![]() ![]() The hope of the three Canadian geographers, as “habitually critical, progressive academics,” is to “spur the growth of a new wave of anti-authoritarian Leftist geographical thinking that reaffirms the centrality of human rights and civil liberties to make the world a better place.” ![]() Published January 23 in a scholarly Swedish journal, the paper is titled “The academic left, human geography, and the rise of authoritarianism during the COVID-19 pandemic.” It was written by geographers Dragos Simandan of Brock University and Claus Rinner and Valentina Capurri at Toronto Metropolitan University. “We need a sustained collaborate research effort that investigates why the Academic Left lost sight of established anti-authoritiarian thinking,” say the authors. Three Canadian academics have just published a paper calling for major new research from “the academic left” to probe what the authors consider to be political abuse of pandemic fear and the use of “catastrophizing” to justify the imposition of authoritarian policies. ![]() While filled with concrete evidence that details the different forms of political and scientific deception inflicted on Canadians - from masking rules to misleading death-rate statistics and drug overdoses - Canada’s COVID sets the lockdowns into a grand sweep of ideological history from Karl Marx to Immanuel Kant to Alexis de Tocqueville.Ĭooper and Navarro-Genie argue their case against the COVID lockdowns from what would be considered the right-wing conservative view of the world.īut a new critical thread leading to the same conclusions is emerging on the left. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]()
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