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Managing Information Distribution in a Crisis: Characterizing Decision Making in Mobile Alerting as Part of Canada’s Emergency Alert System
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to answer questions regarding the factors and considerations that influence emergency managers’ decision-making in a crisis, and the procedural roadblocks that may deter effective alerting in Canada. Design: Data to inform the conclusions is gathered via a...
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An Exploratory Analysis of Self-help Groups: An Alternative Mode of Public Service Delivery in High Density Rural Areas in India?
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Self-help groups (SHGs) as a mode of community-based participatory development has been increasingly adopted within international development practice as a platform for broader community engagement. These voluntary, membership-based organizations of 10 to 20 women have been mobilized in...
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Fall 2017
Everywhere, we are told, we are in crisis. And yet, the concept “crisis” obscures as much as it clarifies. Crisis Culture examines how modern conceptions of crisis structure the ways we experience, narrate, and respond to moments of historical rupture and upheaval. It analyzes how logics of...
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2014-02-14
SSHRC Awarded PG-Letter of Intent (stage 1) 2014 and invited to stage 2: Our central objective directly confronts the following question: Can urban agriculture make a substantial contribution to urban food security in a culturally appropriate and ecologically sustainable manner? What would an...
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2014-11-03
SSHRC Invited PG; not funded (2014): Can urban agriculture make a substantial contribution to urban food security in a culturally appropriate and ecologically sustainable manner? What would an agri-food system that enhances urban food security and ecological sustainability look like, and what...
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Fall 2014
“To experience an experience is to do research into an experience” (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000, p. 50). I intended to study my own lived experiences of understanding the diverse meanings of disability and ability as they were lived by exploring their temporality (i.e., the timeframes—past,...
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Fall 2013
Swim the Shattered Rhine is literary collage: a fragmented travelogue arranged around both the sharp and dull edges of memory… a series of snapshots cemented together by fiction and nonfiction. As it meditates on the meaning of story and truth, this piece strives to answer the question of how it...
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Moving through uncertain times: A morphogenetic approach to understanding people's response to crisis in two forest community contexts in rural British Columbia
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The degree to which individuals have agency to respond during crisis, and the degree to which social structure and culture influence their course of action, present compelling questions for understanding social change. The tradition of examining the interplay between agency and social structure,...