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Fall 2018
The clash of civilizations discourse, (re)articulated by Samuel Huntington in 1993 and widely accepted as true, is yet another echo in a long history of the Orientalist’s (Said, 1979) clarion call for the disciplining of Arab and/or Muslim subjects, who are often considered to embody values...
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Fall 2017
Nakita S. Valerio, 2017 “Remembering the Departure of Moroccan Jews” Before the end of the Second World War, Morocco’s Jewish community numbered approximately 240,000 people and was one of the largest and oldest populations of Jews in the Arab-Muslim world. Between 1948 and 1968, the vast...
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Resistance and Encroachment in Everyday Life: A Feminist Epistemological Study of Qajar Era Iranian Women’s Travel Journals
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Mohaghegh Neyshabouri, Safaneh
This dissertation is a study of Iranian women’s everyday resistances in Qajar-era Iran, the period prior to the Constitutional Revolution (1906). Mobilizing feminist epistemology, and specifically feminist standpoint theory, which calls for the uncovering of women’s hidden knowledge, I analyze...
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Reunification Experiences and Health Needs of Mexican Women who Stayed Behind and their Returning Migrant Partners: An Intersectional Critical Ethnographic Study
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Return migration is a reality that many Mexican nationals face. Existing evidence suggests return migrants encounter multiple social, political, economic, and health challenges in their re-integration to home societies; however, less is known about the reunification experiences and health needs...
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Spring 2013
This dissertation looks at urban housing fields (its policies, services, actors, and structures) in two Canadian cities: Edmonton and Winnipeg. Using a Bourdieusian method of field analysis, I ask how local networks of actors engaged in the struggle over housing resources govern and are governed...
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Fall 2020
Helicobacter pylori (Hp) infection has an elevated prevalence in northern Indigenous communities in Canada. This thesis investigates social inequities in the Hp-associated disease burden within Indigenous communities in the Northwest Territories and Yukon. I examined how deprivation indicators...
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Fall 2017
Over the last few years, the importance of place in the creation, and continuation of, Metis communities has comprised one of my primary research interests. Tied up in this idea of place are the key questions: why did Metis individuals and families decide to stay in the borderlands in the face of...
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Fall 2012
In this ethnographic study of the dynamic lives of a population of monuments in Ottawa, I argue that long after they have been unveiled, monuments are imbued with many capacities to act. Monuments inspire loathing or affection, and settle or disturb dominant understandings of place, nation, race,...
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Fall 2017
The purpose of this study is to extend the rape myth literature to intimate partner violence (IPV) myths by evaluating the prevalence of IPV myth acceptance and clarifying whether gender and prior IPV victimization are associated with IPV myth acceptance. To this end, three research questions...