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Fall 2023

Allan, Katherine A

Faculty members play a critical role in upholding the academic mission of institutions of higher education and are integral in supporting student success. It is widely understood that new faculty struggle and as incoming cohorts of new faculty become increasingly diverse, their unique challenges...

Fall 2013

Crosby, Wayne

The degree to which individuals have agency to respond during crisis, and the degree to which social structure and culture influence their course of action, present compelling questions for understanding social change. The tradition of examining the interplay between agency and social structure,...

Fall 2011

Leifso, Justin Blake

This thesis examines to what extent globalization has affected the political economy of Canadian regionalism. Using a critical framework, Canadian history is interpreted as the production of a Canadian territorial space, complete with uneven spatial development. With a theoretical framework and...

Spring 2013

Crookshanks, John Douglas

This dissertation looks at urban housing fields (its policies, services, actors, and structures) in two Canadian cities: Edmonton and Winnipeg. Using a Bourdieusian method of field analysis, I ask how local networks of actors engaged in the struggle over housing resources govern and are governed...

Spring 2020

Leifso, Justin B

In this dissertation, I explore the question of how Canadian public bureaucracies have changed over time to reflect broader shifts within and between political rationalities. Drawing from a range of critical approaches to power, policy, and public administration including governmentality studies...

Fall 2009

Macris, Vicki

Neoliberal ideology has transformed education into a market model as competition, deregulation, stratification and the spread of market discourse and market ideology seep into public educational institutions, causing potentially negative social consequences and threatening their democratic...

Fall 2015

Ali, H M Ashraf

During the 1990s, microcredit, also known as “microfinance,” received global recognition as an effective social and economic development tool from major international development institutions and donor agencies, including the World Bank and Asian Development Bank. The incorporation of microcredit...

Fall 2020

Puddu, Cynthia

This dissertation used Institutional Ethnography (IE) to explore the experiences of street involved youth in Edmonton and to uncover how institutional, organizational, and social mechanisms shape their experiences. Drawing from Community-Based Participatory Research methods, I collaborated with...

Spring 2011

Das, Surma

In 1999, the World Bank launched the K4D initiative as part of its new development agenda. The Bank also established itself as the global development knowledge bank suggesting that these moves would yield more pro-poor development results. This thesis examines the Bank’s knowledge ventures and...

Spring 2011

Camargo Plazas, Maria del Pilar

Chronic disease is the largest cause of death in the world. Yet little is known about how globalization forces affect the body and the experience of someone who is chronically ill. The need for specialized knowledge of subjective data is significant as it will assist us to improve our...