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« The women folk often helped »: La conception inéquitable de la citoyenneté dans les manuels d’études sociales albertains de la première moitié du 20e siècle
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The teaching of Canadian history has been a source of contention over the past century, particularly regarding the place of minorities in the nation’s narrative and cultural identity. In early 20th-century Alberta, history education was driven by male-authored textbooks which were used to...
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Thinking Beyond Extremism: A Methodological Reorientation to Studying Right-wing Nationalism and the Far-right Movement in Canada
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Right-wing nationalist movements have gained traction in Westernized countries such as France, Greece, Hungary, Austria, the United States, and Germany, where political figures or groups have mobilized nationalist ideas and right-wing populist sentiment to gain governmental power and/or influence...
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The Question Concerning Identification: A Tetradic Analysis of the Alberta Birth Certificate
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One little-noticed yet increasingly vital technology is the birth certificate. The existence of any technology transforms the environment, yet many technologies--just as the birth certificate--remain generally unnoticed or disregarded as neutral. Locating my research within a media ecology...
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Spring 2015
Edmonton has the largest Somali-Canadian population outside Southern Ontario, and Somalis are the largest African community in Edmonton. Although, many immigrants in Canada face challenges in settlement and integration, Somalis face additional challenges (Mensah, 2010). This study emerged from a...
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Reclaiming Islam and Modernity: A Neo-Shariati Revisiting of Ali Shariati's Intellectual Discourse in Post-revolutionary Iran
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Over three and a half decades after his death, Ali Shariati (1933-1977) continues to occupy a major place in the ongoing academic and public debates about the relationship between Islam and modernity. Seldom, however, have commentators attended to the ways in which Shariati's intellectual...
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Radical Politics in a Conservative Capital: Anarchist Theorizing and Organizing in Edmonton
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This thesis will investigate anarchism as a political philosophy and a social movement in Edmonton, Alberta. This will involve analyzing the ways local anarchists have interpreted anarchist theory as well as ways they have publicly advanced anarchism and participated in projects which practice...
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Fall 2010
How are homeless individuals, who have no access to private space yet still have the same needs of dwelling as the rest of us, regarded when they exercise their right to dwell? This question guided my research of Edmonton’s Tent City, which emerged during the summer of 2007. Interviews with...
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Political Ideology and Heritage Language Development in a Chilean Exile Community: A Multiple Case Study
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Our current understanding of Spanish heritage language development (HLD) in the English-speaking world is largely restricted to non-refugee Hispanic groups in the United States (Potowski & Rothman, 2011). The present thesis addresses this gap by probing the relationship between the leftist...
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Fall 2010
People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) in South Africa experience a stigmatised HIV status which threatens to supplant their prior identities. This compounds the marginalization on multiple social levels experienced by those most vulnerable to infection as they cope with associations of death and...
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Fall 2011
While many scholars have argued that media deregulation has a deleterious effect on democracy, all have done so in a way that assumes the truth of a particular normative theory of democracy. This thesis instead describes the minimal requirements for a democratic public sphere and compares...