| A carnival of truth? Knowledge, ignorance and the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission M James International Journal of Transitional Justice 6 (2), 182-204, 2012 | 158 | 2012 |
| Wrestling with the past: Apologies, quasi-apologies, and non-apologies in Canada M James The age of apology: Facing up to the past, 137-153, 2008 | 122 | 2008 |
| Neoliberal heritage redress M James Reconciling Canada: Critical perspectives on the culture of redress, 31-46, 2013 | 68 | 2013 |
| Misrecognized Materialists: Social Movements in Canadian Constitutional Politics M James UBC Press, 2011 | 45 | 2011 |
| Uncomfortable comparisons: The Canadian truth and reconciliation commission in international context M James Les ateliers de l'éthique 5 (2), 23-35, 2010 | 42 | 2010 |
| The Three R’s of Seeking Transitional Justice M Bonner, M James International Indigenous Policy Journal 2 (3), 1-29, 2011 | 36* | 2011 |
| Scaling memory: Reparation displacement and the case of BC M James Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique …, 2009 | 23 | 2009 |
| Do campaigns for historical redress erode the Canadian welfare state? M James Multiculturalism and the welfare state: Recognition and redistribution in …, 2006 | 23 | 2006 |
| Recognition, redistribution and redress: the case of the “Chinese head tax” M James Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique …, 2004 | 23 | 2004 |
| Changing the subject: The TRC, its national events, and the displacement of substantive reconciliation in Canadian media representations M James Journal of Canadian Studies 51 (2), 362-397, 2018 | 21 | 2018 |
| Impermanent Apologies: On the Dynamics of Timing and Public Knowledge in Political Apology M James, J Stanger-Ross Human Rights Review, 1-23, 2018 | 19 | 2018 |
| Redress politics and Canadian citizenship M James The state of the Federation 99, 1998 | 15 | 1998 |
| Degrees of freedom in Canada's culture of redress M James Citizenship Studies 19 (1), 35-52, 2015 | 14 | 2015 |
| Narrative Robustness, Post-Apology Conduct, and Canada’s 1998 and 2008 Residential Schools Apologies M James The Palgrave Handbook of State-Sponsored History After 1945, 831-847, 2018 | 7 | 2018 |
| "The permanent-emergency compensation state: A “postsocialist” tale of political dystopia." M James Critical Policy Studies, ed. Michael Orsini and Miriam Smith, 2007 | 6 | 2007 |
| History Under Harper PE Bryden, M James Labour, 195, 2014 | 5 | 2014 |
| Wrestling with the Past M James The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past, 137-53, 0 | 5 | |
| The Structural Injustice Turn, the Historical Justice Dilemma and Assigning Responsibility with the Canadian TRC Report M James Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique …, 2021 | 4 | 2021 |
| On carnival and context: A response to Bridget Storrie M James International Journal of Transitional Justice 9 (3), 486-493, 2015 | 3 | 2015 |
| Occupy: History, Physicality, Virtuality M James Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada, 2d ed., ed Miriam Smith, 2014 | 3 | 2014 |
