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“Wrong Problem, Wrong Solutions”: Sexual Violence, Neoliberal Universities, and the Affects of Institutional Betrayal
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This thesis explores the affective and political currents of campus rape culture. Paying particular attention to neoliberalism’s transformation of Canadian higher education in recent decades, the author describes a “marketized” campus environment in which school reputation is frequently...
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Development? From Wallerstein’s World-Systems to Post-Development Progress
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Teacher union work is a vital piece in improving student learning conditions in the developing world. However, this work continues to be done in the framework of world-systems analysis, which positions the developed north in the core position and the developing south in the periphery position....
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Moving beyond ideology: contemporary recreation and the neoliberal discourses of new public health
Moving beyond ideology: contemporary recreation and the neoliberal discourses of new public health
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Tink, Lisa N., Peers, Danielle, Nykiforuk, Candace I.J., Kingsley, Bethan C.
The suggestion that recreation needs to reaffirm historic values has become a common narrative throughout Canada’s contemporary recreation literature. A central assumption underlying these calls is that re-establishing the field’s social liberal beliefs will highlight the negative effects of...
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Moving Beyond Ideology: Contemporary Recreation and the Neoliberal Discourses of New Public Health
Moving Beyond Ideology: Contemporary Recreation and the Neoliberal Discourses of New Public Health
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Lisa N. Tinka*,, Danielle Peersb,, Candace I. J. Nykiforuka,, Bethan C. Kingsleyc
The suggestion that recreation needs to reaffirm historic values has become a common narrative throughout Canada’s contemporary recreation literature. A central assumption underlying these calls is that re-establishing the field’s social liberal beliefs will highlight the negative effects of...
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Post-Socialist Blues Within Real Existing Capitalism: Anti-Communism, Neoliberalisation, Fascism
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This project draws on Alex William’s (2020) contribution to Gramscian studies with the concept of complex hegemony as an emergent, dynamic and fragile process of acquiring power in socio-political economic systems. It examines anti-communism as an ideological element of neoliberal complex...
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Resilient or Resistant Librarians?: An Exploration of "Resilience" Discourses In Contemporary Librarianship
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This presentation explores discourses of "resilience" in contemporary librarianship, analyzing the term using excerpts from "Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously" by Brad Evans and Julian Reid. What might it mean about this historical moment in librarianship - and in society at large -...
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Success on the margins: Exploring what success means to marginalized youth in neoliberal times
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Marginalized youth must negotiate a neoliberal ethos in which they are expected to make ‘responsible’ decisions and work hard to become independent people, but at the same time experience social oppressions and structural inequalities that limit their ability to achieve success. As a result, many...
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Toward a Badiou-Inspired Eventful English Language Arts Curriculum: A Refractive Autoethnography
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The purpose of my autoethnographic study is to understand more fully how my experience of educational events and their emerging truths impact my identity and my curricular and pedagogical approaches as a seasoned English Language Arts teacher. My dissertation addresses the following research...
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Towards a Critical Colonial Analysis of the Crisis in Higher Education in Zimbabwe: A Case Study of the University of Zimbabwe
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The dawn of independence in Zimbabwe in 1980 was received with high hopes and expectations by the people but after twenty years of black majority rule, the crisis of the post-colonial condition, well documented in other African countries began to be repeated in Zimbabwe. After experimenting with...