John Grant
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Grant |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Grant |
| SIGNATURE | GRANT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0936-6482 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Gaining Power and Using It
Throughout Western democracies, the left remains in political purgatory and without a road towards political power. We examine Chantal Mouffe’s strategy for achieving a left populism with socialist characteristics, followed by Thomas Piketty’s program for ‘participatory socialism’. We highlight the admirable details they offer about alliance politics and transforming property relations. Nevertheless, we argue for why they cannot realise in practi…
Returning to totality
A unifying feature of the most prominent social movements that emerged in the 2010s is their dissatisfaction with explaining injustices on a case-by-case basis. In Canada, movements against settler colonialism express a similar orientation. This elicits a return of totality thinking, which enables one to grasp the connections between what appears as isolated or fragmented moments that in fact constitute and are constituted by a larger whole. Draw…
Frank O'Connor's 'Guests of the Nation
This article argues that one of Ireland's literary greats Frank O'Connor (1903-1966) utilized the Irish War of Independence (WOI) as a backdrop for 'Guests of the Nation,' one of the most famous works about the Irish revolutionary period. The 1931 short story is set during the Irish WOI (1919-1921). This essay, however, wishes to explore the notion that a subsequent but separate conflict-the Irish Civil War (1922-1923)-was at the forefront of O'C…
Stitching Together a PAR Project
Critically reflecting on research practice can be an uncomfortable process for any researcher as you expose actions, and decision-making, reflect on some of the research assumptions you may have fallen into, and acknowledge your limitations. Yet, engaging in reflexive practice keeps us in check and is particularly important for researchers exploring the experiences of marginalization and oppression. This article presents our reflections on "Work …
And in The End
This article will examine the 1980s magazine The End first published in Liverpool by young people following 2 years of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative election victory in 1979. The End editors and contributors have previously been discussed within popular culture, but there is a lack of academic consideration of the magazine itself. The End has been absorbed within the wider 'Casual Cultural' appraisal-soccer subcultures of fashion and 'terrace …
Mexico’s electricity grid and fuel mix
Energy reform that required amendments to the Mexican Constitution in 2013 and implementing legislation aimed to increase the efficiency, economic competitiveness, and decarbonization of Mexico’s electricity sector. Emissions inventories were developed for the 2016 base year and a capacity development pathway established by Mexico over a 15-year planning horizon to 2031. Between 2016 and 2031, steep declines in generation from fuel oil-fired ther…
Seeing like a Socialist
In this article we argue that reinvigorating socialist politics requires championing a socialist worldview that goes beyond the critique of capitalism. Neglecting such an outlook leaves socialism tethered to the fortunes of capitalism and inhibits a broader account of its own virtues. We begin by explaining why worldview thinking is appropriate today. Then we examine two underappreciated works by Karl Polanyi (his 1927 lecture “On Freedom”) and C…
Justifying Constituent Power in an Age of Populism
In a time of contentious politics, it becomes conspicuous that studies of populism and of constituent power rarely mention one another. This is true despite the fact that “the people” are regularly asserted as the preferred political subject for populism and constituent power alike, pitting them against elites and even the constitution. But if opponents of populism are right that its appeal to the people’s will is normatively suspect, how do we e…
“Learning Together”
Fort McMurray Métis Elders and land users have observed a decrease in the population density of freshwater mussels (known locally as clams; Unionidae) in the lower Athabasca region (LAR) in recent decades. A community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach, braided with Indigenous Knowledge, is used as a guiding framework to facilitate partnerships and create safe, ethical spaces across diverse knowledge systems to address questions about f…
“I Was Too Chickenhearted to Publish it”
A veteran of the losing Republican side in the conflict, O’Faoláin’s take on the Ireland that emerged after Civil War has been scrutinised by writers and researchers in the fields of both politics and literature. Brad Kent (2008) notes how O’Faoláin argued continually that a Gaelic, ethnic nationalism and close allegiance to the Catholic Church
Adages IV Iii 1 to V Ii 51
Canada's Republican Invention? On the Political Theory and Practice of Citizens' Assemblies
This article compares variants of republican and liberal theory in order to assess which can make a stronger proprietary claim to the new democratic practice of citizens' assemblies (CAs). I argue that in respect of the categories of representation, liberty and citizenship, CAs are primarily republican in character. The argument is significant for three reasons. First, the political theory terrain is remapped, affirming clear differences between …
Riots in the UK
In August 2011, rioting in UK cities captivated an international audience. This article combines empirical and theoretical work in order to examine the conditions of possibility for the riots and for the print media’s response to them. First a content analysis of fourteen British newspapers is provided to frame and criticize how the riots were portrayed. The article then turns to the conceptual framework provided by Charles Taylor’s work on socia…
On the critique of political imaginaries
Over the past decade there has been a remarkable expansion in the use of ‘imaginaries’ as a guiding concept in and beyond political theory. But the proliferation of this term has gone largely unchecked by critical investigations into its deployment. To correct this I address the work of Charles Taylor, Michael Warner and Chiara Bottici, each of whom has written influential texts on imaginaries and the sites of imaginaries. Interestingly, their re…
Becoming One
Stun
The Brand Innovation Manifesto
Dialectics and Contemporary Politics
Dialectics and Contemporary Politics recasts dialectical thought for a post-Marxist age in which labour movement politics is just one political option among many. The book is organized thematically around concepts such as immanent critique, ideology, experience, and resistance, and according to figures who are vital to the present trajectory of dialectics, including Hegel, Adorno, Foucault, Jameson and Žizek. New analysis of these concepts and th…
Late Dialectics
Scots Law Tales
This book reveals the stories behind some of the most important and memorable cases in Scottish legal history. The cases it covers range from the miscarriage of justice against Oscar Slater to the Lockerbie trial; from a decomposing snail in a bottle of ginger beer to allegations of high jinks by a prominent politician; from an unplanned pregnancy to the switching off of a life support machine; from McCaig's folly in Oban to the lettering ‘EIIR’ …
Postulates for revising BDI structures
Marcuse Remade? Theory and Explanation in Hardt and Negri
An unexpected confrontation involving Ernesto Laclau, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, and Herbert Marcuse serves as a testing ground for one of political theory's most basic tasks: to determine the concepts that are used to theorize politics. Laclau claims that by relying on a concept of immanence, Hardt and Negri cannot account for the relational nature of politics. Defending Hardt and Negri by turning their work against itself reveals unacknow…
Foucault and the logic of dialectics
Operationalising the Sustainability Imperative
Applications Of Paraconsistency In Data And Knowledge Bases
On the critique of political imaginaries
Over the past decade there has been a remarkable expansion in the use of ‘imaginaries’ as a guiding concept in and beyond political theory. But the proliferation of this term has gone largely unchecked by critical investigations into its deployment. To correct this I address the work of Charles Taylor, Michael Warner and Chiara Bottici, each of whom has written influential texts on imaginaries and the sites of imaginaries. Interestingly, their re…
Canada's Republican Invention? On the Political Theory and Practice of Citizens' Assemblies
This article compares variants of republican and liberal theory in order to assess which can make a stronger proprietary claim to the new democratic practice of citizens' assemblies (CAs). I argue that in respect of the categories of representation, liberty and citizenship, CAs are primarily republican in character. The argument is significant for three reasons. First, the political theory terrain is remapped, affirming clear differences between …
Becoming One
Foucault and the logic of dialectics
Justifying Constituent Power in an Age of Populism
In a time of contentious politics, it becomes conspicuous that studies of populism and of constituent power rarely mention one another. This is true despite the fact that “the people” are regularly asserted as the preferred political subject for populism and constituent power alike, pitting them against elites and even the constitution. But if opponents of populism are right that its appeal to the people’s will is normatively suspect, how do we e…
Riots in the UK
In August 2011, rioting in UK cities captivated an international audience. This article combines empirical and theoretical work in order to examine the conditions of possibility for the riots and for the print media’s response to them. First a content analysis of fourteen British newspapers is provided to frame and criticize how the riots were portrayed. The article then turns to the conceptual framework provided by Charles Taylor’s work on socia…
Marcuse Remade? Theory and Explanation in Hardt and Negri
An unexpected confrontation involving Ernesto Laclau, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, and Herbert Marcuse serves as a testing ground for one of political theory's most basic tasks: to determine the concepts that are used to theorize politics. Laclau claims that by relying on a concept of immanence, Hardt and Negri cannot account for the relational nature of politics. Defending Hardt and Negri by turning their work against itself reveals unacknow…
Foreign Investment
American Indians and Christian Missions
Missionaries and messiahs in the Northwest
At least you knew where you stood with them
Francisco de Osuna and the Spirit of the Letter
catholique mène le combat là où elle le peut et s'attaque durement à l'hérésie et au schisme avec des moyens dont la substance aujourd'hui étonne.Bien entendu, le champ des motivations de la peur collective reste un domaine délicat à circonscrire, Jean Delumeau le sait.Il n'est pas toujours facile de discerner si telle peur est la cause ou l'effet de l'événement.Et jusqu'où va la projection du mal anticipé?Et quelle est l'exacte réalité de telle …
Francisco de Osuna and the Spirit of the Letter
The two intervening essays are focused as well on Durer's afterlife.In "Durer and the 17th Century" Henry Ley offers a productive commentary on Joachim von Sandrart's ex- tensive biography of "Germany's glory" in his Teutsche Académie (Nuremberg, 1675, 1679), followed by a sketch of Diirer collecting, active enthusiasm for which had subsided by 1625.Keith Andrews surveys the various manifestations of "Durer's Posthumous Fame" from the petulant cr…
Canadian Confederation and the Protestant Churches
On July 1, 1867, the colonies of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were united by an act of the imperial parliament-The British North America Act-to form a federal state known as Canada. The centennial of this Confederation was celebrated by Canadians in 1967. In this paper I want to discuss its influence on the Protestant churches of Canada
At least you knew where you stood with them
The Environment for Canadian Fiscal Policy
Indian missions as European enclaves
Missionaries and messiahs in the Northwest
Chautaugua in Canada Sheilagh S. Jameson Calgary
Can We Live with Monetary Discipline for Another Decade
American Indians and Christian Missions
The Federal Budget
Foreign Investment
The Book of Time
The Macdonald Commission on Stabilization Policy
A Profusion of Spires
The Ontario Historical Studies Series is a comprehensive history of Ontario from 1791 to the present, which will include several biographies of former premiers, numerous volumes on the economic, social, political, and cultural development of the province, and a general history incorporating the insights and conclusions of the other works in the series. The purpose of the series is to enable general readers and scholars to understand better the di…
Western Oblate Studies 1 Raymond Huel, editor Edmonton, AB
Stanzas at Leisure from Neglect
Copy of a poem by John Grant (see essay by Ian Syson, 'John Grant: Australia's First "Really" Radical Poet', in this issue)
Ouellet, Real, dir., Rhétorique et conquête missionnaire
OUELLET, Real, dir., Rhétorique et conquête missionnaire : le jésuite Paul Lejeune (Sillery, Éditions du Septentrion, 1993), 137 p.. Un article de la revue Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française (Volume 49, numéro 2, automne 1995, p. 169-324) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Applications Of Paraconsistency In Data And Knowledge Bases
Operationalising the Sustainability Imperative
Scots Law Tales
This book reveals the stories behind some of the most important and memorable cases in Scottish legal history. The cases it covers range from the miscarriage of justice against Oscar Slater to the Lockerbie trial; from a decomposing snail in a bottle of ginger beer to allegations of high jinks by a prominent politician; from an unplanned pregnancy to the switching off of a life support machine; from McCaig's folly in Oban to the lettering ‘EIIR’ …
Postulates for revising BDI structures
Marcuse Remade? Theory and Explanation in Hardt and Negri
An unexpected confrontation involving Ernesto Laclau, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, and Herbert Marcuse serves as a testing ground for one of political theory's most basic tasks: to determine the concepts that are used to theorize politics. Laclau claims that by relying on a concept of immanence, Hardt and Negri cannot account for the relational nature of politics. Defending Hardt and Negri by turning their work against itself reveals unacknow…
Foucault and the logic of dialectics
Dialectics and Contemporary Politics
Dialectics and Contemporary Politics recasts dialectical thought for a post-Marxist age in which labour movement politics is just one political option among many. The book is organized thematically around concepts such as immanent critique, ideology, experience, and resistance, and according to figures who are vital to the present trajectory of dialectics, including Hegel, Adorno, Foucault, Jameson and Žizek. New analysis of these concepts and th…
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