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The Spirit of an Uprising: Contentious Politics and Pluralism in Syrian Society Post Arab Spring
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The transformation of the crisis in Syria from a peaceful uprising, into a geopolitical proxy war, shifted scholarly attention away from Syrian society to other issues such as security, geopolitics, and the refugee crisis. While these topics are important, more research is required to better...
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The Dialectics of Domestication: Domestic Colonialism and Internationalist Criticism in North America
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This dissertation offers a reconstruction of the concept of domestic colonialism as developed by revolutionary thinkers in the US 1960s. While rhetorics of occupation and colonial extraction are still prevalent in North American politics, the actual conceptual framework of domestic colonialism is...
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Spring 2023
This thesis explores how extremism manages to survive in moderated online spaces. This work follows the attempts of the Instagram platform to minimize the presence of the right-wing extremist groups, specifically the Boogaloo movement, as a means of understanding how such groups survive and...
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The Politics of the Rise and Fall of the Association of the Arab American University Graduates
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The Association of Arab-American University Graduates (AAUG) came into existence in 1967 as a response to the negative portrayals of the Arabs in the U.S media. The establishment of the Association was a crucial and significant move by a group of U.S.-based young scholars, professors and...
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Spring 2023
The increased availability and use of assisted reproductive technologies, legislative changes that recognize equal marriage, and the expansion of legal parentage beyond “the rule of two” are inviting Canadians to reimagine fundamental questions about kinship, parentage, and legal recognition. My...
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Fall 2023
This thesis explores the results of and claims made about the experimental 1963 literacy program operated in the small Brazilian town of Angicos, Rio Grande do Norte. This program was where the renowned pedagogue Paulo Freire’s literacy methods were first attempted at a large scale using...
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Fall 2023
This doctoral dissertation investigates, synchronically and diachronically, the morphophonology and semantics of the categories of Latin diminutives and structurally similar non-diminutives, two categories that have long been in urgent need of reanalysis. It aims to answer questions relating to...
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Conceptions of the Rocky Mountains: A Comparison of Peter Fidler and David Thompson and Their Mapping Strategies
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This thesis explores the ways in which Europeans conceptualized the Rocky Mountains by comparing the views and mapping styles of David Thompson and Peter Fidler. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) needed to establish inland trade to effectively...
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Alberta Advantage?: An examination of the long-term challenges of Alberta’s non-renewable resource wealth governance
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This dissertation applies an intergenerational lens to investigate the historical record of Alberta’s resource wealth governance from Premier Lougheed to Premier Klein. It explores how Alberta has collected, saved, and distributed its resource wealth in order to examine the explicit and implicit...
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Fall 2023
Since its founding as a province, Saskatchewan has been depicted by the academic literature as possessing a political culture that was distinctly collectivist, dirigiste, protectionist, and polarized, largely owed to the historical political dominance of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation...