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State and Development in Post-Revolutionary Iran
(2021-03-08)This dissertation deals with the state and forms of development in post-revolutionary Iran, through a historical materialist perspective, in particular Nicos Poulantzas relational theory of the state. Analysing the formation ... -
Managing 'Mass Marine Migrant Arrivals': The Sun Sea, Anti-Smuggling Policy and the Transformation of the Refugee Label
(2021-03-08)Managing mass marine migrant arrivals: The Sun Sea, anti-smuggling policy and the transformation of the refugee label, examines the Canadian governments response to the arrival of the Sun Sea, a ship with 492 Sri Lankan ... -
Rethinking Migration in the Age of the Anthropocene
(2021-03-08)The rise in global temperatures and extreme weather events has affected agricultural trends throughout the world and threatened the livelihoods of entire communities. Although not a determinant on its own, environmental ... -
Children as Full Human Beings: A Radical Rethinking of Social and Political Transformation Beyond Domination, Oppression, and Capitalist Exploitation
(2021-03-08)This dissertation examines the general paternalist prejudice against children. It highlights the generational blind spot within critical theory and its failure to engage with the power dynamics between adults and children ... -
Canada's Carbon Capitalism: In the Age of Climate Change
(2021-03-08)This historically and critically informed dissertation investigates the question why Canada has become one of the worlds leaders in promoting fossil fuels through its unconventional hydrocarbon industry in spite of the ... -
Making Prison Work: Prison Labour and Resistance in Canada
(2020-11-13)This dissertation examines prisoner-worker organizing in Canada by considering three case studies in detail: first, the successful unionization of an experimental privately managed abattoir at the Guelph Correctional Centre, ... -
Mining Ontario: Corporate Power, the Mining Industry, and Public Policy in Ontario
(2020-08-11)This dissertation critically examines the history of the government of Ontarios policies towards the mining industry to analyze the impact of concentrated economic power on political processes in liberal democracies. It ... -
Power from Below: Power, Democracy and Socialist Theory
(2020-08-11)This dissertation reframes socialist theory through the concept of power. The goal of this reconceptualization is to overcome the main limits of Marxism on issues of usefulness for activists, of accessibility for ordinary ... -
Middle Class Alterity: A Critical Discourse Analysis of National Economic Identity
(2020-05-11)Lacking concreteness and context, the use of the middle class in Canadian political discourse of recent years is simultaneously ambiguous and ubiquitous. What is meant by the middle class? Who is a member of this meta-material ... -
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 Conservative Party of Canada and the Politics of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism (2006-2015)
(2020-05-11)This dissertation assesses the modern Conservative Party of Canada and governments (2006-2015) discourses, political approach and policy record in the fields of citizenship, immigration and multiculturalism. This is done ... -
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 ...
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