Browsing Cultural Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Program: Theses by Title
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Nation, Race, and the Cultural Political Economy of Art for Social Change Philanthropy in Canada
The arts are increasingly celebrated as a powerful mechanism for a philanthropic sector seeking to address some of society’s most pressing social and economic challenges. Over the past decade, “art for social change” [AFSC] ... -
Need To Be Adored
(2016-05-30)Faced with a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, I began with the objective of discovering methods for creating art that were still accessible to me. Along the way, I encountered others who had travelled this road before me. ... -
“A New Race, Invincible and Vast”: An Exploration of the National Socialist Thingspiel Das Frankenburger Würfelspiel's Methods to Create Community
This project investigates the 1936 Berlin Olympics theatre production Das Frankenburger Würfelspiel, an example of the National Socialist theatre movement the Thingspiel. The goal is to explore the methods intended by Das ... -
Not a Joke: Women's work and feminist laughter in stand-up comedy
Live feminist stand-up comedy, and the shared laughter it generates, is a potent form of popular cultural performance that has become increasingly politically relevant and commercially successful in contemporary North ... -
One Bad Board Away from Bankruptcy: Housing Co-operatives, Self-Management, and the Landlord–Tenant Relationship
This thesis explores the development of the natural condition of co-operation into a large, apolitical movement and the effects of reshaping working-class people into co-operators. Semi- structured interviews, content ... -
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 ... -
The Order of Cybernetics: An Archaeology of User-Friendly Design
This dissertation evaluates the concept of user-friendliness not only as a preeminent philosophy of software design, but as an integral element of the metaphysics of software and the very conceptualization of both cybernetics ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Performing ManChyna: Unmapping Promissory Exaltation, Multicultural Eugenics, and the New Whiteness (Or, “Call Me Dr. ManChyna”)
(2015-10-03)Creating art and performing as ManChyna collectively function as my entry into an autoethnographic mapping of mobility and space within liberal multiculturalism. I introduce the research creative method of autoethnographic ... -
Performing Pedagogies and Exploring Embodied Knowledge as Curatorial Investigation
(2016-05-18)Performing Pedagogies was a week-long performance and exhibition series I organized that took place in Kingston, Ontario between March 15th - March 20th 2016. The motivation for this project came from a desire to explore ... -
The Personal Politics of Spirituality: On the Lived Relationship Between Contemporary Spirituality and Social Justice Among Canadian Millennials
(2016-04-20)In the last quarter century, a steadily increasing number of North Americans, when asked their religious affiliation, have self-identified as “spiritual but not religious” (SBNR). Resultantly, a wealth of literature on the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Post-Islamism Redefined: A Genealogy of Political Islam in Iran
Challenging the current academic conception of the term “post-Islamism,” this dissertation provides an alternative definition of the concept, having in mind the case of Iran. In contrast to Asef Bayat’s deployment of ... -
Precarious Life, Work and Culture
(2014-10-02)The contemporary precarious condition, ‘precarity,’ in life, work and culture parallels transformations in national and global economies, in part through the rise of immaterial production. Precarity has led to destabilization ... -
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 ... -
A Prisoners’ Project in Emergent Ethics
(2015-01-09)The central questions proposed for investigation in this project are (a) What might be the relationship between emergent, intersubjective ethical processes, such as might be claimed to exist in interpersonal relationships ... -
Queer Muslims: Identity & Sexuality in the Contemporary
This Ph.D. is an ethnographic-activist-based project. It first examines the genealogy of popular nationalist-statist and religious enforcements of postcolonial cisheteronormativity in Egypt through the examination of two ... -
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 ...