Richard J. F. Day (born c. 1964) is a Canadian political philosopher and sociologist. He is the undergraduate chair and professor in the department of global development at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada He was previously associate professor of sociology. He considers himself to be critically involved with the broader question of the articulation of social subjects with group identities such as those offered up by nations, states...
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Richard J. F. Day (born c. 1964) is a Canadian political philosopher and sociologist. He is the undergraduate chair and professor in the department of global development at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada He was previously associate professor of sociology. He considers himself to be critically involved with the broader question of the articulation of social subjects with group identities such as those offered up by nations, states, and capitalist corporations. He is particularly interested in the possibilities for radical social change via the construction of alternative communities and polities especially in situations of indigenous resistance, queer and feminist organizing and anti-globalisation activism.
Richard Day's thesis which he prepared at Simon Fraser University was a study of ethnic identity and state regulation in Canada since the arrival of the Europeans. It used Lacanian and Foucaultian theory to analyze and critique the Canadian discourse on 'ethnic and...
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