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Updates
First Production Email!
February 5th, 2012Late last week, I received the first email of the production process from the publisher. This is definitely an exciting thing, even if it is still fai[...]
Interview Excerpt #1 from Rev. David Murata
January 29th, 2012The following is an excerpt from the interview I did in Winnipeg with United Church minister Rev. David Nobu-tsune Murata. In this snippet, he relates[...]
Rev. David Nobu-tsune Murata
January 29th, 2012Reverend David Murata was born in Japan in the late 1950s and moved to the downtown eastside of Vancouver with his family in 1968, where "the blunt he[...]
Active Remembering and Community History
January 22nd, 2012Title: Active Remembering and Community History Date: Saturday, February 25, 2012. Time: 10:00 to 11:45 am Location: Founders College Assembl[...]
Don Weitz on His Experience of Psychiatric Incarceration
January 15th, 2012This six minute audio clip features anti-psychiatry activist Don Weitz talking about his brutal experiences of psychiatric incarceration in an asylum [...]
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Scott’s Blog- Quote: UtopiasIn the meantime, to adapt Mrs Thatcher's famous dictum, there is no alternative to Utopia, and late capitalism seems to have no natural enemies (the religious fundamentalisms which resist American or Western imperialisms having by no means endorsed anti-capitalist positions). Yet it is not only the invincible universality of capitalism which is at issue […]
- Local Food and Co-operativesI wrote the following article for the monthly newsletter of a Sudbury organization called reThink Green. I did this as part of my placement at another local organization called Eat Local Sudbury, which is an element of my current detour through graduate school. Local Food and Co-operatives By Scott Neigh It manages to be both obvious and difficult to wrap ou […]
- Review: Exile and Pride[Eli Clare. Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation. Ten-year anniversary edition. Cambridge MA: South End Press, 2009.] I often feel that describing the pieces that I write in response to books as "reviews" is a bit inaccurate because I only occasionally relate to the books in question in the ways that a review is, traditionally, sup […]
- Long Quote: HistorySo long as one operates within the discourse of 'history' produced at the institutional site of the university, it is not possible simply to walk out of the deep collusion between 'history' and the modernizing narrative(s) of citizenship, bourgeois public and private, and the nation-state. 'History' as a knowledge system is firm […]
- Seeking Resources for Thinking About Co-operativesAs part of my temporary foray back into the world of formal education, I have to do a practicum placement -- that is, I have to work for ten hours a week for ten weeks in some kind of community-based setting, and I have to produce scholarly work reflecting on that experience. In my case, I'm working in a local consumer co-operative that has not, in the […]
- Quote: Utopias
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Category Archives: Other Writing by Scott
New Book Explores the Legacy of Colonization and Decolonization for Native American Rights
(Published at Left Eye On Books on September 27, 2011.) The best part of “Earth Into Property: Colonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism,” the second and final entry in Globalization Studies professor Anthony Hall’s “The Bowl with One Spoon” project, is his … Continue reading
Imperialist Canada: A Review
(Published at Left Eye On Books on May 20, 2011.) Few features of the political culture here in Canada are more likely to set my teeth on edge than the devotion not only of the right and center but of … Continue reading
Resisting Austerity: Don’t (Just) Show Me the Money
(Published at New Socialist Webzine on April 18, 2011.) We hear a lot these days about the need for cuts to public spending, for saving money. The use of this rhetoric to cover massive changes in how our lives and … Continue reading
Feelings About Masculinity
(Published at XYOnline on January 7, 2011.) I was recently puzzling over why I was having such difficulty doing a particular piece of writing. Everything I tried felt a little off key, a little false, and I couldn’t understand it. … Continue reading
Neliberalism and Home Care
(Published in Linchpin in December 2010.) “If your Mom didn’t take care of you [when you were a child], would you be able to go to work?” Those are the words of trade union activist, graduate student, and single mother … Continue reading
Striking in a Time of Austerity: The NOSM Strike in Northern Ontario
(Published in The Bullet: Socialist Project E-bulletin on October 3, 2010.) The 150 members of Unit 2 of Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) Local 677 have been on strike since August 16. The office, technical, and administrative workers at … Continue reading
Challenging Masculinity is About Much More Than ‘Unloading This Junk’
(Published at XYOnline on August 14, 2010.) A recent article called “5 Stupid, Unfair and Sexist Things Expected of Men” by Greta Christina raises the important questions of how “sexism hurts men” and why feminists and pro-feminists should care, and … Continue reading
