Sébastien Rioux
Biographic Data
| ID | 100665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sébastien Rioux |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sébastien |
| FAMILY NAME | Rioux |
| SIGNATURE | RIOUX S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6699-7438 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Towards a historical geographical materialism
Imagined foodways
In this study, we examined the social and spatial representations the Nunavimmiut have of their contemporary foodways. Based on Anderson’s concept of ‘imagined communities’ [1991. Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism (Rev. ed.). Verso books], we drew on the notion of ‘imagined foodways’ to capture the cultural and territorial distance between imagined and actual dietary patterns. With the spatial organization …
Capitalism and unfree labor
Contrary to the expectations of liberal and neoclassical economists, as well as many Marxists, the deepening and extension of capitalism appear to be heightening the prevalence of unfree labor. By most accounts, the forms of exploitation encapsulated within unfree labor – including those typically referred to as forced labor, human trafficking and modern slavery – are proliferating in the global economy, including in advanced capitalist societies…
A feast of Tantalus
This article argues that capitalism in general and social reproduction theory in particular must be understood through the body. Based on a study of hunger and starvation in Britain between 1830 and 1914, it maintains that the conflicting dialectics between the 'freedom to starve' underpinning competitive labour markets and the 'right to live' institutionalised by society's attempt to offset its worst effects are key for understanding how social …
Capitalist food production and the rise of legal adulteration
This paper argues that food adulteration is constitutive of capitalist food production. Through an analysis of the plasticity of legal reasoning on food regulations during the second half of the 19th century in Britain, the paper demonstrates the key role of the state in enforcing the distinction between legal and illegal forms of food adulteration, which is essential to understand contemporary dynamics in food production
Rethinking food regime analysis
This paper argues for the reconceptualisation of the first food regime. First, it situates the origin of the first food regime in 1846 with the repeal of the Corn Laws. Second, it suggests that the concept must be extended to other 'moments' of the circuit of capital. Third, it argues for a scalar shift in order to take into account national and subnational processes and dynamics. Problematising working conditions in the British baking industry c…
Mind the (Theoretical) Gap
The uneven and combined development (U&CD) approach in International Relations (IR) claims to offer a solution to the question of “the international” with a single, coherent theory capable of uniting both sociological and geopolitical factors in the explanation of social change. The approach thus claims to provide what IR theorists have long been searching for: a social theory of the international. While acknowledging the importance of this resea…
Food quality and the circulation time of commodities
Embodied contradictions
Capitalism and the production of uneven bodies
This article argues that processes of social reproduction are central to our understanding of body formation under capitalism. Articulated through a feminist historical materialist framework founded on a social ontology that recognises the material foundation of social life as constituted of both productive and reproductive activities, this paper develops the concept of uneven body as a more holistic approach integrating into corporeal geography …
Les nouveaux visages du nationalisme conservateur au Québec, de Jean-Marc Piotte et Jean-Pierre Couture, Montréal, Québec Amérique, 2012, 171 p
Les nouveaux visages du nationalisme conservateur au Québec, de Jean-Marc Piotte et Jean-Pierre Couture, Montréal, Québec Amérique, 2012, 171 p.. Un article de la revue Politique et Sociétés (Socialisation et intérêts politiques : nouvelles contributions empiriques) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
The Fiction of Economic Coercion
The theory of social-property relations, or political Marxism, has argued that in contradistinction with pre-capitalist forms of exploitation, capitalism is characterised by the separation of the economic and the political, which makes surplus appropriation under this system uniquely driven by economic coercion. In spite of political Marxism’s various strengths, this article argues that the paradigm puts forward an ahistorical and sanitised conce…
International Historical Sociology
Renewed interest in the concept of "uneven and combined development" has led some to argue for an international historical sociology that transcends the binary between a societal and international reality. This paper suggests in its place an alternative reading of Marx's materialist conception of history and ultimately argues that a feminist historical materialism is a sociologically more promising framework from which an international historical…
La sociologie historique de la théorie des relations sociales de propriété
The theory of social property relations and its historical sociology The theory of social property relations (or Political Marxism) represents an important breakthrough in the renewal of Marxian historical sociology. Rooted in a specific reinterpretation of the transition from feudalism to capitalism grounded in a comparative history of social property regimes, the theory renews historical materialism through a deep historical, relational and geo…
Embodied contradictions
Mind the (Theoretical) Gap
The uneven and combined development (U&CD) approach in International Relations (IR) claims to offer a solution to the question of “the international” with a single, coherent theory capable of uniting both sociological and geopolitical factors in the explanation of social change. The approach thus claims to provide what IR theorists have long been searching for: a social theory of the international. While acknowledging the importance of this resea…
Capitalism and the production of uneven bodies
This article argues that processes of social reproduction are central to our understanding of body formation under capitalism. Articulated through a feminist historical materialist framework founded on a social ontology that recognises the material foundation of social life as constituted of both productive and reproductive activities, this paper develops the concept of uneven body as a more holistic approach integrating into corporeal geography …
Rethinking food regime analysis
This paper argues for the reconceptualisation of the first food regime. First, it situates the origin of the first food regime in 1846 with the repeal of the Corn Laws. Second, it suggests that the concept must be extended to other 'moments' of the circuit of capital. Third, it argues for a scalar shift in order to take into account national and subnational processes and dynamics. Problematising working conditions in the British baking industry c…
The Fiction of Economic Coercion
The theory of social-property relations, or political Marxism, has argued that in contradistinction with pre-capitalist forms of exploitation, capitalism is characterised by the separation of the economic and the political, which makes surplus appropriation under this system uniquely driven by economic coercion. In spite of political Marxism’s various strengths, this article argues that the paradigm puts forward an ahistorical and sanitised conce…
Food quality and the circulation time of commodities
International Historical Sociology
Renewed interest in the concept of "uneven and combined development" has led some to argue for an international historical sociology that transcends the binary between a societal and international reality. This paper suggests in its place an alternative reading of Marx's materialist conception of history and ultimately argues that a feminist historical materialism is a sociologically more promising framework from which an international historical…
La sociologie historique de la théorie des relations sociales de propriété
The theory of social property relations and its historical sociology The theory of social property relations (or Political Marxism) represents an important breakthrough in the renewal of Marxian historical sociology. Rooted in a specific reinterpretation of the transition from feudalism to capitalism grounded in a comparative history of social property regimes, the theory renews historical materialism through a deep historical, relational and geo…
A feast of Tantalus
This article argues that capitalism in general and social reproduction theory in particular must be understood through the body. Based on a study of hunger and starvation in Britain between 1830 and 1914, it maintains that the conflicting dialectics between the 'freedom to starve' underpinning competitive labour markets and the 'right to live' institutionalised by society's attempt to offset its worst effects are key for understanding how social …
Capitalist food production and the rise of legal adulteration
This paper argues that food adulteration is constitutive of capitalist food production. Through an analysis of the plasticity of legal reasoning on food regulations during the second half of the 19th century in Britain, the paper demonstrates the key role of the state in enforcing the distinction between legal and illegal forms of food adulteration, which is essential to understand contemporary dynamics in food production
La sociologie historique de la théorie des relations sociales de propriété
The theory of social property relations and its historical sociology The theory of social property relations (or Political Marxism) represents an important breakthrough in the renewal of Marxian historical sociology. Rooted in a specific reinterpretation of the transition from feudalism to capitalism grounded in a comparative history of social property regimes, the theory renews historical materialism through a deep historical, relational and geo…
International Historical Sociology
Renewed interest in the concept of "uneven and combined development" has led some to argue for an international historical sociology that transcends the binary between a societal and international reality. This paper suggests in its place an alternative reading of Marx's materialist conception of history and ultimately argues that a feminist historical materialism is a sociologically more promising framework from which an international historical…
Les nouveaux visages du nationalisme conservateur au Québec, de Jean-Marc Piotte et Jean-Pierre Couture, Montréal, Québec Amérique, 2012, 171 p
Les nouveaux visages du nationalisme conservateur au Québec, de Jean-Marc Piotte et Jean-Pierre Couture, Montréal, Québec Amérique, 2012, 171 p.. Un article de la revue Politique et Sociétés (Socialisation et intérêts politiques : nouvelles contributions empiriques) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
The Fiction of Economic Coercion
The theory of social-property relations, or political Marxism, has argued that in contradistinction with pre-capitalist forms of exploitation, capitalism is characterised by the separation of the economic and the political, which makes surplus appropriation under this system uniquely driven by economic coercion. In spite of political Marxism’s various strengths, this article argues that the paradigm puts forward an ahistorical and sanitised conce…
Mind the (Theoretical) Gap
The uneven and combined development (U&CD) approach in International Relations (IR) claims to offer a solution to the question of “the international” with a single, coherent theory capable of uniting both sociological and geopolitical factors in the explanation of social change. The approach thus claims to provide what IR theorists have long been searching for: a social theory of the international. While acknowledging the importance of this resea…
Food quality and the circulation time of commodities
Embodied contradictions
Capitalism and the production of uneven bodies
This article argues that processes of social reproduction are central to our understanding of body formation under capitalism. Articulated through a feminist historical materialist framework founded on a social ontology that recognises the material foundation of social life as constituted of both productive and reproductive activities, this paper develops the concept of uneven body as a more holistic approach integrating into corporeal geography …
Rethinking food regime analysis
This paper argues for the reconceptualisation of the first food regime. First, it situates the origin of the first food regime in 1846 with the repeal of the Corn Laws. Second, it suggests that the concept must be extended to other 'moments' of the circuit of capital. Third, it argues for a scalar shift in order to take into account national and subnational processes and dynamics. Problematising working conditions in the British baking industry c…
A feast of Tantalus
This article argues that capitalism in general and social reproduction theory in particular must be understood through the body. Based on a study of hunger and starvation in Britain between 1830 and 1914, it maintains that the conflicting dialectics between the 'freedom to starve' underpinning competitive labour markets and the 'right to live' institutionalised by society's attempt to offset its worst effects are key for understanding how social …
Capitalist food production and the rise of legal adulteration
This paper argues that food adulteration is constitutive of capitalist food production. Through an analysis of the plasticity of legal reasoning on food regulations during the second half of the 19th century in Britain, the paper demonstrates the key role of the state in enforcing the distinction between legal and illegal forms of food adulteration, which is essential to understand contemporary dynamics in food production
Imagined foodways
In this study, we examined the social and spatial representations the Nunavimmiut have of their contemporary foodways. Based on Anderson’s concept of ‘imagined communities’ [1991. Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism (Rev. ed.). Verso books], we drew on the notion of ‘imagined foodways’ to capture the cultural and territorial distance between imagined and actual dietary patterns. With the spatial organization …
Capitalism and unfree labor
Contrary to the expectations of liberal and neoclassical economists, as well as many Marxists, the deepening and extension of capitalism appear to be heightening the prevalence of unfree labor. By most accounts, the forms of exploitation encapsulated within unfree labor – including those typically referred to as forced labor, human trafficking and modern slavery – are proliferating in the global economy, including in advanced capitalist societies…
Towards a historical geographical materialism
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