Peter Fitzpatrick
Biographic Data
| ID | 84493 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Fitzpatrick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Fitzpatrick |
| SIGNATURE | FITZPATRICK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Winnipeg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6227-722X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 205 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Understanding Opportunities for Meaningful Engagement in Water Power Licensing
Nous analysons les lois actuelles régissant l’émission de permis dans le secteur de l’énergie hydroélectrique au Canada dans le but de mettre en évidence les pratiques optimales applicables. La collecte de données a pris la forme d'un examen de la littérature en vue de cerner les critères d'une rétroaction significative et d'une analyse de la législation pour déterminer la mesure dans laquelle le cadre juridique actuel requiert l'application de c…
Developing international guidance to make impact assessment follow-up happen – reflections on an interactive design process
To advance impact assessment (IA) practice worldwide the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) has long promoted and published a series of international best practice principles, including the recently revised best practice principles for IA follow-up. IA follow-up refers to any kind of undertaking that seeks to ‘understand the outcomes of projects or plans’ that have been subject to IA. To support the implementation of these pri…
Advancing local energy transitions: A global review of government instruments supporting community energy
The adoption and encouragement of community energy, that is, the incentive to develop renewable energy projects with community participation and ownership, is a key ingredient of energy transition. Government policies and other instruments can pose both barriers and opportunities for community energy development; however, there has been little analysis of the state of research on the range of government tools to facilitate energy transition and t…
Empowering Churchill: Exploring Energy Security in Northern Manitoba
To those living in Churchill, Manitoba, having power means much more than being able to turn on the lights. Using Churchill as a case study, we examine how local context can improve the suitability of energy security definitions for communities in northern Canada. Churchill is an isolated northern municipality with no road access but is connected to the electrical grid. Energy consumption data were collected from utility providers and organized i…
Ultimate Legality: Reading the Community of Law
This article is a contribution to the occasional series dealing with a major book that has influenced the author. Previous contributors include Stewart Macaulay, John Griffith, William Twining, Carol Harlow, Geoffrey Bindman, Harry Arthurs, André‐Jean Arnaud, Alan Hunt, Michael Adler, Lawrence O. Gostin, John P. Heinz, Roger Brownsword, Roger Cotterrell, Nicola Lacey, Carol J. Greenhouse, and David Garland. An initial twist: several acute observe…
Foucault and Law
Developing a National Undergraduate Curriculum for Health Professionals in Ireland on health behaviour change (Making Every Contact Count)
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Still Not Being Modern: Law and the Insistence of Myth
Nietzsche's supremely sane, if overworked, madman provides the mythic orientation for this article. It is 'we' who have killed God, he reveals, and as a result we are left 'straying as through an infinite nothing', and left having to invent new 'sacred games'. These, however, are a diversity and diversity does not, and cannot, take the place of the transcendent and all-encompassing singularity that was the occidental deity. With the supposedly se…
Reinvention through regreening: Examining environmental change in Sudbury, Ontario
Place-Based Inquiry's Potential for Encouraging Public Participation: Stories From the Common Ground Land in Kenora, Ontario
Natural resource management increasingly strives for meaningful public participation as a means to address the complexity, uncertainty, and conflict inherent in planning and decision making. When there are multiple stakeholders, place-based inquiry shows considerable promise as a vehicle for such participation. The Common Ground Land (CGL), important heritage lands in Kenora, Ontario, provides an opportunity to consider the relationship between p…
BMI change in Australian cardiac rehabilitation patients: Cookery skills intervention versus written information
Overweight and obesity are common health risks, but it can be difficult to effect weight change. This randomized controlled trial examined the effects of a novel Cookery skills intervention on body mass index (BMI) in overweight and obese patients with cardiovascular disease, who had previously attended a cardiac rehabilitation programme. Patients with BMI >27 kg/m(2) were randomized to either a 5-week cookery skills course with written education…
Foucault, Surveillance and the Law of the Outside
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Challenges of space and place for corporate ‘citizens’ and healthy mining communities: The case of Logan Lake, BC and Highland Valley Copper
Unstable shafts and shaky pillars: Institutional capacity and sustainable mineral policy in Canada
In Canada, and many resource-based economies, governments have been very effective in promoting and exploiting mineral development to accomplish various national objectives. Much less certain, and relatively overlooked by the research community, is whether or not governing institutions have the capacity to create and implement the complex and adaptive strategies identified as crucial for addressing the environmental challenges posed by mining. We…
Cost Comparisons and Methodological Heterogeneity in Cost-of-illness Studies: The Example of Colorectal Cancer
BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer worldwide with over 1 million new cases diagnosed each year. Advances in treatment and survival are likely to have increased lifetime costs of managing the disease. Cost-of-illness (COI) studies are key building blocks in economic evaluations of interventions and comparative effectiveness research. We systematically reviewed and critiqued the COI literature on CRC. METHODS: We se…
Being Originary: Periodization and the Force of Feminine Law
Finding an orginary impetus in Cixous’ feminine law, the perverse argument here is that the medieval provides the paradigm of law, including the law of an occidental modernity. The first tranche in a layered perversity comes with the medieval importing an utter contrast constituent of a modern age, and not least in relation to a medieval law temporally relegated in opposition to a modern. Yet this supposed medieval law is a fictive creation of th…
Necessary fictions: Indigenous claims and the humanity of rights
Indigenous right insistently challenges the surpassing arrogations of sovereign right. In so doing, it affirms dimensions of being‐together denied or stunted in sovereign modes of political formation. This force of Indigenous right is amplified here through legal and literary instantiations. These, in turn, uncover the continuously created and fictional quality of rights, revealing them to be necessary fictions. Looked at another way, the paper w…
Foucault's Law
Foucault’s Law is the first book in almost fifteen years to address the question of Foucault’s position on law. Many readings of Foucault’s conception of law start from the proposition that he failed to consider the role of law in modernity, or indeed that he deliberately marginalized it. In canvassing a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Ben Golder and Peter Fitzpatrick rebut this argument. They argue that rather than marginalize law, Fouc…
Multi-jurisdictional environmental impact assessment: Canadian experiences
Raíces latinas: Teología Secular Y Formación Imperial Occidental
Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Social, Geografía Humana y Estudios Culturales
Conceptualizing learning for sustainability through environmental assessment: Critical reflections on 15 years of research
Towards community‐based monitoring in Manitoba's hog industry
Rapid changes in the hog industry in Manitoba have resulted in a gap in the province's resource and environmental policy regime. Concerns about potential, uncertain environmental impacts and an outdated regulatory framework led to a moratorium on new hog industry operations and a provincial hearing. Based on extensive literature, documentary and legislative reviews, this article explores the role of monitoring, and the potential for community‐bas…
The Evolution of Unintentional Injury Mortality Among Elderly in Europe
A large proportion of EU countries enjoys steady declining trends by major unintentional injury mortality category. Success factors and barriers underlying these benchmarking patterns should be further explored to accelerate the process of injury reduction
A New Staples Industry? Complexity, Governance and Canada’s Diamond Mines
The discovery of indicator minerals in the Slave geological province began a staking and development rush that, in a little over a decade, saw Canada becoming one of the world’s largest producers of diamonds. An examination of the institutions surrounding the development of the first two diamond mines illustrates the complexities associated with mineral development. An emerging picture of a new approach to the northern staples-based economy revea…
The Normality of the Exception in Democracy's Empire
The motif is one of inversion. In its received mode, the exception – the exceptional decision suspending the normal legal order – generates both the sovereign and the law. Here, on the contrary, the exception is found to be of the ‘normal’ law and, thus endowed, law goes to constitute the sovereign. This normality of the exception is then matched with the sovereign claim of democracy's empire. That empire is thence shown to have an oxymoronic qua…
Politics, Metaphysics, and Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer
Law and state in Papua New Guinea
Conceptualizing learning for sustainability through environmental assessment: Critical reflections on 15 years of research
The Impossibility of Popular Justice
Racism and the Innocence of Law
In liberal views of the world, law is manifestly incompatible with racism. Where racist practice infects law that can only be something aberrant and remediable. Exploring the British situation as a case, I will argue that on the contrary racism is compatible with and even integral to law. I try to show that the very foundational principles of law as liberal legality import racism into law, those principles of equality and universality which stand…
The damned word’: Culture and Its (In)compatibility with Law
The compatibility and incompatibility between law and culture are identified through an analysis of relation. By way of exploring the elusiveness of conceptions of culture and of law, a commonality relating them is arrived at, one that indicates not only what they constituently share but also what distinguishes them from each other. So far an abstract abstract. The abstractness of the comment itself is relieved by references to a case study and b…
Passions out of place: Law, incommensurability and resistance
Being Social in Socio-Legal Studies
Although this may be an intensely secular occasion, I will begin with a seasonal text for Advent from the Gospel according to Luke. In chapter one, there is the rhapsodic prophecy of Zacharias on the birth of his son John the Baptist where, in a verse of piercing and now melancholy beauty, verse 78, he attributes all that the Baptist will achieve to 'the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring on high hath visited us'. It is the absence of…
Challenges of space and place for corporate ‘citizens’ and healthy mining communities: The case of Logan Lake, BC and Highland Valley Copper
Necessary fictions: Indigenous claims and the humanity of rights
Indigenous right insistently challenges the surpassing arrogations of sovereign right. In so doing, it affirms dimensions of being‐together denied or stunted in sovereign modes of political formation. This force of Indigenous right is amplified here through legal and literary instantiations. These, in turn, uncover the continuously created and fictional quality of rights, revealing them to be necessary fictions. Looked at another way, the paper w…
Multi-jurisdictional environmental impact assessment: Canadian experiences
Towards community‐based monitoring in Manitoba's hog industry
Rapid changes in the hog industry in Manitoba have resulted in a gap in the province's resource and environmental policy regime. Concerns about potential, uncertain environmental impacts and an outdated regulatory framework led to a moratorium on new hog industry operations and a provincial hearing. Based on extensive literature, documentary and legislative reviews, this article explores the role of monitoring, and the potential for community‐bas…
Reinvention through regreening: Examining environmental change in Sudbury, Ontario
Unstable shafts and shaky pillars: Institutional capacity and sustainable mineral policy in Canada
In Canada, and many resource-based economies, governments have been very effective in promoting and exploiting mineral development to accomplish various national objectives. Much less certain, and relatively overlooked by the research community, is whether or not governing institutions have the capacity to create and implement the complex and adaptive strategies identified as crucial for addressing the environmental challenges posed by mining. We…
These mad abandon'd times
Place-Based Inquiry's Potential for Encouraging Public Participation: Stories From the Common Ground Land in Kenora, Ontario
Natural resource management increasingly strives for meaningful public participation as a means to address the complexity, uncertainty, and conflict inherent in planning and decision making. When there are multiple stakeholders, place-based inquiry shows considerable promise as a vehicle for such participation. The Common Ground Land (CGL), important heritage lands in Kenora, Ontario, provides an opportunity to consider the relationship between p…
The Evolution of Unintentional Injury Mortality Among Elderly in Europe
A large proportion of EU countries enjoys steady declining trends by major unintentional injury mortality category. Success factors and barriers underlying these benchmarking patterns should be further explored to accelerate the process of injury reduction
A New Staples Industry? Complexity, Governance and Canada’s Diamond Mines
The discovery of indicator minerals in the Slave geological province began a staking and development rush that, in a little over a decade, saw Canada becoming one of the world’s largest producers of diamonds. An examination of the institutions surrounding the development of the first two diamond mines illustrates the complexities associated with mineral development. An emerging picture of a new approach to the northern staples-based economy revea…
Ultimate Legality: Reading the Community of Law
This article is a contribution to the occasional series dealing with a major book that has influenced the author. Previous contributors include Stewart Macaulay, John Griffith, William Twining, Carol Harlow, Geoffrey Bindman, Harry Arthurs, André‐Jean Arnaud, Alan Hunt, Michael Adler, Lawrence O. Gostin, John P. Heinz, Roger Brownsword, Roger Cotterrell, Nicola Lacey, Carol J. Greenhouse, and David Garland. An initial twist: several acute observe…
Foucault, Surveillance and the Law of the Outside
.
Being Originary: Periodization and the Force of Feminine Law
Finding an orginary impetus in Cixous’ feminine law, the perverse argument here is that the medieval provides the paradigm of law, including the law of an occidental modernity. The first tranche in a layered perversity comes with the medieval importing an utter contrast constituent of a modern age, and not least in relation to a medieval law temporally relegated in opposition to a modern. Yet this supposed medieval law is a fictive creation of th…
The Normality of the Exception in Democracy's Empire
The motif is one of inversion. In its received mode, the exception – the exceptional decision suspending the normal legal order – generates both the sovereign and the law. Here, on the contrary, the exception is found to be of the ‘normal’ law and, thus endowed, law goes to constitute the sovereign. This normality of the exception is then matched with the sovereign claim of democracy's empire. That empire is thence shown to have an oxymoronic qua…
The Desperate Vacuum: Imperialism and Law in the Experience of Enlightenment
Peter Fitzpatrick développe une théorie sociale inspirée de Foucault. Le droit est considéré comme une force dispersée extérieure et dominant les relations sociales. La force du droit est une métaphore du pouvoir de la connaissance implicite dans l'expression même des Lumières. Cette force est exclusive et répressive. Ce qui est exclu de l'universalité du droit est ce qui contredit le rationnel, c'est-à-dire le crime, la folie et, surtout, ce qui…
Asian Stereotypes in Recent Australian Plays
Discusses the treatment of Asian themes and the influence of Asian theatrical models in the work of Alex Buzo, John Romeril, Louis Nowra, Tony Strachan, and the New Zealander Vincent O'Sullivan, with particular emphasis on the representation of stereotypes and attempts to engage with Australian interpersonal and institutional racism
The Location of a Crime: A Comment on Treacy v . Director of Public Prosecutions
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A New Law for Co‐operatives
Law and state in Papua New Guinea
The Politics of Informal Justice
Traditionalism and Traditional Law
John Berger tells the story of the peasant Lucie Cabrol in terms of her “three lives” because she lived and lived on in three different ways. Readers of the story in Lucie Cabrol's village say she now has four lives. The fourth is in her story. My theme to-day is that representations of knowledge give a life to that knowledge. This life shapes the object of the knowledge. That may appear an intensely academic concern and it is. But I will show th…
Asian Stereotypes in Recent Australian Plays
Discusses the treatment of Asian themes and the influence of Asian theatrical models in the work of Alex Buzo, John Romeril, Louis Nowra, Tony Strachan, and the New Zealander Vincent O'Sullivan, with particular emphasis on the representation of stereotypes and attempts to engage with Australian interpersonal and institutional racism
Racism and the Innocence of Law
In liberal views of the world, law is manifestly incompatible with racism. Where racist practice infects law that can only be something aberrant and remediable. Exploring the British situation as a case, I will argue that on the contrary racism is compatible with and even integral to law. I try to show that the very foundational principles of law as liberal legality import racism into law, those principles of equality and universality which stand…
History—the musical’: A review and a retrospect
(1988). ‘History—the musical’: A review and a retrospect. Australian Historical Studies: Vol. 23, No. 91, pp. 171-179
Crime as Resistance: The Colonial Situation
Criminal law in the colonial situation subordinates resistance in a double marginalisation. With one, resistance is rendered as peripheral to and as comprehensively dominated by that which is resisted. With the other, that which is resisted — colonial domination — is constituted as transient and exceptional, yet also as necessary for the inevitable march of progress. Resistance to it thus becomes multiply futile. Making these marginalised positio…
The Desperate Vacuum: Imperialism and Law in the Experience of Enlightenment
Peter Fitzpatrick développe une théorie sociale inspirée de Foucault. Le droit est considéré comme une force dispersée extérieure et dominant les relations sociales. La force du droit est une métaphore du pouvoir de la connaissance implicite dans l'expression même des Lumières. Cette force est exclusive et répressive. Ce qui est exclu de l'universalité du droit est ce qui contredit le rationnel, c'est-à-dire le crime, la folie et, surtout, ce qui…
Masters of Tradition: Consequences of Customary Land Tenure in Longana, Vanuatu
History and Power in the Study of Law: New Directions in Legal Anthropology
The Mythology of Modern Law
The Impossibility of Popular Justice
The mythology of modern law
The Mythology of Modern Law
The Mythology of Modern Law
Passions out of place: Law, incommensurability and resistance
Being Social in Socio-Legal Studies
Although this may be an intensely secular occasion, I will begin with a seasonal text for Advent from the Gospel according to Luke. In chapter one, there is the rhapsodic prophecy of Zacharias on the birth of his son John the Baptist where, in a verse of piercing and now melancholy beauty, verse 78, he attributes all that the Baptist will achieve to 'the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring on high hath visited us'. It is the absence of…
Traversing terra nullius: Legal origins and Freudian fictions
The editorial prospectus for this volume opens with a concision which will not be emulated here: 'Terra Nullius is the principle of violence that inheres in every origin. And, in its wake, there is no law, no text, no culture, free of that violence'. In an immediate sense, this is an invitation to counter certain pacific pretensions of law. But we may also be editorially swayed towards a more pointed pursuit. That would involve tying law to the v…
Being Original Law and the Insistence of the Sacred
To continue, somewhat presumptuously. This present offering takes up the story where my previous contribution to Law Text Culture left off, and that contribution in its turn was a continuation of a prior performance in New Formations (Fitzpatrick 1997: 1998). Those two papers can, and will now, be summarized with distressing ease as a prelude to the engagement here with law and the sacred. What the story so far presents is a situated analysis of …
Modernism and the Grounds of Law
Existing approaches to the relation of law and society have for a long time seen law as either autonomous or grounded in society. Drawing on untapped resources in social theory, Fitzpatrick finds law pivotally placed in and beyond modernity. Being itself of the modern, law takes impetus and identity from modern society and, through incorporating 'pre-modern' elements of savagery and the sacred, it comes to constitute that very society. When placi…
Enduring Freedom
Enduring Freedom Peter Fitzpatrick (bio) The lie of the ideal has hitherto been the curse on reality.... — Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreward, para. 2 (his emphasis). The seemingly progressive point was already banal but of late it is being made with renewed intensity. It is to the effect that hostility to the United States would diminish or cease if only there were an export of that country’s virtuous attributes, pre-eminently freedom and democracy,…
Bare Sovereignty: Homo Sacer and the Insistence of Law
Theory & Event - Volume 5, Issue 2, 2001
These mad abandon'd times
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