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The Politics of Political Science: Re-Inscribing Latin American Experiences
(2016-09-20)
Latin America has traditionally been both a politically lively space with strong left-wing forces and a privileged site for radical thinking. Indeed, during the 1950s and 1960s, Marxism was very influential in the social ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Provision of Security in an Age of Austerity: The Transformation of NATO, the Production of Trans-scalar Spaces of Intervention, and the Future of the West
(2015-12-16)
This dissertation traces how NATO has evolved from a defensive alliance concerned with the collective defense of its members to a global security nexus engaged in preemptive crisis management interventions. In reaction to ...
Shooting War
(2017-07-27)
"Shooting War" is a 20-minute documentary that portrays the Iraq war through three photographs captured from the point-of-view of photographer Franco Pagetti, as he explores the impact the conflict has had on a country, a ...
Price and Income Dynamics in the Agri-Food System: A Disaggregate Perspective
(2015-08-28)
This dissertation seeks to illuminate contemporary processes of redistribution in the agri-food sector, with particular reference to the US. It addresses the following questions: How has the rapid rise in food price ...
The Political Economy of the Special Relationship: British Development and American Power
(2014-07-09)
Breaking from the traditional understanding of Anglo-American relations in terms of the cultural, diplomatic and military ‘Special Relationship’, this thesis explores the interdependent political-economic development of ...
Controlling Conception: Citizenship and the Governance of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Canada (1989-2004)
(2015-12-16)
The emergence of a neoliberal mode of governance in the 1970s occurred in tandem with the advent of new reproductive technologies. These two developments have fundamentally altered social life, and have resulted in the ...
Contribution a Une Economie Politique de L'emancipation
(2015-12-16)
Cette Contribution à une économie politique de l’émancipation a pour objet d’étude les institutions de trois projets émancipateurs : le projet d’autonomie de Cornélius Castoriadis, le municipalisme libertaire de Murray ...