From Disabled to Dispossessed: CPP Disability Benefits and the Decline of Social Citizenship
By Mary Rita Holland — April 10th, 2008
What were formerly considered ‘entitlements’ of highly vulnerable citizens are increasingly viewed as charity
Essays & Articles
Fair Trade and Global Justice: The Case of Bananas in St. VincentAnna Torgerson | Fair trade is a response to the instability of international commodity markets and to problems of monocultural production.
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Periodizing our Current Moment: Work-Well-Fare As a New Mode of Social Regulation
By Matthew Lymburner — April 2nd, 2008
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 …
Imagining the Diasporic Link: The Franco-Algerian Media Dialogues on the 2005 ‘Emeutes’ in France
By Irina Mihalache — March 26th, 2008
Both France and Algeria have been struggling with the memory of colonialism, adopting various strategies of collective remembering.
Spatial Strategies in the Policing of Protest
By Andrew Crosby — March 22nd, 2008
Examining the notion of internal sovereign power in relation to the liberal democratic state and the contestation of public space.
Marxxxist Alienation: Sexual Anthropomorphism of Realdolls™ and Construction of Man
By Elizabeth Record — March 18th, 2008
Looking at the changing interactions between the organic and inanimate constructions of capitalism.
Skipping Over the Bourgeoisie Moment of Expropriation
By Armagan Teke — February 17th, 2008
Primitive accumulation - a concept Marx previously used for addressing the initial inhumane stage of capitalism at which both the expropriation of the producers from the means of production and transformation of them into wage-labourers took place - has long been an absent reference point …
The Complication of the Nation: Latin America and the Dialectic of Changing Imagined Communities
By Matthew Lymburner — January 18th, 2008
Despite differing conceptions on what this might actually mean, we are living in a global world. The system of nation states remains intact - and with it, nationalist sentiment from Argentina to Yemen, and everywhere in between - but it is …
Forces Constructing Consent for the Neoliberal Project
By David Cavett-Goodwin — January 13th, 2008
This paper will attempt to provide a more holistic set of criterion necessary for the construction of consent over neoliberalism. This concept refers to methods by which the public buy-into the neoliberal agenda. How were they convinced that neoliberalism was the most suitable method of …
Why Study Marx?
By Archie Techne — December 29th, 2007
From the ruins of the Berlin Wall and the decline of the Soviet empire emerged declarations about the end of Marxism and the triumph of Western capitalist democracy. And yet, these misguided assertions failed to address two key points - that Soviet-style top-down communism was …
The Venue is the Culture?
By Yiu Fai Chow — December 4th, 2007
Allow me to blame the city of Hong Kong. I was born and grew up in Hong Kong. But for the last 15 years, I have been living in the Netherlands, although I am commuting between the two localities pretty frequently. The last time I …
Making the Case for Corporate Social Responsibility
By David Cavett-Goodwin — December 3rd, 2007
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a major buzzword within academic circles, politics, activist groups, and the business community. There are many definitions of CSR which emphasize different areas, but the most contemporary and most applicable to the majority cases, is defined by the World Bank …
Fair Trade and Global Justice: The Case of Bananas in St. Vincent
By Anna Torgerson — November 30th, 2007
Fair trade is a response to the instability of international commodity markets and to problems of monocultural production.
International Human Rights Protection in the Citizenship Gap: The Case of Migrant Sex Workers
By Christine Hughes — November 30th, 2007
The Convention to Protect All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families has been heralded as a significant international achievement in the protection of migrant workers. Antoine Pecoud and Paul de Guchteneire assert that it represents “the most comprehensive international treaty protecting migrants’ rights …
The Gin Craze: Drink, Crime & Women in 18th Century London
By Elmire — November 30th, 2007
Eighteenth century London was home to the gin craze, a chapter in English history that marked the unprecedented mass consumption of this newly developed spirit. This paper traces the development of this complex urban phenomenon and examines how Parliamentarians came to attribute many of the …
Care & Cash: A More Economic Approach to Criticizing Sweatshops
By Matthew Prime — November 24th, 2007
I. Background
Across the globe, the growing dominance of trade has enveloped countries, both developed and developing, into asserting whatever advantages they might boast so as to remain globally competitive. This phenomenon is best described by the term ‘globalization’. While the uses of the term …
