Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/07078552.2020.1849986
E. Bowness, D. James, A. Desmarais, Angela Mcintyre, T. Robin, Colin Dring, Hannah Wittman
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has focused renewed public attention on the risks and harms generated by a globalized, industrialized, and corporatized food system. This crisis reinvigorates the need for a research agenda that identifies compelling ways of holding key actors in the corporate food regime accountable for creating and profiting from systemic risk in the food system. We draw upon theoretical conceptions of “risk,” “rights,” and “(ir)responsibility” to raise questions about how to move beyond narrow liberal notions of responsibility for postpandemic recovery. Redefining responsibility could be transformative in the pursuit of corporate accountability for past and present harms, and in financing pathways towards less risky, more resilient, and more just food systems of the future.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/07078552.2020.1849987
F. Abele, P. Usher
Abstract In the mid-1970s, Mel Watkins was recruited by the Dene of the Northwest Territories in their opposition to the construction of a natural gas pipeline system in their homeland. The experience led him to a major breakthrough in the staple analysis as applied to Canada as he revised the analysis to take Indigenous land rights into account. Watkins’ time in Yellowknife was also the beginning of his lifelong commitment to redress injustices experienced by Indigenous people.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/07078552.2020.1802832
Tia Dafnos
Abstract This article situates Canada’s national critical infrastructure security/resilience assemblage as encompassing pacification strategies that further accumulation and dispossession. It traces how specific practices enact preemptive anticipatory risk thinking in invoking an extractivist nation-state future and its threats, which are constituted as risks to be addressed in the present. In addition to criminalizing Indigenous land defenders and environmentalists, this assemblage generates frontiers for accumulation through an emphasis on increased financial investment in infrastructures.
{"title":"Energy futures and present threats: critical infrastructure resilience, accumulation, and dispossession","authors":"Tia Dafnos","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2020.1802832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2020.1802832","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article situates Canada’s national critical infrastructure security/resilience assemblage as encompassing pacification strategies that further accumulation and dispossession. It traces how specific practices enact preemptive anticipatory risk thinking in invoking an extractivist nation-state future and its threats, which are constituted as risks to be addressed in the present. In addition to criminalizing Indigenous land defenders and environmentalists, this assemblage generates frontiers for accumulation through an emphasis on increased financial investment in infrastructures.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"101 1","pages":"114 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2020.1802832","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42437763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/07078552.2020.1802834
Mark P. Thomas
Abstract Set in the context of the June 2018 election of Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative provincial government in Ontario, this paper examines the implications of Right-wing populism for the regulation of legislated employment standards. Focusing on the Making Ontario Open for Business Act, 2018, the paper argues that the Ford Government’s Right-wing populism served to legitimate legislative changes that undermine workplace protections and workers’ rights, and contribute to growing precariousness in the labour market.
{"title":"For the people? Regulating employment standards in an era of Right-wing populism","authors":"Mark P. Thomas","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2020.1802834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2020.1802834","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Set in the context of the June 2018 election of Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative provincial government in Ontario, this paper examines the implications of Right-wing populism for the regulation of legislated employment standards. Focusing on the Making Ontario Open for Business Act, 2018, the paper argues that the Ford Government’s Right-wing populism served to legitimate legislative changes that undermine workplace protections and workers’ rights, and contribute to growing precariousness in the labour market.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"101 1","pages":"135 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2020.1802834","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48513385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract India has been at a precarious crossroad since 2014. Prime Minister Modi, who stands as a symbol of the alliance between Right-wing extremist forces and neoliberal capital, has not only undermined the political freedom of the citizens of this country, but also annihilated the economic sovereignty of the nation. A Right-wing extremist state has tightly controlled the political sphere in order to submit the economic sphere to monopoly capital. The Modi government has given birth to a twofold crisis in the country: recessionary tendencies in the economy and political unfreedom in the society. This paper deals with the economic consequences of the aforementioned alliance.
{"title":"Alternatives","authors":"Paramjit Singh","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv10qqzpj.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10qqzpj.15","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract India has been at a precarious crossroad since 2014. Prime Minister Modi, who stands as a symbol of the alliance between Right-wing extremist forces and neoliberal capital, has not only undermined the political freedom of the citizens of this country, but also annihilated the economic sovereignty of the nation. A Right-wing extremist state has tightly controlled the political sphere in order to submit the economic sphere to monopoly capital. The Modi government has given birth to a twofold crisis in the country: recessionary tendencies in the economy and political unfreedom in the society. This paper deals with the economic consequences of the aforementioned alliance.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"101 1","pages":"174 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44111899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/07078552.2020.1802831
Nicolas Graham
Abstract Using a social network analysis, this paper maps the institutional architecture that supports research and development (R&D) aimed at “greening” the fossil fuel industry in Canada. It traces the production of this research through a cluster of industry-university-state research institutes and centres, demonstrating the centrality of fossil fuel firms in these networks. The paper considers how the networked infrastructures supporting carbon-extractive industries obstruct more ecologically sustainable lines of R&D.
{"title":"Fossil knowledge networks: science, ecology, and the “greening” of carbon extractive development","authors":"Nicolas Graham","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2020.1802831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2020.1802831","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Using a social network analysis, this paper maps the institutional architecture that supports research and development (R&D) aimed at “greening” the fossil fuel industry in Canada. It traces the production of this research through a cluster of industry-university-state research institutes and centres, demonstrating the centrality of fossil fuel firms in these networks. The paper considers how the networked infrastructures supporting carbon-extractive industries obstruct more ecologically sustainable lines of R&D.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"101 1","pages":"113 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2020.1802831","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49298380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/07078552.2020.1802833
S. Ghimire
Abstract This article uncovers the political and gendered logics underpinning commercialized microfinance as promoted by the Canadian development sector. Utilizing social reproduction theory, theories of imperialism, and discourse analysis, I posit that, above all else, the primary political logic of microfinance is to financialize the social reproduction of poor women in the Global South. I further posit that the provision of microfinance coheres with Canadian imperialist ambitions, contributing to strategies of capital expansion into communities in the Global South.
{"title":"Canadian imperialism and the politics of microfinance","authors":"S. Ghimire","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2020.1802833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2020.1802833","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article uncovers the political and gendered logics underpinning commercialized microfinance as promoted by the Canadian development sector. Utilizing social reproduction theory, theories of imperialism, and discourse analysis, I posit that, above all else, the primary political logic of microfinance is to financialize the social reproduction of poor women in the Global South. I further posit that the provision of microfinance coheres with Canadian imperialist ambitions, contributing to strategies of capital expansion into communities in the Global South.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"101 1","pages":"155 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2020.1802833","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46736555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/07078552.2020.1738777
P. Armstrong, S. Day
Abstract Clothes and laundry are simultaneously profoundly personal and political. In this article, we illustrate how our book, Wash, Wear and Care: Clothing and Laundry in Long-Term Residential Care, applies feminist political economy to reveal the importance to workers, residents, families, and volunteers of the invisible and undervalued work involved in clothes and laundry. In the process, we illuminate how effective feminist political economy theory and methods can be in exposing the personal as political and in linking the global to the national as well as to the very local and indeed intimate in these days of the international power of capital.
{"title":"Clothing matters: locating wash, wear, and care","authors":"P. Armstrong, S. Day","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2020.1738777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2020.1738777","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Clothes and laundry are simultaneously profoundly personal and political. In this article, we illustrate how our book, Wash, Wear and Care: Clothing and Laundry in Long-Term Residential Care, applies feminist political economy to reveal the importance to workers, residents, families, and volunteers of the invisible and undervalued work involved in clothes and laundry. In the process, we illuminate how effective feminist political economy theory and methods can be in exposing the personal as political and in linking the global to the national as well as to the very local and indeed intimate in these days of the international power of capital.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"101 1","pages":"1 - 16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2020.1738777","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46600340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/07078552.2020.1738779
D. Camfield
Abstract The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 was a local working-class revolt that challenged the hegemony of capital in a moment of crisis for the ruling class in Canada. Although its particular scenario is unlikely to be repeated, the trajectories and consequences of capital accumulation and ecological crisis make a different historically-specific kind of class-wide upsurge a future possibility, and this affects the interpretation of the Winnipeg General Strike as a historical event.
{"title":"Reflections on the Winnipeg General Strike and the future of workers’ struggles","authors":"D. Camfield","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2020.1738779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2020.1738779","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 was a local working-class revolt that challenged the hegemony of capital in a moment of crisis for the ruling class in Canada. Although its particular scenario is unlikely to be repeated, the trajectories and consequences of capital accumulation and ecological crisis make a different historically-specific kind of class-wide upsurge a future possibility, and this affects the interpretation of the Winnipeg General Strike as a historical event.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"101 1","pages":"59 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2020.1738779","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49304607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/07078552.2020.1738778
D. Baines, Fiona Macdonald, J. Stanford
Abstract Australia’s newly introduced National Disability Insurance Scheme establishes a cash-for-care model that pits the human rights of people with disabilities against the employment rights of care workers, generating a zero-sum game that sees the emergence of gig labour markets, a downward spiral in wages and conditions, and concerns about quality of care. This article introduces the concept of pro-market/gig market to analyze this state-led initiative to restructure a largely publicly funded and nonprofit workforce into a privatized, casualized, and fragmented one.
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