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 ... -
Colder Now: Surveillance as Contemporary Colonialism in Canada
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 ... -
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 ... -
CONTINUITIES AND CHANGES IN TRADITIONAL AKAN ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION PRACTICES
This dissertation examines traditional religio-cultural beliefs/practices and environmental problems in Ghana using the Kwahu Traditional Area as a case study. Its primary objective is to examine the continuities and ... -
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. ... -
CURATORIAL CONTESTATIONS: CHALLENGING INSTITUTIONAL MODES OF INCLUSION IN THE ARTS THROUGH CURATORIAL POSITION(S) AND PRACTICE(S)
In today’s climate of political unrest, art institutions and curators play increasingly important roles, serving (their) varied constituencies and cultural communities by creating meaningful points of contact with diverse ... -
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 ... -
Defiance, Reclamation, and a Call to Mino Bimaadiziwin/ The Good Life Through Ceremonial Performance Praxis
This MA thesis is a bundle that weaves time, space, and form. It includes personal narrative, considerations and reflections on creation and research as well as the production/ performance script, stage directions, and ... -
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 ...