James Cosgrave
Biographic Data
| ID | 4011883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Cosgrave |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Cosgrave |
| SIGNATURE | COSGRAVE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trent University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The State and the Legal Canadian Cannabis User
Drawing on Howard Becker's classic 1953 sociological interpretation of the process of becoming a cannabis user, this paper analyses how the Canadian state shapes the social and political meanings of cannabis and its use in the context of recent legalization. Our analysis moves from concrete face-to-face subcultural life studied by Becker to state discourses and administration, examining Canadian government commissions, task forces, and legislatio…
Making Markets out of Vice
The legalization of gambling and cannabis and the transformation of these practices/substances into consumer markets are processes of state legitimation, naturalization, and (re)formation in Canada. This article examines the moral-cultural transformation of gambling and cannabis over the last 50 years and analyzes these transformations in terms of state-culture dynamics. Where lotteries were legalized in the context of the welfare state, the expa…
Enjoy your experience”
This article explores the legalization and marketing of recreational cannabis in Canada, specifically the province of Nova Scotia, that has extended state monopoly over sales. Beginning with Howard Becker’s classic analysis of “becoming a marijuana user,” this ethnographic investigation of the first day of state cannabis sales utilizes and extends Bourdieusian analyses, particularly by showing how “symbolic violence” and “taste distinctions” work…
A funny thing happened on the way to sociology
This article discusses the merits of a sociology informed by humour, linking these merits to sociological issues of representation and the ways in which humour has pedagogical and epistemological relevance for the depiction and construction of the everyday lifeworld. The works of Erving Goffman, C. Wright Mills, and Peter Berger are treated as exemplifying the use of humour in sociological work. Significantly, while having different perspectives …
State celebrity, institutional charisma and the public sphere
This article investigates the rise and scandalous fall of celebrity host Jian Ghomeshi within the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). We draw upon Althusser’s conception of the Ideological State Apparatus to analyse how the CBC made use of Jian Ghomeshi as a state celebrity to ‘hail’ the audience/citizen and contribute to the CBC’s ‘institutional charisma’. The discussion also demonstrates the dependence of the CBC on types of legitimate aut…
The Market Totem
Durkheim was concerned with the anomie generated by a social order too strongly oriented to economic activity and the pursuit of wealth. His last book, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, is an exploration of the social basis of knowledge and moral authority, but also prospectively links economic life to its religious sources and to “mana.” Despite his sociological-moral concerns with diminished moral authority in an emerging industrial, mark…
Theorising the state celebrity
This paper explores a rarely discussed side of celebrity – the ‘state celebrity’ produced by state broadcasting systems. The state celebrity is explored by way of a case study of four central television personalities – not, incidentally, all white men – found on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The state celebrity differs in important respects from individual entrepreneurial celebrities found in commercial contexts. As such, theories of cel…
Desiring Canada
What do Tim Hortons, Hockey Night in Canada, and Rick Mercer have in common? Each is a popular symbol of Canadian identity, seen across the country – and beyond – on television and in other forms of media. But whose definition of ‘Canadian’ do they represent? What does it mean to be Canadian? Do we create our own impressions of Canadian identity, or are they created for us? In Desiring Canada, Patricia Cormack and James F. Cosgrave delve into the…
Who Counts Now? Re-making the Canadian Citizen
This paper considers the implications of the 2010 cancellation of the Canada mandatory long-form census in terms of citizenship and the citizen-state relation. Inspecting census questions, Statistics Canada publications, and the arguments of ethnocultural groups pushing for reinstatement of the census, we find a version of citizenship rooted in ethnocultural group membership and the mosaic metaphor. The second part of this paper seeks an historic…
Casino State
Embedded Addiction
This paper discusses features of the development of gambling markets, particularly the production of gambling knowledges that interact with and contribute to the constitution of these markets. While gambling expansion is predicated on the provision of 'entertainment,' and where gambling is marketed as the consumption of safe risks, there is also the possibility of risky consumption and the production of problem gamblers. The paper discusses the k…
The Sociology of Risk and Gambling Reader
Sociology of Risk and Gambling Reader
Mozambique and the Great Flood of 2000
1Consultant and team leader on the Disaster Emergencies Committee evaluation of Mozambique Mozambique and the Great Flood of 2000 Frances Christie Joseph Hanlon Oxford James Currey 2001 xvi + 176 Paperback£11.95 0 85255 857 0 Hardback£40 0 85255 858 9
A funny thing happened on the way to sociology
This article discusses the merits of a sociology informed by humour, linking these merits to sociological issues of representation and the ways in which humour has pedagogical and epistemological relevance for the depiction and construction of the everyday lifeworld. The works of Erving Goffman, C. Wright Mills, and Peter Berger are treated as exemplifying the use of humour in sociological work. Significantly, while having different perspectives …
Embedded Addiction
This paper discusses features of the development of gambling markets, particularly the production of gambling knowledges that interact with and contribute to the constitution of these markets. While gambling expansion is predicated on the provision of 'entertainment,' and where gambling is marketed as the consumption of safe risks, there is also the possibility of risky consumption and the production of problem gamblers. The paper discusses the k…
Theorising the state celebrity
This paper explores a rarely discussed side of celebrity – the ‘state celebrity’ produced by state broadcasting systems. The state celebrity is explored by way of a case study of four central television personalities – not, incidentally, all white men – found on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The state celebrity differs in important respects from individual entrepreneurial celebrities found in commercial contexts. As such, theories of cel…
Who Counts Now? Re-making the Canadian Citizen
This paper considers the implications of the 2010 cancellation of the Canada mandatory long-form census in terms of citizenship and the citizen-state relation. Inspecting census questions, Statistics Canada publications, and the arguments of ethnocultural groups pushing for reinstatement of the census, we find a version of citizenship rooted in ethnocultural group membership and the mosaic metaphor. The second part of this paper seeks an historic…
Mozambique and the Great Flood of 2000
1Consultant and team leader on the Disaster Emergencies Committee evaluation of Mozambique Mozambique and the Great Flood of 2000 Frances Christie Joseph Hanlon Oxford James Currey 2001 xvi + 176 Paperback£11.95 0 85255 857 0 Hardback£40 0 85255 858 9
Enjoy your experience”
This article explores the legalization and marketing of recreational cannabis in Canada, specifically the province of Nova Scotia, that has extended state monopoly over sales. Beginning with Howard Becker’s classic analysis of “becoming a marijuana user,” this ethnographic investigation of the first day of state cannabis sales utilizes and extends Bourdieusian analyses, particularly by showing how “symbolic violence” and “taste distinctions” work…
State celebrity, institutional charisma and the public sphere
This article investigates the rise and scandalous fall of celebrity host Jian Ghomeshi within the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). We draw upon Althusser’s conception of the Ideological State Apparatus to analyse how the CBC made use of Jian Ghomeshi as a state celebrity to ‘hail’ the audience/citizen and contribute to the CBC’s ‘institutional charisma’. The discussion also demonstrates the dependence of the CBC on types of legitimate aut…
The Market Totem
Durkheim was concerned with the anomie generated by a social order too strongly oriented to economic activity and the pursuit of wealth. His last book, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, is an exploration of the social basis of knowledge and moral authority, but also prospectively links economic life to its religious sources and to “mana.” Despite his sociological-moral concerns with diminished moral authority in an emerging industrial, mark…
Mozambique and the Great Flood of 2000
1Consultant and team leader on the Disaster Emergencies Committee evaluation of Mozambique Mozambique and the Great Flood of 2000 Frances Christie Joseph Hanlon Oxford James Currey 2001 xvi + 176 Paperback£11.95 0 85255 857 0 Hardback£40 0 85255 858 9
The Sociology of Risk and Gambling Reader
Sociology of Risk and Gambling Reader
Casino State
Embedded Addiction
This paper discusses features of the development of gambling markets, particularly the production of gambling knowledges that interact with and contribute to the constitution of these markets. While gambling expansion is predicated on the provision of 'entertainment,' and where gambling is marketed as the consumption of safe risks, there is also the possibility of risky consumption and the production of problem gamblers. The paper discusses the k…
Desiring Canada
What do Tim Hortons, Hockey Night in Canada, and Rick Mercer have in common? Each is a popular symbol of Canadian identity, seen across the country – and beyond – on television and in other forms of media. But whose definition of ‘Canadian’ do they represent? What does it mean to be Canadian? Do we create our own impressions of Canadian identity, or are they created for us? In Desiring Canada, Patricia Cormack and James F. Cosgrave delve into the…
Who Counts Now? Re-making the Canadian Citizen
This paper considers the implications of the 2010 cancellation of the Canada mandatory long-form census in terms of citizenship and the citizen-state relation. Inspecting census questions, Statistics Canada publications, and the arguments of ethnocultural groups pushing for reinstatement of the census, we find a version of citizenship rooted in ethnocultural group membership and the mosaic metaphor. The second part of this paper seeks an historic…
The Market Totem
Durkheim was concerned with the anomie generated by a social order too strongly oriented to economic activity and the pursuit of wealth. His last book, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, is an exploration of the social basis of knowledge and moral authority, but also prospectively links economic life to its religious sources and to “mana.” Despite his sociological-moral concerns with diminished moral authority in an emerging industrial, mark…
Theorising the state celebrity
This paper explores a rarely discussed side of celebrity – the ‘state celebrity’ produced by state broadcasting systems. The state celebrity is explored by way of a case study of four central television personalities – not, incidentally, all white men – found on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The state celebrity differs in important respects from individual entrepreneurial celebrities found in commercial contexts. As such, theories of cel…
State celebrity, institutional charisma and the public sphere
This article investigates the rise and scandalous fall of celebrity host Jian Ghomeshi within the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). We draw upon Althusser’s conception of the Ideological State Apparatus to analyse how the CBC made use of Jian Ghomeshi as a state celebrity to ‘hail’ the audience/citizen and contribute to the CBC’s ‘institutional charisma’. The discussion also demonstrates the dependence of the CBC on types of legitimate aut…
A funny thing happened on the way to sociology
This article discusses the merits of a sociology informed by humour, linking these merits to sociological issues of representation and the ways in which humour has pedagogical and epistemological relevance for the depiction and construction of the everyday lifeworld. The works of Erving Goffman, C. Wright Mills, and Peter Berger are treated as exemplifying the use of humour in sociological work. Significantly, while having different perspectives …
Enjoy your experience”
This article explores the legalization and marketing of recreational cannabis in Canada, specifically the province of Nova Scotia, that has extended state monopoly over sales. Beginning with Howard Becker’s classic analysis of “becoming a marijuana user,” this ethnographic investigation of the first day of state cannabis sales utilizes and extends Bourdieusian analyses, particularly by showing how “symbolic violence” and “taste distinctions” work…
Making Markets out of Vice
The legalization of gambling and cannabis and the transformation of these practices/substances into consumer markets are processes of state legitimation, naturalization, and (re)formation in Canada. This article examines the moral-cultural transformation of gambling and cannabis over the last 50 years and analyzes these transformations in terms of state-culture dynamics. Where lotteries were legalized in the context of the welfare state, the expa…
The State and the Legal Canadian Cannabis User
Drawing on Howard Becker's classic 1953 sociological interpretation of the process of becoming a cannabis user, this paper analyses how the Canadian state shapes the social and political meanings of cannabis and its use in the context of recent legalization. Our analysis moves from concrete face-to-face subcultural life studied by Becker to state discourses and administration, examining Canadian government commissions, task forces, and legislatio…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Gambling Behavior and Treatments (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Media studies (3 works)