Isolation Reading for the Week of June 15
This week’s staff pick comes from our acquisitions editor Carli Hansen who has chosen Queering Urban Justice: Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto.
June 15, 2020
Tag: Sociology
Unpacking the Everyday
Authors of Power and Everyday Practices discuss their new book that provides students with the tools to think sociologically through the lens of everyday life and encourage students to explore everyday practices that are familiar and that might, at first glance, seem benign.
August 19, 2019
Human Teaching in Hard Times: An Interview with Dr. Alan Sears by Dr. Tonya Davidson
In this wide-ranging discussion, sociology professors Tonya Davidson and Alan Sears tackle the contradictions of teaching and learning in a neoliberal age.
January 30, 2019
Unlocking Making a Global City
This is a book I had no intention of writing. It is not the culmination of a career-long scholarly interest in the history of public education.
March 21, 2017
UTP Titles for Back to School
The start of the school year is just around the corner, and while all of our scholarly books and textbooks are certainly school-appropriate we have few titles that we would like to highlight for the return to the classroom.
August 23, 2016
Dying and Death in Canada
To mark the publication of the new edition of Dying and Death in Canada, Herbert C. Northcott provides some background in how the book has evolved over multiple editions.
August 11, 2016
Unlocking Borderline Canadianness
Helleiner discusses how she became interested in the field of border studies, how this project began, and how the terrible events of 9/11 altered its course.
August 9, 2016
The Colonial Problem
Author Lisa Monchalin provides a few thoughts on the impetus behind her new book as well as its pedagogical features.
March 14, 2016
Playlists for Studying the History of Rock in America
What is rock? Here are some suggested playlists to accompany our new textbook on the topic.
February 4, 2015