Waaaaay back in November, I wrote an introductory post saying that I was going to write a series of posts reflecting on the doing of intellectual work outside of the academy. I followed up with a couple of pieces to set the context — one explained wha…
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A Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: Review: <I>The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You</I>
[S. Bear Bergman. The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009.]The personal essay is a form of writing that is underrated by many on the left, except perhaps in some feminist contexts. It is a form that starts very explicitl…
Continue readingA Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: Native Electronica
Check out this video for a track called “Pow Wow Riddim.” It’s from a Native electronic music crew called A Tribe Called Red:Pow Wow Riddim from Bear Witness on Vimeo.Their website is here and non-video versions of the tracks they’ve released so far ca…
Continue readingA Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: Change Requires a Path
It should be obvious: In order to make a change, we need some way to make it, some path to bring it to reality.I don’t like that dead tree in the middle of my back yard? Well, I need some way to take it down — a chainsaw, an axe, a helpful ogre who ca…
Continue readingA Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: Feelings About Masculinity
I was recently puzzling over why I was having such difficulty doing a particular piece of writing. Everything I tried felt a little off key, a little false, and I couldn’t understand it. It slowly dawned on me that the explanation was that I couldn’t w…
Continue readingA Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: Video: Break Free of the "Man Box"
Internationally recognized educator and activist in the struggle to end violence against women Tony Porter gives a brief, powerful talk to the TEDWomen conference about masculinity and about the importance of breaking free of what he calls the “man box…
Continue readingA Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: The Social Character of Intellectual Work
I’ve been gradually working my way through writing a series of posts reflecting on doing intellectual work outside of the academy. I started out with an introduction explaining more or less what the series will involve and why I’m writing them. I follo…
Continue readingA Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: Review: <I>Forbidden Narratives</I>
[Kathryn Church. Forbidden Narratives: Critical Autobiography as Social Science. New York: Routledge, 1995.]Earlier this year, I finished the manuscript for my book on Canadian history-from-below. This means that now, in contrast to a rather lengthy pr…
Continue readingA Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: Neoliberalism and Work in the Home
The following is an article by me originally published in the December 2010 print edition of Linchpin. It has also been published online at Linchpin.ca and at Z-Net.Neoliberalism and Work in the Homeby Scott Neigh”If your Mom didn’t take care of you [w…
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