Gordon Laxer
Biographic Data
| ID | 221825 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordon Laxer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordon |
| FAMILY NAME | Laxer |
| SIGNATURE | LAXER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Canada Freezing in the Dark
Popular National Sovereignty and the U.S. Empire
In the 1960s, the left branded US imperialism the major enemy of social justice in the world. Such talk faded after the war against Vietnam and almost disappeared after communism fell in Eastern Europe. It s not that the American brand of informal empire disappeared. It continued through US influences on other states policies, the sway of US corporations abroad on host governments, US military power, and the power of the Washington-based financia…
Global Civil Society and Its Limits
Effective Resistance to Corporate Globalization
Growing concerns about the lack of real democracy, increasing inequalities, re-colonization and ecological crises associated with what is called ‘globalization’ have focused attention on alternatives. Are forces of resistance to globalization emerging that are capable either of reversing it, or shaping it in less destructive ways
Radical Transformative Nationalisms Confront the US Empire
Recently, a literature has grown around the building of what has been variously called a global civil society, transnational social movements or globalization from below, as an alternative to corporate globalization. This paper examines a different alternative radical transformative nationalisms, coupled with international solidarity. In this perspective, globalization is seen as an ideological project of the US Empire. The Washington Consensus p…
Solidarity in the age of globalization
The Movement That Dare Not Speak its Name
Before France pulled out of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), thus killing the deal, it issued the Lalumiere Report. The report argued that the MAI marks a step in international economic negotiations. For the first time, we are witnessing the emergence of a 'global civil society' represented by non-government organizations, which are often active in several countries and communicate across borders. This is no doubt an irreversible c…
Surviving the Americanizing New Right
Benjamin Barber établit un lien entre la mondialisation des entre‐prises et la résurgence des nationalismes ethnoculturels. Selon lui, ces deux phénomènes affaiblissent la démocratie. Barber ne parle pas des effets de la mondialisation sur l'autre aspect du nationalisme — le nationalisme civique, Aetatisé, qui prédomine dans les démo‐craties comme le Canada. Cet article étudie les liens qui unissent ethos , traditions et État au Canada, et qui en…
Understanding Canada
As corporations are restructured, governments cut back, and the international economy transformed, there is an increasing need to understand the economic and political forces involved, evaluate their implications, and develop strategies to modify them to meet society's interests. In light of the current situation, the study of political economy is more relevant than ever. Understanding Canada examines a variety of topics from viewpoints ranging f…
Social Solidarity, Democracy and Global Capitalism
Dans cette étude, nous examinons les hypothèses des partisans de la «mondialisation» et proposons des solutions totalement opposées. Dans la première partie, nous réfutons les arguments suivants au sujet de la «mondialisation»: la souveraineté nationale s'érode dans tous les pays; la part de propriété transnationale est plus importante que par le passé; la «mondialisation» constitue la conséquence inévitable du changement technologique; et la lib…
Constitutional Crises and Continentalism
Gordon Laxer, Constitutional Crises and Continentalism: Twin Threats to Canada's Continued Existence, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Spring, 1992), pp. 199-222
Open for Business
Since the days of John Diefenbaker controversy has swirled around the issue of foreign ownership of the Canadian economy; the most recent subjects of debate have been the National Energy Program, FIRA, and the Canada-US free trade deal. This book delves into these debates and examines the causes of Canada's uniquely high level of foreign ownership. Using a wide ranging comparative approach, Laxer subjects the standard explanations of Canada's eco…
On Suppressed Historical Possibilities
Gordon Laxer, On Suppressed Historical Possibilities: A Reply to the "Canadian Journal of Sociology" Symposium, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Summer, 1990), pp. 345-353
Open for Business
Political Economy without the Working Class
The schizophrenic character of Canadian political economy
J'explore dans cet article le caractère Schizophrène de l'économie politique au Canada: le même vocabulaire marxiste est utilisé par deux traditions bien distinctes, qui toutes deux se logent à l'enseigne de ‘l’économie politique'. D'un côté on trouve des historien(ne)s idiographiques, des nationalistes qui insistent sur la position dépendante du Canada dans l'économie mondiale et qui postulent que l'histoire canadienne est principalement produit…
New Developments in Comparative Political Economy
Class, Nationality and the Roots of the Branch Plant Economy
The question of why Canada incurred so much foreign ownership of its economy at so early a point in its history has generated three standard explanations: the tariff; proximity to the United States; and weak nationalism amongst Canadian capitalists
Foreign ownership and myths about Canadian development
Not for Export
Industrialization in Canada
The Movement That Dare Not Speak its Name
Before France pulled out of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), thus killing the deal, it issued the Lalumiere Report. The report argued that the MAI marks a step in international economic negotiations. For the first time, we are witnessing the emergence of a 'global civil society' represented by non-government organizations, which are often active in several countries and communicate across borders. This is no doubt an irreversible c…
Solidarity in the age of globalization
Understanding Canada
As corporations are restructured, governments cut back, and the international economy transformed, there is an increasing need to understand the economic and political forces involved, evaluate their implications, and develop strategies to modify them to meet society's interests. In light of the current situation, the study of political economy is more relevant than ever. Understanding Canada examines a variety of topics from viewpoints ranging f…
Radical Transformative Nationalisms Confront the US Empire
Recently, a literature has grown around the building of what has been variously called a global civil society, transnational social movements or globalization from below, as an alternative to corporate globalization. This paper examines a different alternative radical transformative nationalisms, coupled with international solidarity. In this perspective, globalization is seen as an ideological project of the US Empire. The Washington Consensus p…
The schizophrenic character of Canadian political economy
J'explore dans cet article le caractère Schizophrène de l'économie politique au Canada: le même vocabulaire marxiste est utilisé par deux traditions bien distinctes, qui toutes deux se logent à l'enseigne de ‘l’économie politique'. D'un côté on trouve des historien(ne)s idiographiques, des nationalistes qui insistent sur la position dépendante du Canada dans l'économie mondiale et qui postulent que l'histoire canadienne est principalement produit…
Social Solidarity, Democracy and Global Capitalism
Dans cette étude, nous examinons les hypothèses des partisans de la «mondialisation» et proposons des solutions totalement opposées. Dans la première partie, nous réfutons les arguments suivants au sujet de la «mondialisation»: la souveraineté nationale s'érode dans tous les pays; la part de propriété transnationale est plus importante que par le passé; la «mondialisation» constitue la conséquence inévitable du changement technologique; et la lib…
Surviving the Americanizing New Right
Benjamin Barber établit un lien entre la mondialisation des entre‐prises et la résurgence des nationalismes ethnoculturels. Selon lui, ces deux phénomènes affaiblissent la démocratie. Barber ne parle pas des effets de la mondialisation sur l'autre aspect du nationalisme — le nationalisme civique, Aetatisé, qui prédomine dans les démo‐craties comme le Canada. Cet article étudie les liens qui unissent ethos , traditions et État au Canada, et qui en…
Constitutional Crises and Continentalism
Gordon Laxer, Constitutional Crises and Continentalism: Twin Threats to Canada's Continued Existence, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Spring, 1992), pp. 199-222
Foreign ownership and myths about Canadian development
Popular National Sovereignty and the U.S. Empire
In the 1960s, the left branded US imperialism the major enemy of social justice in the world. Such talk faded after the war against Vietnam and almost disappeared after communism fell in Eastern Europe. It s not that the American brand of informal empire disappeared. It continued through US influences on other states policies, the sway of US corporations abroad on host governments, US military power, and the power of the Washington-based financia…
Political Economy without the Working Class
New Developments in Comparative Political Economy
Class, Nationality and the Roots of the Branch Plant Economy
The question of why Canada incurred so much foreign ownership of its economy at so early a point in its history has generated three standard explanations: the tariff; proximity to the United States; and weak nationalism amongst Canadian capitalists
Industrialization in Canada
Industrialization in Canada
Foreign ownership and myths about Canadian development
Not for Export
Class, Nationality and the Roots of the Branch Plant Economy
The question of why Canada incurred so much foreign ownership of its economy at so early a point in its history has generated three standard explanations: the tariff; proximity to the United States; and weak nationalism amongst Canadian capitalists
The schizophrenic character of Canadian political economy
J'explore dans cet article le caractère Schizophrène de l'économie politique au Canada: le même vocabulaire marxiste est utilisé par deux traditions bien distinctes, qui toutes deux se logent à l'enseigne de ‘l’économie politique'. D'un côté on trouve des historien(ne)s idiographiques, des nationalistes qui insistent sur la position dépendante du Canada dans l'économie mondiale et qui postulent que l'histoire canadienne est principalement produit…
New Developments in Comparative Political Economy
On Suppressed Historical Possibilities
Gordon Laxer, On Suppressed Historical Possibilities: A Reply to the "Canadian Journal of Sociology" Symposium, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Summer, 1990), pp. 345-353
Open for Business
Political Economy without the Working Class
Open for Business
Since the days of John Diefenbaker controversy has swirled around the issue of foreign ownership of the Canadian economy; the most recent subjects of debate have been the National Energy Program, FIRA, and the Canada-US free trade deal. This book delves into these debates and examines the causes of Canada's uniquely high level of foreign ownership. Using a wide ranging comparative approach, Laxer subjects the standard explanations of Canada's eco…
Constitutional Crises and Continentalism
Gordon Laxer, Constitutional Crises and Continentalism: Twin Threats to Canada's Continued Existence, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Spring, 1992), pp. 199-222
Social Solidarity, Democracy and Global Capitalism
Dans cette étude, nous examinons les hypothèses des partisans de la «mondialisation» et proposons des solutions totalement opposées. Dans la première partie, nous réfutons les arguments suivants au sujet de la «mondialisation»: la souveraineté nationale s'érode dans tous les pays; la part de propriété transnationale est plus importante que par le passé; la «mondialisation» constitue la conséquence inévitable du changement technologique; et la lib…
Understanding Canada
As corporations are restructured, governments cut back, and the international economy transformed, there is an increasing need to understand the economic and political forces involved, evaluate their implications, and develop strategies to modify them to meet society's interests. In light of the current situation, the study of political economy is more relevant than ever. Understanding Canada examines a variety of topics from viewpoints ranging f…
Surviving the Americanizing New Right
Benjamin Barber établit un lien entre la mondialisation des entre‐prises et la résurgence des nationalismes ethnoculturels. Selon lui, ces deux phénomènes affaiblissent la démocratie. Barber ne parle pas des effets de la mondialisation sur l'autre aspect du nationalisme — le nationalisme civique, Aetatisé, qui prédomine dans les démo‐craties comme le Canada. Cet article étudie les liens qui unissent ethos , traditions et État au Canada, et qui en…
The Movement That Dare Not Speak its Name
Before France pulled out of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), thus killing the deal, it issued the Lalumiere Report. The report argued that the MAI marks a step in international economic negotiations. For the first time, we are witnessing the emergence of a 'global civil society' represented by non-government organizations, which are often active in several countries and communicate across borders. This is no doubt an irreversible c…
Global Civil Society and Its Limits
Effective Resistance to Corporate Globalization
Growing concerns about the lack of real democracy, increasing inequalities, re-colonization and ecological crises associated with what is called ‘globalization’ have focused attention on alternatives. Are forces of resistance to globalization emerging that are capable either of reversing it, or shaping it in less destructive ways
Radical Transformative Nationalisms Confront the US Empire
Recently, a literature has grown around the building of what has been variously called a global civil society, transnational social movements or globalization from below, as an alternative to corporate globalization. This paper examines a different alternative radical transformative nationalisms, coupled with international solidarity. In this perspective, globalization is seen as an ideological project of the US Empire. The Washington Consensus p…
Solidarity in the age of globalization
Popular National Sovereignty and the U.S. Empire
In the 1960s, the left branded US imperialism the major enemy of social justice in the world. Such talk faded after the war against Vietnam and almost disappeared after communism fell in Eastern Europe. It s not that the American brand of informal empire disappeared. It continued through US influences on other states policies, the sway of US corporations abroad on host governments, US military power, and the power of the Washington-based financia…
Canada Freezing in the Dark
Political science (19 works) · Law (18 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Political economy (10 works) · Economics (7 works) · Globalization (6 works) · Canadian Policy and Governance (4 works) · Civil society (4 works)