Critical Social Research Collaborative

Call For Papers

2012-01-05T12:32:00.004-05:00

Good news! Michael Lebowitz, Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University, will be giving the keynote address at the 4th Annual Conference in Critical Social Research: Fault Lines of Revolution!

There is still lots of time to submit proposals to the Conference. See the official CALL FOR PAPERS! Proposals are due February 20th, 2012.

The Conference will take place on Friday, May 4th, 2012, in Room DT 2017 at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Call For Papers! Fourth Annual Conference in Critical Social Research

2011-12-26T11:37:00.000-05:00

CALL FOR PAPERS

Fault Lines of Revolution!

The Fourth Annual Conference in Critical Social Research

Friday, May 4th, 2012

Carleton University

Ottawa, ON

In the last year the world has witnessed many destabilizing movements against neoliberalism, austerity, and authoritarian regimes:

Popular movements from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park of Occupy Wall Street have revitalized the belief in the organizational capacities of peoples to challenge authority and transform relations of power. Postcolonial struggles from those of the Athivasis to the Tamils have echoed the subaltern voices of the world. Imperial wars from Afghanistan to the Somali territories have stimulated discussions on popular armed struggle and renewed criticisms of imperialism. Neoliberal challenges to organized labour, from the continued neglect of precarious working conditions to policies of austerity, have in some instances united workers in defiance and solidarity.

These movements are clearly challenging the status quo in different forms and diverse spaces. Yet it remains to be seen how these destabilizing forces will unfold, and whether they will provoke the fault lines of a much broader revolutionary shake-up.

In light of present global political economic context, we intend to re-visit theoretical and practical issues concerning these ‘revolutionary’ moments and spaces by asking critical questions:

What can be learned from (un)finished revolutions of the past?
How should the revolutionary moments of the present be unpacked theoretically?
What are the ideological inspirations (if any) of these revolutionary attempts?
What do today’s social movements have to say about relations of race, class, and gender?
How do feminist approaches to politics respond to these movements?
What are the implications of contemporary revolutionary movements?
Where does revolutionary philosophy stand with regard to the present moment of dissent?
What does the future hold in store given present environmental and ecological crises?

The Critical Social Research Collaborative (CSRC) is inviting academics, researchers, graduate students and activists to submit proposals for panels and individual presentations that explore the ‘fault lines of revolution’ from diverse theoretical and methodological orientations in historical and/or contemporary contexts.

Please send your proposal, including an abstract of no more than 250 words, title, your name and a brief biography to the conference organizing committee at csrcproject@live.ca by February 20, 2012. Decisions on proposals will be communicated in mid-March. Accepted submissions may be solicited for publication.

The CSRC is dedicated to organizing inclusive events; there will be no registration fee.

A Keynote Address will be provided by Professor Emeritus Michael Lebowitz, Simon Fraser University.

The Critical Social Research Collaborative (www.csrcproject.ca) is an interdisciplinary research collective consisting of students, faculty, trade union and community activists based at Carleton University. We aim to promote, support and create a platform for the sharing and dissemination of critical perspectives and research conducted on the defining social issues of our time.

Alternate Routes Launch

2011-11-17T13:08:00.001-05:00

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

Workshop Invite

2011-11-14T16:49:00.001-05:00

Developments in Critical Feminist Research

A PanelWorkshop Hosted by the Critical Social Research Collaborative

Wednesday, November 30^th, 2011

3:30pm – 5:00pm

Loeb A220

Carleton University

Join us as our panelistshelp unpack how a critical feminist lens helps expose present relations ofpower in society while providing an avenue for confronting inequalities throughpolitical and grassroots movements for social change.

Practicing Critical Feminism in Post-Neoliberal Times: Notes from the Field

Dr. FranKlodawsky

Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, CarletonUniversity

In Collaboration - A Feminist Perspective on ReflexiveResearch Practices

Dr. JanetSiltanen

Department of Sociology andAnthropology, Carleton University

Director, Institute of Political Economy, CarletonUniversity

‘We Aren't Dating Until it's Facebook Official': Contextualizing TeenSociality

Dr. Rena Bivens

Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies,Carleton University

Additional notes and discussion onfeminist activism on the ground with our Chair and Discussant, Dr. Victoria Bromley, of CarletonUniversity’s Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies.

Light snacks and refreshments will be served toparticipants

(To help us cut down on waste, please bring your owntravel mug and water bottle)

The Critical Social Research Collaborative is an interdisciplinary research collectiveconsisting of students, trade union and community activists based at CarletonUniversity. We aim to promote, support and create a platform for the sharingand dissemination of critical perspectives and research conducted on thedefining social issues of our time.

www.CSRCproject.ca

2011-2012 Academic Year

2011-10-17T10:45:00.001-04:00

Greeting Collaborators!

The Critical Social Research Collaborative has been busily planning workshops, film screenings and our annual conference for the 2011-2012 academic year.

In November we are collaborating with the Canadian Labour International Film Festival (CLIFF) to bring the festival here to Ottawa! Stay tuned for more specific details on screenings, which will be held weekly over the course of the month.

Towards the end of the semester we will be hosting a seminar on critical feminist research. The tentative date is November 30th, at 3:30pm at Carleton University. Again, more details to come soon.

The CSRC's next planning meeting is scheduled for 5pm on Thursday, October 27th, at the Sociology Lounge at Carleton University. All members are welcome to attend! We hope to see some new faces at this meeting, and we'd love help in organizing this year's events. There is talk of heading out for a bite to eat and a drink afterwards.

Again, stay tuned to this website for more details!

Radical Democracy & Popular Power: Thinking About New Socialisms for the 21st Century

2011-06-11T09:20:00.002-04:00

Radical Democracy & Popular Power: Thinking About New Socialisms for the 21st Century from CSRCproject on Vimeo.

Varieties of Socialism, Varieties of Approaches.
Carleton University, March 5th, 2011

David McNally teaches Political Science at York University, Toronto and is a long-time activist in socialist and global justice movements. He is the author of six books, including Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance (2010) published by PM Press. To find out more about David’s articles, books, courses and events, including his blog, please visit www.davidmcnally.org

Noam Chomsky: Democracy & the Public University

2011-05-30T14:58:00.002-04:00

Noam Chomsky: Democracy & the Public University from CSRCproject on Vimeo.

Rebecca Schein in Conversation with Noam Chomsky
Carleton University: April 8, 2011

Noam Chomsky received his Phd in linguistics in 1955 from the University of Pennsylvania. The major theoretical viewpoints of his doctoral dissertation appeared in the monograph Syntactic Structure, 1957. This formed part of a more extensive work, The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory, circulated in mimeograph in 1955 and published in 1975. Chomsky joined the staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1955 and in 1961 was appointed full professor. In 1976 he was appointed Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. Chomsky has lectured at many universities here and abroad, and is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees and awards.

Universities in Crisis: What Are The Problems & What Faculty And Students Can Do

2011-05-12T13:40:00.000-04:00

Universities in Crisis: What Are The Problems & What Faculty And Students Can Do from CSRCproject on Vimeo.

James L. Turk, Canadian Association of University Teachers

Austerity, Security and Resistance

2011-05-06T10:33:00.001-04:00

Austerity, Security and Resistance from CSRCproject on Vimeo.

As austerity measures intensify around the world, the axe has come down particularly hard on public- and private-sector unions, the un/underemployed, and those denied status, with particularly marked gendered and racialized dimensions. Massive state retrenchment in the realm of social services, health care, education, pensions, unemployment insurance and stimulus spending, has been matched by wage controls, the selling off of assets and resources, as well as tax shifting for competitiveness, the weakening of environmental laws and employment standards. While resistance from student, trade union and community activists is noted, the state and its police force have responded in the most aggressive of ways. These presentations starkly reveal who will pay and who will profit as the transition from rescue to recovery increasingly returns not just to neoliberalism, but a more authoritarian form at that.

George Rigakos, Carleton University: "Security, Pacification & the Fabrication of Social Order"

Justin Paulson, Carleton University: "Social Movements & the Crisis"

Greg Albo, York University: "From Rescue Strategies to Exit Strategies: A Working Class Response?"

Security As Pacification: George Rigakos

2011-03-14T21:09:00.004-04:00

We are told we are living in exceptional times. That the world changed after 9/11. That our age is a new age of insecurity and risk. That the police have been forced to respond in ways that are a product of this very difficult epoch. This presentation critiques these notions arguing that the concept of "security" has always trumped liberty, camouflaged domestic and international pacification and acted as a blockage to intellectual debates about social problems and potential social change. The idea of security was an Enlightenment project that quickly rose to the status of "the supreme concept of bourgeois society", eventually colonizing all aspects of commodity production and consumption, and by extension human relations. To understand security today we must deny false binaries such as liberty versus security, public versus private, soft versus hard, domestic versus international, exceptional versus normal, and civilization versus barbarism. To be against security, therefore, is to stand against the securitization of political discourse, and to challenge the authoritarian and reactionary nature of security. Instead of ever-more security, seemingly at any cost, we must fight for an alternative political language that takes us beyond the narrow horizon of capitalist insecurities and its associated police power.

Security as Pacification from negative theatre on Vimeo.

George S. Rigakos is Assistant Professor of Law at Carleton University and head of the Editorial Collective for Red Quill Books.

Sponsored by: The Institute for Criminology and Criminal Justice, The Department of Sociology and Anthropology & Critical Social Research Collaborative (CSRC)

Austerity, Security and Resistance

2011-03-01T20:19:00.008-05:00

Please join the CSRC at the Left Forum in New York City on March 18-20, 2011

As austerity measures intensify around the world, the axe has come down particularly hard on public- and private-sector unions, the un/underemployed, and those denied status, with particularly marked gendered and racialized dimensions. Massive state retrenchment in the realm of social services, health care, education, pensions, unemployment insurance and stimulus spending, has been matched by wage controls, the sell-off of assets and resources, as well as tax-shifting for competitiveness, the weakening of environmental laws and employment standards. While resistance from student, trade union and community activists is noted, the state and its police force have responded in the most aggressive of ways. The papers presented here starkly reveal who will pay and who will profit as the transition from rescue to recovery increasingly returns not just to neoliberalism, but a more authoritarian form at that.

Carlo Fanelli, Carleton University: "Neoliberalism's Last Stand or Comeback?"
Greg Albo, York University: "From Rescue Strategies to Exit Strategies: A Working Class Response?"
George Rigakos, Carleton University: "Security, Pacification & the Fabrication of Social Order"
Justin Paulson, Carleton University: "Social Movements & the Crisis"

Varieties of Socialism, Varieties of Approaches

2011-02-16T15:08:00.009-05:00

Dear Friends,

We are pleased to present the schedule for our upcoming 3rd Annual Conference in Critical Social Research: Varieties of Socialism, Varieties of Approaches.

While the Great Recession triggered a global contagion unmatched in severity since the 1930s, unlike the depression and post-War years the legitimacy of capitalism (and neoliberalism) has not been seriously called into question. Rather than fundamentally challenging the logic of capital, most “solutions” to the crisis have been premised on more regulation and oversight amidst the admission of moral hazard. Solutions and the meaning of change have been squarely encapsulated to accommodate the needs of capital and its state, rather than seek to transcend it. Indeed, for all the talk of ‘crisis’ there remains a profound pessimism among many seeking to realize a better world. Despite isolated acts of resistance, it is clear that the working class is today more fragmented and alienated than at any point since the Great Depression. Arguably, however, the need for a renewed socialist project is greater today than perhaps ever.

On our Annual Conference webpage you will find both a short and full-length conference programme to our Third Annual Conference in Critical Social Research. Please join us to discuss and debate radical alternatives for what should be a very stimulating day of presentations.

Please Note: The CSRC is committed to fostering equity for women and all marginalized groups as a way of expanding perspectives, ideas and practices of critical social research. The “Varieties of Socialism, Varieties of Approaches” call for papers was distributed online through various conference sharing websites and community networks. Unfortunately, the CSRC did not receive any submissions from women.

In addition to further attempts at distributing the CFP across activist/academic networks and extending the deadline for submissions, the CSRC sought to address these concerns by individually soliciting a good many feminist activists and academics, however was unable to secure any speakers. In an effort to recognize the gender imbalance of the conference, as well as maintain an atmosphere of openness and transparency, we are drawing attention to this issue in order to encourage critical female and female identified activists and academics to participate in a discussion regarding these concerns. Please join us on Saturday March 5th, 2011 for our lunch plenary, “Radical Feminism, Anti-Racism & Socialism” Opportunities and Challenges”, in order to share your thoughts and discuss further opportunities for involvement.

Very best wishes and looking forward to seeing all of you on March 5th!

CLICK HERE to view a printable, one-page PDF version of the schedule

CLICK HERE to view a printable, detailed PDF version of the schedule

Varieties of Socialism, Varieties of Approaches

Saturday March 5^th, 2011

Carleton University (Dunton Tower 2017)

Registration: 8:30-9:00am

Panel 1: Theoretical Reassessments (9:00-10:30am)

Chair: Gulden Ozcan, Carleton University

Brandon Chavarie, Carleton University: “The Role of the State in the Transition to Socialism”

James Meades, Carleton University: “On Creating Unified Diversity: Exploring State and Non-state Strategies of Socialist Transformation”

Nicholas Budimir, Western Michigan University: “Stop Doing Something and Think about it: Toward a Zizekian Sociology of Politics”

Brandon Tozzo, Queen’s University: “The Need for a “Marxish” 21st Century”

Panel 2: Party Politics: Toward Socialism? (10:40-12:10pm)

Chair: Tim Fowler, Carleton University

Scott Forsyth, York University: “Communist Cultural Politics in Canada: From the Cold War to the New Left”

Hugo Chesshire, Brock University: “False Flag: Economic Nationalism on the Canadian Left”

Richard Fidler, Socialist Project: “Quebec Solidaire: A Quebecois Approach to Building a Broad Left Party”

Harry Nedelcu, Carleton University: “Left Politics and Party Systems after the Great Recession: A Contemporary Study of EU Member States”

Lunch Plenary (12:10-12:50pm): Radical Feminism, Anti-Racism & Socialism: Challenges and Opportunities

Moderated by Gulden Ozcan & Priscillia Lefebvre

Panel 3: New Social(ist) Movements (1:00-2:30pm)

Chair: Allda Kokallaj, Carleton University

Aziz Choudry, McGill University: “Theorize This! On knowledge production, learning and/in struggle”

Eric Larson, Brown University: “The “Oaxaca Effect”: Imagining Liberation in the Era of Neoliberalism”

Efe Can Gurcan, University of Montreal: “Building Counter-Hegemonic Power in Latin America: A Neo-Gramscian Perspective on Movements”

Marc James Leger, Independent Scholar: “The Political Implications of Contemporary Socially Engaged Art”

Panel 4: Varieties of Socialism (2:40-4:10pm)

Chair: Priscillia Lefebvre

Yaroslav Samarin, Saint-Petersburg State University: “Socialism after Socialism”

Nathan Nun, York University: “Practical, Sensual Socialism”

Richard Westra, Nagoya University: “A Progressive Socialist Green Society: There is no Alternative”

Jeff Noonan, University of Windsor: “Socialism as a Life-Coherent Society”

Critical Social Research Collaborative Third Annual Distinguished Keynote Panel (4:15-6:15pm)

Chair: Carlo Fanelli, Carleton University

Paresh Chattopadhyay, Université du Québec à Montréal : “Socialism & the Human Individual in Marx’s Work”

David McNally, York University: “Radical Democracy & Popular Power: Thinking About New Socialisms for the 21^st Century

Reception: Georgetown Pub 7:30pm (1159 Bank Street)

The CSRC graciously acknowledges the following sponsors: Department of Sociology & Anthropology; School of Canadian Studies; Department of Geography & Environmental Studies; Department of Law; Faculty of Graduate & Post-Doctoral Affairs; Department of Political Science; Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies; Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 4600; Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research; Institute of Political Economy; School for Social Work.

The CRITICAL SOCIAL RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE (CSRC) is an interdisciplinary research collective comprised of faculty, graduate students, trade union and community activists based at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. For information on past events, conferences and online presentations, please visit us online at www.CSRCproject.ca.

Saving Global Capitalism: Interrogating Austerity and Working Class Responses to Crises, Alternate Routes 2011

2010-11-23T10:04:00.006-05:00

The following video showcased the panel discussion held at the launch of Alternate Routes' latest issue, "Saving Global Capitalism: Interrogating Austerity and Working Class Responses to Crises", November 5th, 2010. The panel features Carlo Fanelli, Chris Hurl, Rebecca Shein and James Meades.

Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research is pleased to announce the publication of our newest issue “Saving Global Capitalism: Interrogating Austerity & Working Class Responses to Crises.” The essays collected here are of particular relevance as the austerity measures around the world intensify in their scale and scope. Recent trends suggest massive state retrenchment in the realm of social services, health care, education, pensions, unemployment insurance and government stimulus spending, in favour of wage controls, the fire sale sell-off of assets and resources in order to facilitate privatization, as well as tax-shifting for competitiveness, the weakening of environmental laws and employment standards, and thereby a subsequent increase in the unpaid sphere of social reproduction. While these processes may suggest the arrival of a new phase of accumulation, post-neoliberal assertions remain premature as the precise nature and direction of these developments are indeterminate. While the legitimacy of neoliberalism appeared to be in jeopardy, current ‘exit strategies’ have starkly revealed its dynamism as ruling elites continue to impose their agenda. In fact, neoliberalism seems to be gaining new momentum in seeking wage and benefit concessions, public-sector spending restraint, and an all-out attack against the unionized, non-unionized and unwaged segments of the working class. The contributions collected here vividly demonstrate who is paying for the crisis.

Neoliberalism in Transition: Security, Police and Capital

2010-11-22T09:58:00.005-05:00

The video feed for our October 22nd (2010) workshop, Neoliberalism in Transition: Security, Police and Capital, featuring speakers Gaetan Heroux, Mark Neocleous, and George S. Rigakos, is now available. Check it out, and enjoy:

Bryan D. Palmer, Capitalism & Confrontation: Legacies From the Past

2010-11-19T16:59:00.003-05:00

The video feed for Professor Bryan Palmer's keynote address at the 2nd Annual Conference in Critical Social Research is now available. Enjoy!

Capitalism & Confrontation: Legacies from the Past by Bryan Palmer from CSRCproject on Vimeo.

Neoliberalism in Transition: Security, Police and Capital

2010-10-20T19:55:00.006-04:00

Neoliberalism in Transition: Security, Police and Capital

FRIDAY, October 22nd, 2:30pm

Loeb Building A700

PRESENTERS:

Mark Neocleous, Brunel University, London, UK

George S. Rigakos, Carleton University

Gaetan Heroux, OCAP, Toronto

QUESTIONS TO BE ADDRESSED:

What constructs insecurities?
What is new in policing under the current crisis of capitalism?
What is public and what is private in security?
What are the lessons to be drawn from the G8/20 summit in Toronto?
Is it possible to take an 'anti-security' position? How?

COME AND JOIN US for an engaging discussion!

PIZZA and cold beverages will be provided!

This event is generously sponsored by:

CUPE 4600

Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research

Red Quill Books

Capitalism & Confrontation: Grassroots Responses to Empire, Ecology & Political Economy

2010-03-11T10:20:00.005-05:00

Come join us at our 2nd Annual Conference in Critical Social Research:

(see detailed conference schedule, abstracts & conference poster in side bar at right).

Capitalism and Confrontation:

Grassroots Responses to Empire, Ecology & Political Economy

Carleton University

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Participant Registration: 8:00am -9:00am Loeb A700

Coffee: 8:00am Leob A785

9:00-10:30am

PANEL 1 (Loeb A715) & PANEL 2 (Loeb D492)

10:45 - 12:15pm

PANEL 3 (Loeb A715) & PANEL 4 (Loeb D492)

12:15pm - 1:15pm (Loeb C760)

LUNCH & KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Bryan D. Palmer, Professor & Canada Research Chair, Trent University, "Capitalism & Confrontation: Legacies From the Past"

3:00pm - 4:30pm

PANEL 5 (Loeb A715) & PANEL 6 (Loeb D492)

4:45pm - 6:15pm

CLOSING PANEL (Loeb A700)

CONFERENCE RECEPTION: Georgetown Pub; 7:30pm, 1159 Bank Street

Ecology Under Fire: Climate, Copenhagen, and Prospects for Change

2010-02-12T15:28:00.004-05:00

Here is the video of our December workshop Ecology Under Fire: Climate, Copenhagen, and Prospects for Change. Enjoy!

NOTE: The minor sound problems are only at the beginning.

ECOLOGY UNDER FIRE: Climate Change, Chopenhagen & Prospects for Change from negative theatre on Vimeo.

Neoliberalism and the Current Crisis In Mexico

2010-01-10T22:20:00.004-05:00

Here is the video of the talk given by Andrés Barreda: "Neoliberalism and the Current Crisis in Mexico". Enjoy!

Neo-liberalism and the Current Crisis in Mexico: Indigenous and Campesino Movements Respond from negative theatre on Vimeo.

Capitalism & Confrontation: Grassroots Responses to Empire, Ecology & Political Economy CFP

2009-12-04T13:57:00.009-05:00

Capitalism & Confrontation: Grassroots Responses to Empire, Ecology & Political Economy

Carleton University

March 19, 2010

Deadline for Proposals January 23, 2010

The CSRC is currently seeking presentations for our 2nd Annual Critical Social Research conference to be held at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. We are seeking submissions from academics, researchers, graduate students, organized labour & community activists. Send your proposal, including an abstract of no more than 300 words, a title, brief bibliography and three keywords which describe your project to the Editorial Collective at CSRCproject@live.ca

VIEW THE COMPLETE CALL FOR PAPERS HERE

The Roots of the Economic Crisis: Critical Perspectives

2009-12-04T13:48:00.004-05:00

The video from our first workshop is now available on You Tube. Take a look:

Ecology Under Fire: Climate Change, Copenhagen and Prospects for Change

2009-11-28T13:43:00.007-05:00

Please come to our upcoming workshop:

Ecology Under Fire:
Climate Change, Copenhagen and Prospects for Change

Panelists:
Simon Dalby, Department of Geography, Carleton University
Matthew Paterson, Department of Political Studies, University of Ottawa
Richard Girard, Research Coordinator, Polaris Institute

WHO: All Welcome, FREE Event
WHERE: Carleton University, Loeb Building, ROOM A700
WHEN: Thursday, December 3rd, from 3:00pm to 5:00pm

SEE THE POSTER HERE

Neoliberalism and the Current Crisis In Mexico: Seminar Poster

2009-11-24T16:30:00.009-05:00

Neo-liberalism and the current crisis in Mexico: Indigenous and campesin@ movements respond

A seminar with Andrés Barreda

of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Friday, 27 November, 1:30-3:30 - Loeb A715

SEE EVENT POSTER HERE

Professor Barreda is the General Coordinator of the Centre for Social Analysis, Information and Popular Training (CASIFOP) in Mexico City. He holds full-time tenure at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), in the Faculty of Economics, teaching Political Economy and Critical Geopolitics. He has participated in several research projects, in collaboration with social movements, indigenous and workers organizations, as well as several research centres within the UNAM, and with other academic institutions. He is also a board member of the Ottawa-based International ETC group (Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration).

All faculty and graduate students are welcome! If you wish to confirm space in the seminar, please RSVP to justin_paulson@carleton.ca.

With thanks to the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the Institute of Political Economy, the Critical Social Research Collaborative, and the Polaris Institute.

The Roots of the Economic Crisis

2009-10-26T21:40:00.003-04:00

CLICK HERE FOR COLOUR POSTER

UPCOMING EVENT: The Roots of the Economic Crisis: Critical Perspectives

This workshop will explore alternative interpretations of the current economic crisis. We will have presentations from organized labour, community activists and academics. The focus of this workshop is critical engagement, discussion and debate. Questions to be addressed include: How have various perspectives analyzed and understood the roots of the current economic crisis? Is there something fundamentally unsound about the current political-economic structure? Is the current crisis to be located within a set of recently established policies, or better understood over the long-term historical development of capitalism? How have the policy prescriptions and ideological rationales shifted over the years? And, more ambitiously, where do we go from here?

PANELISTS:
• Andrew Jackson (Director of Social and Economic Policy at the Canadian Labour Congress);
• Toby Sanger (Senior Economist for the Canadian Union of Public Employees)

LOCATION/TIME:
Carleton University, Loeb Building, Room A700
Thursday, October 29th, at 4:30-6:30pm
Additional Info:
All welcome (FREE EVENT).
Light refreshments will be provided. Hope to see you there!

Brought to you by the Critical Social Research Collaborative (CSRC). For information about upcoming workshops, publications, conferences and events, or to join our email list-serv, please contact us HERE.