Dr. Joel Z. Garrod is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at StFX. His research focuses on globalization, financialization, neoliberalism, corporate power, and the transformation of the nation-state. His research in these various areas is concerned with tracking the institutional reorientations whereby new global assemblages of territory, authority, and rights emerge out of still-existing national formations. His approach to these reorientations focuses on tracking changes to property relations - that is, the rights, entitlements, or obligations in or to things that allow a social formation to reproduce itself - and the practical and theoretical implications of those changes, especially as they relate to issues of power and social justice. He has published articles in Economy & Society, Studies in Political Economy, Science & Society, and the Journal of Canadian Studies, among others. His most recent book is Royal Histories: The Transformation of the Royal Bank of Canada, 1864–2022 published by the University of Toronto Press.
Publications
Books
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
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Garrod, J. Z. (Under review). What’s neo in neofeudalism? Blockchain and global capitalism. Finance and Society.
Garrod, J. Z. & Cormack, P. (Under review). Learning from new cannabis trust regimes: Where is the local pot? Contemporary Drug Problems.
Garrod, J. Z. (In press). Canadian political economy and the transnational character of Canada’s cannabis industry. Science & Society.
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
Occhiuto, K., Todd, S. L., Wilson, T. E., & Garrod, J. Z. (2021). Toward greater transparency regarding partnerships for technology development. Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 12(2), 89–103. https://doi.org/10.29173/cjnser.2021v12n2a413
Wilson, T. E., Todd, S. L., Occhiuto, K., & Garrod, J. Z. (2020). Social workers as double agents: Critical inquiry, social work education, and the youth question. Social Work Education, 39(1), 85–96. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2019.1653273
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
Garrod, J. Z. (2017). A (reluctant) defence of the theory of the transnational state. Studies in Political Economy, 98(3), 279–297. https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2017.1393909
Garrod, J. Z. (2016). The real world of the decentralized autonomous society. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 14(1), 62–77. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v14i1.692
Garrod, J. Z. (2015). A critique of Panitch and Gindin’s theory of American empire. Science & Society, 79(1), 38–62. https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2015.79.1.38
Garrod, J. Z. (2006). A brave old world: Scientific racism and BiDil. McGill Journal of Medicine, 9(1), 54–60.
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters & Encyclopedia Entries
Garrod, J. Z. (2024) Mode of production. In C. Barrow (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Critical Political Science (pp. 441–443). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800375918
Garrod, J. Z. (2024). The transnational state. In C. Barrow (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Critical Political Science (pp. 126–130). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800375918
Garrod, J. Z. (2023). Property and social change. In R. Baikady, V. Nadesan, J. Przeperski, R. Islam, S. S.M., & G. Jianguo (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change (pp. 1–13). Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-87624-1_76-1
Garrod, J. Z., & Macdonald, L. (2016). Rethinking ‘Canadian mining imperialism’ in Latin America. In D. Kalowatie & M. L. Dougherty (Eds.), Mining in Latin America: Critical Approaches to the New Extraction (pp. 100–115). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315686226-6