Mariana Valverde, J. Briggs, G. Tran, Matthew Montevirgen
{"title":"Public universities as real estate developers in the age of “the art of the deal”","authors":"Mariana Valverde, J. Briggs, G. Tran, Matthew Montevirgen","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2020.1738781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2020.1738781","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract It is widely known that universities can be significant players in urban development and, to fund development, some universities have become players in the new financial markets of interest-rate swaps and similar securities. Even in these studies, however, it is rare for university governance to be studied systematically. This article analyzes the capital projects processes of public universities in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to shed light on the political effects—on both internal governance and the public interest—of techniques used to plan, approve, and especially to fund capital projects. A key finding is that the scale at which projects are planned, described, financed, and authorized—the scale of the isolated “deal”—has negative effects on both intra-university inequities and intergenerational justice, but these effects are difficult to see precisely because of the built-in features of “the art of the deal.”","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"101 1","pages":"35 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2020.1738781","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44663429","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}
{"title":"Diversions, distractions, and privileges: consultation and the governance of mining in Nunavut","authors":"W. Scobie, Kathleen R Rodgers","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2019.1682782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2019.1682782","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In the context of the growing global drive for mineral resources, Canada’s northern territories have become a focal point for the rapid expansion of mineral extraction. Occurring within the terms of Canada’s largest Indigenous land claim, the Nunavut Land Claim Agreement, the negotiation of Baffinland’s Mary River Mine provides a case study of the dynamics of consultation within communities impacted by large-scale mining projects. Using Freudenburg’s 2005 “privileged accounts” framework, our findings elucidate the power dynamics in the consultation processes between multinational mining corporations and Indigenous communities.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"100 1","pages":"232 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2019.1682782","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44256041","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}
{"title":"Blended financing, Canadian foreign aid policy, and alternatives","authors":"Adrian Murray, S. Spronk","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2019.1682781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2019.1682781","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article analyzes the Canadian government’s promotion of blended finance, a policy “innovation” that aims to use official development assistance to leverage private finance to meet the United Nation’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It argues that blended finance is not a new idea but rather an old strategy that attempts to resolve the contradictions of neoliberal development by introducing more neoliberal policies. Rather than meeting the SDGs, this mode of financing development shifts investment away from the poorest countries and the services the poor need the most (e.g. health, education, water, and sanitation) and towards more profitable investment in finance, energy, and industry in middle-income countries. Suggestions for alternative development policies based on a propublic agenda—public financing, public-public partnerships, and global financial and tax reform—are provided.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"100 1","pages":"270 - 286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2019.1682781","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48048041","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}
{"title":"What colour is your vest? Reflections on the yellow vest movement in France","authors":"Stefan Kipfer","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2019.1682780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2019.1682780","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper analyzes the gilets jaunes revolt in France in the current political conjuncture. It argues that the yellow vest phenomenon is both symptom and cause of the ongoing political crisis in France and Europe. To develop this argument, the paper situates the yellow vests within the balance of political forces and unpacks their novel spatial dynamic of mobilization, including the implication of this dynamic for political ecology and the meaning of the right to the city.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"100 1","pages":"209 - 231"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2019.1682780","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48914080","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}
{"title":"Labour, population, and precarity: temporary foreign workers transition to permanent residency in rural Manitoba","authors":"Catherine Bryan","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2019.1682779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2019.1682779","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Analyzing accounts of what 53 migrant workers experienced after their arrival in rural Manitoba, Canada, this article addresses the tensions created by their employer’s evolving labour recruitment strategy, which has depended on Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Programme and the Manitoba Provincial Nominee Programme. The article underscores the ways in which immigration policy connects to the interests of states and capital in the creation and reproduction of workers in specific labour markets.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"100 1","pages":"252 - 269"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2019.1682779","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41576133","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}
{"title":"Pathological White Fragility and the Canadian Nation","authors":"A. Parasram","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2019.1646457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2019.1646457","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We are at a critical moment when we must confront the relationship between racial stress and white supremacy in order to provide tools and education to combat the radicalization of young white men in Canada. White fragility insulates structural white supremacy in contemporary ways that fuel resurgent far-Right nationalism by enabling fragile “whites” to define themselves against extreme acts of racial violence while protecting the social infrastructure of white supremacy and settler nationalism.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"100 1","pages":"194 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2019.1646457","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46591999","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}
{"title":"Hunger and the state: a comparative case study of Cuba and India","authors":"Anupama Pandey","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2019.1646456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2019.1646456","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Around 1990, Cuba decided to boost domestic self-reliance in food security, and, at the same time, India adopted neoliberal reforms. In 2018, India ranked 103 out of 119 countries listed on the Global Hunger Index, whereas Cuba is one of the top 15 nations with the lowest scores for hunger in the population. This article examines an alternative to the globally prescribed norm of neoliberal reforms and probes the critical role played by the state in maintaining food security.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"100 1","pages":"180 - 193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2019.1646456","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48748898","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}
{"title":"Was there a transformation in economic ideology between 1960 and 2000?","authors":"A. Das, Ian Hudson, M. Hudson","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2019.1646453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2019.1646453","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper, we examine whether or not there has been a change in economic ideology in the late twentieth century. To conduct the analysis, we first identified the most influential economists, as determined by citation analysis. Next, we divided the database into four decades (1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s) and ranked the authors according to their citation counts. We examined the articles and classified each of the top 50- and top 10-cited authors, by both definitions, as “free market,” “interventionist,” or “methodological.” We argue that the economics profession has produced more research that draws pro-free-market conclusions over the last four decades of the twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"100 1","pages":"150 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2019.1646453","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47708318","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}
{"title":"The political economy of immigration securitization: nation-building and racialization in Canada","authors":"A. Hernández-Ramírez","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2019.1646452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2019.1646452","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article uses theories of political economy, immigration securitization, and critical race theory, and uses two historical periods as case studies, to advance understanding of how immigration has been securitized across various scales, fields, and temporalities since the nineteenth century. The racialization and Othering of individuals identified as a risk to Canada’s nation-building project led to the constitution of diverse security formations. Each formation included social and national components, even if weighted differently depending on their context.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"100 1","pages":"111 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2019.1646452","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44278692","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}
{"title":"Advancing dishonourable relations: legal reasoning, Indigenous rights, and strategic uses of reconciliation","authors":"M. Mccrossan","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2019.1646454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2019.1646454","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines the fluctuating character of legal and political uses of reconciliation, paying particular attention to the Supreme Court of Canada’s (SCC) jurisprudence over the last five years concerning Aboriginal title and treaty rights. This article aims to provide a fuller conception of the sociocultural relations of power entrenched within the legal domain by engaging with the logics and representations of reconciliation found in the Court’s decisions and respective hearing transcripts.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"100 1","pages":"110 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2019.1646454","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47959757","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}