Sociology
A Selection of Faculty Publications
Sport, Physical Activity, and Anti-Colonial Autoethnography: Stories and Ways of Being by Call Number: E-bookPublication Date: 2023
Anger and Angst : Jason Kenney's Legacy and Alberta's Right by
"Alberta is on the verge of a very important election, featuring an extreme right-populist party--the United Conservative Party--versus the New Democrats. Given the current national discourse around energy transition and provincial autonomy--and the rise of the populist right across Canada--this book will provide valuable insight and information to people both inside and outside Alberta."-- Provided by publisher
Call Number: FC 3676.1 K46 A54 2023Publication Date: 2023
Against Orthodoxy by
During the Cold War, nationalism fell from favour among theorists as an explanatory factor in history, as Marxists and liberals looked to class and individualism as the driving forces of change. The resurgence of nationalism after the collapse of the Soviet Union, however, called for a reconsideration of the paradigm. Against Orthodoxy uses case studies from around the world to critically evaluate decades of new scholarship. The authors argue that theories of nationalism have ossified into a new set of orthodoxies. These overlook nationalism's role as a generative force, one that reflects complex historical, political, and cultural arrangements that defy simplistic explanations.
Call Number: JC 311 A358 2011Publication Date: 2011
Capitalism and Confrontation by Call Number: HB 3717 2008 C36 2012ISBN: 9781926958217Publication Date: 2012
Defining Work by Call Number: BV 638.7 M45 2007Publication Date: 2006An illuminating study of how gender and work intersect among the rural clergy
Dimensions of Inequality in Canada by Call Number: Available onlinePublication Date: 2006Chapter by Dr. Tom Perks
Guerrilla Aesthetics by
The violent operations performed in the 1970s by West German urban guerrillas ? such as the Red Army Faction (RAF) ? were so vivid and incomprehensible that it seemed to be more urgent to produce spectacle than to be politically successful. In Guerrilla Aesthetics, Kimberly Mair challenges the assumption that these guerrillas sought to realize specific political goals. Instead, she tracks the guerrilla fighters? plunge into an avant-garde-inspired negativity that rejected rationality and provoked the state. Focusing on the Red Decade of 1967 to 1977, which was characterized not only by terrorism and police brutality but also by counterculture aesthetics, Mair draws from archives, grey literatures, popular culture, art, and memorial and curatorial practices to explore the sensorial aspects of guerrilla communications performed by the RAF, as well as the 2nd of June Movement and the Socialist Patients' Collective. Turning to cultural and artistic responses to the decade and its legacy of raw public feelings, Mair also examines works by Eleanor Antin, Erin Cosgrove, Christoph Draeger, Bruce LaBruce, Gerhard Richter, and others. Reconsidering an enigmatic period in the history of terrorism, Guerrilla Aesthetics innovatively engages with the inherent connections between violence, performance, the senses, and memory.
Call Number: HV 6433 G32 M34 2016Publication Date: 2016
Invested Indifference: How Violence Persists in Settler Colonial Society by
In 2004, Amnesty International characterized Canadian society as "indifferent" to the high rates of violence faced by Indigenous women and girls. When the Canadian government took another twelve years to launch a national inquiry, that indictment seemed true. Invested Indifference offers a divergent perspective on the contemporary disappearance and murder of Indigenous women and girls in Canada. It does so by examining practices at three different historical moments in the same location, the place we now call Edmonton, juxtaposing late-nineteenth century texts, documents concerning the former Charles Camsell Indian Hospital, and contemporary online police materials. Through a critical analysis of the seemingly disparate discourses circulating through these materials, Kara Granzow makes the claim that what we see as societal indifference does not come from an absence of feeling but from a deep-rooted and affective investment in framing specific lives as disposable. Granzow demonstrates that through mechanisms such as the law, medicine, and control of land and space, gendered and racialized everyday violence against Indigenous people has become symbolically and politically entrenched as a central practice in the social construction of Canadian nationhood. Invested Indifference exposes the thread of violence not as past, but as running through our settler-colonial present.
Call Number: Available onlinePublication Date: 2020
The Millennial Mosaic by
The bottom line: Millennials are looking good There's a lot of consternation about the Millennial generation -- Canada's youngest adults born since the mid-1980s and now reaching their thirties. But the speculation has not been accompanied by sound and comprehensive information -- until now. Highly respected sociologist and veteran trend-tracker Reginald W. Bibby teams up with two Gen X colleagues, Joel Thiessen and Monetta Bailey, to provide an up-to-date reading on how Millennials see the world -- their values, joys, and concerns; their views of family, sexuality, spirituality, and other Canadians; and their hopes and expectations as they look to the future. What's more, the authors compare Millennials with Gen Xers, Boomers, and Pre-Boomers. Their conclusion? Canada's much-criticized Millennials may well be a solid upgrade on previous generations -- speaking well for the country's future.
Call Number: Available onlinePublication Date: 2019
Place, Power, Media by Call Number: P 94.6 P58 2018Publication Date: 2018Chapter by Dr. Athena Elafros
A Special Hell: Institutional Life in Alberta's Eugenic Years by Call Number: HV 3008 C32 R43 2014Publication Date: 2015
Spotlight on Dr. Gülden Özcan
- Capitalism and Confrontation: Criticial Readings by Call Number: HB 3717 2008 C36 2012Publication Date: 2012
Saving Global Capitalism by
What began as an unprecedented housing meltdown centered in the United States in the summer of 2007, quickly turned into a global insolvency crisis throughout 2008, and later the most significant economic crisis since the Great Depression. Despite monumental bailouts and extraordinary coordination by all major capitalist countries led by the U.S. Treasury, the public purse that salvaged the making of global capitalism is now being undermined by the very financial markets that were rescued. A new wave of austerity is sweeping the globe. With a further slide into recession possible in 2011, a social crisis is brewing as the working class continues to shoulder the burden of the economic crisis. The articles in this issue scrutinize the austerity responses of governments around the world designed to kick-start capital accumulation and recreate a suitable environment for business investment. The contributors to this collection provide a vivid portrait of working class discontent in an era of increasing capitalist militancy.
Call Number: On orderPublication Date: 2010
A General Police System by
While contemporary inquiries into theoretical linkages between political economy and security are rare, the exploration of these connections formed the cornerstone of political, social and economic philosophy during the upheavals of post-feudal Europe. "A General Police System," a term borrowed from the late eighteenth century thinker Patrick Colquhoun, examines the overlapping genealogies of commerce, security, surveillance and the problem of poverty in the works of foundational English and Continental thinkers of the 17th to early 19th centuries. The authors thus revive the epic project of police and critically re-examine its drive to classify, regulate and control populations, providing a renewed materialist contribution toward a contemporary critique of security.
Call Number: HV 7903 G45 2009Publication Date: 2009
The University and Social Justice: Struggles Across The Globe by
Gülden Özcan's chapter: "Neoliberalism, national security and academic knowledge production in Turkey"
Call Number: E-bookPublication Date: 2020
Contemporary Left-Wing Activism Vol 1 by
Chapter by Gülden Özcan: "TEKEL resistance in Turkey: The making of the proletarian public sphere"
Call Number: E-bookPublication Date: 2018
Journal Articles
Coşar, S., & Özcan, G. (2021). A feminist analysis of security in Turkey: Neoliberal patriarchy, authoritarianism, and package politics. Journal of World-Systems Research, 27(1), 35-57. https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2021.1034
Özcan, G., Yildizbasi, A., & Eraslan, E. (2019). Inşaat firmalarinin isg bağlaminda bulanik grup karar verme yaklaşimi ile değerlendirilmesi. Endüstri Mühendisliği Dergisi, 30(3), 204. https://go.exlibris.link/J2mM1ckh
Özcan, G. (2014). Revisiting national security discourse in Turkey with a view to pacification: From military power to police power onto orchestration of labour power. Momentdergi, 1(1) https://doi.org/10.17572/mj2014.1.3755
MA Thesis from Carleton University (2007)
PhD Dissertation from Carleton University (2017)
"Orchestrating the Public: A Contribution to the Critique of Modern Police Power"
Forthcoming Publications:
- (co-author: Simten Coşar) “Feminist Praxis in Exile: Collaborative Autoethnography,” in Po-Han Lee and Sohini Chatterjee (eds.), Autoethnography of ‘Plural Feminisms’: Narrativising Resistance as Everyday Praxis (Bloomsbury Academic).
- “Policing as Nation-Building: A Brief History of the North-West Mounted Police,” in Johanne Jean-Pierre, Vanessa Watts, Carl E. James, Patrizia Albanese, Xiaobei Chen and Michael Graydon (eds.), Reading Sociology: De-colonizing Canada, 4th ed. (Oxford University Press).
- “Racism in the City: The Colour of Policing in Lethbridge,” in Caroline Hodes and Glenda Bonifacio (eds.), Racism in Southern Alberta and Anti-Racist Activism for Change (Athabasca University Press).