Peter Mallory
@pmallory.bsky.social
Sociologist at St. Francis Xavier University (Nova Scotia, Canada). Cultural sociology; social theory; personal life. Writing a book on friendship and therapeutic culture.
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Laura Eramian, Peter Mallory and Morgan Herbet focus on how modern therapy culture presents people with conflicting cultural imperatives for practising friendship, in their CUS Sage Prize nominated paper.
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Read now below:
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October 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Laura Eramian, Peter Mallory and Morgan Herbet focus on how modern therapy culture presents people with conflicting cultural imperatives for practising friendship, in their CUS Sage Prize nominated paper.
Read now below:
doi.org/10.1177/1749...
Read now below:
doi.org/10.1177/1749...
What an interesting discussion of the history of the NDP. Should be useful for anyone in the party thinking about how to rebuild it
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The NDP’s untapped radical potential
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October 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
What an interesting discussion of the history of the NDP. Should be useful for anyone in the party thinking about how to rebuild it
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open.spotify.com/episode/1CFj...
I get to discuss this article with students today, and it's so good. One of the best discussions of friendship and informality at work I've come across. Thanks @maryleighton.bsky.social!
Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library
Using the example of Andean archaeology, this article focuses on subtle forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are conceptualized as friendship-based and egalitarian, rejecting expl...
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October 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I get to discuss this article with students today, and it's so good. One of the best discussions of friendship and informality at work I've come across. Thanks @maryleighton.bsky.social!
Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A fantastic article. Getting to read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is one of the main reasons I still have a NYTimes subscription
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Opinion | Mourn, or Else
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October 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A fantastic article. Getting to read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is one of the main reasons I still have a NYTimes subscription
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What a great surprise to see our paper on this list!
🎉 Congratulations to this year’s Cultural Sage Prize Nominees!
The full list of nominees can be found at the link below.
www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunitie...
The full list of nominees can be found at the link below.
www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunitie...
September 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
What a great surprise to see our paper on this list!
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📘Upcoming Book Launch!
Royal Histories by Dr. Joel Z. Garrod
The Sociology Department and the Mulroney Institute @stfx-university.bsky.social are pleased to co-host this in-person event.
🗓️ Sept. 19 | 5 pm - 6:30 pm
Sobey’s Reading Room, 4th Floor, Nasso Family Science Centre
Royal Histories by Dr. Joel Z. Garrod
The Sociology Department and the Mulroney Institute @stfx-university.bsky.social are pleased to co-host this in-person event.
🗓️ Sept. 19 | 5 pm - 6:30 pm
Sobey’s Reading Room, 4th Floor, Nasso Family Science Centre
September 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
📘Upcoming Book Launch!
Royal Histories by Dr. Joel Z. Garrod
The Sociology Department and the Mulroney Institute @stfx-university.bsky.social are pleased to co-host this in-person event.
🗓️ Sept. 19 | 5 pm - 6:30 pm
Sobey’s Reading Room, 4th Floor, Nasso Family Science Centre
Royal Histories by Dr. Joel Z. Garrod
The Sociology Department and the Mulroney Institute @stfx-university.bsky.social are pleased to co-host this in-person event.
🗓️ Sept. 19 | 5 pm - 6:30 pm
Sobey’s Reading Room, 4th Floor, Nasso Family Science Centre
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The federal government seeks to undermine 80 years of collective bargaining practice. This is both counterproductive and callous. #canlab #CUPE www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Flight attendants ordered back to work say labour law violates right to strike | CBC News
The federal government has once again used a contentious section of Canadian law to stop a strike in Canada — a move unions and legal experts say sets a dangerous precedent for labour relations in thi...
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August 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The federal government seeks to undermine 80 years of collective bargaining practice. This is both counterproductive and callous. #canlab #CUPE www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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The Farmers Market in Nova Scotia speaks up about the genocide being perpetrated by the Israeli government in Gaza. The world is watching the war criminals and these crimes will not be forgotten.
August 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Farmers Market in Nova Scotia speaks up about the genocide being perpetrated by the Israeli government in Gaza. The world is watching the war criminals and these crimes will not be forgotten.
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We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales.
This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide.
We are doing this and history will never forgive us.
Gaza:
This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide.
We are doing this and history will never forgive us.
Gaza:
“a deliberate, systematic starvation of an entire population”
A statement by Doctors Against Genocide.
#Gaza
A statement by Doctors Against Genocide.
#Gaza
July 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales.
This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide.
We are doing this and history will never forgive us.
Gaza:
This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide.
We are doing this and history will never forgive us.
Gaza:
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Five things to remember about war:
June 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Five things to remember about war:
Received this fantastic book in the mail today! Looking forward to reading more
June 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Received this fantastic book in the mail today! Looking forward to reading more
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Non-stop horror.
Rescuers used their bare hands to search through the wreckage, "with little to no equipment available to them in Gaza...Emergency crews witnessed dozens of bodies, overwhelmingly of children, which were burned and lay at the site of the strike."
By Sara Jabakhanji via CBC News
Rescuers used their bare hands to search through the wreckage, "with little to no equipment available to them in Gaza...Emergency crews witnessed dozens of bodies, overwhelmingly of children, which were burned and lay at the site of the strike."
By Sara Jabakhanji via CBC News
Girl survives after mother, 5 siblings killed in Israeli strike on Gaza City school shelter | CBC News
Harrowing video of a young Palestinian girl trying to escape a school shelter that had been set on fire after a deadly overnight Israeli airstrike widely circulated social media Monday.
www.cbc.ca
May 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Non-stop horror.
Rescuers used their bare hands to search through the wreckage, "with little to no equipment available to them in Gaza...Emergency crews witnessed dozens of bodies, overwhelmingly of children, which were burned and lay at the site of the strike."
By Sara Jabakhanji via CBC News
Rescuers used their bare hands to search through the wreckage, "with little to no equipment available to them in Gaza...Emergency crews witnessed dozens of bodies, overwhelmingly of children, which were burned and lay at the site of the strike."
By Sara Jabakhanji via CBC News
Sharing this article that Laura Eramian and I wrote for @ca.theconversation.com about our research with people without friends. Thanks so much to our editor Eleni Vlahiotis!
When friendship is treated as essential, what happens to young adults who don’t have any? theconversation.com/when-friends...
When friendship is treated as essential, what happens to young adults who don’t have any? theconversation.com/when-friends...
When friendship is treated as essential, what happens to young adults who don’t have any?
A new study aims to understand how adults without friends experience and move through life.
theconversation.com
May 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Sharing this article that Laura Eramian and I wrote for @ca.theconversation.com about our research with people without friends. Thanks so much to our editor Eleni Vlahiotis!
When friendship is treated as essential, what happens to young adults who don’t have any? theconversation.com/when-friends...
When friendship is treated as essential, what happens to young adults who don’t have any? theconversation.com/when-friends...
Had a journalist edit some of our writing recently, and it's amazing what a professional can do. Affirms my belief that no one should ever learn to write from a university professor
May 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Had a journalist edit some of our writing recently, and it's amazing what a professional can do. Affirms my belief that no one should ever learn to write from a university professor
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“Health workers should never be a target. And yet, we’re here today, digging up a mass grave of first responders and paramedics,” Jonathan Whittall, the head of UNOCHA in the occupied Palestinian territories, said from the site.
Via @cnn.com
Via @cnn.com
The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a "mass grave," a week after they went missing following attacks by Israeli forces.
Bodies of missing aid workers found in Gaza ‘mass grave’ following Israeli attacks | CNN
The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a “mass grave,” a week after they went missing following attacks by Isra...
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March 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
“Health workers should never be a target. And yet, we’re here today, digging up a mass grave of first responders and paramedics,” Jonathan Whittall, the head of UNOCHA in the occupied Palestinian territories, said from the site.
Via @cnn.com
Via @cnn.com
The US may not have much of an opposition party, but at least it has these two
Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
March 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The US may not have much of an opposition party, but at least it has these two
Bye to the Halifax Oval, one of the best things about the city in winter
March 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Bye to the Halifax Oval, one of the best things about the city in winter
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If Trump is serious (and who really knows), I think there are a few things to keep an eye out for:
1. Creating economic instability in the country to "soften us up" for annexation: tariffs, attacks on debt issuance, limiting correspondent banking relationships (think FATF action) and access to US$
1. Creating economic instability in the country to "soften us up" for annexation: tariffs, attacks on debt issuance, limiting correspondent banking relationships (think FATF action) and access to US$
This is new: “A source with direct knowledge of the discussions told NBC News that Trump is heavily focused on Canada in conversations with aides, who believe he is completely serious about making the country the 51st state—even with Trudeau out of power”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Trump's quest to conquer Canada is confusing everyone
Canadians and Republicans alike are confounded as President Donald Trump increasingly links a trade war to his push to annex America's northern neighbor.
www.nbcnews.com
March 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
If Trump is serious (and who really knows), I think there are a few things to keep an eye out for:
1. Creating economic instability in the country to "soften us up" for annexation: tariffs, attacks on debt issuance, limiting correspondent banking relationships (think FATF action) and access to US$
1. Creating economic instability in the country to "soften us up" for annexation: tariffs, attacks on debt issuance, limiting correspondent banking relationships (think FATF action) and access to US$
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“The idea that sweeping away provincial, territorial and federal regulations will improve the welfare of Canadians is also mistaken. Many government policies make sense because they address important economic, social or cultural priorities of Canadians.”
Why are business elites pushing to remove interprovincial trade barriers? It’s the neoliberal agenda which undermines public interest, and hands more power to foreign corporations. How does this make Canada stronger against U.S. pressures? #nspoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Campaign to eliminate interprovincial trade barriers is neoliberal project - CCPA
What are we to make of the current—almost hysterical—campaign by business interests who claim that removing interprovincial trade barriers is the best way to address the threat posed by Trump’s aggre...
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March 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“The idea that sweeping away provincial, territorial and federal regulations will improve the welfare of Canadians is also mistaken. Many government policies make sense because they address important economic, social or cultural priorities of Canadians.”
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I don’t understand why the president is allowed to spout nonsense about colonizing another country and the 25th amendment isn’t being invoked in addition to all the other horrors this is insane. It’s absolutely insane. It isn’t funny or even weird.
March 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I don’t understand why the president is allowed to spout nonsense about colonizing another country and the 25th amendment isn’t being invoked in addition to all the other horrors this is insane. It’s absolutely insane. It isn’t funny or even weird.
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"The fact is, the battle over “DEI” has always been a fight about labor, work, and who has access to the jobs and political institutions that build and protect wealth. If we ever forgot that, we’re learning it again now."
me for @slate.bsky.social
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Why Corporate DEI Is Such a Perfect Target for Trump
It’s an attack on labor. But he can frame it as something else.
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March 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
"The fact is, the battle over “DEI” has always been a fight about labor, work, and who has access to the jobs and political institutions that build and protect wealth. If we ever forgot that, we’re learning it again now."
me for @slate.bsky.social
slate.com/news-and-pol...
me for @slate.bsky.social
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Some great idea for what Canadians might do with our new sense of collective solidarity. So much better than removing internal trade barriers www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Ten Trump-proof nation-building projects for a strong, independent Canada - CCPA
Thanks to decades of concerted action by Canadian businesses and governments—often working in opposition to workers and the broader public interest—the Canadian economy is now deeply integrated with o...
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February 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Some great idea for what Canadians might do with our new sense of collective solidarity. So much better than removing internal trade barriers www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Dal prof, Dr. Karen Foster: "One gets the sense that it is not “the public” that these institutions are meant to be accountable to, but the government. And this is where the door is being opened to a disturbing level of government influence over university teaching and research."
‘Dangers in demanding alignment’: Dal prof concerned about province’s advanced education and research act
By Karen Foster
By Karen Foster
'Dangers in demanding alignment’: Dal prof concerned about province’s advanced education and research act - Halifax Examiner
The guardrails limiting government influence over research and teaching in our postsecondary institutions are there for good reason. Tim Houston’s government is taking them off in the name of accounta...
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February 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Dal prof, Dr. Karen Foster: "One gets the sense that it is not “the public” that these institutions are meant to be accountable to, but the government. And this is where the door is being opened to a disturbing level of government influence over university teaching and research."