History

Legal and economic change focusing on:

• critical agrarian history

Theory

• social reproduction theory and law

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• uneven and combined development as dialectical materialist methodology
• social relations of property, production, autonomy, and dispossession
• liberal democratic state law and authority
• politico-legal subjectivity
• Hudson’s Bay Company’s charter monopoly and colonial strategy up to 1821
• Indigenous peoples' labour
• continental philosophy (Kant, Marx, Agamben)
• anticolonialist methodology and analysis (Fanon)
• idealist vs. materialist approaches to law
• history of Ukrainian Canadians in Western Manitoba