A nonprofit publisher of peer-reviewed books that cross disciplinary boundaries and propel scholarly inquiry into new areas.
Launched in 2016, Concordia University Press publishes scholarly books that share substantiated, insightful, and nuanced information and arguments with diverse readerships. Its list of peer-reviewed books is organic and growing, with a focus on disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts.
Highlights
Family and Justice in the Archives
A collection of essays that use archival records of legal processes to piece together a picture of daily life across varied identities and lived experiences
Legal archives offer extraordinary opportunities for understanding intimacies across time and space. Family and Justice in the Archives presents a series of fascinating historical essays that unpack stories of familial, domestic, and sexual intimacy from the records left behind by legal processes, providing rich new insights about family, gender, race, sex, culture, identity, and daily life.
Not All Fun and Games
A scholarly investigation into working conditions in the North American gaming industry
Motivated by the goal of understanding the labor conditions of workers in the videogame industry and their participatory power to create decent work, Not All Fun and Games is a critical examination of a global entertainment juggernaut with revenues that top film, television, and music production combined. Jobs in the industry are heralded as the vanguard of the new economy, governments offer lucrative tax credits to lure game studios to their regions, and game developers often express commitment and passion for their work. Yet, the industry is also known for its toxic workplaces.
Noteable Series
Series | Description |
|---|---|
Media Before 1800 | Brings cutting-edge discoveries from the disciplines of manuscript and early-print studies into conversation with the interrelated disciplines of media archaeology, infrastructure studies, and media |
Building Arguments | Focuses on themes like the design of human interaction; relationships between people and spaces; new technologies and material invention; and sustainability and ecology |
Cultural Production and Everyday Life | Disrupts narrow, economistic, and instrumentalized views of culture and seeks to expand what counts as “cultural production” and who counts as a “cultural producer” beyond creative industries success stories |
Counter-Archives: Media and Material Practices | Explores the theoretical, methodological, and political questions that arise from the evolving nature of archives as keepers of memory and collective histories |
