Browsing Cultural Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Program: Theses by Title
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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 ... -
(Re)Framing Resistance: The Role of Indigenous Comic Books in the Past, Present, and Future
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 ... -
(Re)Imagining Relationality: Brad Isaacs and The Map of the Empire
(2016-09-23)The exhibition, The Map of the Empire (30 March – 6 May, 2016), featured photography, video, and installation works by Toronto-based artist, Brad Isaacs (Mohawk | mixed heritage). The majority of the artworks within the ... -
The Religion of the Heart: Self, Solidarity, and the Sacred in Romantic Liberal Modernity
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 ... -
Repercussions: Indigenous New Media Art and Resurgent Civic Space
(2015-09-23)This dissertation investigates Indigenous new media artworks shown at Urban Shaman: Contemporary Aboriginal Art Gallery, located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. I argue that Urban Shaman is an institution of Indigenous ... -
Restorying the Lives of Aboriginal People Connected with the Criminal Justice System
This participatory and community-based research project aims to foster hope and healing for Aboriginal people whose lives have been affected directly by the Criminal Justice System (CJS). In this project, I recorded the ... -
Roots and Routes: Cuban Cinemas of the Diaspora in the 21st Century
(2015-10-06)This thesis is one of three components of the doctoral project Roots and Routes: Cuban Cinemas of the Diaspora in the 21st Century. The project also comprises an archive of materials on Cuban diasporic cinemas in the ... -
Staying a Woman, Becoming a Patient: Experiences of Breast Cancer, Gender and Identity in Neoliberal Turkey
Drawing on ten interviews, this thesis explores the perspectives and practices of women with breast cancer in contemporary Turkey. My analysis focuses on two key areas: the gendered nature of intimate and family relationships, ... -
Talkin' Back to Johnny Mac: Interrupting John A. Macdonald & Learning to Curate from an Indigenous Framework
From January to April 2015, I curated Talkin’ Back to Johnny Mac, a five-part performance series that took place in Katarokwi (Kingston, Ontario). The series, which took place during the bicentennial birthday year of ...