James J Brittain
Biographic Data
| ID | 157394 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James J Brittain |
| GIVEN NAMES | James J |
| FAMILY NAME | Brittain |
| SIGNATURE | BRITTAIN J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Acadia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Academic (Un)Freedom in Nova Scotia: Signalling the Need for Dissent
Capital increasingly seeks to control what can be done or said on university campuses, and its coercive acts have been hard to miss recently, particularly in the United States. In Nova Scotia, the Progressive Conservatives’ antilabour legislation targetting workers within the university sector coerces compliance, and does not hide the fact that university teaching and research priorities, and the governance of all postsecondary institutions must …
Eating’s cheating and the peculiarity of male professional road cycling
Reading the (identity politics) market: Articulating the forest past the trees post-Trump
Prior to becoming the President-elect, Donald Trump long engaged in the practice of exploiting economic trends that displayed a potential for increased rates of profit maximization. Like those engaged in speculative investment, he looked for exploitable opportunities where a modest outlay could be directed toward a precise stream of the market with the sole intent of receiving an exacerbated rate of return compared to the allotment initially inve…
Revolutionary social change in Colombia: The origin and direction of the Farc-EP
Annotation
Revolutionary Social Change in Colombia: The Origin and Direction of the Farc-EP
Fensuagro's Struggle for Social Justice
Ravaged by a half‐century of civil war and two decades of harsh neo‐liberal economic policies that have devastated the agricultural and public sector, the vast majority of the Colombian population
The Farc-EP in Colombia: A Revolutionary Exception in an Age of Imperialist Expansion
The United States and the Colombian ruling oligarchy have, since the 1960s, repeatedly implemented socioeconomic and military campaigns to defeat the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP). However, this offensive, whose main purpose is to maintain capitalist accumulation and expansion, has resulted in an embarrassing setback for U.S. imperialism and the …
A Theory of Accelerating Rural Violence: Lauchlin Currie's Role in Underdeveloping Colombia
Colombia has been in the grips of a continuous struggle for over 40 years, thus making the Andean nation home to one of the longest running civil conflicts within the Western Hemisphere. Examined here is the way in which the development theory elaborated by the economist Lauchlin Currie has licensed this conflict, combining as it does an advocacy both of 'free market' policies and of the 'dampening' of rural opposition to their implementation thr…
Selections from the Scientific Correspondence of Elihu Thomson . Harold J. Abrahams , Marion B. Savin
A Theory of Accelerating Rural Violence: Lauchlin Currie's Role in Underdeveloping Colombia
Colombia has been in the grips of a continuous struggle for over 40 years, thus making the Andean nation home to one of the longest running civil conflicts within the Western Hemisphere. Examined here is the way in which the development theory elaborated by the economist Lauchlin Currie has licensed this conflict, combining as it does an advocacy both of 'free market' policies and of the 'dampening' of rural opposition to their implementation thr…
Fensuagro's Struggle for Social Justice
Ravaged by a half‐century of civil war and two decades of harsh neo‐liberal economic policies that have devastated the agricultural and public sector, the vast majority of the Colombian population
Selections from the Scientific Correspondence of Elihu Thomson . Harold J. Abrahams , Marion B. Savin
The Farc-EP in Colombia: A Revolutionary Exception in an Age of Imperialist Expansion
The United States and the Colombian ruling oligarchy have, since the 1960s, repeatedly implemented socioeconomic and military campaigns to defeat the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP). However, this offensive, whose main purpose is to maintain capitalist accumulation and expansion, has resulted in an embarrassing setback for U.S. imperialism and the …
A Theory of Accelerating Rural Violence: Lauchlin Currie's Role in Underdeveloping Colombia
Colombia has been in the grips of a continuous struggle for over 40 years, thus making the Andean nation home to one of the longest running civil conflicts within the Western Hemisphere. Examined here is the way in which the development theory elaborated by the economist Lauchlin Currie has licensed this conflict, combining as it does an advocacy both of 'free market' policies and of the 'dampening' of rural opposition to their implementation thr…
Fensuagro's Struggle for Social Justice
Ravaged by a half‐century of civil war and two decades of harsh neo‐liberal economic policies that have devastated the agricultural and public sector, the vast majority of the Colombian population
Revolutionary Social Change in Colombia: The Origin and Direction of the Farc-EP
Revolutionary social change in Colombia: The origin and direction of the Farc-EP
Annotation
Reading the (identity politics) market: Articulating the forest past the trees post-Trump
Prior to becoming the President-elect, Donald Trump long engaged in the practice of exploiting economic trends that displayed a potential for increased rates of profit maximization. Like those engaged in speculative investment, he looked for exploitable opportunities where a modest outlay could be directed toward a precise stream of the market with the sole intent of receiving an exacerbated rate of return compared to the allotment initially inve…
Academic (Un)Freedom in Nova Scotia: Signalling the Need for Dissent
Capital increasingly seeks to control what can be done or said on university campuses, and its coercive acts have been hard to miss recently, particularly in the United States. In Nova Scotia, the Progressive Conservatives’ antilabour legislation targetting workers within the university sector coerces compliance, and does not hide the fact that university teaching and research priorities, and the governance of all postsecondary institutions must …
Eating’s cheating and the peculiarity of male professional road cycling
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Economic history (3 works) · History and Politics in Latin America (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Population (3 works)