Joel Bakan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4980728 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel Bakan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel |
| FAMILY NAME | Bakan |
| SIGNATURE | BAKAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Improvisation and Freedom
This essay, dedicated to Ajay Heble, explores how improvisation relates to two current and synergistic threats to democracy and justice: neoliberalism and illiberalism. It also examines embracing relational freedom as a method of working beyond these threats in our society
Reflection
Corporate capitalism changed dramatically in the early 2000s. The 1980s mantra that “greed is good” gave way to corporate vows to prioritize social and environmental values alongside profit. The rise of the “new corporation” purported to answer a question first raised in the nineteenth century: How do we ensure corporations are legally and morally accountable to those their actions impact? By the late nineteenth century, capitalism had become cor…
Just Words
Joel Bakan argues that the Canadian Charter of Rights (1982) has failed to promote social justice because it is administered by a conservative judiciary and because social and economic conditions constantly interfere with its principles
Rights, Nationalism and Social Movements in Canadian Constitutional Politics
HE CHARLOTTETOWN Accord was defeated in a national Referen-t dum on 26 October 1992, thus marking the end of a constitutional ~- amendment process designed in part to address some of the contradictions of Canadian nationhood. ’ The idea of a Canadian nation, founded as it is on
Social Justice and the Constitution
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Some Hard Questions about the Hard Cases Question
Spatial Categories, Legal Boundaries, and the Judicial Mapping of the Worker
It is argued that there are important parallels and intersections between critical theoretical analysis in legal studies and in geography. Each critical tradition is sceptical about the ontological status of its disciplinary foundation-'law' in legal studies, and 'space' in geography. Furthermore, the reification of particular distinctions in legal discourse is deepened by spatial distinctions. A convergence of critical legal and geographic analy…
Politics, the charter and the state
Spatial Categories, Legal Boundaries, and the Judicial Mapping of the Worker
It is argued that there are important parallels and intersections between critical theoretical analysis in legal studies and in geography. Each critical tradition is sceptical about the ontological status of its disciplinary foundation-'law' in legal studies, and 'space' in geography. Furthermore, the reification of particular distinctions in legal discourse is deepened by spatial distinctions. A convergence of critical legal and geographic analy…
Rights, Nationalism and Social Movements in Canadian Constitutional Politics
HE CHARLOTTETOWN Accord was defeated in a national Referen-t dum on 26 October 1992, thus marking the end of a constitutional ~- amendment process designed in part to address some of the contradictions of Canadian nationhood. ’ The idea of a Canadian nation, founded as it is on
Politics, the charter and the state
Politics, the charter and the state
Social Justice and the Constitution
https://commons.allard.ubc.ca/books/1006/thumbnail.jpg
Some Hard Questions about the Hard Cases Question
Spatial Categories, Legal Boundaries, and the Judicial Mapping of the Worker
It is argued that there are important parallels and intersections between critical theoretical analysis in legal studies and in geography. Each critical tradition is sceptical about the ontological status of its disciplinary foundation-'law' in legal studies, and 'space' in geography. Furthermore, the reification of particular distinctions in legal discourse is deepened by spatial distinctions. A convergence of critical legal and geographic analy…
Rights, Nationalism and Social Movements in Canadian Constitutional Politics
HE CHARLOTTETOWN Accord was defeated in a national Referen-t dum on 26 October 1992, thus marking the end of a constitutional ~- amendment process designed in part to address some of the contradictions of Canadian nationhood. ’ The idea of a Canadian nation, founded as it is on
Just Words
Joel Bakan argues that the Canadian Charter of Rights (1982) has failed to promote social justice because it is administered by a conservative judiciary and because social and economic conditions constantly interfere with its principles
Reflection
Corporate capitalism changed dramatically in the early 2000s. The 1980s mantra that “greed is good” gave way to corporate vows to prioritize social and environmental values alongside profit. The rise of the “new corporation” purported to answer a question first raised in the nineteenth century: How do we ensure corporations are legally and morally accountable to those their actions impact? By the late nineteenth century, capitalism had become cor…
Improvisation and Freedom
This essay, dedicated to Ajay Heble, explores how improvisation relates to two current and synergistic threats to democracy and justice: neoliberalism and illiberalism. It also examines embracing relational freedom as a method of working beyond these threats in our society
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Judicial and Constitutional Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies (2 works) · canada (1 work)