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The Canadian State

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A critical analysis of the Canadian state as an active agent in shaping and navigating political-economic change.
  • 15 May 2025
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Inspired by trailblazing work in the field, this wide-ranging collection makes an essential and timely intervention through new theoretical contributions that build on decades of critical analysis of the Canadian state as an agent active in capitalist development in a global era. The Canadian State explores the state’s distinctive role in the development of a political economy shaped by capitalism and settler colonialism. Paying critical attention to how the state exercises accumulation, legitimation, and coercion in unique ways, the book provides an essential guide to understanding the multidimensional character of Canada's contemporary state form. Leading contributors in their field provide cutting edge chapters on settler colonialism, land ownership, extractivism, energy, services, care work, democracy, finance, commercialization, employment, and trade and investment.
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Price: $55.00
Pages: 288
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Imprint: Fernwood Publishing
Publication Date: 15 May 2025
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781773637396
Format: Paperback
BISACs: POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Canadian, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy
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Heather Whiteside is an associate professor of political science at the University of Waterloo and a fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. She is a political economist with expertise in Canadian political economy, economic geography, theories of the state and capitalism, and public policy, demonstrated through a wide range of publications on issues such as public ownership, privatization, property relations, fiscal studies, and state capitalism.
Stephen McBride is a professor (Canada Research Chair in public policy and globalization, 2010-2024) in the Department of Political Science, McMaster University, where he is an associate member of the School of Labour Studies and a member of the Institute for Globalization and the Human Condition. His research interests include the crises of liberal democracy, globalization, the political economy of austerity, and the past, present and future of the state and the public domain.

Introduction:: The Canadian State in Changing and Challenging Times (Heather Whiteside, Stephen McBride)
Chapter 1:: The Landlord State (Heather Whiteside)
Chapter 2:: The Settler Colonial State (Adam J. Barker)
Chapter 3:: The Extractive State (Anna Stanley)
Chapter 4:: The Energy State (Julie MacArthur)
Chapter 5:: The Service State (Peter Graefe)
Chapter 6:: The Caring State (Marjorie Griffin Cohen)
Chapter 7:: The Grassroots State (Joy Schnittker)
Chapter 8:: The Democratic State (Dennis Pilon)
Chapter 9:: The Financial State (Dan Cohen)
Chapter 10:: The Commercialized State (Chris Hurl)
Chapter 11:: The Employers’ State (Carlo Fanelli)
Chapter 12:: The Trade and Investment State (Stephen McBride)
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