• Making Prison Work: Prison Labour and Resistance in Canada 

  House, Jordan Lorne (2020-11-13)

  This dissertation examines prisoner-worker organizing in Canada by considering three case studies in detail: first, the successful unionization of an experimental privately managed abattoir at the Guelph Correctional Centre, ...

• Mining Ontario: Corporate Power, the Mining Industry, and Public Policy in Ontario 

  Corbeil, Matthew Joseph (2020-08-11)

  This dissertation critically examines the history of the government of Ontarios policies towards the mining industry to analyze the impact of concentrated economic power on political processes in liberal democracies. It ...

• Power from Below: Power, Democracy and Socialist Theory 

  Savard, Alain (2020-08-11)

  This dissertation reframes socialist theory through the concept of power. The goal of this reconceptualization is to overcome the main limits of Marxism on issues of usefulness for activists, of accessibility for ordinary ...

• Middle Class Alterity: A Critical Discourse Analysis of National Economic Identity 

  Facca, Mark (2020-05-11)

  Lacking concreteness and context, the use of the middle class in Canadian political discourse of recent years is simultaneously ambiguous and ubiquitous. What is meant by the middle class? Who is a member of this meta-material ...

• Crisis and Transformation in Heisei Japan 

  Carroll-Preyde, Myles Remi Wim (2020-05-11)

  This dissertation examines the political economy of post-war Japan using a theoretical framework that combines Antonio Gramsci's ideas about hegemony and crisis in capitalist society with feminist political economy analyses ...

• The Conservative Party of Canada and the Politics of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism (2006-2015) 

  Carlaw, John. (2020-05-11)

  This dissertation assesses the modern Conservative Party of Canada and governments (2006-2015) discourses, political approach and policy record in the fields of citizenship, immigration and multiculturalism. This is done ...

• The Kids are Alt-Right: The Intellectual Origins of the Alt-Right 

  Jones, Andrew William (2019-11-22)

  The electoral success and increased media presence of the Far-Right ideology known as the Alternative Right has catapulted the once marginal fringe movement into popular political discourse. The term Alternative Right is ...

• The Radical Democratic Thought of Thomas Jefferson: Politics, Space, & Action 

  Caivano, Dean Carl (2019-11-22)

  Thomas Jefferson has maintained an enduring legacy in the register of early American political thought. As a prolific writer and elected official, his public declarations and private letters helped to inspire revolutionary ...

• Subjectivity, Alienation, and Liberation in Levinas and Marx 

  Froese, Robert Brian (2019-11-22)

  This dissertation examines the relationship between (inter)subjectivity, normativity, and politics in Emmanuel Levinas and Karl Marx. At first sight, Levinas depiction of a singular and unique relation to othersa bond which ...

• The Antagonistic Self: Politics and the Political 

  Murphy, Hailey (2019-07-02)

  This work uses a critical existential perspective as a means to address the relation between self and state constitutions while also utilizing an open ended, anti-essential approach to the study of politics and the political. ...

• Decentralization, Devolution and the Political Economy of Scale in Britain from 1945 to 2016 

  Vlahos, Nicholas Constantine (2019-07-02)

  On September 18, 2014, a referendum on Scottish independence took place with 55.3% of voters choosing to remain in the United Kingdom, indicating that Scotlands Union with England, Wales and Northern Ireland would tenuously ...

• Participatory Governance, Neoliberal Restructuring and Participatory Budgeting in Chicago, IL 

  Pin, Laura Grace (2019-07-02)

  This dissertation examines the relationship between participatory democracy and neoliberal restructuring in cities through an empirical examination of the practice of participatory budgeting in Chicago, IL. Using a critical ...

• The Political Economy of Commercial Arbitration: The Corporatization of U.S. Arbitration Law 

  George, Eric (2019-03-05)

  Arbitration is not just about economic and business efficiency, as its advocates argue, reducing the costs and delays associated with litigation. As I shall illustrate in this thesis, corporations have used arbitration ...

• Leo Strauss: Hobbes and Liberalism 

  Dahlquist, Karl Arvid (2019-03-05)

  This dissertation provides the first comprehensive treatment of Leo Strausss studies of Thomas Hobbes during a period that extended from the early Weimar Republic to mid-Cold-War America. I argue that we should regard ...

• Imagined Communities of 'Whiteness': Racial-Nationalist Origins of Settler-State Formation in Argentina and Canada, 1840-1914 

  Evans, Jessica Jacqueline (2019-03-05)

  This dissertation sits at the intersection of critical international political economy and a decolonizing, anti-racist approach to empirical political science. Specifically, I examine how liberal state forms are presupposed ...

• Militarism, Security, and War: The Politics of Contemporary Hollywood Superheroes 

  Crowe, Lori Ann (2018-11-21)

  In the fields of political science and international relations, engagement with popular culture has been deemed predominantly un-important and irrelevant as an area of study. This dissertation interrogates one of the most ...

• Interrogating the Citizen: The Israeli Logic of Exclusion and the Internationalization of Citizenship Restrictions 

  Molavi, Shourideh Cherie (2018-11-21)

  Working from the paradigm of 'stateless citizenship' as a looking glass, this study examines the particular logic of exclusion in the Israeli constitutional order. To this end, the Thesis is composed of two central analytical ...

• Re-Enchanting Human Ecology: Identity and Difference, Process Metaphysics, and Emergence 

  Cheney, Thomas Manning (2018-08-27)

  Drawing from historical political thought and 20th century western philosophy, this dissertation advances a theory of secular enchantment of nature, humanity, and their relationship. Its underlying social and political ...

• The Tragedy of Marx and Justice: A Critique of Marx's Failed Attempt to Dispense with Principles of Justice 

  Gray, Paul Christopher (2018-08-27)

  In 'The Tragedy of Marx and Justice: A Critique of Marxs Failed Attempt to Dispense with Principles of Justice,' I critique Marxs belief that his theory of history, as well as the socialist society it would help to bring ...

• White Slavery Reconfigured: The "Natasha Trade" and Sexualized Nationalism in Canada 

  Durisin, Elya Maria (2018-05-28)

  White Slavery Reconfigured: The Natasha Trade and Sexualized Nationalism in Canada examines the role the post-socialist migrant exotic dancer has occupied in debates on human trafficking policies in Canada and seeks to ...

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