Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
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"Just with you": Professional integrated dancers' practices of access and access intimacy in timing
DownloadFall 2020
Integrated dance brings together disabled and non-disabled people to train, rehearse, and perform (Cooper Albright, 1997). In integrated dance, like normative Western concert dance, practices of timing are tacit knowledge and rarely examined. Using participatory performance creation, which brings...
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"Learning About Ourselves:" Problematizing Contemporary Dancers' Training Practices Through Pilates
DownloadFall 2019
Injuries are a serious risk to contemporary dancers. Consequently, previous research has suggested supplementary training practices, such as conditioning and somatics, as a way to prevent injuries and improve dancers’ body awareness (e.g., Allen, 2009; Franklin, 2004; Fortin & Girard, 2005)....
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"Let Them Play...But Not with Me": Exploring Student-Athlete's Attitudes Towards Trans* Participation in Varsity Sport
DownloadSpring 2024
The debate on whether transgender athletes should be ‘allowed’ to participate in elite sport, and in which gender category, has been increasing in recent years. Transgender individuals experience discrimination and rejection in physical activity and sport at a higher degree than their lesbian,...
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“Let’s Destabilize this with a Feminist Narrative”: Mediating Feminisms in Educational Spaces Through Digital Storytelling
DownloadFall 2023
As feminist educators strive for new ways to engage students in sharing personal stories requiring vulnerability, the arts have emerged as vital to crafting “ethical, relational space[s] to hold such difficult knowledge” (Conrad & Leavy, 2018, p. 2). Anchored within a participatory arts-based...
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“Lost, Unhappy and at Home”: René Girard's Theory of Mimetic Desire, Religious Violence and Apocalyptic Vision Applied to the Poetry of Seamus Heaney
DownloadFall 2016
The relationship between religion and violence in our modern world is problematic. In the post-Christian West, religion has been privatized and personalized as what scholars like René Girard call secular modernity emerged. The legitimate use of violence in the West has been restricted to the...