Browsing Cultural Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Program: Theses by Type "thesis"
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Alliance Politics, Solidarity Praxis, Precarious Alliances: A Case of the Anti-Capitalist Muslims in Turkey
This dissertation focuses on a dissident youth group in Turkey which came to national and international attention during the uprisings of May- June 2013 and dissolved two years later. The Anti-Capitalist Muslims (A-C M) ... -
American Islam X
Academic and public discourse on Islam and Muslims in America continuously represses the deep (hi)stories of Blackamerican or Afro-American Muslims – (hi)stories rooted in the very inception of American nations – to focus ... -
Auguries of Elegy: The Art and Ethics of Ecological Grieving
(2015-10-03)Elegy is an appropriate mode for expressing the complex feelings that may accompany an awareness of the state of human-caused climate change and the concomitant ailing health of the biosphere. In order to understand these ... -
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 ... -
Beyond "The Henry Report": Racism and Diversity Practices at Queen's University
This thesis examines how neoliberal discourses of diversity operate at the university level through the administration’s policies, reports, and responses to racism. The perception of inclusion and acceptance, as present ... -
Bien Orgullosx: Communicating Narratives of Pride from Youth in El Alto
El Alto is a young Bolivian city with a majority young population mainly formed by migrants of rural/indigenous origins. Historically, social research based on El Alto has focused on extracting pain narratives. Research ... -
Borderline Cinema
The term ‘Borderline Cinema’ may sound strange at first, even for scholars and film aficionados. It may also sound like something unprecedented, modern, a result of the changes and re-adaptations in the film industry that ... -
Boredom, Overload, and the Crisis of Meaning in Late Modern Temporality
(2015-07-03)Boredom, in its blankness, has been both a canvas and a subject for modern artists and intellectuals. Whereas those in the early and mid-twentieth century theorized and aesthetically reencountered the conditions of boredom ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ...