Uniting Struggles

Critical Social Research in Critical Times (Alternate Routes 2012) Special 25th Anniversary Edition

Edited by Carlo Fanelli, Priscillia Lefebvre

With the reverberations of the Great Recession still wreaking havoc throughout much of the world, this issue of Alternate Routes brings together articles based on their dedication to critical social research in critical times. Includes interventions by Naom Chomsky, Michael Parenti, Sut Jhally, Garry Potter, Michael Perelman and Pat Armstrong.

Contents

Articles

1. Anjali Pandey: “War on Terror” via a “War of Words”: Fear, Loathing and Name-calling in Hollywood’s Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

2. Elaine Kelly: A Rough Climate for Migration

3. Martijn Konings: Neoliberalism & the State

4. Randall Germain: Power, the State and Global Politics after the Great Freeze:

Towards a New Articulation?

5. Carlo Fanelli & Priscillia Lefebvre: The Ottawa and Gatineau Museum Workers’ Strike: Precarious Employment and the Public Sector Squeeze

6. Richard Fidler: Québec Solidaire: A Québécois Approach to Building a Broad Left Party

7. Aziz Choudry: On Knowledge Production, Learning and Research in Struggle

8. Jeff Noonen: Socialism as a Life-Coherent Society Interventions

9. Michael Parenti: Profit Pathology and Disposable Planet

10. Pat Armstrong: Canadian Health Care: Privatization and Gendered Labour

11. Sut Jhally: Articulation, Cultural Studies, and Education

12. Michael Perelman: The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism: How Market Tyranny Stifles The Economy By Stunting Workers

13. Noam Chomsky: Democracy & the Public University

14. Garry Potter: Imaginaries and Realities, Utopia and Dystopia