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Review: Hiding from Humanity
A quick review of a book relating specific emotions to the social world, particularly with respect to the law.
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Risks in an Anti-Austerity Focus
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be facing the austerity agenda that currently looms so large across the globe. In particular, I’ve been thinking about what it means for acting in the specific kind of context that I happen to be in. I’ve come to the conclusion that the most obvious responses available to us might end up further marginalizing people who are already the most marginalized, but I’m not quite sure what to do with that observation…
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Quote: Movement Intellectual as ‘Conscious Wolf Man’
A quote about the appropriate role for intellectuals in social movements.
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Social Relations, Struggle, Affect, Shame
Some initial thinking about the connection between emotion and social relations/projects of ruling/struggle.
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Striking in a Time of Austerity
A piece I wrote on the strike by staff at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, originally published in The Bullet: Socialist Project E-Bulletin. In the brief period since the piece was published a tentative agreement has been reached, though the ratification vote is not until next week and the lines remain up. [[EDIT Oct 12: Members of OPSEU 677 Unit 2 rejected the tentative agreement today by a vote of 76.8%, and the strike continues.]]
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Review: Vimy Ridge
A review of a recent collection of essays about Vimy Ridge, and a bit of a rant about the disciplinary norms of military history.
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Video: Naomi Klein, Chief Arthur Manuel, Avi Lewis on Canadian Movements
Videos of journalist Avi Lewis moderating a discussion between Chief Arthur Manuel of the Secwepemc Nation and writer Naomi Klein about social movements within the Canadian state.
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Review: States of Race
A review of States of Race, a new collection of work by Canadian critical race feminists edited by Sherene Razack, Malinda Smith, and Sunera Thobani.
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A Cool Anti-Poverty Conference
In gathering information for an article (or perhaps several articles) that I wish to write, someone that I hope to interview drew my attention to a cool anti-poverty conference attempting to bridge academic and community spaces…
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Review: Shame and Sexuality
A sort-of review of a book on shame that approaches the issue through psychoanalytic theory and visual cultural criticism, by a reviewer who is interested in figuring out ways to better think and write about the power of shame as an element of oppressive social regulation.
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