• The Kleinian Subject in the Anthropocene: Posthumanism, Narration of Crisis, and the Ethics of Reparative Care 

  Ritchie, Nicole Anne (2022-03-03)

  This dissertation utilizes psychoanalytic theory to understand the anxieties that construct narrations of and demand intervention into the Anthropocene, a period marked by crises associated with human impact. I specifically ...

• Relations and States 

  Bukan, Yasar (2022-03-03)

  This dissertation attempts to re-interpret the concept of relations as such and examines their actualization in relation to the relations of states. It is divided into two parts. In the first part, it examines past ...

• Orientalism and its Challenges: Feminist Critiques of Orientalist Knowledge Production 

  Alghamdi, Sameha Gaber (2021-07-06)

  Orientalism has shaped conventional Euro-American epistemologies and approaches towards non-US/European people. Orientalism, as a set of epistemologies has enabled the co-production of multiple violence and imperial ...

• Affect & Play: Socio-political Videogames as a Site of Felt-knowledge Production 

  Shamdani, Sara (2021-03-08)

  Videogames are affective networks, made up of organic and in-organic matters that come to create a space, where the player learns through doing and watching herself do. For decades, videogames researchers and players have ...

• The Affectivity of White Nation-Making: National Belonging, Human Recognition and the Mournability of Black Muslim Women 

  Mendes, Jan-Therese (2021-03-08)

  Drawing Canadian and Swedish national imaginaries into comparative dialogue, this dissertation considers how ideals of liberal, anti-racism paradoxically persist alongside white supremacist investments in the sanctity and ...

• Living Within Hyphenated Paradoxes - The Canadian Adolescent Refugee Experience 

  Noori, Sofia (2020-11-13)

  In 2018, the Canadian government admitted 46,500 refugees. This followed a remarkable record resettlement of Syrian refugees in Canada from 201517, with just under half aged 17 or younger. This dissertation addresses how ...

• Revisiting Adam Smith and the Politics of Commercial Societies 

  Levy-Tessier, Maxime Alexandre (2020-08-28)

  The following dissertation investigates the connection between the division of labour, political subjection and the psychology of authority in Adam Smiths body of work to further his analysis of commercial societies. By ...

• Uncertain Grounds: Key Moves in the Making of Modernity, from Tudor England to the Globalized Present 

  Miceli, Vanessa Nathalie (2020-05-11)

  Which historical lens and what scope can capture modernitys complex social, political, economic, and epistemic permutations? Using an historical interpretive lens to explore contingent moments in its making, this work seeks ...

• "One of these days I'm going to get Organiz-ized": Insomnia as the Arrhythmic Experience of Modernity 

  Meadows, Craig (2020-05-11)

  The proliferation of insomnia and related discourses since the 1970s has produced an expanding moral economy of sleep. The discursive field of sleep has been defined by the production of biological assumptions of the nature ...

• QTBIPOC Interventions in Fibromyalgic Presents: Critically Exploring Gendered, Racial and Neoliberal Regimes of Knowledge in Medical Understandings of Fibromyalgia 

  Moussa, Ghaida (2019-11-22)

  This dissertation asks how fibromyalgia, a chronic illness that is admittedly unknown, unknowable, and undetectable by medical knowledge and technologies comes to be known as fibromyalgia by the medical system. By prioritizing ...

• An Ecology of Immanent Otherness: The Onto/eco-poethics of Hlne Cixous 

  Valiquette, Renee A. (2019-11-22)

  Notions of identification and resemblance have been central to the onto-epistemologies of Anglo Environmental Ethics in the 20th and 21st centuries. In order to dismantle Western conceptions of the human as separate from ...

• Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Thought of Karl Marx 

  Elias, Paul Steven (2019-11-22)

  This dissertation demonstrates several theses in relation to key components of Marxs philosophy that conventional interpretations either misrepresent or overlook. The chief thesis concerns his idea of revolutionary ...

• The Art of Ethics and the Ethics of Art: Between Kant and Wallace Stevens 

  Hoult, Jason Andrew (2019-03-05)

  In my dissertation I undertake to examine the relationship between ethics and art (aesthetics) through an analysis of the relationship between the philosophy of Kant and the poetry of Wallace Stevens. I focus, in my analysis, ...

• From Social Servitude to Self Certitude: The Social Organization of Resistance of Racialized Diasporic Women 

  Alamdar, Negar Pour Ebrahim (2018-11-21)

  The relationship between migration incorporation and resistance is a quintessential problematic replete with controversy. As Arabs and Iranians migrate to a Western society, they are confronted by a whole new set of choices ...

• Of this Land, On this Land: Indigenous Artists Challenging the Racial Logics of Liberal Modernity 

  Morrissette, Suzanne Noelle (2018-05-28)

  This dissertation discusses the role of Indigenous artists in illustrating and denaturalizing the systems of colonial thought that continue to constrain Indigenous peoples expressions of political agency. I argue that the ...

• Towards a Productive Aesthetics: History and Now-Time in Blake and Brecht 

  O'Regan, Keith A. (2018-05-28)

  This thesis is a comparison of the theory and practice of aesthetic politics in key works of Bertolt Brecht and William Blake. I argue that there are two separate temporal moments that define Brechts and Blakes political ...

• Racial Extractivism: Neoliberal White Settler Colonialism and Tar Sands Extraction 

  Preston, Jennifer Lauren (2018-03-01)

  This dissertation traces the reoccurrence of logics which attempt to justify white settler occupation and the extraction, theft and harm of Indigenous lands and life in the Athabasca region and in relation to the extraction, ...

• Elective Breast Surgery and Body Image: A Poststructural-Phenomenological Investigation 

  Rodrigues, Sara Marie (2018-03-01)

  This dissertation examines what happens when elective breast surgery intervenes on women at the level of their body images. In this theoretical-empirical project, I compare practitioner discourses and patient narratives ...

• Nature, History and the Dialectic of Negativity: The Category of Nature in Marx's Writings 

  Araujo, Chris Duarte (2018-03-01)

  The following dissertation examines Marxs conception of nature, including the relationship between that conception and his social theory, political philosophy, and critique of political economy. It offers an erudite defence ...

• After The Death Of God: From Political Nihilism To Post-Foundational Democracy 

  Lewis, Clayton David (2017-07-27)

  The topic of this dissertation is Heideggers deconstruction of metaphysics viewed through the prism of Nietzsches declaration that God is dead. I argue that Nietzsches transvaluation of value remains ensnared by the will ...

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