Dear Friends and Colleagues,
The following event is being hosted by our allies at Alternate Routes:
Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research is pleased to announce the publication of Uniting Struggles: Critical Social Research in Critical Times,
our thirty-fifth anniversary edition. Articles range from an
examination of post-9/11 Hollywood cinema to climate-induced migration,
neoliberalism and the global economic crisis, labour struggles, left
political regroupment, knowledge production in social movements and
re-thinking socialism. Included, as well, are short analytical pieces,
editorials and interviews with noted activists and academics, and a
number of contemporary book reviews. Attached you will find a copy of
our book cover, table of contents, editorial introduction and
conference/journal call for papers. We would like to encourage you to
distribute the said attachments to anyone that may be interested.
To
celebrate the publication of AR 2012, we will be having a book launch
on Thursday December 1/2011 from 3-4:30pm at Loeb A720 Carleton
University. This will include presentations from recent contributors:
*Randall
Germain, Chair Department of Political Science: "Power, the State and
Global Politics After the Great Freeze: Towards a New Articulation"
*Priscillia
Lefebvre. Ph.D. Candidate Sociology & Anthropology: "The Ottawa
& Gatineau Museum Workers' Strike: Precarious Employment & the
Public Sector Squeeze"
*Richard Fidler, Independent Scholar: "Quebec Solidaire: A Quebecois Approach to Building a Broad Left Party"
Please
join us to celebrate 35 years of AR! Special discounted copies will
also be available for purchase. Refreshments will be served.
ATTACHMENTS:
BOOK COVER
INTRODUCTION
CALL FOR PAPERS
