tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70429612012-01-24T09:41:02.962-05:00Personal/political musings from a Canadian activist and writer. From May 2004 to July 2005, when the author lived in the U.S., the site was known as <em>A Canadian Lefty in the Land of King George</em>. Here are a few words about the <a href="http://scottneigh.blogspot.com/2009/10/this-blogs-name.html">current name</a>.Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10551100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-19748587020215104162012-01-19T22:21:00.003-05:002012-01-19T22:21:57.955-05:00

So 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 firmly embedded in institutional practices that invoke the nation-state

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-1935661257832267652012-01-13T16:14:00.003-05:002012-01-13T16:17:17.332-05:00

As 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 few years of its existence, been able to

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Check out this video with Mohawk activist and scholar Taiaiake Alfred giving a talk in Ottawa called "The Psychic Landscape of Contemporary Colonialism": (Found via Intercontinental Cry.)

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[Judith Halberstam. The Queer Art of Failure. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2011.] The most useful lesson I took from this book is the importance of looking for that which runs against your expectations, of taking that which matters to you and seeking its opposite -- or, anyway, its different -- buried within it. And to do so not in a kind of theological vein, but in a very practical sense,

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-30054976582670416582011-12-28T23:25:00.000-05:002011-12-28T23:25:08.664-05:00

[Judith Butler. Undoing Gender. New York: Routledge, 2004.] I don't want to fall into the trap of claiming there is only one proper way to take up university-derived ideas in relation to the struggles of ordinary people, because there are lots. Moreover, I think encouraging experimentation with and proliferation of approaches is important, given that rigid exclusions are likely to end up

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-37811441192785629342011-12-23T11:44:00.001-05:002011-12-23T11:44:49.330-05:00

[José Esteban Muñoz. Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.] How do we come to be who we are? How can we relate to what we are told that we are or that we must be ... especially when those messages from the words and images and enactments that surround us are not just something we relate to externally but get inside

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-53381852233004656552011-12-15T19:18:00.004-05:002011-12-15T19:18:49.509-05:00

[Marion Roach Smith. The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-standard Text for Writing and Life. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2011.] Despite the fact that most books about writing that are worth reading say pretty much the same things, I still like to read them -- that tendency in writers is something that writers who write about writing depend on to make a living, I think. Anyway, I was on

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-11516530294564666502011-12-06T14:01:00.001-05:002011-12-06T14:03:11.042-05:00

Just got this from a friend who has been involved in making this site happen: We are excited to announce the launch of the Colours of Resistance Archive (http://www.coloursofresistance.org), a collection of anti-oppression resources for movement-building. Colours of Resistance (COR) was a grassroots network of people in the U.S. and Canada who consciously worked to develop anti-racist,

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-10942624411518924562011-12-02T22:39:00.001-05:002011-12-03T11:03:46.586-05:00

The final major piece of work that I have to do for school before the break is a paper looking at some of the ways that the G20 summit in Toronto in 2010 showed up in media discourse. I've dived back into that assignment in the last day or two after too long occupied with other tasks and I'm not looking forward to ploughing through the thick of it over the next six days in a manner sure to be

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-89736718339830380362011-11-30T19:03:00.001-05:002011-12-01T14:13:45.647-05:00

As I prepare to meet one deadline and then jump straight into the pool to start meeting the next, I urge you to check out the Democracy Now! coverage of the massive strike by more than 2 million British workers against the austerity plans of the Conservative/Lib-Dem coalition government. This is the largest strike in Britain since 1926, when a general strike brought down the government. And,

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-32556193661355150672011-11-14T13:01:00.001-05:002011-11-14T13:08:55.186-05:00

The recent efforts to promote lesbian and gay marriage also promote a norm that threatens to render illegitimate and abject those sexual arrangements that do not comply with the marriage norm in either its existing or revised form. At the same time, the homophobic objections to lesbian and gay marriage expand out through the culture to affect all queer lives. One critical question thus becomes,

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-11960476433444458722011-11-11T14:28:00.001-05:002011-11-11T14:44:00.391-05:00

I know people who fit the entire description. I was raised among them -- klansmen, gay-bashers, wife-beaters, and child-rapists with a penchant for incest, as well as moonshiners, cardplayers, snake-handlers, and revival preachers. Some are relatives by blood. All are relatives by water, air, and dirt. Our bodies are made up of elements from the same piece of ground. Through endless cycles that

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-77900862649545142582011-10-27T22:50:00.003-04:002011-10-27T22:50:53.658-04:00

Gender reaches into disability; disability wraps around class; class strains against abuse; abuse snarls into sexuality; sexuality folds on top of race ... everything finally piling into a single human body. To write about any aspect of identity, any aspect of the body, means writing about this entire maze. This I know, and yet the question remains: where to start? Maybe with my white skin,

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-33675574245958039492011-10-22T23:35:00.001-04:002011-10-22T23:35:09.130-04:00

My first journalistic piece in awhile -- written for and published at the site of the Grassroots Sudbury Media working group affiliated with The Media Co-op. Sudbury's 99%: Day 1 On a sunny but cool October 22, the global wave of "Occupy" actions swept into Sudbury, Ontario. Around 40 people gathered in Memorial Park in the city's downtown and began conversations that they hope are an early

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-15683711254546416302011-10-20T23:59:00.001-04:002011-10-20T23:59:45.564-04:00

Masculinity has been and continues to be a normative rubric that has policed the sex/gender system. I see very little advantage in recuperating the term masculinity because, as a category, masculinity has normalized heterosexual and masculinist privilege. Masculinity is, among other things, a cultural imperative to enact a mode of "manliness" that is calibrated to shut down queer possibilities

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-15804149629285558992011-10-16T12:08:00.002-04:002011-10-16T12:08:37.332-04:00

One of the courses I'm taking right now involves writing a 'thought provoking question' about each week's readings before the class in question. As I've written before on this site, I'm trying to keep my thinking and reading and writing for school as closely linked both to movements and to my future needs as a writer as I can, and one happy consequences of that fact is that my question this week

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I almost never spend any time reading material from the right-wing blogosphere -- I can appreciate that understanding the discourse of various categories of opponents is worthwhile, and I respect those like thwap who occasionally put energy into argument and rebuttal, but it has just never felt like much of a priority for me. However, for a major piece of work for school I'm looking into various

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-70937822506072962102011-09-28T10:07:00.000-04:002011-09-28T10:07:20.751-04:00

New Book Explores the Legacy of Colonization and Decolonization for Native American Rights by Scott Neigh (originally published at Left Eye On Books) There is enough book here – an arm-wearying 934 pages – that it is no great trick to find plenty to respect, admire, and learn from, while also not running short of elements that are disappointing and off-putting. The best part of Earth Into

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-73072975849541191522011-09-17T23:22:00.002-04:002011-09-17T23:22:41.116-04:00

Here's the situation: A year and a half ago I finished my first go at writing a book. How it might get published was unclear at that point, but I deliberately set the manuscript aside as I continued to pursue publication and I also turned to other forms and focuses of writing. I avoided committing to any new big projects but engaged in reading, experimentation, play, and work on smaller pieces

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-73479861343546993132011-09-09T22:53:00.002-04:002011-09-09T22:53:09.798-04:00

Part of the unprecedented outpouring of emotion after the recent death of federal NDP leader Jack Layton was about the loss of a good man who had done lots of good things and was poised to do more -- I differ from him politically in many ways, but I fully admit that he was all of those things and that his loss matters. However, another part of the widespread grief was less about the man and more

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-71654775949524467032011-08-31T20:06:00.002-04:002011-09-05T21:56:53.224-04:00

I'm at a bit of a transition point, and a fairly significant one. Earlier this week, I sent off two book manuscripts to the publisher with whom I signed a contract back in the spring, more than ten years after doing the first of the oral history interviews with long-time Canadian activists that became the basis for the books. I know they're far from done -- editorial suggestions, copy editing,

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-6876133469776946782011-08-25T12:03:00.001-04:002011-08-25T12:03:52.104-04:00

There is an exciting new initiative from No One Is Illegal - Vancouver Coast Salish Territories called "Inheriting Resistance: A Community History Project". They just released their first video from that project, a short snippet with long-time activist Jean Swanson giving advice to younger activists. Take a couple of minutes and watch it: Swanson is an amazing activist who has been involved

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-64299631786691743872011-08-03T15:01:00.001-04:002011-08-03T15:01:35.520-04:00

I'm going to dip my toe back into the blogging pool via a quick "Lookee here!" post. In the last little while, lots of energy on the left has been focused on decrying and trying to figure out how to fight austerity measures. After all, in Canada we have a new federal government that has already shown positive glee in using the might of the state to run roughshod over collective bargaining and the

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-62539326920455136462011-06-30T09:53:00.002-04:002011-06-30T09:56:10.785-04:00

Hey kids! Sorry it has been over a month since my last post -- I've been hard at work on another project. I'll do my best to get something up here as soon as I can.S.

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As awful as it has been for those whose lives have been turned upside down, the worst outcome of the deplorable, authoritarian policing at last year's G20 summit in Toronto was not the targeting of a few dozen militants plus some random people for (often pre-emptive) arrest and heavy duty charges. Yes, from where I sit and without knowing the ins and outs of every case, it appears to be a mix of

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-32576116607580096002011-05-24T17:03:00.003-04:002011-05-24T17:07:17.591-04:00

Just received word of this international petition that was written "to unite people in support of the alleged rape victim of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former director of the International Monetary Fund." Please read it and sign it:Feminists Demand Freedom from Sexual Assault and HarassmentWe agree:Rape is always about power and domination; it is sexualized violence.Rape and sexual harassment of

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-89727527219073333602011-05-16T22:37:00.003-04:002011-05-17T23:36:20.917-04:00

[Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti, editors. Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2008.]The very simple way of reconceptualizing sexual consent at the heart of this book provides a useful tool for efforts that seek to challenge sexual assault and to sexually empower women (and the rest of us). It also provides a possible lens through

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-12264321342908465872011-04-30T18:24:00.002-04:002011-04-30T18:37:01.797-04:00

[Todd Gordon. Imperialist Canada. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2010.]Few features of the political culture in this country are more likely to set my teeth on edge than the devotion not only of the right and centre but of much of the left as well to the myth of Canadian benevolence. It has perhaps been a bit less frequently proclaimed in the last couple of years, what with us having Harper

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-64119730272648749362011-04-10T12:19:00.001-04:002011-04-10T12:19:14.487-04:00

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 societies are organized has a long history, but in the current "age of austerity" -- ushered in by unprecedented giveaways of ordinary people's money to rich people and powerful institutions and the Toronto G20 meeting's commitment to make

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-62222317688568762602011-04-01T13:11:00.001-04:002011-04-01T13:11:47.315-04:00

Just sent out the following callout for a series of three writing workshops for people interested in doing writing related to social change in Sudbury. I'll be facilitating the middle workshop and other local writers/activists will be facilitating the other two. If you are interested in attending, please let me know!All of Us Are Writers -- Writing for Social ChangeWords are vital tools in all of

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-16595719691975572802011-03-26T11:13:00.002-04:002011-03-26T11:24:41.562-04:00

[George Chauncey. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940. New York: Basic Books, 1994.]A friend suggested this book as one of several to make my sourcing for a particular chapter of my own books a bit more robust. I only needed to engage with it deeply enough to write a sentence or two that it would support, but I decided that I wanted to read the

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-62021750063331056712011-03-11T19:41:00.000-05:002011-03-11T19:42:23.381-05:00

Check out this video of a recent talk by marxist geographer (and author of A Brief History of Neoliberalism) David Harvey. He is talking about some of the ideas from his most recent book, The Enigma of Capital, which he wrote during and in reference to the global crisis of 2008-2009, but which he also connects in his talk to recent developments like the resistance by working people in Wisconsin.

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-11120422106903230742011-03-05T23:34:00.000-05:002011-03-05T23:35:04.056-05:00

For more than a year, now, I've been toying with the idea of writing something that compares ways of knowing the world that ground materialist, radical left politics with those that are the basis of what I can only term "conspiracy theories." (There might be a better way to label the latter -- a way that communicates some of the problems with that way of trying to understand and act in the world

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-9771831340131582662011-02-28T22:30:00.001-05:002011-02-28T22:43:14.805-05:00

[Daniel Francis. Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada's First War on Terror. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010.]We need more books like this -- histories of social change in Canadian contexts written for lay audiences and with an eye to contemporary relevance. Smooth, lively writing and a good eye for the right level of detail and the right kind of illustrative digression make the

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-7600343146718398522011-02-17T23:05:00.001-05:002011-02-17T23:05:59.387-05:00

A section of the Canadian Union of Public Employees -- Ontario is holding a conference in Sudbury at the end of February. CUPE-O has decided to support the "Raise the Rates" campaign, a struggle to reverse the provincial cutting of the Special Diet Allowance (a provision whereby some people living in poverty in Ontario were able to obtain a little more money to meet their dietary needs, at least

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-66393034259782035312011-02-14T20:30:00.002-05:002011-02-17T20:26:05.088-05:00

[Jamie Swift, Brice Balmer, and Mira Dineen. Persistent Poverty: Voices From the Margins. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2010.]This book is a simple one -- well done within its particular bounds, the product of a lot of hard work by many people, and as a text quite straightforward. Yet I found it quite emotionally complicated to read, and was ultimately left frustrated and sad by what it isn't and

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-21705736722422214232011-02-09T13:35:00.001-05:002011-02-09T13:35:45.696-05:00

[John Keegan. The First World War. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1998.]I have written before about my fairly intense political and aesthetic distaste for military history. Nonetheless, a possible project I have in mind intersects some with military history, so I have read a little of it recently, including this book. Thankfully, Keegan is a good writer -- that isn't nearly enough to make all of my

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-41032287573621501922011-02-03T16:32:00.000-05:002011-02-03T16:33:51.075-05:00

[Sally R. Munt. Queer Attachments: The Cultural Politics of Shame. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007.]In the reading and thinking about shame I've begun in the last little while, this book is the first I've encountered that primarily approaches the topic via cultural studies rather than psychoanalytic theory. I like this rather a lot. As even quite individualistic analyses of shame

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-27014873103141861892011-01-24T10:22:00.003-05:002011-01-24T10:25:34.096-05:00

From February 4th to 6th there is going to be a grassroots-organized, community-based Radical History Conference at the Workers Action Centre in Windsor, Ontario. I was a little late off the mark putting my name in, and I'm still scrambling to figure out what I want to say and to finalize the logistical details of my trip, but I'll be presenting a talk at 5:30 pm on Saturday, February 5th.Check

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-33801279327265384582011-01-19T19:38:00.001-05:002011-01-19T19:38:32.823-05:00

In December, the Federal Court of Canada issued three interconnected decisions upholding a process whereby secret trials have been used in recent years to target and indefinitely detain a number of Muslim men of colour. The decisions were in the case of Mohamed Harkat, and the committee supporting him is asking anyone and everyone, including organizations, to sign on to a statement opposing this

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-46638997111262540692011-01-15T21:14:00.001-05:002011-01-15T21:14:49.030-05:00

Waaaaay back in November, I wrote an introductory post saying that I was going to write a series of posts reflecting on the doing of intellectual work outside of the academy. I followed up with a couple of pieces to set the context -- one explained what I understand intellectual work to be, and explained that the subset of intellectual work that I feel I can say a few things about is that which

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-22623835977432946012011-01-08T11:32:00.000-05:002011-01-08T11:33:10.614-05:00

[S. Bear Bergman. The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009.]The personal essay is a form of writing that is underrated by many on the left, except perhaps in some feminist contexts. It is a form that starts very explicitly from where the author stands, and involves looking at some aspect of the path s/he has followed to get there, some feature of the social

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-84065536792806726972011-01-05T19:04:00.003-05:002011-01-05T23:52:34.079-05:00

Check out this video for a track called "Pow Wow Riddim." It's from a Native electronic music crew called A Tribe Called Red:Pow Wow Riddim from Bear Witness on Vimeo.Their website is here and non-video versions of the tracks they've released so far can be found here. I heard of them from this piece by writer and activist Jessica Yee, who describes them as "some amazing Native peeps that are

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-19308667574058922762010-12-30T17:20:00.004-05:002010-12-31T14:46:01.252-05:00

It should be obvious: In order to make a change, we need some way to make it, some path to bring it to reality.I don't like that dead tree in the middle of my back yard? Well, I need some way to take it down -- a chainsaw, an axe, a helpful ogre who can push it over, something.Similarly, if you want a world without poverty, a world in which patriarchy and white supremacy are dimly remembered

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-63701767233079699522010-12-22T17:44:00.003-05:002010-12-22T22:31:38.278-05:00

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. It slowly dawned on me that the explanation was that I couldn't write authentically about the topic at hand without setting it in a different and broader context -- that is, without talking at least briefly about

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-22297659888759871682010-12-14T09:12:00.001-05:002010-12-14T09:12:46.054-05:00

Internationally recognized educator and activist in the struggle to end violence against women Tony Porter gives a brief, powerful talk to the TEDWomen conference about masculinity and about the importance of breaking free of what he calls the "man box." Watch it: (Link found via all of SK, CF, and HW.)

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-26114869609988517862010-12-08T23:04:00.002-05:002010-12-09T00:00:58.648-05:00

I've been gradually working my way through writing a series of posts reflecting on doing intellectual work outside of the academy. I started out with an introduction explaining more or less what the series will involve and why I'm writing them. I followed up with one talking about what exactly I mean by intellectual work and what aspects of it I feel capable of talking about -- that is, that

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-26144400983177457592010-12-03T13:35:00.001-05:002010-12-03T13:35:51.879-05:00

[Kathryn Church. Forbidden Narratives: Critical Autobiography as Social Science. New York: Routledge, 1995.]Earlier this year, I finished the manuscript for my book on Canadian history-from-below. This means that now, in contrast to a rather lengthy preceding period, the majority of my reading no longer revolves around that particular piece of writing. However, one of the first friends and allies

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-64716141437333833772010-11-30T22:20:00.000-05:002010-11-30T22:21:23.625-05:00

The following is an article by me originally published in the December 2010 print edition of Linchpin. It has also been published online at Linchpin.ca and at Z-Net.Neoliberalism and Work in the Homeby Scott Neigh"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 Laurel

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-64019283988504635522010-11-22T14:43:00.001-05:002010-11-22T14:43:29.293-05:00

I recently published an initial post in what will become a short series reflecting on my choices related to doing intellectual work outside of the academy. In that post, I avoided actually defining what I mean by "intellectual work," so I'm going to do that now.The Doer and the ProductI wrote a little bit in the first piece about the dominant assumptions that are drummed into us about what

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-18876109479459502402010-11-20T12:47:00.002-05:002010-11-20T12:51:37.000-05:00

I don't have time to do a long post, but I wanted to pass along that I just found out that noted Mohawk legal scholar and activist Patricia Monture has passed away. I never had the chance to meet Monture, but her writings are very powerful and they played an important role for me in my initial learning, as a settler, about indigenous struggle on Turtle Island. (See here and here for things I've

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-91381473519601100472010-11-16T13:53:00.002-05:002010-11-16T14:01:23.552-05:00

I lived in Hamilton for ten years, and it was common for me to encounter and work with activists from United Steel Workers Local 1005 in peace and social justice groups in the community. Hard work over decades by activists with a range of different left politics kept 1005 a vibrant political space in ways that simply isn't true of a lot of other industrial locals. Since I've moved away from the

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When people ask me what I do, I tell them that I am a writer. This is an accurate answer. It is also a hard-won answer -- for all that creativity guru Julia Cameron insists that a writer is nothing more or less than someone who writes, my journey between becoming someone who writes and being able to identify as such without cringing, blushing, or offering disclaimers took years. And if, in some

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I've never understood the claim that when you say awful things about a person or a group of people, but you intend it to be funny, then those awful things magically cease to be awful and turn into light hearted fun that we should all just enjoy. This claim usually doesn't get made directly, but it is fairly openly present in the most common responses you hear when you challenge

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[Aziz Choudry and Dip Kapoor, editors. Learning from the Ground Up: Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production. New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2010.]This is one of those books that I kind of read by accident -- and I'm very glad I did. I had a chance to have a look at it when one friend was lending it to another friend, and it just didn't grab my attention based on that

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-73698177603626406302010-10-24T14:11:00.001-04:002010-10-24T14:11:55.083-04:00

[Martha C. Nussbaum. Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.]I'm approaching this book from a specific place, with specific intent and interests, so I need to say right off the top that there are some things about it that I find interesting and useful, but other aspects that I just would not, no matter how well or poorly they were

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-60600296388418298452010-10-22T13:49:00.001-04:002010-10-22T13:49:14.363-04:00

I've been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be facing the austerity agenda that currently looms so large across the globe. In particular, I've been thinking about what it means for acting in the specific kind of context that I happen to be in. I've come to the conclusion that the most obvious responses available to us might end up further marginalizing people who are already the most

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-74293806956662760032010-10-15T09:52:00.001-04:002010-10-15T09:52:44.148-04:00

[W]e have to face the reality that intellectuals can be more easily co-opted by the status quo and may not have much at stake if they withdraw from the movements. Given these considerations, elsewhere I argue that the intellectual should see him/herself as a "conscious wolf man," rather than a movement leader. The conscious wolf man is aware of his capacity to cause harm; therefore, before the

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-58142495182544633692010-10-11T12:05:00.001-04:002010-10-11T12:05:27.917-04:00

I think it says something about the political culture in many left-ish spaces in North America that politicized investigation of emotion might need to be extensively justified to be seen as "legitimate" and "serious" activity. Despite corners of interesting work on affective dimensions of social movements (e.g. see here), I think that need to explain and justify is common enough that, as much as

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The following is a piece I wrote on the strike by staff at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, originally published here. In the brief period since the piece was published a tentative agreement has been reached, though it is still unclear whether the workers will accept it. For an overview of the struggle, read on... [[EDIT Oct 12: Members of OPSEU 677 Unit 2 rejected the tentative offer by

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[Geoffrey Hayes, Andrew Iarocci, Mike Bechtold, editors. Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2007.]I recognize that the analysis I am about to present is unlikely to be very popular, and I suspect that its intense dissonance with widely cherished illusions will prevent lots of potential readers from engaging with what I have to say in any meaningful

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Check out these videos shot at some sort of festival in Vancouver. Journalist Avi Lewis is moderating a discussion between Chief Arthur Manuel of the Secwepemc Nation and writer Naomi Klein about social movements within the Canadian state. They cover issues such as the upsurge in visibility for Canadian movements in 2010, discussions about tactics, questions of alliance, and the tar sands. All of

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-47428563609955228242010-09-21T14:47:00.001-04:002010-09-21T14:47:29.591-04:00

[Sherene Razack, Malinda Smith, and Sunera Thobani, editors. States of Race: Critical Race Feminism for the 21st Century. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2010.]When faced with the awful, violent, oppressive social world that produces each and every one of us, the basic question is, "What do I do?" That gets asked and answered in different ways depending on your particular experience of social

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There is a rally supporting the strikers from 3 pm to 5 pm at the South Bay Road picket line on Wednesday, September 22. Here are the details I received:Wednesday, September 22: Students and Workers United - Solidarity Rally withOPSEU Local 677Students and Workers United Solidarity RallySouth Bay Road Picket lineWednesday, September 223:00pm Last Friday, talks between NOSM management and OPSEU

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-78611657075198698452010-09-15T18:21:00.001-04:002010-09-15T18:21:36.936-04:00

In gathering information for an article (or perhaps several articles) that I wish to write, someone that I hope to interview drew my attention to a cool anti-poverty conference attempting to bridge academic and community spaces that is happening in Kingston, Ontario, on October 14-16. It is called !nstigate 2010: Anti-Poverty Rant-In. The deadline to submit papers or workshops is long past, but

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[Claire Pajaczkowska and Ivan Ward, editors. Shame and Sexuality: Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture. New York: Routledge, 2008.]Shame is a very unpleasant individual experience. Shame and its mobilization are also an important element of the processes which socially regulate behaviour and thereby help to maintain oppressive forms of social organization. This book is not, therefore, as far off the

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I spent a bit of time yesterday morning at the picket line of the support staff who work at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM), who are members of Ontario Public Service Employee Union (OPSEU) Local 677. The strike has been going on since August 16, after almost a year of negotiations trying to reach a first contract. Yesterday was a day of solidarity, in which supporters --

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When it comes to bad movies, I frequently place a big portion of the blame squarely at the feet of capitalism -- and I don't just mean individual movies that are bad, but also broader problems that are quite common among mainstream feature films, including ones that I like. Yet that exists in tension with my sense of the feature film as a media form that is extremely capitalist, in that it often

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[John Holloway. Crack Capitalism. New York: Pluto Press, 2010.]I'm pretty sure I've observed before that it makes me wary when I like a book of political theory -- not just agree with it or find it interesting, but like it. "Like" can mean a bunch of different things, I suppose, but in this case it means that there is significant resonance between major elements of this book's approach and my own

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-12458511394527655862010-08-27T12:41:00.001-04:002010-08-27T12:41:47.174-04:00

We returned from our recent trip to southern Ontario to find that someone had broken into our house. It could have been a lot worse -- damage was limited to the front door and its sidelights, they only took a few small items, our cat was unharmed, and so far at least the insurance company is being decent about it all. Still, it's not a fun thing to come home to.I've been thinking about what I

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Hey kids! Just dropping by to say that I have been out of town for a little under a week and will continue to be so for more than another week. I do have a couple of big posts in mind that I want to find time to write and publish, and I think I will be able to get at least one and perhaps both of those up while I'm on the road, but I make no guarantees. In the meantime, XYOnline, "a website

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An important media release that entered my inbox just now:For Immediate ReleaseAugust 5, 2010Racialized Communities Ask Provincial Premiers to Help Stop the Attack on Federal Employment Equity ProgramAs Premiers and Territorial Leaders gather in Manitoba, the Colour of Poverty Campaign (COPC) today releases an Open Letter to Stephen Harper, asking the Prime Minister to call off the attack on the

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[Shira Tarrant. Men and Feminism. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2009.]I sometimes find it hard to properly evaluate political books that are intended as introductory. Their goal -- or, at least, the most reasonable articulation of what they can accomplish -- is to stimulate new questions and new conversations among a public that has not previously encountered a particular field of critical ideas. As

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This is the danger of militancy or activism. The great public displays of revolt or dignity (Gleneagles, Heiligendamm, and so on) are of course the outcome of dedicated militancy or activism, the result of the activity of a lot of people who devote much of their lives to organising anti-capitalist action. Most of them are not professional revolutionaries of the old style, but people who make the

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-3952065527974973332010-07-29T20:24:00.001-04:002010-07-29T20:38:08.187-04:00

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 goes on to discuss five key examples. I agree that this is an important conversation that men should be having with each other and with people of different genders, and her examples, though I

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Linguistic shape-shifting is what Jackson Katz calls the nearly imperceptible practice of making men, boys, and masculinity disappear through how we use language. Katz explains that this "disappearing act" involves using gender-neutral language to obscure gender-specific events such as men's responsibility for violence. "We cannot achieve dramatic reductions in men's violence against women," Katz

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[Jean-François Constant and Michel Ducharme, editors. Liberalism and Hegemony: Debating the Canadian Liberal Revolution. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.]About ten years ago, Canadian left historian Ian McKay published a proposal for reorienting the study of Canadian history. He called this proposal the "liberal order framework." In the years following, it generated significant

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-78352562516440894682010-07-22T14:37:00.001-04:002010-07-22T14:37:53.678-04:00

As I've mentioned a time or two on this blog, last week was Sudbury Pride week. One of the events that I attended was called "Youth Speak Out!", which involved both queer youth and queer adult professionals who are employed in the school systems in Sudbury and in Toronto talking about the challenges that queer youth face.At least at this point in its history, Sudbury is hardly overwhelmed with

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-61429296440684535992010-07-21T09:41:00.002-04:002010-07-22T08:57:03.128-04:00

The following is an article by me on the recently ended Vale Inco strike. It was published at Linchpin.ca but I have also approached a number of other outlets to see if they might be interested in picking it up. It is, to my knowledge, the first major look back at the strike in the North American left media.One day longer? The Vale-Inco strike comes to a closeby Scott NeighOn July 7 and 8, 2010,

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At long last, I'm returning to the topic of schooling. I hadn't meant to let it drag out this long, but a week-long trip, another week full of events, and an unexpected but urgent writing project got in the way. As a few of you might recall, I began this series with a short post summarizing my rather fundamental objections to mainstream schooling. I followed up with a post explaining why, even

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-41869127716214496912010-07-17T00:25:00.002-04:002010-07-17T00:28:31.290-04:00

Hey kids. Just popping in to say I've been hard at work on an article that I am hoping to finish tomorrow. Once it's published on the site that is going to publish it, and hopefully on a few others as well, I'll publish it here too.In the meantime, here is a politically sombre piece of electronic music that I like -- "Sentinel" by Transglobal Underground:

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As I've mentioned before, I'm the temporary caretaker of a social justice events list for Sudbury, Ontario. I'm not planning on posting all of the mailings here -- though there are no more than 4 per month; contact me if you want on the list -- but I am going to put up some of them. There is a lot going on in Sudbury in the next week and a bit, thanks largely to the hard work of the wonderful

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-70501160832364031112010-07-08T14:32:00.001-04:002010-07-08T14:32:23.726-04:00

In recent posts, I have talked about my serious objections to mainstream schooling and also why those objections don't lead me to homeschool (or unschool) my six year-old, even though I think those approaches are the best. Having such objections yet deciding to put one's kid into a mainstream school leads to an obvious question: Now what do I do?In writing about this, I don't feel like I have any

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-50867534489721762942010-07-04T09:48:00.001-04:002010-07-04T09:48:44.806-04:00

[Mark Bould and China Mieville, editors. Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2009.]Discussions of marxism and discussions of science fiction are both at their best, their most interesting, when they come from a place of passion. I'm sure most of the contributors to this book feel both of those passions -- otherwise, why do work in this

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-45359059132042847432010-07-01T21:01:00.001-04:002010-07-01T21:01:24.914-04:00

This is an article I wrote back in the spring for Linchpin. It was published a week ago and I didn't even realize until today. It's analysis, not news, and I'm not sure how successful I am in going beyond stating the obvious, but I hope it offers some useful suggestions for thinking about alternative media work in smaller centres.Becoming the Media in SudburyBy Scott NeighNorthern Ontario

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I wrote recently about some of my objections to the mainstream, compulsory school system. Having such objections while parenting a six year-old child raises the question of what to do about them. This and at least one future post will reflect on this question.There are a few different options. Given the nature of my objections, schools that are labelled "alternative" might or might not be able to

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The following is an op/ed piece by me published in Sudbury newspaper Northern Life online on June 21 (under a slightly different title) and in the June 24 print edition.In the next week, people in Sudbury will be seeing a lot in the news about the G8 and G20 summits.Politicians, big business leaders and bureaucrats from the most powerful countries on earth are gathering in Huntsville and Toronto

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-4288651541280902382010-06-21T14:21:00.001-04:002010-06-21T14:21:13.427-04:00

I wish that I felt able to homeschool -- or, more likely, unschool -- L, my six year-old. I have in mind two or three short posts talking about why I think that and I why I don't actually do it, and this is the first.It seems to me that if you have serious concerns about what is, about the ways in which our lives and our world are socially organized, then you also have to have serious objections

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This is the text of the latest mailout from a long-running email list that promotes social justice events in Sudbury, Ontario. I've never posted the entire update on my blog before, but I've temporarily taken over sending the updates out for the summer so I thought I would do so this time. Especially since it includes a lot of cool stuff, including a number that are related to opposition to the

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-5632984959430345202010-06-17T10:45:00.000-04:002010-06-17T10:46:11.428-04:00

The intent of this post is to make one quite elementary observation about the local environment in which I am engaging in reflections and making choices about political engagement. I may be completely off-base, and if so I want to be told so, especially since five years of living here hasn't been enough for me to shake the sense that I don't really know what's going on politically in Sudbury.That

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-82083683963705784302010-06-16T13:38:00.000-04:002010-06-16T13:39:10.357-04:00

I mentioned in a recent post that the book that has absorbed as much writing time as I could throw at it for many, many years is now done. Almost a month ago, I finished moving commas about, adding unnecessary extra references, and fretting about formatting, and moved on to the next stage of figuring out how it will reach publication. It is still unclear how all of that will unfold, but for the

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[Reg Whitaker and Steve Hewitt. Canada and the Cold War. Toronto: James Lorimer and Company, Ltd., Publishers, 2003.]It has been very hard for me to avoid hyperbole as I write about this book. It is, in many ways, quite an unremarkable book, with some basic useful information and perhaps a few elements of form worth examining if you are interested in writing accessible history. It may not even

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[David R. Roediger. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class, Revised Edition. New York: Verso, 2007 (1991).]The Wages of Whiteness is a classic in the academic study of whiteness, a field of anti-racist analysis that arose out of a long history of African-American thinkers reflecting on their oppression and on the people who enact it. The book brings together

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-6657684343775903392010-06-04T11:46:00.000-04:002010-06-04T11:47:10.476-04:00

According to a story in Northern Life, a local newspaper, Sudbury city council voted not to allow for boarding houses and rooming houses in areas outside the city core. This would not have been in areas primarily zoned for single family dwellings, but in areas already zoned either for commercial use or for multi-residential dwellings, and already near high-traffic roads.A grouping described as "

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As some readers of this blog may be aware, my central project for quite some time has been writing a book based on oral history interviews with long time activists from a wide variety of Canadian social movements. The plan, at least for the last bunch of years, has been to present the material not as traditional oral history but using a subset of the interviews with generous helpings of

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Emergency rallies are being held across Canada (see below) and around the world today to denounce in the strongest possible terms the attack by the Israeli military against a flotilla of civilian ships in international waters which was bringing much needed humanitarian aid to Gaza, which has been kept under Israeli siege for the last several years and is in the midst of a widely documented

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[Andrea Doucet. Do Men Mother? Fathering, Care, and Responsibility. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.]This academic monograph by Andrea Doucet, a professor of Anthropology and Sociology at Carlton University in Ottawa, makes an important feminist contribution to understanding how the lives of contemporary Canadian men who take on significant parenting responsibility are experienced,

Scott Neighnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-19473098998953668662010-05-23T20:10:00.001-04:002010-05-23T20:11:46.885-04:00

Hey kids. No, I haven't forgotten about this blog, I was just caught up in finishing some Very Big Stuff. Which is now done. So I will definitely be back to blogging in my usual, vaguely regular fashion, and I may even be inspired to post more regularly than usual, though I have made no decisions yet about that.In the meantime, take a listen to some very smart women saying very smart things about

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Sudbury Steelworkers who have been on strike since July '09 are kicking some direct action into gear as we speak. Toronto cops have murdered a young Black man. And a musical welcome to David Cameron.First the strike here in Sudbury. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of details. For months now, protocol at the picket lines has been governed by an injunction that has limited the effectiveness of

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Check out this analysis of the first quarter earnings report by Vale, the giant mining company against which several thousand Sudburians have been on strike since last summer. The conclusions? Whatever justification existed for demanding concessions has evaporated as the market has picked up, but the strike is costing Vale big money despite the song and dance about partially restarting production

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