Energy Solutions, Neo-Liberalism, and Social Diversity in Toronto, Canada

Energy Solutions, Neo-Liberalism, and Social Diversity in Toronto, Canada

In response to the dominance of green capitalist discourses in Canada's environmental movement, in this paper, we argue that strategies to improve energy policy must also provide mechanisms to address social conflicts and social disparities. Environmental justice is proposed as an alternative to mainstream environmentalism, one that seeks to address systemic social and spatial exclusion encount...

Civic Engagement, Social Cohesion and Social Integration in Toronto, Canada

Living with/in and without neo-liberalism

This article explores some concerns about the concept of neo-liberalism, suggesting that it has been stretched too far to be productive as a critical analytical tool. Neo-liberalism suffers from promiscuity (hanging out with various theoretical perspectives), omnipresence (treated as a universal or global phenomenon), and omnipotence (identified as the cause of a wide variety of social, politic...

Food Policy Beyond Neo-Liberalism

Amitai Etzioni Neo - Liberalism - The

NE OF THE most striking as0 pects of the 1960 election campaign is that it was waged between two comparatively liberal platforms and candidates. It is true that Kennedy carried the standard of a party whose majority is actually liberal, whereas Nixon represented a party which had subscribed to a relatively liberal platfonn (including a rather strong civil rights position) with some reluctance, ...