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Congratulations to Noah S. Schwartz for successfully defending his dissertation project Quick Draw History: the NRA, the Politics of Memory and the Great Gun Debate! A probing analysis of the ways in which the NRA uses storytelling as a means to build a political community of gun owners, Noah’s project took him on a three-month odyssey of ethnographic fieldwork in Northern Virginia, where he conducted interviews, participated in NRA events and analyzed the NRA’s history museum. We at the Department of Political Science fondly applaud Noah for the fantastic work he’s done as a student and as a member of the Carleton community, and wish him well for incredible work that no doubt lies ahead. Congratulations Noah!

In the beauty industry, with colour cosmetics specifically, it’s not uncommon to see brands create foundation shades that fully exclude darker skin tones. We see a lot of big brands, both drug store, affordable brands, but also high-end make-up brands, from Physicians Formula and Bourgeois to Chanel and Tarte these brands will release foundation shade ranges that either fully exclude darker shades, or they’ll release shade ranges that are really imbalanced. So, a kit would... have three light shades, three medium-light shades, three tan shades, and then two dark shades at the end as an after-thought that aren’t even that darkFor brands that do offer a variety of shades for various skin-tones such as Lancôme and Laura Mercier the light shades will have names like natural or natural tan or nude or neutral, playing on the rhetoric of white naturalness. The very lightest shades tend to have names like porcelain, ivory and alabaster goods and materials associated with economic luxury. With darker shades, names include cocoa, chocolate and coffee which are all foods or something to be consumed, which has troubling theoretical repercussions for the way we are constructing dark skin and darker skinned people. But these are also all commodities that have been associated with the slave trade. [These names] draw this comparison and evoke these ties to that particular period in history; and while it could be as simple as chocolate is brown, and this particular shade of brown looks like chocolate, combined with this idea of white naturalism I think it’s a little more pervasive than that. PhD candidate Amanda Roberts on colourism in the beauty industry. Make sure to listen to the new episode of the Carleton University Political Science Podcast, where we talk with Amanda about race, colourism and the beauty industries construction of discourses of white naturalism! You can find it now on SoundCloud, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Stitcher! https://soundcloud.com/user-488007033/race-beauty-colourism

In this episode, Professor Peter Andrée speaks with Cristina Coc, Executive Director of the Julian Cho Society and Spokesperson for the Toledo Alcaldes Association/Maya Leaders Alliance, and Filiberto Penados, Chair, Julian Cho Society about the connections between Indigenous rights and biodiversity conservation. Together, we take a closer look at the fight for recognition of the Maya people's rights to land in Belize. Overall, we conclude that this struggle is a global struggle, not just for Indigenous rights to land, but for survival of all on a just and healthy planet. https://www.ecopoliticspodcast.ca/episode-2-9-indigenous-e/ #ecopolitics, #polisci, #PoliticalScience, #CarletonU, #carletonuniversity, #JulianChoSociety, #CristinaCoc, #peterandree

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In this episode of The EcoPolitics Podcast we talk with Dr. Radoslav Dimitrov, Associate Professor at Western University to learn more about multilateral environmental agreements. How are they created? How are they enforced? Dr. Dimitrov also explains why some MEAs are essentially "hollow" or "empty" despite appearing to onlookers as legitimate institutions. https://www.ecopoliticspodcast.ca/episode-2-7-multilateral/ #ecopolitics, #PoliticalScience, #CarletonUniversity, #EcoPoliticsPodcast

The Carleton University Political Science Podcast Let the conversation begin Season Two... If season one of the Carleton University Political Science Podcast was a single conversation on a turning point in human history, then season two is a musing on the impact of that turning point. https://carleton.ca/polisci/podcasts-season-two/ #PoliticalSciencePodcast, #carletonuniversity, #PoliticalScience, #ottawa, #ontariocanada

Congratulations to Amanda Klassen, who recently defended her PhD research proposal "A feminist geopolitical approach to norm implementation: Gender mainstreaming for protection and solutions for refugees in Bangladesh and Thailand". . "Using a critical feminist approach, my research focuses on the local implementation of global norms relating to the protection of refugee women and girls, specifically focusing on the implementation of gender mainstreaming in refugee camps in B...angladesh and Thailand. . My research questions explore the embodied agency of refugee women within the social and political structures that shape norm implementation, as well as the factors that affect this embodied agency in the implementation of global norms in local contexts. . Through my research I hope to demonstrate that refugee women, who are the intended beneficiaries of both gender based norms, and recent global norms relating to refugee protection, must be included in the process of defining successful implementation for these norms to have positive impact on their lived experiences." . Amanda Klassen See more

Congratulations to Maggie FitzGerald, class of 2020! Maggie is graduating with a PhD in Political Science. Her thesis is "Pluriversality and Care: Rethinking Global Ethics". We are proud to announce Maggie has received a Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement. . "I feel extraordinarily fortunate to have completed my graduate studies at Carleton University. The Department of Political Science provided ample opportunities for me to partake in exciting research proje...cts and develop professional skills that are transferrable to a variety of settings. At the same time, I was also afforded space to pursue my own research program, which draws upon a feminist ethics of care to rethink global ethics so as to attend meaningfully to deep and pervasive ontological and epistemological difference (captured by the notion of the pluriverse). I was also able to complete a specialization in Political Economy through Carleton’s Institute of Political Economy. Through this specialization, I learned the importance of critically interrogating the relations of power which shape all aspects of politics including the ways in which we practice and study global ethics. . I am so grateful to my supervisor and committee members, Dr. Fiona Robinson, Dr. Cristina Rojas, and Dr. Hans-Martin Jaeger, who supported me throughout the PhD process. Completing a PhD is a difficult process, and I truly do not think I would have been able to do it were it not for the support of the amazing faculty, administrators, and fellow students in the Department of Political Science." . Maggie FitzGerald . More stories about our graduating students at https://carleton.ca/polisci/ See more

Congratulations to Wenjing Gao, who recently defended her PhD research proposal ‘Encountering BRI: India’s Pride and Prejudice?’ under the supervision of Professor Jeremy Paltiel. . Wenjing's thesis aims to explore the complexity and emotional tenor of Sino-Indian relations and its impact on India’s domestic development. At the beginning of their independence their convergent historical trajectory brought these two ancient civilizations closely together. Their first border di...spute in 1962 provoked a drastic split which has haunted their relationship ever since. Nowadays, China, with five times the GDP as India, has ambitiously launched Belt and Road Initiatives (BRI). India’s rationale and resistance towards dealing with China is compelling. With one third of the global population, India and China could either determine the potential success of an Asian 21st century or well undermine it, which also will ultimately affect the western dominated world order. See more

Congratulations to Dunja Apolstolov-Dimitrijevic, class of 2020! Dunja is graduating this Fall with a Doctorate in Political Science with a Specialization in Political Economy. Her thesis is "Mapping the Global Balkans: The Governmentalities and Practices of Emerging Economy and EU Encounters in Serbia". . With the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, she developed a research project that examines the presence of emerging economies (specifically Ch...ina and Russia) in the Western Balkans (specifically Serbia) in the context of the region’s trajectory of EU integration. She approached this subject as a study of different, though overlapping, national and transnational social fields each with distinct modes of practices and governmentalities. . While completing her doctoral work, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Southeast European Studies in Graz, Austria and at Maynooth University in Ireland. The two fellowships were made possible by the Ernst Mach Grant, awarded by the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation, and Carleton’s Graduate Research Innovative Thinking Award respectively. Dunja is currently teaching Comparative Politics of the Global South at Carleton, a course she adores, and is getting ready to commence a research stay at the University of Belgrade. . More stories about our graduating students at https://carleton.ca/polisci/ See more

Reading the Classics First meeting: Wednesday, November 25, 2:30 pm, via zoom. Please contact [email protected] for zoom link to the meeting. details and link to reading: https://carleton.ca//reading-the-classics-of-social-scien/... First reading: Security, Territory, Population (Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France in 1977-78). This is an opportunity to join us in a collective effort to read great works more closely. Now more than ever, it is important to bring together Faculty members, graduate students and advanced undergraduate students from different subfields to exchange ideas and break the isolation. Students and Faculty members from other disciplines in the social sciences and humanities are welcome to participate. Hosted by Sophie Marcotte-Chénard and Taylor Green.

In 2020, we have the first Black American female being run as a vice presidential candidate not that others haven’t tried, we had Shirley Chisholm’s path-breaking effort in 1972, for example. But record numbers of women of colour are running for Congress in 2020 - 115 women of colour are running this year according to the Centre for American Women in Politics, and that’s a record high. In the Senate we have 7 African American candidates, mostly from the South, but only one... of them is a woman - so there’s still that male-to-female issue of intersectionality. There are also a record number of indigenous women running this time around. There’s also a record number of African American women running on the Republican ticket for Congress. There are fascinating dynamics at play in terms of race and gender, and ethnicity as well. But, we’re seeing a $14 billion election in 2020, which for me as an American is ridiculous, because there’s so many other ways we could see that money be used....When women and men run for different electoral categories they tend to win and lose at similar rates, and tend to get funded at similar rates but this is not the case for African American candidates. [There is] a big difference for men, but especially for women they are just not getting the same level of funding as their white counterparts. The average cost for a House seat in that kind of race is $2 million; the average cost of a Senate seat is $10 million. And of course, Elizabeth Warren spent over $40 million dollars when she ran her race against Scott Brown in Massachusetts, so it can go up from there, because there are no campaign spending limits in the US. And frankly without that kind of funding in the United States for a Congressional seat, the game is over. On this week’s episode of the Carleton University Political Science Podcast we talk with Professor Melissa Haussman about the institutional and intersectional barriers to participation in the US, the UK, Canada and more! You can now find us on SoundCloud, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Stitcher, with new episodes being released each week. Listen, share, like and subscribe! https://m.soundcloud.com/user-48/melissa-haussman-diversity