Browsing by Department "Social and Political Thought"
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Borders, Bordering and the Limits of Democracy: Rethinking the Boundaries of Territorial Sovereignty (2007-12-13)Department: Social and Political ThoughtThis thesis argues that, contrary to some prevalent intuitions, national borders are not being rendered obsolete by the increasingly global or deterritorialized character of social and political life. Rather, as state ...
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(2006-04-17)Department: Social and Political ThoughtThis thesis describes René Girard’s mimetic theory of desire and explicates its relevance for a critique of consumerism, emphasizing the loss of identity that can result from mimesis in a consumer society. It first presents ...
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(2007-04-14)Department: Social and Political ThoughtThis thesis examines the role of Reason-guided reason-giving in the deliberative democratic arena as a response to the theories of Iris Young, Chantal Mouffe and Lynn Sanders. I will aim to do two things. First, I will ...