April, 2008

Essays & Articles Periodizing our Current Moment: Work-Well-Fare As a New Mode of Social Regulation Author: Matthew Lymburner From Disabled to Dispossessed: CPP Disability Benefits and the Decline of Social Citizenship Author: Mary Rita Holland Editorials & Interviews Perilous Light Author: Fuyuki Kurasawa and Cultural Shifts Reviews From within Canada: Identity and Public Policy Author: Cultural Shifts and Benjamin Christensen Left Side of the Story: Labour, Welfare, and Workplace Author: Cultural Shifts and Berrak Kabasakal

Audio & Visual Studies Perilous Light Author: Fuyuki Kurasawa and Cultural Shifts Fear and Copyright Author: mejuan Sars Palace Author: Pat Thompson From Nelson to Castlegar on Steel Author: Scott Abstracts A Prosperous Uncertainty: The Canada Border Services Agency, risk management, and the not-so-new political imagination of spatially-bound identity Author: Christopher Alderson National Identity Examined: A Study of the Quebec Nation Author: Rachel Ariey-Jouglard Reading Global Genders: Mapping gender-based struggles in the global geographies of local marginality Author: Michael Lithgow Travelling third class: regulating the transport of farm animals in Canada Author: Michelle Barrett Governance 2.0: Virtual Space, Virtual Economies Author: Eliot Che Gazing Back Into the Closet: Theorizing about Queer Women in the Workplace Author: Lesley Vaage Resisting and Reinforcing the ‘Entrepreneurial City’ Author: Matthew Nelson

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