Review: Globalization and Militarism
Among the hardest books to review (and even to read, at least for me) are those that score high in both the plus column and in the minus column. Globalization…
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Review: Ghostly Matters
This is mostly a book about how we know things — about epistemology. It is, in particular, about how we know the social world. Despite its spectral title, it is…
Quote: Middle-class Consciousness
In this they displayed a broader middle-class consciousness engrossed by the personal, the familial, the professional, and the accidental. This is a class consciousness that has an authorizing tendency to…
Review: Rewriting the Rules
I think the fact that I would have related to this book in quite different ways at different times in my life, but nonetheless would have reacted positively at each…
Writing the Nation
Most of us, most of the time, act like we know what we’re talking about when we speak or write of “Canada.” Their exact content may vary with our politics…
Review: Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada
This book is, I think, tailored for use in labour studies courses. The selection of essays on various aspects of political action by Canadian unions and workers would serve very…
Review: The Promise of Happiness
One way that some of my longstanding interests have recently become configured is in a desire to think more about how, in concrete and practical terms, our lives are knit…
Review: Paved With Good Intentions
This is a thorough and highly critical look at development NGOs in the Canadian context. It focuses on building an understanding of how such organizations are not meaningfully “NG” at…
Review: Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada
This book is, I think, tailored for use in labour studies courses. The selection of essays on various aspects of political action by Canadian unions and workers would serve very…
Review: Paved With Good Intentions
This is a thorough and highly critical look at development NGOs in the Canadian context. It focuses on building an understanding of how such organizations are not meaningfully “NG” at…
#IdleNoMore Day of Action in Sudbury
The following is my latest bit of journalism, originally published at The Media Co-op, where it is accompanied by about 15 photos of the event. #IdleNoMore Day of Action in…
Review: Whose Streets?
Despite living only four hours away, I did not attend the mobilization against the summit of leaders of the G20 states that happened in Toronto in 2010. My reasons were…
How Do You Feel the World?
The commonsense view that predominates in North America tells us that we exist as individuals prior to our entry into any sort of social world. There are stronger and weaker…
Whose Fight Is It? Sudbury Teachers and Bill 115
Whose Fight Is It? Sudbury Teachers and Bill 115 by Scott Neigh SUDBURY, ON. December 7, 2012 – With rotating strike action imminent, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO)…
Review: Feminism For Real
I bought this book about a year ago, originally with the intent of reading it during school and then later with the idea of making it a sort of symbolic…
Review: Feminism For Real
I bought this book about a year ago, originally with the intent of reading it during school and then later with the idea of making it a sort of symbolic…
Review: Orienting Canada
I have noted before on this site that when I go for a stretch of time without reading much history — by which I mean academic or lay writing that…
Review: Terrorist Assemblages
I have complicated feelings about this book. In some ways, that I am choosing to work out some of these feelings in this specific review is arbitrary and unfair, as…
Review: Orienting Canada
I have noted before on this site that when I go for a stretch of time without reading much history -- by which I mean academic or lay writing that…
Virtual Launch Event for Two Books of Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists!
I am excited to announce that my two books of Canadian history through the stories of activists, Resisting the State and Gender and Sexuality were released by Fernwood Publishing in…