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Spring 2020

Gerbrandt, Emily

In 2017, the #metoo movement took Hollywood by storm and brought international attention to the widespread issue of sexual violence. In the aftermath of its fervour, scholarly inquiry into the #metoo movement and its influence are just beginning. Feminist response to and engagement with the...

Fall 2020

Traykov, Bozhin S

This project draws on Alex William’s (2020) contribution to Gramscian studies with the concept of complex hegemony as an emergent, dynamic and fragile process of acquiring power in socio-political economic systems. It examines anti-communism as an ideological element of neoliberal complex...

Fall 2020

Siqueira Cassiano, Marcella

China’s population governance apparatus includes a system of household registration referred to as “hukou” that collects detailed data on individuals and their families. This information includes people’s birthplace, ancestral origin, ID number, religious affiliation, military service status,...

Fall 2019

Braun, Jennifer AJ

Since the first days of cultivation of the land, women have played an essential role in the development of agriculture of the Canadian prairies. Over the past 150 years, as prairie agriculture has undergone a range of socio-cultural, economic and technical changes, so too have the roles,...

Spring 2019

Karimi, Ahmad

During the past two decades, Canada has accepted over hundreds of LGBT asylum seekers, including gay Iranian men. Iran is among the very few countries where some same-sex sexual interactions are illegal and punishable by the death penalty. Iranian sexual minorities to leave their home country to...

Spring 2019

Jackson, Emma

On May 3rd, 2016, a wildfire swept through the Northern Alberta resource community of Fort McMurray, scouring the political-economic landscape of what has become a notorious outpost of transnational capital and leading to the largest prolonged evacuation in Canadian history. In serving as the...

Spring 2019

Kyle, Ashley

Classification systems in prisons have consequences in both formal and informal ways for inmates. Protective custody (PC) units are especially unique spaces in which traditionally the most vilified populations – informally often referred to as “skinners, rats, and scaredy cats” – have been...

Fall 2019

Bogdan, Eva Angelyna

Flooding is a major problem across Canada, causing more property damage than any other hazard, and is expected to increase in severity due to climate change. Alberta’s 2013 floods—one of the most expensive natural disasters in Canada’s history—revealed the vulnerability of the province to such...

Spring 2019

Barron, Gary, RS

People seldom question the work that goes into producing numbers and less often ask what work it is that numbers do to grab our attention, affect how we communicate, change our own work, thinking, and how this organizes society. In this dissertation I share results of my investigation into the...

Fall 2019

Myette, Natasha KJ

Early school leavers can provide valuable insight on their experiences within the educational sector. This research explores Indigenous understandings of success, particularly those that are not reflected in contemporary mainstream educational institutions. This thesis includes 11 narrative...