Abstract: This article explores the disjuncture between knowledge about environmental degradation and the social practices in which we engage, and analyzes some of the meanings that we produce/reproduce about the natural world as citizens of the so-called global village. The…

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Abstract: The Canadian “sponsorship scandal” provides an opportunity to examine how communications in the federal government has become an increasingly strategic function that has shifted from information provision to promotion, and from substance to image. This article traces how government…

This research in brief explores Canadian political consultants’ practices in political marketing, exploring whether they are, as democratic critiques of marketing often argue, encouraging politics to become poll-driven, and whether they fit into previous international studies on consultants in other…

Childhood obesity has prompted an increased scrutiny of the foodscape, along with the call for innovative strategies to make our social environments more supportive of healthy eating. Child-targeted supermarket foods are an increasing, but typically overlooked, part of this food…