2020 Fall Athabasca University Press Catalogue
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CONTENTS Memory and Landscape 1 Get the latest news from AU Press by reading our blog and following The Virtues of Disillusionment 2 us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. An Honourable and Impartial Tribunal 3 Finding Refuge in Canada 4 The Art of Communication in a Polarized World 5 Regime of Obstruction 6 AU Press is committed to the principles of Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics 7 open access and to the reduction of barriers 25 Years of Ed Tech 8 to knowledge. The Finest Blend 9 World Bolshevism 10 “Truth Behind Bars” 11 AU Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government Bucking Conservatism 12 of Canada through the Canada Book Fund; the Canada Council for Grieving for Pigeons 13 the Arts; the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program; and Centring Human Connections in the Education of Health the Government of Alberta through the Alberta Media Fund. Professionals 13 Journals and Websites 14-15 Order Information 16 INDIGENOUS STUDIES Memory and Landscape Indigenous Responses to a Changing North Kenneth L. Pratt is an anthropologist and ethnohistorian Edited by Kenneth L. Pratt and Scott A. Heyes employed by the US Bureau of Indian Affairs. He is a research “Our identity, our sense of belonging, our understanding of being human, is all associate at the Smithsonian connected to our relationship with the land. And our relationship with these lands Institution’s Arctic Studies Center and the editor of Chasing the span millennia. Our grandfathers and grandmothers that came before us walked Dark: Perspectives on Place, these same ridges, valleys, and trails. They fished the same lakes, streams, and History and Alaska Native Land rivers. They cherished memories carried in the pungent smell of the fall tundra, in Claims (2009). wafts of spruce, cottonwood, and willow smoke. They ventured throughout these Scott A. Heyes is an ethnographer lands until their final rest. Our ancestors are literally part of this land. We are and landscape architect. He part of this land.” —Evon Peter is a research associate at the ANNOUNCING Smithsonian Institution’s Arctic The North is changing at an unpreced- strengthen their cultural identity while Studies Center, and an adjunct December 2020 ented rate as industrial development also embracing forces of disruption. professor at Monash University’s 978-1-77199-315-9 paper Indigenous Studies Centre. He is 978-1-77199-316-6 pdf and the climate crisis disrupt not only Indigenous and non-Indigenous the author of Mammals of Ungava 978-1-77199-317-3 epub the environment but also long-standing contributors bring together oral and Labrador (2014) with Kristofer 8 x 10, 448 pages relationships to the land and trad- history and scholarly research Helgen. 172 colour illustrations itional means of livelihood. Memory from disciplines such as linguistics, $44.99 and Landscape: Indigenous Responses archaeology, and ethnohistory. With Contributors: Vinnie Baron, to a Changing North explores the an emphasis on Indigenous place Hugh Brody, Kenneth Buck, Anna Bunce, Donald Butler, Michael A. ways in which Indigenous peoples names, this volume illuminates how Chenlov, Aron L. Crowell, Peter C. in the Arctic have adapted to chal- the land—and the memories that Dawson, Martha Dowsley, Robert lenging circumstances, including past are inextricably tied to it—continue Drozda, Gary Holton, Colleen cultural and environmental changes. to define Indigenous identity. The Hughes, Peter Jacobs, Emily In this beautifully illustrated volume, perspectives presented here also serve Kearney-Williams, Igor Krupnik, contributors document how Indigen- to underscore the value of Indigenous Apayo Moore, Murielle Nagy, ous communities in Alaska, northern knowledge and its essential place in Mark Nuttall, Evon Peter, Louann Canada, Greenland, and Siberia future studies of the Arctic. ▪ Rank, William E. Simeone, Felix are seeking ways to maintain and St-Aubin, and Will Stolz. 1 PHILOSOPHY • LITERATURE The Virtues of Disillusionment Steven Heighton Most people go through life chasing of disillusionment and the negative Steven Heighton’s most illusions of success, fame, wealth, and aspects of hope. Drawing on writers recent books are a novel, The Nightingale Won’t Let You happiness, and few things are more such as Herman Melville, Leonard Sleep, and a poetry collection, painful than the reality-revealing Cohen, Kate Chopin, and Thich Nhat The Waking Comes Late, which loss of an illusion. But if illusions Hanh, Heighton considers the influ- received the 2016 Governor are negative, why is the opposite, ence of illusions on creativity, art, and General’s Award for Poetry. His being disillusioned, also negative? society. This meditation on language novel Afterlands has appeared In this essay based on his inaugural and philosophy reveals the virtues of in six countries, was a New York writer-in-residence lecture at being disillusioned and, perhaps, the Times Book Review editors’ Athabasca University, internationally path to freedom. ▪ Choice, and is in pre-production for film. He has taught creative ANNOUNCING acclaimed writer Steven Heighton mathematically evaluates the paradox writing or served as a writer in residence for McGill University, September 2020 Massey College, Queen's 978-1-77199-326-5 paper University, Concordia University, 978-1-77199-325-8 pdf 978-1-77199-324-1 epub the Banff Centre, University 5.5 x 8.5, 68 pages of Prince Edward Island, the $19.99 University of Ottawa, SLS, Sage Hill, and, currently, Athabasca University. 2 HISTORY An Honourable and Impartial Tribunal The Court Martial of Major General Henry Procter, Minutes of the Proceedings Transcribed and annotated by Guy St-Denis “This way, General, this way!” With to suffer the indignity of a public Guy St-Denis is the author of these words, Major General Henry reprimand. Tecumseh’s Bones (McGill- Queen’s University Press, 2005); Procter was ushered off the field of Previously beyond the reach of his most recent book is The battle. It was the 5th of October 1813, most North American scholars, the True Face of Sir Isaac Brock and the British commander—having minutes of Procter’s trial offer a (University of Calgary Press, abandoned his army and Indigenous wealth of historical detail about Brit- 2018). An early retiree, St-Denis allies—had just lost not only the ish imperial, Canadian pre-Confeder- is a doctoral candidate in history Battle of Moraviantown (or the Battle ation, and American frontier history. at the University of Western of the Thames as it was known to Transcribed and annotated here for Ontario. ANNOUNCING the victorious Americans) but also the first time, they provide engrossing a military career spanning more insights into Procter’s retreat from November 2020 than three decades. Unwilling to what is now southwestern Ontario in 978-1-77199-319-7 paper take responsibility for the disastrous the early autumn of 1813. Interspersed 978-1-77199-320-3 pdf 978-1-77199-321-0 epub loss, Procter pressed for a court are rare eyewitness accounts of the 6 x 9, 454 pages martial hoping that an “honour- ensuing battle, which proved to be $39.99 able and impartial tribunal” would one of the worst reversals suffered by vindicate his command decisions. He British arms during the War of 1812. ▪ misjudged, however, and was forced 3 PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES George Melnyk is professor emeritus of Communication, Finding Refuge in Canada Media and Film at the University Narratives of Dislocation of Calgary. He has written and edited over twenty-five books on Canadian cinema, Alberta Edited by George Melnyk and Christina Parker literature, the co-operative movement, and other Canadian subjects. As someone who came to Canada as a refugee Millions of people are displaced each The narratives collected here he is deeply connected to the year by war, persecution, and famine confront dominant public discourse phenomenon and has published and the global refugee population about refugee identities and histories articles on Canada and refugees. continues to grow. Canada has and provide deep insight into the This is his first book on the topic. often been regarded as a benevolent social, political, and cultural challen- Christina Parker is an assistant country, welcoming refugees from ges and opportunities that refugees professor in Social Development around the globe. However, refugees experience in Canada. Contributors Studies at Renison University have encountered varying kinds of consider Canada’s response to various College at the University of reception in Canada. Finding Refuge groups of refugees and how Canadian Waterloo. She specializes in in Canada: Narratives of Dislocation perspectives on war, conflict, and critical ethnographic and mixed ANNOUNCING is a collection of personal narratives peace are constructed through the methods research in diverse schools and communities and about the refugee experience in refugee support experience. These is the author of Peacebuilding, August 2020 Canada. It includes critical perspec- individual stories humanize the Global Peace Studies Citizenship, and Identity: tives from authors from diverse global refugee crisis and challenge 978-1-77199-301-2 paper Empowering Conflict and Dialogue 978-1-77199-302-9 pdf backgrounds, including refugees, readers to reflect on the trans- in Multicultural Classrooms 978-1-77199-303-6 epub advocates, front-line workers, private formative potential of more equitable (Sense|Brill, 2016). 6 x 9, 196 pages sponsors, and civil servants. policies and processes. ▪ 12 b&w photographs Contributors: Howard Adelman, $27.9 9 Irene Boisier Policzer, Shelley Campagnola, Matida Daffeh, Eusebio Garcia, Julia Holland, Bill Janzen, Katharine Lake-Berz, Michael Molloy, Adam Policzer, Pablo Policzer, Victor Porter, Boban Stojanović, Cyrus Sundar Singh, and Flora Terah. 4 COMMUNICATION STUDIES • CULTURAL STUDIES The Art of Communication in a Polarized World Kyle Conway People’s minds are hard to change. Conway explores how individuals Kyle Conway is an associate In North America and elsewhere, can come to understand another professor of communication at the University of Ottawa.