Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine, edited by Jeremy Wildeman and M. Muhannad Ayyash, won the 2024 Canadian Studies Network prize for Best Edited Collection in Canadian Studies. The award is for an outstanding scholarly, edited collection of articles on a Canadian subject that best advances our knowledge and understanding of Canada and Canadian Studies.
We started discussing publication of Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine with the volume editors almost three years ago. The events of October 7, 2023 preceded its release by about two weeks. Those events have changed the way many of us discuss the conflict between Palestinian and Israeli populations but they needn’t change the way we talk about Canada and this is a book fundamentally about Canada—how its own past and present as a settler colony shapes its foreign and domestic policies, its immigration policies, and its global relationships. We want to thank the volume’s editors Jeremy Wildeman and Muhannad Ayyash as well as all of its contributors for giving University of Alberta Press the opportunity to be its publishing home.
We thank the award jury. In their comments, the jurors note:
Starting from the premise that “Canada is a settler colony at home, as well as abroad,” it offers a diverse range of contributions that approaches Canada-Palestine relations in Canadian foreign policy as well as its echoes within Canadian society through the lens of settler colonialism. Its thematic approach is well-threaded together by the editors in presenting the collection.
We acknowledge with appreciation the work of acquisitions editor Mat Buntin, production editor Duncan Turner, and interior designer Alan Brownoff. Our freelance partners were copyeditor and proofreader Alicia Hibbert and cover designer Michel Vrana.
Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine was also shortlisted for the Scholarly and Academic Book of the Year at the Alberta Book Publishing Awards.
