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Recent Submissions
‘Homing’ and the Desire for ‘Homing’: Reading/Teaching Kamila Shamshie’s Kartography Through a Migrant’s Experience
(Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, 2024-12) Bhattacharya, Indira Chakraborty
The first attempt that one should make while talking about Refugee Studies or Migration Studies especially while teaching to any group of migrant youngsters about any particular text is to define under which category does that particular text fall, i.e., whether the text has been written by any migrant author who pens his/her experience as a migrant, or the content of the text is about migrants and their experiences in a particular place. The texts are roughly classified by scholars as into sub-categories of Migration Literature or "Ecriture Migrante/Ecriture Immigrantes" within the discipline of Literature. In a classroom before teaching these migrant texts it is necessary to build trust between the migrant student, the institutional system and the teacher to develop a sense of inclusivity that might make the migrant student a little more comfortable about reading migrant literatures and corelate with its relevance.
A quantum Murnaghan--Nakayama rule for the flag manifold
(2024-06-08) Benedetti, Carolina; Bergeron, Nantel; Colmenarejo, Laura; Saliola, Franco; Sottile, Frank
In this paper, we give a rule for the multiplication of a Schubert class by a tautological class in the (small) quantum cohomology ring of the flag manifold. As an intermediate step, we establish a formula for the multiplication of a Schubert class by a quantum Schur polynomial indexed by a hook partition. This entails a detailed analysis of chains and intervals in the quantum Bruhat order. This analysis allows us to use results of Leung--Li and of Postnikov to reduce quantum products by hook Schur polynomials to the (known) classical product.
Multi-Method Study On Referral And Access To Heart Function Clinics
(2025-04-10) Mamataz, Taslima; Grace, Sherry
Patients with heart failure (HF) experience significant benefits from receiving comprehensive outpatient care in specialized heart failure clinics (HF clinics). These clinics have demonstrated their effectiveness in reducing frequent HF-related hospital readmissions while maintaining cost-efficiency. Unfortunately, despite established guidelines recommending the referral of HF patients to these clinics, there exists a notable discrepancy in both access and utilization of this specialized care, creating issues of low and inequitable service utilization. The underlying reasons are largely unknown and under-researched. Therefore, this doctoral dissertation aimed to advance a scholarly understanding of factors influencing the referral decisions and access to HF clinics through a multi-method study. For this purpose, three inter-linked research studies were undertaken. Firstly, qualitative interviews were conducted with key stakeholders in HF care, including policymakers, clinic providers, and patients. This initial phase established a foundational understanding of the barriers preventing optimal access to HF clinic services. Secondly, recognizing that referring providers play a pivotal role in determining patient access to HF clinics, a mixed-method design was employed, using a sequential exploratory approach to delve into their perspectives on the challenges associated with referring patients to HF clinics. Finally, a cross-sectional survey approach was adopted to compare clinic perceptions of ideal referral criteria with those of referring providers. By identifying areas of agreement between both parties, strategies for consistent application were proposed. This dissertation contributes valuable insights for HF clinics and the broader HF community. The knowledge generated has the potential, when translated into practice, to facilitate appropriate patient access to essential HF services. The findings offer guidance to policymakers, healthcare providers, and HF patients, aiming to optimize the utilization of HF clinic services, enhance the quality of care provided, and improve overall patient outcomes.
Conflict And Solidarity Between Anti-Colonial Environmentalism, Indigenous Anti-Pipeline Resistance, And The Labour
(2025-04-10) Golkar, Niloofar; McNally, David
Climate change has reached crisis mode, and confronting it requires confronting corporations, economic planning, policies that exacerbate this process, and social relations that enable such policies and economic paths. This dissertation shows how settler colonialism in Canada revolves today around extractivism. This fact makes the struggle for land critical and highlights how Canadian nationalism is an obstacle to Indigenous solidarity and environmentalism. In 2020, the Shut Down Canada movement that started from Wet'suwet'en territories against building the CGL pipeline on their land, which was a scale-up from the Idle No More movement, underscored the importance of the Land Back movement for environmental justice. Its tactic of shutting down critical infrastructures was the largest scale in Canada's recent history of Indigenous resistance at the time. The well-documented militarized attacks on Wet'suwet'en unceded territories creates a dilemma that should concern every activist. At the same time, the impressive organizing efforts that started from Unist'ot'en as a space of resistance provide lessons for every movement. The case of the CGL pipeline and Wet'suwet'en resistance puts us at the conjuncture of three movements: the issue of solidarity between labour, anti-capitalist Environmentalists and the Indigenous movement.
In this dissertation, I strategically explore possibilities for building strong Indigenous-environmentalist-labour solidarity. Through extensive policy analysis of the critical infrastructure risk management approach and media analysis of the CIRG task force, I explore a hidden link between the security arm of one of the largest global investment corporations, KKR, RCMP, and TC Energy executives. The government's risk management approach has enabled such a link, which facilitates and encourages conversations between the involved actors. The state's claim to the so-called public/Canadian interest in pipelines is of utmost importance to this dissertation. The concept of Canadian interest works as a settler colonial and national ideology of governing; historically and presently, the concept creates an umbrella that includes the Canadian working class as it excludes Indigenous communities, along with the processes of reproducing nature and non-capitalist forms of economy that many radical environmentalists try to create through commons. A lack of land-based analysis of the situation of working-class people in Canadian labour has turned the labour movement into a more economistic version of trade unionism, one that does not actively oppose Canadian nationalism.
Stages of the Box: Corrugated Cardboard in Puppetry and Material Performance
(2025-04-10) Rogers Valenzuela, Denise; Schweitzer, Marlis E.
Stages of the Box focuses on late capitalist performances of, and with, corrugated cardboard. As one of the leading packaging materials of 21st-century global capitalism, corrugated cardboard boxes circulate worldwide transporting consumer goods large and small, before accumulating in recycling bins, garbage cans, streets, and storage spaces. The paper industry hails corrugated cardboard as a sustainable packaging material as it comes from trees—ostensibly a renewable source—and because it is highly recyclable. This framing, I argue, allows the unsustainable production and consumption patterns of late capitalism to continue as usual. But the use of corrugated cardboard as boxes for global commodity circulation is one part of the story. On the flip side of this capitalist abundance, people in the margins employ waste corrugated cardboard creatively for survival, including through informal collection for the recycling industry, as a material for temporary dwelling, and for signs. At the same time, as a cheap or free, abundant, and versatile material, puppeteers, artists, and activists have been turning to cardboard for their creations and interventions.
My project considers these different realms—global trade, performing arts, galleries, online videos, and streets—as stages of corrugated cardboard performances. Situated as both puppeteer and performance studies scholar, I incorporate reflections from my creative practice and critical analysis to frame cardboard as a performing object with material and expressive propensities that guide their human collaborators. In this, I engage with new materialist, material culture, puppetry scholarship, and discard studies frameworks, and an assortment of chapter-specific methods stemming from an emergent research design.
By focusing on contemporary case studies of cardboard-based performances in Canada, the USA, Mexico, Hong Kong, and Chile (my home country), I ask: What are the stakes of performing with cardboard—an ambivalently eco-friendly, mass-produced material—amid social and environmental crises? Beyond reuse and upcycling, how do cardboard puppets, protest objects, and artworks intervene in both local and global contexts? How are cultural producers engaging with the semiotic, economic, affective charges, and material affordances of cardboard packaging? What questions, worlds, and modes of relating to matter do these performances bring forth?