Jun 4, 2025 | Donald Smiley Prize, Prizes
2025 Donald Smiley Prize Winners: Stéphane Leman-Langlois, Aurélie Campana and Samuel TannerThe Great Right North: Inside Far-Right Activism in Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press) Excerpt from jury report: In The Great Right North: Inside Far-Right Activism in...
Jun 13, 2024 | Donald Smiley Prize, Prizes
2024 Donald Smiley Prize Winner: Sarah Marie WiebeLife Against States of Emergency: Revitalizing Treaty Relations from Attawapiskat (UBC Press) Excerpt from jury report: In Life against States of Emergency: Revitalizing Treaty Relations from Attawaspiskat, Sarah Marie...
Jul 31, 2023 | Donald Smiley Prize, Prizes
2023 Donald Smiley Prize Winner: Debra ThompsonDebra Thompson: The Long Road Home: On Blackness and Belonging (Simon & Schuster, 2022)Excerpt from jury report: The Long Road Home: On Blackness and Belonging is a highly engaging and intellectually courageous book...
Jul 12, 2022 | Donald Smiley Prize, Prizes
2022 Donald Smiley Prize Winner: George HobergThe Resistance Dilemma: Place-Based Movements and the Climate Crisis (MIT Press, 2021)Excerpt from jury report: The Resistance Dilemma is a timely book on an important topic. It focuses on place-based resistance to energy...
Jun 11, 2021 | Donald Smiley Prize
2021 Donald-Smiley Prize Winner: Angela Carter, University of Waterloo Fossilized- Environmental Policy in Canada’s Petro-Provinces (UBC Press, 2020)Excerpt from jury report: This thoughtful and comprehensive book addresses one of the most fractious and...
May 31, 2020 | Donald Smiley Prize
2020 Donald Smiley Prize Winner: David McGraneThe New NDP (UBC Press, 2019)Excerpt from jury report: In The New NDP, David McGrane weaves a highly engaging and convincing narrative of the party’s trajectory from third party status, to official opposition and then...
