Janet Conway
Biographic Data
| ID | 295069 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Conway |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Conway |
| SIGNATURE | CONWAY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brock University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3423-1811 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Collective and Substantial
This paper uses Pope Francis's Fratelli tutti to develop traditional Catholic depictions of human dignity in both theory and practice. Black sociopolitical thought and social movement organizing are brought into conversation with theologies and philosophies that reflect on what gives life integrity. I posit that the substantialist (ontological) interpretation of human dignity logically extends from individuals to collectives. Further, I suggest r…
Kosmopolitisch oder kolonial
Obwohl die beeindruckende Vielfalt des Weltsozialforums (WSF) regelmäßig hervorgehoben wird, gibt es bisher wenig analytische Arbeit darüber, inwieweit die Praxis des WSF die Kommunikationsfähigkeit über bisher unüberwundene Differenzen ermöglicht und wie Machtverhältnisse, insbesondere die Kolonialität der Macht, diese Interaktionen prägen. Basierend auf umfangreicher teilnehmender Beobachtung beim WSF analysiert dieser Artikel den „offenen Raum…
La Marche mondiale des femmes et la souveraineté alimentaire comme nouvel enjeu féministe
Cet article s’intéresse à l’action de la Marche mondiale des femmes sur le terrain de la souveraineté alimentaire. À l’aide de données recueillies dans ses documents organisationnels et d’entretiens avec une quarantaine de ses représentantes, les auteures montrent comment l’engagement de la Marche envers l’enjeu de la souveraineté alimentaire illustre certains de ses traits les plus marquants comme forme spécifique de militantisme féministe trans…
Ethnographic Approaches to the World Social Forum
Transnational Feminisms Building Anti-Globalization Solidarities
This is a comparative study of two transnational feminist networks at the World Social Forum and their distinct patterns of alliance-building with non-feminist entities on the anti-globalization terrain. The work identifies two distinct modalities, that of 'dialogues across difference' and 'coalition-building'. Both are underpinned by discourses of intersectionality and transversality and feminist approaches to coalition-building across differenc…
Analysing Hegemonic Masculinities in the Anti-Globalization Movement(s)
In a commentary on Coleman and Bassi's study of hegemonic masculinities in the British anti-globalization movement, the author brings to bear the scholarship on the gendered culture of the World Social Forum and through this, suggests the importance of contextualizing such studies in particular places and incorporating race, nation and class as salient dimensions
Radical Democracy in Global Perspective
In this article we contrast the theoretical tradition of radical democracy developed by Chantal Mouffe with an alternative tradition of radical democracy rooted in the practices of subaltern social movements. While the former is wedded to the context and aspirations of Western modernity, the latter consists of place-based forms of ‘colonial difference’ within the Third and Fourth Worlds that are subalternised by the (aggressively globalising) mod…
Cosmopolitan or Colonial? The World Social Forum as ‘contact zone’
Although the impressive diversity of the World Social Forum (WSF) is regularly noted, there has been little analytical work done on the degree to which the praxis of the WSF is enabling communicability across previously unbridged difference and how relations of power, particularly the coloniality of power, shape these interactions. Based on extensive participant observation at the WSF, this article analyses the ‘open space’ of the WSF as a ‘conta…
Emerging Visions of Another world? Tensions and Collaboration at the Quebec Social Forum
The Quebec Social Forum (QSF) took place 23-26 August 2007 in Montreal. It attracted about 5000 people from across Quebec. Both organizers and observers viewed the event as an unqualified success. In this article, we seek to describe and document this historic gathering and to understand it in its Quebec context, against the larger organizing process which produced it. We also situate the Social Forum, both as event and process, within the longer…
Millie Thayer, Making Transnational Feminism
Is the World Social Forum a Transnational Public Sphere
In a number of recent articles, Nancy Fraser attempts to understand the World Social Forum within the framework of critical democratic theory. In this article, we examine the descriptive and normative aspects of Fraser's theoretical framework, and explore the effects of projecting it upon the World Social Forum. We argue that while this theory may elucidate some features of the Forum, many of the Forum's most challenging and innovative aspects ar…
Chapter 6. Reading Nairobi
Reading Nairobi
The author seeks to elaborate an approach to more adequately analyze the World Social Forum (WSF), the annual meeting held by members of the anti-globalization or alter-globalization movement, both as somewhat coherent global political process while also recognizing the exploding plurality of the WSF as a multi-faceted phenomenon. He presents an interpretative framework that allows for different and intersecting levels of analysis. To assess the …
Social Forums, Social Movements and Social Change
This response to Peter Marcuse situates his reading of the World Social Forum in the larger ‘space versus movement’ debate that has been raging among the WSF’s organizers. The author argues that this debate signals: (1) a power struggle over its future; (2) profound disagreement over the character of its power, which is itself based in conflicting understandings and visions of power and change in the contemporary period more generally; (3) at the…
Place Matters
Citizenship in a time of empire
Under conditions of neoliberal globalization, structural adjustment and the war on terror, the progressive expansion of modern citizenship, both in its substance and geographic reach, is increasingly in question. Yet, popular demands for democratization, rights and participation are exploding worldwide. This article argues for shifts in focus in the study of citizenship from states, institutions and the national scale to cultural practices in civ…
Power of Social Forum is its Global Diffusion
Producing Knowledge and Practicing Democracy
Power of Social Forum is its Global Diffusion
Knowledge and the Impasse in Left Politics
In the 1920s, in a context of historic transformations and of crisis and defeat on the left, Antonio Gramsci argued for the historically-specific character of hegemonic power and the need for the left to engage in historically-specific analysis. In the context of the rise of fascism in Italy, such analysis led Gramsci to distinguish between and strategically privilege a of over a of manoeuvre. The war of position is a long-term strategy aimed at …
Canadian Society
Training for Generalist Graduates in the Commonwealth Public Service Board1
Is the World Social Forum a Transnational Public Sphere
In a number of recent articles, Nancy Fraser attempts to understand the World Social Forum within the framework of critical democratic theory. In this article, we examine the descriptive and normative aspects of Fraser's theoretical framework, and explore the effects of projecting it upon the World Social Forum. We argue that while this theory may elucidate some features of the Forum, many of the Forum's most challenging and innovative aspects ar…
Transnational Feminisms Building Anti-Globalization Solidarities
This is a comparative study of two transnational feminist networks at the World Social Forum and their distinct patterns of alliance-building with non-feminist entities on the anti-globalization terrain. The work identifies two distinct modalities, that of 'dialogues across difference' and 'coalition-building'. Both are underpinned by discourses of intersectionality and transversality and feminist approaches to coalition-building across differenc…
Radical Democracy in Global Perspective
In this article we contrast the theoretical tradition of radical democracy developed by Chantal Mouffe with an alternative tradition of radical democracy rooted in the practices of subaltern social movements. While the former is wedded to the context and aspirations of Western modernity, the latter consists of place-based forms of ‘colonial difference’ within the Third and Fourth Worlds that are subalternised by the (aggressively globalising) mod…
Citizenship in a time of empire
Under conditions of neoliberal globalization, structural adjustment and the war on terror, the progressive expansion of modern citizenship, both in its substance and geographic reach, is increasingly in question. Yet, popular demands for democratization, rights and participation are exploding worldwide. This article argues for shifts in focus in the study of citizenship from states, institutions and the national scale to cultural practices in civ…
Social Forums, Social Movements and Social Change
This response to Peter Marcuse situates his reading of the World Social Forum in the larger ‘space versus movement’ debate that has been raging among the WSF’s organizers. The author argues that this debate signals: (1) a power struggle over its future; (2) profound disagreement over the character of its power, which is itself based in conflicting understandings and visions of power and change in the contemporary period more generally; (3) at the…
Cosmopolitan or Colonial? The World Social Forum as ‘contact zone’
Although the impressive diversity of the World Social Forum (WSF) is regularly noted, there has been little analytical work done on the degree to which the praxis of the WSF is enabling communicability across previously unbridged difference and how relations of power, particularly the coloniality of power, shape these interactions. Based on extensive participant observation at the WSF, this article analyses the ‘open space’ of the WSF as a ‘conta…
Place Matters
Producing Knowledge and Practicing Democracy
Knowledge and the Impasse in Left Politics
In the 1920s, in a context of historic transformations and of crisis and defeat on the left, Antonio Gramsci argued for the historically-specific character of hegemonic power and the need for the left to engage in historically-specific analysis. In the context of the rise of fascism in Italy, such analysis led Gramsci to distinguish between and strategically privilege a of over a of manoeuvre. The war of position is a long-term strategy aimed at …
Analysing Hegemonic Masculinities in the Anti-Globalization Movement(s)
In a commentary on Coleman and Bassi's study of hegemonic masculinities in the British anti-globalization movement, the author brings to bear the scholarship on the gendered culture of the World Social Forum and through this, suggests the importance of contextualizing such studies in particular places and incorporating race, nation and class as salient dimensions
Training for Generalist Graduates in the Commonwealth Public Service Board1
Canadian Society
Knowledge and the Impasse in Left Politics
In the 1920s, in a context of historic transformations and of crisis and defeat on the left, Antonio Gramsci argued for the historically-specific character of hegemonic power and the need for the left to engage in historically-specific analysis. In the context of the rise of fascism in Italy, such analysis led Gramsci to distinguish between and strategically privilege a of over a of manoeuvre. The war of position is a long-term strategy aimed at …
Producing Knowledge and Practicing Democracy
Power of Social Forum is its Global Diffusion
Power of Social Forum is its Global Diffusion
Place Matters
Citizenship in a time of empire
Under conditions of neoliberal globalization, structural adjustment and the war on terror, the progressive expansion of modern citizenship, both in its substance and geographic reach, is increasingly in question. Yet, popular demands for democratization, rights and participation are exploding worldwide. This article argues for shifts in focus in the study of citizenship from states, institutions and the national scale to cultural practices in civ…
Social Forums, Social Movements and Social Change
This response to Peter Marcuse situates his reading of the World Social Forum in the larger ‘space versus movement’ debate that has been raging among the WSF’s organizers. The author argues that this debate signals: (1) a power struggle over its future; (2) profound disagreement over the character of its power, which is itself based in conflicting understandings and visions of power and change in the contemporary period more generally; (3) at the…
Chapter 6. Reading Nairobi
Reading Nairobi
The author seeks to elaborate an approach to more adequately analyze the World Social Forum (WSF), the annual meeting held by members of the anti-globalization or alter-globalization movement, both as somewhat coherent global political process while also recognizing the exploding plurality of the WSF as a multi-faceted phenomenon. He presents an interpretative framework that allows for different and intersecting levels of analysis. To assess the …
Is the World Social Forum a Transnational Public Sphere
In a number of recent articles, Nancy Fraser attempts to understand the World Social Forum within the framework of critical democratic theory. In this article, we examine the descriptive and normative aspects of Fraser's theoretical framework, and explore the effects of projecting it upon the World Social Forum. We argue that while this theory may elucidate some features of the Forum, many of the Forum's most challenging and innovative aspects ar…
Emerging Visions of Another world? Tensions and Collaboration at the Quebec Social Forum
The Quebec Social Forum (QSF) took place 23-26 August 2007 in Montreal. It attracted about 5000 people from across Quebec. Both organizers and observers viewed the event as an unqualified success. In this article, we seek to describe and document this historic gathering and to understand it in its Quebec context, against the larger organizing process which produced it. We also situate the Social Forum, both as event and process, within the longer…
Millie Thayer, Making Transnational Feminism
Analysing Hegemonic Masculinities in the Anti-Globalization Movement(s)
In a commentary on Coleman and Bassi's study of hegemonic masculinities in the British anti-globalization movement, the author brings to bear the scholarship on the gendered culture of the World Social Forum and through this, suggests the importance of contextualizing such studies in particular places and incorporating race, nation and class as salient dimensions
Radical Democracy in Global Perspective
In this article we contrast the theoretical tradition of radical democracy developed by Chantal Mouffe with an alternative tradition of radical democracy rooted in the practices of subaltern social movements. While the former is wedded to the context and aspirations of Western modernity, the latter consists of place-based forms of ‘colonial difference’ within the Third and Fourth Worlds that are subalternised by the (aggressively globalising) mod…
Cosmopolitan or Colonial? The World Social Forum as ‘contact zone’
Although the impressive diversity of the World Social Forum (WSF) is regularly noted, there has been little analytical work done on the degree to which the praxis of the WSF is enabling communicability across previously unbridged difference and how relations of power, particularly the coloniality of power, shape these interactions. Based on extensive participant observation at the WSF, this article analyses the ‘open space’ of the WSF as a ‘conta…
Transnational Feminisms Building Anti-Globalization Solidarities
This is a comparative study of two transnational feminist networks at the World Social Forum and their distinct patterns of alliance-building with non-feminist entities on the anti-globalization terrain. The work identifies two distinct modalities, that of 'dialogues across difference' and 'coalition-building'. Both are underpinned by discourses of intersectionality and transversality and feminist approaches to coalition-building across differenc…
Ethnographic Approaches to the World Social Forum
La Marche mondiale des femmes et la souveraineté alimentaire comme nouvel enjeu féministe
Cet article s’intéresse à l’action de la Marche mondiale des femmes sur le terrain de la souveraineté alimentaire. À l’aide de données recueillies dans ses documents organisationnels et d’entretiens avec une quarantaine de ses représentantes, les auteures montrent comment l’engagement de la Marche envers l’enjeu de la souveraineté alimentaire illustre certains de ses traits les plus marquants comme forme spécifique de militantisme féministe trans…
Kosmopolitisch oder kolonial
Obwohl die beeindruckende Vielfalt des Weltsozialforums (WSF) regelmäßig hervorgehoben wird, gibt es bisher wenig analytische Arbeit darüber, inwieweit die Praxis des WSF die Kommunikationsfähigkeit über bisher unüberwundene Differenzen ermöglicht und wie Machtverhältnisse, insbesondere die Kolonialität der Macht, diese Interaktionen prägen. Basierend auf umfangreicher teilnehmender Beobachtung beim WSF analysiert dieser Artikel den „offenen Raum…
Collective and Substantial
This paper uses Pope Francis's Fratelli tutti to develop traditional Catholic depictions of human dignity in both theory and practice. Black sociopolitical thought and social movement organizing are brought into conversation with theologies and philosophies that reflect on what gives life integrity. I posit that the substantialist (ontological) interpretation of human dignity logically extends from individuals to collectives. Further, I suggest r…
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (18 works) · Law (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Democracy (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Media studies (5 works)