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Writing Ukraine

Myrna Kostash’s term as writer in residence at Athabasca University began shortly after the escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2022. In this essay, based on her writer-in-residence lecture at Athabasca University, Kostash offers a self-critical reflection on her body of work and considers how her visits to Ukraine and the ongoing war have nuanced her writing about and understanding of Ukrainian Canadian identity.

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Resisting the Dehumanization of Refugees

Reckoning with the experiences of refugees can inform epistemological and practical approaches to humanizing migrant populations before, during, and after their resettlement. Contributors explore what it means to experience dehumanization, offering urgent insights and policy-relevant perspectives to improve refugees’ social well-being and integration.

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On Othering

Touching on race, gender, sexuality, nationalism, and our relationship with the natural world, this volume attends to the deep injustices brought about by processes of othering perpetuated by colonialism and globalization and recommends actions for mending the relationships that are essential to renewing the possibility of peace.

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Cultural Dialectics provides an open arena in which to debate questions of culture and dialectic—their practices, their theoretical forms, and their relations to one another and to other spheres and modes of inquiry.

How to Read Like You Mean It

Kyle Conway

Speaking Power to Truth Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual

edited by Michael Keren and Richard Hawkins

Imperfection

Patrick Grant

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Fall 2024 at AU Press

We are excited to announce a catalogue of unique books coming to AU Press this fall covering a wide range of subjects. Fall 2024 will see new entries in our…

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