What makes legal violence legitimate?
Amy Swiffen
- Associate Professor
- Department of Sociology and Anthropology
- Acting Director
- Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture
- Graduate Program Director:
- MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology
- MA in Sociology
- PhD in Social and Cultural Analysis
- social and political theory8
- law and society20
- social deviance/conformity2
- biopolitics8
- sociology of law3
- philosophy of law2
- criminology2
- hate crimes3
- bioethics8
- psychoanalysis5
- rights of the Indigenous4
- human rights28
- international law4
- public health policy12
- public health law
- ethics15
- risk17
- critical legal studies2
- qualitative methods40
- natural law
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Martin French
risk, surveillance, social justice
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Vivek Venkatesh
hate crimes, racialization, radicalization
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Genevieve Renard Painter
Indigenous-Settler relations, law, language
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Katharina Nieswandt
ethics, virtue ethics, G. E. M. Anscombe
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Nicole De Silva
international relations, international cooperation, international law
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Kregg Hetherington
rural development, peasant land struggles, ecopolitics
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Eric H. Reiter
law and society, Quebec Civil Law, legal history
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Frances M. Shaver
sex industry, health and safety, gender and sexuality
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Matthew Unger
law and society, contemporary accusatory practices, aesthetics
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Sylvia Kairouz
gambling, addictive behaviors, social impacts of technology
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Sarah Ghabrial
Maghreb, French Empire, interactions with Islam
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Viviane Namaste
public health policy, sexual health, sexuality studies
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Olivier Charbonneau
copyright, open access, digital rights
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Maurice Charland
rhetoric and discourse, argumentation, political theory
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Marlene Sokolon
political theory, ancient political thought, Aristotle
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Linda Kay
print journalism, women pioneers in journalism, journalism history
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François Saillant
housing policy, cultural and social change, socioeconomic inequality
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Brandiff Caron
philosophy of technology, social impacts of technology, engineering education
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Sandra Chang-Kredl
teacher identity, popular culture, memory
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Jessica Bardill
Indigenous literatures, Indigenous knowledges, storytelling
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Pablo Gilabert
political philosophy, normative ethics, human rights
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David Secko
science/technology communication, role of journalism, new models of journalism
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James Kelly
constitutions, Canadian and Quebec politics, democratic governance
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Frank Chalk
genocide studies, ideologies of hate, mass atrocity prevention