Browsing Cultural Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Program by Title
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“Make It So!” The Persistence of Religion
(2012-06-04)A (somewhat) humourous talk give at Queen’s School of Religion, March 2012. -
Manifesto for a Daoist Theology of Messianic Wisdom
(Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2004)This manifesto is an attempt to mark the theoretical foundations for a constructive Daoist theology of wisdom. It asks what the characteristics of such a theology ought to be and establishes the parameters within which ... -
Memorial Museums and Material Witnesses: Framing Objects as Witnesses to Trauma
(2013-08-26)In this thesis, I will examine how objects are given narrative voices by memorial museum curators, and how these narrative qualities facilitate ethical and critical relations between museumgoers and traumatic histories. ... -
Monitory Democracy and Ecological Civilization in the People’s Republic of China
(2012-06-04)In what sense can religious values and institutions in China be seen as elements of civil society that have the function of challenging and monitoring the interests, values and actions of the state? To answer this question, ... -
Moved by Love: The Experiences of Mexican Women Who Migrated to Canada for a Romantic Relationship
This thesis deals with love migration, a kind of mobility where the complicated and yet so common emotions and dynamics that characterize any romantic relationship intersect with the disruptions and processes of migration. ... -
Music Production and Cultural Entrepreneurship in today’s Havana: Elephants in the Room
Cultural production and entrepreneurship are two major components of today’s global economic system as well as important drivers of social development. Recently, Cuba has introduced substantial reforms to its socialist ... -
Nation, Race, and the Cultural Political Economy of Art for Social Change Philanthropy in Canada
The arts are increasingly celebrated as a powerful mechanism for a philanthropic sector seeking to address some of society’s most pressing social and economic challenges. Over the past decade, “art for social change” [AFSC] ... -
Nature in Chinese Traditions of Thought
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)A survey of key themes and debates in Chinese philosophy and religion relating to the concept of nature. -
Nature, Impersonality, and Absence in the Theology of Highest Clarity Daoism
(2012-06-04)This essay describes salient features of the theological vision of the Way of Highest Clarity (Shangqing Dao), a Daoist religious movement that began in the late fourth century of the common era. The tradition emphasized ... -
Need To Be Adored
(2016-05-30)Faced with a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, I began with the objective of discovering methods for creating art that were still accessible to me. Along the way, I encountered others who had travelled this road before me. ... -
Neither Wild nor Domesticated: Positioning Liminal Animals through Labour Rights
(2018-08-15)Animal rights have become a mainstream part of philosophy since the 1970s, but liminal animals are still ignored by most animal studies scholars. Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka address the rights of liminal animals in ... -
“A New Race, Invincible and Vast”: An Exploration of the National Socialist Thingspiel Das Frankenburger Würfelspiel's Methods to Create Community
This project investigates the 1936 Berlin Olympics theatre production Das Frankenburger Würfelspiel, an example of the National Socialist theatre movement the Thingspiel. The goal is to explore the methods intended by Das ... -
Not a Joke: Women's work and feminist laughter in stand-up comedy
Live feminist stand-up comedy, and the shared laughter it generates, is a potent form of popular cultural performance that has become increasingly politically relevant and commercially successful in contemporary North ... -
Notes on a Symposium: Undisciplined 2015
(2016-04-07)This publication is a culmination of articles and reviews submitted by Queen's University students in response to the Cultural Studies Graduate Symposium, Undisciplined 2015. -
Of Alchemy and Authenticity:Teaching About Daoism Today
(Teaching Theology and Religion, 2007)The authors discuss the complexities and responsibilities of teaching about Daoism in contemporary North American colleges and universities. Expanding and revising the findings of Kirkland (1998), they argue that enough ... -
One Bad Board Away from Bankruptcy: Housing Co-operatives, Self-Management, and the Landlord–Tenant Relationship
This thesis explores the development of the natural condition of co-operation into a large, apolitical movement and the effects of reshaping working-class people into co-operators. Semi- structured interviews, content ... -
Only Yesterday and the Transnational Power of Anime
Though the medium of animation has existed since at least the 1900s, scholarship in the field of animation has been largely neglected in favour of the academic study of live-action films. This trend in film academia has ... -
The Order of Cybernetics: An Archaeology of User-Friendly Design
This dissertation evaluates the concept of user-friendliness not only as a preeminent philosophy of software design, but as an integral element of the metaphysics of software and the very conceptualization of both cybernetics ... -
Organic Surveillance: Security and Myth in the Rural
(2016-09-12)This project looks at the ways Northeastern Ontario citizens in rural communities regulate their private property through traditional and contemporary surveillance means. Through art and objects, this project allows viewers ... -
Overcoming a Culture of Whiteness: Remaking Queen’s University as a First Nations Thirdspace
(2012-02-03)This thesis addresses the perennial difficulties faced by Queen’s University’s administration in its failings to recognize the importance of an adequate contemporary First Nations presence within any twenty-first century ...