Cultures of resistance, peoples and minority languages. - "Minority cultures in Algeria: Kabylia and Mzab at the limits of political impensity."

Contrary to the enchanted speeches celebrating cultural and linguistic diversity, the languages ​​and cultures of the world are in constant decline. During the construction of nation-states, governments have generally considered the range of languages ​​as an obstacle, even a threat to the political unity of their country, prohibiting them or at best confining them to the […]

Accountability across borders: Migrant rights in North America. - "Chapter 8 Assembling noncitizen access to education in a sanctuary city: The place of publich school administrator bordering practices."

Collecting the diverse perspectives of scholars, labor organizers, and human-rights advocates, Accountability across Borders is the first edited collection that connects studies of immigrant integration in host countries to accounts of transnational migrant advocacy efforts, including case studies from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Covering the role of federal, state, and local governments in both countries […]

Strangers to Neighbours: Refugee Sponsorship in Context. - "Kindred spirits? Links between refugee sponsorship and family sponsorship."

As a leading country in global refugee resettlement, Canada operates a unique program that allows private groups and individuals to sponsor refugees. This innovative approach has received growing international attention, but there remains a need for a more expansive understanding of the sponsorship framework and its potential implications within Canada and across the world. Strangers […]

International handbook of transsexuality and mental health. - "Principles for psychoanalytic work with trans clients."

Historically, conversations about gender have been steeped in language supporting assumptions that were accepted as valid on their face (Hyde et al. 2018). For many years, gender has been viewed as binary, fixed, and biologically determined. Gender was conflated with biological sex. Once declared at birth based on external appearance of genitalia it could never change. […]

Femininity and psychoanalysis: Cinema, culture, theory. - "Tiresias: Bracha L. Ettinger and the transgression with-in-to the feminine."

For Freud, famously, the feminine was a dark continent, or a riddle without an answer. This understanding concerns man’s relationship to the question of ‘woman’ but femininity is also a matter of sexuality and gender and therefore of identity and experience. Drawing together leading academics, including film and literary scholars, clinicians and artists from diverse […]

Queerly Canadian: An introductory reader in sexuality studies - "Sexing the teacher: Voyeuristic pleasure in the Amy Gehring case."

In this remarkable and comprehensive anthology, many of Canada's leading sexuality studies scholars examine the fundamental role that sexuality has played -- and continues to play -- in the building of our nation, and in our national narratives, myths, and anxieties about Canadian identity. Covering both historical and contemporary perspectives on law and criminal justice, […]

The SAGE encyclopedia of trans studies - "Bathroom discrimination."

Transgender studies, broadly defined, has become increasingly prominent as a field of study over the past several decades, particularly in the last ten years. The experiences and rights of trans people have also increasingly become the subject of news coverage, such as the ability of trans people to access restrooms, their participation in the military, […]

Lacan and race: Racism, identity, and psychoanalytic theory. - "Race, perversion, and jouissance in Portrait of Jason"

This edited volume draws upon Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to examine the conscious and unconscious forces underlying race as a social formation, conceptualizing race, racial identity, and racism in ways that go beyond traditional modes of psychoanalytic thought. Featuring contributions by Lacanian scholars from diverse geographical and disciplinary contexts, chapters span a wide breadth of topics, […]

Power and everyday practices - "Introduction: Unpacking the centre."

This unique and innovative text provides undergraduate students with tools to think sociologically through the lens of everyday life. Normative social organization and taken for granted beliefs and actions are exposed as key mechanisms of power and social inequality in western societies today. By "unpacking the centre" students are encouraged to turn their social worlds […]

Power and everyday practices - "Thinking about power."

This unique and innovative text provides undergraduate students with tools to think sociologically through the lens of everyday life. Normative social organization and taken for granted beliefs and actions are exposed as key mechanisms of power and social inequality in western societies today. By "unpacking the centre" students are encouraged to turn their social worlds […]