Silence and Seizure is a memoir about raising a son with a rare epilepsy syndrome-about the fear of seizures and the fear of unknown futures. The story starts when Christine Stewart-Nunez's plan for a stable life disintegrates. She chases a diagnosis for her son Holden's odd behavior and lapses in language, and she watches her marriage to ......
Arthur Lipsett's first film was nominated for an Academy Award in 1962, marking the arrival of an influential new voice. The film's dark humour and dancing rhythms had captured the spirit of his times. When Lipsett died by suicide in 1986, the humour and joy of his work was eclipsed by that sardonic darkness. It all came to feel like an omen. ......
Reading With My Grandmother is an analysis of a range of Chinese Canadian literature that deepens the scholarly engagement by using elements of the author's family's story-her grandmother's letters and and photographs. This engagement allows the author to simultaneously illustrate and participate in the varied ways Chinese Canadian literature ......
Practicing the Social: Entanglements of Art and Social Justice brings together artists, activists, and scholars who use creative practice to reimagine how we live and build more just worlds. This collection centers disability, Deaf, Mad, neurodivergent, Indigenous, Black, Brown, queer, fat, and aging arts and cultures, highlighting creative ......
The U.S. incarceration machine imprisons more people than in any other country. Music-Making in U.S. Prisons looks at the role music-making can play in achieving goals of accountability and healing that challenge the widespread assumption that prisons and punishment keep societies safe. The book's synthesis of historical research, contemporary ......
The image of the dusty, undisturbed archive has been swept away in response to growing interest across disciplines in the materials they house and the desire to find and make meaning through an engagement with those materials. Archival studies scholars and archivists are developing related theoretical frameworks and practices that recognize that ......
This book presents an ecophilosophy of cinema: an account of the moving image in relation to the lived ecologies - material, social, and perceptual relations - within which movies are produced, consumed, and incorporated into cultural life. If cinema takes us on mental and emotional journeys, the author argues that those journeys that have ......
For some outdoor enthusiasts, the word "wilderness" means "free of people". This book shows that many beloved stories of outdoor adventure forget that people have lived in and with the natural spaces of North America since long before Europeans arrived. When we read Western narratives in partnership with Indigenous authored narratives, a new ......
Music lives where people live. Historically, music study has centred on the conservatory, which privileges the study of the Western European canon and Western European practice . The Eurocentric way music has been studied has excluded communities that are considered to be marginalized in one or more ways despite that the majority of human ......
