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Big Data in the Global Realm: An Assessment of International Relations' Ability to Study 21st Century Developments
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This thesis examines Big Data as the latest and perhaps most potent iteration of a number of transformative technologies that have had and continue to have an impact of global politics and international power hierarchies. The thesis seeks to examine if the discipline of IR, with its current...
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2015-01-18
SSHRC Awarded CG 2015: Demos: Life in Common is the theme of 2015's Banff Research in Culture research residency. During the three weeks of this residency, participants are Invited to consider critically and analytically the varied ways in which we constitute and experience collective life in...
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Spring 2021
In this thesis, I critique extant theories of settler colonialism to find one that can be applied to the Chinese state. As most settler colonial theories emerge from Anglo-settler states, they contain specificities that do not work when applied to China. Furthermore, extant theories are produced...
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Fall 2024
Over the past two decades, we have witnessed the emergence of what I call the populist paradox, where citizens seek to restore grassroots democratic power by embracing authoritarian movements or governments. Instead of abandoning populism to anti-democratic forces, in this thesis, I argue we can...
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The Contemporary State of Free Expression on Canadian University Campuses: Responding to the Alleged ‘Crisis’
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This dissertation (by publication) is a response to the alleged ‘crisis’ of free expression on Canadian university campuses. Although concerns about campus expression have been a routine feature of North American culture war conflagrations since at least the early 1990s, the past half-decade has...
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2021-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2021: My proposed research project seeks to address the prevalence of a narrow and undertheorized vision of the rule of law in Canadian society. I aim to tackle this problem through three objectives. Objective 1 is to further develop my account of the theoretical underpinnings...