• Aging in place with Google and Amazon Smart Speakers: Privacy and Surveillance Implications for Older Adults 

  Percy Campbell, Jessica (2023-05-01)

  Commercial-grade smart home technologies (SHTs) such as Google and Amazon smart speakers are rising in popularity among older adults. Marketing materials claim that smart speakers can support older adults aging in place ...
• Making Political Music: Contrapuntal Constitutionalism and Indigenous-Settler Relations 

  Kohlmann, Neil (2023-04-25)

  This thesis applies Edward Said’s thought to Canadian settler colonialism. I draw upon Said’s idea of contrapuntal reading to understand settler colonialism as an interdependent and co-constitutive relationship between ...
• The Case of the Russian Electronic Identity Card: from the Promise of E-government to the Problem of Data Sovereignty 

  Matiyenko, Iryna (2023-01-09)

  Electronic identity cards have been the focus of different disciplines in the last two decades. They are viewed as technological tools that enable e-government in public administration studies; as systems of surveillance ...
• Deliberation and Diplomacy: Statue Removals in Two Municipalities in Canada 

  Kielbiski, Corie (2022-12-21)

  In what seems to be a nascent culture of accountability, advocates across Canada, and beyond, are rallying against commemorative symbols, namely statues, to demand systemic change. Increasingly, conversations about removing ...
• “The Straight Path That Leads to Sodom”: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s Sexual Politics and 19th Century French Feminist Responses 

  Sozen, Gizem (2022-09-02)

  Despite the emphasis Proudhon placed on the significance of his ideas on women’s status within society, the patriarchal family, and the conjugal couple for his political thought, scholars of Proudhon display a tendency to ...
• In and Against Canada 

  Henderson, Phil (2022-08-26)

  This dissertation is an intervention aimed primarily at the field of Canadian Political Science, but informed by engagements with Indigenous Studies, literatures on racial capitalism, and Global Histories. The overarching ...
• Environmental activism, anarchist methodology, and Indigenous resurgence: renewed possibilities for ecological security in Canada 

  Tkachenko, Aly (2022-08-19)

  As climate change becomes a pressing concern for policymakers and citizens around the world, a variety of security discourses have emerged framing the environment as a security issue. While dominant frameworks focus on ...
• Foreign Assets for Chinese Control: Capital Filtration, New Triple Alliance, and the Global Political Economy of China’s Information Industry (1995-2020) 

  Zhao, Can (2022-08-02)

  For late developing countries, using foreign capital to modernize its economy is akin to wielding a double-edge sword. It complements much needed funding and technology that laggards lack endogenously but presents risks ...
• The black homunculus: toward a grammar of black experience 

  McDonald, Domonic Brian (2022-05-03)

  Hortense Spillers is renowned for her contributions to the canon of black thought which prefigure contemporary trends in Afro-pessimism. Specifically, her concern with developing a new grammar through which to articulate ...
• Sovereignty and eschatology: the reordering of the apocalypse in Carl Schmitt's political theology 

  Jing, Lingyu (2022-05-02)

  The thesis examines the relationship between sovereignty and eschatology in Carl Schmitt’s political theology. Schmitt is seen as an important political theorist of sovereignty but the contemporary understanding of his ...
• Framing the climate change and human mobility nexus in Canada: from discourse to policy? 

  Bates-Eamer, Nicole (2022-04-27)

  My dissertation examines how media and policy actors in Canada frame the intersection of climate change and human mobility. I address two gaps in the literature: (1) how the nexus of climate change and human mobility is ...
• Redress through constitutional change: reimagining the Canada Round for its reparative potential 

  Sherbino, Jordan (2022-04-25)

  The Canada Round was a period of megaconstitutional politics where many of the perennial topics of Canadian politics were viewed through a constitutional lens. This research analyzes the Canada Round of negotiations for ...
• Haptic performativity: exploring the force of bodies and the limits of linguistic action in silent protests 

  Lavender, Luke (2022-04-25)

  This thesis engages with the tension between political action and political speech in political understanding. This tension arises in a context whereby speech is represented as the sine qua non of being political and the ...
• Thawing the tension: U.S.-Greenland relations and climate change (non)securitization 

  Crowther, Joe Edward (2022-01-27)

  U.S. Arctic foreign policy and the U.S. influence on Greenland has been studied predominantly regarding U.S. military and defence concerns. However, during the Trump Administration, the U.S. Arctic foreign policy agenda ...
• Onkwehón:we women’s roles in regenerating and reclaiming their ancestral food systems: a pathway to healing 

  Jacco, Katsistohkwiio (2021-12-21)

  Onkwehón:we Food Systems throughout Turtle Island have always been and continue to be foundational to Onkwehón:we worldviews, social interactions with all living kin, and community health. However, the process of colonization ...
• Surveillance for development? Debating citizen identification systems in Ghana 

  Oduro-Marfo, Smith (2021-12-15)

  Many Global South states are developing citizen identification databases that are digital, smart and meant to be integrated and interoperable with other systems. Admittedly, there are nuances in the historical and institutional ...
• Subdividing the vulnerable and disadvantaged: labor stratification and hierarchies between Philippine and Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong 

  Chandra, Agam (2021-12-13)

  Hong Kong plays host to hundreds of thousands of female migrant domestic workers, who have become an integral part of the local economy and a common sight in households. Despite their importance, their live-in status ...
• Beasts in the Garden City: animals, humans, and settlement on Canada's west coast 

  Cunningham, Tim (2021-09-08)

  This thesis examines the numerous roles that nonhumans (and especially livestock) played in the creation, maintenance, and reproduction of settler space in the colonial city of Victoria, British Columbia, and details the ...
• The author as actor: a defense of Quentin Skinner 

  Havercroft, Jonathan (2021-09-01)

  In this thesis, I defend Quentin Skinner's work against some criticisms raised by three of his interlocutors: John Keane, Kennet Minogue, and Joseph Femia. All three of these critics take issue with Skinner's author-centered ...
• Asserting Coast Salish authority through Si'em Slheni' 

  Jones, Lacey (2021-08-31)

  Colonization within Indigenous territories has impacted Indigenous governance structures and women in leadership in different ways. In order to best understand the violence, displacement and oppression that Coast Salish ...

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