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- ItemComplicating food security: definitions, discourses, commitments(University of Alberta Press, 2014) Ramp, WilliamFood security is now commonly seen as one of the defining global issues of the century, intertwined with population and consumption shifts, climate change, environmental degradation, water scarcity, and the geopolitics attending globalization. Some analysts suggest that food security threats are so urgent that philosophical scruples must be set aside in order to concentrate all resources on developing and implementing radical strategies to avert a looming civilizational crisis. This article suggests that definitions of food security invoke commitments and have consequences, and that continued critical and conceptual attention to the language employed in food security research and policy is warranted.
- ItemThe elementary forms as political (a)theology(University of Alberta Press, 2014) Ramp, WilliamDurkheim’s Elementary Forms of Religious Life examines a fundamental intercalation of selfhood, sociality and cosmology, but as a response to a particular political context, it may also speak to contemporary issues of sovereignty and democracy. Reading the Elementary Forms in this context, and in light of Durkheim’s references to monarchy, absolutism and revolution, is suggestive of an approach to such issues which resists sacrifice of the social to the sovereign, whether hierarchical or popular.
- ItemLibertarian populism, neoliberal rationality, and the mandatory long-form census: implications for sociology(University of Alberta Press, 2012) Ramp, William; Harrison, Trevor W.This article argues the Canadian government’s decision in 2010 to eliminate the mandatory long-form census constitutes a mobilizing appeal to libertarian populism commensurate not only with neoliberal concepts of individualism, private property, and the role of the state, but also with a redefinition of what counts as valid argumentation and a legitimate basis for making knowledge claims. This rationale has implications for sociological research and theory, for the profession of sociology, and for a sociological vision of society.
- Item[Review of "For Durkheim: essays in historical and cultural sociology" by Edward A. Tiryakian](University of Alberta Press, 2010) Ramp, WilliamBook review
- Item[Review of "Godless intellectuals: The intellectual pursuit of the sacred reinvented" by Alexander Tristan Riley](University of Alberta Press, 2010) Ramp, WilliamBook review
- Item[Review of "Reappraising Durkheim for the study and teaching of religion today"](Sociology of Religion, 2004) Ramp, WilliamBook review
- Item[Review of "Rejoicing: Or the torments of religious speech" by Bruno Latour](University of Alberta Press, 2014) Ramp, WilliamBook review
- Item[Review of "Rethinking the political: the sacred, aesthetic politics, and the College de Sociologie" by Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi](University of Alberta Press, 2012) Ramp, William; Durkheim, Emile, 1858-1917Book review
- Item[Review of "Society, spirituality and the sacred: a social scientific introduction" by Donald S. Swenson](Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review, 2002) Ramp, WilliamBook review
- Item[Review of "Whitebread protestants: Food and religion in American culture," by Daniel Sack](Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review, 2002) Ramp, WilliamBook review