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Canadian Political Science Association2024 Annual Conference Programme
Approaches, Knowledges, and Methods
for the World of Tomorrow
Hosted at McGill University
June 12 to June 14, 20242024 Annual Conference Programme
Approaches, Knowledges, and Methods
for the World of Tomorrow
Hosted at McGill University
June 12 to June 14, 2024
Political Economy
G01 - The Canadian State: Political Economy and Political Power Fifty Years On (Part I)
Date: Jun 12 | Time: 08:30am to 10:00am | Location: Zoom (see details/voir détails)
Chair/Président/Présidente : Bryan Evans (Toronto Metropolitan University)
Discussant/Commentateur/Commentatrice : Gregory Albo (York University)
Discussant/Commentateur/Commentatrice : Steve Maher (State University of New York - Cortland)
Zoom Meeting Link | Meeting ID : 929 2436 9450 | Password: 323311
Yuly Chan (York University)Stacy Douglas (Carleton University)
Samir Gandesha (Simon Fraser University)
Tamanisha John (York University)
Ann Porter (York University)
Charles Smith (University of Saskatchewan)
Scott Aquanno (University of Ontario Institute of technology)
Peter Graefe (McMaster University)
Veldon Coburn (McGill University)
Gavin Fridell (St. Mary's University)
Abstract: : In 1977, Leo Panitch’s edited collection The Canadian State: Political Economy and Political Power was published. For many, this was a first introduction to Leo and his Marxist analytical lens. The 1970s was a far cry from the political and economic context we find ourselves in today. Stagflation set the economic context. The political context globally was one of labour militancy, emancipatory struggles for social and national liberation in the Global South, and of a successful electoral and social movement Left. In Canada, 1976 saw this country’s first, and only, national general strike over wage controls as stagflation endured. Unions and the NDP advocated for the public ownership of natural resources, and in some provincial cases, actually did so, Left economic nationalism was a ‘thing’, various social movements – women, environmental – were at the zenith of their influence. Obviously that world has been turned upside down. With this historical context in mind, the editors (Gregory Albo (York), Bryan Evans (Toronto Metropolitan),and Stephen Maher (SUNY-Cortland), are undertaking a ‘re-imagining’ of Panitch;s original book entitled The Canadian State: Political Economy and Political Power Fifty Years On, 1977 to 2027. This roundtable provides a forum where contributors to the volume can share how they are re-imagining and contemporizing issues touched upon in the original collection as well as issues such as free trade, Indigenous struggles, and race not dealt with in 1977.