Search
Skip to Search Results- 70Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of
- 70Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of/Theses and Dissertations
- 18Toolkit for Grant Success
- 18Toolkit for Grant Success/Successful Grants (Toolkit for Grant Success)
- 8Linguistics, Department of
- 4Philosophy, Department of
-
Localization of Global Discourse and the Breakdown of the Washington Consensus (WC): A Case Study of Korean Higher Education Reform (1993-2012)
DownloadFall 2015
In my dissertation paper, I sought the political implications of neo-liberal education reform with the case of recent Korean higher education reforms. I first explored the macro-causal relationship of neo-liberal higher education reform in transnational social relations, and then the political...
-
Fall 2011
This study analyses the characteristics and life trajectories of highly educated18 to 35 year old Malawians, how they negotiate their identities in the face of HIV/AIDS, and their opinions regarding the effectiveness of current HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention efforts. These Malawians are among...
-
Manga, Murder and Mystery: Investigating the Revival of the Boy Detective in Japan’s Lost Decade
DownloadFall 2019
The past two decades have seen a sustained growth in the number of Japanese mystery and detective comics (manga) publications that feature boys (and girls) as crime fighting agents. While the earliest incarnation of the boy detective character type can be traced to the works of Edogawa Rampo...
-
Material Traces of Ethnogenesis: An Archaeological and Spatial Analysis of the Metis Cultural Landscape in the Canadian West, 1700-1880
Download2012-01-30
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2012: Our pilot project will address the question of Métis territory and identity via the remains of Métis landscapes in the archaeological record, particularly the material culture and spatial arrangements of known over-wintering sites in the Canadian Parklands, and...
-
Fall 2013
The paper explores the role of media use (in both Russian and English) in the process of integration of middle-aged highly educated Russian immigrants in Canada. Five semi-structured interviews were conducted for this qualitative study and further analyzed using the Appraisal theory in order to...
-
Fall 2010
In this thesis I consider the role of music in the construction of identity among West African Canadians, focusing on musical taste and performance. Drawing on themes from participant narratives, I look at how music can maintain connections with or reference identities from “home” cultures. ...
-
2020-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2020: Building on research on the use of the medically scanned body to create artistic prints, sculptures and installations, I will work with radiologists and computer scientists to create two art installations, My Data Body, which focuses on representing by own medical and...
-
Spring 2014
This convenient case study will explore the impact of not-games on secondary English language arts students in a high school located in a satellite community of a major city of Alberta. These not-games are often free, short, intuitive, and readily available on the Internet, exposing players to...
-
Spring 2015
In this dissertation I consider a famous self-translation, the Russian version of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, through the prism of a descriptive approach in translation studies. Self-translations have been traditionally excluded from consideration in scholarly studies as unrepresentative of...
-
2023-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2023: "Paper Lives, Post-Digital Connections" will explore the unlikely, and vibrant, connection of paper journals to digitally connected international communities devoted to journaling, particularly by members of Gen-Z, on the social media platforms they use the most:...