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Honours Essays (Political Science)
Political Science Honors Essays are original research papers written by undergraduate students during the final two semesters of their undergraduate studies. Students are supported in this undertaking by faculty members who serve as honors supervisors. The papers in this collection have also benefited from feedback provided at the annual Department of Political Science Honors Conference.
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Constructing Perceived Boundaries: How NIMBY Discourses Create Boundaries of Exclusion Regarding Safe Consumption Sites
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This paper examines urban politics through the lens of NIMBYism within the context of Safe Consumption Sites (SCS). It establishes NIMBYism as an ideology characterized by psychological boundary-making, before analyzing NIMBY discourses in Alberta. It conducts a discourse analysis of the...