Abstracts
By Matthew Nelson — April 10th, 2008
Resisting and Reinforcing the ‘Entrepreneurial City’: Labour’s Contradictory Role in the Upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver
As Vancouver prepares for the upcoming Winter Olympics in 2010, the bid process has dominated urban discourse with its aim to transform Vancouver into a ‘world-class,’ competitive global-city. This …
By Lesley Vaage — April 10th, 2008
How frustrating it is to step out of that suffocating Closet only to find yourself in a hall of two-way mirrors—undoubtedly, a common experience for queer women who “come out” in the workplace. This paper will attempt to tease out some of the regulatory forces …
By Eliot Che — April 1st, 2008
What do virtual worlds mean for governance, production and identity? What is the relationship between these new spaces and contemporary capitalism? In this paper, I explore some of the political-economic implications of technological transformation and reflect on the social effects of producing, communicating and existing …
By Michelle Barrett — April 1st, 2008
My thesis research looks at how ‘animal welfare’ as an idea or a goal is framed through the process of developing public policy and regulation in Canada. As a case study, I am looking at the current proposed amendments to the Health of Animals Regulations, …
By Michael Lithgow — April 1st, 2008
The over-valorization of the global spatial has created renewed interest in recovering the role of the ‘local’ in the creation, maintenance and expansion of global flows and networks. Global place(s) are the urban territories where global networks ‘touchdown’ and organize material capabilities. This reorganization of …
By Rachel Ariey-Jouglard — April 1st, 2008
In today’s political life, nations are unquestionably legitimate. The nation is immutable, it has always existed and its members must impede its violation and ensure its future existence by putting it at the top of their priorities. Using critical geography theories, this paper questions the …
By Christopher Alderson — April 1st, 2008
The creation of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) in 2003 marks an attempt to integrate all of Canada’s various border-controlling agencies and acts under one enforcement organization; it’s function is to provide “integrated border services that support national security and public safety priorities and …
By Irina Mihalache — March 22nd, 2008
In October and November 2005, the emeutes (riots) in the Parisian banlieues re-stated the existing social conflicts between second and third immigrants from former North African French colonies and the French state. These instances of violence brought to life memories of colonialism and of the …
By Elui — March 22nd, 2008
Although knowledge networks can be non-hierarchical, representative and democratic spaces to exchange information and determine policies, (Stein, Janice Gross et al., 2001; Stone, 2000) an analysis of the World Water Council (WWC) and its World Water Fora (WWF) reveals that knowledge networks can also reinforce …
By Ray Silvius and Neil Burron — March 22nd, 2008
Historical materialist scholarship has, from the time of Marx, reflected the manner in which economics transcends national borders. Bastian van Apeldoorn (2004: 143) encapsulates this sentiment, writing that “the world of international relations has from the start been inextricably bound up with the expanding capitalist …
By Blayne Haggart — March 18th, 2008
Regional integration is a political process, embedded in a network of domestic, global and regional treaties, institutions, organizations and politics. Copyright policy provides an ideal lens through which to examine the distinctive development of North American integration. Like regional integration, copyright policy, which is moving …
By Jim Dooley — March 18th, 2008
Is the music industry changing to the great extent that we all read about? Alternatively, is it fair to say that industry monopolies and forms of cooption are persisting as they always have? These seem to be the two poles in an ongoing debate. My …
By Jason Wenczler — March 18th, 2008
My current research studies the primary factors influencing the federal government’s decision-making with respect to pharmaceutical policy during the past decade. I am particularly interested in learning about how the nature of the state-its role and structure-and the state’s relationship with big business has shaped …
By Matthew Lymburner and Eliot Che — February 27th, 2008
Contemporary security discourse emphasizing “terrorism” has displaced the focus on the “gang epidemic” that prevailed in the latter decades of the twentieth century. However, since 2005, law enforcement agencies and media organizations have sparked a renewed interest in gangs such as Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), dubbed …
