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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 ... -
Feminism for Sale: Commodity Feminism, Femininity, and Subjectivity
(2018-03-01)Today it is commonplace for the female consumer to be targeted using appropriated feminist discourses. This dissertation theorizes commodity feminism, a play on Marxs conception of commodity fetishism, at the intersections ... -
Transinstitutionalization: A Feminist Political Economy Analysis of Ontario's Public Mental Health Care System
(2017-07-27)Feminist political economy (FPE) deepens our understanding of the nature and dynamics of marginalization confronting various social groups in late-capitalism. Scholars adopting an FPE approach have, however, neglected to ... -
Dreamscapes of Dubai: Geographies and Genealogies of Global City Status
(2017-07-27)This dissertation asks how Dubais dream and position as a global city impacts on and is impacted by the experiences of a migrant-majority population; and, simultaneously, how the operation of highly exclusionary citizenship ... -
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 ... -
Development, Capitalists and Extractive Rent: Class Struggles in Venezuela and Ecuador
(2017-07-27)Through a relational class perspective, this dissertation compares the evolution of the development models in Venezuela and Ecuador since the 1970s to better understand the significance of the recent turn to the left. Based ...
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