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What's Love Got to Do With It? Diamonds and the Accumulation of De Beers, 1935-55
(2016-09-20)
What is accumulation? Visibly, accumulation is a quantitative process, demarcated in financial quantities. However, what is the meaning of those quantities? This question has been the subject of great debate within political ...
Child Care on the Cheap: Welfare Reform and the Social Organization of Child Care Work in New York City
(2016-09-20)
This study aims to further a feminist political economy of urban welfare regimes, applying a gender lens to processes of urban neoliberalization and an urban lens to feminist political economy analyses of welfare state ...
The Politics of Political Science: Re-Inscribing Latin American Experiences
(2016-09-20)
Latin America has traditionally been both a politically lively space with strong left-wing forces and a privileged site for radical thinking. Indeed, during the 1950s and 1960s, Marxism was very influential in the social ...
Decolonizing Literacies: Transnational Feminism, Legacies of Coloniality, and Pedagogies of Transformation
(2016-09-20)
Since the onset of the U.S.-led Global War on Terror (G.W.O.T.) and Afghan War in 2001, the literacy crisis of Afghan women has been central to the U.S.s counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency doctrines, and to its ...
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 ...
Searching for a "Clean Population": A Study of Canada's Group Processing Program
(2017-07-27)
This dissertation examines the historical development, from the interwar years to 2015, of large-scale refugee resettlement to Canada -- or what in recent years has come to be known as the Group Processing Program. Beyond ...
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 ...
The Value of Quality: Capital, Class, and Quality Assessment in the Re-making of Higher Education in the United State, the United Kingdom, and Ontario
(2014-07-09)
This dissertation examines the utility of quality assessment (QA) in higher education as a means of measuring and improving qualitative excellence. It also tracks the emergence and development of QA in the United States, ...
The Political Economy of the Special Relationship: British Development and American Power
(2014-07-09)
Breaking from the traditional understanding of Anglo-American relations in terms of the cultural, diplomatic and military ‘Special Relationship’, this thesis explores the interdependent political-economic development of ...