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- 1Beauchesne, Nicholas L.
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- 10Department of English and Film Studies
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- 3Zwicker, Heather (English and Film Studies)
- 2Braz, Albert (English and Film Studies)
- 1Abdi, A. Ali (Educational Studies), University of British Columbia
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Fall 2013
This thesis uses the case study of the Arab-Islamic Fulla doll to examine the relationships among globalization, consumption and cultural identities. Beginning with the question of how cultural products like the Fulla doll come to exist, I argue that the Fulla doll serves as an example of the...
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Capacity Building for Citizenship Education: Global Hegemony and the New “Ethics of Civilization”
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The concept of capacity building has seen a swell of support in recent years. Many, varying from community-based practitioners to multinational institutions, have leveraged the concept in their work. By investigating the ethics (the normative positions), the explanations (the explanatory...
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Creating Resistance by Engaging Destruction: Three Contemporary Feminist Artists from Ukraine
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Destruction and production are two closely linked phenomenon within contemporary feminist art in Ukraine. Ukraine is currently embroiled in a context marked by destruction in the form of the annexation of Crimea and war in the Eastern Donbas region, along with the physical and emotional trauma...
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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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Fall 2019
This thesis examines the concept of school leadership and its importance to the dynamics of power, micro-politics, and relationships while embracing an ontology of becoming formed in schools and the current milieu of global neo-liberal education reforms. It has been undertaken as a (re)reading...
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Fragmented Feminisms in the Digital Age: Writing a History of the Present and Tracing the Conditions of Possibility of the #metoo Movement from an Intersectional Framework
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In 2017, the #metoo movement took Hollywood by storm and brought international attention to the widespread issue of sexual violence. In the aftermath of its fervour, scholarly inquiry into the #metoo movement and its influence are just beginning. Feminist response to and engagement with the...
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Funerary Practices under Globalizing Influences on the Frontier of Roman Pannonia: The Performance and Expression of Communal and Individual Social Identities as Evidenced in the Cremation Burial Assemblages of the Bécsi Road Cemetery of the Canabae of Aquincum and the Southern Cemetery of the Civilian City of Carnuntum
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This dissertation examines aspects of the cremation burial assemblages of graves from the published material of Bécsi Road cemetery of the canabae of Aquincum and the southern cemetery of the civilian settlement of Carnuntum in the Roman region of Pannonia as evidence of practices that reflect...
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Globalization, State Industrialization, and the Nineteenth Century Russian Petroleum Industry
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When the Russian imperial government decided to embark on a project of capitalist industrialization in the years following their military defeat by Britain and France in the Crimean War, the political regime would be challenged to maintain its authority while instituting the necessary reforms....
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Spring 2015
Feminist resistance to gender oppression, while surely a collective political project, has an important individual dimension. Individual resistance most often takes the shape of self-transformation where one works on the self to change desires, attitudes, and practices. I argue that paradigms of...
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Spring 2015
In this dissertation, I read gender humour through the lens of masculinities studies and critical humour studies to contribute to gender studies and humour studies. I engage two crucial problems and propose solutions and possibilities. The first problem concerns the state of the concept of...