… continuity of territory, and linguistic commonality” (Hardt and Negri, 95). Although the essay will later show that Quebec national identity is not based on blood relations anymore, this description is accurate. One must remember that identity is always based on exclusion. It creates an “us” and an “Other”, separating between qualified and unqualified bodies (Manning, xv). In …

… fix of work-well-fare is not significantly different from that of the Post-Fordist era. The restructuring of the role of the national state and the bifurcation of social relations remain staple features in the landscape of contemporary capitalism. However, what first appeared as ‘scale relativization’, which Bob Jessop defines as “intense competition among different economic and …

… while economies of scale and economies of scope are merging into economies of convergence. The rescaling of the social largely marks a new mode of becoming human through the extension of the virtual panopticon, and shifts towards auto-regulation and intensified self-customization. Through the study of discourses surrounding the Internet and the exploration of new spaces such as …

… has created renewed interest in recovering the role of the ‘local’ in the creation, maintenance and expansion of global flows and networks. Global place(s) are the urban territories where global networks ‘touchdown’ and organize material capabilities. This reorganization of urban space also creates new geographies of marginality and new struggles over resources and local agency. …

… configurations of Canada’s interaction at the global scale. The first narrative is a vision of a globally integrated Canada with respect to economic and market policy. This order corresponds to a Canada that depends on the proliferation of free trade agreements and fuller integration into the global economic sphere for its prosperity. The second narrative is the familiar configuration …

… and ethnic divides” (Silverstein, 2004, p. 239) tends to minimize the role of the national element in the identities of the diasporic individual. Even the members of second and third generations of Algerians in France, who are no longer immigrants but French citizens, are placed in the general category of immigrants, especially in moments of tension and violence, as exemplified by the …

… Strategies in the Policing of Protest: The Liberal Democratic State and the Contestation of Public Space
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Andrew Crosby, Political Science
Imagining 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 …

… Strategies in the Policing of Protest: The Liberal Democratic State and the Contestation of Public Space
Andrew Crosby, Political Science
Imagining the Diasporic Link: The Franco-Algerian Media Dialogues on the 2005 Emeutes in France
Irina Mihalache, School of Journalism and Communication
Discussant: Daniel Tubb, Political Economy

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… This essay will begin with an analysis of ‘primitive accumulation with socialist characteristics’ with a special focus on the USSR. Following this, we will deal with the ‘primitive accumulation with global hegemonic state characteristics’ and the role of the neo-liberal phase of capitalism and its hegemonic institutions in the Third World’s primitive accumulation phase. …

… . New York, NY: Verso. 1991.

… use of Hong Kong in terms of pop music:
1/ lack of outdoor venues. As you may have noticed, all the pop venues mentioned earlier are indoor spaces. However enjoyable these spaces are, however significant the Hong Kong Coliseum remains to the local people, they are generally framed by western media and local English media, most notably the south china morning post as a lack – a lack of …

… fragmentation hold sway over vain universals; which is a blessing, indeed, so long as we negotiate our differences to the best of our imagination and come up with some common ground upon which to make a stand. Nationalism can become violent and fascist - but it doesn’t have to. It may in fact be a necessary mode of expression for avoiding involvement in other forms of hegemonic …