… painting historically has been directly connected to the exploitation of the environment. Paintings of Canada’s natural beauty opened up our land culturally to the phenomenon of real-estate development; from sea, to sea, to sea. The CNR and CPR as major early patrons of the arts set this trend and painting’s landscape trajectory has followed those tracks up until this very day. The …

Comment by Holly: … on the web for Omnigothic …

Author: Jim Larwill

Comment author: Holly

Tags: art, landscape, painting, urbanization

… Algerians who decide to leave their home country and immigrate to France construct ideal images of their new lives in their new country. These ideal images are based on hopes of a better, more plentiful, and freer life which could not be found in Algeria due to poverty, the heritage of French colonialism, and ethnic segregation. In The Suffering of the Immigrant, Abdelmalek Sayad presents …

Author: Irina Mihalache

Tags: Africa, Algeria, citizenship, collective memory, community, diaspora, France, identity, law, media, migration, police, politics, poverty

… This paper will first provide an overview of the Canada Pension Plan Disability (CPPD) benefits program. CPPD ostensibly serves to provide income security to pension-contributors who find themselves incapable of work due to chronic health conditions. Rising CPPD caseloads during the 1980s and early 1990s coupled with growing debt aversion in Canada led to predictions that the …

Author: Mary Rita Holland

Tags: Canada, Canada Pension Plan, citizenship, disability, labour, neoliberalism, policy, welfare state, women

… 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 essay will use the Olympic Games as an empirical case study to …

Author: Matthew Nelson

Tags: Canada, capitalism, geography, labour, Olympics, resistance, scale, trade, unions

… contains an assortment of words relevant to current labor studies – networks, struggle, unions – but one word, or more aptly, one concept, will certainly stand out as peculiar: work-well-fare. What is this concept? What does it mean? I argue that work-well-fare is a tendency towards a renewed class compromise for America; a meeting point for capital and labor to renegotiate balance in …

Author: Matthew Lymburner

Tags: campaign, capital, class, economy, elites, labour, welfare

… Representation of Distant Suffering
A public lecture by Fuyuki Kurasawa, given on March 28, 2008 at the Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University.

How is visuality — understood here as the mutual constitution of the visual and the social (W. J. T. Mitchell) — implicated in the mediated construction of instances of distant suffering in various parts of the …

Comment by Matthew Lymburner: … to put you up on the ropes! But …

Author: Fuyuki Kurasawa

Comment author: Matthew Lymburner

Tags: art, cinema, critical theory, humanitarianism, photography, visual economy, visuality

… Who is the Neo-Expropriater?
Primitive accumulation - a concept Marx previously used for addressing the initial inhumane stage of capitalism at which both the expropriation of the producers from the means of production and transformation of them into wage-labourers took place - has long been an absent reference point within the social sciences. Given that the academics affiliated with …

Comment by Spritzer: … on the difference between today’s …

Author: Armagan Teke

Tags: capitalism, development, economy, labour, Marxism, Primitive Accumulation, USSR

… or Marxian Anti-Economics and the Study of Political Economy
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 not what Karl Marx envisioned in his writings, …

Author: Archie Techne

Tags: academics, critical theory, economy, labour, Marxism, political economy, politics

… Migrant Workers and Members of their Families has been heralded as a significant international achievement in the protection of migrant workers. Antoine Pecoud and Paul de Guchteneire assert that it represents “the most comprehensive international treaty protecting migrants’ rights and is therefore a crucial element in fostering respect for migrants’ human rights throughout the …

Tags: Canada, citizenship, economy, globalization, human rights, international law, law, migration, sex workers, United Nations, women

… upheavals in the global financial markets have revived interest in the political economic analysis of Karl Marx.  Sales of Marx’s opus Capital - which English media insists on calling by its untranslated German title, Das Kapital - have reportedly skyrocketed.  The UK Times published a lengthy commentary asking, “ did he get it right? “  This turn to Marx makes sense, as he …

Author: D. T. Cochrane

Tags: autonomy, banking, capital, capitalism, crisis, finance, history, industry, marx, materialism, production

… is “the most universally legitimate value in the political life of our time” (Anderson, 3). The existence of that nation, according to those who belong to it, is unquestionable. 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. But what is a nation exactly? This paper …

Author: Rachel Ariey-Jouglard

Tags: Canada, citizenship, community, culture, identity, language, nationalism, politics

… of Baghdad
By Patrick Thompson, 2007
Water color and ink on ledger paper, 0cm x 30cm

Author: Pat Thompson

Tags: art, military, War

… By Pat Thompson, 2007
24cm x 36cm

Author: Pat Thompson

Tags: art, military, War

… 2008.
Barcelona, Spain

Author: mejuan

Tags: art, consumption, environment, painting, Spain

… the more things stay the same. “Chicks” and adrenaline sport. Carving up the bull slowly, like chopping down a tree. Hero tears in the triumphant bull fighter, butcher, entertainer’s eyes. A modern-day fairy tale about Satan’s game, told in eleven images.

Author: mejuan

Tags: art, capitalism, culture, Spain