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(1985) Women Teachers in Edmonton Public Schools, 1940-1950.
(1985)The Second World War and its aftermath did not create greater opportunities for women workers, although more women worked, and more married women worked, at the end of the decade than at the beginning. The proportion of ... -
(1993). A Feminist/Postmodernist Methodology for Educational Research.
(1993)A paper for presentation to the Education Graduate Students' Association, University of Alberta. -
(1995). The Sexually Specific Subject, Regimes of Truth, and the Construction of the Leader and of Leadership
(1995)Paper presented at the Annual meeting of The Learned Societies, Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Lacanian Indirection in Social Theory: Art, Ethics and Radical Democracy. Montreal, Canada. 1995. -
(2001). Luce Irigaray, Entrustment and Rethinking Strategic Organizing.
(Critical Management Conference, Manchester, England, 2001)Why are women and women’s needs persistently marginalized, even in projects designed to alleviate that? Why has there been such difficulty in translating the rhetoric of women’s right to shape society into reality? Feminist ... -
(2005). Unlocking Hierarchy: Luce Irigaray, Entrustment and Contiguity
(EGOS: European Group for Organization Studies Conference, 2005)In this paper I want to address a central conundrum in non-hierarchical organizing: How do we both recognize difference—that we are not all the same—without subjecting difference to its standard placement in our symbolic ... -
(2008) 'The different next to the different': Worker Coops in Buenos Aires, women and men, and rethinking and redoing the role of the coordinator
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(2008) Rethinking Difference, Rethinking Deference
(Recma, the International Review of Social Economy at http://recma.org. This web site offers a free access at 10 years of publication of the Revue internationale de l'économie sociale (paying access for the 2 last years of publication), with english abstracts. Recma.org presents many links towards international organisations and research institutes of social economy., 2008)It’s impossible to understand how to organize cooperatively without focusing on ‘sexual difference’, the French philosopher Luce Irigaray’s category for what has not yet been thought within our ostensibly sexually indifferent ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Assuming the Master's Mantle: The Pedagogue as "Subject Presumed to Know."
(University of Quebec at Montreal, 1995) -
Avatars go to Law School: Digital Standardized (and not so Standard) Clients for Law School Teaching
(2010-12-15)Standardized clients have been a feature of medical schools for years. Digital technologies now offer the opportunity to create them in interactive form as avatars. In addition, advances in semantic computing now allow ... -
Born of Different Visions: Labour Education in Canada and the US
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The Case of Alberta Education: Retooling Through Deschooling
(1998)Until the recent election of Mike Harris’s conservatives in Ontario, the siege mentality of economic crisis in Canada was nowhere more apparent than in Alberta. Haunted by the costly limitations of diversification ... -
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 ... -
The Commodification of Adult Education
(Penn State University, 1993)Abstract: This paper discusses the consequences of cultural commodification for emancipatory adult education, arguing that while cultural commodification may generate a greater demand for adult education such market-driven ...