Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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Agamben, Hegel, and the State of Exception
(Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 2007)In his account of the state of exception, Agamben repeatedly relies upon what Hegel would have called Wesenslogik or ‘transcendental thinking’. Because of this reliance, the state of exception appears in Agamben’s account ... -
The Concrete Universal in Žižek and Hegel
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The Fourfold Revisited: Heideggerian Ecological Practice and the Ontology of Things
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The Category of Life, Mechanistic Reduction, and the Uniqueness of Biology
(Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 2008)The conceptual and ontological determinacies belonging to the category of mechanism, determinacies that began to occupy centre stage within the scientific and philosophical understanding of nature in seventeenth century ... -
Agamben’s Curio Cabinet, Animality, and the Zone of Indeterminacy
(Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 2017)As I have argued elsewhere, Agamben’s thought remains mired in a transcendental way of thinking that falls under the Hegelian critique. In this essay, through a hermeneutical method that can be aptly characterized ... -
Globalizing `Global Studies’: Vehicle for Disciplinary and Regional Bridges?
(De Gruyter, 2008-07)The most contentious and critical questions of contemporary times relate to the nature, scope, impact and conceptualization of globalization. The intensified impact of globalization and the acceptance that it is a contemporary ... -
Invisible Women in History and Global Studies: Reflections from an Archival Research Project
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-01)This article questions the continuing invisibility of the significant scale of the involvement of women in historical movements/moments. The focus is on Mahatma Gandhi-led Civil Disobedience movement (1930-33), which was ... -
Cynicism, the Heuristic Pharmakon
(English Studies in Canada, 2012-06)Cynicism can productively guide critical thinking about social relations under late neoliberal capital, in terms of power and ethics, in terms of knowledge and interpretation. A cynical perspective makes for a safe bet in ... -
‘It’s not only what we say but what we do’: Pay inequalities and gendered workplace democracy in Argentinian worker cooperatives.
(Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2014-07)In a study conducted by the author in 2006 of five mixed-sex, worker-led cooperatives in Buenos Aires, all of the workers in each of the coops were paid exactly the same. Five years later, only two of the worker cooperatives ... -
Problems for the Italian-Canadian Writer and Critic: A Discussion in Three Parts
(University of Toronto, Iacobucci Centre, 2009)Part One: The State of the Art; Part Two: Younger Writers; Part Three: The Burdens of History for the Italian -
Twenty Years of Change: The Paradox of Italian-Canadian Writers
(Strange Peregrinations, 2006)The most significant development which has taken place among Italian-Canadian writers since 1986 is the great amount of writing and publication. This was not supposed to happen according to most opinions. I recall that for ... -
Cosmic Ear: Calabrian Writers in Canada
(Australasian Canadian Studies, 2005)"Our House is in a Cosmic Ear" is the title of a poem by Antonino Mazza, a poet and translator who epitomizes Calabrian writers in Canada. Calabrians constitute a very large proportion of the Italians in Canada. There are ... -
Friulani Writers in Canada: Elegy for the Future
(Udine: Forum, 2005)One day we got lost in Pordenone. On a long drive from Udine to Bassano we took a wrong turn and found ourselves in a newly built area of Pordenone. The streets, sidewalks, green lawns and house designs were all a reproduction ... -
Five–Fold Translation in the Theatre of Marco Micone
(Canadian Theatre Review, 2001)In the complex relationship between the literatures of English Canada and Quebec translation has played an important role. Now with the emergence of ethnic minority writing in Canada this binary model of the literary ... -
Shirt and the Happy Man: Theory and Politics in Ethnic Minority Writing
(Canadian Ethnic Studies, 1996)Ethnic minority writing in Canada was once a neglected field not only by Canadianists promoting a canon for a national literature, but also by theorists who focused on the great works from major European languages as the ... -
Representation of Ethnicity as Problem: Essence or Construction
(Journal of Canadian Studies, 1996)The reading and study of ethnic minority writing repeatedly confront the problem of representation, and raise many questions in the debate between essentialism and social construction and implications for the issues of ... -
The Well-being of Adults who were Raised by Grandparents.
(2013-11-09)Presented in Poster Session 12 on "Parenting and Grandparenting" at the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) 75th Conference, San Antonio, November 6-9, 2013. -
How well do Canadian distance education students understand plagiarism?
(IRRODL, 2014)This project ascertains how well students taking online, distance education courses at a Canadian university recognize plagiarised material and how well they paraphrase. It also assesses the types of errors made. Slightly ... -
Ipsographing the Dubject; or, The Contradictions of Twitter
(Socialist Studies, 2009)