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Browsing PhD Dissertations by Thesis (Discipline) "International Development Studies Program"

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The agrarian question of extractive capital : political economy, rural change, and peasant struggle in 21st century Paraguay

Ezquerro-Cañete, Arturo (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)

This dissertation examines the impact of contemporary capitalist globalization on class relations, class conflict, and economic development in the Paraguayan countryside. It offers a political economy analysis of agrarian ...
Beyond foreign aid : managing the wealth of nations as an international imperative for global wellbeing

Hernandez-Salazar, Eduardo (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)

The taxonomy and architecture of foreign aid today is the result of a chaotic evolution that has made it into a flawed concept and project. The extensive literature on its effectiveness, dating almost as far back as aid’s ...
Climate change & human mobility : the interconnectedness of colonial, contemporary development policies, and climate change in shaping human mobility in Zimbabwe’s small-scale rural farming areas

Maganga, Trymore (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)

Climatic and non-climatic factors affect small-scale agriculture leading to high cases of food insecurity and subsequent human mobility in Zimbabwe’s communal areas. These farming areas were established by the colonial ...
The interface between global hegemony and cultural marginalization : agency, education and development among indigenous peoples

Theunissen, Shane (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)

This thesis seeks to conceptualize an educational process that would allow Indigenous peoples to engage in a truly endogenous development, in which the elements of their ways of life that are most important and central to ...
The twilight of customary land systems? : effects of the new wave land formalisation programmes on rural livelihoods in Tanzania

Mumburi, Ulrick Peter (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)

Forms of customary land ownership in sub-Saharan Africa are a key element of African social organisation and have sustained and continue to sustain millions of subsistence and smallholder farmers by maintaining livelihoods ...