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Academia

Academia profile

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.

Published works

In the spirit of Ivan Illich’s 1968 speech ‘To hell with good intentions’, the book takes aim at a ubiquitous form of contemporary ideology, namely the concept of global citizenship.

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A Sociology of Crime has an outstanding reputation ...it shows how crime is a product of processes of criminalisation constituted through the interactional and organizational use of language.

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This book asks: “what does it mean to be a responsible academic in a ‘northern’ university given the incarnate connections between the university’s operations and death and suffering elsewhere?”

Unpublished papers

 
Genocide, State Terrorism and “Development:”
Canadian Intellectuals’
Responsibility in the Fate of the
East Timorese and the Palestinians

Talks


Talk on Palestine for L4P Cultural Event “Palestine Before 1948”
Toyota Solarium,

Tues., Nov. 15, 2011

Globalization and the University: The Wrecking of the Academy
December 11, 2013

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