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Competitive Discourse in an Imitational Democracy: The Multifaceted Image of the Opponents in the Online Materials of Russian Political Parties and Leaders
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In contemporary Russia, the Internet serves as the most diverse and open platform of sharing and contrasting ideas. While the most life-like imitational democracy elements do manifest themselves to a limited extent in the mainstream print and electronic media, only online do all political forces...
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Fall 2012
Nina Gorlanova and Natalia Smirnova are contemporary Siberian women writers. This dissertation examines four short works of fiction from the authors’ collections: Вся Пермь/All of Perm’ by Gorlanova and Женщины и сапожники /The Women and the Shoemakers by Smirnova. I examine their comparable...
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Enhancing space modeling and mobile resources planning in construction operations through a simulation driven visualization framework
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Simulation modeling is a strong tool that has not been utilized to its expected potential in day to day construction industry activities. One of the reasons contributing to that is the inability of simulation models to depict changes in site space in an intuitive way. This research tries to...
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Spring 2021
The purpose of this thesis is to better understand the law and politics of Canada’s ongoing failure to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and transition toward socio-ecological sustainability in the post-Paris era. To do so, I attempt to peer closely into the “black box” of climate change law...
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Fall 2016
In January of 2006, the New Conservative Party of Canada took power in Ottawa and remained in place for a decade. Many observers have remarked that these conservatives carried out a change in direction from both their liberal and conservative predecessors regarding above all the theme of the...
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Leaves in the Garden: The Utopian Politics of the Kelmscott Press Edition of News from Nowhere
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In this study I examine William Morris’s novel News from Nowhere in relation to his utopian-socialist politics. This examination is an attempt to explore the function of art within Morris’s formulation of utopian socialism and the extent to which the elaborate edition of News from Nowhere printed...
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Spring 2017
For sociologist Emile Durkheim (1858-1917), the ‘sacred’ constitutes all those things “set apart and forbidden.” Sacred items or ideas are set in relationship to other sacred things within religious contexts. For Evangelical Christians, and to a lesser degree Protestants in general, the sacred...
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Political Governance, Socioeconomics, and Weather Influence Greenhouse Gas Emissions across Subnational Jurisdictions in Canada
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The drastic and immediate reduction of global greenhouse gases (GHG) is vital if humanity is to avoid the moderate to severe effects of a changing climate. To successfully lower these emissions, it is necessary to integrate and harmonize GHG reduction policies across horizontal and vertical...
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Preventing Predictions: The Political Possibilities of Play and Aesthetics in Contemporary Installation Art and Works by Carsten Höller and Gabriel Orozco
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Mallett, Samantha Josephine Judina
This thesis analyzes contemporary participatory installation art, play theory, especially Johan Huizinga’s seminal Homo Ludens, and the aesthetic theories of Nicolas Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics and Jacques Rancière’s Politics of Aesthetics. Ping Pond Table 1998 by Gabriel Orozco and Test...
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Fall 2017
This dissertation explores the affective politics of pride in the context of neoliberalism and the multitude of way that proud feelings map onto issues of social justice. Since pride is so varied in both its individual and political manifestations, I draw on numerous instances of collective pride...