… theorist of capitalist crisis.  The actual invocations of Marx have been, in general, tentative and flippant.   For example, Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury,  pays Marx a backhanded compliment when he notes that Marx observed capitalism’s capacity for ascribing power to that which is not real and then says that Marx “was right about that, if about little else.”  …

… because it is impossible for all members of a nation to know all the other members as well as the whole territory they belong to (Anderson, 6). However, this does not mean that the nation does not exist. Nationalism, on the contrary, “is one of the most powerful forces in the world,…the most widespread and popular ideology and movement” (Smith, 37).
The specificity of a nation …

… of public policy discussions. Canadians with debilitating health conditions who are incapable of employment yet who fail to meet the rigid requirements of CPPD suffer even greater social exclusion than the unfortunate individuals who do qualify for benefits. Little follow-up on the health and economic status of failed applicants has been done, leaving one to conclude that public sympathy …

… from job promises, to employment equity, and future organizing opportunities.

… with a brief introduction of the theoretical groundwork that informs my examination of the dynamics of coming out. The paper will move into an explanation of how the heteronormative “gaze” (re)positions the queer woman as an objectified “other”, thereby reducing her to a spectacle. By invoking Foucault’s concept of “self-surveillance”, this essay will then theorize about queer …

… Mostly, work-well-fare is a discursive tendency that certain social actors can seize upon to reclaim a segment of social power long-held by certain capital interests.
And this is what this is really about. I won’t give a genealogy of the transition from Fordism to Post-Fordism, for I’m sure they are known to many of you in all too real terms. Suffice to say, as David Harvey has …

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Michael A. Lithgow, Mass Communication
Travelling third class: regulating the transport of farm animals in Canada
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Michelle Barrett, Political Economy
National Identity Examined: A Study of the Quebec Nation
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Rachel Ariey-Jouglard, Political Science
A Prosperous Uncertainty: The Canada Border Services …

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… trends in the governing of societies and the self, as well as in the production of goods, services, identities and norms. I argue that a new period of virtualization is emerging, following the era of post-Fordism, and that this shift is bringing about a new regime of accumulation and new modes of social regulation. The transformation is driven by processes of rescaling. Virtual governance is …

… and new struggles over resources and local agency. The struggles which emerge are one of the ways that global capital is instantiated and thus offer rich sites for investigating and documenting the political needs of what is often an abstract and underdetermined phenomenon.
Using a standpoint theoretical framework, this research examined moments of struggle in response to gender …

… the three components of the nation—the people, the territory or homeland, and a mystical bond between the people and the territory—will be examined separately in order to illustrate the construction of the nation, its need for state-like representational structure and its identity. Secondly, through the Canada-Quebec nexus, the pitfalls of national identity will be identified. Exclusion, …

… identity.

… Algeria, cannot provide for the basic needs of its citizens, one solution to the financial and social hardship is emigration. Just a few pages later, the reader finds out the dramatic incongruence between the dreams of the emigrant and the reality of the immigrant. The same man continues his story, “And what a France I discovered! It wasn’t at all what I expected to find… in our …

… the Diasporic Link: The Franco-Algerian Media Dialogues on the 2005 Emeutes in France
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Irina Mihalache, School of Journalism and Communication
Discussant: Daniel Tubb, Political Economy

 
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… revolving around the state and the control over invisible boundaries serves to silence other political possibilities by securing mobility and space. The state’s securitization of space through force is testament to the efficacy of territorial strategies of power. Here, the logic of security is synonymous with spatial exclusion as the state works to (re)assert its control over spaces …