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Fall 2019

Sommers, Luke Javed

This thesis addresses the research question: What might truly “nation-to-nation” fiscal relationships look like between Canada and Alberta Treaty 6 First Nations if Treaty 6 were taken seriously? The thesis goes about exploring this question by reviewing the history of Treaty 6, based on the...

2019-05-15

Fuller, Danielle; Rehberg Sedo, DeNel

How can you trace the negative affects of reading experiences? Reading studies research often relies on heroic, transformational and celebratory narratives about reading elicited from research participants but also co-produced by the researchers because of the methods employed. In this essay we...

2019-02-08

Cohen, Adam

Introduction: Video games are becoming increasingly important items in library collections but this has not been accompanied by metadata and cataloguing practices that sufficiently describe games in ways that are relevant to video gamers. This research asks: to what extent do the Edmonton Public...

Fall 2019

Frantsi, Janita

Injuries are a serious risk to contemporary dancers. Consequently, previous research has suggested supplementary training practices, such as conditioning and somatics, as a way to prevent injuries and improve dancers’ body awareness (e.g., Allen, 2009; Franklin, 2004; Fortin & Girard, 2005)....

Fall 2019

Hosker, Christopher

In this thesis I will argue that James Joyce’s early ideological development and artistic trajectory were in large part guided by his fiercely agonistic relationship and dialectical engagement with the Irish cultural nationalist movement known as the Revival. Expanding upon Marjorie Howes’ claim...

Fall 2019

Shandal, Monica

This thesis is comprised of two essays on rural villages in India. The following will provide a brief abstract for each of the essays, where one focuses on the women’s power – infrastructure relationship (1) and another on agricultural productivity relative to men (2). (1) Inequality between...

2019-02-01

Harde, Roxanne

SSHRC IDG awarded 2019: If the #MeToo Movement has drawn wide attention to the prevalence of sexual assault and harassment in the workplace, then it has also brought notice to the facts that most victims of sexual assault know their attackers, that most rapes go unreported, that we live in a rape...

Spring 2019

Campbell, Tiffany M.

Following the call, made by Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2015), for government to fully adopt and implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as the framework for reconciliation, those invested in Alberta’s consultation with Indigenous peoples...

2019-02-01

Howlett, Tracy; Parlee, Brenda / translation by UNPFII translators

"Tracking Change" (отслеживая изменения) – это проект, рассчитанный на шесть лет и спонсируемый Канадским научно-исследовательским советом по социальным и гуманитарным наукам (2016-2021). На сегодняшний момент в данном проекте, возглавляемым Руководящим комитетом традиционных знаний (включающим...

Fall 2019

Gorsak, Paige

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...