Exception and Deputization under Today's NDP: Neo-liberalism, the Third Way, and Crime Control in Manitoba

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Woolford ◽  
Jasmine Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Third Way ◽  
The Third ◽  
Legislative Assembly

AbstractThis article examines the discourses of crime and safety mobilized by Gary Doer's provincial NDP government in Manitoba between 1999 and 2009. Through a Foucaultian discourse analysis of statements made by Manitoba NDP members in the Legislative Assembly—in particular, the language and preconceptions drawn on by government members when speaking about matters of crime and safety—the authors assess the role of Third Way and neo-liberal rationalities of crime governance in a provincial crime-control assemblage that seeks to foster “security” beyond the limits of federally defined criminal law. Based on this analysis, the authors discuss how the Manitoba NDP is engaged in a process of “deputizing” public service and communities for purposes of crime control.

scholarly journals Translating the Commune: Cultural Politics and the Historical Specificity of the Anarchist Text

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Functional Identity ◽  
Semantic Ambiguity ◽  
The Third ◽  
Historical Specificity ◽  
Specific Factors

Abstract Translating the Commune: Cultural Politics and the Historical Specificity of the Anarachist Text — This essay deals with three interrelated matters: the first is the role of discourse analysis and the conscious theorization of discourse typologies in translation methodologies; the second is the absence of any complete English translation of Jules Vallès's autobiographical/historical trilogy, Jacques Vingtras, comprised of L'Enfant (1879), Le Bachelier (1881), and L'insurgé (1885); and the third is the analysis of specific discursive characteristics which establish the formal and functional identity of the Discourse of the Commune. Though widely published in popular and scholarly editions in France, Vallès's novels have not been included in the lycée corpus through an act of conscious cultural exclusion. This has contributed to the exclusion of Vallès abroad and to the absence of translations of the trilogy. In order to remedy this situation the translator must be aware of the specific socio-political context surrounding these novels as well as the particular formal characteristics which make up the discourse from which these texts emerge. Radical decentralisation, narrative fragmentation, multiple enunciative positions, neologisms, a structure based on an unresolved binary dialectic, interdiscursive mixing and semantic ambiguity are common characteristics of the discourse of the Commune as they are transposed metaphorically from the anarchistic theoretical discourse of P.-J. Proudhon to the Vallès texts: these specific factors coupled with a cultural politics of exclusion have long marginalized the trilogy in various curricula and, in addition, led to its exclusion from non-francophone cultures both in the original French and in translation.

scholarly journals Counterpossible Reasoning in Physics

2021 ◽  
Vol 88 (5) ◽  
pp. 1113-1124
Author(s):  
Alastair Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Causal Structure ◽  
Third Way ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Need To Evaluate ◽  
Metaphysical Dependence

This article explores three ways in which physics may involve counterpossible reasoning. The first way arises when evaluating false theories: to say what the world would be like if the theory were true, we need to evaluate counterfactuals with physically impossible antecedents. The second way relates to the role of counterfactuals in characterizing causal structure: to say what causes what in physics, we need to make reference to physically impossible scenarios. The third way is novel: to model metaphysical dependence in physics, we need to consider counterfactual consequences of metaphysical impossibilities. Physics accordingly bears substantial and surprising counterpossible commitments.

Considering Causation in Criminal Law

2014 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-183
Author(s):  
Erik Witjens
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Traditional View ◽  
The Third ◽  
Proximate Causation ◽  
The Law

According to the dominant view, causation in criminal law is a bifurcated test consisting of cause in fact and proximate causation. In the first section of this article the theoretical underpinnings of causation are explored, for instance concerning the underlying interrogations of causal questions in the law. In the second section, the traditional view on bifurcation is challenged, weaknesses are uncovered, and the shortcomings of counterfactual tests as a heuristic test for factual or ‘empirical’ causation are assessed. By reviewing R v Williams and R v Hughes, the third section of the article seeks to elucidate the nature of the causal requirement in law. It is suggested, that legal influences permeate the causal requirement in law to the extent that it is dominated by them. The article consequently concludes that the bifurcation needs to be rejected to better reflect the role of (empirical) causation in criminal law better.

scholarly journals The Economics of the “Third Way”

2001 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 673-689
Author(s):  
PHILIP ARESTIS ◽  
MALCOLM SAWYER
Keyword(s):  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
New Labour ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Labour Government ◽  
The Third ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Policy Statements ◽  
The Uk

ABSTRACT This paper seeks to outline the type of economic analysis which we perceive to be involved in the ideas on the ‘third way’. In the UK, the emergence and then election of “new Labour” has been closely associated with the development of the notion of the “third way”. We sketch out what we see as the analysis of a market economy which underpins the ideas of the “third way”, which is followed by some remarks on the role of the State which is also involved. We seek to illustrate our analysis by reference to the policy statements of the new Labour government in the UK.

Sex, Work, and Criminalization

2020 ◽  
pp. 173-191
Author(s):  
Michelle Madden Dempsey
Keyword(s):  
Sex Work ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Harm Principle ◽  
Commercial Sex ◽  
Legal Moralism ◽  
The Third ◽  
Legal Response ◽  
State Coercion

This chapter provides a philosophical examination of the various dimensions of commercial sex as a form of work. It then offers perspectives on the legitimate role of the criminal law in regulating commercial sex, based upon three limiting principles. The first is a principle of ‘minimalism’ such that the criminal law should only be used as a last resort. The second is a principle of ‘modest legal moralism’ such that the criminal law should be reserved as a legal response to public wrongs. Finally, the third principle is a ‘presumption of non-interference’ based in the liberal harm principle, so that state coercion is limited to situations of direct or indirect harm. Given these three limiting principles, the chapter asks if the criminal law has a legitimate role in regulating, restricting, or prohibiting sex work.

Information Exchange for the Purpose of Crime Control: the EU Paradigm for Controlling Terrorism – Challenges of an “Open” System for Collecting and Exchanging Personal Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-174
Author(s):  
Maria Kaiafa-Gbandi
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Open System ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Exchange Of Information ◽  
Mass Collection ◽  
The Eu

The paper underlines the role of the exchange of information on crime control and its consequences, highlighting the Union's example of countering terrorism, which plays a pivotal role in contemporary EU measures to combat crime. To this end, it critically reviews the four pillars of EU institutional intervention to address the terrorist threat under its European Agenda on Security, and in particular (a) the harmonization of the definition of terrorist offenses, (b) the collection and exchange of information for the facilitation of the prevention and repression of terrorism, (c) the obstruction of its funding, and (d) the cooperation with other countries for preventing terrorism. These pillars reveal the widespread collection and exchange of information as a principal tool of vital significance for countering terrorism as well as the ensuing challenges for protecting citizens’ personal data. On this basis, the paper sheds light on the existence of an “open” system of mass collection and exchange of data for monitoring terrorism in the EU which poses grave risks for fundamental rights that have to be addressed, and proposes directions for relevant solutions. Last but not least, the paper connects the “added value” of such an open system of mass collection and exchange of data with the detection of persons considered suspects of terrorist offenses in the future. It also links this “added value” to the legitimizing effect that the modification in the concept of a “suspected person” may have for burdensome measures belonging to a gray zone of unspecified sanctions which remain detached from the guarantees of criminal law. These developments call for cautiousness and restoration of the subsidiary role of criminal law.

scholarly journals Epilogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 151-162
Author(s):  
David Beaumont
Keyword(s):  
Health Systems ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
The Third ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Patient Consultation ◽  
Health Model

The author returns to the challenge presented by Ivan Illich in Medical Nemesis, and the concept of iatrogenesis—the inadvertent harm caused by doctors. The dispute over the numbers: is it the third-highest cause of death (after heart disease and cancer)? Or is this an underestimate? Illich’s book should be seen as a call to action. UK GP Dr Marshall Marinker’s response to Illich’s challenge; the flaws in medical training embodied in the unspoken assumptions guiding the clinical behaviour of its teachers. The inherent power imbalance in the doctor–patient consultation. The profession may have misunderstood Illich, but health systems have improved; medical curricula have been rewritten. The role of society in determining how care is provided, and the influence of health systems. New models of practice altering the person–doctor relationship, incorporating self-management (the ‘third way’ of medical practice). The author’s proposed model (the positive health model) empowers patients, as Illich advocated. The role of medical colleges and governments in positive change.

scholarly journals To ‘see’ is to break an entanglement: Quantum measurement, trauma and security

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 450-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
K M Fierke ◽  
Nicola Mackay
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Quantum Measurement ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Medical Physics ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Relationship

This article seeks to explore the quantum notion that to ‘see’ an entanglement is to break it in the context of an ‘experiment’ regarding the ongoing impact of traumatic political memory on the present. The analysis is a product of collaboration over the past four years between the two authors, one a scholar of international relations, the other a therapeutic practitioner with training in medical physics. Our focus is the conceptual claim that ‘seeing’ breaks an entanglement rather than the experiment itself. The first section explores a broad contrast between classical and quantum measurement, asking what this might mean at the macroscopic level. The second section categorizes Wendt’s claim about language as a form of expressive measurement and explores the relationship to discourse analysis. The third section explores the broad contours of our experiment and the role of a somewhat different form of non-linear expressive measurement. In the final section, we elaborate the relationship between redemptive measurement and breaking an entanglement, which involves a form of ‘seeing’ that witnesses to unacknowledged past trauma.

The Third Way Project in Britain: The Role of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit

Politics ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Butler
Keyword(s):  
Third Way ◽  
The Third
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