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Fall 2024

Cowie, Chadwick R.J.

This doctoral thesis seeks to consider whether or not Indigenous participation in Canadian federal electoral politics matters and whether such participation can effect change. In order to answer this question, this doctoral thesis will first analyse the complex relationship between Indigenous...

Fall 2024

McBeth, Renee Erica

This study encompassed the Home in the City (HITC) project, a community-engaged research project that sought to create equitable housing governance in Victoria, BC. I worked with community members, service providers, advocates, and university researchers to identify principles and processes that...

Fall 2024

Pawluk, Mitchell D.

Over the past two decades, we have witnessed the emergence of what I call the populist paradox, where citizens seek to restore grassroots democratic power by embracing authoritarian movements or governments. Instead of abandoning populism to anti-democratic forces, in this thesis, I argue we can...

Spring 2023

Kujala, William Jalmer

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...

Fall 2023

Sharaf, Sarah

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...

Fall 2023

Hill, Lauren

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...

Spring 2023

Challborn, Margot R

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...

Spring 2023

Romanek, Jakub

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...

Fall 2023

Salomons, Geoffrey H

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...

Fall 2023

Zaamout, Noureddin Mahmoud

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...