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Max Haiven

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Biography

Max Haiven's work focuses on the radical imagination as it flows through critical institutions and edifices of the global. Completing his dissertation in cultural studies at McMaster University in June, he has published and written on themes ranging from Wal-Mart to food sovereignty to finance to Pokemon cards. His research on dams as sites of global imagination and cultural production is inspired by his participation in peace, labour, social justice and anti-racist struggles

La recherche de Max Haiven est axée sur l’imagination radicale comme elle s’écoule à travers les institutions critiques et les édifices du global. Achevant sa dissertation en études culturelles à l’université McMaster en juin, il a publié et écrit sur des thèmes allant de Wal-Mart, à la souveraineté de la nourriture, aux finances, en passant par les cartes Pokemon. Sa recherche sur les barrages comme sites de l’imagination globale et de la production culturelle s’inspire de sa participation aux luttes pour la paix, pour la justice sociale, pour la main-d’œuvre, et contre le racisme.

Please see Reading the Mega-Dam for the Flows of Globalization.

Veuillez voir le résumé: Reading the Mega-Dam for the Flows of Globalization (v.f.).

Publications
  • "Wal-Mart: the Panopticon of Time." The McMaster Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition Working Paper Series. 9.1 (June 2009).
  • "Privatized Resistance: AdBusters and the Culture of Neoliberal-ism." The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies.29.1(2007): 85-110.
  • Edited Journal: with Alex Khasnabish, "What is the Radical Imagination." Affinities 4 (forthcoming, May 2010).
  • Edited Journal: with Scott Stoneman, "Food Sovereignty and Cultural Studies." Politics and Culture. 10.2 (May 2009). [Including: Editorial: "Food, Finance, Crisis, Catalyst: Global Capitalism and the Revolutionary Value of Food Sovereignty."; Interview: Michael Perelman.; Interview: Sylvia Federici.]
  • Book Review: Capital and Language.(2008) C.Marazzi. Trans.G.Conti. Criticism. 51:1(2009).
  • Book Review: Caliban and the Witch. (1994) S.Federici. Politics and Culture. 7.2 (2006).