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Worker Protests, the Morning After: 7 lessons from Argentina for the future

By Ethan Earle — Saturday, October 24th, 2009 (Posted in Essays & Articles)

… citizens in all walks of life to step forward and join them. The story begins.




Stop the World Water Forum

By Emma Lui — Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 (Posted in Essays & Articles)

… in Istanbul, Turkey. At first glance, the 5 th Forum is an international event for water experts, activists, government officials and water organizations to exchange ideas and develop policies on these and other water issues. Panelists and participants will discuss 100 topics under the Forum’s six themes including climate change, development, protecting water resources, governance, …




Marx and the current ‘crisis’ of capitalism

By D. T. Cochrane — Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 (Posted in Editorials & Interviews)

… is not the inevitable collapse of capitalism, as there will be no inevitable demise written into the code of capitalism.  If we wish to proceed beyond the capitalist system, we will have to imagine alternatives and work toward them.




National Identity Examined: A Study of the Quebec Nation

By Rachel Ariey-Jouglard — Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 (Posted in Essays & Articles)

… call the multitude.
Nationalism and nation in the Quebec context
Quebec nationalism awakens in the 1960s with the Quiet Revolution (Gellner in Smith, 36). Former French-Canadians living within the borders of the province of Quebec, by considering themselves Quebeckers, wanted to break the subordination status imposed upon them by the English-Canadians. They proudly affirmed their …




Bag of Baghdad

By Pat Thompson — Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 (Posted in Audio & Visual Studies)

… Water color and ink on ledger paper, 0cm x 30cm




Battledress

By Pat Thompson — Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 (Posted in Audio & Visual Studies)

… 24cm x 36cm




This one has a name

By mejuan — Thursday, May 1st, 2008 (Posted in Audio & Visual Studies)

… Barcelona, Spain




Sars Palace

By Pat Thompson — Thursday, April 10th, 2008 (Posted in Audio & Visual Studies)

… Latex on found image, 5×25




Left Side of the Story: Labour, Welfare, and Workplace

By Cultural Shifts and Berrak Kabasakal — Thursday, April 10th, 2008 (Posted in Reviews)

… Winter Olympics in Vancouver
( view abstract )
Mathew Nelson, Political Science
Discussant: Berrak Kabasakal, Political Economy

 
Transcript: Commentary from the Discussant
None Available.




From Disabled to Dispossessed: CPP Disability Benefits and the Decline of Social Citizenship

By Mary Rita Holland — Thursday, April 10th, 2008 (Posted in Essays & Articles)

… 185). Existing literature on CPPD addresses the need to provide disabled Canadians with equal citizenship through social security (Prince 2005, 2003; Dunn 2006) yet to date little analysis has been done on the productivity agenda at the heart of this issue - and the incompatibility of neo-liberal policymaking and social citizenship rights, more broadly.
The Canada Pension Plan was …

Comment by ed turon: … 59.turning 60 july 7 2010.also …




Resisting and Reinforcing the ‘Entrepreneurial City’

By Matthew Nelson — Thursday, April 10th, 2008 (Posted in Abstracts)

… 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 examine the active role of labour in processes of reinforcing and resisting the building of …




Gazing Back Into the Closet: Theorizing about Queer Women in the Workplace

By Lesley Vaage — Thursday, April 10th, 2008 (Posted in Abstracts)

… for queer women.




Fear and Copyright

By mejuan — Saturday, April 5th, 2008 (Posted in Audio & Visual Studies)

… Spraypaint on concrete




Periodizing our Current Moment: Work-Well-Fare As a New Mode of Social Regulation

By Matthew Lymburner — Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 (Posted in Essays & Articles)

… that will reach $8.00 in two years (DIR, 2006), as well as massive increases in education spending, but in the mind of Schwarzenegger, these all serve the instrumental purpose of improving competitiveness. That they also do benefit working people is emblematic of an uneven fusion between economic competitiveness and social sustainability; of workfare and welfare.
What makes this rhetoric …




From within Canada: Identity and Public Policy

By Cultural Shifts and Benjamin Christensen — Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 (Posted in Reviews)

… 406). So applaud the presenters for their attempts to deconstruct these various discursive webs.
Questions
I want to apologize first, since my questions for the presenters encompass larger epistemological questions about political economy in general. But hopefully these will ignite some more specific questions from the audience.
Upon demystifying particular lines of discourse and …