Issue 1: Neoliberalism and Covid-19

Our inaugural edition of Syndemic Magazine covers the pandemic’s implications for neoliberalism. Editor Ian McKay ponders whether the pandemic has finally killed neoliberalism while Guest Editor Mack Penner argues the pandemic has definitely killed normalcy.


Catastrophic Rhetoric: False Enchantments and ‘Unprecedented’ Disasters in British Columbia’s Punishing 2021, by Mica Jorgenson

On fires, colonialism, and Covid-19.

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Whither Polycrisis? Emergency, Management, Utopia

Aaron Benanav. Automation and the Future of Work. New York and London: Verso, 2020.

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The Royal We

Charles McCabe et al., Renewing the Social Contract: Economic Recovery in Canada from COVID-19. Ottawa: Royal Society of Canada, 2020.

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Sludging the Wheels

Yuen Yuen Ang, China’s Gilded Age. Cambridge, 2020.

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An Interview with Andreas Malm

The L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History was thrilled to welcome Dr. Andreas Malm on 27 May 2021 as a…

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An Interview with Nancy Fraser

The L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History was thrilled to welcome Dr. Nancy Fraser on 29 October 2021 as a…

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Endnote: Last Rites?

Is neoliberalism finished – or just transitioning?

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