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Fall 2021

Stout, Madeleine

The concept of ‘winter cities’ speaks to a particular relationship between place and winter. However, winter cities are largely under examined in urban research, particularly Canadian cities. This thesis asks what type of place is a winter city and what types of placemaking occur in this context?...

Fall 2011

Mullins, Philip Meredith

In 2005, a group of seven canoeists completed a 100-day canoe trip called Paddling the Big Sky: From the Mountains to the Arctic. The expedition was designed as a commonplace journey through which participants and the researcher questioned and reinterpreted their experience using Ingold’s...

Spring 2017

Nordstrom, Onnolee A

In this research I employ ethnographic procedures and a grounded theory analytic approach to address questions regarding how established community-based enterprises (CBEs) encourage and sustain repeated acts of entrepreneurship. Through my attention to the key characteristics of place, I develop...

Spring 2016

Messelink, Jennifer L

This thesis explores the emergence of a punk music scene in Edmonton, utilizing archival research, participant interviews and analysis of mainstream and independent media to determine how a genre that was arguably considered a British phenomenon came to have local characteristics and...

Fall 2020

Holowack, Kevin

Edmonton in situ is a multimedia project containing letters, poetry, images, WhatsApp threads, and essais. My aim is to explore the City of Edmonton/amiskwaciwâskahikan as a site of connective tissues between humans and non- or other-than-human beings. The work is necessarily convoluted and...

Fall 2015

Curtis, Robert A

The full thesis for this degree consists of this document as well as two public juried recitals, which were given on December 2, 2011 and June 9, 2013, at Convocation Hall, Edmonton, Alberta. The concept of place is complex and has only recently begun to receive serious study, both on its own and...

Fall 2011

Lyon, Christopher

Over the last decade, the forest industry in Canada has been severely impacted by post-Fordist shifts in economic, political and land-tenure regimes, as well as ecological impacts related to climate change. Because of these impacts, many forest-based communities have lost mills and jobs and have...

Spring 2014

Patriquin, Donelda L.

Collaboration offers promise for sustainable development, particularly in cases where direct involvement of affected stakeholders is essential. The actor network theory (ANT) process of translation explains how diverse interests could unite to solve environmental problems. This unique...

Fall 2014

Compton, Roslyn M

While living alongside Grandma’s stories of growing older in a small rural town in Australia, I became interested in the stories she told in her living room and what it meant to grow older in a place Grandma called home. As I thought narratively about her stories, I woke to the possibility that...

Spring 2012

Suderman, Henry

Traditional analyses of Anabaptist action continue to be problematized by substantial theological, social, economic, ethical, and political disparities defining the early decades of sixteenth-century Anabaptist movements. This dissertation is offered as a “reconciliation,” as an attempt to...