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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"feminist political economy"”.
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A Feminist Political Economy Analysis of Medical Broker and Fertility Clinic Websites
… tourists, egg providers and surrogates. Using a feminist political economy approach, I situate the practice of reproductive tourism within particular historical, economic and political contexts, including both domestic and global neoliberal healthcare reforms. The findings of this thesis reveal …
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Navigating the Empty Spaces of Care: A Feminist Political Economy Analysis of the Care Experiences and Work Practices of Women Living with Cancer
… and work practices. As informed and framed by feminist political economy, this project explores the everyday care and work experiences of women diagnosed with cancer as situated within the broader social, political, and economic contexts in which cancer care and work are anchored. Analysis …
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Child Care on the Cheap: Welfare Reform and the Social Organization of Child Care Work in New York City
This study aims to further a feminist political economy of urban welfare regimes, applying a gender lens to processes of urban neoliberalization and an urban lens to feminist political economy analyses of welfare state restructuring and resistance. In New York City, neoliberal welfare reform …
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How the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced women’s employment and their health: an inquiry into their lived experiences
… and how neoliberalism drives inequality. A Feminist political economy framework was used to examine the lived experiences of ten racialized women who work in the services sector in the GTA. Comparative thematic analysis of online interviews revealed intensified impoverishment, persisting …
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Temporary Employment Agencies in Ontario: Experiences of South Asian Immigrant Women
Informed by the feminist political economy perspective (FPE), this study examines the experiences of recent South Asian immigrant women working through temporary employment agencies in Ontario, paying particular attention to how social factors such as gender, race and immigrant status shape these …
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Precarious Work and Communities: The Impact of Neoliberalism on Working Class Politics
… and where workers have relatively little political power, has been on the rise in North America in the last few decades. If precarious workers are isolated and unengaged, they will not be able to represent their political needs. The goal of this research is to clarify the relationship …
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Celebrity Diplomacy in the Current Global Economy: A Feminist Perspective
… the emergence of celebrity diplomats as viable political actors, providing diplomatic services focused on negotiation and humanitarian aid, in current international politics and the global economy. More specifically, this dissertation uses feminist political economy literature to examine how …
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The View From Here: Agricultural Policy, Climate Change, and the Future of Farm Women in Saskatchewan
… agricultural environment. The project combined a feminist political economy framework with critical realist methodology. Very little has been written about the combination of these two frameworks; therefore, I provide a model for the practical application of critical realism in feminist research …
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Mapping the Division of Labour in Long-Term Residential Care Across Jurisdictions
… shelters for the mostly women providers. Using a feminist political economy approach, this thesis outlines data available from statistical sources in Europe and North America with a case examination of four countries: Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Sweden. It critically maps the …
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Chilean Arpilleras, Social Reproduction and the Struggle Against Coloniality
… in Geography by interrogating the power of political art to challenge colonial/capitalist spatial dynamics through collective and public practice. To do this, I look at the tradition of Chilean arpilleras, a type of political textile created by victims of state violence and economic …
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Disability's Encounter with Legislation and Governance: Long-Term Care Homes in Ontario
… Caring relationships are shaped by, among other political and market forces, the legal and administrative structure of a benefit scheme or a regulatory regime. The New Governance literature is employed to describe and examine new processes and procedures that shape caring relationships in LTC. To …
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Pursuing Equity to Combat Fragmentation in the Home Care Sector: A Study of Using Integrated Care Programs to Deliver Health and Social Care to Elderly Persons Living at Home
… efficiency, equality, and equity, I use a Feminist Political Economy theoretical framework to assess the gendered, classed and racialized impacts of the policy techniques used by ICPs. By looking at which groups are affected through their involvement in ICPs, in what ways, and under what …
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Assembling Economic Citizenship: Indigenous Women’s Work in Post-Neoliberal Bolivia
… during this ‘process of change’. Through a feminist political economy perspective, the thesis adopts an assemblage lens to interrogate how intersectional labour market stratification is reproduced or shifting. Developing the concept of the ‘gender-ethnic assemblage of labour’, the thesis …
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The political economy of gender inequality in South Africa: Why unpaid care work should be recognised in economic policy
This study aims to present a feminist political economy framework within which to understand the nature of gender inequality in South Africa. Particular attention is placed on the role of unpaid care work as this work is shown to be predominantly undertaken by women and still goes unrecognised, …
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Gender inequality and food security in a changing climate: a spatial analysis using Nigerian general household survey
… Based on Amartya Sen’s entitlement theory, feminist political economy, spatial inequality and the institutionalist approach, the study constructs a gender-disaggregated multidimensional index known as the Spatial Vulnerability Index of Food Security (FSV) for evaluating the risk of food …
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Leydi’s world : a feminist commodity chain analysis of the cut-flower industry and its women workers in Cayambe, Ecuador
… worked on nearby flower plantations. It takes a feminist geographic approach with a feminist commodity chain analysis (Ramamurthy, 2004) to provide more embodied narratives of these women’s experiences to give voice to women who, in many past studies, are simply statistics. The project’s …
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The Decolonization of the Political Economy of New Media Institutions in Africa: A Case Study on the Pan-African Film Industry
This study critically analyses an alternative political economy framework to observe the decolonization of new media institutions in Africa. This is because "critically analysing media organisations and media processes in society have come from political economy perspectives." (Jansen, 2003, p. …
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The Political Economy of Social Reproduction and Survival: Urban Land Occupations in Stellenbosch, South Africa
… Reproduction Theory (SRT), grounded in Marxist feminist political economy and employs analytic lenses of time and space. Empirical insights are drawn from qualitative and quantitative fieldwork in the form of light time-use diaries, semi-structured in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, …
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“On the Floor” and “At the Table”: Child Care Work, Advocacy, and the Devaluation of Social Reproduction in Canada’s Non-Profit Sector
… their life-sustaining functions, chronic socio-political undervaluation, and tensions between relational labour and market-oriented funding regimes. Despite operating in distinct domains—policy advocacy and direct service provision—both organizations are shaped by gendered expectations that care …
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