Saturday, June 08, 2019
We **generally** try not to publish on Friday afternoons, but when something really matters we break our rule.
This is one of those. It's a bit wonky, but it's important, so please stick with us for a moment.
Remember when Harper gutted Canada's environmental laws? Well, the Trudeau government came up with a bill that would at least somewhat restore Canada's process for reviewing big industrial projects like oilsands projects, pipelines and mines.
Now the unelected Senate — under intense lobbying from the oil industry — has approved more than 180 controversial amendments to that legislation.
Experts describe the amendments as incoherent, badly drafted and an attempt to dodge climate change considerations. In fact they say the bill, as it stands now, would make our environmental assessment process worse than it was under Harper.
White House blocked intelligence aide’s written testimony on climate change
Harper advised Trump, true story.
INQUIRER.COM
Harper advised Trump, true story.
INQUIRER.COM
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Professor Alves asserts "How does one account for police violence when policing is not only the repressive branch of the state but also, in Michel Foucault's terms, “a project for governing territory”? In this article, I look at the broad discursive and economic practices that policing mobilizes to govern urban life. While I am mindful that bringing together an expansive understanding of policing (as multiple tactics of territorial governance and as officers' coercive practices) may raise objections from some readers, in this article I take both the work of the police and the rationality for governing that policing provides as objects of inquiry to understand how race is mobilized in what William Garriott has crafted as the police-as-governance-governance-as-police paradigm. How does a focus on race help to understand the broad political-economic work police do?
This question is particularly important within the Colombian transitional context--following the 2016 peace deal between the insurgent FARC guerrilla and the state--where the army has been deployed to “pacify” urban peripheries. Adding to the community policing approach called policia por cuadrante (policing by block), the city government and international donors have funded projects to integrate “trouble” youth in the city's service economy and educate them around notions of civic engagement and a “culture of peace.” Nevertheless, the same areas targeted by these soft projects are undergoing enduring forms of police violence and army occupation, which suggests a peculiar feature of state sovereignty in dealing with racialized bodies: brutal and raw violence that can be translated into abandonment, incarceration, and death. Thus, without denying other converging projects of urban governance, a focus on the police as a rationality of state-making may help to unveil its hidden work in racialized contexts where “power is experienced close to the skin”.
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