David Thomas
Biography
My teaching and research is in the sub-fields of International Relations, Comparative Politics, and International Development, with a specific focus on the role of Canadian actors in the global south. My current research examines the role of Canadian corporations both at home and abroad.
Publications
Books:
(forthcoming). Thomas, David P. and Veldon Coburn (eds). Capitalism and Dispossession: Corporate Canada at Home and Abroad. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.
2018. Thomas David P. Bombardier Abroad: Patterns of Dispossession. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.
Book Chapters:
(submitted). Thomas, David P. and Hayden King, "A Pedagogy of Erasure: International Relations and Indigenous Peoples," in Heather Smith, David Hornsby, and Mark Boyer (eds), Oxford Handbook of International Studies Pedagogy, (Toronto: Oxford University Press).
(forthcoming). Thomas, David P. and Tyler Shipley, "Canadian Banks in Latin America and the Caribbean," in David P. Thomas and Veldon Coburn (eds), Capitalism & Dispossession: Corporate Canada and Home and Abroad, (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing).
(forthcoming). Coburn, Veldon and David P. Thomas, "Capitalism, Dispossession, and the Canadian State," in David P. Thomas and Veldon Coburn (eds), Capitalism & Dispossession: Corporate Canada and Home and Abroad, (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing).
Articles:
2019. Thomas, David P. "'Setting the Free Thinker Free': The Use of an Activist Archive to Analyze a Pivitol Moment in the History of the South African Communist Party (SACP)," World Journal of Social Science Research, Vol. 6, No. 3: 283-302.
2018. Thomas, David P. and Zoe Luba, "White Fragility and the White Student Abroad: Using Critical Race Theory to Analyze International Experiential Learning in the Global South," Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 38, No. 2: 182-198.
Education
2006 PhD - Queen's University
2001 MA - University of Saskatchewan
1999 BA - University of Calgary
1997 BComm - University of Victoria
Teaching
- POLS 1001 - Foundations of Politics
- POLS/INLR 2301 - Introduction to International Relations
- POLS 3221 - African Politics
- INLR 3201 - Problems in International Development
- POLS/INLR 3301 - Global Governance
- INLR 3991 - Global Capitalism
- INLR 4101 - Global Governance Simulation
- INLR 4201 - Canada, Globalization, and International Development
- INLR 4301 - Global Civil Society
- INLR 4401 - African in a Global Context