Browsing Cultural Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Program by Publish Date
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Gender, Christianities, and Neo/Liberal Hegemony: an Ethnographic Exploration of Gender Discourse in a United Church Women’s Group
(2011-09-15)This thesis explores the potential for ethico-politically committed cultural critique in investigating lived experiences of gender in the hegemonic global north, where the neo/liberal rhetoric of sexual equality tends to ... -
Playing Soldier?: Combining Theatre and Theory to Explore the Experiences of Women in the Military
(2011-09-20)This thesis explores the experiences of women in the military using narratives published by military servicewomen from Canada and the United States. The success of traditionally “female” bodies in combat-related trades in ... -
Clarity and Cacophony in Canadian Literacy Discourse: New Directions for a National Literacy Policy
(2011-09-27)This thesis explores the varied and often conflicting ways in which literacy is addressed in Canadian discourse in order to propose a progressive way forward for Canadian literacy policy. The historically conventional ... -
Voluntourism: The Visual Economy of International Volunteer Programs
(2011-09-28)This thesis examines images of volunteer tourism—or voluntourism—on internet sites and describes how the photographs that appear on them contribute to maintaining global systems of power. Voluntourism is defined as either ... -
Place Marketing and Place Making: Toront, Tourism, and the Fractured Gaze
(2011-09-29)This thesis is an empirical and theoretical investigation into the changing trends in place marketing as it relates to urban tourism, particularly in the city of Toronto. It begins by exploring broader discourses to do ... -
The Last Triangle: Sex, Money and the Politics of Pubic Hair
(2011-10-14)This paper provides the theoretical component to a blog I wrote as part of an academic program in Cultural Studies for a period from March 2, 2011 until September 30, 2011. Called The Last Triangle: Sex, Money and the ... -
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 ... -
Why Believing in the Afterlife is Valuable
(2012-06-04)A (somewhat) humourous talk given at a philosophy student debate at Queen’s University -
Liminal animals: exotic, endangered and transgenic creatures
(2012-06-04)Notes for a talk given at a workshop on imagining the non-human other in Asian and continental philosophies, University of Alberta, 2010. -
China's Quest for an Ecologically Sustainable Culture
(Atlantic-Community.org, 2009-09-06)China has to consider its environmental future and must look to concepts of sustainability to do so. With the indigenous religion of Taoism Beijing has the tools it needs to foster a culture of sustainability. -
Creating Cultures of Ecological Sustainability
(2012-06-04)Notes for a lecture given at graduate conference on Asian Studies given at Arizona State University on October 17, 2009. -
Daoism and Nature
(2012-06-04)Draft essay on Daoism and Nature for the Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology edited by Roger Gottlieb (Oxford University Press). -
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 ... -
Ecology, Aesthetics and Daoist Body Cultivation
(2012-06-04)he Daoist religious tradition offers a wide repertoire of body cultivation practices that focus on generating a phenomenological sensitivity to the inner body and its location within the world. These practices can be ... -
Is Green the New Red? The Role of Religion in Creating a Sustainable China
(2012-06-04)The Chinese Daoist Assocation has embarked upon an ambitious agenda to promote Daoism as China’s “green religion.” This new construction of “green Daoism” differs, however, from both traditional Chinese and modern Western ... -
Living Light: Shangqing Daoist Cultivation in Theory and Practice
(2012-06-04)Notes for a presentation given at a Conference on Daoist Cultivation, Vashon Island, WA, May 2001 -
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, ... -
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. -
TRANSFIGURED SPACE The Education and Cultivation of Perfected Purple Yang
(2012-06-04)An analysis of the Esoteric Biography of the Purple Perfected Yang 紫陽真人內傳, a hagiography prized and transmitted by the Xu 許 family, in whose midst originated the medieval Daoist religious movement known as Way of Highest ... -
Humans Must Conquer Nature: Philosophical and Religious Sources of China’s Anti-Environmental Ideology
(Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Shanghai, 2010)Traditional Chinese philosophy is well known for its monistic cosmology in which heaven, earth, and human beings are mutually implicated in an evolving organic process known as the Way (dao). This vision is broadly shared ...