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Fall 2018

Mokhtari, Mitra Kaitlyn Bates

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 –...

Spring 2017

Silver, William A

This study investigates the changing nature of work in Canada’s growing service sector, particularly as it relates to the role of customers. A multi-decade series of advancements associated with new technologies (e.g., production technologies, and faster communications), the penetration of...

Spring 2017

Paragg, Jillian E

The social production of bodies as mixed race provides insights into the particular operation of the external racial gaze within the context of multiculturalism in Canada. This project explores those insights by applying a combination of critical race and life course perspectives to the life...

Fall 2017

Thomas, Jasmine T.

This dissertation challenges the narrative of Canada as a welcoming and inclusive nation. Critical race theory and intersectional feminism provide a framework that assesses newcomer labour market experiences from the perspectives of two different stakeholder groups, immigrant professionals and...

Fall 2017

Trodden, Matthew

This project endeavoured to partially close the gap in knowledge surrounding music’s roles in high-demand new religious groups by adding to existing scholarship’s understanding of music’s potential role in the membership maintenance process. The author sets forth to do so by answering the...

Spring 2017

Muster, Janine

In this manuscript, the author unravels the journey of Next Christian Community, an Evangelical congregation in St. Albert, from being a subsidiary ministry within St. Albert Alliance Church, its mother church, to becoming its own independent entity through the lens of space. After Next Christian...

Fall 2017

Manca, Terra A

In recent years, narratives about various embellished and imaginary risks of vaccination have come under criticism because of their implications for the widespread acceptance of vaccines. Criticisms of these narratives often accompany assumptions that all mainstream health professionals accept,...

Fall 2017

Schultz, William J

A wide range of sources have framed radicalization into violent extremism as a serious risk to prisons in Europe and North America. Some view prisons as a primary recruiting ground for groups like ISIS. I investigated whether this was accurate in Alberta by conducting semi-structured interviews...

Fall 2017

Nixon, Randi

This dissertation explores the affective politics of pride in the context of neoliberalism and the multitude of way that proud feelings map onto issues of social justice. Since pride is so varied in both its individual and political manifestations, I draw on numerous instances of collective pride...

Fall 2017

Laberge, Elaine J

This narrative inquiry unfolded alongside three undergraduate students at a large, research-intensive, western Canadian university to understand how echoes of systemic childhood poverty reverberate through their experiences as they compose lives on the university landscape. While countries such...