Robert F Barsky
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 615304 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert F Barsky |
| PRENOMES | Robert F |
| SOBRENOME | Barsky |
| ASSINATURA | BARSKY R F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8606-6902 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Mikhaïl Bakhtin and International Refugee Law
The current catastrophes in the Ukraine and the Gaza Strip, and the ongoing calamities in Afghanistan, Haiti, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Venezuela and elsewhere, all call out for a humanitarian approach to International Refugee Law (IRL). Rather than advancing towards this objective, the international community finds itself at an impasse, in which states act to enforce borders, repel potential asylum seekers, deny requisite visa and travel documents, an…
Robert Barsky and Noam Chomsky discuss Bernie Sanders
Robert Barsky in conversation with Noam Chomsky regarding Bernie Sanders
From Ben and Jerry’s to the Mittens and the Dove
From the mid-1970s until the late 1980s I was a member of the Powderhounds, a team of ski ambassadors who were sponsored by a Montreal radio station called CHOM FM. , which gave me the opportunity to ski almost anywhere on the Eastern seaboard without paying for my lift tickets.My favorite ski destinations were in Vermont, most notably Smuggler's Notch, Stowe, Killington and Jay Peak, where we'd thrill to the moguls and powder amidst those gorgeo…
Introducing Forced Migration
There are many challenges facing educators who hope to provide a sufficiently comprehensive overview of the various texts and concepts associated with forced migration. Whether the course is formally taught in a law school, or in any of the array of university departments that teach migration, it is difficult to account for the wide range of historical, anthropological, political, sociological, ethical, legal, humanistic, and, therefore, interdis…
Introduction
Victoria Herring's photo of Yinka Shonibare's exhibition, on the impact of immigration on British culture, at the British Library
From the 1965 Bellagio Colloquium to the Adoption of the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees
Current challenges to the prevailing system of refugee adjudication, particularly in the United States (US) and the European Union (EU), have compelled advocates, policymakers, and judges to step back and ask some fundamental questions about the reach, scope, and resilience of international refugee law. This commentary contributes a new approach to answering these questions through an examination of the negotiation of a new refugee treaty that wa…
Banned
This slim, accessible volume provides a timely overview of immigration enforcement and the agencies responsible for carrying it out in the United States (US), with emphasis upon changes enacted in the first 18 months of Donald Trump’s presidency. These changes have occurred at a breakneck pace, with new developments either proposed, challenged in the courts, rejected by lower court decisions, or upheld somewhere up the judicial chain on an almost…
Making Migration Law
Working against a backdrop of one ‘common humanity’, which proposes that all people are ‘connected through a common bond of human aspiration, frailty, and experience’ (p 11), Eve Lester has written an historically grounded and compassionate book that challenges the discourse of the ‘absolute sovereignty’ right to exclude and condition the admittance and sojourn of any person deemed alien. To do so, she demonstrates the value of examining law as a…
Chomsky, Noam (1928–)
Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law
This book describes the experiences of undocumented migrants, all around the world, bringing to life the challenges they face from the moment they consider leaving their country of origin, until the time they are deported back to it. Drawing on a broad array of academic studies, including law, interpretation and translation studies, border studies, human rights, communication, critical discourse analysis and sociology, Robert Barsky argues that t…
Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law
This book describes the experiences of undocumented migrants, all around the world, bringing to life the challenges they face from the moment they consider leaving their country of origin, until the time they are deported back to it. Drawing on a broad array of academic studies, including law, interpretation and translation studies, border studies, human rights, communication, critical discourse analysis and sociology, Robert Barsky argues that t…
From Discretion to Fictional Law
Illegal migrants receive really mixed messages; they stay here and work, and they do the jobs that nobody else wants to do, and they do what their employers tell them to do so that their employee records will make them appear legal. So all of these people are looking the other way, even though their employers know that they are undocumented. This creates a sense amongst illegal migrants that maybe they are sort of legal. So on the one hand, peopl…
What Can Literature Do? From Literary Sociocriticism to a Critique of Social Discourse
Implicitly refuting Sartre's famous What is Literature?, as well as all versions of literary analyses that look to discover the uniquely original and extra-contextual elements of the literary text (and the genius of their authors), Angenot offers a fresh new assessment of the role literature plays in a given social discourse compendium. Along the way, he portrays the literary text as that which speaks after all other discourses have had their say…
A State of Social Discourse
Besides being a unique compendium of fin-de-si cle French culture and civilization, Marc Angenot's 1889 raises important issues regarding the rationale and methodology of historical reconstruction. The choice of a single year rather than a larger period, the choice of an exhaustive study of discursive possibilities, the refusal of traditional hierarchies between genres, styles, and printed sources: these are ways to create an entirely new perspec…
Introduction
This article assesses the life and work of Marc Angenot by tracing the series of "red threads" that run through the huge corpus of his work. Along the way, Barsky provides an overview of Angenot's theories, which bear upon philology, history, literary theory, linguistics, semiotics, and literature. He also assesses the ways in which Angenot's uniquely European classical training has (and should have) intersected with a North American intellectual…
You Cannot Transform the History of Ideas Into a Comic Strip
This interview between Robert Barsky and Marc Angenot engages the central themes of Angenot's work while providing a sense of the ties that bind the diverse corpus of work together. This wide-ranging discussion shows the breadth of the materials under examination and, moreover, the array of tools he brings along with him for the task; along the way, he describes his efforts to unearth both the consistencies that are at the base of any discourse h…
Social Cohesion and Cultural Plurality
Denise Helly, Robert F. Barsky, Patricia Foxen, Social Cohesion and Cultural Plurality, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 28, No. 1, Special Issue on Social Cohesion in Canada (Winter, 2003), pp. 19-42
The Hypocrisies of Free Trade
The leaders of nations in the Western hemisphere and the executives of big corporations have been kept busy over the last few years, packing their expensive suitcases and checking their first-class tickets, as they travel from one Summit or another to discuss the virtues of free trade and the "opening-up" of markets
Ethnocide
1Département d'études littéraires, Université du Québec à Montréal Ethnocide: A Cultural Narrative of Refugee Detention in Hong Kong Joe Thomas Aldershot, UK Ashgate (Social Political Studies from Hong Kong Series) 2000 xii + 255 £42.50 1 84014 8292
Open Borders
Open Borders: The Case Against Immigration Controls Robert Barsky Robert Barsky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 14, Issue 2, 1 June 2001, Pages 207–208, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/14.2.207 Published: 01 June 2001
An Essay on the Free Movement of Peoples
This article argues that debate on Bill C-31 should, in fact, focus upon the fact that it is impossible to determine the veracity of refugee claims using current methods of adjudication, that Canadian refugee and immigration legislation is incompatible with the international conventions, declarations, and norms upon which it is said to be based, and the absurdity of restricting the free movement of peoples. Arguing that the immigration and refuge…
Arguing and Justifying
Contents: Introduction Interpreting refugee discourse: from discourse analysis to inter-cultural communication Claimants from the former Soviet Union: from European standards to the American dream Claimants from Israel: a threat to the Jewish Identity? Claimants from Peru: persecution in a /Americaa and flight to Canada Claimants from Pakistan: the constraints of state intervention Conclusion: theorizing the obstacles to female claims Bibliograph…
Residues of the 1930s
The decade between 1930 and 1940 has left an enduring legacy, not only because of the hugely consequential events that occurred therein, but also because of the sense one has, in looking back to that period, of opportunities lost. From an Occidental perspective, this sentiment relates most strongly to those we never chose to stop: Hitler, Stalin, and their respective cronies, who were amassing and consolidating power through that decade in prepar…
Intellectuals on the Couch
IT WOULD BE AMUSING BUT RATHER FRUITLESS to trot out once again the details of the Sokal Hoax, and to savor one more time the stances assumed by the wide range of persons who have made pronouncements upon it. Any good search engine will lead the reader to dozens of internet sites devoted to the affair, and a quick look at the tables of contents of journals in a variety of fields will confirm the obvious: the hoax was a hit. Ever since the truth a…
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
This biography describes the intellectual and political milieus that helped shape Noam Chomsky, a pivotal figure in contemporary linguistics, politics, cognitive psychology, and philosophy. It also presents an engaging political history of the last several decades, including such events as the Spanish Civil War, the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the march on the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam War. The book highlights Ch…
Social Cohesion and Cultural Plurality
Denise Helly, Robert F. Barsky, Patricia Foxen, Social Cohesion and Cultural Plurality, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 28, No. 1, Special Issue on Social Cohesion in Canada (Winter, 2003), pp. 19-42
Arguing the American Dream à la Canada
This paper utilizes data accumulated from interviews with persons who claimed refugee status in Canada from the former Soviet Union, in order to assess the motivations claimants have for choosing particular host countries and the argumentative tactics employed to articulate the decision. The autor argues that refugee claimants face innumerable obstacles once they have made the decision to leave the country of origin, not the least of which being …
Intellectuals on the Couch
IT WOULD BE AMUSING BUT RATHER FRUITLESS to trot out once again the details of the Sokal Hoax, and to savor one more time the stances assumed by the wide range of persons who have made pronouncements upon it. Any good search engine will lead the reader to dozens of internet sites devoted to the affair, and a quick look at the tables of contents of journals in a variety of fields will confirm the obvious: the hoax was a hit. Ever since the truth a…
The Mirror, the Beaker and the Touchstone, or, What Can Literature Do for Science
we call scientific, and not just as that knowledge itself, is a young discipline. For it is the way in which we practice science, and the ends for which it is used, that pose formidable problems today. The science practiced before the (aptly-named) Galilean revolution would not be recognizably scientific to a contemporary audience. Science is young; it is an upstart in the arena of applied arts and crafts; it needs to be educated, cultivated, sup…
Constructing a Productive Other
This book is a description of the process of constructing a productive Other for the purpose of being admitted to Canada as a Convention refugee. The whole claiming procedure is analyzed with respect to two actual cases, and contextualized by reference to pertinent national and international jurisprudence. Since legal analysis is deemed insufficient for a complete understanding of the argumentative and discursive strategies involved in the claimi…
Making Love with [Bakhtin]
Research Article| April 01 1994 Making Love with [Bakhtin] Robert F. Barsky Robert F. Barsky Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (1994) 1 (2): 135–141. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-1-2-135 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Robert F. Barsky; Making Love with [Bakhtin]. GLQ 1 April 1994; 1 (2): 135–141. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-1-2-135 Download citation file: Zotero …
Arguing the American Dream à la Canada
This paper utilizes data accumulated from interviews with persons who claimed refugee status in Canada from the former Soviet Union, in order to assess the motivations claimants have for choosing particular host countries and the argumentative tactics employed to articulate the decision. The autor argues that refugee claimants face innumerable obstacles once they have made the decision to leave the country of origin, not the least of which being …
Beyond Europe
Robert F. Barsky, The International Migration Review, Vol. 29, No. 1, Special Issue: Diversity and Comparability: International Migrants in Host Countries on Four Continents (Spring, 1995), pp. 267-268
Constructing a Productive Other
Outsider Law in Literature
LITERATURE ALLOWS FOR THE RECOUNTING OF NARRATIVES according to broadly-defined and variously-practiced norms such as character consistency, agential movement, and author-hero relations.' In legal settings, claimants, witnesses and lawyers provide evidence, give summaries, or offer background information according to similar norms, but for dearly defined ends: they are trying to (re-)tell coherent narratives in order to arouse sympathy from the a…
Noam Chomsky
This biography describes the intellectual and political milieus that helped shape Noam Chomsky, a pivotal figure in contemporary linguistics, politics, cognitive psychology, and philosophy. It also presents an engaging political history of the last several decades, including such events as the Spanish Civil War, the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the march on the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam War. The book highlights Ch…
Noam Chomsky
Bakhtin as Anarchist? Language, Law, and Creative Impulses in the Work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Rudolf Rocker
Research Article| July 01 1998 Bakhtin as Anarchist? Language, Law, and Creative Impulses in the Work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Rudolf Rocker Robert F. Barsky Robert F. Barsky Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1998) 97 (3-4): 623–642. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-97-3/4-623 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert F. Barsky; Bakhtin…
Intellectuals on the Couch
IT WOULD BE AMUSING BUT RATHER FRUITLESS to trot out once again the details of the Sokal Hoax, and to savor one more time the stances assumed by the wide range of persons who have made pronouncements upon it. Any good search engine will lead the reader to dozens of internet sites devoted to the affair, and a quick look at the tables of contents of journals in a variety of fields will confirm the obvious: the hoax was a hit. Ever since the truth a…
Arguing and Justifying
Contents: Introduction Interpreting refugee discourse: from discourse analysis to inter-cultural communication Claimants from the former Soviet Union: from European standards to the American dream Claimants from Israel: a threat to the Jewish Identity? Claimants from Peru: persecution in a /Americaa and flight to Canada Claimants from Pakistan: the constraints of state intervention Conclusion: theorizing the obstacles to female claims Bibliograph…
Residues of the 1930s
The decade between 1930 and 1940 has left an enduring legacy, not only because of the hugely consequential events that occurred therein, but also because of the sense one has, in looking back to that period, of opportunities lost. From an Occidental perspective, this sentiment relates most strongly to those we never chose to stop: Hitler, Stalin, and their respective cronies, who were amassing and consolidating power through that decade in prepar…
Ethnocide
1Département d'études littéraires, Université du Québec à Montréal Ethnocide: A Cultural Narrative of Refugee Detention in Hong Kong Joe Thomas Aldershot, UK Ashgate (Social Political Studies from Hong Kong Series) 2000 xii + 255 £42.50 1 84014 8292
Open Borders
Open Borders: The Case Against Immigration Controls Robert Barsky Robert Barsky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 14, Issue 2, 1 June 2001, Pages 207–208, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/14.2.207 Published: 01 June 2001
An Essay on the Free Movement of Peoples
This article argues that debate on Bill C-31 should, in fact, focus upon the fact that it is impossible to determine the veracity of refugee claims using current methods of adjudication, that Canadian refugee and immigration legislation is incompatible with the international conventions, declarations, and norms upon which it is said to be based, and the absurdity of restricting the free movement of peoples. Arguing that the immigration and refuge…
The Hypocrisies of Free Trade
The leaders of nations in the Western hemisphere and the executives of big corporations have been kept busy over the last few years, packing their expensive suitcases and checking their first-class tickets, as they travel from one Summit or another to discuss the virtues of free trade and the "opening-up" of markets
Social Cohesion and Cultural Plurality
Denise Helly, Robert F. Barsky, Patricia Foxen, Social Cohesion and Cultural Plurality, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 28, No. 1, Special Issue on Social Cohesion in Canada (Winter, 2003), pp. 19-42
What Can Literature Do? From Literary Sociocriticism to a Critique of Social Discourse
Implicitly refuting Sartre's famous What is Literature?, as well as all versions of literary analyses that look to discover the uniquely original and extra-contextual elements of the literary text (and the genius of their authors), Angenot offers a fresh new assessment of the role literature plays in a given social discourse compendium. Along the way, he portrays the literary text as that which speaks after all other discourses have had their say…
A State of Social Discourse
Besides being a unique compendium of fin-de-si cle French culture and civilization, Marc Angenot's 1889 raises important issues regarding the rationale and methodology of historical reconstruction. The choice of a single year rather than a larger period, the choice of an exhaustive study of discursive possibilities, the refusal of traditional hierarchies between genres, styles, and printed sources: these are ways to create an entirely new perspec…
Introduction
This article assesses the life and work of Marc Angenot by tracing the series of "red threads" that run through the huge corpus of his work. Along the way, Barsky provides an overview of Angenot's theories, which bear upon philology, history, literary theory, linguistics, semiotics, and literature. He also assesses the ways in which Angenot's uniquely European classical training has (and should have) intersected with a North American intellectual…
You Cannot Transform the History of Ideas Into a Comic Strip
This interview between Robert Barsky and Marc Angenot engages the central themes of Angenot's work while providing a sense of the ties that bind the diverse corpus of work together. This wide-ranging discussion shows the breadth of the materials under examination and, moreover, the array of tools he brings along with him for the task; along the way, he describes his efforts to unearth both the consistencies that are at the base of any discourse h…
From Discretion to Fictional Law
Illegal migrants receive really mixed messages; they stay here and work, and they do the jobs that nobody else wants to do, and they do what their employers tell them to do so that their employee records will make them appear legal. So all of these people are looking the other way, even though their employers know that they are undocumented. This creates a sense amongst illegal migrants that maybe they are sort of legal. So on the one hand, peopl…
Chomsky, Noam (1928–)
Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law
This book describes the experiences of undocumented migrants, all around the world, bringing to life the challenges they face from the moment they consider leaving their country of origin, until the time they are deported back to it. Drawing on a broad array of academic studies, including law, interpretation and translation studies, border studies, human rights, communication, critical discourse analysis and sociology, Robert Barsky argues that t…
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