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In his original article on market civilization, Gill argues that a key aspect of the process of neoliberal governance is its emphasis on self-actualization through the process of consumption. Discourses of neoliberalism suggest that the self is actualized ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that human security is intimately tied to social reproduction and the protection and enhancement of the capabilities that allow men and women to create and shape their own well-being over space and time. However, neo-liberal governance frameworks prioritize and privilege the security and rights of large capital over basic human security needs of the mass of humanity. This contradicts democratic determination of needs and social priorities. Indeed, notions of citizenship are being reconstituted along market-oriented lines, with a number of impacts on gender orders. The paper links these issues to two aspects of social reproduction the reproduction of the labor force and provisioning and caring needs in the context of Canada. Canada is used as an example not only because of its multi-level system of governance and its position in the global hierarchy of capitalist states, but also because Canada has consistently ranked at the top of the UN’s Human Development Index. If such transformations threaten human security in Canada, then logically, they are likely to be uncovered in other societies who have adopted neoliberal governance structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Power, Production and Social Reproduction, we began to explore a socialontology that would enable us to re-think basic categories and concepts of(global) political economy. In this paper we will try to take things a littlefurther by engaging in the debates between positivist, conventionalist (e.g.humanist and hermeneutic) and critical realist perspectives on ontology andepistemology. The aim is to be able to better make sense of ontologyunderstood broadly as an historical and human process involving human agency inthe creation of the institutions and structures of social life in a givenperiod, or more broadly, in shaping social reproduction. This approach willtherefore build on our earlier sketch of an approach to explanation in globalpolitical economy that incorporates the dialectic of structure and agency aswell as power/knowledge as a means to identify the moments not only of powerand production but also of social reproduction in the emerging world order. One way to do this is to further explore the distinction between work - whichin the sphere of production broadly mediates relations between social andnatural orders - and labour. The latter is a particular aspect of work whichin capitalism is appropriated and controlled in the capital-labour relation. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will examine the nature of feminist intellectuals in the first, second and third phases of the women?s movement. It will raise and seek to address the following questions. What constitutes a feminist intellectual from an ontological, epistemological and political perspective? Are there unique reflections on theory and practice? How do traditional versus organic intellectuals relate to emancipatory feminist movements? How has each phase of these movements from the 1800s to the present related to questions of global order and politics? How have feminist intellectuals engaged with malestream thought in each of these phases and what is their contribution to thinking about the present and future moments of global order? ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In most nations, a series of laws and rules, institutional practices and a framework of market-based expectations, connected to the mobilization of a large amount of financial resources, govern fiscal policy. These laws have been enacted with specific goals and constituencies in mind. Despite their commitments to the Millennium Development Goals, a continuing aspect of the first importance with respect to economic governance is the way that neo-liberal institutional and legal reforms have very restrictive policy rules. The effect of these rules is that many countries have reduced their ?fiscal manoeuvrability? and ultimately, make it difficult for their policies to comply with social reproduction needs ? also undercutting the possibility of them meeting the M DG targets. These include balanced budget rules adopted world-wide. Balanced budget laws and indeed, constitutional amendments, introduce a specific set of numerical targets into the budget process, limiting for instance, the standard Keynesian anti-cyclical policy prescription of tax cuts, expenditure increases and deficits in recessions with tax increases and expenditure cuts and surplus during expansionary periods. With this in mind, my research will undertake a comparative analysis of a donor and recipient community- the EU and South ? examining existing budgetary frameworks and how these can be made more consistent with the goals of social reproduction for the majority. I will consider fiscal rules (e.g., investment rules) and constitutional amendments and relate these to both the ability to meet MDG commitments and the ultimate provisioning of health, social infrastructure and welfare. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]