Foundations, ENGOs, Clean-Growth Networks and the Integral State

‘Clean-growth’ has been embraced by a professionalized segment of environmentalism as a project that aspires to meet Canada’s international climate commitments while supporting a robust rate of capital accumulation. This study situates clean growth within the network that reaches from Canadian foundations that are major donors, to the clean-growth ENGOs that receive the funds, and to other relevant civil-society, state and capitalist organizations, whose governance boards interlock with those of the foundations or the clean-growth ENGOs. Clean-growth initiatives are embedded within a configuration of facilitative funding and governance relations that include major corporate interests but do not extend to the more critical, transformative segment of Canada’s environmental movement. Funded by foundations and partly governed by corporate executives, clean-growth comprises an aspect of the integral state, working to mobilize popular support and technical expertise for a project of climate (in)action that suits dominant business interests.

Ferguson, Andrew Guthrie, The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement

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Gonzales, Roberto G., Nando Sigona, Martha C. Franco, and Anna Papoutsi, Undocumented Migration: Borders, Immigration Enforcement, and Belonging

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Parental Leave and Intra-Regime Differences in a Liberal Country: the Case of Four Canadian Provinces

This paper compares access to parental leave benefits in the four largest Canadian provinces –Québec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia between 2000 and 2016, using quantitative data from the Employment Insurance Coverage Survey. We show that inequalities in the receipt of benefits mirror and reinforce the structure of income and gender inequalities. We argue that Alberta and Québec represent two regimes of parental benefits. In Alberta the take-up of parental benefits is low, and is closely related to income and gender. Conversely, the vast majority of mothers and fathers have access to parental benefits in Québec. We argue that Alberta is closer to a liberal regime of parental benefits, while Québec is closer to a social-democratic model.

Organizational Turning Points: The Transformation of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation in New York City

Sociologists and criminologists have relied on the concept of “turning points” to map individual criminal careers over the life course. Similar to individuals, criminal organizations undergo drastic changes that influence their trajectory over time and space. Using the case of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (ALKQN) in New York City, we introduce the concept of “organizational turning points” to explain the group’s evolution through various legitimate and illegitimate forms. Bringing together conceptual lenses from literature on organizational change, culture and cognition, and criminology, we demonstrate that street gangs can be complex and fluid organisms that change over time and space. Identifying and recognizing organizational turning points in criminal groups can have important implications for scholars and practitioners alike.

Dominique, Clément, Debating Rights Inflation in Canada: A Sociology of Human Rights

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Daly, Jonathan, Crime and Punishment in Russia: A Comparative History from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin

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Ghaziani, Amin, Sex Cultures

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Burke, Meghan, Colorblind Racism

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Baehr, Peter, Unmasking Style in Social Theory

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