William K Carroll
Biographic Data
| ID | 203390 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William K Carroll |
| GIVEN NAMES | William K |
| FAMILY NAME | Carroll |
| SIGNATURE | CARROLL W K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4456-4396 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 72 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 689 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 68 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Refusing Ecocide: From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World
To place the ongoing disaster of climate breakdown in political-economic context and explore future possibilities, this article mobilizes three concepts central to historical materialism which form a “trifecta of power”: accumulation, imperialism, and hegemony. These are applied to the current regime of obstruction, comprised of an amalgamation of the deeply seated project of fossil capitalism and the emergent project of climate capitalism. Three…
The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci
This chapter presents the general coordinates of the historico-political interpretation offered by the Prison Notebooks. It adopts a philological approach to the text, by relying on the most recent tendencies of Gramscian scholarship. Conceptually speaking, it focuses on the main categories Gramsci deployed to account for the transformations that had shaped the socio-political scenario of his time – ‘passive revolution’, ‘relations of force’ and …
Regime of Obstruction: How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy
Rapidly rising carbon emissions from the intense development of Western Canada's fossil fuels continue to aggravate the global climate emergency and destabilize democratic structures. The urgency of the situation demands not only scholarly understanding, but effective action. Regime of Obstruction aims to make visible the complex connections between corporate power and the extraction and use of carbon energy. Edited by William Carroll, this rigor…
Mapping the environmental field: Networks of foundations, Engos and think tanks
In mobilizing funds that selectively support non-profits, foundations shape the political field. This study maps the funding relationships between foundations, ENGOs and think tanks in Canada and considers the implications for environmental politics. We examine foundation funding for different strains of environmental politics and policy-planning and consider how ENGOs and think tanks are clustered as communities within a foundation-centred suppo…
Carbon Capital's Political Reach: A Network Analysis Of Federal Lobbying By The Fossil Fuel Industry From Harper To Trudeau
This paper provides a network analysis of federal lobbying in Canada by the fossil fuel industry over a seven-year period from January 4, 2011 to January 30, 2018, enabling a comparative examination of lobbying under the Harper Conservatives and the Trudeau Liberals. The network we uncover amounts to 'small world' of intense interaction among relatively few lobbyists/firms that control much of this economic sector and the designated public office…
Foundations, Engos, Clean-Growth Networks and the Integral State
Clean-growth' has been embraced by a professionalized segment of environmentalism as a project that aspires to meet Canada's international climate commitments while supporting a robust rate of capital accumulation. This study situates clean growth within the network that reaches from Canadian foundations that are major donors, to the clean-growth ENGOs that receive the funds, and to other relevant civil-society, state and capitalist organizations…
Fossil capitalism, climate capitalism, energy democracy: The Struggle for Hegemony in an Era of Climate Crisis
With the highest per capita carbon emissions among the G20, Canada presents the interesting case of a climate laggard and, in some respects, a first-world petro-state. In these circumstances, a regime of obstruction, with a distinctive political-economic architecture, has taken shape. This regime is constituted through modalities of power that protect revenue streams issuing from carbon extraction, processing and transport while bolstering popula…
Searching for Marx in the Occupy Movement
The Corporate Elite and the Architecture of Climate Change Denial: A Network Analysis of Carbon Capital's Reach into Civil Society
This study employs social network analysis to map the Canadian network of carbon-capital corporations whose boards interlock with key knowledge-producing civil society organizations, including think tanks, industry associations, business advocacy organizations, universities, and research institutes. We find a pervasive pattern of carbon-sector reach into these domains of civil society, forming a single, connected network that is centered in Alber…
Mapping Corporate Influence and Institutional Corruption Inside Canadian Universities
Corporate power, fossil capital, climate crisis: Introducing the Corporate Mapping Project
Canada's Carbon-Capital Elite: A Tangled Web of Corporate Power
This article maps the organization of corporate power within Canada's carbon-capital elite. It charts the elite's accumulation base, its internal structure as a network of interlocking directorates and its ties to the financial sector and other segments of corporate capital - national and transnational. The analysis identifies a tightly-knit, local network of mid-sized carbon-capital firms linked into the broader power structure largely through m…
Transnational Alternative Policy Groups in Global Civil Society: Enablers of Post-Capitalist Alternatives or Carriers of NGOization
Since the 1970s, transnational alternative policy groups (TAPGs) have generated visions and strategies pointing to alternatives to capitalist globalization. However, TAPGs are also embedded in networks of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and foundations, and may thus be subject to NGOization. This article examines two bodies of data relevant to this issue: (1) network data that highlight TAPGs' links to major sources of funds as well as key…
Critical Nexus or Chaotic Discipline? Re‐Visioning Sociology Again
The Rich Ambiguity of Political Sociology in Canada
The global corporate elite after the financial crisis: Evidence From the Transnational Network of Interlocking Directorates
What impact did the recent financial crisis have on the corporate elite's international network? Has corporate governance taken on an essentially national structure or have transnational networks remained robust? We investigate this issue by comparing the networks of interlocking directorates among the 176 largest corporations in the world economy in 1976, 1996, 2006 and 2013. We find that corporate elites have not retrenched into their national …
Modes of Cognitive Praxis in Transnational Alternative Policy Groups
Transnational alternative policy groups (TAPGs) are networks and centres within and around which counter-hegemonic knowledge is produced and mobilized among subaltern communities and critical social movements. Based on in-depth interviews with practitioners at 16 TAPGs, this article presents eight modes of cognitive praxis and discusses how they appear in the work of alternative policy groups. The eight modes are not sealed off from each other, b…
Counter-globalization and socialism in the 21st century
The 13 essays that comprise this book paint a rich portrait of a transnational process of socio-political transformation, an alternative regionalism to practices of neoliberal globalization, which
Half a Century of Sociological Scholarship in the CRS(A)
Cet article introduit le numéro spécial consacré au 50e anniversaire de la Revue canadienne de sociologie. Nous y retraçons l'histoire de la revue au travers d'une analyse sommaire de ses éditeurs successifs et des articles et numéros spéciaux publiés au fil des ans. Depuis sa fondation, la Revue permet de suivre les plus récents développements du champ de la sociologie canadienne. L'analyse démontre que si les trente premières années de la Revue…
Networks of Cognitive Praxis: Transnational Class Formation from Below
This article investigates an emergent component of global civil society: transnational alternative policy groups (TAPGs) which in recent decades have generated ideas, both visionary and strategic, for a ‘globalization from below’, which is also a process of transnational class formation. Comparing TAPG-centred networks of cognitive praxis with the broader and more integrated pro-capitalist policy-planning network that is integral to the hegemonic…
Embedding Post-Capitalist Alternatives: The Global Network of Alternative Knowledge Production
Since the 1970s, transnational alternative policy groups (TAPGs) have emerged as a component of global civil society, generating visions and strategies for a "globalization from below" that point toward post-capitalist alternatives. Here, we map the global network ofTAPGs and kindred international groups in order to discern how TAPGs are embedded in a larger formation. In this era of capitalist globalization, do TAPGs, like their hegemonic counte…
Global Capitalism, American Empire, Collective Imperialism
(2013). Global Capitalism, American Empire, Collective Imperialism? Studies in Political Economy: Vol. 92, No. 1, pp. 93-100
Discipline, Field, Nexus: Re‐Visioning Sociology
Cet article propose une reconceptualisation de la discipline sociologique ainsi que de sa place dans le monde actuel. Nous remettrons tout d'abord en question l'idée même que la sociologie puisse être considérée en tant que discipline académique dans le sens habituel du terme, tout comme le fait qu'il soit possible de distinguer, à la manière des sciences de la nature, autant de disciplines distinctes au sein du champ des sciences sociales. Au co…
Global, Transnational, Regional, National: The Need for Nuance in Theorizing Global Capitalism
In ‘Global capitalism theory and the emergence of transnational elites’ (in this issue), Bill Robinson has delivered an impressive summary statement of the theory he has been developing with colleagues over the past decade. The formulation takes us some distance toward an interpretation of the con-temporary global capitalist order, or perhaps, disorder. However, despite its many insights, Robinson’s analysis is not without its difficulties. I off…
Transnational Class Formation? Globalization and the Canadian Corporate Network
The issue of transnational class formation has figured centrally in recent debates on globalization. These debates revolve around the question of whether or not new patterns of cross-border trade and investment have established global circuits of capital out of which a transnational capitalist class has emerged. This paper takes up the notion of transnational class formation at the point of corporate directorship interlocks. Using Canada as a cas…
Is There a Transnational Business Community
This article tries to answer two questions. The first is whether capitalist class formation is now taking place at a transnational level; the second is what regime of corporate governance was becoming dominant in the last quarter of the 20th century. The answers given are based on a comparison of the networks of interlocking directorates among the 176 largest corporations in the world economy as of 1976 and 1996. The analysis suggests that from t…
Master Framing and Cross-Movement Networking in Contemporary Social Movements
This article maps the network of cross-movement activism in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, and explores the relationship between position in the network and cognitive use of different injustice frames. The study is informed by a neo-Gramscian analysis that views social movements as (potential) agencies of counterhegemony. Viewed as a political project of mobilizing broad, diverse opposition to entrenched economic, political, and cultural po…
The 1981 socioeconomic index for occupations in Canada
Nous présentons ici un nouvel index socio‐économique des occupations, basé sur le recensement de 1981. Il est généralement admis que l'occupation est le meilleur indicateur de statut socio‐économique, mais l'importance accordée au prestige, au revenu et à léducation dans la hiérarchisation des occupations demeure matière à débats. Pour cet index, nous avons décidé d'accorder un poids égal aux niveaux d’éducation et de revenu, en rant que composan…
The network of global corporations and elite policy groups: A Structure for Transnational Capitalist Class Formation
This study situates five top transnational policy-planning groups within the larger structure of corporate power that is constituted through interlocking directorates among the world's largest companies. Each group makes a distinct contribution towards transnational capitalist hegemony both by building consensus within the global corporate elite and by educating publics and states on the virtues of one or another variant of the neo-liberal paradi…
The global corporate elite after the financial crisis: Evidence From the Transnational Network of Interlocking Directorates
What impact did the recent financial crisis have on the corporate elite's international network? Has corporate governance taken on an essentially national structure or have transnational networks remained robust? We investigate this issue by comparing the networks of interlocking directorates among the 176 largest corporations in the world economy in 1976, 1996, 2006 and 2013. We find that corporate elites have not retrenched into their national …
The Global Corporate Elite and the Transnational Policy-Planning Network, 1996-2006: A Structural Analysis
This article presents a network analysis of elite interlocks among the world's 500 largest corporations and a purposive sample of transnational policy-planning boards. The analysis compares the situation in 1996 with 2006 and reveals a process of transnational capitalist class formation that is regionally uneven. Network analysis points to a process of structural consolidation through which policy boards have become more integrative nodes, broker…
Transnationalists and national networkers in the global corporate elite
Through a longitudinal network analysis of the interlocking directors of the world's 500 largest corporations (1996-2006), in this article I map continuities and changes in the social organization of the global corporate elite. I pursue two questions: (1) Can we trace the formation, within the elite, of a set of directors whose transnational interlocks form an inner circle of cosmopolitans? And (2) How does the regionalized character of global ca…
Consolidating a Neoliberal Policy Bloc in Canada, 1976 to 1996
This paper charts the development of a neoliberal policy bloc in Canada by considering five sites of business activism: two organizations with roots in the 1950s, which more or less embraced neoliberal projects in the 1980s; two that emerged in the 1970s; and one that was formed in 1994. Our investigation focuses on how these groups contributed to the consolidation of neoliberal hegemony in Canadian public policy. To that end, we present comparat…
Canada's Carbon-Capital Elite: A Tangled Web of Corporate Power
This article maps the organization of corporate power within Canada's carbon-capital elite. It charts the elite's accumulation base, its internal structure as a network of interlocking directorates and its ties to the financial sector and other segments of corporate capital - national and transnational. The analysis identifies a tightly-knit, local network of mid-sized carbon-capital firms linked into the broader power structure largely through m…
Constituting Corporate Europe: A Study of Elite Social Organization
This article explores the emerging shape and form of the European corporate community since 1996. We examine the cohesion of corporate Europe through the network of interlocking corporate directorates and memberships in the European Round Table of Industrialists. We focus on the unequal structure of representation; the interplay of national and transnational aspects of the network; the role of finance capitalists as a signpost of a regime of inte…
Democratic media activism through the lens of social movement theory
This article considers how we are to understand democratic media activism, which has recently burgeoned in Canada, the UK and the USA. What is its political significance and potential? Is it a new social movement, a new style of politics cutting across movements, or are new concepts needed? Drawing illustratively upon interviews with media activists, notably in Vancouver, we explore insights offered by social movement theory - including resource …
The network of directorate links among the largest Canadian firms
Media Strategies and Political Projects: A Comparative Study of Social Movements
This paper analyses the relationship between social movements and the media strategies that they invoke to pursue their respective goals. Three social movement organizations (SMOs) active in Vancouver, British Columbia, are taken to exemplify three distinguishable types of social movement politics: recognition (Gay-Lesbian Centre), redistribution (End Legislated Poverty), and salvation (Greenpeace). We employ a qualitative comparative case analys…
Problems in the Study of the Transnational Business Community: A Reply to Kentor and Jang
In responding to Kentor and Jang's article, the authors point to methodological problems that have led them to underestimate the level of interlocking in their reference year (1983), and thus to exaggerate the extent of the shift towards transnational interlocking. The authors also argue that Kentor and Jang fail to adequately theorize the social processes that produce corporate interlocks, and to place the practice of interlocking within its spe…
Discipline, Field, Nexus: Re‐Visioning Sociology
Cet article propose une reconceptualisation de la discipline sociologique ainsi que de sa place dans le monde actuel. Nous remettrons tout d'abord en question l'idée même que la sociologie puisse être considérée en tant que discipline académique dans le sens habituel du terme, tout comme le fait qu'il soit possible de distinguer, à la manière des sciences de la nature, autant de disciplines distinctes au sein du champ des sciences sociales. Au co…
The Corporate Elite and the Architecture of Climate Change Denial: A Network Analysis of Carbon Capital's Reach into Civil Society
This study employs social network analysis to map the Canadian network of carbon-capital corporations whose boards interlock with key knowledge-producing civil society organizations, including think tanks, industry associations, business advocacy organizations, universities, and research institutes. We find a pervasive pattern of carbon-sector reach into these domains of civil society, forming a single, connected network that is centered in Alber…
Global Cities in the Global Corporate Network
Since the 1980s two separate literatures-one focused on global cities, the other on transnational corporate interlocking-have explored issues of hierarchy and networking within the global political economy. I present an analysis of how major cities and interlocking corporate directorates are articulated together into a global network. Findings indicate that the network is concentrated in the main world cities in a way that reinforces the northern…
Forging a New Hegemony? The Role of Transnational Policy Groups in the Network and Discourses of Global Corporate Governance
This study situates ?ve top transnational policy-planning groups within the larger structure of corporate power that is constituted through interlocking directorates among the world s largest companies. Each group makes a distinct contribution toward transnational capitalist hegemony both by building consensus within the global corporate elite and by educating publics and states on the virtues of one or another variant of the neoliberal paradigm.…
Between Leninism and Radical Pluralism: Gramscian Reflections on Counter-Hegemony and the New Social Movements
The rigidities of Leninist views on socialist politics may have consigned orthodox Marxism to the status of historical relic, but equally problematic is the radical pluralist disavowal of any materially-grounded, unifying basis for counter-hegemony. The main features of these two perspectives are contrasted with a Gramscian viewpoint that arguably offers the best prospect for analyzing contemporary movement politics and strategizing about social …
Old Unions and New Social Movements
Based on extensive study of union organizations and activists in Greater Vancouver, this article offers a two-fold critique of the thesis that social have supplanted the labour movement as the key collective agents of change in late-modern societies. In the first section we briefly review the claims of social movement theory and point to some of the analytic difficulties in positing a sharp distinction between old unions and new social movements.…
Sex Differences in a Socioeconomic Index for Occupations in Canada
Ce travail elabore un index socio‐economique pour les femmes qui sont emThe Vendeeloyeës, base sur les niveaux pridominants d'education et de revenu dans 465 professions exercees par des femmes en 1970. L'index ainsi que ses deux composantes sont alors utilisés dans une comparaison de la structure socio‐économique de la main‐d'oeuvre masculine et féminine qui fait usage d'un index semblable pour les hommes tel que rapporté par Blishen et McRobert…
Fossil capitalism, climate capitalism, energy democracy: The Struggle for Hegemony in an Era of Climate Crisis
With the highest per capita carbon emissions among the G20, Canada presents the interesting case of a climate laggard and, in some respects, a first-world petro-state. In these circumstances, a regime of obstruction, with a distinctive political-economic architecture, has taken shape. This regime is constituted through modalities of power that protect revenue streams issuing from carbon extraction, processing and transport while bolstering popula…
The Canadian Corporate Elite: Financiers or Finance Capitalists
The development of the Canadian economy presents an interesting case of capital accumulation and class formation which can be interpreted from quite divergent theoretical perspectives. One view draws on dependency theory;' stressing similarities between the Canadian experience and the dependent pattern of underdevelopment in the Third World. According to this interpretation Canada's position in the world economy has been that of a satellite to la…
Finance Capital and Capitalist Class Integration in the 1990s: Networks of Interlocking Directorships in Canada and Australia
Cet article permet de connaître le fonctionnement des conseils d'administration interdépendants des 250 premières entreprises et réseaux associés du Canada et d'Australie dans les années 1990. Ces conseils reflètent les relations sociales d'une classe hégémonique et représentent des instruments d'accumulation du capital le long d'un axe financier et industriel intégre (capital financier). Au Canada, ces deux aspects du pouvoir corporatif sont ext…
Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony in a Global Field
Social justice struggles are often framed around competing hegemonic and counter-hegemonic projects. This article compares several organizations of global civil society that have helped shape or have emerged within the changing political-economic landscape of neoliberal globalization, either as purveyors of ruling perspectives or as anti-systemic popular forums and activist groups. It interprets the dialectical relation between the two sides as a…
Sex Differences in a Socioeconomic Index for Occupations in Canada
Ce travail elabore un index socio‐economique pour les femmes qui sont emThe Vendeeloyeës, base sur les niveaux pridominants d'education et de revenu dans 465 professions exercees par des femmes en 1970. L'index ainsi que ses deux composantes sont alors utilisés dans une comparaison de la structure socio‐économique de la main‐d'oeuvre masculine et féminine qui fait usage d'un index semblable pour les hommes tel que rapporté par Blishen et McRobert…
The network of directorate links among the largest Canadian firms
The Canadian Corporate Elite: Financiers or Finance Capitalists
The development of the Canadian economy presents an interesting case of capital accumulation and class formation which can be interpreted from quite divergent theoretical perspectives. One view draws on dependency theory;' stressing similarities between the Canadian experience and the dependent pattern of underdevelopment in the Third World. According to this interpretation Canada's position in the world economy has been that of a satellite to la…
The Individual, Class, and Corporate Power in Canada
Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism
Challenging standard dependency theory, William Carroll argues from empirical evidence that Canada’s financial-industrial elite have maintained and consolidated their competitive position at the centre of an inter-corporate network. Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism thus acknowledges the unusually high degree to which capital is concentrated in a relatively few giant corporations in Canada, but it denies that these commercial interests are …
The 1981 socioeconomic index for occupations in Canada
Nous présentons ici un nouvel index socio‐économique des occupations, basé sur le recensement de 1981. Il est généralement admis que l'occupation est le meilleur indicateur de statut socio‐économique, mais l'importance accordée au prestige, au revenu et à léducation dans la hiérarchisation des occupations demeure matière à débats. Pour cet index, nous avons décidé d'accorder un poids égal aux niveaux d’éducation et de revenu, en rant que composan…
Which women are more proletarianized? Gender, class and occupation in Canada
Jusqu’à quel point la différenciation sexuelle au sein des classes sociales reflète‐t‐elle la ségrégation occupationnelle des femmes dans des positions prolétarisées? Abstraction faite des effets de cette ségrégation, quels sont les secteurs de la structure occupationnelle où la différenciation sexuelle des classes est la plus marquée? Les réponses à ces questions proposées ici sont basées sur une analyse du recensement de 1981. Elles montrent qu…
Two Political Worlds: Parties and Voting in British Columbia
Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism
Neoliberalism and the recomposition of Finance Capital in Canada
Carroll considers the historical recomposition of the contradictory unity of productive and money capital during the crisis of Fordism. The case study of the changing structure of Canadian finance capital traces the rise of business activity in Canada as distinct from the form it has taken in the us and the UK
Feminism, Class Consciousness and Household-Work Linkages among Registered Nurses in Victoria
This survey of 179 Registered Nurses at a large acute care hospital deals with connections between the practices in which nurses are engaged in households and workplaces and the consciousness which both informs and arises from those practices. A large majority of respondents was opposed to male prerogatives and in favour of more domestic equality and removing pay inequities for women. On more controversial gender issues and with respect to class …
Social Democracy, Neo-Conservatism and Hegemonic Crisis in British Columbia
This paper adopts a Gramscian perspective in presenting a case study of hegemonic crisis and political-economic restructuring. In British Columbia, the period from 1983 through 1987 marked a decisive shift from a variant of Fordism to a neo-conservative project with strong resonances of Thatcherism. Focusing on the historical specificity of the province in the Canadian political economy and the political crises of 1983 and 1987, we explore the st…
Restructuring capital, reorganizing consent: Gramsci, political economy, and Canada
Lu en tant qu'économiste politique, les écrits d'Antonio Gramsci nous munient d'un vocabulaire qui permet de restructurer d'une façon productive les questions qui inspirent à l'étude du capitalisme canadien. Cet article fait le compte‐rendu des termes de référence d'une problématique Gramscienne, examine cinq études récentes sur la crise contemporaine globale qui signale un tournant analytique vers la pensée Gramscienne, et finalement incorpore c…
Restructuring Finance Capital: Changes in the Canadian Corporate Network 1976-1986
On the basis of a network analysis of interlocks among the largest Canadian corporations, this paper examines the restructuring of finance capital between 1976 and 1986, a time of great flux in the structure of capital, both internationally and in Canada. Results indicate a shift away from the relatively depersonalized system of 'polyarchic financial hegemony' - prevalent during the post-war boom era - towards a 'holding system' of family-control…
Fragile truths: Twenty-five years of sociology and anthropology in Canada
Between Leninism and Radical Pluralism: Gramscian Reflections on Counter-Hegemony and the New Social Movements
The rigidities of Leninist views on socialist politics may have consigned orthodox Marxism to the status of historical relic, but equally problematic is the radical pluralist disavowal of any materially-grounded, unifying basis for counter-hegemony. The main features of these two perspectives are contrasted with a Gramscian viewpoint that arguably offers the best prospect for analyzing contemporary movement politics and strategizing about social …
Old Unions and New Social Movements
Based on extensive study of union organizations and activists in Greater Vancouver, this article offers a two-fold critique of the thesis that social have supplanted the labour movement as the key collective agents of change in late-modern societies. In the first section we briefly review the claims of social movement theory and point to some of the analytic difficulties in positing a sharp distinction between old unions and new social movements.…
Master Frames and Counter‐Hegemony: Political Sensibilities in Contemporary Social Movements
En se fondant sur l'analyse de données recueillies lors d'une série d'entrevues de 212 militants issus de divers groupes d'activistes, les auteurs examinent comment les nouveaux mouvements sociaux abordent les problèmes politiques de notre époque. Après avoir énuméré les principales façons de définir l'injustice et d'exprimer l'idéal social chez les personnes interrogées, ils tentent de déceler une pensée commune a tous les groupes, pensée fondée…
Master Framing and Cross-Movement Networking in Contemporary Social Movements
This article maps the network of cross-movement activism in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, and explores the relationship between position in the network and cognitive use of different injustice frames. The study is informed by a neo-Gramscian analysis that views social movements as (potential) agencies of counterhegemony. Viewed as a political project of mobilizing broad, diverse opposition to entrenched economic, political, and cultural po…
Finance Capital and Capitalist Class Integration in the 1990s: Networks of Interlocking Directorships in Canada and Australia
Cet article permet de connaître le fonctionnement des conseils d'administration interdépendants des 250 premières entreprises et réseaux associés du Canada et d'Australie dans les années 1990. Ces conseils reflètent les relations sociales d'une classe hégémonique et représentent des instruments d'accumulation du capital le long d'un axe financier et industriel intégre (capital financier). Au Canada, ces deux aspects du pouvoir corporatif sont ext…
Media Strategies and Political Projects: A Comparative Study of Social Movements
This paper analyses the relationship between social movements and the media strategies that they invoke to pursue their respective goals. Three social movement organizations (SMOs) active in Vancouver, British Columbia, are taken to exemplify three distinguishable types of social movement politics: recognition (Gay-Lesbian Centre), redistribution (End Legislated Poverty), and salvation (Greenpeace). We employ a qualitative comparative case analys…
Globalization, Neo-liberalism, and the Changing Face of Corporate Hegemony in Higher Education
Current trends of capitalist globalization and neo-liberal policy are transforming public institutions such as universities. As the voices of corporate capital become strongly registered within the university practices of governance, teaching, research, etc., academe is becoming corporatized and universities are becoming key ancillaries of production
Neoliberal Transformation and Antiglobalization Politics in Canada: Transition, Consolidation, Resistance
(2001). Neoliberal Transformation and Antiglobalization Politics in Canada : Transition, Consolidation, Resistance. International Journal of Political Economy: Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 33-66
Consolidating a Neoliberal Policy Bloc in Canada, 1976 to 1996
This paper charts the development of a neoliberal policy bloc in Canada by considering five sites of business activism: two organizations with roots in the 1950s, which more or less embraced neoliberal projects in the 1980s; two that emerged in the 1970s; and one that was formed in 1994. Our investigation focuses on how these groups contributed to the consolidation of neoliberal hegemony in Canadian public policy. To that end, we present comparat…
Sustaining Oppositional Cultures in 'Post-Socialist' Times: A Comparative Study of Three Social Movement Organisations
This paper explores the efforts of three social-movement organisations in Vancouver, Canada, to advance oppositional cultures in what Nancy Fraser has termed a `post-socialist' age, marked both by neo-liberal hegemony and by the primacy of cultural recognition over material redistribution in the framing of progressive politics. Based on indepth interviews with activists in The Centre (a lesbian-gay-bisexual-transsexual community centre), the BC C…
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