Yanni Kotsonis is the author of States of Obligation: Taxes and Citizenship in the Russian Empire and Early Soviet Republic. States of Obligation is the first sustained study of the Russian taxation system, the first to study its European and transatlantic context, and the first to expose the essential continuities between the fiscal practices of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.
December 28, 2014
Phil Ryan is the author of After the New Atheist Debate.
December 23, 2014
The Hill Times has released their 100 Best Books for 2014 and 22 University of Toronto Press titles were included.
December 15, 2014
Here’s a roundup of some highlights for the month of November at UTP.
December 5, 2014
Here’s a round-up of some UTP highlights for the month of October.
November 14, 2014
Kathleen Gallagher is the author of Why Theatre Matters: Urban Youth, Engagement, and a Pedagogy of the Real. In Why Theatre Matters, Kathleen Gallagher uses the drama classroom as a window into the daily challenges of marginalized youth in Toronto, Boston, Taipei, and Lucknow.
November 6, 2014
Ummni Khan is the author of Vicarious Kinks: S/M in the Socio-Legal Imaginary. The first monograph by a new scholar working at the juncture of law and sexuality, Vicarious Kinks challenges the myth of law as an objective adjudicator of sexual truth.
September 18, 2014
Here’s a round-up of some UTP highlights for the month of August.
September 11, 2014
In Afghanistan Remembers, Dossa examines Afghan women’s recall of violence through memories and food practices in their homeland and its diaspora. Her work reveals how the suffering and trauma of violence has been rendered socially invisible following decades of life in a war-zone.
August 27, 2014
Using interviews with members of the crew and extensive archival research into the production process, Rebecca Sullivan delves into the creation and reception of Not a Love Story to explore the issues of censorship, sexual labour and performance, and documentary practice that the film raised.
August 20, 2014