Peter
Clancy
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Before
joining the Faculty at St. Francis Xavier in 1986, he taught for a number of
years at the
After
obtaining an Honours B.A. at the University of
Saskatchewan, and an M.A. at the University of
Western Ontario, he took the Ph.D. degree in Political Studies at Queen's University. His dissertation is
titled Caribou, Fur and the Resource Frontier: A Political Economy of the
Since
that time, he has continued to study politics in the Northern Territories of
Canada. This includes questions of wildlife and resource management, class
politics in the north, political devolution and Aboriginal claims. He has also
written about questions of business-government relations in
Working
in collaboration with Dr. Anders Sandberg, of the Faculty of Environmental
Studies at York University, he is engaged in
studies of the forest industry and state policies relating to it. Their first
major project, From the Woodlot to the Mill: Forest Capitalism in Twentieth
Century Nova Scotia, was supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada. A second major project, Canadian
Forestry as Science, Profession and Ideology: A Comparative Political Analysis,
also received support from the SSHRC. Their jointly authored book, Against the Grain: Foresters and
Politics in Nova Scotia (UBC Press), was awarded the Clio Prize (
More
recently, Peter won SSHRC support for a study of the politics of offshore
petroleum management on the Scotian Shelf. ("Policy Innovation and
Management on the Eastern Continental Shelf: The Politics of Offshore Petroleum
Development in
His
most recent book is titled Micro-Politics and Canadian Business: Paper,
Steel and the Airlines (Broadview Press, 2004). It develops a framework
for analyzing political relationships at the level of the firm and applies the
approach to three leading Canadian business sectors.
At St.
Francis Xavier, Peter teaches courses in various sub-fields of Canadian
Politics. These include PS 220 (Canadian Politics), PS 240 (Business and
Government), PS 322 (Politics of Atlantic Canada), PS 324 (Provincial
Politics), PS 343 (Law and Politics), PS 346 (Politics of Resource Management),
PS 347 (Politics of the Environment) and PS 421/422 (Seminar in Canadian
Politics). He has also taught AR 100 (Introduction to Aquatic Resources), AR 200
(Freshwater Politics) and AR 450 (Senior Aquatic Resources Seminar).
Peter
will be on sabbatical leave from July-December 2009 and can be reached by
e-mail at the address below. For the winter 2009-10 term, he will offer the
following courses: 324 Provincial Politics; 422 Canadian Politics Seminar
(Climate Change) and AR 200 (Freshwater Politics).
Peter
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The
Intro to Political Science [100.13] Course Page
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The
Business and Government [PSCI 240] Course Page, 2008-09
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The
Politics of Resource Management [PSCI 346] Course Page, 2007
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Aquatic
Resources II: Social Science Applications (AR 200] Course Page, 2008
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The
Atlantic
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The Law and Politics [PSCI 343] Course Page, 2009
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The
Canadian Government Seminar [PSCI 422] Course Page, 2007
·
2010 Seminar (New 422) Politics of Climate Change
in Canada
Department of Political Science, St. Francis Xavier University
P.O. Box 5000, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, B2G 2W5 Canada
Voice 902-867-2291 FAX 902-867-3243 E-Mail pclancy@stfx.ca
http://www.stfx.ca/people/pclancy
