Browsing Department of Political Studies Graduate Theses by Subject "Women"
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Beyond the Ethnonational Divide: Identity Politics and Women in Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine
(2009-01-26)"Beyond the Ethnonational Divide: Identity Politics and Women in Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine" is a comparative analysis of the conflict resolution processes and peace-building strategies employed in Northern ... -
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 ... -
Reconsidering Gender in the Multi-level Governance of Land in East Africa: Governing the “Global Land Grab”?
(2014-10-27)In the twenty-first century, there is a global rush for agricultural land. This rush is extremely profitable and extremely destabilizing, nowhere more so than in low-income countries with large reserves of arable agricultural ... -
Warriors of choice : the (Re)articulation of militarized masculinities in private and public special forces
(2008-08-15)My thesis is an examination militarized masculinity in Canada's JTF2 Special Forces and the Private Security Firm Blackwater. I employ a gender analysis to highlight how militarized masculinity impedes women's participation ...