British Columbia Poltical Studies Association 2015 Annual Conference Program - Simon Fraser University - West Mall Centre THURSDAY, MAY 7 8:30-9:00 Coffee & Registration - West Mall Lounge 9:00-10:30 1a - IPE WMC 3210 Discussant: Paul Rowe, TWU Mark Froese Canadian U College Muhammad Atif Kahn McGill Brian Murata SFU 10:30-11:10:45 10:45-12:15 Coffee - West Mall Lounge 2a - IR Martin Gaal WMC 3210 Discussant: Alex Moens, SFU 2b - Canadian WMC 3250 Discussant: Josh Gordon, SFU 12:30 -1:30 1:30-3:00 3a - IPE/Pub Pol WMC 3210 Discussant: Robert Crawford, UBC 3b - Theory WMC 3250 Discussant: Matt James, Uvic Linda Elmose Mapping the Scope of Dispute Settlement in Regional Trade Agreements: Implications for 21st Century Multilateralism The Political Economy of Regionalization in the Middle East and North Africa: Problems and Prospects Navigating the Blackened Waters: The Future of Canada’s Oil Economy in a Changing International Environment Identity and Foreign Policy: Accounting for the Perception of ‘Role’ in Neoclassical Realism Okanagan Rethinking Canadian Foreign Policy and Canada’s Place in the World: Elements of Coll a Canada/Asia Strategy USask Allan Warnke VIU Derek Cook TRU Stephen Elliott-Buckley, CUPE et al Lunch - West Mall Lounge SFU, PSA, and the early years… Bill C-51 and the Threat to Tenure from the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators in BC Working Vulnerable: Exploring Precarity and Intersectionality in 3 Sectors in the Public Services Steve McBride McMaster Constitutionalizing Austerity: Taking the Public out of Public Policy Peter Prontzos Langara The Greek Crisis Qinghua Yi SFU Rethinking Representative Claim: Counter Claim and Its Implications Cara Camcastle SFU Modern Liberalism and Environmentalism Sabina Singh UVic Beyond the nation: democratisation and the politics of dispensation 3:00-3:15 3:15-4:30 Coffee - West Mall Lounge 4a - Canadian Kelly Blidook Memorial Representation in Action: Observing Canadian MPs at Home and in Ottawa Matt James UVic Stephen Phillips Langara Duncan Low SFU Michael Oram SFU Vincent Hopkins SFU WMC 3210 Discussant: Gerry Baier, UBC 4b - Urban/Pub Pol WMC 3250 Discussant: Catherine Murray, SFU Evaluating Redress Culture from the Standpoint of Democratizing Citizenship Reflections on the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government in Australia and its Lessons for Canada The Marquee Tourism Event Program: Does the Implementation of Creative City Policies Advance or Hinder Artistic Creativity in the Professional Arts Sector The Capacity of Calgary’s Growth Machine: An Analysis of the City of Calgary’s Policy Capacity as a Growth Machine Revisiting Policy Entrepreneurship: Incentives, Policy Sectors, and State Capacity 4:30-5:00 WMC3250 BCPSA - Annual General Meeting 5:00-8:00 No Host - Informal Drinks & dinner at Club Ilia - Located in the Conerstone Bldg (east side of campus) www.clubilia.com FRIDAY, MAY 8 8:30-9:00 Coffee - West Mall Lounge 9:00-12:15 BC Political Science Articulation Meetings - WMC 3253 9:00-10:30 5a - Canadian/theory Susan Kim WMC 3250 Chair: Andrew Heard, SFU UVic Consuming like a Colonizer: Uncovering Scientific Colonial Power/Knowledge in the Modern Food System A Paradox of Engagement? Struggles for Reproductive Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley Sarah Weibe UVic 5b - IR Douglas Ross SFU The Tragedy of the Nuclear-Armed Great Powers WMC 3210 Discussant: Nancy Teeple SFU Conceptualizing Offence-Defence Theory for 21st Century Nuclear Deterrence Stepphen Elliott-Buckley, CUPE Seychelle Cushing SFU Hero? Traitor? Threat. The Impact of Snowden on Canada's Cyber Security 10:30-11:10:45 10:45-12:15 Coffee - West Mall Lounge 6a - Urban Mark Friesen WMC 3250 Shaughnessy Sturdy Discussant: Kevin Ginnell, Douglas Brian Butt 6b - IR WMC 3210 Chair: Douglas Ross, SFU SFU SFU SFU Metropolitan Governance: Democracy and the Metro Vancouver Regional Growth Strategy From Government to Governance: The City of Toronto’s Role in Immigrant Settlement Service Coordination since the Canada-Ontario Immigration Agreement Pulling Together: Assessing Regional Governance and Planning in the St. John’s City-region Érick Duchesne Laval Motives in Allocating Food Aid James Busumtwi-Sam & Rina Kashyap SFU The UN and the 'Mainstreaming' of Human Security: An Institutional Perspective Anil Hira SFU Climate Change Adaptation: A Challenge without a Framework 12:15 -1:30 Lunch - West Mall Lounge Keynote speaker Kennedy Stewart House of Commons/SFU The Political Scientist as MP Brendan Boyd UVic The effect of California’s example on climate change policy in BC Pepperdine The Causes of Voting and Turnout for the 2002 Aboriginal Treaty Negotiations Referendum in British Columbia, Canada SFU Chasing the Dollars in BC Municipal Elections 1:40-3:00 7a - BC/Pub Pol WMC 3250 Joel Fetzer Discussant: Cara Camcastle, SFU Patrick Smith 7a- Comparative WMC 3210 Round Table on UK Election Jeanette Ashe Douglas Stephen McBride McMaster Stephen Phillips Langara 3:00-3:15 3:15-4:30 Coffee - West Mall Lounge 8 - Canadian Round Table on BC & Canadian Politics WMC 3210 Kevin Ginnell Douglas BC Politics Chair: Derek Cook, TRU Hamish Telford UFV Canadian Politics List of Participants Name Jeanette Ashe Affiliation Douglas Email Gerry Baier UBC geraldbaier@gmail.com Kelly Blidook Memorial kblidook@mun.ca Brendan Boyd Uvic bboyd@uvic.ca James Busumtwi-Sam SFU jbusumtw@sfu.ca Brian Butt SFU bhbutt@gmail.com Cara Camcastle SFU ccamcast@sfu.ca Derek Cook TRU dcook@tru.ca Robert Crawford UBC robert.crawford@ubc.ca Seychelle Cushing SFU scushing@sfu.ca Érick Duchesne Laval erick.duchesne@pol.ulaval.ca ashej@douglascollege.ca Stephen Elliott-Buckley CUPE sbuckley@cupe.ca Linda Elmose Okanagan Coll LElmose@okanagan.bc.ca Joel Fetzer Pepperdine joel.fetzer@pepperdine.edu Mark Friesen SFU mark_friesen@sfu.ca Mark Froese Canadian U College mfroese@cauc.ca Martin Gaal USask martin.g.gaal@gmail.com Kevin Ginnell Douglas kginnell@sfu.ca Josh Gordon SFU jga75@sfu.ca Andrew Heard SFU aheard@sfu.ca Anil Hira SFU ahira@sfu.ca Vincent Hopkins SFU vrhopkin@sfu.ca Matt James UVic mattjame@uvic.ca Muhammad Atif Kahn McGill muhammad.atif.khan@mcgill.ca Rina Kashyap SFU rkashyap@sfu.ca Susan Kim UVic kimsusan@uvic.ca Duncan Low SFU djlow@telus.net Steve McBride McMaster mcbride@mcmaster.ca Alex Moens SFU moens@sfu.ca Brian Murata SFU bmurata@sfu.ca Catherine Murray SFU murraye@sfu.ca Michael Oram SFU moram@sfu.ca Stephen Phillips Langara sphillips@langara.bc.ca Peter Prontzos Langara pprontzos@langara.bc.ca Douglas Ross SFU douglasr@sfu.ca Paul Rowe TWU paul.rowe@twu.ca Sabina Singh UVic sabina@sabinasingh.com Patrick Smith SFU psmith.sfu@gmail.com Kennedy Stewart House of Commons/SFU kennedy.stewart@parl.gc.ca Shaughnessy Sturdy SFU s_sturdy@hotmail.com Nancy Teeple SFU nteeple@sfu.ca Hamish Telford UFV hamish.telford@ufv.ca Allan Warnke VIU allan_warnke@hotmail.com Sarah Weibe UVic swiebe@uvic.ca Qinghua Yi SFU qyi@sfu.ca