Canada is a settler state built on systemic racism, and is maintained by systems of contemporary colonialism. Systems of contemporary colonization such as internal colonialism (Tuck and Yang, 2012) take the form of the ...

This interdisciplinary study reconceptualizes the dominant vision of how genocides begin, and the role civilians play in both cultural and physical forms of genocide. I coined the term “genocide culture” and reconceptualize ...

This dissertation examines the gendered and racialized discourses that inform how we understand the problem of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) in the West. Specifically, it traces out the role that whiteness, and white ...

As Maori scholar Linda Tuhiwai Smith has described, “the collective memory of imperialism has been perpetrated through the ways knowledge about Indigenous peoples was collected, classified and then represented in various ...

The Indigenous Art Centre (IAC) is an Indigenous-led federal program that supports “the creation, preservation and promotion of contemporary art produced by Indigenous peoples in Canada.” Presently, the Indigenous Art ...

This project analyzes the important and knotted interventions that hip hop artists bring to the Canadian academy. I think through how university institutions preserve white supremacist values alongside diversity mandates ...

North Americans and Western Europeans increasingly prefer “spirituality” to “religion.” In response to this “spiritual turn,” a voluminous literature has emerged across the human sciences. Yet the study of spirituality ...

The following thesis is about the work of the Sala-Manca group, a group of two Argentinean born artists based in Jerusalem, Israel, one of whom is the author of this thesis. Over the past twenty years the group has developed ...

This thesis is a personal attempt to tell the story of architecture in modern Jerusalem in the aftermath of the forced 1967 unification of the city. From the perspective of an IsraeliJerusalemite born after the 1967 war, ...

Bondage/Discipline/Dominance/submission/Sadism/Masochism (BDSM) is most frequently conceptualized as only non-normative, ‘kinky’ sex. In this dissertation, I combine feminist ethnographic accounts of women’s experiences ...