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From Occupy Wall Street to Occupying the Academy: Three Interventions from One Demonstration
(2015-01-26)
This primary purpose of this project was to further understand and theorize the meaning of Occupy Wall Street. Beyond that, the goal was to advance extant theorizations of the nature of economic justice movements more ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Our House
(2019-11-22)
Our House is a short socio-political drama about Anahita, an Iranian refugee in Toronto, who runs into the man who brutally murdered her parents at their home in Tehran years ago. Despite Anahitas attempts in the past to ...