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“All of Our Secrets are in These Mountains”: Problematizing Colonial Power Relations, Tourism Productions and Histories of the Cultural Practices of Nakoda Peoples in the Banff-Bow Valley
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This study examines some of the significant challenges that Nakoda peoples encountered from 1870-1980 in the Banff-Bow Valley, Alberta. Beginning with missionary movements, the 1877 Treaty Seven agreements and the establishment of the reservation systems, I trace the emergence of a disciplinary...
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"Identity" Constructions in Online Learning Events: Gender, Subjectivities, and the Productive Effects of Power
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ABSTRACT Advances in computer technology have created powerful opportunities for learners to engage with others, producing very different contexts for learning, and for negotiating our very way of being. Yet, engagement in these virtual learning environments also raises many questions around how...
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“More German than the Germans:” A linguistic examination of representation and identity in two German-Canadian communities
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This thesis is a linguistic examination of the construction of German-Canadian identity in two urban Canadian communities: Edmonton, Alberta and Waterloo, Ontario. Combining the complementary frameworks of van Dijk’s (1995) Discourse Analysis as Ideology Analysis and Carbaugh’s (2007) Cultural...
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2019-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2019: If the #MeToo Movement has drawn wide attention to the prevalence of sexual assault and harassment in the workplace, then it has also brought notice to the facts that most victims of sexual assault know their attackers, that most rapes go unreported, that we live in a rape...
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2020-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2020: The compulsory tattooed number on Holocaust survivors’ from Auschwitz acts as an embodied public record of the attempted extermination of Eastern European Jews during the Second World War. As Holocaust survivors are aging and dying these material archives are disappearing,...
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2022-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2022: This project seeks to challenge the stereotype of the forever foreigner by highlighting the liveliness and diversity of the Chinese diaspora community in Western Canada. The project draws upon the Strathcona basketball program in Vancouver, BC as a case study, examining...
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A drive for better air service: How air service imbalances across neighboring regions integrate air and highway demands
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Between 2000-2010, newly merged U.S. airlines decreased service to airports in small and midsized metropolitan regions, opting to consolidate their operations at high-value airport hubs (passenger transfer points). At this point travelers living in small and mid-sized regions likely began...
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Spring 2014
The plethora of research on ESL, L1, L2 and ethnography has left under-reported autoethnographies borrowing mathematics as a tool for thinking. In response to the multiplicity, this dissertation explores personal and academic experiences to expose my own development of an L2 learner, in...
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2019-11-06
Airport passenger leakage is the phenomenon of air travelers foregoing their local airport to access large hub airports with better flight options and airfares. Interregional passenger leakage has not received extensive attention from the research community; this review was conducted in light of...
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A model - data intercomparison of CO2 exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis
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McCaughey, H., Sahoo, A. K., Riley, W., Lokupitiya, E., Price, D. T., Riciutto, D. M., Ciais, P., Dietze, M., Sprintsin, M., Liu, S. G., Chen, J. M., Barr, A., Law, B. E., Schwalm, C. R., Tian, H. Q., Oechel, W. C., Williams, C. A., Davis, K. J., Verma, S. B., Luo, Y. Q., Verbeeck, H., Tonitto, C., Dragoni, D., Peng, C. H., Margolis, H., Gu, L. H., Li, Z. P., Ma, S. Y., Matamala, R., Grant, R., Desai, A., Anderson, R., Hollinger, D., Flanagan, L. B., Fischer, M. L., Poulter, B., Li, L. H., Baker, I., Sun, J. E., Monson, R. K., Schaefer, K., Chen, G. S., Lafleur, P., Kucharik, C., Black, T.A., Izaurralde, R. C., Arain, M. A.
Abstract: Our current understanding of terrestrial carbon processes is represented in various models used to integrate and scale measurements of CO2 exchange from remote sensing and other spatiotemporal data. Yet assessments are rarely conducted to determine how well models simulate carbon...