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- 3Hasan, Md Monjurul
- 3Kostic, Branislav Z
- 3Yu, Miao
- 2Afifi, Mona
- 2Agrios, Jean Marie.
- 2Altaf, Mohammed Sadiq
- 31Al-Hussein, Mohamed (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 23AbouRizk, Simaan (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 23Deutsch, Clayton (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 20Chalaturnyk, Rick (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 19Liu, Yang (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 18Bayat, Alireza (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
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Fall 2020
Right-wing extremism is on the rise globally, but despite the growing threat from right-wing terrorists, there is inadequate contemporary scholarship to analyze their ideology, actions, and motivations. This study uses social movement theory to investigate the phenomenon of right-wing extremism....
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“I’m a good mother”: abused women’s resistance in the face of dominant mothering discourses
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In recent years there has been a burgeoning literature in the area of domestic abuse and motherhood/mothering. However, there is surprisingly little overlap between these two literatures. Both do not specifically consider abused women’s subjective mothering experiences, and do not critically...
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Fall 2020
This Master’s thesis examines tradeswomen’s experiences of and responses to gendered harassment at camp-based work in resource extraction industries in western Canada. This study predominantly features women working in the Alberta oil sands industry. Gendered harassment at work has been...
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“More German than the Germans:” A linguistic examination of representation and identity in two German-Canadian communities
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This thesis is a linguistic examination of the construction of German-Canadian identity in two urban Canadian communities: Edmonton, Alberta and Waterloo, Ontario. Combining the complementary frameworks of van Dijk’s (1995) Discourse Analysis as Ideology Analysis and Carbaugh’s (2007) Cultural...
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“More People Are Dying”: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Effects of Neighbourhood Revitalization on the Lives of Criminally Involved Men
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This dissertation interrogates how residents of a Canadian ‘ghetto’—Toronto’s Regent Park neighbourhood—navigate the fears and dangers of residing in one of Canada’s most disadvantaged areas during a period of mass neighbourhood change. Based on 156 interviews and over 10 months of ethnographic...
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“Not Everything was Good, but Many Things were Better”: East German Everyday Life, Material Culture, and the Museum
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This dissertation draws on the rich context of contemporary Germany for interrogating divisive public debates on Germany’s socialist past. Grounded in the analysis of specific places and objects, particularly those relating to museums, it investigates simultaneously three distinct but also...
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Spring 2018
Project SUCH (Save the Ukrainian Canadian's Heritage) was conducted in the summers of 1971 and 1972 in the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario. Young, largely untrained fieldworkers were tasked with interviewing Ukrainian pioneers in the target areas about their immigration...
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“So You Want to be an Author”: The Yellow Brick Road of Translation, Adaptation, and Translated Plagiarism
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During the Soviet era, the practice of retelling foreign fiction was relatively common. In 1939, translator Alexander M. Volkov, took the liberty of retelling a well-known Western tale. To be more precise, Volkov changed the title and the names of the characters, omitted and added some chapters,...