Joel Z. Garrod

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You have reached the personal site of Joel Z. Garrod, Associate Professor of Sociology at St. Francis Xavier University.

I am a historical and political sociologist who conducts research on the political economy of capitalism; in particular, on globalization, neoliberalism, corporate power, and the transformation of the nation-state. My research in these various areas is concerned with tracking the institutional reorientations whereby new global assemblages of territory, authority, and rights emerge out of still-existing national formations. My approach to these reorientations focuses on tracking changes to property relations—that is, the rights, entitlements, or obligations in or to things that allow a social formation to reproduce itself—and the practical and theoretical implications of those changes, especially as they relate to issues of power and social justice.