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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Global capitalism"”.
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Gothic economies: Global capitalism and the boundaries of identity
… Stoker's Dracula, perhaps the most effective "global" narrative to come out of the British fin de siecle, grafted elements of a pre-Enlightenment atavism onto the turn-of-the-century liberal metropolis. In our own era, the literature of the postmodern technopolis---the fiction of William …
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Sowing her seeds : imagining transnational social movements in the face of global capitalism
The process of neoliberal globalization has long been touted for its success in increasing connectivity the world over. However, a closer look reveals that while capital has rendered many borders invisible and gained a new flexibility, those most devastated by the unending need for profit remain …
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Global Capitalism and the Energy Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities Associated with a Transition to Renewables
… especially oil, supported economic growth under capitalism but also has led to climate change. As peak oil approaches, a transition towards renewable sources of energy is mandatory for ensuring future prospects of development and for reducing the effects of climate change. The transition to …
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Synthetic Solidarities: Theorizing Queer Affectivity and Trans*national/temporal Emulsification as Embodied Resistance to Global Capitalism
… experiences of exploitation under transnational capitalism. These solidarities, I argue, are cultivated around the affective, embodied experiences of what José Esteban Muñoz terms "queer time," which I extend to denote the ephemeral, experiential sensations of being "out of sync" with the …
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The Paradox of Transnational (Neo)Nationalism: Neo-nationalist Entanglements with Capital-"isms" in Modern Poland
… perhaps never had less agency as increasingly global capitalism continues to encroach upon the dominance of the nation itself. I argue that this trend of new nationalist movements indicates a departure from the traditional definitions of nationalism that requires a distinct category, which I …
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Race to the Bottom? : A Critical Analysis of Canada's Modern Slavery in Supply Chain Legislation
… in its legislative response to modern slavery in global supply chains. With a primary focus on the government's recently proposed Bill S-216: Modern Slavery Act - which would mandate companies to report on their activities to reduce modern slavery in their supply chains - empirical data is drawn …
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Sovereign Debt and the New Global Economy: An analysis of Russian and Polish debt treatments in the post-Soviet era
… debt relief is unduly politicized and favors a global capitalist elite over national and democratic interests. This study evaluates the legitimacy of these criticisms by analyzing the cases of Russia and Poland in the six year period after the end of state communism in the 1990s. An alternate …
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Metamorphosis, entropy, and seduction : selected moments from the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo by Moriyama & Teshima
… the practice of architecture in the context of a global capitalism bent on privileging governmental and corporate mercantile interests.
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Debtor's Empowerment: Muhammad Yunus and the Rhetoric of Microfinance
… poverty and binds the poor to the apparatus of global capitalism through a new logic of micro-enterprise. Working within a Foucauldian critical framework informed by the rhetorical scholarship of Ronald W. Greene and Joshua Hanan, the argument proceeds by first paying careful attention to Yunus' …
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Neoliberalism and NAFTA: A Case Study of the Coffee Commodity System and Huatusco, Veracruz, Mexico
<p>In the Western Hemisphere global capitalism and regional trading blocks have become more pronounced with the passing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). I examine the impacts of the neoliberal changes prior to and after the implementation of NAFTA in the community of Huatusco, …
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A Research Design for Assessing the Possibilities of Localized Food Production
… some of the negative effects of economic globalization. Although not meant to be a panacea for the ills of the neoliberal order, local food production is advocated as a sustainable solution to a portion of the environmental degradation caused by global capitalism, and as a mechanism by …
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Cosmopolitanism Now: Fragmented Belonging
… of displacement, empire, surveillance, and global capitalism. Engaging critical theorists such as Kwame Anthony Appiah, Homi Bhabha, Pheng Cheah, and Roland Barthes, the thesis identifies fragmented belonging as an ethically charged response to the asymmetrical realities of contemporary …
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The load[ing] city: Navigating layers of accumulation, movement and access in Muizenberg, Cape Town
… and intersecting economies of large-scale global Capitalism and self-initiated trade linking and yet differentiating each coastal area. The highly active nature of the tidal zone and the act of constant renewal by oceanic waves is similarly reflected in the social ecosystems of growing …
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Strangers among us: the critique of westoxification in Perso-Islamic political thought
… reads Islamism as antithetical to modernity and globalization; that Islamism is a site of unabashed traditionalism in the wake of the secularism. I challenge this dominant western reading by asking the question: how might Islamic thinkers' critiques of the West, and more specifically what they …
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Power On: The ‘Digital Other’ and Emergent Personhood in American Sci-Fi
… in histories of colonialism, imperialism, and global capitalism. I aim to track the ruptures and emergent empathies of identity, relationality, and community that occur when we and the many figures of contemporary society confront the digital other. This project will also track our relationship …
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‘Paradigmatic workers’: sociologies of gender, class and ethnicity in the labour experiences of Albanian and ethnic Greek Albanian women cleaners at two Greek public hospitals
… how different social categories play out in globalised processes it reveals the nexus between labour migration and global capitalism. Having engaged in ethnographic research in two hospital sites that included interviews and observations with women migrant workers, the research investigates …
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Seeds That We Keep: Grounding Seedkeeping Praxis for Growing Black Food Futures in the Mid-Atlantic
… agriculture that created the foundation for global capitalism, this project delved into the narratives of 17 Black seedkeepers from. By engaging with seedkeepers' memories and motivations this inquiry also lays the foundation for understanding how narratives articulate collective hopes for …
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Workers against Institutions: Power Relations and Political economy in the Irish Mushroom Industry
… in the Irish mushroom industry in the context of global capitalism and the Irish national institutional framework. This is reflected at a theoretical level in the opposition between the political economies of labour and capital. At a more concrete level, this dissertation centres on workers' …
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Technologies of abundance : consumer culture, government and the media arts
… of arts funding policy is cultural survival in global capitalism through government subsidy and top-down prescription of appropriate social practices. This emphasis on the creative dimension offers not only images of what is, but also those of what might be--alternatives to the status quo. The …
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(Inter)nationalizing Taiwanese Women's Magazines: Birth of Consuming Women
… identity, consumption, nation formation, and globalization. As scripts of femininity, women's magazines are produced out of particular cultural institutions which are situated within the larger global economy. My dissertation provides an analysis of the ""political economy"" of the magazine …
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