Department of Global Development Studies
Queen's UniversityRichard Day
Associate Professor, Global Development Studies,
PhD. Sociology, Simon Fraser University
Curriculum Vitae(PDF 103KB)
email: richard.day@queensu.ca
phone: x 79685
fax: 613-533-2986
Global Development Studies
Mac Corry Hall B413
DEVS 100B Canada and the Third and Fourth Worlds, SOCY 225 Globalization and its Alternatives
Office hours Wednesdays 12-1 and Fridays 1-2
Research Interests:
Probably the most important thing to say here is that I am not, at this point, able to accept any more grad students. I am on over a dozen committees in three programs, and no longer have access to paid graduate teaching or research funding. I’m just spread too thinly for the minimal resources that are available to me. Sorry!
Also, I’m not doing the multiculturalism thing anymore, at all, so even if I were able to take students, I would not be able to supervise people in that area.
So, what am I doing then? These days I call myself an autonomy-oriented theorist and practitioner. I am interested in creating radical alternatives to the currently dominant global order, which can mean anything from ecologically-oriented rural intentional communities to protest-driven urban social centers. But I am not very interested in ideological approaches to this work, which is why I don’t call myself, say, ‘an anarchist’.
I am also a recovering high theorist. By which I mean, while I used to care very much about what Gilles Deleuze might have thought about Henri Bergson, this is no longer something I stay up at night reading about. My own research, and that of those I work with, involves movement-based theorizing, which means that the issues and questions being pursued emerge out of communities in resistance, in creation, in joy, in struggle, and have meaning in and for those communities, as well as in the worlds of academic production (one hopes).
Other Appointments:
Associate Professor
Sociology
Associate Professor
Global Development Studies
Associate Professor
Cultural Studies
Courses:
DEVS 498/SOCY 492: Autonomous Social Movements in the Americas
DEVS 100 B : Canada and the Third and Fourth Worlds
SOCY 225 : Globalization and its Alternatives
Publications:
- For the best indication of the work I’ve done in anarchist/autonomist theory, please see Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements. Pluto Press (UK) / Between the Lines (Canada) / University of Michigan Press (US), 2005.
The book is available in pdf format online, for free, at http://fckvrso.wordpress.com/ (even though it is not published by Verso! I am honoured) Look down … way down…
For a response to a number of critics of Gramsci Is Dead, see "Walking Away From Failure: A Response to AK Thompson (and Others)” in Upping the Anti #4. May 2007.
Some other people are happy/upset because they think I am a ‘postanarchist’. I would tend to doubt that, but I am in the reader:
“Hegemony, Affinity, and the Newest Social Movements: At the End of the 00s” in D. Rouselle & S. Evreyyan (eds.) The Postanarchism Reader. London: AK Press, 2011.
- I am also involved in thinking and acting through something called anarch@indigenism. To get an idea of what this means, please see the 2011 issue of the Affinities journal (which I edit) on this topic. You can find it at http://www.affinitiesjournal.org/index.php/affinities/issue/view/8
You could also check out the following articles:
(With Adam Lewis). “Radical Subjectivity and Post-Identity Politics” in R. Taforodi (ed.) Subjectivity in the 21st century: Cultural, philosophical, and Political Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming in 2012, we hope.
"Angry Indians, Settler Guilt, and the Challenges of Decolonization and Resurgence" in K. Ladner and L. Simpson (eds.) This is an Honour Song: Twenty Years Since the Blockades. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring, 2010.
(With M. Abdou and S. Haberle): "Grassroots Multiculturalism" in S. Bolaria and S. Hier (eds.) Racism, Identity, and Justice: Dialogue on the Politics of Inequality and Change . Halifax: Fernwood Press, 2009.
- I have been active for many years in the world of radical/alternative/anarchist pedagogies, and retain a strong interest in such projects. Some relevant publications:
(With J. Kabo and C. Baillie) "Engineering and Social Justice: How to help students cross the threshold," in Practice and Evidence of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education,Vol. 4, No. 2, October 2009.
(Co-edited with Mark Coté and Greig dePeuter). Utopian Pedagogy: Radical Experiments against Neoliberal Globalization.Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.
“The University as Anarcho-Community,” in I. Angus (ed) Anarcho-modernism: Essays in Honour of Jerry Zaslove, Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2001.