Cultural Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Program: Theses
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"The Trans Tipping Point": Assessing Contemporary Transgender Visibility in Alternative and Mainstream Media
This thesis seeks to develop a rubric for the assessment of recent transgender visibility across disparate media spaces. The rubric is based upon the critiques of transgender studies scholars and transgender activists ... -
A Preface to Perversion: Foucault, Archives, Evidence
This dissertation assembles four previously published articles on the subject of queer archives and evidence. Published over a period of almost thirty years, the articles reflect the author’s changing approach to archival ... -
The illusion of Inclusion for Children with Invisible Disabilities in Ontario Public Schools
The current study examined inclusive education in Ontario public schools, as it is experienced by students with invisible disabilities and their families. Invisible disabilities are those that are not immediately visible ... -
Unsettling Hegemonic Whiteness in Cultural Production: Praxis-based Approaches in Concert Dance
This dissertation examines the racialized power dynamics in cultural production in Canada by offering a re-reading of critical multicultural discourse through black and Indigenous studies. Although dominant modes of artistic ... -
Per/forming Memoration: Integrative Artistic Strategies for Unsettling From a White Settler Perspective
“Memoration” is an integrative and adaptable artistic methodology that has emerged from my practice as an artist and scholar. I characterize it as an evolving set of theoretical and aesthetic provocations directed at ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Constructing Magnificence and Its Discontents: Analysis of the Series Magnificent Century (Muhtesem Yuzyil)
In this thesis, I primarily investigate the phenomenological implications of the television series Magnificent Century. Following phenomenology’s objective of assessing the essential meaning structures of our embodied ... -
American Islam X
Academic and public discourse on Islam and Muslims in America continuously represses the deep (hi)stories of Blackamerican or Afro-American Muslims – (hi)stories rooted in the very inception of American nations – to focus ... -
Cultivating Autonomy from Empire: Exploring the Edges of Anarchism and Permaculture
This project explores autonomy-oriented currents within permaculture and anarchism. Drawing on a minor current of Western thought influenced by Baruch Spinoza, autonomy is reconceptualized as a situational process that ... -
Queering the Rural in Contemporary Argentine Cinema: Taekwondo, Esteros, and Como Una Novia Sin sexo
In queer social histories, the city has been privileged as a normative space for queer identity and social progress to be actualized. Compared with urban spaces, rural spaces continue to be perceived as always dangerous ... -
Talkin' Back to Johnny Mac: Interrupting John A. Macdonald & Learning to Curate from an Indigenous Framework
From January to April 2015, I curated Talkin’ Back to Johnny Mac, a five-part performance series that took place in Katarokwi (Kingston, Ontario). The series, which took place during the bicentennial birthday year of ... -
From the Inside Out: Discussing Women's Empowerment with the Women's Studies Department at the University of Calicut
This paper will contribute to the academic discussion surrounding education and its effects on the empowerment of Keralite women. Kerala’s education system has been highly praised as a model for development due to its high ... -
Restorying the Lives of Aboriginal People Connected with the Criminal Justice System
This participatory and community-based research project aims to foster hope and healing for Aboriginal people whose lives have been affected directly by the Criminal Justice System (CJS). In this project, I recorded the ... -
"It's a Practice, Not a Performance": Unraveling the Atomized Self and Becoming Nomadic Through Ashtanga Yoga
Modern forms of yoga practice are increasingly focused on the body, emphasizing the physical benefits of the practice while positioning the body as an effective tool for accessing and working with the mind. Holding patterns ... -
Beyond "The Henry Report": Racism and Diversity Practices at Queen's University
This thesis examines how neoliberal discourses of diversity operate at the university level through the administration’s policies, reports, and responses to racism. The perception of inclusion and acceptance, as present ... -
Alliance Politics, Solidarity Praxis, Precarious Alliances: A Case of the Anti-Capitalist Muslims in Turkey
This dissertation focuses on a dissident youth group in Turkey which came to national and international attention during the uprisings of May- June 2013 and dissolved two years later. The Anti-Capitalist Muslims (A-C M) ... -
Dispossession of Matrimonial Choice in Contemporary India: Examining the Link between Cross-region Marriages, Neoliberal Capitalism, and New Forms of Gender Subordination
In India, in the mid 1990s, a new form of non-customary marriage emerged on the rural North Indian marriage-scape. Transgressing rules of caste endogamy and marriage within one’s religion, the men, largely drawn from the ... -
Understanding the Impact of Surveillance and Security Measures on Canadian Muslim Men: A Mixed Methods Approach
(2016-11-01)This study explores the ‘chilling effect’ of national security measures, in particular security certificates, on the Canadian Muslim male population. While the constitutionality and use of certificates have been widely ... -
Unsettling Histories: Representation and Indigenous Creative Art Praxis in Official Indian Residential School Redress
(2016-10-01)This dissertation offers an investigation of the role of visual strategies, art, and representation in reconciling Indian Residential School history in Canada. This research builds upon theories of biopolitics, settler ...
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