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Past Major Research Papers

Past Major Research Papers

The Globalization Studies MA consists of course work plus a major research paper (MRP). The paper has a maximum length of 10,000 words (approximately 40 pages).

During the winter term, students prepare a proposal for their MRP and identify a potential supervisor and second reader. Students complete the MRP in the summer term.

Below is a list of Major Research Papers completed by Globalization Studies students in previous years.

  • Ataa Kaisr: The Impacts of Global Powers, Sectarian Rule, and Ethnic Strife on Iraqi Society
  • Jyothika Nair: Donor-led vs Community-based: Two Approaches to Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare Delivery in India
  • Oyinkansola Rachel Kumapayi: The Challenges of National Legislation on Transnational Corporations’ Corporate Social Responsibility: Canada’s Bill C-300
  • Olivia Forrest: How People Talk About the Green New Deal: Ethics and Discourse Analysis
  • Kristen Kirby: Slow Violence and the Kimberley Process: The Ethical Dilemmas of the Global Diamond Trade and Informal Mining in South Africa
  • Ayako Kumai: “The Factors of De-globalization movement in the Globalized Industries: A Case study of semiconductor industry of Japan Using PEST Framework”
  • Fiona Kwan Kiu Chiang: The Digital Divide and Youth Employment Challenges in ASEAN: A Multi-stakeholder Approach
  • Ashley Falconer: Contested Narratives: The Coastal GasLink Pipeline and Settler-Colonialism in Canada
  • Alexandru Roman: The New Frontline: AI and Private Tech Companies Redefining the Military Industrial Complex Through the Ukraine War
  • Valentine Ogoke: The Human Cost of Cobalt: Child Labour, Dependency, and Global Injustice in the DRC
  • Penny Gumbert: Examining the Potency of Empathy as a Collaborate Force in Addressing Homelessness
  • Jaimie Somerville: Uncovering the Coloniality of Data Governance: Rethinking Regulation from the Global South
  • Zena Shamli Oghli: Racialized Temporality of Syrian Migrants in Europe
  • Victoria Passalent: Problematizing Platform Power: International Policy Responses to the Emergent Threat of Platform Sovereignty
  • Sophie Johnson: Digesting Thainess: Globalization, Nationhood, and the Culinary Marginalization of Other Thai Cuisines.
  • Ravin Ola: Assessing the Response of Global Governance Regarding Climate Change in Iraq and Kurdistan
  • Olaoluwa Adaramodu: Africa in the World Economy: The Violence of Economic Marginalization
  • Malikah Haq: Global Flows and Local Impacts: Understanding E-Waste Dynamics in Seelampur, India
  • Khaled Sasa: Unveiling Canada’s Imperialist Agenda: How the Settler-Colony Uses its Fabricated Image as
    a Global Peacekeeper to Camouflage its Oppression of Indigenous Populations
  • Kaleigh Hall: Breaking the Silence: An Investigation of the Factors Influencing Institutional Responses to
    Mediated Sexual Misconduct Scandals in Professional Male Sports
  • Junyi Zhang: Paws Across Borders: China’s Challenges in Transnational Stray Animal Adoption
  • Gloria Brown: What are the Educational Barriers that Primary-Aged Syrian Refugee Children Face in Jordan and Canada?
  • Cassandra Tassone: Analyzing the Resource Curse in the Context of Alberta’s Oil Sands: Economic, Environmental, and Societal Impacts
  • Caroline Zaldo: Crimes Against Nature: Ecocide as the Fifth International Crime
  • Manar Elsayed Ayyad: “Possession Politics” American foreign investment in Israel in the aftermath of 9/11
  • Conroy J Christie: Creating Sustainable Clean Water by Harvesting Rainfall in the Caribbean
  • Enzo Guerra: Religion and Globalization
  • Marcus Achilles: Indigenous planet politics: Defenders of the Brazilian Amazon in the face of an upending ecological crisis
  • Leah De Mey: Grace A New Vision of who ‘we’ are: Literature for the Anthropocene
  • Gabriela Domingues: Public perception and policies on migration and their influence on migration patterns: the case of Mexico
  • Mustaf Egal: Between Hunger and Hope: Examining the Global Dimensions of Famine in Somalia
  • Baiyinah Jivanjee: A Trending Tragedy: Examining the Consumer Purchase Intention of Sustainably Produced Fashion Products
  • Zaeema Kirmani: Global Climate Change
  • Marissa Adelita Eunice Pendley: Is “Good Governance” Enough? The Road to Sustainable Urban Planning in Ghana
  • Syeda Fatima Abbas Rizvi: Pakistani Shias: An Existential Dichotomy?
  • Lindsay Baybayan: Transnational Families and Transfer of Responsibilities: The case of Filipino domestic workers and the impacts of family separation of their daughters.
  • Gagan Ganger: Between Confinement and Displacement: Disrupting Settler-Colonial Logic to Decolonize Canadian Climate Response.
  • Jessica Islam: The protection of Unprovenanced Artifacts of Cultural Heritage: The Case of Morgantina.
  • Amal Mehdi Jawad Sr: Patents in Pharmaceuticals: The Connection of TRIPS and human Rights to Health.
  • Kezia Mathew: Mass Incarceration of Female Prisoners in Latin America Because of the War on Drugs.
  • Gulmira Mussina: Belt and Road Initiative: Economic and Geopolitical Prosperity.
  • Amira Rose Springer: Living in Colour: Racialized housing Discrimination.
  • Adil Syed: Why Class Analysis is Critical: Rethinking a Purely Racial Political Ontology for a New Future.
  • Dana Wachter: Economic Migration: The Ghanaian Experience Getting to Canada, Postcolonial Freedoms, and Barriers to Transnational Mobility from the Global South.
  • Keara Williams: A Seat at the Table: The Path to Promote Environmental Justice and Climate Justice in Indigenous and Black communities in Canada.
  • Menaka Yerramilli de Rege: Examining the Post-Graduation Work Permit Program: Temporary Migrant Worker Mobility and Citizenship in Canada.
  • Aderewa Adeogun: Same Demons, Different Devils: An Analysis of Police Brutality in the BLM & ENDSARS Movements in Nigeria and USA.
  • Zahra Belosch: In Times of a Global Pandemic: Displaced Individuals, Border Control Policies and Human Rights.
  • Martha Cassidy-Neumiller: Seeking Safety: The case for prima facie status for climate refugees
  • Shanice Colley: I Never Told You I Could Not Breathe; Now I Am: The Journey Toward Allyship (Ignited).
  • Megan Devoe: A Place Made for Leaving: Underdevelopment, Rotational Work, and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Rural Newfoundland.
  • Nicole Goulet: Allyship Ignited; Can We Conceptualize Care?.
  • Mutaz Khider: The African Islamic Roots of Contemporary American Blues and Jazz music In Global Popular Culture.
  • Christian Ladores: Multiculturalism and the Welfare State: A Global-Comparative Perspective.
  • Xiaodong Meng: Nation Branding: How A “Good Country” Is Born.
  • John Okoronkwo: African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Competition Policy.
  • Arwa Osman: Abortion Criminalization in MENA Region Communities: Islamic Laws or Patriarchal System Policies.
  • Alison Parry: Smart City Unicorn: Building a Case for a Connected, Sustainable, and Resilient Community.
  • Ibrahim Saber: Federalism and Ethno Nationalism Conflict in Iraq.
  • Rohit Sharma: The Impact of Canada’s Public Health Policies : Is Canada a Leader in International Health Development as it Pertains to the COVID-19 Pandemic?
  • Xiaoyan Sheng: Globalizing China, Inclusive Energy Cooperation: Belt and Road in Focus.
  • Alanna Wilson: Exploring Gender Equality and LGBTQ+ Rights in
  • Saint Lucia: Analyzing Global Factors and the Cultural Attitudes on Masculinity that Impact Society.
  • Alaa Abdel-Rahman: Resettlement in Canada: Refugee Access to Health Care via Telehealth.
  • Dan Carpenter: Canada and the Emerging Global AI Governance Regime: Opportunities for Canadian Leadership from a Pragmatic Lens.
  • Dareen El-Sayed: The Uyghur Crisis: Origin, Urgency and Routes for Advocacy.
  • Jessica Johnstone: Analyzing the Israel-Palestine Conflict: 70 Years of Conflict and the Need for an Alternative Approach, Palestinian Statehood.
  • Neil Maatta: Neoliberalism, Covid-19 and the Value of Moral Behaviour for Societies.
  • Siena McIlwraith-Fraticelli: Identity and Discourse: Engagement Through Dialogue.
  • Terrence Mroz: How the Conflict Between Palestine and Israel is Impacting our Human Rights and Security.
  • Madeleine Pinard: Global Governance Responses to Environmental Migration Using a Functionalist Approach.
  • Tabinda Rana: Replacing Normative State-Centric Notions of Citizenship With Urban Citizenship: Canada’s First Sanctuary City – Access T.O.
  • Alex Rockingham: Tunisian Spring, Egyptian Winter: An Analysis of the Divergent Regime Outcomes of the Revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt.
  • Astara van der Jagt: Transnational Community Relocation With Dignity: A Strategy to Combat Rising Sea Levels for Small Island States.
  • Keenan Williams: Jamaica’s Structural Adjustment Program: Sound Success or Complete Failure?
  • Fatima Manzoor: Neoliberalism Explained: Privatisation and the Indian Economy.
  • Latifa Abdin: The Revolution will (not) be Tweeted: Assessing the Political Impacts of Digital Tools in MENA Region Protests.
  • Shelby Auburn: The Canadian Middle-Power and the Israeli Apartheid: Challenging Canada’s ‘Neutrality’ in Relation to the Securitization of Israel and the Violation of Palestinian Human Rights.
  • Admira Buzimkic: From Foreign Intervention to Foreign Domination: The case of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • Alexandra Cotter: Intermestic Interpretation in Canadian-Indigenous Affairs: The Application of FPIC.
  • Landon Fama: Formula Global?: An Evaluation of the Formula One Group’s Role in Creating Global Connectivity.
  • Monica Greenwood: The Athabasca Oil Sands and the First Nations: Oil or Human Rights?
  • Afroza Hoque: A Critical Analysis of Gender-based Violence: “The Rohingya” Case Study.
  • Dale Johnston: The Resource Curse: An Assessment of the Ongoing Colonial Venture in the Diamond Industry.
  • Abhishek Lakhtakia: Challenges and Solutions for Water Sustainability in India in the Context of Global Climate Change.
  • Matteo Mancuso: How has Italy Responded to the Recent Wave of Forced Immigration Caused by the European Migrant Crisis from 2015-2018?
  • Natasha Martinez: Understanding the ‘Migrant Caravan’: A Case of Refuge and Canadian Responsibility.
  • Emily O’Kell: The Devil in Her: a Look into how Catholicism and the Society of Early Modern Europe from the 15th to 17th centuries Demonized Women, and How these Tactics do not Seem all that Different from those used by the Media during Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential Campaign.
  • Mohamed Soufan: For whom do we Cry: the Israeli death economy and Palestinian resilience.
  • Emily Thompson-Becker: E-waste in Tanzania: Informality, Incoordination, and Inaction.
  • Stephanie Arlt: The Politics of Femininity: Women as the Pharmakon of Nationalism.
  • Souhail Boutmira: The Waiting Room: A Metaphoric Understanding of the Undocumented Migrants’ Struggle.
  • Anna Maria Bukowiec: Conceptualizing Precarious Employment and its Adverse Mental Health Effects from the Global to the Local: A Case Study of the Millennial Generation in Canada.
  • Leah Burge: Mosquirix Pilot Project in Kenya: A Global Double Standard for Biomedical.
  • Deon Castello: The Legacy of Unfreedom in the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program in Canada.
  • Brett Cox: Solidarity Economies: An Infrastructure of Dissent in a Settler-Colonial Context.
  • Amy Cui: Challenges and Possibilities in Global Pediatric Oncology: An analysis of international collaboration and community participation dedicated towards pediatric cancer care in Guatemala.
  • Alexandria Geerts: Meat the Exploited: Understanding the Connection between Human and Animal Oppression in the Meat Industry.
  • Moreen Gorial: Reaching for Recognition: A Forgotten People – Recognizing the Iraqi Christian Genocide.
  • Rayan Harmouche: The Experiences of Muslim Women in the West: Islamo-Racism in Education and the Workplace.
    Collette Heeger: The Gap Between Hamilton’s Sanctuary and Age
  • Friendly City: Providing the Health Needs of Aging Refugees.
  • Tim Heinrichs: Issues of Integration: Analyzing the Trauma Obstacles Faced by Newcomers in Canada.
  • Travis Hinton: The rise of neoliberalism and its contributions to inequality.
  • Asif Kamal: Five Years of Rana Plaza: Disposable Bodies and the Global Apparel Industry’s Conscience.
  • Marvin Aljay Mercado: Democracy in Crisis: An Analysis of the Philippines under Rodrigo Duterte
  • Andrew Pace: Sanctuary and Sovereignty: Shifting Power from the State to the Local.
  • Michelle Sayles: Psychological Resilience Discourses in Puerto Rico’s Climate Recovery.
  • Ayak Wel: Ethnic Divisions, Identity Politics, and the Challenges to Peacebuilding: The Case of South Sudan.
  • Helen Beny: Sino-Ethio Relations: Neither Dependency or South-South Cooperation.
  • Beatrice Beshie: Not Watered Down: The Ecological & Social Shadows of Excessive Fresh Water Consumption.
  • Maria Cataluna: Privatization by Stealth: Public-private Partnerships (PPPs) and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Canadian Mining Industry.
  • Salma El-zamel: The Wall on Fire: The Imagined Other and the Unmodern Enemy.
  • Faria Faiz: Gendered Violence as a Result of Urbanization: The Case of Juarez, Mexico.
  • Cherin Hamadi: Islamic Finance in the Global Financial Governance: Autonomy and Influence.
  • Loretta Janes: An Ubuntu Inspired Social Network: Responding to the Needs of Mature Students in Canadian Universities.
  • Fizza Kulvi: Re-envisioning South Asia: Qawwali, Shrines and YouTube.
  • Melina Mamone: Dispersal Dynamism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: A Review of the Inuit and Immigrants from TB-endemic Counties in Canada.
  • Ryan Markesic: A Critical Examination of Different Methods to Advocate for the Rights of Temporary Migrant Labourers in Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program.
  • Kristina Marra: TrumpBart and Clinton Times: Imagining Community in the 2016 American Presidential Election Through Traditional and New Media Sources.
  • Crispas Musau: The Reach and Limits of Global Governance: Kenya’s Democratic/Political Reforms in the Aftermath of the 2007/2008 Post-election Violence.
  • Sydney Myles: Accumulation by Dispossession: Neoliberal Loans and BITs Conditioning Bolivia and South Africa to Privatize Water.
  • Daniel Powell: Liberalism and Two Sovereignties: The James Bay Cree and Québécois Struggle for Self-Determination and the Making of Multinational Canada in an Era of Global Reconciliation.
  • Najiba Sardar: Sundari: Global Beauty Ideals, South Asian Femininity, and the Diaspora.
  • Kim Tran: Globalization in Contention: Internet Censorship and the Market Economy in China Today.
  • Mikaela Van Pelt: The Recognition of Religion: A Look at Refugee Resettlement through Faith Based Organizations in a “Multicultural” Canada since 1971.
  • Melanie Zetusian: America’s Military Response and Institutional Shield against its Relative Decline in the Post-Cold War Era.
  • Myla Chawla: From G.I Jane to Jihad Jane: An Investigation of Global Female Combatants.
  • Manvir Bhangoo: Between Two Worlds: Where Do Canadian-Born Punjabi Girls Belong?
  • Njavwa Mukwavi: Child Welfare in Zambia: The Role and Impact of Governmental and Nongovernmental Actors on the Welfare of Zambian Children.
  • Olivia Bonham-carter: The DREAMers: Migrant narratives and the fight for American citizenship.
  • Alexandria Bell: Common Goals? Policies Restricting Indigenous Education Programs in Canada and New Zealand.
  • Darren Jahn: Cryptocurrency: A New Paradigm For Global Reserves.
  • Farhana Reza: The Crisis of Indigenous Identity in a Globalizing Asia: The Case of Bangladesh
  • Yu Sun Young: Canadian Muslims: Struggles to Belong.
  • Oldrich Bubak: Examining Global Political and Economic Effects on Talent Systems Policies
  • Basel Ammane: How Compatible Are Democracy and Islam.
  • Edith Chavez Perez: Air pollution Governance in Mexico City and Toronto: A Comparative Study.
  • Patricia Ackah-Baidoo: Youth Employment in the Extractive Industries in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Ghana.
  • Elysia Dardarian: Climate Refugees: Legal Challenges and Reconstructing Identities.
  • Paul Emiljanowicz: Conflict of Interests: The Extractive Sector, Official Development Assistance, and Corporate Social Responsibility.
  • Alyssa Foerstner: Identity and Language: Looking at Identity Through a German Lens.
  • Anthony Lerno: A Paradox in Development Aid: Knowledge and Power in International Finance Corporation Sustainability Initiatives.
  • Anne Lewis: Medical Tourism and the Commodification of Medical Care.
  • Aaron Morrow: Medical Foreign Aid in Central America: A Bleak History and an Unsure Future.
  • Aleksander Piecyk: Moving Forward in Latin America: A Reconceptualization of Anti-Narcotic Policies in Colombia.
  • Dean Ray: Escaping the Origins of Totalitarianism: A Critical Appraisal of the Career and Theory of Hannah Arendt and Erich Fromm.
  • Kristina Roic: Scales of Conflict and Cooperation in the Indus Basin.
  • Nishi Singh: Conceptions of Mental Health Within the Punjabi Sikh Diaspora Community in Ottawa, Ontario.
  • Gulsat Topsakal: “Nevada-Semipalatinsk” Anti-Nuclear Movement: Bridging the Gap between Eco-cosmopolitanism and Postcolonial Ecocriticism.
  • Yvonne Maidment: Temporary Workers as a Permanent Solution for Maximum Profit.
  • Kieran Blair: Digitally Devoted: Cyberspace, Security, and Privacy.
  • Oheneba Boateng: South Africa: Towards a Theory of Southern Humanitarianism.
  • John Cocarla: The Politics of the Glocal: Hybridity, Resistance, and the Importance of Maintaining the Local.
    Joann Correa: Global Security and China’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ).
  • James Evans: Ending the Taxation Race to the Bottom: Studying The Potential for International Co-operation in the Design of Corporate Tax Policy Using a Systems Approach.
  • Dan Irvine: The power of ideas in the reproduction of capitalism: A Gramscian and Foucauldian analysis of liberalism and global finance.
  • Haley McCormick: An Assessment of Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Participation in the Development of Land Degradation Policy Within the Context of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Framework.
  • Carla Vanina Noejovich: The emotional journey of migration.
  • Sonja Pesko: Branding Together: The Shopping Mall as Public Space in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • Amberley Teresa Ruetz: Nationalism and Identity Construction in the Post-Colonial Era: Discourse, Enacted Citizenship and the Sahrawi People of North Africa.
  • Eva Salinas: A solution crops up: marijuana legalization as a new strategy in the War on Drugs.
  • Andrew Christopher Stanley: Improving women’s wellbeing through a trans-sectoral approach: An NGO framework for development within the context of HIV/AIDS and WaSH.
  • Evon Sworesho: Different Paths: Opportunities and Struggles Displaced Iraqi Christians Face.
  • Natasha Vattikonda: A Critique of Identity Politics as an Effective
  • Political Strategy: The Anti-caste Movement, A Case Study.
  • Diana Verkhovets: Privatization of public utilities in Argentina Research Questions.
  • Ryan Avola: Resistance, Community and the Political: Street Art and the Post-Modern Dreamscape.
  • Zeinab Bardan: Security of the Middle East in Light of the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
  • Dwitney Bethel: Re-Framing Visibility Amidst the Spectacle of Disaster and Disposability: The Role of Actants, Artists and the Vibrancy of Things in Acts of Abject Resistance After Katrina.
  • Kenneth Gibson: Localizing Power: People, Place and Governance in the City.
  • Emma Lister: The Hegemony of the State Withing Regionalism: The Case of Latin America.
  • Quan Liu: TPP and RCEP: The Regional Political and Economic Power Struggle Among ASEAN, China, and the United States.
  • Samantha Manley: The Next Phase of Development: Creating Conditions for HIV/AIDS Education in South Africa.
  • Ashley Manson: A Comparative Overview of Canadian Citizenship: The Re-branding of Canada as a Conservative Country via Citizenship Testing.
  • Josée Oliphant: The Media, Melancholia and the Small Town: the Imagined Muslim Threat in Fictional Mercy and Real Hérouxville.
  • Erin Rose: There’s No Place Called Home? Constructions of Home, Identity and Belonging in the Memoirs of Adult Third Culture Kids.
  • Madeleine Streich: The Impact of Virtual Water Trade on Food Sovereignty. With and Example from Egypt.
  • Camila Trujillo: Overcoming Stigma; Colombia’s Battle Against its Reputation as a Drug Lord.
  • Rachel Unterman: Global Food Landscapes: Reimagining Governance Discourse.
  • Robin Verrall: Citizens of Greater China: Translocal Cultural Governmentality as an Alternative Form of Political Community.
  • Victoria Zappia: Water for People, Not for Profit: Exploring Resource Privatization and Water Accessibility.
  • Rami Abu-Zeidan: The Mental Health Effects of Flooding Events: An Investigation through Science and Policy.
  • Khaoula Bengezi: Acts of Citizenship by Bare Life: Detention Centres and Migrant Resistance in Libya and Italy.
  • Mark Burgess: ‘Experience Simulating Innocence’: Globalization and the Foreign Reporter.
  • Alexandra Crowder: Environmental Revolution: The Cold War of the 21st Century.
  • Abimbola Fajobi: The construction of a protracted refugee situation: Dehumanization in Kenya’s Refugee Camps.
  • Doran Hoge: Waterways: Constructivist Conceptualizations of Water and Human Action.
  • Kashfah Mahmood Khan Chowdhury: Challenges of Fair Trade movement in the face of neoliberal globalization and ethical consumerism.
  • Gent Llukaj: Packet Switching, the Origins of the Internet, and the Beginnings of Globalization.
  • Layla Mashkoor: Hamilton: the New Post-Industrial City Analysis of Disposability and Creativity in the New Urban Environment.
  • Amber Merucci: Cultivating Cosmopolitanism in a Post 9/11 Era: Challenging Islamphobia through Pragmatic Approaches.
  • Sean Pittman: Villagization in Gambella: the Biopolitics of Dispossession.
  • Adnan Raja: Challenging the Limits of Citizenship: Representations of Transnational Activism, Political Engagement and Global Intimacy through the Tamil-Canadian Protests.
  • Nicole Rallis: Re-imagining the city: A documentary project on the politics of space, place, and time.
  • Gillian Round: A Socio-Historical Approach to HIV/AIDS in South Africa: Race, Power and Apartheid.
  • Mola Shahsavari: Iranian Public Diplomacy and Representations of Apocalyptic Politics.
  • Joshua Belick: Moving Towards a Post-post 9/11 Discourse in Immigration and Security Studies — Bill C-4; Anti-human Smuggling Legislation and the Detonation of Asylum Seeker Rights in Canada.
  • Jillian Curtin: Conundrum or Corruption: An Analysis of the Industry Fallout and the Regulatory Response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
  • Kevin Edmonds: The Power to Impoverish — The World Trade Organization and the Demise of the St. Lucian Banana Trade.
  • Charis Enns: Neoliberalism Beneath Social Investment Discourses?: A Critical Analysis of the World Bank’s Education Sector Strategy 2020.
  • Dona Geagea: The Tragedy of the Commons becomes a Tragedy for the Commoners: Globalization, Marginalization and Resistance in Rural Regions’ Water Policies.
  • Tegan Herchenrader: Orienting the Sojourner: A Study on the Orientation and Reorientation of Exchange Students.
  • Jan Korevaar: Naked in the Camp, Resisting in the City: Coeval Spaces of the City-Camp.
  • Sara Loureiro: Painting the Revolution: A Study of Revolutionary Mural Production in Esteli, Nicaragua from 1979-1990.
  • Maris Lush: The Contemporary Social Corporation and New Constitutionalism: A Complementary Neoliberal Socio-Economic Hegemony.
  • Lauren Murphy: A Critical Comparison of the Canadian and European Regulatory System for GMOs: Examining the Canadian Shortcomings.
  • Shabnam Nikfar: The Glass Walls among Us: Internationalization of Borders through the Canadian Immigration Regime.
  • Andrew Park: The Politics of Food — Risk Society and the Neurotic Citizen.
  • Shubha Sandhill: Living in the Shackles of Domestic Violence: The Subjugation of Female Identity in South Asian Communities.
  • Zachary Stockhill: Building Bridges: The Beatles’ Impact on “India” in the Post Colonial Imagination.
  • Andrew Weir: Paid Crowdsourcing Microtasking: An Individualized Race to the Bottom.
  • Franziska Buch: Visualizing the AGW-Battle: Climategate and the New Fronts of Adversarial Framing in the Online Media Discourse.
  • Monique Chiotti: The Emergence of Surplus Necessity in the West and its Effect on the Cultural Production of Exploitation in Chinese Special Economic Zones.
  • Diana Marina Cooper: China’s Increasing Economic Engagement in sub-Saharan Africa: Towards Common Development, or the ‘New Scramble for Africa’?
  • Melissa Eberly: The Politics of Humanitarianism in Haiti: Humanitarian Agencies, Neoliberalism and the Global Perspective.
  • Dave Heidebrecht: A Sacred Place: Capturing the Story of the Sacred Headwaters Social Movement.
  • Ann Henley: Examining the Feasibility of Immigrant Women Developing Micro Businesses and Accessing Micro Loans in Hamilton.
  • Chris Knudson: Recovery or Reorganization? Economic Globalisation’s Mixed Effects on the Developing World’s Vulnerability to Extreme Weather Events.
  • Adam Malloy: India’s Experimental Autonomy: Shaping Modernity in “Gorkhaland”.
  • Sheliza Merchant: Manipulating US and International Law to Justify Torture Findings from Abu Ghraib.
    Andrew Munroe: Metaphors of the Environment.
  • Danielle Pacey: The Cost of Doing Business: Corporatizing Global War.
  • Laura Pin: Indigenous Identity in Olympic-supporting and Olympic-resisting discourse concerning the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games.
  • Eddy Thai: The Undecidables and the Hybridity of Identity.
  • Maja Tuta: Needs and Gaps in Services Available to Women who have been Sex Trafficked.
  • Catherine Twizere: Thinking About History: Adopting Critical Thinking Methods in Post-Conflict History Classrooms.
  • Jingxian Xu: Migration and Development: A Preliminary Assessment of the “Deskilling” Situation Faced by Chinese Skilled Immigrants in Canada.
  • Sarah L. Anstett: The Limitations of Ethical Purchasing: Observations on Communication, Co-Ordination & Comprehension Drawn from the Canadian University No Sweat Initiative.
  • Kyinzom Gyalpo: A Study Examining the Impact of Migrant Remittance from a Women Perspective in Nepal.
  • Sara Mahmood Hassan: “Acts of Global Citizenship or Global Act(ion)s of Citizenship?” Exploring the Enactment of Global Citizenship in Canada.
  • Erin Langs: Environmental Justice: Contemporary Failures in Global Environmental Governance and Valuation.
  • Branka Marijan: (Re) Created Borders, Contested Citizenships: Politics of Identity, Belonging and Place.
  • Caitlin Patterson: Protection vs. Profits: The Conflict between the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.
  • Leah J. Percy: The Construction of Female Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in Kenya: Gender Mainstreaming or Gender Masking?
    Veronica Rubio- Vega: Fairtrade Coffee in Latin America: To What Extent does FLO Certification Benefit Small-Scale Farmers?
  • Aaron Saad: Environmental Migrants/Refugees: Identifying Key Developments and Gaps in the Emerging Response to a Potential Crisis.
  • Kat Scrivener: Transnational Advocacy Networks and ‘Policymaking from Below’: The Impact on Trade and Integration in the Americas.
  • Sarah Shulist: Revitalizing Through Language: The Role of Language in Indigenous Peoples’ Political Projects.
  • Victoria Steele: Cosmopolitan Landscapes in the People’s Republic of China: Spectrality of Shijian Wenti and New Urban Identities.
  • Leah Taylor: A Farmer’s Tale: Growing Globalization in Woodville’s Fields.
  • Huijing Yang: Under the Same Blue Sky? A Preliminary Study of Left-behind Children in Rural China in the Context of Globalization.
  • Mingwei Zhang: The Social Networks of Chinese Elderly Immigrants in Canada: Implications for Public Service Utilization.
  • Sonya Zikic: Acts of Kidizenship: The Reception, Treatment, and Political Agency of Unaccompanied Minors and Undocumented Migrant Youth.
  • Phil Abbott: Beyond the Band-Aid: An Examination of the Expanding Role of Food Banks in Canadian Society.
  • Jessica Marion Barr: Fraught Perceptions, Fraught Representations: Global Conflict and Art.
  • Sarah Batten: Global Flows, Local Profits: Private Sector Involvement in ‘Migrant Management’.
  • Zainab Boxwala: Practicing Global Yoga: A Reflective Asana and a Meditative Mindset Breathing Life into New Politics.
  • Ana Candia: Change the Channel: Latin American Third Film in the Contemporary World Order.
  • Frank Castiglione: The European Union and Turkey: Globalization with a Difference?*.
  • Kasey Coholan: Frictions in Being and Becoming: Expanding the Political through an Examination of Subaltern Groups and Indigenism.
  • Christianne Collantes: Bodies of Currency and Commodification in Cyberculture: Filipino Women’s Oppression and Resistance Online.
    Erika Dickenson: World Bank Support of Core Labour Standards: Changing the Direction of Economic Globalization?
  • Hala Hlaibeih: The Misrepresentation of Muslim Women in the Global
  • Mass Media: Case Study: “Submission”, a Short Movie.
    Jennifer Ho-Ying Huang: The Impact of Globalization on Intra-Ethnic Relations: The Case of Chinese Sub-communities in the Greater Toronto Area.
  • Raghda Ismail: The Identity of the First Generation of Palestinians Born in Canada.
  • Daniela Kortan: CSR as Rhetoric or Reality – Lessons Learnt from the Governance Paradigm.
  • Todd Leskie: No One Gets Out Alive: Representation of Cosmopolitanism in the Fiction of Rohinton Mistry.
  • Eva Lukacsovics: How is the Term ‘Orphan’ Defined in the Context of HIV/AIDS in ‘Sub-Saharan Africa’?
  • Kuthula Matshazi: Comparative Advantage, Liberalized Trade Rules in Agriculture and Developed Countries’ Farm Subsidies: The Effects on African Farmers.
  • Bryan Purcell: Hard and Soft Food Security Pathways: An Ecological Analysis of the Global Food Crisis and its Policy Implications.
  • Meaghan Ross: Social Work Activism Amidst Neo-Liberal Policies: How are Social Workers Maintaining Resistance?
  • Alisha Ticku: Negotiating Spaces of Exclusion: Interrogating Hierarchies of Entitlement through the Experiences of Female Migrant Domestic Workers.
  • Kristian van der Lee: Pursuing Social Justice through the Market: An Investigation of the WTO and Fair Trade Coffee Initiatives in Latin America.
  • Renée Wetselaar: Social Location, Mobilization and Globalization: The Role of Art in Creating Social Change in Hamilton, Ontario.
  • Narges Valibeigi: Media as an Anti-Peace Making Tool in the Context Globalization: How are Shiite Muslims Represented in Western Media?
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