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Social Theory Encounters Lines and Bodies: Engaging with the Visual Art of Betty Goodwin, Julie Mehretu, Guillermo Kuitca and Juan Munoz
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This dissertation examines the lines in the work of four contemporary artists – Betty Goodwin, Julie Mehretu, Guillermo Kuitca and Juan Muñoz – and explores how these lines invite a particular kind of embodied viewing. Through this analysis of visual art and my own bodily engagements with the...
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Law, Immunization and the Right to Die: On Legal Fictions and the Governance of Assisted Dying
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This thesis charts and explores the effects of a basic socio-political logic of English and Canadian case law on assisted dying. It focuses specifically on a problematic paternalism within such law and questions why judicial decisions consistently refuse to recognize so-called ‘compassionate...
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The Temporary Foreign Worker Program in Alberta: Exploring the Key Determinants of Public Opinion
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This research explores public opinion regarding the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program in Canada. It is situated within an important moment in the program’s history, in a province with particularly widespread reliance on it. Utilizing the 2013 Alberta Survey – a province-wide telephone survey...
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People with Disabilities: Rhythms of Life, Social Spatialisations, Desires and Barriers. El Codito Experience
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The present qualitative study sought to identify and comprehensively explore the interactions, the identification of rhythms, barriers, limitations, desires and interests of PWD in the production of their social spatialisation in the El Codito sector. By using some Participatory Action Research...
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Beyond Litchfield: An Orange Epilogue Examining The Role of Friendship in Women’s Narratives of Community Re-Entry
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Canada’s fastest growing incarcerated population is female offenders. While incarcerated, these women experience damage to their existing social networks and lose significant personal relationships, making the transition from carceral to community settings difficult. In the absence of effective...
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Sovereignty without nationalism,Islam without God A critical study of the works of Jalal Al-e Ahmad
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Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923-1969) is widely perceived, particularly in Iran, as the leading social critic in Iran’s post-Mosaddeq, pre Khomayni era (1953-1978) and also as an inspirational figure for Iran’s 1978-1979 revolution. His concept of “occidentosis” (Gharbzadeghi in Persian), or...
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Spring 2015
The word citizenship is a keyword in many political debates, as well as legislation and public policy. Citizenship studies scholars debate the meaning, extent and effects of citizenship and these debates have intensified in recent years. This dissertation takes a different approach; it explores...
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“Survival kicks in…and that’s that”: Exploring the Pathways of Aboriginal Women Into, Through and Out of the Gang Lifestyle
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This research project sought to explore the answer to the following research questions: 1) Which experiences do Aboriginal female gang associates identify as reasons for gang membership? 2) Which experiences do Aboriginal female gang associates identify as reasons for gang-exit? and 3) Were there...
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Fall 2015
Based in a life course approach, this study examined the relationship between childhood asthma and high school completion by age 20 using a longitudinal cohort of 6,393 respondents from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth. Parental resources, parental behaviours, and critical...