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work in freefall: a deconstructive landscape painting by Holly Friesen

By Jim Larwill — Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 (Posted in Audio & Visual Studies, Reviews)

… language of fire.

Author: Jim Larwill




National Identity Examined: A Study of the Quebec Nation

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

… Mac. 1986. “State-Centered Social Science and the Anarchist Critique: Ideoogy in Political Geography”. Antipode 18 (1): 11-38.
Létourneau, Jocelyn. 2000. “Penser le Québec (dans le contexte canadien)”. In Michel Venne, ed., Penser la nation québécoise. Montréal : Éditions Québec Amérique, 123-136.
Maalouf, Amin.1998. Les identités meurtrières. Paris : Grasset. …




Spatial Strategies in the Policing of Protest

By Andrew Crosby — Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 (Posted in Essays & Articles)

… State-Centred Social Science and the Anarchist Critique: Ideology in Political Geography. Antipode 18:1 (1986), 11-38.
McPhail, Clark and John D. McCarty. Places of Protest: The Public Forum in Principle and Practice. Mobilization: An International Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 2 (June 2006), 229-247.
Meyer, David S. and Sidney Tarrow. The Social Movement Society: Contentious Politics for …




Death of a Campaign

By Matthew Lymburner — Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 (Posted in Editorials & Interviews)

… turn towards further elitism.

Comment by Matthew Lymburner: … Carter’s, and we know how that …




IP Rights and New Technologies: Pills, Pirates & Sex Dolls

By Cultural Shifts and Eliot Che — Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 (Posted in Reviews)

… Dooley, Political Economy
Marxxxist Alienation: Sexual Anthropomorphism of Realdolls™ and Construction of Man
( view paper )
Elizabeth Record, Political Economy
North American Integration and Copyright Policy: The Case of Canada
( view abstract )
Blayne Haggart, Political Science
Discussant: Eliot Che, Political Economy

 
Transcript: Commentary from the Discussant …




Noise Annoys: Pirate Radio and the Distribution of Music in the Digital Age

By Jim Dooley — Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 (Posted in Abstracts)

Author: Jim Dooley




Questioning Boundaries: A Political Economy Conference

By Cultural Shifts, Daniel Tubb and Elui — Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 (Posted in Notes & Asides)

… Dooley, Political Economy
Marxxxist Alienation: Sexual Anthropomorphism of Realdolls™ and Construction of Man
Elizabeth Record, Political Economy
North American Integration and Copyright Policy: The Case of Canada
Blayne Haggart, Political Science
Discussant: Eliot Che, Political Economy

10:45-12:15PM Blurring the Lines: Globalization, Dissent and Democracy

The …




Taken For A Ride documentary

By mejuan — Monday, February 18th, 2008 (Posted in Notes & Asides)

… Klein and Marcy Olson, Taken for a Ride tells a story that’s been told before. But their use of archival footage, GM’s own film propaganda and interviews with the people who ran the assassinated rail-car systems makes the film a potent piece of environmental and political activism.




Forces Constructing Consent for the Neoliberal Project

By David Cavett-Goodwin — Sunday, January 13th, 2008 (Posted in Essays & Articles)

… Carter was running for re-election against Ronald Reagan, the misery index (the sum of the unemployment rate and the inflation rate) had reached an all-time high of 21.98 percent.
With the marrying of right-wing Christian fundamentalists and the Republican Party of US politics during the 1960’s and 70’s, the 1980s allowed for the mobilization of mass amounts of capital, under the form …




Making the Case for Corporate Social Responsibility

By David Cavett-Goodwin — Monday, December 3rd, 2007 (Posted in Essays & Articles)

… Dean, Kiwi, Sanex, Senseo and its namesake, Sara Lee, the company has leading positions in numerous categories in the more than 180 markets in which it competes. Due to the lack of CSR discourse and activities, they fit within Sethi’s 1st category: social obligation. The firm places the most emphasis first on working within, and obeying the limits of the law. Little more is said about …