Academia
Peter Eglin is Professor Emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada where he taught Sociology from 1976 to 2016. His specialties are ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, language philosophy, crime, political economy of human rights and intellectual citizenship.
He is author of Talk and Taxonomy: A Methodological Comparison of Ethnosemantics and Ethnomethodology (1980) and Intellectual Citizenship and the Problem of Incarnation (2013). With Stephen Hester he is co-author of A Sociology of Crime (1992; second edition 2017) and The Montreal Massacre: A Story of Membership Categorization Analysis (2003), and co-editor of Culture in Action: Studies in Membership Categorization Analysis (1997).
He is co-editor with Debra D. Chapman and Tania Ruiz-Chapman of The Global Citizenship Nexus: Critical Studies (2020). His latest book The Israel Effect: A Canadian Atrocity Tale has been greeted with rejection or silence by all the publishers to which it has been submitted.
He is incensed by the wars spawned by the U.S. Empire’s drive for world domination. He fears for the survival of the modern world from the capitalist-driven climate and ecological crisis, and he strives for a world liberated from capitalism and strong states. He is particularly incensed by the ruination of the universities under neoliberalism.