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Turning to Agamben's notion of the decision of the "state of exception" as the fundamental act of the sovereign, this article traces the origin of Canadian sovereignty through a legal history of the suspension of habeas corpus in Lower Canada. Building both on the work of Canadianists engaging the political and legal theory of Giorgio Agamben and the work of Canadian historians on the Special Council of Lower Canada, this article demonstrates how Governor Colborne's declaration of martial law in response to the 1837-1838 rebellions in Lower Canada reveals the genesis-moment of Canadian sovereignty. This historical contextualization of the Special Council fills an important gap in the historiography of the Council, as well as the continental approaches to applied theory in Canadian political science.

This article explores historical processes of land dispossession through an in-depth case of the Narragansett Indians of present-day Rhode Island. Using an eventful historical methodology, I uncover three primary mechanisms, each temporally situated, that dispossessed the Narragansett tribe of their land: violence, debt, and state governance. I proceed by first considering Narragansett life before the incursion of settler colonialism. Following this brief exploration, I turn to an analysis of both the historical events and processes that dispossessed the Narragansett of their land. This analysis contributes to the literature on empire and colonialism, as well as theoretical debates on primitive accumulation and settler colonialism, by exploring and identifying the mechanisms by which primitive accumulation operated within a specific settler-colonial context. In the end, I argue that sociology must expand analytically and conceptually to include indigenous experiences of ongoing dispossession in order to end the disciplines complicity in the elimination of the native.

This essay analyzes the complicated gendered landscape that academic women's studies represents for gay male students and instructors. It uses personal experience and contemporary gender theory to explore why women's studies is perceived to be the natural province of gay males, how gay males are interpellated as ''men'' in women's studies, and the choices gay males face between academic feminism and popular discourses of gay rights activism. It argues that Women's studies represents both a promising and perilous discursive space for gay males, especially those attempting to embody gender constructionist, anti-essentialist, and queer subject positions.

This article examines the history of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) during the 1960s and early 1970s from a transnational perspective, exploring the ideological overlap between the union's domestic organizing efforts and its international affairs program. The UAW believed workers and their institutions were the catalysts for economic and political development in poor communities in the United States and developing nations abroad. In the United States, the UAW attempted to address the problems facing poor urban areas with solutions that went beyond the shop floor and state anti-poverty programs. Without an industrial base to unite workers on the job, the UAW funded and staffed community unions to mobilize the largely African American neighborhood of Watts and the Mexican American community of East Los Angeles forging an alliance between poor people, workers, and the labor movement. The Watts Labor Community Action Committee (WLCAC) and the East Los Angeles Community Union (TELACU) were designed to create jobs and housing, revitalize the local economy, and ultimately raise the purchasing power and standard of living of residents in these economically and politically marginalized areas of Los Angeles. This article demonstrates the way the UAW's community union movement was influenced by ideas about race, culture, and development that transcended national boundaries, linking urban communities in the United States with developing nations abroad.

The study analyzes the ''My Strength is Not for Hurting'' rape prevention public media campaign through the lens of feminist visual culture studies, arguing that the campaign sends contradictory and confusing messages to boys and men about rape and sexual assault. It also touches on the implications of the campaign's appropriation of a commercial advertising aesthetic; the tendency to objectify women and silence their voices; and complications resulting from efforts to include racial and sexual diversity.

Neither orderly nor fully rational, the current healthcare environment is a mosaic of providers, products, services, and intermediaries delivering healthcare, regulatory, and other government institutions, and consumers. The information required for informed healthcare decisions for novel pharmaceutical interventions varies appreciably with the audience, the therapeutic area, and the stage of product development. In this environment, the viability of new product introductions can be heavily influenced by perceived value as well as by mechanistic novelty. Correspondingly, research and development activities can be influenced profoundly by the use of incentive-based formularies, prior authorization requirements, or systems of reimbursement that mandate a stream of evidence confirming clinical utility in the presence of therapeutic uncertainty (eg, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Coverage with Evidence Development). The economic impact of innovative technology on the healthcare system, as well as the effects on the individual patient, can become a significant variable that influences the extent of research activities from the bench to the physician-patient-payor interface.