Browsing Department of Political Studies Graduate Theses by Title
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A Genealogy of Contemporary Indianness: A Foucauldian Analysis of Identity and Society in Anti-Colonization Politics
This dissertation examines the discursive construction of Indigenous identity under the conditions of colonization on Turtle Island. I investigate how the colonial discourse on Indianness discursively produced Indigenous ... -
Governing Big Data: The Political Economy of Power, Knowledge and Consumer Finance in the Digital Age
(2016-10-01)This dissertation offers a critical international political economy (IPE) analysis of the ways in which consumer information has been governed throughout the formal history of consumer finance (1840 – present). Drawing ... -
Governing Forced Migration in Racial Capitalism: Refugee Survival in Paris and Nairobi
This dissertation examines the international, national, and urban dimensions of refugee governance and the geographies of survival in two major refugee hosting cities in the global North and global South: Paris, France and ... -
Group Integration
(2014-01-29)This dissertation argues that we ought to promote the integration of groups as groups. Group integration is characterised by the process through which a group develops its own institutions and becomes a participatory member ... -
A Historical Materialist Approach to the Eurozone Crisis: Fictitious Capital, States, and Capital Accumulation
This dissertation examines the ongoing European sovereign debt crises that began with Greece in 2009, in the wake of the US subprime mortgage crisis. Through the application of a historical materialist approach, I attempt ... -
Homohegemony and the Other: Canada and Jamaica
(2015-01-09)Existing scholarship on LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer/questioning) rights, regulation, “homonationalism,” and citizenship fails to consider lesbian and gay inclusion as a hegemonic state ideology. ... -
How Cognition and Affect Link Ideas to Preferences
(2013-07-10)The present work utilizes both quantitative and qualitative techniques to extract the cognitive and affective elements of national identity from political discourse. However, a focus on national identity tends to depict ... -
How Race Affects the Media's Coverage of Candidates in Canadian Politics
(2013-04-24)This study examines how race affects the media’s coverage of candidates in Canadian politics. Situated in the literature on political communication, gendered mediation and race studies, it proposes a new theory of racial ... -
Imperialisms: A Critique of International Relations and International Political Economy
(2012-11-28)Theories of empire and imperialism have a long history in both the International Relations (IR) and International Political Economy (IPE) literature. Yet both literatures have significant theoretical and methodological ... -
The Island on the Hill: A Kingdonian Analysis of Congressional Decision-Making on the Puerto Rican Question
The two-fold purpose of the thesis is to: (1) advance a theoretical contribution to the study of congressional agenda-setting, and (2) add to the literature on Puerto Rican status politics. In the field of public policy, ... -
Justice and Official Languages in Canada
(2012-02-29)This is a study of the politics of language in Canada from the perspective of francophone minority communities – the close to one million French-speakers living in provinces and territories outside Québec. The analysis ... -
Keeping it in the Family: The (Re-) Production of Conjugal Citizens Through Canadian Immigration Policy and Practice
(2013-03-07)This is an examination of how conjugality acts as an access point for Canadian citizenship. The conjugal family unit — married or common-law — continues to be privileged in Canadian law and policy; this is especially evident ... -
Liberal Ethics & Political Obligation
(2011-11-02)This is a study in the political ethics of liberalism. It uses political obligation theory to shed light on the neutrality-perfectionism debate. My thesis is that neutralism cannot provide a coherent foundation for liberal ... -
Limiting Liberalism (Multi)cultural Epistemologies, (Multi)cultural Subjects
(2013-05-29)The central argument of this text is that the liberal subject is constitutively rather than coincidentally or contingently exclusionary. From this initial premise, I explore the conceptual and practical inadequacies of ... -
Machineries of War and Mechanisms of Change in World Politics
(2007-10-01)The purpose of this dissertation is to anticipate changes in the international system by examining changes in Western defence industries. The defence industries are a mechanism for producing power. In an anarchic ... -
The Mexican-American Diaspora and its Influence on American Trade Policy
(2014-02-26)This study focuses on the Mexican-American community in the US, the American and Mexican governments, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and trade in general between the US and Mexico. The empirical focus ... -
Militarized Gender Performativity: Women and Demobilization in Colombia’s FARC and AUC.
(2012-09-25)Abstract Women are usually represented as victims in the literature on conflict and conflict resolution. While women are indeed victims of violence in the context of conflict, this representation excludes the experiences ... -
Non-domination and the Accommodation of Minority Social Practice
(2011-09-29)This thesis develops an account of non-domination as a principle of legitimacy that ought to govern both inter-group and intra-group relations in multicultural states. It applies this principle to the question of how ... -
North Atlantic Quadrangle: The Importance of France in Canadian Strategic Culture, 1760-1949
(2015-04-10)The objective of this dissertation is to answer the puzzle raised by political scientist John Kirton: Why has Canada, for the last century, gone to war for and beside France? In other words, I assess France’s relative ... -
The political economy of industrial policy in Peru and Ecuador: 1980-2010
(2016-08-26)This dissertation focuses on industrial policy in two developing countries: Peru and Ecuador. Informed by comparative historical analysis, it explains how the Import-Substitution Industrialization policies promoted during ...