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From Foundation to Dissolution: Rethinking the Social Contract Tradition
(2015-08-28)
The early modern intellectual tradition of the social contract introduces a problematic of the will to the socio-political realm. With power’s institutionalization no longer shrouded by an earlier religious imaginary, the ...
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 ...
Governing Irregular Migration: Logics and Practices in Spanish Immigration Policy
(2015-08-28)
Since the first substantive changes to Spanish immigration laws in the 1980s, immigration to Spain and the policies designed to govern it have changed greatly. The pace of this continuous transformation has recently slowed ...
Geopolitics, State-Formation and Economic Development in Quebec and Ontario
(2015-08-28)
This dissertation challenges the prevailing periodization of Quebec and Ontario’s economic development in Canadian historiography by contrasting the specificity of capitalist social relations with the non-capitalist forms ...
The Agrarian Seeds of Empire: The Political Economy of Agriculture in the U.S. State Institutional Capacity Building, 1849-1980
(2015-08-28)
This study outlines the influence of agrarian movements on the process of US institutional capacity building during the period of 1840- 1980. It investigates the specific nature of US institutional efforts at various ...
Contemporary Ruins: Politics and Aesthetics Beyond the Melancholy Imagination
(2014-07-09)
This thesis attempts to elucidate the specificities of contemporary ruins using critical theory and cultural studies applied to various sites of analysis ranging from art and film to abandoned factories and disaster zones. ...
Gladue Courts: Navigating Contradictory Orientations to Rehabilitate and Punish
(2015-01-26)
This research thesis details a year-long observation and analysis of Gladue (Aboriginal-specific) courts in Toronto from April 2013 – July 2014. The primary focus of this project is the way Gladue courts reconcile and ...
Party Reform and Political Realignment: The New Politics Movement in the Democratic Party
(2017-07-27)
This dissertation offers an analysis of the New Politics movement to reform and realign the Democratic Party in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The central problem is to develop an understanding of the origins, nature, and ...
Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Thought of Karl Marx
(2019-11-22)
This dissertation demonstrates several theses in relation to key components of Marxs philosophy that conventional interpretations either misrepresent or overlook. The chief thesis concerns his idea of revolutionary ...