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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 ... -
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 ...
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