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Situating the Pandemic: Welfare Capitalism and Canada's Liberal Regime.

Published in International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation

This article focuses on Canada's liberal welfare state and the COVID-19 pandemic, offering an overview of some of the unequal health and social effects of the crisis. It argues that the policy response to the pandemic should be situated within a broader pattern of welfare restructuring and organization that serves to instrumentalize economic insecu...

On Simultaneity

Migration, environmental change and agrarian transition in upland regions: learning from Ethiopia, Kenya and Nepal

This paper analyses the relationship between cyclical labour migration and agrarian transition in the uplands of Nepal, Ethiopia and Kenya. It shows that while migration decision-making is linked to expanding capitalist markets, it is mediated by local cultural, political and ecological changes. In turn, cyclical migration goes on to shape the traj...

Back to the Land “Peasant-entrepreneurs”: the New Actors of Chinese Peasant Agroecology

This paper analyses the framing processes at play in the re-definition of "peasant agroecology" in contemporary China. Based on the study of "new-farmers" who have emerged in the networks of organic peasant agriculture, it interrogates the ambiguities of food ethics as the cornerstone of alternative food markets. The research explores the emergence...

Bourdieu and the study of capitalism: Looking for the political structures of accumulation

It is possible to draw upon Marx’s thinking without emphasizing an automatic relationship between an economic ‘base’ and a political ‘superstructure’. The development of capitalism must then be understood as resulting from the ‘conceptual separation’ of the economic and political issues. However, the research that favours this approach fails to pro...

Design for Revolution

The way people have different views on how people should love, value, consume,
produce, believe and every other aspect of life is something which is still not
accepted by the majority of society. The idea of these different views, described
as parallel truths, scare most people that feel the comfort of the truths of the
Dominant Culture which could be ...

COVID-19 as Cause versus Trigger for the Collapse of Capitalism.

According to the official narrative of COVID-19, the pandemic has caused the global capitalist economy to collapse, or at least to enter a deep recession and possibly a great depression. Assigning blame to a virus takes attention away from the structural contradictions and instabilities of capitalism that would have led to a crash in any case. This...

Come On Up for the Rising: A Review of Biglan's Rebooting Capitalism

Published in Perspectives on Behavior Science

In Rebooting Capitalism: How We Can Forge a Society that Works for Everyone, Anthony Biglan ( 2020 ) explains that a free-market and capitalist narrative, sculpted by a coalition of the extremely wealthy, has led to a commonly held myth that the pursuit of individual wealth will improve the overall well-being of the populous. Instead, our current e...