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New Relationships on the Northwest Frontier: Episodes in the Gitxsan and Witsuwit'en Encounter with Colonial Power
(2015-08-28)
This dissertation examines relationships between colonialism and Indigenous peoples that shape the development of extractive resources in Gitxsan and Witsuwit’en territories in Northwest British Columbia, Canada. I argue ...
Mobilizing city-regional urbanization: The political economy of transportation and the Production of the metropolis in Chicago and Toronto
(2016-06-23)
Studies of cities and urbanization are confronted with significant theoretical and methodological challenges as the urban question is reposed at the city-regional scale. Normative understandings of city-regions as sites ...
Making Place Work: Site-Specific Socially Engaged Art in 21st Century Toronto
(2015-08-28)
Site-specific socially engaged art practices are on the rise, particularly in cities. Global migration, global networks and online communication notwithstanding, artists, curators and cultural institutions are increasingly ...
Exhalted Order: Muslim Princes and the British Empire 1874-1906
(2014-07-09)
This dissertation charts the genealogy of a particularly British Indian form of colonial government called indirect rule. Indirect rule, which came to be deployed across several Muslim dominated states of Africa and Asia ...
Plants and Fossils: Household Fuel Consumption in Hampshire and the West Riding of Yorkshire 1750-1830
(2014-07-28)
The price and availability of different fuel sources shaped the material lives of English people during the Industrial Revolution. Fuel prices affected the location of industries, population growth and whether poorer people ...
In and Out of Place: Islamic Domestic Extremism and the Case of the "Toronto 18"
(2015-08-28)
In the aftermath of the tragic events of 11 September 2001 a veritable cornucopia of formal, practical, and popular materials have emerged that offer analyses of various dimensions of the phenomenon of Islamitic extremism. ...
Maps of Belonging: Muslims in Halifax
(2014-07-28)
With a growing Muslim population in Canada, questions about their integration are typically framed in terms of a problem of national belonging most often directed at the larger communities found in Toronto, Montreal and ...
"You Are Your Own Alternative": Performance, Pleasure, and the American Counterculture, 1965-1975
(2015-01-26)
“You Are Your Own Alternative” examines influential countercultural groups in the 1960s and 1970s. In opposition to historians who dismiss the politics of the counterculture and blame the counterculture for contributing ...
Querying Everyday Scarcity: A Feminist Political Economy Analysis of Kidney Dialysis and Transplantation in Rural British Columbia
(2015-08-28)
This thesis uses a feminist political economy perspective to analyze the findings from a qualitative case study regarding kidney dialysis and transplantation in rural and remote British Columbia. This case study was conducted ...
"Talking About Down There": The Development of a Public Discussion of Cervical Cancer in the Twentieth Century
(2014-07-09)
This dissertation emerged from personal and political concerns and aims to fill a historiographical lacuna. This thesis is a study of how Canadian women learned about cervical cancer and its prevention in the twentieth ...