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Fall 2023

Bedard, Emma C

Women spend nearly half their life able to become pregnant. Despite the growing number of contraceptive options available, women continue to select user-dependent options over the user-independent long-acting reversible contraception (LARC). This in part contributes to the current rate of...

Fall 2023

Mahmud, Nazia B.

This research study looks into shrines and shrine veneration in Bangladesh in its current context. Shrine veneration as a social practice within South Asia and elsewhere has been controversial within the religious revivalist discourse for quite some time. The rising religious reforms under...

Spring 2023

Chitsaz, Sara

As global greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, there is a growing focus on low-carbon initiatives, specifically renewable alternatives to conventional fossil fuels for energy production. Transitions to renewable energy sources may occur across scales, including community-scale energy...

Fall 2016

Tétreault, Matthew JM

This novel manuscript explores Francophone Métis identity in Manitoba. Forced to consider his future after losing his job, and learning of his girlfriend’s pregnancy, a young man reflects upon his family’s heritage as he struggles to take responsibility. Tensions over language and culture, evoked...

Fall 2020

Lopresti, Sabrina F.

Introduction: The Indigenous Youth Mentorship Program (IYMP) is a peer-led health promoting school program grounded in the teachings of Indigenous scholars. IYMP aims to reduce risk factors for obesity and type 2 diabetes and empower Indigenous youth and communities. High school youth mentors...

Fall 2023

Adesunkanmi, Maryam

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the mental health of the global population. Indigenous Peoples have been disproportionately affected by previous pandemics and already face an increased vulnerability to poor mental health outcomes due to the damaging and enduring effects of colonialism. However,...

Fall 2017

Johnson, Brittany C

“Indigenous Relationality: Sex, Women, and The Animate” discusses Indigenous relationality from within the context of animacy, kinship, and sexualities through a decolonial approach of Two-Eyed Seeing. Using nehiyaw ways of knowing as the foundational theoretical framework through which the...

Fall 2014

Pelletier Cisneros, Brigitte

Recent studies have examined the roles and politics of human rights in relation to Indigenous peoples. An analysis of the negotiation of rights discourse by Indigenous women in a comparative framework is however lacking in critical scholarship. This study examines how Indigenous women in Canada...

Spring 2012

Jack-Malik, Sandra

This study is a narrative inquiry. The study follows a recursive, reflexive process which allowed me to move between telling, retelling and reliving of stories while engaging alongside relationships. The participants and I created a variety of field texts and then moved to interim and finally...

Spring 2015

Brkich, Angela L

The descriptions of women found in early Christian texts are not consistent. In some cases women are depicted as powerful and influential individuals who contributed to the development of their religious community, while in other cases women are described as marginal and problematic. This...