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Middle Class Alterity: A Critical Discourse Analysis of National Economic Identity
(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
(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 Kids are Alt-Right: The Intellectual Origins of the Alt-Right
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Diamonds are Forever: A Decolonizing, Feminist Approach to Diamond Mining in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
(2018-05-28)This dissertation examines the impact of the development of diamond mines in the Yellowknife region, Northwest Territories (NWT), asking two questions: how has the diamond-mining regime affected the gendered social relations ... -
Forces of Chaos and Anarchy: Rock Music, the New Left and Social Movements, 1964 to 1972
(2018-05-28)This dissertation engages an unresolved debate on the rock aesthetic in New Left Review, between Perry Anderson and David Fernbach while pointing toward a new dialectical social theory with which to analyze cultural form ... -
The Vital Politics of Gentrification: Governing Life in Urban Canada into the 21st Century
(2018-03-01)This dissertation is about the vital politics of gentrification. The vital politics of gentrification is a politics of space that places the question of the vital characteristics of people and places at its very core. The ... -
Growth Management and Regional Government: How an Interpretive Approach Can Explain Politicians' Commitment to Smart Growth Policies in Waterloo Region, Ontario
(2018-03-01)This dissertation is a case study that explains how the Waterloo areas regional government in Ontario, Canada, came to embrace smart growth policies, which aim to protect agricultural and environmentally sensitive areas ...
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