CROSSLISTED COURSES: AS POLS 3125 & AK SOCI 3125 & AP HREQ 3125 This course examines Canadian economic development and state formation in the context of the world market and, in particular, Canada's place within North America. The course also reviews some of the key writers that have debated Canada's economic position in the world. […]
This course investigates Quebec government and politics in relation to internal policy processes and the wider context of Canadian government and politics. The course will apply theories of nationalism, feminism, race and class relations, conflict, economic and social change, and social movements and political parties.
In This course, we examine a broadened notion of "politics" as it plays out on various scales and arenas within the urban system. In particular, we explore how various social groups in cities experience, struggle over, and negotiate their (changed) economic, political and social conditions, and how, through such processes, they create politicized subcultures and […]
Introduces students to the study of aboriginal politics in Canada. A survey course, it examines the relationships between indigenous peoples, the state, society and economy in Canada. Topics include: globalization, (de)colonization, citizenship, constitutionalism, gender, land claims, self-government and resistance.
This course examines the principles and theories underlying communications and cultural practices, policy and regulation in Canada, with particular attention to the role of the state and the private sector in shaping the nature of political and cultural discourse in Canada. Concepts of identity and citizenship in a multi-cultural society are considered in the context […]
The course develops a conception of "political economy as "moral science" through study of the economics of Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes. It also explores the relation of the conception to German idealist philosophy and psychoanalytic psychology.
This course explores some fundamental issues in liberal conceptions of law and some of the criticisms of this conception. Jurisprudence is concerned with the study of the nature of legal systems and the analysis of the fundamental principles on which they are founded. It is therefore a theory with two well-defined parts: a descriptive part, […]
This course involves the use of psychoanalytic and psychological concepts in contemporary political thought. After outlining key psychological theories, beginning with Freud, the focus is on themes such as ideology and freedom, democracy and paranoia, sexual repression and desire, patriarchy and gender, power and resistance, psychopathology and politics.
This course analyzes the political, economic, and cultural development of "race" and "racism" in political discourse. Attention is given to categories such as "racialization", and "the social construction of race". We deal with the historical development of "identity".
Critically examines the relationship between Islam and human rights. Describes the state of human rights in Muslin-majority countries and debates within them and amongst Muslim minorities in liberal democracies over the compatibility of human rights claims with Islamic principles.