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Film Noir as the Sovereign-Image of Empire: Cynicism, White Male Biopolitics, and the Neoliberal Cinematic Apparatus
(2018-03-01)
This dissertation develops a theory of film noir as sovereign-image, a meta-generic and meta-cinematic discourse that confronts the viewer with the biopolitical ambivalence of the cinematic apparatus but enjoins her to ...
Urgency Praxis, Sexual Violence and Feminist Knowledge Production in Guatemalan Truth-Telling
(2015-12-16)
Since the early 1990s, feminist interventions in international law have sought to make sexual violence in wartime more visible, punishable and preventable. This dissertation focuses on the experiences of workers and the ...
Unsettling Citizenship: Movements for Indigenous Sovereignty and Migrant Justice in a Settler City
(2015-12-16)
The central argument in this dissertation is that immigration and citizenship policies are integral to settler colonialism in Canada and that this has tremendous implications for alliances between Indigenous sovereignty ...
Contagious History: Affect and Identification in Queer Public History Exhibitions
(2018-08-27)
For LGBTQ people, history is never simply the past, what has passed, or what is dead and gone. Uncovering neglected LGBTQ pasts has been heralded not only as a project for historians but as an explicitly political endeavour. ...
Archiving the "Sweet" Candy-Loving Matinee Girl: Fashion, Confectionaries, and Fan Scrapbooking in Urban American Culture, 1880-1915
(2018-08-27)
A product of Broadway theatre and celebrity culture in New York City, the matinee girla fashionable city dweller and a theatre-loving girlfirst emerged in popular media at the end of the nineteenth century. She was both a ...
Que(e)ring Home Care: Older Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Experiences of Accessing and Receiving Care Services
(2014-07-09)
This exploratory study examined the impact of sexuality, gender and aging on older lesbian and bisexual women’s access to home care services and their experiences of receiving home care. This study had three objectives: ...
"If It Is Sincere, It Will Rouse Hostility": The Freewoman, Feminisms, and Print Culture in Early Twentieth-Century England
(2018-03-01)
This dissertation is an examination of The Freewoman (1911-12) as a feminist publication, and its editor Dora Marsdens (1882-1960) particular role in the journal. It examines periodical culture and feminisms, and the ...
Downers: Crip Affect and Radical Relationalities
(2017-07-27)
Taking up prior formulations of crip affect, I explore the positionality of the downer as one whose body complicates global economies of social and political encounter. Engaging with neoliberal formulations of embodiment ...
Reading the Superhuman, Embodiments of Multiplicity in Marvel Comics
(2017-07-27)
The goal of this project is to identify, analyze and historicize the operation of embodied multiplicities within superhero comics from the postwar era using the example of comics produced by the Marvel group between 1961 ...
Argos
(2018-11-21)
Within a small derelict town, a mother, fed up with the absentee father of her child, uses her powers to transform him into the most loyal creature known to man. By turning him into a dog, she is teaching her daughter that ...