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Negotiating Citizenships And Borders Of Political Belonging, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking Dec 2014

Negotiating Citizenships And Borders Of Political Belonging, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.


The 'Good Enough' Multicultural City: Managing Diversity In Toronto, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking, Neil Bradford Dec 2014

The 'Good Enough' Multicultural City: Managing Diversity In Toronto, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking, Neil Bradford

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.


Religion And Deep Multiculturalism: Toward A Cosmopolitical Ethics Of Engagement, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking, Catarina Kinnvall Dec 2013

Religion And Deep Multiculturalism: Toward A Cosmopolitical Ethics Of Engagement, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking, Catarina Kinnvall

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.


The Politics Of Public Opinion, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking Dec 2013

The Politics Of Public Opinion, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.


Becoming 'Holistically Indegenous': Young Muslims And Political Participation In Canada, Kathy Bullock, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking Dec 2012

Becoming 'Holistically Indegenous': Young Muslims And Political Participation In Canada, Kathy Bullock, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

While media and the government often focus on the supposed "radicalization" of Muslim youth in Canada, our research explores the more complicated and nuanced political identities among 20 young Canadian Muslims. Using semi-structured in-depth interviews with these youth in the Greater Toronto Area and in London, Ontario, we explore these young citizens' concepts of political participation; conceptions of the self as a political actor; formal, informal, and civic political involvement; and the relationship between their religious and Canadian identities. Our research is grounded in a positive and pluralistic politics of care, respect, and engagement. We treated Muslim youth as similar …


Securitizing Citizenship: (B)Ordering Practices And Strategies Of Resistance, Catarina Kinnvall, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking Dec 2012

Securitizing Citizenship: (B)Ordering Practices And Strategies Of Resistance, Catarina Kinnvall, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

This article builds upon Yasemin Soysal's early work on post-national citizenship as constituting sites of resistance in contemporary European politics. Post-national citizenship provides every person with the right and duty of participation in the authority structures and public life of a polity, regardless of their historical ties to that community. This celebration of human rights as a world-level organising principle is, however, constantly challenged by liberal discourses and practices aimed to securitise identities and citizenships through the bordering of space, place and identities. Proceeding from a critical take on securitisation, we propose that in addition to a focus on the …


Canadian Political Culture: The Problem Of Americanization, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking Dec 2011

Canadian Political Culture: The Problem Of Americanization, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.


The Discursive Frames Of Political Psychology, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking, Catarina Kinnvall Dec 2011

The Discursive Frames Of Political Psychology, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking, Catarina Kinnvall

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

The aim of this article is to apply elements of contemporary social theory to the major theoretical, methodological, and ideological divisions across political psychology and to consider both the origins and the impact of a range of theories and models. In so doing, we clarify some of the complexity surrounding the discursive and cultural origins of political psychology. On the basis of this analysis, we aim to overcome the redundant binaries and dualisms—both conceptual and geo‐spatial—that have characterized the field up to now. These binary pairs relate to matters of epistemology, ideology, and methodology, and we show how each pair …


El Rol De Los Medios En El Comportamiento Electoral: Una Perspectiva Candiense, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking Dec 2010

El Rol De Los Medios En El Comportamiento Electoral: Una Perspectiva Candiense, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.


Los Medios De Comunicacion Y La Democracia: Los Alcances Del Libro, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking, Manuel Alejandro Gurrero Martinez Dec 2010

Los Medios De Comunicacion Y La Democracia: Los Alcances Del Libro, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking, Manuel Alejandro Gurrero Martinez

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.


Global Insecurity And Citizenship Strategies: Young Muslims In The West, Catarina Kinnvall, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking Dec 2010

Global Insecurity And Citizenship Strategies: Young Muslims In The West, Catarina Kinnvall, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

This article is set in the contemporary context of global challenges: economic crises, state deformations, and rapidly accelerating flows of people, ideas, and ideals. It has two main aims. One is to establish theoretical and empirical links between securitization studies and analyses of citizenship in the light of globalization, multiculturalism and discourses on terror. The second is to illustrate how macro events play out at the collective and individual level in terms of socio-psychological (in)securities that condition different citizenship strategies. The empirical basis for the article includes our studies of Western Muslims in the Netherlands, France, the UK, Sweden, Denmark, …


Politics And The Media: Culture, Technology, And Regulation, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking, Jonathan Rose Dec 2009

Politics And The Media: Culture, Technology, And Regulation, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking, Jonathan Rose

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.


Citizenship Regimes And Identity Strategies Among Young Muslims In Europe, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking, Catarina Kinnvall Dec 2009

Citizenship Regimes And Identity Strategies Among Young Muslims In Europe, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking, Catarina Kinnvall

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.


The Role Of The Media In Electoral Behaviour: A Canadian Perspective, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking Dec 2009

The Role Of The Media In Electoral Behaviour: A Canadian Perspective, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

This work, divided in four sections, is a critical assessment of Canadian perspectives on the role of the media in electoral behaviour, notably on the roles media play in setting or responding to the agenda in the heat of election campaigns. The first section of the article highlights important Canadian methodological and empirical contributions to behaviouralism. The second section of the article, on culture, ideology, and discourse, illustrates general patterns of contrast between the Canadian and American political cultures through an exploration of the comparative role of negative and attack advertisements in election campaigns. The third section of the article …


Media And Democracy: Recent Experiences From Canada And Mexico-An Introduction, Manuel A. Gurrero, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking Dec 2009

Media And Democracy: Recent Experiences From Canada And Mexico-An Introduction, Manuel A. Gurrero, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.


Reframing Campaigning: Communications, The Media And Elections In Canada, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking Dec 2008

Reframing Campaigning: Communications, The Media And Elections In Canada, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

This article is a critical assessment of Canadian perspectives on the role of the media in electoral behaviour, notably on the roles media play in setting or responding to the agenda in the heat of election campaigns. Research into the role of the media in election campaigns has been conducted within the broadly behaviouralist tradition of political scientific research. The article begins with a brief contextualization of the behaviouralist research tradition in Canada. Within the specific context of Canadian history and its social structure, the introduction explains how the very questions that Canadians have posed regarding media/campaign interactions have been …


Terrible Beauty: Globalization, Consciousness, And Ethics, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking Dec 2008

Terrible Beauty: Globalization, Consciousness, And Ethics, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.


Security, Subjectivity And Space In Postcolonial Europe: Muslims In The Diaspora, Catarina Kinnvall, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking Dec 2008

Security, Subjectivity And Space In Postcolonial Europe: Muslims In The Diaspora, Catarina Kinnvall, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

In this article, we call into question the assumptions that undergird conceptions of boundary, territory, community and ethno-cultural belonging in the constitution of European security. Both the term ‘human security’ as defined by development and human rights scholars and ‘securitisation’ as conceptualised by critical security studies concern the socio-psychological aspects of security. Yet, few attempts have been made to seriously discuss the psychological effects of securitisation on subjectivity and space. There is, as we will argue, a tendency in much literature to use concepts of ‘existential security’, ‘fear’, ‘needs’ and the ‘politics of belonging’ – obviously connected to the human …


Introduction To The Special Issue On Communications, The Media And Policy In Canada, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking, Michael Howlett Dec 2008

Introduction To The Special Issue On Communications, The Media And Policy In Canada, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking, Michael Howlett

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.


Dissolving The Diaspora: Dialogical Practice In The Development Of Deep Multiculturalism, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking Dec 2007

Dissolving The Diaspora: Dialogical Practice In The Development Of Deep Multiculturalism, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

This article is an exposition of deep or critical multiculturalism that is grounded in a mutually respectful dialogue. Such multiculturalism names historical oppressions, recognizes the structural causes of injustice and inequality, and is profoundly open to cultural critique, challenge and change. In order to promote such a multicultural practice, the article makes the case for a dialogical politics of deep and mutual respect in which ethno‐religious sensibilities are validated and welcomed in their rich diversity. In doing so, the article draws upon the authorʼs empirical research on the Muslim minority in contemporary Canada.


Australian Ballot, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking Dec 2007

Australian Ballot, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.


Political Socialization, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking Dec 2007

Political Socialization, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.


Political Alienation, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking Dec 2007

Political Alienation, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.


Efficacy, Political, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking Dec 2007

Efficacy, Political, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.


Campaign Finance, Politics Of, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking Dec 2007

Campaign Finance, Politics Of, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.


Agenda Setting, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking Dec 2007

Agenda Setting, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.


Political Culture, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking Dec 2007

Political Culture, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.


Gatekeeping, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking Dec 2007

Gatekeeping, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.


Negative Campaigning, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking Dec 2007

Negative Campaigning, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.


Representative Democracy, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking Dec 2007

Representative Democracy, Paul W. Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

No abstract provided.