Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto

Senior Visiting Research Fellow

I taught a graduate course in Criminological Theory and presented a paer in the Seminar Series and was something of an intellectual interlocutor fro a number of gradyuate students some ofwhom I am pleased to stay are now faculty.

Queen's University Kingston Ontario Canada

Professor of Sociology

I research and and publish in the areas of Social Theory and Corporate Crime.

Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto

Senior Visiting Research Fellow

I researched the developments of Mchel Foucault's later work on "Governmentality", the basis of an article published in "Theoretical Criminology, as Danica Dupont "Foucault contra Foucault: Re-reading the Governmentality Papers" Theroretical Criminology, 5.2. (2001) 123-58

The Radical Durkheim Second Edition E-Book

Red Quill Books

In this book, Frank Pearce imaginatively uses poststructuralist reading strategies to provide a rigorous critical and creative re-examination of Emile Durkheim’s major works. While Durkheim’s views are often presented as being inherently positivistic and conservative, Pearce demonstrates the shortsightedness of this view, and the potential fruitfulness of Durkheim’s complex and multifaceted oeuvre. Pearce identifies a series of different discourses traversing Durkheim’s texts and shows that while their combination in Durkheim’s works produced certain coherence, it also often truncated their potential. In an exemplary demonstration of the utility of this way of interrogating texts, Frank Pearce provides a stimulating and highly relevant approach to this foundational sociological figure. Developing a critical dialogue between Durkheim’s works and Marxism, the book provides analytically powerful means for sociologically addressing the viable transformation of existing social institutions including the state, collective power, democratic governance, law, the economy and religion, to create increasingly just, democratic, substantively egalitarian and non-exploitative societies. By his attention to concepts, categories, chains of meaning and other components of theoretical systems, Frank Pearce reflexively spells out a methodology for this kind of theoretical research in sociology and shows the reader this process in action. The book makes an inspiring case for critical, theoretically rich sociological research that aims to offer realistic grounds for political optimism and gaining a sense of the possibilities inherent in social life.

The Radical Durkheim Second Edition E-Book

Red Quill Books

In this book, Frank Pearce imaginatively uses poststructuralist reading strategies to provide a rigorous critical and creative re-examination of Emile Durkheim’s major works. While Durkheim’s views are often presented as being inherently positivistic and conservative, Pearce demonstrates the shortsightedness of this view, and the potential fruitfulness of Durkheim’s complex and multifaceted oeuvre. Pearce identifies a series of different discourses traversing Durkheim’s texts and shows that while their combination in Durkheim’s works produced certain coherence, it also often truncated their potential. In an exemplary demonstration of the utility of this way of interrogating texts, Frank Pearce provides a stimulating and highly relevant approach to this foundational sociological figure. Developing a critical dialogue between Durkheim’s works and Marxism, the book provides analytically powerful means for sociologically addressing the viable transformation of existing social institutions including the state, collective power, democratic governance, law, the economy and religion, to create increasingly just, democratic, substantively egalitarian and non-exploitative societies. By his attention to concepts, categories, chains of meaning and other components of theoretical systems, Frank Pearce reflexively spells out a methodology for this kind of theoretical research in sociology and shows the reader this process in action. The book makes an inspiring case for critical, theoretically rich sociological research that aims to offer realistic grounds for political optimism and gaining a sense of the possibilities inherent in social life.

Toxic Capitalism

Ashgate

The Radical Durkheim Second Edition E-Book

Red Quill Books

In this book, Frank Pearce imaginatively uses poststructuralist reading strategies to provide a rigorous critical and creative re-examination of Emile Durkheim’s major works. While Durkheim’s views are often presented as being inherently positivistic and conservative, Pearce demonstrates the shortsightedness of this view, and the potential fruitfulness of Durkheim’s complex and multifaceted oeuvre. Pearce identifies a series of different discourses traversing Durkheim’s texts and shows that while their combination in Durkheim’s works produced certain coherence, it also often truncated their potential. In an exemplary demonstration of the utility of this way of interrogating texts, Frank Pearce provides a stimulating and highly relevant approach to this foundational sociological figure. Developing a critical dialogue between Durkheim’s works and Marxism, the book provides analytically powerful means for sociologically addressing the viable transformation of existing social institutions including the state, collective power, democratic governance, law, the economy and religion, to create increasingly just, democratic, substantively egalitarian and non-exploitative societies. By his attention to concepts, categories, chains of meaning and other components of theoretical systems, Frank Pearce reflexively spells out a methodology for this kind of theoretical research in sociology and shows the reader this process in action. The book makes an inspiring case for critical, theoretically rich sociological research that aims to offer realistic grounds for political optimism and gaining a sense of the possibilities inherent in social life.

Toxic Capitalism

Ashgate

Special Issue " Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry as Toxic Capitalism" edited by Tomas MacSheoin and Frank Pearcn

Social Justice Volume. 41, Nos. 1-2 2014 Special Issue

This special issue focuses on the three disasters created by the explosion and consequential release of a cocktail of poisonous gases at a chemical plant nominally owned and controlled by Union Carbide Union Carbide India Limited but which was majority owned and controlled by its American parent company Union Carbide Corporation. The first disaster was the killing of seven thousand or more men, women and children kept ignorant of the dangers they faced from an unsafe production process which lacked effective safety devices maintained and with no thought given to the evacuation of the nearby population. The second disaster was the general lack of medical personnel and supplies and preparednes and incompetent organisation largely responible for the further 18,000 subsequent death.s that occurred subsequently. The third is the ongoing legacy of poisoned land and groundwater supplies because the chemical plant has not been decontaminated. Btu, as is shown, this has also called forth courageous and often effective resistance including community building. But, as is also shown, the struggle against Toxic Capitalism is global.

The Radical Durkheim Second Edition E-Book

Red Quill Books

In this book, Frank Pearce imaginatively uses poststructuralist reading strategies to provide a rigorous critical and creative re-examination of Emile Durkheim’s major works. While Durkheim’s views are often presented as being inherently positivistic and conservative, Pearce demonstrates the shortsightedness of this view, and the potential fruitfulness of Durkheim’s complex and multifaceted oeuvre. Pearce identifies a series of different discourses traversing Durkheim’s texts and shows that while their combination in Durkheim’s works produced certain coherence, it also often truncated their potential. In an exemplary demonstration of the utility of this way of interrogating texts, Frank Pearce provides a stimulating and highly relevant approach to this foundational sociological figure. Developing a critical dialogue between Durkheim’s works and Marxism, the book provides analytically powerful means for sociologically addressing the viable transformation of existing social institutions including the state, collective power, democratic governance, law, the economy and religion, to create increasingly just, democratic, substantively egalitarian and non-exploitative societies. By his attention to concepts, categories, chains of meaning and other components of theoretical systems, Frank Pearce reflexively spells out a methodology for this kind of theoretical research in sociology and shows the reader this process in action. The book makes an inspiring case for critical, theoretically rich sociological research that aims to offer realistic grounds for political optimism and gaining a sense of the possibilities inherent in social life.

Toxic Capitalism

Ashgate

Special Issue " Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry as Toxic Capitalism" edited by Tomas MacSheoin and Frank Pearcn

Social Justice Volume. 41, Nos. 1-2 2014 Special Issue

This special issue focuses on the three disasters created by the explosion and consequential release of a cocktail of poisonous gases at a chemical plant nominally owned and controlled by Union Carbide Union Carbide India Limited but which was majority owned and controlled by its American parent company Union Carbide Corporation. The first disaster was the killing of seven thousand or more men, women and children kept ignorant of the dangers they faced from an unsafe production process which lacked effective safety devices maintained and with no thought given to the evacuation of the nearby population. The second disaster was the general lack of medical personnel and supplies and preparednes and incompetent organisation largely responible for the further 18,000 subsequent death.s that occurred subsequently. The third is the ongoing legacy of poisoned land and groundwater supplies because the chemical plant has not been decontaminated. Btu, as is shown, this has also called forth courageous and often effective resistance including community building. But, as is also shown, the struggle against Toxic Capitalism is global.

The Radical Durkheim Second Edition

Canadian Scholar's Press

The Radical Durkheim Second Edition E-Book

Red Quill Books

In this book, Frank Pearce imaginatively uses poststructuralist reading strategies to provide a rigorous critical and creative re-examination of Emile Durkheim’s major works. While Durkheim’s views are often presented as being inherently positivistic and conservative, Pearce demonstrates the shortsightedness of this view, and the potential fruitfulness of Durkheim’s complex and multifaceted oeuvre. Pearce identifies a series of different discourses traversing Durkheim’s texts and shows that while their combination in Durkheim’s works produced certain coherence, it also often truncated their potential. In an exemplary demonstration of the utility of this way of interrogating texts, Frank Pearce provides a stimulating and highly relevant approach to this foundational sociological figure. Developing a critical dialogue between Durkheim’s works and Marxism, the book provides analytically powerful means for sociologically addressing the viable transformation of existing social institutions including the state, collective power, democratic governance, law, the economy and religion, to create increasingly just, democratic, substantively egalitarian and non-exploitative societies. By his attention to concepts, categories, chains of meaning and other components of theoretical systems, Frank Pearce reflexively spells out a methodology for this kind of theoretical research in sociology and shows the reader this process in action. The book makes an inspiring case for critical, theoretically rich sociological research that aims to offer realistic grounds for political optimism and gaining a sense of the possibilities inherent in social life.

Toxic Capitalism

Ashgate

Special Issue " Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry as Toxic Capitalism" edited by Tomas MacSheoin and Frank Pearcn

Social Justice Volume. 41, Nos. 1-2 2014 Special Issue

This special issue focuses on the three disasters created by the explosion and consequential release of a cocktail of poisonous gases at a chemical plant nominally owned and controlled by Union Carbide Union Carbide India Limited but which was majority owned and controlled by its American parent company Union Carbide Corporation. The first disaster was the killing of seven thousand or more men, women and children kept ignorant of the dangers they faced from an unsafe production process which lacked effective safety devices maintained and with no thought given to the evacuation of the nearby population. The second disaster was the general lack of medical personnel and supplies and preparednes and incompetent organisation largely responible for the further 18,000 subsequent death.s that occurred subsequently. The third is the ongoing legacy of poisoned land and groundwater supplies because the chemical plant has not been decontaminated. Btu, as is shown, this has also called forth courageous and often effective resistance including community building. But, as is also shown, the struggle against Toxic Capitalism is global.

The Radical Durkheim Second Edition

Canadian Scholar's Press

Social Justice: Special Issue: Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry a Toxic Capitalism., edited and introduced by TomasMacsheoin and Frank Peace

Social Justice

12 articles exploring the the three crises provoked by the 1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster and its ongoing aftermath.

The Radical Durkheim Second Edition E-Book

Red Quill Books

In this book, Frank Pearce imaginatively uses poststructuralist reading strategies to provide a rigorous critical and creative re-examination of Emile Durkheim’s major works. While Durkheim’s views are often presented as being inherently positivistic and conservative, Pearce demonstrates the shortsightedness of this view, and the potential fruitfulness of Durkheim’s complex and multifaceted oeuvre. Pearce identifies a series of different discourses traversing Durkheim’s texts and shows that while their combination in Durkheim’s works produced certain coherence, it also often truncated their potential. In an exemplary demonstration of the utility of this way of interrogating texts, Frank Pearce provides a stimulating and highly relevant approach to this foundational sociological figure. Developing a critical dialogue between Durkheim’s works and Marxism, the book provides analytically powerful means for sociologically addressing the viable transformation of existing social institutions including the state, collective power, democratic governance, law, the economy and religion, to create increasingly just, democratic, substantively egalitarian and non-exploitative societies. By his attention to concepts, categories, chains of meaning and other components of theoretical systems, Frank Pearce reflexively spells out a methodology for this kind of theoretical research in sociology and shows the reader this process in action. The book makes an inspiring case for critical, theoretically rich sociological research that aims to offer realistic grounds for political optimism and gaining a sense of the possibilities inherent in social life.

Toxic Capitalism

Ashgate

Special Issue " Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry as Toxic Capitalism" edited by Tomas MacSheoin and Frank Pearcn

Social Justice Volume. 41, Nos. 1-2 2014 Special Issue

This special issue focuses on the three disasters created by the explosion and consequential release of a cocktail of poisonous gases at a chemical plant nominally owned and controlled by Union Carbide Union Carbide India Limited but which was majority owned and controlled by its American parent company Union Carbide Corporation. The first disaster was the killing of seven thousand or more men, women and children kept ignorant of the dangers they faced from an unsafe production process which lacked effective safety devices maintained and with no thought given to the evacuation of the nearby population. The second disaster was the general lack of medical personnel and supplies and preparednes and incompetent organisation largely responible for the further 18,000 subsequent death.s that occurred subsequently. The third is the ongoing legacy of poisoned land and groundwater supplies because the chemical plant has not been decontaminated. Btu, as is shown, this has also called forth courageous and often effective resistance including community building. But, as is also shown, the struggle against Toxic Capitalism is global.

The Radical Durkheim Second Edition

Canadian Scholar's Press

Social Justice: Special Issue: Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry a Toxic Capitalism., edited and introduced by TomasMacsheoin and Frank Peace

Social Justice

12 articles exploring the the three crises provoked by the 1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster and its ongoing aftermath.

Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry as Toxic Cpitalism

Social Justice

Editors of Special Issue, Bhopal and After: Inroduction to Special IOssue

The Radical Durkheim Second Edition E-Book

Red Quill Books

In this book, Frank Pearce imaginatively uses poststructuralist reading strategies to provide a rigorous critical and creative re-examination of Emile Durkheim’s major works. While Durkheim’s views are often presented as being inherently positivistic and conservative, Pearce demonstrates the shortsightedness of this view, and the potential fruitfulness of Durkheim’s complex and multifaceted oeuvre. Pearce identifies a series of different discourses traversing Durkheim’s texts and shows that while their combination in Durkheim’s works produced certain coherence, it also often truncated their potential. In an exemplary demonstration of the utility of this way of interrogating texts, Frank Pearce provides a stimulating and highly relevant approach to this foundational sociological figure. Developing a critical dialogue between Durkheim’s works and Marxism, the book provides analytically powerful means for sociologically addressing the viable transformation of existing social institutions including the state, collective power, democratic governance, law, the economy and religion, to create increasingly just, democratic, substantively egalitarian and non-exploitative societies. By his attention to concepts, categories, chains of meaning and other components of theoretical systems, Frank Pearce reflexively spells out a methodology for this kind of theoretical research in sociology and shows the reader this process in action. The book makes an inspiring case for critical, theoretically rich sociological research that aims to offer realistic grounds for political optimism and gaining a sense of the possibilities inherent in social life.

Toxic Capitalism

Ashgate

Special Issue " Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry as Toxic Capitalism" edited by Tomas MacSheoin and Frank Pearcn

Social Justice Volume. 41, Nos. 1-2 2014 Special Issue

This special issue focuses on the three disasters created by the explosion and consequential release of a cocktail of poisonous gases at a chemical plant nominally owned and controlled by Union Carbide Union Carbide India Limited but which was majority owned and controlled by its American parent company Union Carbide Corporation. The first disaster was the killing of seven thousand or more men, women and children kept ignorant of the dangers they faced from an unsafe production process which lacked effective safety devices maintained and with no thought given to the evacuation of the nearby population. The second disaster was the general lack of medical personnel and supplies and preparednes and incompetent organisation largely responible for the further 18,000 subsequent death.s that occurred subsequently. The third is the ongoing legacy of poisoned land and groundwater supplies because the chemical plant has not been decontaminated. Btu, as is shown, this has also called forth courageous and often effective resistance including community building. But, as is also shown, the struggle against Toxic Capitalism is global.

The Radical Durkheim Second Edition

Canadian Scholar's Press

Social Justice: Special Issue: Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry a Toxic Capitalism., edited and introduced by TomasMacsheoin and Frank Peace

Social Justice

12 articles exploring the the three crises provoked by the 1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster and its ongoing aftermath.

Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry as Toxic Cpitalism

Social Justice

Editors of Special Issue, Bhopal and After: Inroduction to Special IOssue

'The Collège de Sociologie and French Social Thought' (Special Issue) Economy and Society, Vol. 32, No. 1,

Routledge

Frank Pearce (editor and contributor to) a Special Issue of Economy and Society on the significance of the College de Sociologie 1937-1939. This was the most conventionally scholarly manifestation of the activities of the neo-Durkheimian, defrocked Surrealists Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois and Michel Leiris, who published the journal Acéphale, and who were also members of the secret society, also called Acéphale concurrently exploring the possibility of concensual ritualised human sacrifice.

The Radical Durkheim Second Edition E-Book

Red Quill Books

In this book, Frank Pearce imaginatively uses poststructuralist reading strategies to provide a rigorous critical and creative re-examination of Emile Durkheim’s major works. While Durkheim’s views are often presented as being inherently positivistic and conservative, Pearce demonstrates the shortsightedness of this view, and the potential fruitfulness of Durkheim’s complex and multifaceted oeuvre. Pearce identifies a series of different discourses traversing Durkheim’s texts and shows that while their combination in Durkheim’s works produced certain coherence, it also often truncated their potential. In an exemplary demonstration of the utility of this way of interrogating texts, Frank Pearce provides a stimulating and highly relevant approach to this foundational sociological figure. Developing a critical dialogue between Durkheim’s works and Marxism, the book provides analytically powerful means for sociologically addressing the viable transformation of existing social institutions including the state, collective power, democratic governance, law, the economy and religion, to create increasingly just, democratic, substantively egalitarian and non-exploitative societies. By his attention to concepts, categories, chains of meaning and other components of theoretical systems, Frank Pearce reflexively spells out a methodology for this kind of theoretical research in sociology and shows the reader this process in action. The book makes an inspiring case for critical, theoretically rich sociological research that aims to offer realistic grounds for political optimism and gaining a sense of the possibilities inherent in social life.

Toxic Capitalism

Ashgate

Special Issue " Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry as Toxic Capitalism" edited by Tomas MacSheoin and Frank Pearcn

Social Justice Volume. 41, Nos. 1-2 2014 Special Issue

This special issue focuses on the three disasters created by the explosion and consequential release of a cocktail of poisonous gases at a chemical plant nominally owned and controlled by Union Carbide Union Carbide India Limited but which was majority owned and controlled by its American parent company Union Carbide Corporation. The first disaster was the killing of seven thousand or more men, women and children kept ignorant of the dangers they faced from an unsafe production process which lacked effective safety devices maintained and with no thought given to the evacuation of the nearby population. The second disaster was the general lack of medical personnel and supplies and preparednes and incompetent organisation largely responible for the further 18,000 subsequent death.s that occurred subsequently. The third is the ongoing legacy of poisoned land and groundwater supplies because the chemical plant has not been decontaminated. Btu, as is shown, this has also called forth courageous and often effective resistance including community building. But, as is also shown, the struggle against Toxic Capitalism is global.

The Radical Durkheim Second Edition

Canadian Scholar's Press

Social Justice: Special Issue: Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry a Toxic Capitalism., edited and introduced by TomasMacsheoin and Frank Peace

Social Justice

12 articles exploring the the three crises provoked by the 1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster and its ongoing aftermath.

Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry as Toxic Cpitalism

Social Justice

Editors of Special Issue, Bhopal and After: Inroduction to Special IOssue

'The Collège de Sociologie and French Social Thought' (Special Issue) Economy and Society, Vol. 32, No. 1,

Routledge

Frank Pearce (editor and contributor to) a Special Issue of Economy and Society on the significance of the College de Sociologie 1937-1939. This was the most conventionally scholarly manifestation of the activities of the neo-Durkheimian, defrocked Surrealists Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois and Michel Leiris, who published the journal Acéphale, and who were also members of the secret society, also called Acéphale concurrently exploring the possibility of concensual ritualised human sacrifice.

Bhopal : Flowers at the altar of profit and power E-Book

YPD Books

“We are not flowers offered at the altar of profit and power. We are dancing flames committed to conquering darkness and to challenging those who threaten the planet and the magic and mystery of life”. A statement by Rashida Bee, a Bhopal survivor who lost six family members. In December 1984, a massive gas leak killed thousands in and around a Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India; tens of thousands have died since, and many more have had their lives and livelihoods devastated. The US-based company and its CEO remain absconders from Indian justice. They have consistently denied, obfuscated and used the resources at the disposal of the powerful to evade any legal judgment. This book challenges their conduct. "This is the most incisive, persuasive and detailed account of the Bhopal disaster yet written. In clear, beautiful prose, using hundreds of documents and contrasting accounts, Pearce and Tombs meticulously document the causes, effects and aftermath of the world’s worst industrial “accident” (so far). Through its own corporate documents they trace the lines of responsibility from the parent company, Union Carbide (now Dow), to Bhopal, revealing the duplicity and venality of its efforts to distance itself by laying all blame on Indian management or the elusive “saboteur”. Their concluding argument shows how the world-view championed by neo-liberal economics - that market values must take primacy in all human relationships and that everything has its price – both legitimates Bhopal and fuels continuing cultural, environmental and social damage. This superb, important book should be read by activists, politicians and everyone working for a more just, equitable world." (From the Foreword by Laureen Snider, Professor Emerita, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario) All authors' royalties from this book will go to the Bhopal Medical Appeal

The Radical Durkheim Second Edition E-Book

Red Quill Books

In this book, Frank Pearce imaginatively uses poststructuralist reading strategies to provide a rigorous critical and creative re-examination of Emile Durkheim’s major works. While Durkheim’s views are often presented as being inherently positivistic and conservative, Pearce demonstrates the shortsightedness of this view, and the potential fruitfulness of Durkheim’s complex and multifaceted oeuvre. Pearce identifies a series of different discourses traversing Durkheim’s texts and shows that while their combination in Durkheim’s works produced certain coherence, it also often truncated their potential. In an exemplary demonstration of the utility of this way of interrogating texts, Frank Pearce provides a stimulating and highly relevant approach to this foundational sociological figure. Developing a critical dialogue between Durkheim’s works and Marxism, the book provides analytically powerful means for sociologically addressing the viable transformation of existing social institutions including the state, collective power, democratic governance, law, the economy and religion, to create increasingly just, democratic, substantively egalitarian and non-exploitative societies. By his attention to concepts, categories, chains of meaning and other components of theoretical systems, Frank Pearce reflexively spells out a methodology for this kind of theoretical research in sociology and shows the reader this process in action. The book makes an inspiring case for critical, theoretically rich sociological research that aims to offer realistic grounds for political optimism and gaining a sense of the possibilities inherent in social life.

Toxic Capitalism

Ashgate

Special Issue " Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry as Toxic Capitalism" edited by Tomas MacSheoin and Frank Pearcn

Social Justice Volume. 41, Nos. 1-2 2014 Special Issue

This special issue focuses on the three disasters created by the explosion and consequential release of a cocktail of poisonous gases at a chemical plant nominally owned and controlled by Union Carbide Union Carbide India Limited but which was majority owned and controlled by its American parent company Union Carbide Corporation. The first disaster was the killing of seven thousand or more men, women and children kept ignorant of the dangers they faced from an unsafe production process which lacked effective safety devices maintained and with no thought given to the evacuation of the nearby population. The second disaster was the general lack of medical personnel and supplies and preparednes and incompetent organisation largely responible for the further 18,000 subsequent death.s that occurred subsequently. The third is the ongoing legacy of poisoned land and groundwater supplies because the chemical plant has not been decontaminated. Btu, as is shown, this has also called forth courageous and often effective resistance including community building. But, as is also shown, the struggle against Toxic Capitalism is global.

The Radical Durkheim Second Edition

Canadian Scholar's Press

Social Justice: Special Issue: Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry a Toxic Capitalism., edited and introduced by TomasMacsheoin and Frank Peace

Social Justice

12 articles exploring the the three crises provoked by the 1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster and its ongoing aftermath.

Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry as Toxic Cpitalism

Social Justice

Editors of Special Issue, Bhopal and After: Inroduction to Special IOssue

'The Collège de Sociologie and French Social Thought' (Special Issue) Economy and Society, Vol. 32, No. 1,

Routledge

Frank Pearce (editor and contributor to) a Special Issue of Economy and Society on the significance of the College de Sociologie 1937-1939. This was the most conventionally scholarly manifestation of the activities of the neo-Durkheimian, defrocked Surrealists Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois and Michel Leiris, who published the journal Acéphale, and who were also members of the secret society, also called Acéphale concurrently exploring the possibility of concensual ritualised human sacrifice.

Bhopal : Flowers at the altar of profit and power E-Book

YPD Books

“We are not flowers offered at the altar of profit and power. We are dancing flames committed to conquering darkness and to challenging those who threaten the planet and the magic and mystery of life”. A statement by Rashida Bee, a Bhopal survivor who lost six family members. In December 1984, a massive gas leak killed thousands in and around a Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India; tens of thousands have died since, and many more have had their lives and livelihoods devastated. The US-based company and its CEO remain absconders from Indian justice. They have consistently denied, obfuscated and used the resources at the disposal of the powerful to evade any legal judgment. This book challenges their conduct. "This is the most incisive, persuasive and detailed account of the Bhopal disaster yet written. In clear, beautiful prose, using hundreds of documents and contrasting accounts, Pearce and Tombs meticulously document the causes, effects and aftermath of the world’s worst industrial “accident” (so far). Through its own corporate documents they trace the lines of responsibility from the parent company, Union Carbide (now Dow), to Bhopal, revealing the duplicity and venality of its efforts to distance itself by laying all blame on Indian management or the elusive “saboteur”. Their concluding argument shows how the world-view championed by neo-liberal economics - that market values must take primacy in all human relationships and that everything has its price – both legitimates Bhopal and fuels continuing cultural, environmental and social damage. This superb, important book should be read by activists, politicians and everyone working for a more just, equitable world." (From the Foreword by Laureen Snider, Professor Emerita, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario) All authors' royalties from this book will go to the Bhopal Medical Appeal

Special Issue "Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry as Toxic Capitalism" edited by Tomas MacSheoin and Frank Pearc.

Social Justice Volume. 41, Nos. 1-2 2014

This special issue focuses on the three disasters created by the explosion and consequential release of a cocktail of poisonous gases at a chemical plant nominally owned and controlled by Union Carbide Union Carbide India Limited but which was majority owned and controlled by its American parent company Union Carbide Corporation. The first disaster was the killing of seven thousand or more men, women and children kept ignorant of the dangers they faced from an unsafe production process which lacked effective safety devices maintained and with no thought given to the evacuation of the nearby population. The second disaster was the general lack of medical personnel and supplies and preparednes and incompetent organisation largely responible for the further 18,000 subsequent deaths that occurred subsequently. The third is the ongoing legacy of poisoned land and groundwater supplies because the chemical plant has not been decontaminated. But, this has also called forth courageous and often effective resistance to the ways in which the victims have ben treated and with local and external suppprtthe survivors' development of many independent. institutions.The 12 articles that comprise this special issue, makes it clear the struggle for justice in Bhopal continues.

The Radical Durkheim Second Edition E-Book

Red Quill Books

In this book, Frank Pearce imaginatively uses poststructuralist reading strategies to provide a rigorous critical and creative re-examination of Emile Durkheim’s major works. While Durkheim’s views are often presented as being inherently positivistic and conservative, Pearce demonstrates the shortsightedness of this view, and the potential fruitfulness of Durkheim’s complex and multifaceted oeuvre. Pearce identifies a series of different discourses traversing Durkheim’s texts and shows that while their combination in Durkheim’s works produced certain coherence, it also often truncated their potential. In an exemplary demonstration of the utility of this way of interrogating texts, Frank Pearce provides a stimulating and highly relevant approach to this foundational sociological figure. Developing a critical dialogue between Durkheim’s works and Marxism, the book provides analytically powerful means for sociologically addressing the viable transformation of existing social institutions including the state, collective power, democratic governance, law, the economy and religion, to create increasingly just, democratic, substantively egalitarian and non-exploitative societies. By his attention to concepts, categories, chains of meaning and other components of theoretical systems, Frank Pearce reflexively spells out a methodology for this kind of theoretical research in sociology and shows the reader this process in action. The book makes an inspiring case for critical, theoretically rich sociological research that aims to offer realistic grounds for political optimism and gaining a sense of the possibilities inherent in social life.

Toxic Capitalism

Ashgate

Special Issue " Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry as Toxic Capitalism" edited by Tomas MacSheoin and Frank Pearcn

Social Justice Volume. 41, Nos. 1-2 2014 Special Issue

This special issue focuses on the three disasters created by the explosion and consequential release of a cocktail of poisonous gases at a chemical plant nominally owned and controlled by Union Carbide Union Carbide India Limited but which was majority owned and controlled by its American parent company Union Carbide Corporation. The first disaster was the killing of seven thousand or more men, women and children kept ignorant of the dangers they faced from an unsafe production process which lacked effective safety devices maintained and with no thought given to the evacuation of the nearby population. The second disaster was the general lack of medical personnel and supplies and preparednes and incompetent organisation largely responible for the further 18,000 subsequent death.s that occurred subsequently. The third is the ongoing legacy of poisoned land and groundwater supplies because the chemical plant has not been decontaminated. Btu, as is shown, this has also called forth courageous and often effective resistance including community building. But, as is also shown, the struggle against Toxic Capitalism is global.

The Radical Durkheim Second Edition

Canadian Scholar's Press

Social Justice: Special Issue: Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry a Toxic Capitalism., edited and introduced by TomasMacsheoin and Frank Peace

Social Justice

12 articles exploring the the three crises provoked by the 1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster and its ongoing aftermath.

Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry as Toxic Cpitalism

Social Justice

Editors of Special Issue, Bhopal and After: Inroduction to Special IOssue

'The Collège de Sociologie and French Social Thought' (Special Issue) Economy and Society, Vol. 32, No. 1,

Routledge

Frank Pearce (editor and contributor to) a Special Issue of Economy and Society on the significance of the College de Sociologie 1937-1939. This was the most conventionally scholarly manifestation of the activities of the neo-Durkheimian, defrocked Surrealists Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois and Michel Leiris, who published the journal Acéphale, and who were also members of the secret society, also called Acéphale concurrently exploring the possibility of concensual ritualised human sacrifice.

Bhopal : Flowers at the altar of profit and power E-Book

YPD Books

“We are not flowers offered at the altar of profit and power. We are dancing flames committed to conquering darkness and to challenging those who threaten the planet and the magic and mystery of life”. A statement by Rashida Bee, a Bhopal survivor who lost six family members. In December 1984, a massive gas leak killed thousands in and around a Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India; tens of thousands have died since, and many more have had their lives and livelihoods devastated. The US-based company and its CEO remain absconders from Indian justice. They have consistently denied, obfuscated and used the resources at the disposal of the powerful to evade any legal judgment. This book challenges their conduct. "This is the most incisive, persuasive and detailed account of the Bhopal disaster yet written. In clear, beautiful prose, using hundreds of documents and contrasting accounts, Pearce and Tombs meticulously document the causes, effects and aftermath of the world’s worst industrial “accident” (so far). Through its own corporate documents they trace the lines of responsibility from the parent company, Union Carbide (now Dow), to Bhopal, revealing the duplicity and venality of its efforts to distance itself by laying all blame on Indian management or the elusive “saboteur”. Their concluding argument shows how the world-view championed by neo-liberal economics - that market values must take primacy in all human relationships and that everything has its price – both legitimates Bhopal and fuels continuing cultural, environmental and social damage. This superb, important book should be read by activists, politicians and everyone working for a more just, equitable world." (From the Foreword by Laureen Snider, Professor Emerita, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario) All authors' royalties from this book will go to the Bhopal Medical Appeal

Special Issue "Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry as Toxic Capitalism" edited by Tomas MacSheoin and Frank Pearc.

Social Justice Volume. 41, Nos. 1-2 2014

This special issue focuses on the three disasters created by the explosion and consequential release of a cocktail of poisonous gases at a chemical plant nominally owned and controlled by Union Carbide Union Carbide India Limited but which was majority owned and controlled by its American parent company Union Carbide Corporation. The first disaster was the killing of seven thousand or more men, women and children kept ignorant of the dangers they faced from an unsafe production process which lacked effective safety devices maintained and with no thought given to the evacuation of the nearby population. The second disaster was the general lack of medical personnel and supplies and preparednes and incompetent organisation largely responible for the further 18,000 subsequent deaths that occurred subsequently. The third is the ongoing legacy of poisoned land and groundwater supplies because the chemical plant has not been decontaminated. But, this has also called forth courageous and often effective resistance to the ways in which the victims have ben treated and with local and external suppprtthe survivors' development of many independent. institutions.The 12 articles that comprise this special issue, makes it clear the struggle for justice in Bhopal continues.

Critical Realism and the Social Sciences: Heterodox Elaborations

University of Toronto Press