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- 2Agrios, Jean Marie.
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Navigating and Resisting Barriers: Somali-Canadian Youth's Experiences in Edmonton's Public Schools
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Based on 13 in-depth interviews with young Somali-Canadians, this research sought to explore the experiences of students in Edmonton’s public schools. Given the literature interrogating anti-Black racism and carceral logic within schools, including the specific ways that authority figures –...
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Social Theory Encounters Lines and Bodies: Engaging with the Visual Art of Betty Goodwin, Julie Mehretu, Guillermo Kuitca and Juan Munoz
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This dissertation examines the lines in the work of four contemporary artists – Betty Goodwin, Julie Mehretu, Guillermo Kuitca and Juan Muñoz – and explores how these lines invite a particular kind of embodied viewing. Through this analysis of visual art and my own bodily engagements with the...
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Fall 2016
My thesis is concerned with how law enforcement officers make sense of and use the new visibility created by body worn video (BWV) and in-vehicle video (IVV) in the context of their work. The data comes from a case study of a small policing organization in the Canadian prairies. Data was...
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Fall 2009
Researchers have noted that the level of contact respondents have with people who have a mental illness and how they attribute responsibility for these conditions contribute to their desire for social distance. Given that the literature suggests that increased contact is associated with reduced...