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Post-Capitalist Struggles in 21st Century Latin America: Cooperation, Democracy and State Power
(2017-07-27)
This dissertation develops the concept of post-capitalist struggles. This concept highlights how a post-capitalist future is a recurring moment within the capitalist present and can be developed through struggles that ...
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 ...
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 ...
Race, Nature, and Accumulation: A Decolonial World-Ecological Analysis of Indian Land Grabbing in the Gambella Province of Ethiopia
(2017-07-27)
This dissertation situates the post-crisis phenomenon of large-scale agricultural land acquisition, otherwise known as the global land grab, within the longue duree of the capitalist world-ecology. It does so by advancing ...