Deborah R. Brock
Associate Professor
Office: Vari Hall, 2108
Phone: (416) 736-2100 Ext: 60302
Email: dbrock@yorku.ca
Primary website: http://www.yorku.ca/dbrock
Professor Brock has produced a number of books in the areas of social, sexual and moral regulation, and the organization of power in everyday social life. Her writing links academic research to popular struggles for social justice. She has written extensively on the topic of sexual labour, although she is no longer engaged with that area of research, and will not accept supervisions in that area.
Degrees
Ph.D., Sociology, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of TorontoM.A., Sociology, Carleton University
B.A., Sociology and Canadian Studies, University of Waterloo
Research Interests
Current Research Projects
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Summary:
Edited Volume
Description:Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times explores how we are constituted as neoliberal subjects; for example, as sexually, fiscally and organizationally responsible subjects, and as biopolitical subjects of citizenship, militarism, development aid, etc. In keeping with a governmentality approach, HOW focused investigations will be foregrounded. In this text, neoliberalism is understood as more than an ideological perspective favoring the notion of the minimal state, competitive individualism, and ‘free’ trade and markets. Neoliberalism has fundamentally reshaped how the self can be known and what interests the self holds through a reconfiguration of subjectification.
Deborah Brock (Editor) Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times University of British
Brock, Deborah, Aryn Martin, Mark Thomas, and Rebecca Raby (Editors) Power and Everyday Practices University of Toronto Press, 2019.
Deborah Brock, Amanda Glasbeek and Carmela Murdocca (Editors) Criminalization, Representation and Regulation Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Brock, Deborah, Mark Thomas, and Rebecca Raby (Editors) Power and Everyday Practices, Toronto: Nelson, 2011.
Making Normal: Social Regulation in Canada (Editor) Toronto: Nelson, 2003
Making Work, Making Trouble: The Social Regulation of Sexual Labour Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Second Edition 2009 (First Edition 1998).
“Re-Framing Prostitution as Work” Queerly Canadian Scott Rayter and Laine Halpern Zisman (Editors) Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2021. Reprinted from Making Work, Making Trouble: The Social Regulation of Sexual Labour Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Second Edition 2009 (First Edition 1998).
Deborah Brock (Editor, Introduction and Conclusion ) Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times University of British Columbia Press, 2019.
‘Sexual Regulation: Sexing Governmentality, Governing Sex’ in Deborah Brock, Amanda Glasbeek and Carmela Murdocca (Editors) Criminalization,Representation and Regulation Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
‘Thinking Differently About Crime’ in Deborah Brock, Amanda Glasbeek and Carmela Murdocca, eds. Criminalization, Representation and Regulation Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
‘Representation, Regulation and Resistance’ in Deborah Brock, Amanda Glasbeek and Carmela Murdocca, eds., Criminalization, Representation and Regulation Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
“Thinking About Power: Exploring Theories of Domination and Governance” in Deborah Brock, Mark Thomas, and Rebecca Raby (eds) Power and Everyday Practices Nelson: Spring 2011.
“The Culture of Therapy: Psychocentrism in Everyday Life” with Heidi Rimke in Deborah Brock, Mark Thomas, and Rebecca Raby (eds) Power and Everyday Practices Nelson: Spring 2011.
“Unpacking the Centre: Power in Everyday Practices” in Deborah Brock, Mark Thomas, and Rebecca Raby (eds) Power and Everyday Practices Nelson: Spring 2011.
‘Practical Feminism: Supporting Women in the Sex Trade’ in Women’s Worlds 2008 Equality is Not Utopia Universidad Complutense Madrid: Thompson, 2008, 50-54.
“Moving Beyond Deviance: Power, Regulation, and Governmentality” in Deborah Brock, Editor, Making Normal: Social Regulation in Canada Toronto: Nelson, 2003.
“Victim, Nuisance, Fallen Woman, Outlaw, Worker?: Making the Identity, Prostitute, in Canadian Criminal Law,” in Dorothy Chunn and Dany Lacombe (eds.) Law as a Gendering Practice, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 79-99.
‘From Liberation to Rights: The Politics of Responsibility: An Interview with Gary Kinsman’ Left History (Spring/Summer 2004) 9:2. Available online at www.yorku.ca/lefthist/
‘’Workers of the World Caress’: An Interview with Gary Kinsman on Lesbian and Gay Organizing in the 1970's Toronto Left’ Left History (Spring/Summer 2004) 9:2. Available online at www.yorku.ca/lefthist/
"Getting Angry, Getting Organized: The Formation of the Canadian Organization for the Rights of Prostitutes" (with Valerie Scott), Fireweed: Sex Work Issue 65, Spring 1999, pp. 8-21.
‘Sex Work and Law Reform: An International Comparative Analysis’ University of Luxembourg, Conference Proceedings. Under the Patronage of the Grand Duchess and the Ministry of Equality, 2009.
‘Practical Feminism: Supporting Women in the Sex Trade’ in Women’s Worlds 2008 Equality is Not Utopia Universidad Complutense Madrid: Thompson, 2008, 50-54.
Professor Brock has produced a number of books in the areas of social, sexual and moral regulation, and the organization of power in everyday social life. Her writing links academic research to popular struggles for social justice. She has written extensively on the topic of sexual labour, although she is no longer engaged with that area of research, and will not accept supervisions in that area.
Degrees
Ph.D., Sociology, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of TorontoM.A., Sociology, Carleton University
B.A., Sociology and Canadian Studies, University of Waterloo
Research Interests
Current Research Projects
-
Summary:
Edited Volume
Description:Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times explores how we are constituted as neoliberal subjects; for example, as sexually, fiscally and organizationally responsible subjects, and as biopolitical subjects of citizenship, militarism, development aid, etc. In keeping with a governmentality approach, HOW focused investigations will be foregrounded. In this text, neoliberalism is understood as more than an ideological perspective favoring the notion of the minimal state, competitive individualism, and ‘free’ trade and markets. Neoliberalism has fundamentally reshaped how the self can be known and what interests the self holds through a reconfiguration of subjectification.
All Publications
“Re-Framing Prostitution as Work” Queerly Canadian Scott Rayter and Laine Halpern Zisman (Editors) Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2021. Reprinted from Making Work, Making Trouble: The Social Regulation of Sexual Labour Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Second Edition 2009 (First Edition 1998).
Deborah Brock (Editor, Introduction and Conclusion ) Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times University of British Columbia Press, 2019.
‘Sexual Regulation: Sexing Governmentality, Governing Sex’ in Deborah Brock, Amanda Glasbeek and Carmela Murdocca (Editors) Criminalization,Representation and Regulation Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
‘Thinking Differently About Crime’ in Deborah Brock, Amanda Glasbeek and Carmela Murdocca, eds. Criminalization, Representation and Regulation Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
‘Representation, Regulation and Resistance’ in Deborah Brock, Amanda Glasbeek and Carmela Murdocca, eds., Criminalization, Representation and Regulation Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
“Thinking About Power: Exploring Theories of Domination and Governance” in Deborah Brock, Mark Thomas, and Rebecca Raby (eds) Power and Everyday Practices Nelson: Spring 2011.
“The Culture of Therapy: Psychocentrism in Everyday Life” with Heidi Rimke in Deborah Brock, Mark Thomas, and Rebecca Raby (eds) Power and Everyday Practices Nelson: Spring 2011.
“Unpacking the Centre: Power in Everyday Practices” in Deborah Brock, Mark Thomas, and Rebecca Raby (eds) Power and Everyday Practices Nelson: Spring 2011.
‘Practical Feminism: Supporting Women in the Sex Trade’ in Women’s Worlds 2008 Equality is Not Utopia Universidad Complutense Madrid: Thompson, 2008, 50-54.
“Moving Beyond Deviance: Power, Regulation, and Governmentality” in Deborah Brock, Editor, Making Normal: Social Regulation in Canada Toronto: Nelson, 2003.
“Victim, Nuisance, Fallen Woman, Outlaw, Worker?: Making the Identity, Prostitute, in Canadian Criminal Law,” in Dorothy Chunn and Dany Lacombe (eds.) Law as a Gendering Practice, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 79-99.
Deborah Brock (Editor) Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times University of British
Brock, Deborah, Aryn Martin, Mark Thomas, and Rebecca Raby (Editors) Power and Everyday Practices University of Toronto Press, 2019.
Deborah Brock, Amanda Glasbeek and Carmela Murdocca (Editors) Criminalization, Representation and Regulation Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Brock, Deborah, Mark Thomas, and Rebecca Raby (Editors) Power and Everyday Practices, Toronto: Nelson, 2011.
Making Normal: Social Regulation in Canada (Editor) Toronto: Nelson, 2003
Making Work, Making Trouble: The Social Regulation of Sexual Labour Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Second Edition 2009 (First Edition 1998).
‘From Liberation to Rights: The Politics of Responsibility: An Interview with Gary Kinsman’ Left History (Spring/Summer 2004) 9:2. Available online at www.yorku.ca/lefthist/
‘’Workers of the World Caress’: An Interview with Gary Kinsman on Lesbian and Gay Organizing in the 1970's Toronto Left’ Left History (Spring/Summer 2004) 9:2. Available online at www.yorku.ca/lefthist/
"Getting Angry, Getting Organized: The Formation of the Canadian Organization for the Rights of Prostitutes" (with Valerie Scott), Fireweed: Sex Work Issue 65, Spring 1999, pp. 8-21.
‘Sex Work and Law Reform: An International Comparative Analysis’ University of Luxembourg, Conference Proceedings. Under the Patronage of the Grand Duchess and the Ministry of Equality, 2009.
‘Practical Feminism: Supporting Women in the Sex Trade’ in Women’s Worlds 2008 Equality is Not Utopia Universidad Complutense Madrid: Thompson, 2008, 50-54.
