AU Press is excited to share that our Fall 2025 catalogue is here! The coming fall season features thought-provoking reads and groundbreaking scholarship like no other, including a re-introduction to the work of sociologist Jacques Ellul, a new translation of an edited volume on Wikimedia, and the debut poetry collection of Canadian poet Jun-long Lee. These exciting publications will soon be available in a variety of accessible and open access formats, both in print and online. Meanwhile, you can learn more about these books and their authors in our catalogue below!
Abode | September 2025
Jun-long Lee
Abode is a debut collection of interconnected prose and free verse poems by Jun-long Lee that delve with vertiginous momentum into homes—both material and interior—lost and rediscovered from the inside looking in: they are excavations of nested domestic spheres furnished with the bricolage of ruin and decay. Lee takes readers through hallucinatory geographies, plant-haunted spaces, and dreamlike corridors flooded with water and light, accompanied by an ever-changing subject that cannot make itself feel at home in its body, its country, or its language.
Jun-long Lee is a Canadian poet, visual artist, and filmmaker. His poems have appeared in Conjunctions, Jubilat, The Malahat Review, Riddle Fence, Grain, Contemporary Verse 2, and elsewhere.
The Wikimedia Movement in Canada: Communities, Institutions, and Open Culture | October 2025
edited by Jean-Michel Lapointe and Marie D. Martel
This book explores the unique role of Canadians in Wikimedia platforms, highlighting the complexities of participation in a nation defined by linguistic, cultural, and regional diversity. Despite challenges posed by limited data on contributors, it shows how the ideals of open culture, collaboration, and knowledge-sharing are shaping Canada’s digital landscape.
The text is structured around three key themes: First, it examines identity through contributions in English, French, and Atikamekw, addressing issues of diversity, representation, and inclusivity, with case studies on Acadian representation and gender balance in Wikidata. The second theme focuses on institutional partnerships, illustrating how collaborations like those between Wikimedia Canada and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec promote accessible knowledge sharing. Lastly, it delves into the literacies involved in Wikimedia projects—digital, legal, and algorithmic—and their impact on both amateur and professional contributors, underscoring the movement’s educational and societal significance.
Jean-Michel Lapointe is digital education project manager at Université du Québec à Montréal. A Wikipedian since 2014 and a former academic librarian and teacher, he promotes the educational use of Wikimedia projects in higher education settings. Marie D. Martel is an associate professor at the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information at the Université de Montréal. A specialist in libraries and open culture, she is also involved in research and outreach projects related to Wikimedia platforms. She has been a Wikipedian since 2010.
With contributions by Stacy Allison-Cassin, Gabriel Arsenault, Nathalie Casemajor, Pierre Lévy, Denise Smith, Nathalie Thibault, Miguel Tremblay, Simon Villeneuve, and Mathieu Wade.
Technique and Control: Jacques Ellul’s Sociology | October 2025
Frank W. Elwell
Jacques Ellul was a prolific writer and brilliant sociologist whose work on technological society and propaganda remains relevant today, despite coming from a distinctly French, postwar perspective. Technique and Control re-introduces Ellul’s main body of work to social scientists and readers curious about technology and social life. Frank W. Elwell has updated and supplemented Ellul’s examples of lifeworld domination through physical technology, organization, and an underlying mindset of technique that prioritizes efficient goal-oriented behaviors guided by experience, empiricism, calculability, predictability, and logic. Particular attention is given to the development of human techniques of control such as education, propaganda, and other modes of socialization. By re-invigorating these writings for contemporary readers, Elwell illuminates an important body of sociological work for a new generation of social scientists, students, and those interested in modern society and its continuing evolution.
Frank W. Elwell is a professor of sociology at Rogers State University, in Oklahoma. He is the author of Sociocultural Systems: Principles of Structure and Change, among several other works.
AU Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund; the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and the Social Sciences through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program; and the Government of Alberta through the Alberta Media Fund.
