Cultural Shifts

Bag of Baghdad

Pat Thompson — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:58:46 +0000

Bag of Baghdad By Patrick Thompson, 2007 Water color and ink on ledger paper, 0cm x 30cm Tags: art, military, War

Battledress

Pat Thompson — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:01:35 +0000

Battledress By Pat Thompson, 2007 24cm x 36cm Tags: art, military, War

This one has a name

mejuan — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:04:12 +0000

Mejuan, 2008. Barcelona, Spain Tags: art, consumption, environment, painting, Spain

From Nelson to Castlegar on Steel

Scott — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:04:32 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFcdgBbbbAc Tags: Canada, freight train, travel

Sars Palace

Pat Thompson — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:50:19 +0000

Sars Palace By Pat Thompson, 2003 Latex on found image, 5×25 Tags: art, sars

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

Cultural Shifts — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:11:34 +0000

The fourth panel of the Institute of Political Economy annual conference.

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

Mary Rita Holland — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:00:09 +0000

What were formerly considered ‘entitlements' of highly vulnerable citizens are increasingly viewed as charity

Resisting and Reinforcing the ‘Entrepreneurial City’

Matthew Nelson — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:43:54 +0000

Resisting and 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 [...]

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

Lesley Vaage — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:38:27 +0000

How frustrating it is to step out of that suffocating Closet only to find yourself in a hall of two-way mirrors—undoubtedly, a common experience for queer women who “come out” in the workplace. This paper will attempt to tease out some of the regulatory forces that inform the coming out process for queer women in [...]

Fear and Copyright

mejuan — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:49:48 +0000

Fear, copyright and a side order of mind-numbing “art” Royal, 2008 Spraypaint on concrete Tags: art, copyright, graffiti, mural, style

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

Matthew Lymburner — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:52:35 +0000

The title of my paper 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 [...]

From within Canada: Identity and Public Policy

Cultural Shifts — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:50:28 +0000

The third panel of the Institute of Political Economy annual conference.

Perilous Light

Fuyuki Kurasawa — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:06:30 +0000

A public lecture on the visual representation of distant suffering in various parts of the world.

Governance 2.0: Virtual Space, Virtual Economies

Eliot Che — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:01:40 +0000

What do virtual worlds mean for governance, production and identity? What is the relationship between these new spaces and contemporary capitalism? In this paper, I explore some of the political-economic implications of technological transformation and reflect on the social effects of producing, communicating and existing in virtual space. Although the use of online social networking [...]

Travelling third class: regulating the transport of farm animals in Canada

Michelle Barrett — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:15:45 +0000

My thesis research looks at how ‘animal welfare’ as an idea or a goal is framed through the process of developing public policy and regulation in Canada. As a case study, I am looking at the current proposed amendments to the Health of Animals Regulations, which govern the transport of farmed animals. By examining how [...]

Reading Global Genders: Mapping gender-based struggles in the global geographies of local marginality

Michael Lithgow — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:15:43 +0000

The over-valorization of the global spatial 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 [...]

National Identity Examined: A Study of the Quebec Nation

Rachel Ariey-Jouglard — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:15:42 +0000

In today’s political life, nations are unquestionably legitimate. 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. Using critical geography theories, this paper questions the necessity of one of today’s most unquestioned assumption. To begin, [...]

A Prosperous Uncertainty: The Canada Border Services Agency, risk management, and the not-so-new political imagination of spatially-bound identity

Christopher Alderson — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:01:46 +0000

The creation of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) in 2003 marks an attempt to integrate all of Canada’s various border-controlling agencies and acts under one enforcement organization; it’s function is to provide “integrated border services that support national security and public safety priorities and facilitate the movement of persons and goods.” In taking on [...]

Robert Oppenheimer and Gen. Leslie Groves

Pat Thompson — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:48:26 +0000

Robert Oppenheimer and Gen. Leslie Groves lead a group of reporters to visit ground zero at Trinity Site on Sept. 11. 1945 By Pat Thompson. 2006 Ink on braille paper, 20 x 20 Tags: art, collective memory, history

Imagining the Diasporic Link: The Franco-Algerian Media Dialogues on the 2005 ‘Emeutes’ in France

Irina Mihalache — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:59:10 +0000

Both France and Algeria have been struggling with the memory of colonialism, adopting various strategies of collective remembering.

Blurring the Lines: Globalization, Dissent and Democracy

Cultural Shifts — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:23:22 +0000

The second panel of the Institute of Political Economy annual conference.

Spatial Strategies in the Policing of Protest

Andrew Crosby — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:54:37 +0000

Examining the notion of internal sovereign power in relation to the liberal democratic state and the contestation of public space.

Imagining the Diasporic Link: The Franco-Algerian Media Dialogues on the 2005 ‘Emeutes’ in France

Irina Mihalache — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:32:20 +0000

In October and November 2005, the emeutes (riots) in the Parisian banlieues re-stated the existing social conflicts between second and third immigrants from former North African French colonies and the French state. These instances of violence brought to life memories of colonialism and of the Algerian War, conveniently forgotten by the French officials. Moreover, the [...]

Networks of Power: The World Water Council in Global and Local Contexts

Elui — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:29:02 +0000

Although knowledge networks can be non-hierarchical, representative and democratic spaces to exchange information and determine policies, (Stein, Janice Gross et al., 2001; Stone, 2000) an analysis of the World Water Council (WWC) and its World Water Fora (WWF) reveals that knowledge networks can also reinforce power dynamics and exclude particular voices. This research contributes to [...]

The Internationalization / Transnationalization of the State and its Relation to Low-Intensity Democracy: The Case of Haiti

Ray Silvius — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:24:26 +0000

Historical materialist scholarship has, from the time of Marx, reflected the manner in which economics transcends national borders. Bastian van Apeldoorn (2004: 143) encapsulates this sentiment, writing that “the world of international relations has from the start been inextricably bound up with the expanding capitalist world economy and thus embedded within and shaped by transnational [...]