Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Founded in 1974, Wilfrid Laurier University Press has established a reputation for excellence in scholarly publishing in the areas of history, literature, sociology, social work, life writing, film and media studies, aboriginal studies, women’s studies, philosophy, and religious studies. We publish 30—35 titles a year and have over 365 titles in print. |
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What the Oceans Remember
Searching for Belonging and Home
by Sonja Boon
Pub Date 25 Sep 2019
Author Sonja Boon’s heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than thirty years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. Boon’s family history spans five continents: Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, South America, and North America. Despite her complex and multi-layered background, she has often omitted her...

What the Oceans Remember
Sonja Boon
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Living Recovery
Youth Speak Out on “Owning” Mental Illness
by JoAnn Elizabeth Leavey
Pub Date 18 Mar 2015
Living Recovery provides critical information for practitioners and educators in mental health services about the self-described needs of young people diagnosed with mental illness. It portrays the stages of living with mental illness through the recovery model ELAR—emergence, loss, adaptation, and recovery. The author interviewed youth aged sixteen to...

Living Recovery
JoAnn Elizabeth Leavey
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Social Work Artfully
Beyond Borders and Boundaries
by Christina Sinding and Hazel Barnes, editors
Pub Date 25 Feb 2015
The past two decades have witnessed a vigorous challenge to social work. A growing global convergence between the market and the public sector means that private sector values, priorities, and forms of work organization increasingly permeate social and community services. At a time when the challenges we face as people and communities are becoming more...

Social Work Artfully
Christina Sinding and Hazel Barnes, editors
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Sustaining the West
Cultural Responses to Western Environments, Past and Present
by Liza Piper and Lisa Szabo-Jones, editors
Pub Date 27 Mar 2015
Western Canada’s natural environment faces intensifying threats from industrialization in agriculture and resource development, social and cultural complicity in these destructive practices, and most recently the negative local effects brought about by global climate change. In Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Western Environments Past and Present...

Sustaining the West
Liza Piper and Lisa Szabo-Jones, editors
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Creating Together
Participatory, Community-Based, and Collaborative Arts Practices and Scholarship across Canada
by Diane Conrad and Anita Sinner, editors
Pub Date 27 Feb 2015
Creating Together explores an emerging approach to research that combines arts practices and scholarship in participatory, community-based, and collaborative contexts in Canada across multiple disciplines. Looking at a variety of art forms, from photography and mural painting to performance art and poetry, the contributors explore how the process of...

Creating Together
Diane Conrad and Anita Sinner, editors
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Engendering Transnational Voices
Studies in Family, Work, and Identity
by Guida Man and Rina Cohen, editors
Pub Date 04 Mar 2015
Engendering Transnational Voices examines the transnational practices and identities of immigrant women, youth, and children in an era of global migration and neoliberalism, addressing such topics as family relations, gender and work, schooling, remittances, cultural identities, caring for children and the elderly, inter- and multi-generational...

Engendering Transnational Voices
Guida Man and Rina Cohen, editors
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Pub Date 17 Mar 2015
This book focuses on girls and girlhoods, texts for and about girls, and the cultural contexts that shape girls’ experience. It brings together scholars from girls’ studies and children’s literature, fields that have traditionally conducted their research separately, and the collaboration showcases the breadth and complexity of girl-related studies.
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Girls, Texts, Cultures
Clare Bradford and Mavis Reimer, editors
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Unravelling Encounters
Ethics, Knowledge, and Resistance under Neoliberalism
by Caitlin Janzen, Donna Jeffery, and Kristin Smith, editors
Pub Date 27 Mar 2015
This multidisciplinary book brings together a series of critical engagements regarding the notion of ethical practice. As a whole, the book explores the question of how the current neo-liberal socio-political moment, and its relationship to the historical legacies of colonialism, white settlement, and racism, informs and shapes our practices, pedagogies...

Unravelling Encounters
Caitlin Janzen, Donna Jeffery, and Kristin Smith, editors
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Material Cultures in Canada
by Thomas Allen and Jennifer Blair, editors
Pub Date 29 Apr 2015
Material Cultures in Canada presents the vibrant and diverse field of material culture studies in Canadian literary, artistic, and political contexts today. The first of its kind, this collection features sixteen essays by leading scholars in Canada, each of whom examines a different object of study, including the beaver, geraniums, comics, water, a musical...

Material Cultures in Canada
Thomas Allen and Jennifer Blair, editors
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Transition to Common Work
Building Community at The Working Centre
by Joe Mancini; Stephanie Mancini
Pub Date 07 Apr 2015
For social workers, activists, bureaucrats, and engaged citizens in third-sector organizations (NGOs, charities, not-for-profits, co-operatives), this practical and inspiring book provides a method for moving beyond the doldrums of “poverty relief” into the exciting world of community building.
The Working Centre in the downtown core of Kitchener...

Transition to Common Work
Joe Mancini; Stephanie Mancini
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Catholic Sexual Theology and Adolescent Girls
Embodied Flourishing
by Doris M. Kieser
Pub Date 22 May 2015
This book explores the intersection in contemporary Western culture of Catholic sexual theology and adolescent female developmental and sexual experiences. The voices of adolescent females, so long silent in sexual theologies, are given privilege here in the articulation of a normative theology.
Applying a feminist natural law framework, the book engages...

Catholic Sexual Theology and Adolescent Girls
Doris M. Kieser
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Canada and Africa in the New Millennium
The Politics of Consistent Inconsistency
by David R. Black
Pub Date 31 Dec 2014
Canada’s engagement with post-independence Africa presents a puzzle. Although Canada is recognized for its activism where Africa is concerned, critics have long noted the contradictions that underlie Canadian involvement. Focusing on the period following 2000, and by juxtaposing Jean Chrétien’s G8 activism with the Harper government’s retreat from...

Canada and Africa in the New Millennium
David R. Black
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Reclaiming Canadian Bodies
Visual Media and Representation
by Lynda Mannik and Karen McGarry, editors
Pub Date 24 Nov 2014
The central focus of Reclaiming Canadian Bodies is the relationship between visual media, the construction of Canadian national identity, and notions of embodiment. It asks how particular representations of bodies are constructed and performed within the context of visual and discursive mediated content. The book emphasizes the ways individuals destabilize...

Reclaiming Canadian Bodies
Lynda Mannik and Karen McGarry, editors
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Fifty Years of Religious Studies in Canada
A Personal Retrospective
by Harold Coward
Pub Date 12 Nov 2014
In Canadian universities in the early 1960s, no courses were offered on Hinduism, Buddhism, or Islam. Only the study of Christianity was available, usually in a theology program in a church college or seminary. Today almost every university in North America has a religious studies department that offers courses on Western and Eastern religions as well as...

Fifty Years of Religious Studies in Canada
Harold Coward
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The Question of Peace in Modern Political Thought
by Toivo Koivukoski and David Edward Tabachnick, editors
Pub Date 06 Nov 2014
The essays in The Question of Peace in Modern Political Thought address the contribution that political theories of modern political philosophers have made to our understandings of peace. The discipline of peace research has reached a critical impasse, where the ideas of both “realist peace” and “democratic peace” are challenged by contemporary world...

The Question of Peace in Modern Political Thought
Toivo Koivukoski and David Edward Tabachnick, editors
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Founded in 1974, Wilfrid Laurier University Press has established a reputation for excellence in scholarly publishing in the areas of history, literature, sociology, social work, life writing, film and media studies, aboriginal studies, women’s studies, philosophy, and religious studies. We publish 30—35 titles a year and have over 365 titles in print.



























