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Development, Capitalists and Extractive Rent: Class Struggles in Venezuela and Ecuador
(2017-07-27)
Through a relational class perspective, this dissertation compares the evolution of the development models in Venezuela and Ecuador since the 1970s to better understand the significance of the recent turn to the left. Based ...
The Social Organization of South Asian Immigrant Women's Mothering in Canada
(2016-09-20)
This research examines the social organization of newcomer South Asian womens mothering work. It explicates the processes that contribute to South Asian women making changes to their mothering work after immigrating to ...
Afghanistan Before the Invasions: The Subversion of Democracy in 1973
(2015-12-16)
Using the Wikileaks PlusD Archive of US State Department cables from Kabul in 1973, this thesis presents an analysis of the politics of the Helmand Water Treaty between Afghanistan and Iran and the role of the US in ...
The Ethics of Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy Education: A Security and Freedom for the Other
(2016-09-20)
Financial literacy education (FLE) and entrepreneurship education (EE) are paradigmatic of the dominant response in education to precarious employment and increasing financial insecurity. Motivated by a conviction that ...
From Psychologism to Psychologization: Beyond the Boundaries of the Discipline and Practice of Psychology
(2017-07-27)
This thesis provides a descriptive account of three waves of critiques of psychologism and psychologization that appeared throughout the 20th century from philosophers and sociologists. I examine these arguments chronologically ...
Remaking the Nation-State: Multiculturalism, Neoliberalism, and Urban Revitalization
(2015-01-26)
My dissertation, Remaking the Nation-State: Multiculturalism, Neoliberalism, and Urban Revitalization, investigates the revitalization of two low-income housing projects in Toronto, Canada: Regent Park and Lawrence Heights. ...
Negotiating A Neoliberal Funding Regime: Feminist Service Organizations and State Funding
(2015-08-28)
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This dissertation examines shifts in state funding for feminist service organizations in Canada. Specifically, it focuses on the implications of a neoliberal funding regime for these organizations. I argue that ...