Elliot Goodell Ugalde
Doctoral Student
He/Him
B.A.H - Political Science (Victoria, 2022)聽| M.A. - Political Science [Political Theory] (McMaster, 2024)
Political Studies
Doctoral Student
Brief Biography
Elliot Goodell Ugalde is a scholar and researcher specialising in international relations and political economy, with a focus on healthcare policy, Indigenous resurgence scholarship, and crisis theory economics. He has a wealth of experience working with both governmental and non-governmental bodies across Canada. Elliot has published several peer-reviewed articles and has presented his research at numerous academic conferences. Committed to community service, he also holds certifications in emergency management, Indigenous studies, and the economic impacts on developing countries. In his free time, Elliot enjoys painting, playing the drums, and writing political columns for various newspapers and publications.
Goodell Ugalde, Elliot. 2025. 鈥淜inship Beyond Borders: Relational Sovereignty and the Limits of Liberal Statist Secession.鈥 Constellations 32 (4): 601鈥22. Wiley Online Library. .
Goodell Ugalde, Elliot, and Grace Dobbie. 2025. 鈥淭he Case for a Posthuman Responsibility to Protect: An Anishinaabeg Posthuman Security Convergence.鈥 The Canadian Journal of Indigenous Studies 1 (1): 22鈥43. University of Winnipeg Press. .
Gintova, Maria, Elliot Goodell Ugalde, and Abigail Jaimes Zelaya. 2025. 鈥淯ser-Centred Design in Child Welfare: Importance of an Anti-Racism Lens.鈥 Social Policy & Administration. Wiley Online Library. .
Gintova, Maria, Elliot Goodell Ugalde, and Abigail Jaimes Zelaya. 2025. 鈥淓xamining the Potential of a Coordinated Service Delivery Model in Child Welfare in Ontario, Canada: Critical Role of Black Voices.鈥 Children and Youth Services Review 172. Elsevier. .
Goodell Ugalde, Elliot. 2024. 鈥淎 Invisibilidade Pol铆tica Como Resist锚ncia: Desvendando o Zapatismo de Enloe e os Pontos Cegos Normativos das Rela莽玫es Internacionais.鈥 Political Observer | Revista Portuguesa de Ci锚ncia Pol铆tica (Portuguese Journal of Political Science), no. 22: 65鈥76. .
Goodell Ugalde, Elliot. 2024. 鈥淔actores Que Impulsan el Nacionalismo Catal谩n y Sus Consecuencias Electorales Inmediatas: Un Examen de las Cuestiones Socioecon贸micas y Federales.鈥 InterNaciones 12 (24). Universidad de Guadalajara Press. .
Goodell Ugalde, Elliot. 2024. 鈥淚n Defense of Marx鈥檚 Labour Theory of Value: Vancouver鈥檚 Housing 鈥楥risis.鈥欌 Cultural Logic: A Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice 26: 69鈥101. University of British Columbia Press.
Goodell Ugalde, Elliot. 2023. 鈥淭he Ascendancy of Capital over Nation-States in the International Legal Arena: A Historical-Materialist Perspective on Redefining Horizontality in International Law.鈥 International Journal of Law, Ethics and Technology, 28鈥42. HeinOnline.
Moore, Margaret, and Elliot Goodell Ugalde, eds. 2025. 鈥淭erritorial Rights: New Directions and Challenges.鈥 Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (special issue). .
Goodell Ugalde, Elliot. 2025. 鈥淎ll That Is Solid Melts Into Air: Theorizing the Abstractive Fix.鈥 Paper presented at the Twenty-Second Annual Historical Materialism Conference, Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order, SOAS, University of London, London, UK, November 6.
Goodell Ugalde, Elliot. 2025. 鈥淎 Posthuman Responsibility to Protect: Chi-Naaknigewin and an Anishinaabeg Security Convergence.鈥 Paper presented at the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, March 5.
Goodell Ugalde, Elliot. 2024. 鈥淭he Future of Diplomacy.鈥 Moderated by Lloyd Axworthy. Paper presented at the Couchiching Annual Conference on Diplomacy, Toronto, ON, October 9.
Gintova, Maria, Elliot Goodell Ugalde, and Abigail Jaimes Zelaya. 2024. 鈥淯ser-Centered Policy Design: Importance of an Anti-Racism Lens for Child Welfare.鈥 Paper presented at the American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA, September 12.
Gintova, Maria, Elliot Goodell Ugalde, and Abigail Jaimes Zelaya. 2024. 鈥淓xamining Coordinated Service Delivery Challenges in Child Welfare in Ontario.鈥 Paper presented at the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) Conference, Congress of the Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, QC, June 12.
Goodell Ugalde, Elliot, and Natalie Braun. 2025. 鈥淲hy Canada Should Apply Labour Protections to the Rental Housing Sector.鈥 The Conversation, April 6.
Goodell Ugalde, Elliot. 2024. 鈥淩emote Work Could Be Part of a Solution to the Housing Crisis.鈥 Canada鈥檚 National Observer, June 18.
Goodell Ugalde, Elliot. 2024. 鈥淐anada鈥檚 Treatment of Internationally Trained Physicians Is Worsening the Health-Care Crisis.鈥 The Conversation, August 25.
Goodell Ugalde, Elliot. 2024. 鈥淔or Young People, Canada鈥檚 Federal Budget Is Full of Empty Promises.鈥 Spring Magazine, June 18.