foster.  She served as guest curator for The Newark Museum exhibition, Glass Beads of Ghana (January 2008-March 2010) and Consulting Curator for the African Collection at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (2006-2010).

Kristyne S. Loughran is an independent scholar who specializes in African jewelry and fashion.

Betsy D. Quick is the former Director of Education and Curatorial Affairs, Fowler Museum at UCLA.

Leslie W. Rabine is a professor Emeritus at University of California, Davis.

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Open Wide a Wilderness
Canadian Nature Poems

(Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2009)
ART 108

The first anthology to focus on the rich tradition of Canadian nature poetry in English, Open Wide a Wilderness is a survey of Canada’s regions, poetries, histories, and peoples as these relate to the natural world. The poetic responses included here range from the heights of the sublime to detailed naturalist observation, from the perspectives of pioneers and those who work in the woods and on the sea to the dismayed witnesses of ecological destruction, from a sense of terror in confrontation with the natural world to expressions of amazement and delight at the beauty and strangeness of nature, our home. Arranged chronologically, the poems include excerpts from late-eighteenth-century colonial pioneer epics and selections from both well-known and more obscure nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers. A substantial section is devoted to contemporary writers who are working within and creating a new ecopoetic aesthetic in the early twenty-first century.

Don McKay’s introductory essay, “Great Flint Singing,” explores in McKay’s inimitable way the thorny issues of Canadian poets’ representations of nature over the past 150 years. Focusing on key texts by Duncan Campbell Scott, Charles G. D. Roberts, Earle Birney, Dennis Lee, and others, the essay traces Wordsworthian influences in a New World context, celebrates Canadian poets’ love of natural history observation, and finds a way through a rich and contradictory tradition to current trends in ecopoetics.

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Author

Nancy Holmes is an associate professor in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies (FCCS) at UBC Okanagan. She has published six collections of poetry, most recently Arborophobia (University of Alberta Press, 2022) and The Flicker Tree: Okanagan Poems (Ronsdale Press, 2012), a collection of poems about the place, people, plants, and animals of the Okanagan Valley in the southern interior of British Columbia. Nancy won the 2017 Malahat Review’s Creative Non-Fiction award.

Nancy’s poems, essays and short stories have been published in Canada, the UK, and Ireland. She is the editor of Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009). She teaches Creative Writing and has been both Head of the Department of Creative Studies and the Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies in FCCS. She also collaborates with communities and other artists on eco art projects both locally and internationally, including the award-winning Border Free Bees project https://borderfreebees.com/.

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A First Course in Statistical Programming with R
3rd edn

(Cambridge University Press, 2021)
ART 108

This third edition of Braun and Murdoch’s bestselling textbook now includes discussion of the use and design principles of the tidyverse packages in R, including expanded coverage of ggplot2, and R Markdown. The expanded simulation chapter introduces the Box–Muller and Metropolis–Hastings algorithms. New examples and exercises have been added throughout. This is the only introduction you’ll need to start programming in R, the computing standard for analyzing data. This book comes with real R code that teaches the standards of the language. Unlike other introductory books on the R system, this book emphasizes portable programming skills that apply to most computing languages and techniques used to develop more complex projects. Solutions, datasets, and any errata are available from www.statprogr.science. Worked examples – from real applications – hundreds of exercises, and downloadable code, datasets, and solutions make a complete package for anyone working in or learning practical data science.

(Description Source: Cambridge University Press)

Author

John Braun is a professor of Statistics at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan). After completing his PhD in Statistics at the University of Western Ontario, he held positions at a number of universities, including Western for 14 years where he attained the rank of Full Professor and was Chair of the Statistics Graduate Program for 5 years. In 2014, he became Head of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics at UBC’s Okanagan campus. The following year he became Deputy Director of the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI).

His research in statistics has often been motivated by scientific problems, coming from psychology, biology, medicine, engineering and physics. His methodological research is concerned with smoothing and inference techniques as they apply to data visualization and process monitoring.

Duncan J. Murdoch is a professor emeritus and was a member of the R Core Team of developers and co-president of the R Foundation. He is one of the developers of the rgl package for 3D visualization in R, and has also developed numerous other R packages.

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White Space
Race, Privilege, and Cultural Economies of the Okanagan Valley

(UBC Press, 2021)
ART 108

Much attention has been paid to the changing culture and construction of the Canadian metropolis, but how are the workings of whiteness manifested in the rural-urban spaces? White Space analyzes the dominance of whiteness in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia to expose how this racial notion continues to sustain forms of settler privilege.

The region was formed under the racialized politics of nineteenth-century Canadian federalism and in the absence of treaties with the Okanagan Nation. Its demographic remains predominantly white today, while other densely urban Canadian regions embrace diversity. Using textual, historical, and media analysis along with interviews, and autoethnography, contributors to this perceptive collection critique the cultural economics of whiteness and white supremacy. The first half documents the historical construction of whiteness: how settlers and their ancestors have sought to exalt pioneers by erasing non-whites from the region’s heritage while Indigenous peoples resist this white-out. The second half explores the persistence of whiteness as an invisible organizing principle in the neoliberal deindustrialized present.

White Space moves beyond appraising whiteness as if it were a solid and unshakable category. Instead, it offers a powerful demonstration of how the concept can be re-envisioned, resisted, and reshaped in a context of economic change.

Researchers, students, and activists focused on issues of whiteness and locality, particularly in western Canada, will find this work indispensable. It will also interest a wider readership of those attuned to issues relating to neoliberalism, de-colonization, whiteness, class, gender, and privilege.

(Description Source: UBC Press)

Editors

Daniel Keyes is an associate professor in the department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, and was the founding coordinator of its Cultural Studies program. Along with a variety of book chapters, he has contributed articles on whiteness in the Okanagan to Theatre Research in Canada/Recherches théâtrales au Canada and Home Cultures: The Journal of Architecture, Design and Domestic Space.

Luís L.M. Aguiar is an associate professor of Sociology in the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. He is co-editor, with Andrew Herod, of The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy and, with Christopher J. Schneider, of Researching amongst the Elites: Challenges and Opportunities in Studying Up.

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Gender and Food in Transnational East Asias
Toward a New Dialogue Across Boundaries

(Lexington Books, 2021)
LIB 305

Gender and Food in Transnational East Asias illustrates how the production and consumption of food impacts the changing social positions of individuals and their relationships with their families, the state, and their work, as well as shapes their gender, sexual, ethnic, and national identities. The transnational movement of food and people between East Asia and the rest of the world is increasingly visible, forming various forces behind the cultural and political constructions of gender politics among and beyond Asian diasporas. It argues that a critical engagement with practices and representations of food from gender perspectives can enhance our understanding of the society and culture of transnational East Asia

(Description Source: Lexington Books)

Authors

Eric Li is an associate professor in the Faculty of Management at UBC Okanagan His Ph.D. in Marketing is from York University, and he received his M.A. in Anthropology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Li’s research interests include social enterprise and social innovation, not-for-profit marketing, pro-social behaviour, multicultural marketing and consumption, consumer well-being, health promotion, consumer privacy, food economy and market system, fashion and popular culture, and digital marketing and social media marketing.

Chikako Nagayama is an associate professor at G30 Linguistics and Cultural Studies Program, Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University.

Jooyeon Rhee is an assistant professor of Asian studies and comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

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Estetas fascistas y antifascistas
La vanguardia española, el modernismo americano y la política del poder

(Guillermo Escolar Editor, 2021)
LIB 305

En el ambiente general de totalitarismo que rodea la Guerra Civil sobresalen cuatro escritores que, cada uno a su modo, contribuyeron a la política cultural del momento y coincidían en el alto grado de intransigencia de sus posturas: Ernesto Giménez Caballero, José María Pemán, Ezra Pound y Virginia Woolf.

Por mucho que sus filosofías políticas se contrapusieron, juntos representaron una de las muestras más influyentes de la intelligentsia modernista. A su vez, también disfrutaron de un acceso privilegiado a las más altas esferas del poder en la España, Italia e Inglaterra del momento.

Este ensayo contrapone algunas obras de estos autores, que ocupan espacios liminares entre el arte y la propaganda. Considerando el fascismo como una hoja de ruta teórica y retórica, el libro realiza un estudio comparativo cuyo principal objetivo es examinar espacios tradicionalmente descuidados por el estudio literario del modernismo.

(Description Source: Guillermo Escolar Editor)

Author

Anderson Araujo is an associate professor of English and World Literature at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. His published research engages the intersections of aesthetics and politics in Transatlantic Modernism, in articles on avant-garde movements and modernist writers in the U.S., the U.K., Italy, and Spain.

 
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Arborophobia

(University of Alberta Press, 2022)
LIB 305

Arborophobia is a poetic spiritual reckoning. Its elegies, litanies, and indictments concern wonder, guilt, and grief about the journey of human life and the state of the natural world. When a child attempts suicide and western North America burns and the creep of mortality closes in, is spiritual and emotional solace possible or even desirable? Answers abound in measured, texturally intimate, and often surprising ways. The title sequence, named for a word that means “hatred of trees,” sassily blurs the boundaries between human beings and Ponderosa pines, reminding us how fragile our conceptual frameworks really are. Another sequence responds to Julian of Norwich’s writing and call “to practise the art / of letting things happen.” Saints’ lives interlace with our quotidian experience, smudging connections between the spiritual and the earthly. Taking a hard look at what we have done to this beautiful planet and to those we love, Arborophobia is a companion for all who grapple with the problem of hope in times of crisis.

(Description Source: University of Alberta Press)

Author

Nancy Holmes is an associate professor in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies (FCCS) at UBC Okanagan. She has published six collections of poetry, namely Arborophobia (University of Alberta Press, 2022) and The Flicker Tree: Okanagan Poems (Ronsdale Press, 2012), a collection of poems about the place, people, plants, and animals of the Okanagan Valley in the southern interior of British Columbia. Nancy won the 2017 Malahat Review’s Creative Non-Fiction award.

Nancy’s poems, essays and short stories have been published in Canada, the UK, and Ireland. She is the editor of Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009). She teaches Creative Writing and has been both Head of the Department of Creative Studies and the Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies in FCCS. She also collaborates with communities and other artists on eco art projects both locally and internationally, including the award-winning Border Free Bees project https://borderfreebees.com/.

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Multicultural Social Work in Canada
Working with Diverse Ethno-Racial Communities

(Oxford University Press, 2003)
EME 1101

This analysis offers a starting point for readers to reflect on their own experiences and assumptions of multicultural practice with diverse ethno-racial communities. Major themes include differential processes in seeking help and the importance of taking into account a community’s history or an individual’s age, gender, acculturation, or socio-economic status when developing strategies for social work in multicultural settings.

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Author

John R. Graham is a professor of Social Work at UBC Okanagan and former director of the school. Prior to coming to UBC Okanagan, he was the director of the School of Social Work at Florida Atlantic University, and before that at The University of Calgary for 17 years where he held a 10-year research chair as Murray Fraser Professor, and served successively as MSW International Concentration Program Coordinator and PhD Program Coordinator.

Alean Al-Krenawi is the Chair of Spitzer Department of Social Work at Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

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Helping Professional Practice with Indigenous Peoples
The Bedouin-Arab Case

(University Press of America, 2009)
EME 1101

This book discusses issues helping professionals must confront when working with indigenous peoples, particularly the Bedouin Arab. Northern-based helping professional theory and methods have historically been aloof to the concerns within such societies as the Bedouin-Arab, particularly regarding their culture and religion, family structure and group orientation, and cultural and religious strategies for dealing with psychosocial problems. The literature has made some strides in making its myriad epistemologies less culturally oppressive but much remains to be done. According to the authors, it is essential for social welfare practitioners, structures, and Bedouin-Arab communities to integrate paradigms, which the helping professional carries out in practice methods and which could lead to the ongoing emergence of a newer social work epistemology, better anchored to the needs and realities of the Bedouin-Arab world.

(Description Source: University Press of America)

Author

John R. Graham is a professor of Social Work at UBC Okanagan and former director of the school. Prior to coming to UBC Okanagan, he was the director of the School of Social Work at Florida Atlantic University, and before that at The University of Calgary for 17 years where he held a 10-year research chair as Murray Fraser Professor, and served successively as MSW International Concentration Program Coordinator and PhD Program Coordinator.

Alean Al-Krenawi is the Chair of Spitzer Department of Social Work at Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
 

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Homeless Shelter Design
Considerations for Shaping Shelters and the Public Realm

(Detselig Enterprises Ltd, 2008)
LIB 305

Design contributes to how we see our cities and, through its connection with function, it determines how we live within our cities. This book provides insight into one aspect of the interconnection: the design and function of shelters for homeless individuals. It evolved out of an applied research project—a fusion between the disciplines of environmental design and social work—that sought to better appreciate design possibilities for a homeless shelter in downtown Calgary, Alberta Canada. But through a deeper analysis, a broader story emerged.

The authors found little scholarship on the question of how to design and plan shelters for homeless people, so they undertook their own research by analyzing 63 shelters in 25 cities in Canada, the US, and the UK. The principles that began to emerge were not only useful to the authors’ work in Calgary, but also could be helpful to people interested in the design of homeless shelters in general. These two things—the specifics as to Calgary and the more general principles that emerge in relation to Calgary and those precedents beyond it—are the main subject matter of this book.

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Author

John R. Graham is a professor of Social Work at UBC Okanagan and former director of the school. Prior to coming to UBC Okanagan, he was the director of the School of Social Work at Florida Atlantic University, and before that at The University of Calgary for 17 years where he held a 10-year research chair as Murray Fraser Professor, and served successively as MSW International Concentration Program Coordinator and PhD Program Coordinator.

Christine A. Walsh is an associate professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary and holds an adjunct assistant professorship at McMaster University.

Beverly A. Sandalack is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary and the director of the Urban Lab, a research group in the faculty.

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UBC Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project

The University of British Columbia Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project aims to display academically inspiring artwork in classrooms and other teaching areas of the university.

Artwork displayed as part of this project – including the covers of books and journals containing work written or edited by UBCO scholars and researchers – is intended to help enliven university teaching spaces, educate classroom users about the connections between research and teaching, and introduce members of the broader public to some of the research and scholarship carried out at UBCO.

How to Submit Artwork

If you know of other book or journal covers, or other academically inspiring artwork that is connected to work carried out by UBCO artists, scholars or researchers and that is consistent with UBCO’s educational mission, please email your suggestions to classroom.artwork@ubc.ca.

The UBC Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project began in 2019 with support from the Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences. It is now a joint project of UBCO’s Faculties and the Office of the Provost.

Artwork and other images that are a part of this project are displayed solely for educational purposes.