Cultural Spaces
Cultural Spaces is an interdisciplinary book series that examines cultural practices and social relations through bold, new investigations of the contemporary world. Authors are invited to explore themes and subjects including, but not limited to: citizenship, indigeneity, migration, ecology, environment, violence, difference, and desire. Studies may take the form of cultural, literary, visual, political, sociological, or ethnographic analyses.
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Refugee States
Critical Refugee Studies in Canada
Price:
$58.00
ISBN: 9781487508647
Pub Date: July 2021
Refugee States explores how the figure of the refugee and the concept of refuge shape the Canadian nation-state within a transnational context.
Israel, Diaspora, and the Routes of National Belonging, Second Edition
Price:
$47.95
ISBN: 9781487521356
Pub Date: August 2019
This second edition of Israel, Diaspora, and the Routes of National Belonging builds upon Habib’s groundbreaking research and reflects on the changes to scholarship since the book’s publication in 2004.
Maps of Empire
A Topography of World Literature
Price:
$71.00
ISBN: 9781487506841
Pub Date: June 2020
Maps of Empire examines how literature was affected by the decay and break up of old models of imperial administration in the mid-twentieth century.
Migration and the Media
Debating Chinese Migration to Italy, 1992–2012
Price:
$80.00
ISBN: 9781442630437
Pub Date: September 2019
This book analyzes Chinese migration to Italy as it was debated in the news media between 1992 and 2012 by exploring what this migration allowed stakeholders to achieve within the country’s media, politics, and popular culture in the age of migration and globalization.
The American Politics of French Theory
Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault in Translation
Price:
$65.00
ISBN: 9781487504489
Pub Date: December 2018
Connecting French thinkers to the American sixties, The American Politics of French Theory demonstrates why, in an era of mass communication and global revolt, it is politically potent and methodologically necessary to think of translation not as an act of substitution, but as a web of associations.
Little Mosque on the Prairie and the Paradoxes of Cultural Translation
Price:
$38.95
ISBN: 9781487520557
Pub Date: February 2017
Kyle Conway’s textual analysis and in-depth research, including interviews from the show’s creator, executive producers, writers, and CBC executives, reveals the many ways Muslims have and have not been integrated into North American television.
The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature
Life Sentences and Their Geographies
Price:
$48.95
ISBN: 9781442629080
Pub Date: October 2015
Pickering-Iazzi uses an array of cultural documents from 1990 to the present to examine the myths, values, codes of behaviour, and relationships produced by the Italian mafia through a wide cross-disciplinary lens.
Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography
Price:
$48.95
ISBN: 9781442616097
Pub Date: October 2014
With contributions by both artists and scholars, Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography is a unique examination of visual autobiography’s involvement in the global cultural politics of health, disability, and the body.
Classroom Action
Human Rights, Critical Activism, and Community-Based Education
Price:
$35.95
ISBN: 9781487520588
Pub Date: April 2017
Building on the concept of a “teaching community,” Heble and his contributors explore what it might mean for teachers and students to reach outside the walls of the classroom and attempt to establish meaningful connections between the ideas and theories they have learned and the broader community beyond campus.
The Unmaking of Home in Contemporary Art
Price:
$78.00
ISBN: 9781442649828
Pub Date: May 2017
Building on the scholarship of key art historians and theorists such as Judith Butler and Mieke Bal, Claudette Lauzon embarks upon a transnational analysis of contemporary artists who challenge the assumption that ‘home’ is a stable site of belonging.
Prizing Literature
The Celebration and Circulation of National Culture
Price:
$61.00
ISBN: 9781442642713
Pub Date: October 2011
Prizing Literature is the first extended study of contemporary award winning Canadian literature and the ways in which we celebrate its authors.
Inheriting a Canoe Paddle
The Canoe in Discourses of English-Canadian Nationalism
Price:
$43.95
ISBN: 9781442612877
Pub Date: February 2013
Inheriting a Canoe Paddle emphasizes the importance of self-consciously evaluating the meaning we give to canoes as objects and to canoeing as an activity.
Witnessing AIDS
Writing, Testimony, and the Work of Mourning
Price:
$48.95
ISBN: 9780802085672
Pub Date: March 2004
In a clear and accessible style, Witnessing AIDS illustrates how memoirs and diaries are used as self-theorizing documents that approach personal testimony as an intervention in cultural memory.
The Moral Economy of Cities
Shaping Good Citizens
Price:
$106.00
ISBN: 9780802038869
Pub Date: March 2006
Using the redevelopment of the Yonge-Dundas intersection in downtown Toronto in the mid-1990s as a case study, Ruppert examines the language of planners, urban designers, architects, and marketing analysts to reveal the extent to which moralization legitimizes these professions in the public eye.
On Location
Canada's Television Industry in a Global Market
Price:
$49.95
ISBN: 9780802085481
Pub Date: June 2005
On Location fills a major gap in contemporary media and cultural studies debates that question the connections between the politics of place, culture, and commerce within the larger context of cultural globalization.
Political Tourism and its Texts
Price:
$78.00
ISBN: 9780802098450
Pub Date: November 2008
Political Tourism and Its Texts is at once an insightful study of modern writers and the causes that inspired them, and a call to address, with political urgency, contemporary neo-imperialism and the politics of global inequality.

Refugee States
Critical Refugee Studies in Canada
$58.00
ISBN: 9781487508647
Pub Date: July 2021
Refugee States explores how the figure of the refugee and the concept of refuge shape the Canadian nation-state within a transnational context.
Israel, Diaspora, and the Routes of National Belonging, Second Edition
$47.95
ISBN: 9781487521356
Pub Date: August 2019
This second edition of Israel, Diaspora, and the Routes of National Belonging builds upon Habib’s groundbreaking research and reflects on the changes to scholarship since the book’s publication in 2004.
Maps of Empire
A Topography of World Literature
$71.00
ISBN: 9781487506841
Pub Date: June 2020
Maps of Empire examines how literature was affected by the decay and break up of old models of imperial administration in the mid-twentieth century.
Migration and the Media
Debating Chinese Migration to Italy, 1992–2012
$80.00
ISBN: 9781442630437
Pub Date: September 2019
This book analyzes Chinese migration to Italy as it was debated in the news media between 1992 and 2012 by exploring what this migration allowed stakeholders to achieve within the country’s media, politics, and popular culture in the age of migration and globalization.
The American Politics of French Theory
Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault in Translation
$65.00
ISBN: 9781487504489
Pub Date: December 2018
Connecting French thinkers to the American sixties, The American Politics of French Theory demonstrates why, in an era of mass communication and global revolt, it is politically potent and methodologically necessary to think of translation not as an act of substitution, but as a web of associations.
Little Mosque on the Prairie and the Paradoxes of Cultural Translation
$38.95
ISBN: 9781487520557
Pub Date: February 2017
Kyle Conway’s textual analysis and in-depth research, including interviews from the show’s creator, executive producers, writers, and CBC executives, reveals the many ways Muslims have and have not been integrated into North American television.
The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature
Life Sentences and Their Geographies
$48.95
ISBN: 9781442629080
Pub Date: October 2015
Pickering-Iazzi uses an array of cultural documents from 1990 to the present to examine the myths, values, codes of behaviour, and relationships produced by the Italian mafia through a wide cross-disciplinary lens.
Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography
$48.95
ISBN: 9781442616097
Pub Date: October 2014
With contributions by both artists and scholars, Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography is a unique examination of visual autobiography’s involvement in the global cultural politics of health, disability, and the body.
Classroom Action
Human Rights, Critical Activism, and Community-Based Education
$35.95
ISBN: 9781487520588
Pub Date: April 2017
Building on the concept of a “teaching community,” Heble and his contributors explore what it might mean for teachers and students to reach outside the walls of the classroom and attempt to establish meaningful connections between the ideas and theories they have learned and the broader community beyond campus.
The Unmaking of Home in Contemporary Art
$78.00
ISBN: 9781442649828
Pub Date: May 2017
Building on the scholarship of key art historians and theorists such as Judith Butler and Mieke Bal, Claudette Lauzon embarks upon a transnational analysis of contemporary artists who challenge the assumption that ‘home’ is a stable site of belonging.
Prizing Literature
The Celebration and Circulation of National Culture
$61.00
ISBN: 9781442642713
Pub Date: October 2011
Prizing Literature is the first extended study of contemporary award winning Canadian literature and the ways in which we celebrate its authors.
Inheriting a Canoe Paddle
The Canoe in Discourses of English-Canadian Nationalism
$43.95
ISBN: 9781442612877
Pub Date: February 2013
Witnessing AIDS
Writing, Testimony, and the Work of Mourning
$48.95
ISBN: 9780802085672
Pub Date: March 2004
In a clear and accessible style, Witnessing AIDS illustrates how memoirs and diaries are used as self-theorizing documents that approach personal testimony as an intervention in cultural memory.
The Moral Economy of Cities
Shaping Good Citizens
$106.00
ISBN: 9780802038869
Pub Date: March 2006
Using the redevelopment of the Yonge-Dundas intersection in downtown Toronto in the mid-1990s as a case study, Ruppert examines the language of planners, urban designers, architects, and marketing analysts to reveal the extent to which moralization legitimizes these professions in the public eye.
On Location
Canada's Television Industry in a Global Market
$49.95
ISBN: 9780802085481
Pub Date: June 2005
On Location fills a major gap in contemporary media and cultural studies debates that question the connections between the politics of place, culture, and commerce within the larger context of cultural globalization.
Political Tourism and its Texts
$78.00
ISBN: 9780802098450
Pub Date: November 2008
Political Tourism and Its Texts is at once an insightful study of modern writers and the causes that inspired them, and a call to address, with political urgency, contemporary neo-imperialism and the politics of global inequality.