Browsing Cultural Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Program: Theses by Publish Date
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Gender, Christianities, and Neo/Liberal Hegemony: an Ethnographic Exploration of Gender Discourse in a United Church Women’s Group
(2011-09-15)This thesis explores the potential for ethico-politically committed cultural critique in investigating lived experiences of gender in the hegemonic global north, where the neo/liberal rhetoric of sexual equality tends to ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Voluntourism: The Visual Economy of International Volunteer Programs
(2011-09-28)This thesis examines images of volunteer tourism—or voluntourism—on internet sites and describes how the photographs that appear on them contribute to maintaining global systems of power. Voluntourism is defined as either ... -
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 ... -
The Last Triangle: Sex, Money and the Politics of Pubic Hair
(2011-10-14)This paper provides the theoretical component to a blog I wrote as part of an academic program in Cultural Studies for a period from March 2, 2011 until September 30, 2011. Called The Last Triangle: Sex, Money and the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Interrogating Sustainable Development: A Case Study of Large-Scale Mining in Colombia
(2012-09-24)In this thesis, I examine the case of the Canadian-based multinational mining corporation GreyStar resources Ltd. in Colombia. Angosturas is GreyStar’s large-scale gold mining project in the sensitive wet highland of páramo ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Failure Theatre: An Artist's Statement
(2013-01-31)Failure Theatre: An Artist’s Statement, is an invitation to a rumination on failure. The project is divided into four discreet offers that combine together to form a portrait of failure. A full play text, a manifesto and ... -
Memorial Museums and Material Witnesses: Framing Objects as Witnesses to Trauma
(2013-08-26)In this thesis, I will examine how objects are given narrative voices by memorial museum curators, and how these narrative qualities facilitate ethical and critical relations between museumgoers and traumatic histories. ... -
Living Learning Space: Recognizing Public Pedagogy in a Small Town AIDS Service Organization
(2013-09-20)In the early days of HIV/AIDS in North America, those most directly affected by the crisis created a social movement to respond to the virus when no one else would. The legacy of activists’ efforts can be seen in the more ... -
What Elders Want: A Qualitative Meta-synthesis of Elders’ Views on Interactions with their General Practitioners
(2013-09-30)Effective communication in the doctor-patient relationship is an essential component to proper diagnosis and treatment (Gordon & Gerber, 2010). While a greater focus on improving doctor-patient communication needs to be ... -
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. ... -
Inside and Outside Peace and Prosperity: Post-Conflict Cultural Spaces in Rwanda and Northern Ireland
(2014-06-02)In post-conflict settings real and imagined boundaries do a great deal to determine who is inside and who is outside of state-based narratives of peace and prosperity. Based on case studies in Rwanda and Northern Ireland, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Beckoning Bodies, Making Subjects: Interactive and Immersive Technologies in Canadian Museums, 1967-2014
(2015-03-27)Focusing on the uses of interactive and immersive technologies in Canadian exhibits from 1967 to the present, this dissertation investigates how embodied rites of cultural citizenship summon subjects to interface with ...