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Kelly Fritsch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Director of the Disability Justice and Crip Culture Collaboratory at Carleton University, unceded Algonquin territory (Ottawa).
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Robyn Lee is an Assistant Professor of Social Theory in the Sociology department at University of Alberta. She uses contemporary social theory to explore subjectivity, embodiment, and gender.
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Carolyne Topdjian is an artist, writer, and educator whose work explores existential issues of aesthetics, consciousness, and identity.
Alumni List
Name | Thesis | Year |
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Barfoot, Catherine | Free Learning In Ontario | 2017 |
Lachowicz, Peter | An Existenital Investigation into the Powerful Uncertainty of Death and the resulting Gap that occurs between Phenomenal entities and their Apparent/Semblant counterpart in the interdependent relation of In-person Interaction and Digital Messaging: the Battle between Dasein either Being-with other Daseins or Being-Alongside-the-Other | 2017 |
Kunze, Michael | Play and the Revolution of Everyday Life | 2017 |
Brownrigg, Erik | Tracing Ethics: Derrida | 2017 |
Lu, Jun | Preliminary Thinking: The Cultural Revolution as a Defense Against Persecutory Anxiety | 2017 |
Mastrocola, Christopher | Marcuse on Primary Narcissism: A Reinterpretation | 2016 |
Khan, Sadia | Adam Smith at the Margins The Colonial Question in the Wealth of Nations | 2016 |
Nusbaum, Jordan | The Way Through Nietzsche's Garden | 2016 |
Correia, Tyler | Coming to Terms with Modernity: The Possibility of Politics in the Works of Arendt and Rawls | 2016 |
Friesen, Rachelle | Making Life Permanently Temporary: An Analysis of Settler Colonialism in Jerusalem | 2016 |
Serykh, Darya | Gay Liberation Versus Soviet Oppression: Constructing and Regulating U.S. Homonational Identity during the Cold War | 2015 |
Niloofar, Golkar | Rethinking the Center Critique of the Theory of the Primitive Accumulation and the Situation of the Temporary Working Women in Ontario | 2015 |
Duncan, Maija | Politics and the Myth of Sovereignty: Affects of Nationalism and Protest in the 2012 Quebec Spring | 2015 |
Leal, Severin | Building Knowledges of Love and Sex: A Review of Monogamy and Sex Work Literature | 2015 |
Behnam, Amini | State Power and Class Power in the Post–Revolutionary Iranian State | 2015 |
Placzek, Richard | "Melodramatic State Terror" | 2015 |
O'Callaghan, Connor | Poverty as State Violence | 2014 |
Abdul Hamid Khan, Salmaan | Reflections on Orthodox Marxism | 2014 |
Bannis, Albert | The Socio-economic, Cultural and Political impact of Cell Phone Technology due to the Deregulation in Dominica | 2013 |
Alamdar, Negar | Ontologizing Ideologies of Neoliberalism and the resistance of Transcending Identities | 2012 |
Rodriguez, J. Santiago | The Significance of Social Imaginaries: Reading Cornelius Castoriadis and Benedict Anderson | 2012 |
Anna McIntosh | Foundations for an Inclusive Approach to the Study of Psychology in an Interconnected World | 2012 |
Yasar Bukan | Theory of State Relations in Ibn Khaldun's Philosophy | 2012 |
Kerpel, Mark | Historical Specificity in the Thought of Karl Marx | 2012 |
Dwyer, Asheda | The politics of chanting down Babylon: Re-reading the 1960 reports on the Rastafar-I of Kingston, Jamaica | 2011 |
Malcolm, Cristopher | The Whole is False: Adorno's Negative Materialism | 2011 |
Sarkeesian, Anita | "I'll make a man out of you": Strong women in science fiction and fantasy television | 2010 |
Adjemian, Jonathan | Fanon: the uses of psychology Psychiatry, group dynamics and the work of social change | 2010 |
Voegeli, Fabian | Temporality and Potentiality in Ancient and Modern Techniques of the Self | 2010 |
Heer, Amrit | Postulating Chance in Deleuze | 2010 |
Crighton, Claire | To put it briefly: Freshman composition and the politics of concise writing in modern America | 2010 |
Upadhyay, Nishant | Building Consciousness and Redefining Politics: Going beyond class | 2010 |
Harman, Jason | Nothing of Substance: A Spinozist Response to Emmanuel Levinas | 2009 |
Selimovic, Adnan | Psychopolitics of Childhood: Trauma of Modernity and the Political Prospects of Bosnia Youth | 2009 |
Cimino, Franco | Representation De-sutured: Between Pathos and Intermittency | 2009 |
Araujo, Christopher | The Phenomenology of Labour: Reason, subjectivity, and freedom in Marx's writings from 1844 to 1867 | 2009 |
Taylor, Cayley | Reproductive Rights and Legal Reform in Latin America: The Case of Mexico City | 2009 |
Miceli, Vanessa | Dispossession as permanent temporariness: a comparative reading of poor laws in early nineteenth century england and refugee rights in the age of neoliberalism | 2009 |
Gill, Sean | Towards a Post-human Marx: Rethinking Consciousness, Labour, and Human Difference | 2009 |
Taylor, Cayley | Reproductive Rights and Legal Reform in Latin America: The Case of Mexico City | 2009 |
Ali, Noaman G. | Repeating Anticolonial Nationalism: Mozambique and the Political Economy of Dominance and Hegemony, 1975-2009 | 2009 |
Dang, Baolinh | The Concept of Natural History in Adorno and Marcuse | 2008 |
Lafrance, Stirling | Direct to Consumer Advertising: How Subjective Governance Serves Capital | 2008 |
Erin, Gray | Going Achitextural: Thinking Through Sensation in Gins, Arakwa and Brossard | 2007 |
Lee, Andrew Michael | Querying the conditions for warfare: The political economy of U.S. military spending in 21st century | 2007 |
Newson, Michael | Rawls' Concept of Political Society, Justice as Fairness and the Problem of Transnationalism | 2006 |
Welburn, Jude | On the Image of History in Benjamin's "These" | 2006 |
Bisnar, Danielle | Trauma, Witness, Testimony: Psychoanalysis and Narratives of Colonial Education | 2005 |
Jull, Mark | Plato's wish: pleasure, metaphysics and sovereign being | 2005 |
Thompson, Shawn | The Subject of Metapsychology: Working Through the Ethics of Desire with Freud and Kierkegaard | 2005 |
William, Lane | Making it real: The Subject in Play | 2004 |
Gasteiger, Tyler | A Study of Language and Desire in Hegels Phenomenology of Spirit | 2004 |
Belmer, Stephanie | Art and Negative Dialectics In Constellation: Critical Theory and a Dialectical Negation of Identity-Thinking | 2004 |
Robertson, Trevor | A Poetic Word: Manifestation in High Park | 2004 |
Chang-Campbell, Gena | Retail Religion? Contesting the Cooptation and Commodification of Candomble in Salvador, Brazil | 2003 |
Klement, Kristine | Psychoanalysis and Performativity: Theorizing Gender and Sexual Identity between the Psyche and the Social | 2003 |
Lefebvre, Alexandre | Laws of Critique, speculative and ethical | 2003 |
Alexander, Claudius | Bad Faith Bad Conscience & Forgetfulness: Three Perspectives on The [Im]-Possibility for Ethical Practice in Contemporary Human Attitude | 2003 |
Hilary A., Schuldt | The Uncanny Life of Hope | 2003 |
Bociurkiw, Marusya | Lucy, and Ellen, Rosanne and Ally: Sexed Bodies and the Construction of Normalcy in Television Comedy | 1999 |
Hall, Micheal | Re-staging Performativity: Authourity and Acknowledgment from Benvensite to Butler | 1999 |
Williams, James | Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the Practice of Policing | 1997 |
Cemer, Brett | Rethinking Revolutionary History: Marxism and Working Class Unification | 1996 |
Burman,Jenny | Waking Dreamscapes: Colonial Nostalgia and ethnographic representation in "North-South" tourism advertising | 1996 |
Landolt, Patricia | The Indian Peasantry of the Western Highlands of Guatemala: Upholding Corporate Community and the Indian Identity | 1996 |
Friedman, Elizabeth | Too Much and Not Enough: the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Art of Ambivalence | 1996 |
Goldman, Daniel | Turning Politics around Theology: Negativity in Benjamin's Critique of Violence | 1996 |
Borman, Jenny | Waking dreamscapes: Colonial nostalgia and ethnographic representation in "North South" tourism and advertising | 1996 |
Resendes, Livia | Ethical Epistemologies | 1995 |
Camfield, David | Towards a Social History of Foucault's Thought | 1995 |
Kiefer, Theresa | Computer-Mediated Communication in the Workplace: An Evaluation of the Development of the Subject in the "New" Working Class | 1995 |
Hennessy, Niamh | Defining Moments: Models of Public Space as Emancipation in Arendt and Habermas | 1994 |
Baker, Norma | Reality as Oxymoron: Contingent Essentialism and Marx's Theory of Social Ontology | 1994 |
Druick, Zoe | Adorno, Benjamin and the Dialectics of Culture | 1993 |
Stolow, Jeremy | A Critical Report on The Bureaucratization of Multiculturalism | 1993 |
Dufresne, Todd | Reading Towards an Understanding of Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle | 1992 |
Ives, Peter | Gramsci and Feminism: From allusion to alliance | 1992 |
Robertson, Kathleen | Use, Pleasure and Meaning: The Social Practices of Consumption | 1992 |
Hiristos, Verikukis | Toward a Definition of the Proleteriat | 1992 |
Ramsay, Christine | "Are you really royal or are you a derelict?" Abjection and the passive male hero in the films of David Cronenburg | 1992 |
Kulak, Avron | Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and the Necessary Structure of the Interpersonal Origin | 1991 |
Kontos, Louie | A Theoretical Inquiry into Cybernetics | 1991 |
Macintyre, W.A. | The Post-Colonial State and the Global Economy: Dependence, Continuity and the Potential for Transformation in the Case of Trinidad-Tobago (1972-1984) | 1991 |
Boucock, Cary | Michel Foucault and the 'Repressive Hypothesis': A Rejoinder for Herbert Marcuse | 1991 |
Welch, Colin | Autonomy and Power: the Ethical Theory of Michel Foucault | 1990 |
Freedman, Ben | Alienation, Reification and the Ontology of Social Being | 1990 |
Laurie, Peter | Power in Development: Rethinking the Critique of Canadian Foreign Aid | 1989 |
Fielding, Helen | Communicative Ethics and the Desiring Subject: A Feminist Rethinking of Habermas | 1989 |
Colvin, Ian | Adorno and Humor | 1989 |
De Villa, Gonzalo | Colonial Guatemala: Ethnicity and Social Classes, 1524 - 1821 | 1988 |
Cosgrave, Jim | Intimate Strangers and Anti-Heroes or "Postmodern Aesthetics"/Sociological Poetics": A Dialogical Approach to Understanding Television Discourses | 1988 |
Polster, Claire | Toward a Decentered Historical Materialism | 1988 |
Waldorf, Lee | The Limits of Art: Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory | 1988 |
Havers, Grant | Existence-Communication and Greek Thought | 1988 |
Lo, Marlow | Anti-pornography, sex negation and the expansion of state control: A critique of the critiques of pornography | 1987 |
Clark, Donald | Language, Aesthetics, And Practice: Walter Benjamin and the Crisis of Marxism | 1987 |
Shergold, Teresa | An Identity of One's Own: Femininity, Authority and Gender Domination in Critical Theory | 1987 |
Davies, Philip | Idea and Information: Phenomenological and Cybernetic Aspects of Talcott Parson's Theory of Action | 1986 |
Bondi, Lou | Rousseau and Political Action | 1986 |
Colby, Marion | Women and Law In The Third World Strategies for Empowerment | 1986 |
Farrell, Gilda | Cuba: The Transition Road Economy and Employment | 1986 |
Sorensen, Carol J. | Cherchez la femme: Derrida, Irigaray, and the search for the "other woman" | 1985 |
Elias, John Manuel | Phenomenology of Narrative: Existential Communication as Dialectical Practice | 1985 |
Ifeanyi, Enwerem M. | Socialist Imperatives In Africa: A Critical Examination | 1985 |
Zisman, Alex | La tia Julia y el escribidor and the object of Mario Vargas Llosa's literary creation as a novelist | 1985 |
Mortimer, Christopher | Aspects of Disarmament | 1984 |
Cechmistro-Michie, Olga | Rhetorical Strategies in Philosophical Writing | 1984 |
Vanderplaats, Robert | Marx, Weber and the Interpretation of the Dutch Republic | 1983 |
Duncan, Colin A. M. | The General Norms Of Economic Life | 1982 |
Name | Dissertation | Year |
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Rodrigues, Sara | Elective Breast Surgery and Body Image: A Poststructural-Phenomenological Investigation | 2017 |
Preston, Jennifer | Racial Extractivism: Neoliberal White Settler Colonialism and Tar Sands Extraction | 2017 |
O’Regan, Keith | Toward a Productive Aesthetics: History and Now Time in Blake and Brecht | 2017 |
Nelson, Bryan | Democracy Against: The Antinomies of Politics | 2017 |
Lewis, Clayton | After The Death Of God: From Political Nihilism To Post-Foundational Democracy | 2017 |
Keikhaee, Aidin | For the Other, Beyond Ethics: Responsibility, Critique, and Praxis in Levinas and Adorno | 2017 |
Jain, Dhruv | The Atomic Prince: A Lucretian Interpretation of Machiavelli | 2017 |
Hayter, John Matthew | Quest(ion)s of Anarchist Power: Rethinking Power-To, Power-Over, and Power-With in the Radical Democratic Praxis of Consensus Decision-Making | 2017 |
Araujo, Christopher | Nature, History and the Dialectic of Negativity: The Category of Nature in Marx's Writings | 2017 |
Zeleke, Elleni | Social Science is a Battlefield: Theory and Practice and Contested Politics in Revolutionary Ethiopia | 2016 |
Upadhyay, Nishant | "We'll Sail Like Columbus": Race, Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and the Making of South Asian Diasporas in Canada | 2016 |
Nastovski, Katherine | Towards Transformative Solidarities: Wars of Position in the Making of Labour Internationalism in Canada | 2016 |
Kalman-Lamb, Nathan | Athletic Labour, Spectatorship, and Social Reproduction in the World of Professional Hockey | 2016 |
Cochrane, David (Troy) | What's Love Got to Do With It? Diamonds and the Accumulation of De Beers, 1935-55 | 2016 |
Adjemian, Jonathan | To Hold the World Visible: Writing and History in the Work of Mohammed Dib | 2016 |
McMahon, James | What Makes Hollywood Run? Capitalist Power, Risk and the Control of Social Creativity | 2015 |
Kolia, Zahir | Colonial Theology: John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles Darwin and the Emergence of the Colonial-Capitalist World System, 1500–1900 | 2015 |
Drapeau, Thierry | The Atlantic Roots of Working-Class Internationalism: A Historical Re-Interpretation | 2015 |
Fritsch, Kelly Michelle | Neoliberal Biopolitics of Disability: Towards Emergent Intracorporeal Practices | 2015 |
Gordon, Aaron Andrew | Eurocentric Archival Knowledge Production and Decolonizing Archival Theory | 2015 |
Levine, Gabriel Jaime | Radical Vernaculars: Experiments with Tradition between Politics and Performance | 2015 |
Ruddy, Karen Ann | Decolonizing Literacies: Transnational Feminism, Legacies of Coloniality, and Pedagogies of transformation | 2015 |
Selimovic, Adnan | Stillborn: The Libidinal Economy of Gadgetized Mediation in the Era of Socialization for Consumption; An Explanatory Political Project | 2015 |
Zinaic, Rade | A Materialist Critique of Critical Balkanologies | 2015 |
Belmer, Stephanie Lynn | At the Intersection of Ethics and Aesthetics: Emmanuel Levinas and Theodor Adorno on the Work of Art | 2014 |
Flemming, Gregory C. | In the Beginning… Was the Act!: Zizek, Marx, and the Question of Form | 2014 |
Henderson, Christine Rose | Contemporary Ruins: Politics and Aesthetics Beyond the Melancholy Imagination | 2014 |
Khimji, Mohamed | Thinking the End in Itself: a Critical Study of First Principles in Plato, Aristotle, The Bible, and Kant | 2014 |
Lee, Robyn | Breastfeeding: Power, Ethics, Poetics | 2014 |
Norys, Marnina Margaret Ann | Mere Sources of Error: Workers, patients, and the reductive logic of rationalized healthcare | 2014 |
Sayer, David Andrew | Machiavelli on the Art of the State and the True Way | 2014 |
Videkanic, Bojana | Non-Aligned Modernism: Yugoslavian Art and Culture from 1945-1990 | 2014 |
Weisberg, Zipporah Leslie | Animal Dialectics: Towards a Critical Theory of Animals and Society | 2014 |
Dionne, Emilie | Thinking the Pluri-Person through Ironic Practices of Storytelling | 2013 |
Harman, Jason Malcolm | The Politics of Tragedy: The Reversal of Radical Democracy | 2013 |
Kuhnle, Lee Christian | On the Concept of Religion in Walter Benjamin's Critical Theory | 2013 |
Mccormack, Geoffrey Robert Macbride | The Causes, Characte and Consequences of Economic Growth in Canada, 1974-2008: A Classical Political Economic Analysis | 2013 |
Potts, Graham Michael | Posthuman Punk'd | 2013 |
Stewart, Fenn Elan | Naturalizing Canada: Settler Colonial 'Wilderness' and the making of race and place | 2013 |
Burke, Donald | A Dialectical Approach to Aesthetics in the Age of Post-metaphysical Modernity | 2012 |
Topdjian, Carolyne | "Post-Beautiful Bodies: New Ways of Representing Female in Contemporary Visual Culture" | 2012 |
Badeen, Dennis | A Marxist Critique of the Ontological Foundations of Neoclassical Economics | 2011 |
Chowdhry, Aniruddha | Post-Deconstructive Subjectivity and History: Phenomenology, Critical Theory, and Postcolonial Thought | 2011 |
Georgiou, Andreas | Being and Time of the Everyday: A Critique of Distance and Engagement | 2011 |
Kamenova, Kalina | The Public Communication and Biopolitics of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in the United States and the European Union | 2011 |
Kiloh, Kathy J. | Embodied Ethics and Corporeal Conscience: Levinas & Adorno Within & Beyond Totality | 2011 |
Nagam, Julie | Alternative Cartographies: Grafting a New Route for Indigenous Stories of Place | 2011 |
Resendes, Livia | Boehme and Hegel: Towards a Rational and Androgynous Spirituality | 2011 |
Bojadzija, Amira | Narratives of Sense Memory in Holocaust Survival Literature | 2010 |
Hamer, Edward | The Ethical Implications of Accomplished Rituals: Visual Art and Psychology | 2010 |
Liinamaa, Saara | Experiments in Urban Knowledge: Contemporary Art as Urban Research | 2010 |
Scherer, Frank F. | Freud's Orient: Early Psychoanalysis, "Anti-Semetic Challenge", and the Vicissitudes of Orientalist Discourse | 2010 |
Sun, Feiyu | Social Suffering and Political Confession: Suku in Modern China | 2010 |
Wells, Charles H. | The Subject of Liberation: Confronting Slavoj Zizek | 2010 |
Norton, Glen W. | Exploring Lived Cinematic Moments in Italian Neorealism and the French Nouvelle Vague | 2009 |
Arcila, Paola Bohorquez | Living Between Languages: Linguistic Exile and Self-Translation | 2008 |
Campbell, Colin J. | Beyond Vengeance: Religion and Political Liberation in Bataille, Girard and Rousseau | 2008 |
Chandler, Mielle | Creation, Sovereignty, Ethics: Private Property and the Infraction of Infinity | 2008 |
Chang-Campbell, Gena | Mestizaje a la Mode: Women and Popular Religion in Brasiliadade and Cubanidad | 2008 |
Clift, Sarah | Committing the Future to Memory | 2008 |
Friedman, Elisabeth Ruth | Aesthetics of Incommensurability: Artworks, Archives and the Dilemmas of Holocaust Representation | 2008 |
Hameed, S. Ayesha | Bricks and Blood: The Dialectical Image of the Black Atlantic in the Colonial Metropolis | 2008 |
Krishnamurti, Sailaja Vatsala | "The Route to Your Roots": History, Hindu Nationalism and Comics in India and South Asian Diasporas | 2008 |
Neimanis, Astrida G. | Bodies of Water | 2008 |
Rosen, Joseph E. | Beyond Memory: From Historical Violence to Political Authority in Contemporary Space | 2008 |
Scott, Sonya Marie | The Epistemological Constitution of Subjectivity in Economic Thought | 2008 |
Short, Jonathan | A Life Undivided: On Agamben's Use of Heidegger and Benjamin | 2008 |
Thompson, Chad D. | Epistemologies of Independence: Technology and Empire in the Post-Soviet Borderlands | 2008 |
Bresnahan, Keith | Architectures of Affect: Form and Feeling Between Enlightenment and Modernity | 2007 |
Levant, Alex | The Problem of Self-Emancipation: Subjectivity, Organization and the Weight of History | 2007 |
Ma, Michael C.K. | Social Justice Exhaustion and Containment: An Investigation of the Chinese National Council — Toronto Chapter | 2007 |
Mann, H. Molly | Hegel and Ricouer's Teleological Conception of the Ethical Aim: Social Justice as Civic Inclusion | 2007 |
McMurtry, J.J. | Theory's Life Aporia: Understanding the Life Ground of Social and Political Thought | 2007 |
Persaud, Walter H. | International Education in Thailand: A Postcolonial Analysis | 2007 |
Shaw, Christine | Connect, Conjugate, Continue: Unfurling Thought and Creativity | 2007 |
Andrade, Pablo | Democracy and Political Change in Ecuador: Liberalism, the Politics of Culture, and Industrial Reform | 2006 |
Cauchi, Mark | The Creation of Deconstruction: the Greek, the Abrahamic, and the Sins of Jacques Derrida | 2006 |
Heynen, Robert J. | Degeneration and Revolution: Radical Cultural Politics and the Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany, 1914-1933 | 2006 |
Kamugisha, Aaron | Abducting Western Civilization: Colonality, Citizenship and Liberation in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition | 2006 |
Mtshali, Khondlo | The Developmental Phases of a Healer in Ayi Kewi Armah's Novels | 2006 |
Tahmasebi-Birgani, Victoria | The Ethical Work of Liberation: Levinas, Ghandi and Political Praxis | 2006 |
Walker, Kathryn | All of Antigones | 2006 |
Khan, Tariq Amin | Theorizing the Postcolonial State in the Era of Capitalist Globalism | 2005 |
Parkins, Ilya | Material Modernity: A Feminist Theory of Modern Fashion | 2005 |
Sliwinski, Sharon | Visualizing Human Rights: Photography, Atrocity, & the Ethical Imagination | 2005 |
Armstrong, Sean David | Superstition and the Idols of the Mind: How the Witch-Hunt Helped Shape the Scientific Revolution in England | 2004 |
Baker, Norma Jo | The Politics of Irresponsibility: Liberalism and Labour in YeltsinÕs Russia | 2004 |
Blackell, Mark | Symptoms of Democracy: Ambivalence and its Limits in Modern Liberal Conceptions of the Liberal Democratic Bond | 2004 |
Lokaisingh-Meighoo, Sean | The Return of Dialectics | 2004 |
Travis, Ellen | The Material Production of Truth | 2004 |
Anderson-Irwin, Chris | Hegel, Judaism, and Biblical Thought | 2003 |
Cameron, Gregory | Project of Philosophy: Myth, Politics and Experience | 2003 |
Lucas, Janet | Disruption of Human Subjectivity: An Exploration of Language and Psychosis | 2003 |
McCullough, John | Tedium and Torture: Representations of Work, Class Relations and Nation at the Beginning of the 21st Century | 2003 |
Song, Xingwu | Modernization and Individualization of Youth in Post-Mao China | 2003 |
Suski, Laura | Anguished Humanists: International Development and the Humanitarian Impulse | 2003 |
Vanstone, Gail | Documenting D: Studio D of the NFB and Its Representation of Women's Lives in Canada, 1974-1996 | 2003 |
Verikukis, Hristos | Was Khun Really Revolutionary? Or, From Demarcation to the Choice of Critical Problems, From Khun to Popper and Althusser | 2003 |
Wright, Robert Eric | The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism | 2003 |
Cameron, Heather | The Promises and Perils of Practices of the Self: Foucault, Freud and the Fate of Critique | 2002 |
Camfield, David | Class, Politics and Social Change: The Remaking of the Working Class in 1940s Canada | 2002 |
Ferentzy, Alex | Gilles Deleuze and the Trajectory | 2002 |
Foster, Cecil A. | Blackness and Canada: A Phenomenological Exploration | 2002 |
Kispal-Kovacs, Joseph | Hollywood's Working Class: Class & Class Conflict in the Hollywood Cinema 1927-1941 | 2002 |
Varga. Darrell | The Performance of Space in Canadian Film | 2002 |
Arrowsmith, Douglas | Techniques of Self-Mastery: Montainge, Shakespeare, and Freud | 2001 |
Burman, Jenny | Economies of Nostalgia and Yearning: Travelling the Route Between Toronto and Jamaica | 2001 |
Driver, Susan | Queering Material Desires Through Dialogical Relations of Experience | 2001 |
Heftler, Victoria | Just History? An Argument for Critical Cosmopolitan Histories of Harm | 2001 |
Ironston–Catterall, Penelope | Crisis, Trauma, and Testimony: the Work of Mourning in the 'Age of AIDS' | 2001 |
Simon-Aaron, Charles | Class Ideology and African Political Theory | 2001 |
Arevalo, Marco Vinico Haroldo Fonseca | The Language of Human Rights in the Guatemalan Transition to Democracy | 2000 |
Boyd, Stephen | Rethinking Market Society: Delineating the Historical Specificity of Capitalism | 2000 |
Ferentzy, Peter L. | The Addiction Concept: How the Language of Sin was Replaced by that of Disease | 2000 |
Fisher, Caitlin | Building Feminist Theory: a Hypertextual Heuristics | 2000 |
Hennesy, Niamh | History, Space, and Language in the Work of Habermas and Bakhtin | 2000 |
Lynn, Marion M. | The Process of Marital Disillusion/Dissolution | 2000 |
Ramses, Veronique Tomaszewski | Aesthetic Heaven and Artistic Hell: An Intellectual Journey | 2000 |
Schafer, Scott | Resisting Ethics | 2000 |
Soron, Dennis | Economic Fatalism and Popular-Democratic Struggle | 2000 |
Black, David J. | Wiring Birmingham: Cultural Studies, Romanticism, and the New Media | 1999 |
Cosgrave, James Forbes | Identity, Particularity, and Value: Interpretive Conflict and the Collective Representation of Culture | 1999 |
Druick, Zoe | Narratives of Citizenship: Governmentality and the National Film Board of Canada | 1999 |
Indart, Rafael T. | Karl Popper's Philosophy of Social Science and the Problem of Tyrrany | 1999 |
Lord, Susan | Sublime Machines: Time, Technology, and the Female Body of Ocular Modernity | 1999 |
Ouellet, Eric | Management Consultants: A Sociology of Seduction | 1999 |
Bradley, Dale A. | Unfolding a Strategic Space: a Discursive Analysis of Cyberspace's Power Relations | 1998 |
Canefe, Negris | Sovereign Utopias: Civilizational Boundaries of Greek and Turkish Nationhood (1821-1923) | 1998 |
Duncan, John Cameron | Nature, History and Critical Theory | 1998 |
McCarron, Gary | Animals as Moral Others: Obligation in the Context of Animal Emancipation | 1998 |
Mills, Megan Stuart | Ethnic Myth and Ethnic Survival — The Case of India's Anglo-Indian (Eurasian) Minority | 1998 |
Ramsay, Christine Elizabeth | Masculinity and Processes of Intersubjectivity in the Films of David Cronenberg | 1998 |
Salem-Wiseman, Jonathan | Beyond the Artist-God? Mimesis, Aesthetic Autonomy, and the Project of Philosophical Modernity in Kant, Nietzsche and Heidegger | 1998 |
Steuter, Erin | Identifying Ideology: Media Representations of the Irving Oil Refinery Strike 1994-1996 | 1998 |
Banks, Timothy Mark | Of Passions and Souls: Contemplating Willing, Ethics and Aids | 1997 |
Carter, Stephen John | Implied Subjects: The Cultural Subject's Narrative Mediation of the Other | 1997 |
Dufresne, Todd Raymond | Beyond Beyond: Tales From the Freudian Crypt | 1997 |
Gillespie, James Loran | Art and Spectacle: The Dialectics of the Virtual Interface | 1997 |
Kulak, Avron Paul | Origin and Critique: Reading Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morals | 1997 |
Matthews, Edward J. | Hegel's Theory of the Modern Family and its Relation to Gender: Nature, Culture and the Anthropology of Power Relations | 1997 |
Mookerjea, Sourayan | Recreating Art: Fetishes of Time: "Race" and Geopolitical Difference | 1997 |
Ferguson, John Robert | What Sustains Sustainability? An Examination of Economic Visions of Sustainability | 1996 |
Fielding, Helen Anne | Beyond the Surface: Towards a Feminist Phenomenology of the Body-As-Depth | 1996 |
Fountas, Emily | The Body Without Organs or the Body As Flesh: | 1996 |
Free, George Hector | Sociological Reflection: A Study in the Social History of the Sociology of Knowledge | 1996 |
Ghisalberti, Giosue | Metaphysics of Finitude | 1996 |
Morse, Michael William | The Tune in Jazz as a Social Process — Prolegomena to a Sociology of Music | 1996 |
Ruhl, P. Lealle | Writing Human Reproduction Today: Liberalism and its Critics | 1996 |
Taylor, Derek Hedley | Ecstatic Limits: On the Defense of Phenomenology | 1996 |
Wynn, H. Francine | The Early Mother-Infant Relationship: Holding and Being Held | 1996 |
Cocker, Brian Stephen | In the Event of the Future: From the Theory of Time to the Politics of Duration | 1995 |
Duchesne, Ricardo | All Contraries Confounded: Historical Materialism and the Transition-To-Capitalism Debate | 1995 |
Higgens, Delwyn Mae | Monuments/Memory/Meditation: The Rational Architecture of Postwar Italy | 1995 |
Kellman, Tila Landon | Figuring Redemption: Enframing the Subject in Selected Work of Michael Snow | 1995 |
Malszecki, Gregory Maurice | "He Shoots! He Scores!" Metaphors of War in Sport and the Political Linguistics of Virility | 1995 |
Simmons, Deborah Lee | Against Capital: The Political Economy of Aboriginal Resistance in Canada | 1995 |
Sinha, Amresh Kumar | Memory, Mimesis, Film: Readings in Benjamin, Adorno and Kluge | 1995 |
Wickens–Feldman, Renate | Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake's Theory of Photography as the Containment of Communications Technology: A Hermeneutic Reading | 1995 |
Markotic, Lorraine | Some are Born Pothumously: The Theoretical Writings of Lou Andreas-Salome | 1994 |
Patroni, Viviana | The Long March To Neoliberalism: Crisis, Change, and the History of Development in Mexico and Argentina | 1994 |
Jowett, Donna | Feminist Pedagogy in the Face of the Other: Emanuel Levinas and the Hermeneutics and Ethics of Emancipatory Knowledge | 1993 |
Larrea, Carlos | The Mirage of Development: Oil, Employment, and Poverty in Ecuador (1972-1990) | 1993 |
Longfellow, Brenda | Eccentric Subjcets: Feminist Film Theory and its Others | 1993 |
Weir, Allison Elizabeth | Self-Identity and the Discourse of Repression: Feminist Theories of the Subject | 1993 |
Wellen, Richard | Dilemmas in Liberal Democratic Thought Since Max Weber | 1993 |
Conklin, William E. | The Language of Authority | 1992 |
Enwerem, Iheanyi M. | The Politicization of Religion in Modern Nigeria: The Emergence and Politics of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) | 1992 |
Flaherty, Peter A. | Psychoanalytic Histories: Freud's Writings in Their Contexts of Production and Reception | 1992 |
Genosko, Gary Alan | Bar Games: Baudrillard's Encounters With the Sign | 1992 |
Havers, Grant | Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Study of Spinoza and Freud | 1992 |
Hearne, Dana | The Development of Irish Feminist Thought: A Critical Historical Analysis of the Irish Citizen, 1912-1920 | 1992 |
Kemple, Thomas M. | Ruptures in Reason, Melodrama, The Market, and Marx's Grundrsisse | 1992 |
Koch, Robert | Science and Right: Critical Legitimation in Kant and Hegel | 1992 |
Lehnerer, Melodye | Becoming Involved: Field Research at a Halfway House for Ex-Offenders | 1992 |
Lippe, Richard | Cukor, Women and the Melodrama: Close Readings of Four Films | 1992 |
Marchessault, Janine | The Moving Image in the Aura of Science: Identity, Technology, History | 1992 |
Michie, Michael Hugh | From Moral Philosophy to Social Economy: The Conservatism of Sir Archibald Alison | 1992 |
Miles, Geoffrey Alan | Gravida-Gradiva: Pregnancy and Death-Work in Freud's Pompeiian Fantasy | 1992 |
Pinter, J. Steven | H.A. Innis, M.M. Bakhtin and Trends in Canadian Policy Reporting | 1992 |
Spiteri, Anthony Domenic | The Poor Ye Will Have With You Always? From an Analysis of the Concept of Ideology to an Investigation of Faith that Does Justice | 1992 |
Gismondi, Michael A. | Religion and Revolution in Nicaragua: An Historical Perspective | 1991 |
Jacobowitz, Florence S. | Critical Realism: The Sternberg/Dietrich Collaborations | 1991 |
Kompridis, Nikolas | Reconstructing Aesthetic Theory: Between Habermas and Adorno | 1991 |
Moore, Carol Jane | The Maternal Imago: A Psychoanalytic-Feminist Study of Unconscious Representations of the Mother and their Role in WomenÕs Complicity in their Own Oppression | 1991 |
Sawchuck, Kimberly Anne | Marketing Technology and the Body: A Foucauldian Report on Consumer Culture | 1991 |
Baker, Langton G. | La Bette Philosophe: French Nietzsche Reception | 1990 |
Plaats, Robert Glenn Vander | Capitalist Development and the State: England & the Netherlands, 1500-1800 | 1990 |
Root, Deborah | Regimes of Inscription: Cultural Difference and the Spanish Conquest of Mexico | 1990 |
Alia, Valerie | Toward a Politics of Naming | 1989 |
Coston, Nevin | The Politics of Plenitude: A Panegyric To Participatory Democracy in an Age of Technology | 1989 |
Danzig, Samuel | 2BV-2B: Towards a Uniphont Economy of Egalitarian Overletters | 1989 |
Duncan, Colin Adrien Mackinley | The Centrality of Agriculture: Between Humankind and the Rest of Nature | 1989 |
Elliot, Patricia May | Psychoanalytic Feminism: Toward a Critical Theory of the Gendered Subject | 1989 |
Gauther, Lorraine Angeline | Citing/Siting Irigaray | 1989 |
Sorenson, John | "An African Nightmare": Discourse on War and Famine in the Horn of Africa | 1989 |
Stokes, Kenneth Michael | Toward Political Economy for the Epoch of the Noosphere | 1989 |
Taylor, Angus Macdonald | Structure and Agency in Marx's Theory of History | 1989 |
Shafer, John Jackson | The Repudiation of the Rights of Man in the Age of Revolution | 1988 |
Swanson, G. W. | Conflicting Motifs in Max Weber's Theory of Modern Rationality with Special Reference to the Concept of Action | 1988 |
Danik, Claude | Marx's Concept of Ground-Rent and Landowner Revenue: The Relation of Marx's Concept of Ground-Rent to the Historical Analysis of Landowner Revenue from the Production of Petroleum | 1987 |
Forsyth, Scott | From Silver Screen to Red Flags: Marxism, Revolution and Popular Film | 1987 |
Mooers, Colin Peter | State Formation and Economic Development in France and Germany: Absolutism to Capitalism | 1987 |
Morgan, Brendan | Philosophy as Memento Mori in Early Works by Walter Benjamin | 1987 |
Berland, Jody | Cultural Re/Percussions: The Social Production of Music Broadcasting in Canada | 1986 |
Lyons, Lawrence Albert | Discourse Analysis, Social Theory and the Subject | 1986 |
Mcmillan, Robert Lee | The Study of Anthropology, 1931-1937, at Columbia University and the University of Chicago | 1986 |
Weir, Lorna | Studies in the Medicalization of Sexual Danger: Sexual Rule, Sexual Politics — 1830-1930 | 1986 |
Briskin, Linda | Theorizing the Capitalist Family/Household System: A Marxist Feminist Contribution | 1985 |
Burston, Daniel | Toward a Revised Freudo-Marxism: Labour, Sociability and the Origins of Patriarchy | 1985 |
Cohen, Marjorie Griffin | The Razor's Edge Invisible: Women, Markets and Economic Development in Ontario, 1900-1911 | 1985 |
Taylor, Patrick D.M. | The Narrative of Liberation: Historical Consciousness in the Afro-Caribbean | 1985 |
Trumper, Ricardo Samuel | Domination and Resistance: The Chilean Countryside 1541-1850 | 1985 |
Winslow, Edward George | The Philosophical and Psychological Presuppositions of KeynesÕs Economics | 1985 |
Comninel, George C. | Historical Materialism and Bourgeois Revolution: Ideology and Interpretation of the French Revolution | 1983 |
Harvey, Irene Elizabeth | The Economy of Differance | 1983 |
Lum, Janet M. | Private Space and Public Order in Contemporary China | 1983 |
McNally, David Joseph | The Political Economists and Agrarian Capitalism: A Reinterpretation of Classical Political Economy in Britain and France | 1983 |
Mills, Patricia Jagentowicz | Woman, Nature and Psyche: The Domination of Nature in the Tradition of Critical Theory | 1983 |
Nederman, Cary Joseph | State and Political Theory in France and England, 1250-1350: Marsiglio of Padua, William of Ockham and the Emergence of 'Natural' Traditions of Discourse in the Late Middle Ages | 1983 |
Singer, Brian Charles Joseph | State, Society and the Revolutionary Imaginary 1789-1794 | 1983 |
Boyd, Terrence | Truth and Its Expression: A Study of Soren Kierkegaard's Existence-Communication | 1982 |
Daniels, David Allen | Theories of Peasant Society: A Critical Study | 1982 |
Levine, Ellen Greengross | Psychoanalysis and Symbolism: The Space Between Self and World | 1982 |
Valverde, Mariana | French Romantic Socialism and the Critique of Political Economy | 1981 |
Vise, Gerald Harris | Biography and the Interpretation of Music | 1981 |
Wolfe, Sandra Merle | A Psychoanalytic Theory of Artistic Creativity | 1981 |
Angus, Ian H. | Technique and Enlightenment: Limits of Instrumental Reason in the Life-World | 1980 |
Meiksins, Peter F. | The Social Origins of White Collar Work: A Study of the Evolution of Capitalist Social Structure | 1980 |
Mendelson, Jack | Methodological Foundations of the Social Sciences: The Problem of Explanation and Understanding | 1980 |
Morrow, John | Idealism and Socialism in Britain 1880-1920 | 1980 |
Wolin, Richard B. | An Aesthetic of Redemption: A Study in the Philosophical Criticism of Walter Benjamin | 1980 |
Hornosty, Jennie Mary | The Contemporary Marxist-Christian Dialogue: A Study in the Political Economy of Religion with Special Reference to Quebec | 1979 |
Stamiris, Yiannis Emmanuel | Theories of Literature: (A Critique Towards a Dialectical Critical Enterprise) | 1979 |
Walker, Charles Terrence | The Thought of R.G. Collingwood: Tradition as Tradition Overcome | 1979 |
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