Posts Tagged ‘politics’
By Irina Mihalache — March 26th, 2008
Both France and Algeria have been struggling with the memory of colonialism, adopting various strategies of collective remembering.
By Andrew Crosby — March 22nd, 2008
Examining the notion of internal sovereign power in relation to the liberal democratic state and the contestation of public space.
By Matthew Lymburner — March 18th, 2008
At the risk of revealing my obsession with the presidential primary season in the U.S., I’d like to draw attention to the collapse of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
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 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 — February 11th, 2008
Some political scientists and psychologists believe that there is a close relationship between the politics that we practice and our genetic makeup. While not entirely disregarding the “non-natural” world in the formation of our political values, they posit that genes may play an important …
By Lamont — January 18th, 2008
CTV is reporting that the Canadian government has added the United States to the list of countries that use torture as an interrogation technique. Canada added the US to the list, which also includes Iran and Syria, after the whole debacle with the extraordinary …
By David Cavett-Goodwin — January 13th, 2008
This paper will attempt to provide a more holistic set of criterion necessary for the construction of consent over neoliberalism. This concept refers to methods by which the public buy-into the neoliberal agenda. How were they convinced that neoliberalism was the most suitable method of …
By D. T. Cochrane — January 8th, 2008
On January 8, the Toronto Star featured on its editorial page a commentary by Joseph Stiglitz. The former chief economist of the World Bank is vaguely predicting stagflation - stagnation plus inflation - and expressing his concern about how this will affect workers and …
By Archie Techne — December 29th, 2007
From the ruins of the Berlin Wall and the decline of the Soviet empire emerged declarations about the end of Marxism and the triumph of Western capitalist democracy. And yet, these misguided assertions failed to address two key points - that Soviet-style top-down communism was …
By Peru — December 15th, 2007
One World
By Peru
I was invited to a group show in Vienna. My idea was against the theme, “Canada VS Spain”, by having a map of Pangea when they were both (and all others) the same place. There is too …
By Lamont — December 10th, 2007
Well, I’m not sure if you’d call it bad news, but Ottawa Mayor Larry O’Brien was charged today with attempted bribery during his 2006 electoral campaign. O’Brien beat out Alex Munter during that election over the issue of tax freezing, though that …
By Cultural Shifts — December 1st, 2007
Courtesy of OSDir
Richard Stallman is one of the founders of the Free Software Movement and lead developer of the GNU Operating System. His book is ‘Free Software, Free Society’.
JP: Can you first of all explain the “Free Software Movement’.
RMS: The basic idea of …
By Anna Torgerson — November 30th, 2007
Fair trade is a response to the instability of international commodity markets and to problems of monocultural production.
By Elmire — November 30th, 2007
Eighteenth century London was home to the gin craze, a chapter in English history that marked the unprecedented mass consumption of this newly developed spirit. This paper traces the development of this complex urban phenomenon and examines how Parliamentarians came to attribute many of the …
