Browsing Cultural Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Program: Theses by Title
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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 ... -
Talking Plant
This doctoral research-creation project focuses on plants in the context of larger efforts by artists and scholars to denaturalize the anthropocentric and hierarchical ordering of species that objectify non-human life. ... -
Terrance Houle and Adrian Stimson: Exploring Indigenous Masculinities
(2012-09-26)The exhibition “Terrance Houle & Adrian Stimson: Exploring Indigenous Masculinities” showcased the performance art of Terrance Houle (Blood/Ojibway) and Adrian Stimson (Siksika) at the Union Gallery in Kingston, Ontario ... -
Towards a Cognitive Poetics of Puppetry
Spectators routinely ascribe intention, personality, even an inner life to inanimate, contingently moving objects like puppets. Why do spectators do so? The prevailing semiotic approach is unable to bring light into this ... -
Tracing Incense: The Affective Power of Objects
Incense has been an integral part of Chinese culture since before the introduction of Buddhism in the third century B.C.E. A rise in the popularity of Buddhist practice marked an increase in the importation, production, ... -
"The Trans Tipping Point": Assessing Contemporary Transgender Visibility in Alternative and Mainstream Media
This thesis seeks to develop a rubric for the assessment of recent transgender visibility across disparate media spaces. The rubric is based upon the critiques of transgender studies scholars and transgender activists ... -
A Trauma of Two Mothers: How to Make Art With Marshamllow
(2014-09-05)Beginning with Adrienne Rich’s work Of Woman Born (1986), writing about maternal theory and the experience of motherhood abounds (Joyce Trebilcot 1984; Andrea O’Reilly 2007), and there is a growing canon of theory about ... -
Understanding Online Abuse: An Analysis of Abuse Against Women Content Creators
(2016-09-23)This research is an examination into the ways online abuse functions in certain online spaces. By analyzing text-based online abuse against women who are content creators, this research maps how aspects of violence against ... -
Understanding the Impact of Surveillance and Security Measures on Canadian Muslim Men: A Mixed Methods Approach
(2016-11-01)This study explores the ‘chilling effect’ of national security measures, in particular security certificates, on the Canadian Muslim male population. While the constitutionality and use of certificates have been widely ... -
Unfinished Business: The New Wave of Women's Horror Cinema
My doctoral dissertation, “Unfinished Business: The New Wave of Women’s Horror Cinema,” responds to early considerations in feminist horror studies via the recent surge of horror films directed by women filmmakers for a ... -
Unikkaaqtuat: Traditional Inuit Stories
(2015-04-13)Commentary on Inuit language, culture and traditions, has a long history, stretching at least as far back as 1576 when Martin Frobisher encountered Inuit on the southern shores of Baffin Island. The overwhelming majority ...