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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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Accountability, Exile and Social Media: An Analysis of Contemporary Online Public Shaming Practices and "Cancel Culture"
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What is unique about contemporary online public shaming practices is the potential scope and reach facilitated by social media, where call-outs can go viral and a collective response can be provoked by reaching a massive audience in a short amount of time. Call-outs can at once be ephemeral (they...
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Fall 2019
This thesis explores the disciplinary and biopolitical tools that are employed by the current neoconservative government of Turkey regarding women’s bodies. Since 2002, with the rise of a new conservative Islamist government, social life has been reshaped and reformed by the conservative...
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Spring 2018
The Death Positivity Movement is a relatively new group of advocates who argue for greater death acceptance in Western society. This thesis explores how the Death Positivity Movement might help humans respond justly to mass death in the Anthropocene, when gross ecological change threatens human...
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Homophobic and Transphobic Violence in Contemporary Ukraine: Victims' Experiences and Patterns of Policing
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This study examines homophobic and transphobic violence in contemporary Ukraine: victims’ experiences and patterns of policing and prosecuting by the law enforcement and judicial systems. A range of research methods - primarily in-depth semi-formal interviews and document analysis - were employed...
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Journeying Through Islam, Society & Culture: Understanding Divergent Interpretations of Marital Rape Within the Sudanese Patriarchy
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Perennially, Islam has been viewed as a religion that subjugates women’s rights under the overwhelming pressure of the Islamic patriarchy. This work is an illustration of my journey as a third culture child through my home country, as I attempt to find answers to unusually difficult questions...
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Language, Culture and Context: Perspectives of Canadian Service Providers on Immigrant Women's Understandings and Experiences of Violence within Intimacy
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Immigrant women from ethnocultural communities often have differing definitions and experiences of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Domestic Violence (DV), and these processes are heavily influenced by language, culture and political contexts. However, the dominant conceptions of partner or...
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Fall 2020
What are the effects of a workplace based on an ethics of care? This paper takes into account the major theorizing on the subject and applies it in analysing my research subject: a company called Quality One Training and Support, Inc. Q1 is contracted by the City of Edmonton to carry out the...
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We Love America, and We Hate Trump: A Cultural Studies Analysis of Eminem in Trump's America
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In early October 2017, Marshall Mathers, better know by his stage name Eminem, received enormous attention for his freestyle rap music video The Storm, which premiered at the BET Music Awards. The Storm, both lyrically and visually, is an attack on current US President Donald Trump, and...