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Ethics and Resistant Subject: Levinas, Foucault, Marx
(2014-07-09)
The present work essays a conception of human subjectivity capable of effective resistance to totalizing systems. The term “effective” distinguishes the absolute resistance of an ethical-subjectivity from the survival ...
Public Debt, Ownership and Power: The Political Economy of Distribution and Redistribution
(2014-07-09)
This dissertation offers the first historical examination of the political economy of US public debt ownership. Specifically, the study addresses the following questions: Who owns the US public debt? Is the distribution ...
The Value of Quality: Capital, Class, and Quality Assessment in the Re-making of Higher Education in the United State, the United Kingdom, and Ontario
(2014-07-09)
This dissertation examines the utility of quality assessment (QA) in higher education as a means of measuring and improving qualitative excellence. It also tracks the emergence and development of QA in the United States, ...
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 ...
Pivotal Crisis: State Power and Social Forces in the Making of Neoliberal Capitalism
(2014-07-09)
The thesis uses original archival research to outline a novel account of social and world order change in the 1970s—from the collapse of Bretton Woods to the Reagan Revolution—that shifts the focus of explanation from the ...