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Fall 2018
With a focus on the construction of masculinity in relation to confrontational sport, especially ice hockey, this qualitative research explores Chinese Albertan masculinity in day-to-day settings. Data was collected via five in-depth life history interviews. Drawing on leading gender scholar...
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Entitlement, Victimhood, and Hate: A Digital Ethnography of the Canadian Right-Wing Social Media Landscape
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This dissertation is, at its core, an interrogation of white masculinity in Canada’s right-wing spaces. While my interlocutors spent a great deal of time discussing others, namely immigrants, globalist elites, and feminists, through their discourse, they revealed a lot more about themselves and...
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Masculinity, labour, and Indigeneity: identity negotiation on the path to a just transition
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As pressure continues to grow to reduce global emissions, recognition of the widespread impacts on various groups from such efforts has inspired calls for a just transition. On the one hand, Canada's path to decarbonization must address workers who stand to lose their jobs, while ensuring this...
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Mobilising Clothes at Sea: Naval Dress Culture and Economy during the French Wars, 1793-1815
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During the British involvement in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815, the Royal Navy contracted for, inspected, and distributed clothing to naval warships in British ports and abroad. This dissertation examines the Admiralty in-letters stored at the British National Archives,...
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Spring 2022
In this thesis I analyse the depiction of video game fathers and their daughters, who eventually become playable protagonists, in four popular, mainstream video game titles: The Last of Us, BioShock Infinite, Dishonored and The Walking Dead as well as the downloadable content add-ons Left Behind...