Homelessness & Activism in Toronto & Montreal: Toward Community-Based Participatory Research & Emergent Strategy

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dc.contributor.advisorda Silveira Gorman, Rachel
dc.contributor.authorLaCroix, Sarah Lynn
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-07T11:21:58Z
dc.date.available2024-11-07T11:21:58Z
dc.date.copyright2024-09-16
dc.date.issued2024-11-07
dc.date.updated2024-11-07T11:21:58Z
dc.degree.disciplineGender, Feminist and Women's Studies
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractThis research explores generating a community-based participatory research (CBPR) project on technology, broadly construed, with housing justice and anti-poverty activist communities in Canada. This research employs stratified purposive sampling and semi-structured open-ended interviewing methods with Toronto and Montréal activists and is approached from the perspective of a CBPR methodology. 12 activists were interviewed for this research. Interviews indicate that barriers and access to technology centre on education, trustworthiness, usability, and dependability. However, activists also desire systemic and structural change grounded in communities. Activists indicate that elite academic researchers, people who represent the state, and corporations cannot solve issues surrounding homelessness and the Canadian housing market. Instead, activists recommend emergent project creation anchored in community as a possible avenue for mitigating aspects of these phenomena. As such, this research provides an appropriate foundation for multiple community projects beyond this text.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/42533
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectGender studies
dc.subjectDesign
dc.subjectSocial work
dc.subject.keywordsHomeless
dc.subject.keywordsCommunity-based research
dc.subject.keywordsEmergent strategy
dc.subject.keywordsActivism
dc.subject.keywordsLived experience
dc.subject.keywordsDesign justice
dc.subject.keywordsSystems change
dc.subject.keywordsHousing market
dc.subject.keywordsHousing justice
dc.subject.keywordsAnti-poverty
dc.subject.keywordsOpen-ended interviewing
dc.subject.keywordsToronto
dc.subject.keywordsMontreal
dc.subject.keywordsStratified purposive sampling
dc.subject.keywordsResearch ethics board
dc.subject.keywordsData visualization
dc.subject.keywordsShelter
dc.subject.keywordsDatabase
dc.subject.keywordsTechnology
dc.subject.keywordsAccessibility
dc.titleHomelessness & Activism in Toronto & Montreal: Toward Community-Based Participatory Research & Emergent Strategy
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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