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2020-01-01
This thesis examines the effect of political ideology on language processing. While it is well established that the semantics of language have an effect on language users’ comprehension process, there is little research on the effect of personal characteristics, particularly political ideology,...
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Engendering food meaning and identity for Southern Sudanese refugee women in Brooks, Alberta
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This thesis explores the food practices of Southern Sudanese refugee women in Brooks, Alberta, illustrating how foodways (Long, 2004) impact and reflect women’s conceptions of themselves as gendered, multinational citizens. These women’s relationship to food is an ambivalent one; simultaneous...
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Spring 2016
This thesis examines the role of gender in three versions of Carme Riera’s short story “Te entrego, amor, la mar como una ofrenda” [I Leave You, My Love, the Sea as an Offering] – the Spanish-language source text, and my own translations into English and French. As romance languages such as...
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Exploring Relationships Between Communication Features, Gender Attribution Ratings, and Quality of Life for Transgender and Cisgender Communicators
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Background: Voice and communication modification training is a critical aspect of the gender affirmation process for many transgender people. Incongruence between communication characteristics and gender positioning can be a cause of gender dysphoria and lead to misattribution or being outed as a...
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Spring 2013
Immigrant women have many emotional, psychological, and/or cultural stressors that may influence their health. For some women, these stressors may only be present during the acculturation process, but for others they may continue throughout the remainder of their lives. Focused ethnography, as...
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Exploring the leisure experiences and perceptions of acculturation of newcomer Chinese youth
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This research explored the nature of the relationship between leisure experiences and perceptions of acculturation of newcomer Chinese youth. Employing interpretive description methodology, semi-structured interviews and a focus group elicited subjective description of leisure and acculturation...
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Fall 2020
The unprecedented impacts from climate change have been documented and are projected to continue to dramatically effect human health and wellbeing. East Africa is projected to experience an increase in average surface temperatures and decrease in precipitation levels, impacting ecosystems, food...
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2018-02-01
SSHRC IDG Awarded 2018: The proposed research focuses on suicide terrorism. It investigates operatives or captives of Boko Haram (Nigeria) who deliberately refused to detonate their suicide vests. Scholars have overwhelmingly focused on "successful" suicide terrorism with much attention on the...