Ian Taylor

Ian Taylor, a professor of sociology at Carleton University, Ottawa, is at present a visiting fellow at the Institute of Criminology in Cambridge. He is the author of Law and Order: Arguments for Socialism and of Crime, Capitalism and Community.

Letter

Canadianicity

20 August 1992

It is an ironic expression of current problems that Paul Delany – an English émigré to Quebec of some vintage, now working 3500 miles away at Simon Fraser University in (English) Vancouver – can write a full-length essay on Mordecai Richler’s Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! (LRB, 20 August) without ever once directly mentioning Canada’s ‘First Nations’, the Indian peoples and the Inuit. One of...

Beijing Envy: China in Africa

Joshua Kurlantzick, 5 July 2007

Earlier this year, the Chinese president, Hu Jintao, went on a 12-day tour of Africa. In Zambia he announced that China would build an economic co-operation zone in the country that would attract...

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