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Exploring Young Black/ African Canadian Women’s Practices of Engagement and Resistance: Towards an Anticolonial Solidarity Building
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The experiences of young women of Black/ African descent living in Edmonton/ Amiskwaciwaskahikan – in what is currently Canada – are mediated by relations and structures of power as constructed through settler colonialism, patriarchy, capitalism, imperialism, and neoliberalism. These political,...
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Intertextuality and Literary Friendship in Caribbean Diasporic Writing and "As Man" (Poetry Collection)
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This dissertation comprises a collection of poetry framed by an introductory essay that foregrounds the aesthetic, archival, and critical impetuses behind the work. Deploying techniques of erasure, found, and lyric poetry, the collection surfaces lyrical subjects and manifests aphoristic...
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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. ...
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On the Public Spaces of Resistance: Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, and the Material Conditions for Critique
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In this dissertation I adopt a broad phenomenological perspective in order to develop in outline a ‘new materialism’ that facilitates the thinking of public space as a condition for political resistance. The project is motivated by recent movements such as Occupy, Black Lives Matter, and #MeToo...
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Fall 2011
Representation of Self and Others is a wide-spread focus of research among scholars from many disciplines. This study approaches the phenomenon of Self and Other from a linguistic standpoint. The main goal is to reveal methods of creating images of Self and Others in the context of blogs and link...
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Single-Session Art Therapy as Mind-Body Medicine: A Systematic Review of Treating Emotional Crisis in Time-Limited Psychotherapy
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This research study presented and elaborated on the published materials, in recognized search aggregators, OVID and EBSCO, regarding the topic of emotional crisis in brief and short-term psychotherapy, single-session therapy, and art therapy literature. An emotional crisis is an unexpected and...
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Sounding the Impact: A Case Study on the Social and Cultural Work of Music in the Context of the Edmonton Raga-Mala Music Society
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The Edmonton Raga-Mala Music Society (ERMS) is a volunteer organization that supports Indian classical music, mainly through the act of organizing formal concerts. As a society that is centered on supporting a genre of music that is closely tied to a particular geographical location that is...
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Fall 2016
To increase the breadth of knowledge pertaining to the phenomenon of the Ukrainian Canadian embroidered podushka (pillow) this project applied a multiple method research strategy to gain a deeper understanding of both the nature of these historic artifacts and the artisans who created them. In...