Browsing Cultural Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Program: Theses by Title
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Children’s rights and spaces: an ethnographic look at children’s rights in Punjab, India and Ontario, Canada.
(2015-02-04)The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the most widely signed and ratified human rights treaty in history. The Convention is law in the nearly two hundred countries that have ratified it including ... -
Cinema of Immanence: Mystical Philosophy in Experimental Media
(2015-06-02)This research-creation discovers the connection between what Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari termed as the Univocity of Being, and the Sufi and pantheistic concept of Unity of Being (wahdat al-wujud) founded by the Islamic ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A Critique of Critical Race Theory: a Textual Analysis of the ‘Mr. Gaijin’ Mask
(2012-08-22)The thesis suggests the toy-like mask of a white man, ‘Hello, Mr. Gaijin,’ as a site of analysis where the culture of racisms is (re)produced in the specific context of contemporary Japan. Sold as a gig gift in Japan, the ... -
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 ... -
Cultural Politics of Resilience in Kingston, Jamaica
(2016-06-28)Recently, resilience has become a catchall solution for some of the world’s most pressing ecological, economic and social problems. This dissertation analyzes the cultural politics of resilience in Kingston, Jamaica by ... -
Curating Resistance, Resisting Curation: The possibilities and limitations of objects in institutions
(2015-10-03)This project examines Canadian cultural institutions through a decolonial lens to consider the structural complicity of these spaces in systems of epistemic violence, as well as grassroots means of resistance. This study ... -
Curatorial Analysis: Spoken Word Performance through the lens of Narratology, Narrative-making and Auto-ethnography
(2014-01-08)As a major project, this work studies the spoken word genre as a response to, and interpretation of, oppression and examine my own spoken word performance through the lens of narratology, narrative-making and auto-ethnography. ... -
Decolonizing Anarchism: Expanding Anarcha-Indigenism in Theory and Practice
(2012-10-01)In this thesis I argue that anarchism, as a political philosophy and social movement practice committed to resisting all forms of oppression and domination, needs to place colonialism more clearly and consistently at the ... -
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 ... -
Distinguishing Ritual from Theatre
This paper begins by analyzing Richard Schechner’s distinguishing features of ritual and theatrical performances, specifically regarding audience participation, audience belief, and intention of the performance to determine ... -
#DressCodePM & Re-Framing The Niqab: News Sources, Hashtag Activism, and Media Representation
(2016-06-28)This thesis originates from my interest in exploring how minorities are using social media to talk back to mainstream media. This study examines whether hashtags that trend on Twitter may impact how news stories related ... -
Du Pont's Wonder World of Chemistry: Corporate Culture as Public Culture in the Twentieth Century
During the twentieth century, business executives perceived a troubling trend amongst their employees and the general public: Americans appeared ignorant to the workings of the business system and were therefore susceptible ... -
Dumpcano: Waste Management and Environmental Justice in Iqaluit
(2016-05-02)On May 20, 2014, the Iqaluit dump lit itself on fire, burning for 178 days. ‘Dumpcano’ as it was nicknamed, cannot be seen in isolation: Iqaluit is surrounded by unremediated dump sites, left behind from both the Canadian ... -
Ethics and Participation in Art: Reading the Migration Library and other methods
This dissertation portfolio provides a focused—albeit methodologically diverse—review of research ethics in the context of participatory art, including research-creation and social art practices. Focusing on a case of ... -
Everyday Enchantments and Secular Magic in Montréal
(2016-06-14)In this thesis I argue that dominant ways of imagining modernity constitute a modern imaginary that carries with it particular expectations concerning modern places, spaces, emotions, and affects as well as expectations ... -
Examining Pakistani Identities in Non-Western Cinema in the Post 9/11 Landscape
(2015-09-17)Pakistanis in Hollywood films and U.S. television shows have largely been depicted as a threat to the western world. Television shows such as Homeland and Numbers, and films like G.I Joe and Zero Dark Thirty, have depicted ... -
Exhibiting Diplomacy: Art and International Cultural Relations in Canada
In this dissertation, I analyze Canadian cultural diplomacy through the international exhibition of art, with particular consideration for the various ways in which state institutions have utilized art as an expedient in ... -
Expert Tattooing: The Development of a Profession in Canada, 1891-1986
Expert Tattooing: The Development of a Profession in Canada, 1891-1986 examines professional tattooing in Canada from the late nineteenth century to the mid 1980s, a period that saw the practice’s emergence, expansion, and ...