The Politics of Policymaking in Canada
Author Jared J. Wesley discusses his own experience of working as a public servant, and how The Public Servant’s Guide to Government in Canada came to fruition.
April 4, 2019
New Releases
The Sentence: The Transformative Power of Storytelling in Diagnosis
Author Annemarie Jutel shares how thinking about diagnosis as a story gives us opportunities, suggesting that a re-narration may make the experience of illness something easier to bear.
March 28, 2019
Negotiating Better by Negotiating like a Barterer
Sharing his recent experience at a museum of oddities, author Brian Gunia shows how adopting a bartering mindset can help you grapple with day-to-day challenges.
March 1, 2019
Putting the Devil in Context
Author Peter A. Morton discusses his new book The Bedevilment of Elizabeth Lorentz, a young maid servant in early modern Germany who believed herself to be tormented by the devil.
January 17, 2019
Talking Back to the Indian Act
Authors Mary-Ellen Kelm and Keith D. Smith discuss their new book Talking Back to the Indian Act and why it is being published at a key moment in our history.
November 1, 2018
New Book Broadens the Lens for Teaching About Gendered Violence
Authors Chris Bruckert and Tuulia Law discuss their new book Women and Gendered Violence in Canada.
October 25, 2018
Digging Down: The Deep Roots of Canada’s Policy-Making Process
Guest post by Taylor Hollander, author of ‘Power, Politics, and Principles’.
August 15, 2018
Deeply Rooted in the Present: Heritage, Memory, and Identity in Brazilian Quilombos
Asking what it means to be quilombola (descendants of African slaves) in the twenty-first century. Guest post by Mary Lorena Kenny, author of the newest ethnography in our popular Teaching Culture series.
June 26, 2018
The Devolution of Canada’s Public Employment Service 1995-2015: Part 2
Guest post by Donna E. Wood, author of ‘Federalism in Action’
June 25, 2018