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Fall 2015

Dick, Kaitlyn R

Canada’s fastest growing incarcerated population is female offenders. While incarcerated, these women experience damage to their existing social networks and lose significant personal relationships, making the transition from carceral to community settings difficult. In the absence of effective...

Spring 2015

Tighe, Caitlin A.

This research focuses on the funding relationships between the provincial government and the not-for-profit sector in Alberta. Since funding cuts and risk management accounting techniques were introduced in the 1990s, the funding environment has evolved in the direction of enhanced...

Fall 2015

Shiravand,Sohrab

Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923-1969) is widely perceived, particularly in Iran, as the leading social critic in Iran’s post-Mosaddeq, pre Khomayni era (1953-1978) and also as an inspirational figure for Iran’s 1978-1979 revolution. His concept of “occidentosis” (Gharbzadeghi in Persian), or...

Spring 2015

McLane, Patrick B

The word citizenship is a keyword in many political debates, as well as legislation and public policy. Citizenship studies scholars debate the meaning, extent and effects of citizenship and these debates have intensified in recent years. This dissertation takes a different approach; it explores...

Spring 2015

Brazil, Jasmine R

This research project sought to explore the answer to the following research questions: 1) Which experiences do Aboriginal female gang associates identify as reasons for gang membership? 2) Which experiences do Aboriginal female gang associates identify as reasons for gang-exit? and 3) Were there...

Fall 2015

Eagle, Meghann D

Based in a life course approach, this study examined the relationship between childhood asthma and high school completion by age 20 using a longitudinal cohort of 6,393 respondents from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth. Parental resources, parental behaviours, and critical...

Spring 2015

Herzog, Kathleen Y

In this thesis, I engage with the following research problem: how the body can practically, theoretically, and comprehensively be brought back into conversations of disability, while simultaneously acknowledging the agency (vis-à-vis independence) of individuals with disabilities as well as...

Spring 2014

Snyder, Emily

Indigenous laws are complexly gendered yet there is a lack of research on this subject. As the field of indigenous law is growing, and as indigenous laws are being revitalized, it is crucial that gender analyses be included given that law and decolonization politics are not disconnected from...

Spring 2014

Islam, Md Kamrul

The differences in fertility between first-generation immigrants and the native-born second and third generations have become an important marker of the extent to which immigrants become assimilated into a host society. Demographic research shows that first-generation immigrants have lower...

Spring 2014

Hlatky, Robert MM

This thesis will investigate anarchism as a political philosophy and a social movement in Edmonton, Alberta. This will involve analyzing the ways local anarchists have interpreted anarchist theory as well as ways they have publicly advanced anarchism and participated in projects which practice...