Social and Political Thought Western University - Canada

Overview

 Western University - Canada with Social and Political Thought students are invited to examine the deeper, often hidden and obscured, structures that give shape to our present-day society. We examine how our sense of self and our experience of others and the world are conditioned by social, legal, political, economic, military, and psychological forces of power. 

Key facts

These forces of power not only produce societal orders, they also are the source of violence, aggression and conflict.

 Social and Political Thought ’s interdisciplinary focus gives students the unique possibility of understanding how concepts and imagined ends or goals of human power and desire come to shape and form the sense of ourselves, how we view others, and how we organise and build our worlds. 

• Global migrations and refugees
• Worldwide debt and its consequences
• Emerging technologies of war and their impact on human life
• Bio-power and the manipulation of the human
• Overcoming colonization, racism and imperialism
• New views of subjectivity and the rise of the posthuman

• Precarious life and future

SPT serves as excellent preparation for those interested in graduate school and/or future careers in think tanks, law, politics, activism, public policy planning and analysis, education, government and diplomacy, healthcare, and urban and social planning.