Joel Garrod
I am a critical political sociologist/economist who conducts research on the contemporary political economy of capitalism; in particular, on the relationship between globalization, neoliberalism, corporate power, and the transformation of the nation-state. Falling within the broad confines of the subfield of capitalism studies—a transdisciplinary subfield that is “unafraid of large structures, long processes, broad comparisons, and big questions” (Ott & Milberg, 2014, para. 3)—my research is concerned with tracking historical changes to property relations in order to explore their theoretical and practical implications, especially as they relate to contemporary issues of power and social justice.
Canadian and Global Political Economy; Social Theory; Comparative and Historical Sociology; Political and Economic Sociology; Globalization; Neoliberalism; Nation and Nationalism
Garrod, J. Z. (2025). Royal histories: The transformation of the Royal Bank of Canada, 1864–2022. University of Toronto Press. https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487542610
Garrod, J. Z. (2025). Canadian Political Economy and the Transnational Character of Canada’s Cannabis Industry. Science & Society, 89(3), 348-371. https://doi.org/10.1177/00368237251334295
Garrod, J. Z., & Cormack, P. (2025). New Canadian Cannabis Trust Regimes: Where is the Local Pot? Contemporary Drug Problems. https://doi.org/10.1177/00914509251346425
Garrod, J. Z. (2024). “If the news is fake, imagine history”: The network state and the second bourgeois revolution. Progress in Economic Geography, 2(2), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peg.2024.100029
Garrod, J. Z. (2019). On the property of blockchains: Comments on an emerging literature. Economy and Society, 48(4), 602–623. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2019.1678316
Garrod, J. Z. (2019). Globalization and the future of Canada’s Medicare identity: A longer view. Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'études canadiennes, 53(2), 197–237. https://doi.org/10.3138/jcs.2017-0076
Garrod, J. Z. (2018). Imperialism or global capitalism? Some reflections from Canada. Studies in Political Economy, 99(3), 268–284. https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2018.1536359
