Completed Theses and Research Essays
Kenya Thompson – Prefigurative Care: Everydayness and Activism in Nova Scotia’s Childcare Deserts
Research Essay Completed 2022
Supervisor: Fiona Robson, Department of Political Science
Valerie Gilbert – Canada’s National Identity and Images of Wilderness: Reconciling Canadian Extractive Industries
Research Essay Completed 2022
Supervisor: Peter Andreé, Department of Political Science
Alexander King – From Class War to Race War: Historicizing the Devolution from New Deal Populism to “Trumpism”.
Thesis Completed 2022
Supervisor: Andrew Johnson and Melissa Haussman, Department of Political Science
Sarah Wade-West –
Research Essay Completed 2022
Supervisor: Randall Germaine, Department of Political Science
Alicea Yiu –
Research Essay completed 2022
Supervisor: Michael Mopas, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Danielle Saj – “Labour Activists Always Find a Way”: Social Reproductive Unions and their Social Unionism During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Thesis Completed 2022
Supervisor: Susan Braedley, School of Social Work
Sophie Robinson – Redistribution, Equity, and the End of Poverty… All for One Low Price? Basic Income and Social Reproduction in Canada
Research Essay Completed 2021
Supervisor: Justin Paulson, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Madeleine Henderson-Tweedie – Valuing Refugees: A genealogical review of the Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot
Research Essay Completed 2021
Supervisor: Jean – Michel Landry, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Alexander Quesnel – The Commodification of Data Labour under Platform Capitalism: Liberal and Critical Approaches
Research Essay Completed 2021
Supervisor: David Hugill, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Stuart Trew – International regulatory cooperation and the making of “good” regulators A case study of the Canada–U.S. Regulatory Cooperation Council
Thesis Completed 2021
Supervisor: Laura MacDonald, Department of Political Science
E. Snider – The political ecology of sustainable livelihoods in Kakisa, NWT: Fish waste composting for enhancing soil productivity and waste management capacity in northern Indigenous communities
Thesis Completed 2021
Supervisors: Peter Andrée, Department of Political Science and Patricia Ballamingie, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Molly Stollmeyer – Tensions in fostering ‘local food’ in the Northwest Territories: Contending with Settler Colonialism in Northern Research
Thesis Completed 2021
Thesis Supervisor: Peter Andrée, Department of Political Science
Isaac Botham – The Condition of Alienation in the Internet Age: Towards an understanding of the phenomenology of ‘online’
Research Essay Completed 2021
Supervisor: Randall Germain, Department of Political Science
Thomas Dicsi – Authoritarian Neoliberalism: Viktor Orbán’s and the EU’s Symbiotic Relationship
Research Essay Completed 2021
Supervisor: Ania Zbyszewska, Department of Law and Legal Studies
Clay Duncalfe – The Contradictions of Social Democracy in the 20th Century: The Political Economy of the Meidner Plan in Sweden
Research Essay Completed 2021
Supervisor: Randall Germain, Department of Political Science
Declan Walker – The Political Economy of Intergenerational Inequality
Research Essay Completed 2021
Supervisor: Randall Germain, Department of Political Science
Jonah Somers – Exploring the Nature of Modern Technology: A Philosophical Perspective on Big Tech and Technological Society
Research Essay Completed 2021
Supervisor: Geoffrey Kellow, The College of the Humanities
Abram Lutes – Crisis Eruptions: A Comparative Analysis of Right-wing Populism in El Salvador and Guatemala
Thesis Completed 2021
Supervisor: Laura MacDonald, Department of Political Science
Samuel Evans – A critique of smart cities: Sidewalk labs’ project in Toronto
Thesis Completed 2021
Supervisor: David Hugill, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Maria Lorena Zarate – The right to the city, the new municipalism and the feminist politics of the commons: Contributions and challenges from Mexico City, Barcelona and beyond.
Thesis Completed 2021
Supervisors: Julie Tomiak, School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies and Cristina Rojas, Department of Political Science
Patricia Wallinger – Who Supports Basic Income? Constituency as a Constraint in Political Feasibility Testing
Thesis Completed 2021
Supervisor: Scott Bennett, Department of Political Science
Romnick Villanueva – A Study of the Canadian Extractive Sector in the Philippines: Canada’s Corporate Social Responsibility, Imperialist Propensities and Human Rights Abuses
Research Essay Completed 2021
Supervisor: Lisa Mills, School of Public Policy and Administration
Kyla Piccin – Imagining anti-colonial, abolitionist futures in so-called ‘Canada:’ A place-based analysis of land and nature in critical scholarship
Research Essay Completed 2021
Supervisor: Emilie Cameron, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Diana Kolesnik – The Reception of the Ladies Paradise in 19th Century England and the fight against sensualist capitalism.
Thesis Completed 2021
Supervisor: Danielle Kinsey, Department of History
Ndeye Aminata Kane – From CFA to the ECO: Diving Deeper
Research Essay Completed 2021
Supervisor: Randall Germain, Department of Political Science
Janna Bryson – Refusing and Redressing Gestational Labour: A Social Reproduction Analysis of Abortion
Research Essay Completed 2021
Supervisor: Megan Rivers-Moore, Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies
Darrin Antler – The Political Economy of Psychiatry – Power, Knowledge, and Subjectification in the State/Psychiatry Apparatus
Thesis Completed 2020
Supervisor: Marc-Andre Gagnon, School of Public Policy and Administration
Sarah Otto – “Have some respect! Black people died here!” The Politics of Modern Blackness at Cape Coast Castle
Research Essay Completed 2020
Supervisor: Augustine Park, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Jessica Gamarnik – Empowerment throughout Poverty Policy: The Evolution of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Mexico
Thesis Completed 2020
Supervisor: Laura Macdonald, Department of Political Science
Zaee Deshpande – ‘The Chaebol are Complicit’: An Analysis of Labour Insecurity in Post-Developmental South Korea
Research Essay Completed 2020
Supervisor: Jeremy Paltiel, Department of Political Science
Kerri Carisse – Towards More Ethical Futures: Workplace Cooperative Practices’ Contributions as Demonstrated by the Mondragon Corporation
Thesis Completed 2019
Supervisor: Cristina Rojas, Department of Political Science
Qasim Kareemi – The Baloch Ethnic Movement: a Study of Ethno-nationalist Conflict
Thesis completed 2019
Supervisor: Gopika Solanki, Department of Political Science
Nikolas Harrison – Global Capitalism and the Japanese Welfare State: An Institutional Analysis of a Loveless Affair
Research Essay Completed 2019
Supervisor: Jeremy Paltiel, Department of Political Science
Benjamin Bestvater – A Common Future for Whom: A Discourse Analysis on the Sustainable Development of Lithium Extraction in South America
Research Essay Completed 2019
Supervisor: Peter Gose, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Matthew Peters – From ‘first-best’ to best guess: Assessing the power of carbon-pricing to transform Canada’s fossil capital landscape
Research Essay Completed 2019
Co-advisors: Judy Meltzer and Randall Germain, Department of Political Science
Nicholas Favero – A Philosophical Examination of International Political Economy: Foundations for a new disciplinary classification
Research Essay Completed 2019
Supervisor: Randall Germain, Department of Political Science
Leigh McDougall – “Better Living Through Chemistry”?: The Impact of Private Property Mechanisms on the Metabolization of Space in the Petrochemical Age
Research Essay Completed 2018
Supervisor: Pablo Mendez, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Christopher Fairweather – Left Nationalism and Globalism: Strategy, Identity, and the Fight to Save GM Oshawa
Thesis completed 2018
Supervisor: Randall Germain, Department of Political Science
Christian Filip – The Coloniality of Paid Domestic Work in Mexico: Proximity and Dehumanization
Research Essay completed 2018
Supervisor: Cristina Rojas, Institute of Political Economy/Department of Political Science
Jennifer Lawrence – Examining the Neoliberalization of Social Policy in Ontario and its Impacts on Provincial-Municipal Relations: 1995-2002
Research Essay completed 2018
Supervisor: Allan Moscovitch, School of Social Work
Michael James – An Inquiry into Nature and the Causes of the Health of Nations
Research essay completed 2018
Supervisor: Randall Germain, Department of Political Science
Carlie Visser – Re-examining Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady: Helen Gahagan Douglas, Gender, and New Deal Liberalism in the United States Senate Election in California, 1950
Thesis completed 2018
Supervisor: Andrew Johnston, Department of History
Darroch Thomas Harrop – Canadian Political Economy and Industrial Policy: A Re-examination in the Context of Free Trade
Research essay completed 2018
Supervisor: Laura Macdonald, Department of Political Science
Nathan Taylor – A Challenge to the Discourse of Development or Development Done Differently: The Discourse of Experts in the WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation
Thesis completed 2018
Supervisor: Doris Buss, Department of Law and Legal Studies
Meghan Graham – Salmon Kin: Disrupting Industrial Fish Farming and Re-establishing Reciprocity in Human-Salmon Relations
Research Essay completed 2018
Supervisor: Karen Hébert, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Carla Johnston – Using Participatory Action Research to Support Civil Society Action for a Sustainable Food System in Yellowknife
Thesis completed 2018
Supervisor: Peter Andrée, Department of Political Science
Carter Vance – Towards a Historical Materialist Concept of Asexuality and Compulsory Sexuality
Research Essay completed 2018
Supervisor: Patrizia Gentile, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies
Emma Limingcui Huang – A Critical Approach to the Efficacy of the Economic Development Strategy in Interethnic Conflict Prevention and Resolution
Thesis completed 2018
Supervisor: Mira Sucharov, Department of Political Science
Vanessa Leeman – Challenging the American Hegemony: The Re-Awakening of the Networked Dragon
Research Essay completed 2018
Supervisor: Randall Germain, Department of Political Science
Taras Matkovsky – How Blue is Their Backyard: Suburban Party Preferences in the 2015 Canadian Federal Election
Research Essay completed 2017
Supervisor: Stephen White, Department of Political Science
Sean Colby – A Study on the Operation of Relational and Structural Power
Research Essay completed 2017
Mackenzie MacLeod – Monetary Policy at the Limit: Problem Identification and Decision-Making in the Post-Crisis Environment
Research Essay completed 2017
Madeleine Nadeau – Saying what we mean and meaning what we say: deliberative democracy and the Crown’s duty to consult the Clyde River Hamlet
Research Essay completed 2017
Charlotte Caza – Precariousness and Resistance: Temporary Migrant Caregivers in Canada
Research Essay completed 2017
Nadia Ibrahim – Adopting a Food Systems Approach: A Case Study of Just Food, Ottawa
Research Essay completed 2017
Theo Hug – ‘It doesn’t always do justice to people’: Neoliberalism’s Reorganization of Social Services Delivery in Ontario
Thesis completed 2017
Kayleigh Thompson – “A War for a Foreign Woman”: Gender, Power and Economic Tension in Negril
Thesis completed 2017
Jacob Forrest – A Machine for Governing: Technical Standardization, Mass Housing Provision, and the State in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada
Thesis completed 2016
Sarah Phinney – Detroit’s Municipal Bankruptcy and the Case of Austerity Urbanism
Thesis completed 2016
Miles Krauter – The unacknowledged implications of inequality for the Left
Thesis completed 2016
Allyson Fradella – The Rise of the Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa
Research Essay completed 2016
Julia Sterparn – Agents of change? Inuit Teacher Education programs and Decolonization in Nunavut
Research essay completed 2016
Leslie Munoz – State-led Forced Migration in the Canadian Context: A Look into Canada’s Deportation Flights
Thesis completed 2016
Russell Burgess – Competition or Liberation: Implications of Labour Automation in the Context of Cognitive Capitalism
Thesis completed 2016
Vladimir Diaz Cuellar – Mining the Extractivism Literature
Research Essay completed 2016
Charles Andrew Barclay – Microfinance in South Africa: Where are the Savings Products?
Research Essay completed 2016
Margaret Crump – “The Beginnings of Learning”: Attempting to Understand Poverty and Poverty Reduction in Nunavut
Thesis completed 2016
Scott Jarosiewicz – Basic Income and Housing Satisfaction: Evidence from the Mincome Experiment
Thesis completed 2016
Jon Careless – Tracking Evolutions in CMHC Policy (1965-2006) Using Bob Jessop’s Strategic Relational State Theory
Thesis completed 2015
Christine Stenton – Struggling for the ‘right to the city’: In situ informal settlement upgrading in Kibera, Nairobi
Thesis completed 2015
Benjamin Johnson – Cost Control and Flexibility: Retail Labour in the Post-industrial Era
Research essay completed 2015
Lesley Cornelisse – Organizing for Social Policy Change: Child Care Policy Advocacy in Canada
Thesis completed 2015
Jessica Egginton – Trickle-Down Discourse: Exploring the Impact of Standardized Text on Paradigm, Measurement and Locality at Women’s Organizations in Toronto
Research essay completed 2015
Katalin Koller – Toward a political economy of on-reserve Indigenous education in Canada: Problematizing Bill C-33
Thesis completed 2015
Norman Kearney – Democratizing the State, or Dominating Civil Society: The Risks and Potentials of Participatory Budgeting
Thesis completed 2015
Philip Billingham – The Struggle for a Living Wage: Origins and Implications of the Marikana Massacre
Research essay completed 2015
Dax D’Orazio – The Demise of Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act: Reappraising the ‘Battle for Free Speech’
Thesis completed 2015
Maggie FitzGerald-Murphy – Ethics of Care and the Newfoundland Paid Family Caregiver Program: An Assessment
Thesis completed 2015
Isaac Gray – European-level Industrial and Class Relations in the Wake of the Eurozone Crisis
Thesis completed 2015
Chris Peppin – Ratings in Crisis: Credit Rating Agencies, Epistemic Authority and the Subprime Financial Crisis
Research essay completed 2015
Mark Robbins – Towards a Political Economy of Military Spending
Thesis completed 2015
Matt Banninga – The Pacification of Indigenous Resistance: An Anti-Security Analysis of Idle No More Protest Policing and Surveillance Operations
Thesis completed 2015
Supervisor: Rebecca Schein, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies – Human Rights
Kathleen Dyson – Canada’s new medical marijuana regulations: Examining patient impacts through an access framework
Research essay completed 2014
Jay Tyler Malette – Marx, Labouring Bodies, and the Materiality of Affect: Toward a Corporeal Materialistic Politic
Research essay completed 2014
Damira Grigorieva Kedik – Austerity and Societal Response: The Double Movement in Post-Crisis Canada
Thesis completed 2014
Sarah-Jane Hamilton – Geographies of Power, Subjectivity and Belonging: Campesino Land Claims in Inza, Cauca, Colombia
Thesis Completed 2014
David Barrios Giraldo – NGOs and Memory in Colombia: The case of Medellin
Thesis completed 2014
Glennys Egan – ‘Actually-existing’ Neoliberalism in Nairobi, Kenya: Examining Informal Traders’ Negotiations over Access to the Entrepreneurial City
Thesis completed 2014
Graham Macdonald – Disabled by Nature? The Care Economy: History, Critique and Ethnography
Thesis completed 2014
Jason Dolny – Gramsci and the Ghost-Management of Medical Research: Revisiting Medical Journal Conflict of Interest Politics in an Age of Neoliberal Science
Thesis completed 2014
Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood – Unmasking the Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Critical Canadian Political-Economic Analysis
Research essay completed 2014
Wesley Michael Petite – Participation by Praxis: A Study of How Participatory Budgeting Deepens Democracy by Institutionalizing Critical Consciousness
Thesis completed 2014
Sophie O’Manique – From Prohibition to Decriminalization: Interrogating the Emerging International Paradigm Shift in the War on Drugs Discourse
Thesis completed 2014
Yumi Kotani – Envisioning Equity: Coalition and Partnership Strategies of Ottawa’s Equity and Inclusion Lens
Thesis completed 2014
Paul Whiteley – Innis and Posthumanism: an exploration
Research Essay completed 2013
Christina Muehlberger – Building an Engaged University: The River Building as a Spatial Reflection of Carleton University’s Social Mission
Thesis completed 2013
Erin Callary – CIDA and NGO-Mining Partnerships: Common-Sense Development?
Research Essay completed 2013
Stephen Piazza – Food Access and Farm Livelihoods: Policy Reflections from Stakeholders in Eastern Ontario
Thesis completed 2013
Michael Bueckert – Reification and Alternatives to Development
Thesis completed 2013
Tessa Blaikie – From the Roots of Violence to the Route for Allied Relationships
Research essay completed 2013
Darrin Cohen – Engine of Growth or Stuck in a Trap? The Political Economy of the Alberta Oil Sands and the Impact it has on the Canadian Economy
Research essay completed 2013
Stephanie Kittmer – Neoliberal conservation: legitimacy and exclusion in the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement
Thesis completed 2013
Cameron Esler – The Operations of Power: Federal Government Discourse and the Northern Gateway Pipeline
Research essay completed 2013
Catalina Prada – Balancing International Imperatives and Domestic Demands: The Implementation Process of the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
Research essay completed 2013
Ben Dick – Saving Space for Place: municipal cultural planning as a tool for resisting the making of placeless space in cities
Thesis completed 2013
Alicia Baker – Securing Bodies: Performances of Security by Transgender Travelers in Canadian Airports and Borders
Thesis completed 2013
Samantha Ponting – A Political Economy of Contemporary Border Security Walls
Thesis completed 2012
Kritee Ahmed – Forming Working Selves: Flexibility and Governmentality and Generational Identity Formation in the Public Library
Thesis completed 2012
Tyler Levitan – Impact and Benefit Agreements in Relation to the Neoliberal State: The Case of Diamond Mines in the Northwest Territories
Thesis completed 2012
Aidan Macdonald – The Development Program in Palestine: Expanding Imperialism, Entrenching Settler Colonialism
Research Essay completed 2012
Kirsten Francescone – Paths of Development in Bolivia: Contradictions of the Procesdo de Cambio
Thesis completed 2012
James Braun – The Commonwealth Caribbean Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program in Postcolonial Context
Thesis completed 2012
Brynne Sinclair-Waters – Towards a Feminist Political Economy Reading of the Local Food Movement: Care and Cooperation in Eastern Ontario
Research Essay completed 2012
Sabrina Fernandes – The cursinho industry and the advancement of the neoliberal agenda for access to education in Brazil; a case study in the city of Goiânia
Thesis completed 2012
Ryan MacLean – The Social Economy: Challenges and Opportunities for the Nonprofit Sector
Research Essay completed 2012
Krista Wray – The Ripple Effects of HIV/AIDS and the Water Crisis: a feminist political ecology study of South Africa
Research Essay completed 2012
Frank Gale – Marshalling Resources: Crisis Citizen Engagement and the Marshall Decisions
Thesis completed 2012
Nathan Wynes – Livelihoods on the Cusp of Citizenship: Strategies, Vulnerabilities and Durable Solutions in Tanzania’s Old Settlements
Research Essay completed 2012
Brian Kominar –Barred Brewers: Ontario’s Discriminatory Beer Distribution System
Research Essay completed 2012
Patrick Gorman – Human Flesh Search: The Governmentality of Mass Surveillance in China
Thesis completed 2012
Brandon Chavarie – Venezuela’s Socialist Economy: An Evaluation Using Democratic Planned Participatory Socialism
Research Essay completed 2012
Sarah Brickell – Selling Home Ownership: Federal housing policy and income polarization
Research Essay completed 2011
Emily Norgang-Woodward – The Political Economy of Meat Regulation and the Sustainability of Alternative Food Networks
Thesis completed 2011
Austin Miller – Scaling Up or Selling Out? A Critical Appraisal of Current Developments in Vertical Farming
Thesis completed 2011
Besmira Alikaj – The Corporate Socially Responsible University: A Case Study of Carleton University’s Transportation Demand Management
Research Essay completed 2011
Justin Taylor – Creating Integration
Research Essay completed 2011
Eric Smith – An urban epicentre of decolonization in Canada: the Indigenous-settler alliance to make a place for peace at Asinabka
Thesis completed 2011
Matthew Palmer – Usury or a Consumer Convenience? Historicizing the Payday Loan
Thesis completed 2011
Sarah Ryan – Challenging employee status using legal mobilization: Home-based child care workers and rural and suburban mail carriers
Thesis completed 2011
Kurt Rafuse – Challenging the Trucking Industry’s Deregulation Narrative: A Material Account of Transformation in Canada and the United States’ Trucking Industries and its Implications for an Effective Politics
Thesis completed 2011
Alexandra Mullins – Social Media as a Political Tool: Creating a Political Landscape of Twitter
Research Essay completed 2011
Emily Harris – Cities for city-building? Own source revenues in Halifax and Edmonton
Thesis completed 2011
Otim Harris Okwir – Nyerere’s Socialism: The Rationalization of Ujamaa
Research Essay completed 2011
Matthew Hawkins – Plurinationality: A Revolutionary Myth for Ecuador’s Indigenous Movement
Thesis completed 2010
Aaron Henry – Export Development Canada, Capital and Political Risk: from a keynesian to a neoliberal regime of spatial-production
Thesis completed 2010
Ryan Katz-Rosene – Transformism in Alberta: The Environmental Political Economy of the Bituminous Sands
Thesis completed 2010
Sarah Martin – Farming the Margins of Neoliberalism: Food Sovereignty in Canada
Thesis completed 2010
Vladimir Aleman Delfs – Neoliberal Globalization at the Fringe: Microfinance and the Creation of the Entrepreneurial Homo Oeconomicus
Research Essay completed 2010
Meby Ayres – Striking a Balance: State Power and Economic Volatility in the United States
Research Essay completed 2010
Miranda Cobb – Meaningful Consultation? Nation-to-Nation or Domination and Assimilation?
Research Essay completed 2010
Deborah Rachlis – Opportunistic Rendition, Citizenship and the ‘War on Terror’
Thesis completed 2010
Ben Saifer – Jewish-Arab/Muslim ‘Dialogue’ and Palestine Solidarity on Canadian Campuses
Research essay completed 2010
Trevor Smith – Anti-Political Impulses: Neoliberal Globalization and the Resurgence of Religion
Thesis completed 2010
Ali Zeren – Political Economy of National Market Formation: Italy’s Southern Question in Historical Perspective
Thesis completed 2010
Yuichi Amano – Democratization and Power-sharing for Alternative Social Orders: Lessons from Economic Liberalization and Water Conflict in India
Thesis completed 2009
John Morton – Governing a Tangled Web: ICANN and Internet governance
Research Essay completed 2009
Matthew Morgan – At the Limits of Politics: Italian Autonomia and the World Social Forum
Thesis completed 2009
Allison Sylvia Bone –Cleaning up the Harbour: The Hamilton Harbour Remedial Action Plan as a Sustainable Common Property Institution
Thesis completed 2009
Fatma Armagan Teke – Strike, Struggle, and Scale: Union and Feminist Challenges to a MNC in the Antalya Free Zone, Turkey
Thesis completed 2009
Frank Josef Richter – The Power of Money: Neoliberalism, the Federal Reserve and Monetary Government in the United States
Research Essay completed 2009
Thomas Abrams – Infernal Liberation? Emancipatory Research and the Social Model of Disability
Thesis completed 2009
Christopher Alderson – From Migrations to Migration: Birth of a Phenomenon
Thesis completed 2009
Morgan Lloyd – The Great Rejection: Modernism, Eurocentrism and Cultural Resistance in Mexico
Thesis completed 2009
Daniel Tubb – Citizenship and Violence in Antioquia, Colombia
Thesis completed 2009
Jason Wenczler – The Review of Bill C-91: Pharmaceutical Policy Development under a Majority Liberal Government
Thesis completed 2009
James Dooley – Noise Annoys: Pirate Radio and the Distribution of Music in the Digital Age
Thesis completed 2008
D. Allan Bevan – Non-State Actors, Structure and International Cooperation: How Competitive Domestic Lobbying Shapes the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America
Research Essay completed 2008
Matthew Lymburner – Edgard Leuenroth – The Formative Years, 1881-1917: Exploring Anarchist Ideology in São Paulo through Critical Biography
Thesis completed 2008
Michelle Nelson-Barrett – Traveling Third Class: Regulating the Transport of Farm Animals in Canada
Thesis completed 2008
Eliot Che – Making the Ethical Turn? International Relations Theory & Critical Human Rights
Research Essay completed 2008
Emma Lui – Networks of Power: A Feminist Political Ecology Analysis of the World Water Council
Thesis completed 2008
Robert MacDonald – Reconnecting with the Food that Feeds the Soul: Considering the Emancipatory Possibilities of the Intersection of a Local Food Movement with a Professional Restaurant
Thesis completed 2008
David Cavett-Goodwin – The Hollowing-Out of Corporate Canada: Quantitative vs. Qualitative Analysis
Thesis completed 2008
Sinan Erik – An Inquiry Concerning the World-picture: Kojeve, Schmitt and Strauss
Thesis completed 2007
Sam Cartmell – Al-Hurra is Al-Murra: United States International Propaganda from The Committee for Public Information to The United States Information Agency to the Middle East Broadcasting Network, Inc.
Research Essay completed 2007
Joel Barros – The Political Economy of Capital Controls and Chaebols in South Korea
Thesis completed 2007
Kate Rexe – A Nation in Distress: a Political Economy Critique of Urban Aboriginal Poverty
Thesis completed 2007
Anna Torgerson – Fair Trade and Global Justice: The Radical Possibilities of Reform
Thesis completed 2007
Phil Mount – Local Food Consumers and Reflexivity: Determining the Conceptual Boundaries Behind Community Supported Agriculture
Thesis completed 2007
Gulden Ozcan – On the Prospect of a New Theoretical Framework: Reading Marx and Foucault together to Reexamine Capitalist Exploitation
Thesis completed 2007
Ross Sutherland – Biting the Hand that Feeds You: The Political Economy of Ontario’s Community Laboratory Services
Thesis completed 2007
David Orfald – Learning to Change? Union Renewal and the Challenge of Intentional Organizational Change
Research Essay completed 2006
Brent Lawlor – Same Difference? The Contemporary Division(s) of Knowledge Labour
Research Essay completed 2006
Stephanie Kale – Beyond Gender?: Women in the Cultural Economy of Electronic Music
Thesis completed 2006
Heather Whiteside – Casting a Shadow from the Shadows: An Examination of the Power & Authority of Rating Agencies in an Era of Neoliberal Globalization
Thesis completed 2006
David Le Blanc – Walking Along the Klong: Social Institutions as a Vehicle for Progressive Change in Thailand
Research Essay completed 2006
Lincoln Addison – Frontier Farm Labour: A Study of Neoliberal Restructuring and Zimbabwean Migrant Farm workers in Limpopo Province, South Africa
Thesis completed 2006
Berrak Kabasakal – A Neoliberal Assault Through Employment Relations: Turkish Labour Market Flexibilization
Thesis completed 2006
Dale Clark –Permanently Precarious? Collective Bargaining and Health Benefits for Permanent Part-time Public Sector Workers
Thesis completed 2006
Hilary Seddon – Living in the Shadows: Client-Politics and U.S. Immigration Policy since 1986: California and the Nation
Research Essay completed 2006
Caleb Michael Sunstrum Lauer – From a Bookshop in Riga: Edward Hallett Carr’s Debt to Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thesis completed 2005
Todd Culbert – Psychotherapeutic Drug Use and Technologies of the Self: A Study of the Intersection of Bio-power and Nihilism
Thesis completed 2005
Elayne Oliphant – “Il n’y a pas de ‘potentially hot issues'”: Paradoxes of Displaying Arab-Canadian Lands within the Canadian Museum Of Civilization After 9.11
Thesis completed 2005
Kathryn Fredericks – Dispute Resolution in NAFTA’s Investor-State Chapter: A Shift to Market-Dominated Governance
Research Essay completed 2005
Seth Sazant – Greedy Goons: The Political Economy of NHL Labour and Fan Reactions to the 2004 Lockout
Research Essay completed 2005
Kirsten Leng – “Eine Politikerin von top to bottom”?: Rethinking the life and legacy of Eleanor Marx
Thesis completed 2005
Justin Mondoux – Morality, Mediocrity and the New Middle Class: A Social Contract for the New Middle Class?
Research Essay completed 2005
Evren Tok – “A la Turca” Ways of Maintaining Social Cohesion from a Polanyian Perspective: Transformation of Gecekondus to State Spaces in Turkey’s Neo-liberal Era
Thesis completed 2005
Kevin Young – Der Mittelstand Macht Mobil: The Transnational Mobilization of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Interest Organizations in the European Union
Thesis completed 2005
Aysegul Ergul – An Interrogation of Habermas’ Moral Politics: Evacuation of ‘the Political’
Thesis completed 2005
Olena Kobzar – Mark Neocleous: All Roads Lead to Class
Thesis completed 2005
Sabrina Alton – Understanding Government Procurement Liberalization in Canada and Its Implications for the Federal Procurement Process
Thesis completed 2004
Janice Cudlip – Power to Choose: Collective Action Framing for Citizens/Consumers in a Neo-Liberal Context
Thesis completed 2004
Morgan Duchesney – The Treatment of Welfare Fraud by the Ontario Government: 1995-2003
Research Essay completed 2004
Agnieszka Czajka – Inclusive Exclusion: Rethinking American Prisoners and Prisons
Thesis completed 2004
Catherine Macnab – Sex, Trust and Consequences: Rethinking HIV Prevention in Sub Saharan Africa
Thesis completed 2004
Trevor Rous – Canadian Telehealth Networks and the Mapping of Telehealth’s Virtual Regions: A Critique of Anthony Giddens’s Structuration Theory
Thesis completed 2004
Matthew Seguire – “Preserving the Value of Place”: Restructuring Urban Governance Through Third Sector Initiatives
Thesis completed 2004
Oguz Kolasin – Geopolitics of Governing Human Mobility: The EU, Turkey and Illegal Immigration
Thesis completed 2004
Alice Mah – Limitations and Contradictions: Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility
Thesis completed 2004
Roger M. Picton – De-congesting City-zenship: Seeing the Green Political Economy of “New” and “Old” Parkway Modernization in the National Capital Region
Thesis completed 2003
Kari Glynes Elliott – Public Opinion, Public Policy and Privatization in the Debate Over Reforming Medicare: How Do Governments Respond to the Conflicting Demands of Different Sectors of the Public?
Thesis completed 2003
Haeli Goertzen – “Choking on the Smell of Money”: Resistance, Economic Development and the Hog Industry in Rural Manitoba
Thesis completed 2003
Marc Thomson – The Federal Public Service: Towards a New Direction
Research Essay completed 2003
Ian Anthony Morrison – Whither Liberalism? Power, Equality and the Prospects of a Radical Liberal Project
Research Essay completed 2003
Richard Girard – (de)Constructing Class: Towards an Understanding of Transition in the Relations of Production in Cuban Agriculture
Research Essay completed 2003
Ozgur Emrah Gurel – Decision and Plurality: The Specificity of the Political in Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt
Thesis completed 2003
John Grundy – Staging Queer Differences in the Entrepreneurial City: The Politics of Pride Toronto
Thesis completed 2003
Glen Bornais – Mining the ‘Raw Materials of the 21st Centurey Economy’: Innovation and Economic Development in Canada
Thesis completed 2003
Angela V. Carter – ‘Sure There’s Nothing in There Only Water?’: Environmental Ethics in the Gisborne Lake Debate
Thesis completed 2003
Justina Dugbazah – The Political Economy of Women in Rural Development in Ghana: Gender Analysis and Policymaking for Development
Research Essay completed 2003
Kalapi Roy – Political Encounters in Benevolence: Canada, Contraception, and Women Having Babies Abroad
Thesis completed 2002
Al Scobie-Vachon – Beyond Marxian Nature Theory: Understanding and Contesting Japanese Social-Environmental Relations (1955-1985).
Thesis completed 2002
Adele Mugford – Challenging the Harris Government’s Mandate to Improve the Quality of Public Education with Less Public Expenditure: The Political Economy of Public Education Reform in Ontario
Thesis completed 2002
Timothy Gravelle – John Maynard Keynes’s Potential Contribution to International Political Economy: Reflections on Liberalism, Global Distributive Justice and International Financial Institution Reform
Research Essay completed 2002
Dao Luu – Reconstituting Employment Regulatory Strategies In Ontario: The Employment Standards Act 2000
Thesis completed 2002
Alison Howell – Peaceful, Tolerant and Orderly: Post-Cold War Foreign Policy and ‘Canadian’ Subjectivity
Thesis completed 2002
David A. Bennett – The Political Economy of Canadian Broadcast Policy
Research Essay completed 2001
Omar Khalifeh – Water Sharing Between Jordan and Israel: A Model for Arab-Israeli Conflict Resolution
Research Essay completed 2001
Lindsey McKay – Seeking to Cure by Replacement: The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation
Thesis completed 2001
Franca Piccin – The Political Economy of Efficiency: The ‘Revving-up’ and ‘Throttling Down’ of Canadian Labour Market Development Policy
Research Essay completed 2001
Lucy Sharratt – Deconstructing a “Science-Based” Regulation: Towards Rendering the Risks of Genetic Engineering Visible
Thesis completed 2001
Michael James Bassett – Challenging the FTAA Disconnect: The Political Economy of State-Civil Society Relations in the Free Trade Area of the Americas Process
Thesis completed 2001
Tanya Dawn Hyland – A Critical Analysis of the Ontario Disability Support Program Act and Social Citizenship Rights in Ontario
Research Essay completed 2001
Colin Curtis Lund – Redefining the Public Interest in Rural Alberta: Health, Environment, and Economics in the Heartland of the Oil and Gas Industry
Thesis completed 2001
Elizabeth Friesen – The Polanyian Double Movement and the Context of International Finance: An Examination of Emerging Countermovements
Thesis completed 2000
Sabrina Barker – Software for Develoment: The Case of Chile
Thesis completed 2000
John Hollingsworth – Hard Times in the ‘New Times’: The Institutional Contraditions of an Emergent Local Workfare State (Ontario Works in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
Thesis completed 2000
James C.J.D. McGillivray – Toward a Political Economy of the Public Sphere: A Critique of the Charter and Newspaper Concentration
Thesis completed 2000
Jerry Samuel – The Political Economy of ‘British’ Virgin Islands Development: 1838-1998
Research Essay completed 2000
Omar A.A. Sharmarke – The Problems of State Collapse: A Political Response to the Cultural, Economic and Psyho-social Needs of the Somali Nation
Research Essay completed 2000
David A. Brook – Civil Society and the State
Thesis completed 1999
Mathew Coleman – Nomadic Bodies and Environmental Degradation: A Lefebvrian Response to the Scarcity-Conflict Methodology
Research Essay completed 1999
Patricia Jane Stinson – Ontario Pay Equity Results for CUPE Service Workers in Ontario Hospitals: A Study of Uneven Benefits
Thesis completed 1999
Zdenek Hanzlicek – Effect of Information Technology on the Reproduction of the Dominant Class
Thesis completed 1999
Steven J. Jackson – Communication, Modernization and Information-led Development: The Case of Malaysia’s Multimedia Super Corridor
Research Essay completed 1999
Özgü Karasipahi – Development of Canadian Science and Technology Policy
Research Essay completed 1999
Po Land Lai – The Disappearance and Displacement of Deliberation: The Case of the Economic and Monetary Union
Research Essay completed 1999
Adam Seddon – The Political Economy of Financial Liberalization: “Price Stability,” Unemployed and Neo-Liberal Restructuring
Research Essay completed 1999
Jessie R.A. Smith – “We Are Not Profitable” Neoliberalism and the Peasant Sector in Nicaragua
Thesis completed 1997
Daniel R. McGregor – Metropolis and Hinterland: Transportation Policy in Canadian Development Strategy
Research Essay completed 1998
Carlos Novas – Governing the Appropriation of Life: Science, Regulatory Knowledge and Reforms to Canada’s Patent Regime (1984-1995)
Thesis completed 1998
Richard McGrath – The Political Economy of Information and Technology: As If People Mattered
Research Essay completed 1998
Richard McGuire – Mexico: A Prisoner of the Past
Research Essay completed 1998
Markus Sharaput – Bill C-91 as a Symbolic Moment: An Enquiry into Political Conceptions of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Canada, 1987 to 1998
Research Essay completed 1998
James Michael Walsh – Governmentality and the Canadian Political Economy: the past and present of monetary policy
Research Essay completed 1998
Geoffrey Dell Webb – Medical Turbulence: Physicians in Ontario’s New Hospital Economy
Research Essay completed 1998
Eric Sauvé – The Crisis of the object: case Study of late 17th and early 18th century trade in Indian calicoes
Research Essay completed 1998
Meibing Fu – Foreign Direct Investment in China: How China Directs and Regulates FDI through Its FDI Policy
Research Essay completed 1997
David Tiley – Post-Fordist ‘Ideal Type’? – The Labour Process in the Japanese Manufacturing Sector, 1967-1990
Thesis completed 1997
Lisa Drouillard – Cuban Miami: Exile Nation in a Global City
Thesis completed 1997
Margaret Moore – Inside/Outside Myths of Northerness Aboriginal Struggles for Self-Governed Homelands in the Post-War Canadian Political Economy
Research Essay completed 1997
Jennifer Quaile – Women and the Canadian State: Reforming Child Support
Thesis completed 1997
Killaine K. Sharman – The Theory and Practice of Risk in Private Infrastructure Projects: An Analysis of the CIDA Industrial Cooperation Program’s Experience to Date and Policy Recommendations for Tomorrow
Thesis completed 1997
Jessie R.A. Smith – “We Are Not Profitable” Neoliberalism and the Peasant Sector in Nicaragua
Thesis completed 1997
Dominica Babicki – Scope and Limits of Community Action for Improving the Environment: A Sudbury Case Study
Research Essay completed 1996
Robert Nugent – Post-Fordism in the Provinces: The Case of New Brunswick, 1990-95
Research Essay completed 1996
Tess Sliwinski – Foreign Direct Investment in the Post-Communist Economies in Transition: Evidence from Western Investor Surveys
Research Essay completed 1996
Chris Hunt – The Internationalisation of the State: Economic Restructuring in New Zealand
Research Essay completed 1995
Fuyuki Kurasawa – Globalizations, Power, Marginality: Transnational Migrations and the Restructuring of the Urban
Thesis completed 1995
Tong Jiang Long – Using FDI or Being Used by FDI – An Analysis of China’s Foreign Investment Policy
Research Essay completed 1995
Heather Mair – New Spaces in Atlantic Canada: Towards the Future of the Atlantic Groundfishery
Research Essay completed 1995
Gail Mitchell – “From Stone Age to Atomic Age” Towards a Political Economy of the Northwest Territories 1950-1969
Research Essay completed 1995
Stephanie Ross – Las Madras de la Plaze de Mayo and the Political Economy of Resistance
Thesis completed 1995
Susan Usher – Czechoslovak Energy Policy in the Period of Transition: New Options and Old Constraints
Thesis completed 1995
Derrick Deans – The Guaranteed Annual Income and the Fordist Regime
Research Essay completed 1994
Kevin Skerrett – Hegemony, State, and the Role of Finance in Early Canadian Industrialization
Thesis completed 1994
John Lee – “Progress–not politics”: Social Credit Hegemony and the De-Politicization of British Columbia Forest Policy, 1952-1972
Research Essay completed 1994
Catherine Pal – From Standardization to Flexibility: The Political Economy of Working Time in Canada’s Potential Transition from Fordism/Neofordism to Postfordism
Research Essay completed 1994
Pamela Scholey – Development as a Mode of Resistance: Women and Struggle in Palestine
Thesis completed 1994
Navsharan Singh – The New International Trade Regime of GATT and The TRIPS Issue: An Indian Peoples Perspective
Research Essay completed 1994
Jacqueline Booth-Bourdeau – Post-Fordist Restructuring in the North American Automobile Industry: Prospects and Implications
Research Essay completed 1993
Peter Brander – Regional Development Policy and the Single Industry Town: Dalhousie, N.B., 1869-1990
Thesis completed 1993
Merrill O’Donnell – Global Warming, Energy & EMR Policy
Research Essay completed 1993
Carlos Yuste – European Commission Agency for An Industrial Strategy
Research Essay completed 1993