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Sarah Law鈥檚 master鈥檚 thesis, , illustrates how late capitalist life and anticipating crisis form desire in subjects to protect themselves against the threat of uncertain futures. Law used feminist theory, economic sociology, and political economy of emotions/affect to understand how people in an online personal finance space reason about early retirement and the moral weight of their economic conduct. Her research demonstrates how neglectful neoliberal structures of (non)governance turn subjects towards financial self-help movements as a moral project of self-transformation.

Law developed a theory of hardening to describe how late capitalist life is embodied as an urgent and virtuous desire to harden the self through hard work that works to maintain colonial, racial, and gendered relations of power and conceal structures of domination. She argues that the present moment is governed by an affective state of anticipating uncertain futures. She offers the term "hard economic sensibilities" to conceptualize how this anticipation forms a desire to become unaffected by crisis which compels subjects to steel themselves and take up the cold emotionality of late capitalism.

During her studies, Law achieved a 4.25 CGPA, and received a SSHRC Master鈥檚 Award, the Laurine Harrison Graduate Thesis Award, the Canadian Sociological Association Graduate Merit Award, amongst several others in recognition of her dedication to social justice organizing, community engagement, and research.

Kyle Willmott, Law鈥檚 supervisor, shares how dedicated Law is not only to her studies, but to making a difference in communities.

Says Willmott, 鈥淪arah is one of the most promising mentees I have worked with 鈥� she is passionate about community, a ravenous reader, a solidaristic colleague, meticulously organized, a dedicated researcher, and an expressive and resonant writer. It was incredibly rewarding to supervise Sarah 鈥� because she was on the ball 鈥� she always wanted feedback on a proposal, ideas about grants, thoughts on a given theoretical framework, to discuss the implications of injustices, and to try and figure out her analytical contributions or patterns in data.鈥�

Law shares gratitude for everyone that has supported her in this journey.

Says Law, 鈥淚 would like to thank my advisor Dr. Kyle Willmott for his mentorship, dedication, persistence, and for the relationship we have built over the years. His labours have made my experience with academic training one that has been as full of intellectual rigour, challenge, inside jokes, and overflowing with care. I would also like to thank my committee member, Dr. Amanda Watson, for the ways she has grounded me in critical feminist thought, killjoy solidarities, and for introducing me to affect. I have been held by both of them for many years and am grateful for all the ways that they have made so much room for me to make new tools.

I would also like to thank my chosen family, friends, and comrades whose love and labours make life possible. I am grateful for all the ways that my life is full of many worlds with new ways of theorizing/thinking/living. I am most thankful for all the ways that I am tied to people who practice creating better futures through the ways we love and care for each other.鈥�

Law has already begun publishing as an MA student and has plans to pursue a PhD. She is working as a Research Assistant, is an organizing member of Asian-Indigenous Relations, and serves as the Director of Community Engagement of 鈥� a feminist science and technology studies lab.