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Risky Beeswax: Artistic Responses to the Biopolitics of HIV/AIDS
(2021-03-08)In my dissertation, I examine risk in relation to HIV/AIDS and queer art and sex; and the problem that industrial mitigations of risk pose to sexually active queer men living with HIV, the kinds of sex they want, and the ... -
Flooding in Benue State (Nigeria): A Profile of Institutional Neglect
(2021-03-08)With progressively devastating consequences, flooding has become increasingly common in Nigeria, particularly in Benue State. In studying repeated flood disaster situations in this state, a discernable pattern may be ... -
Mending and Transforming the Torn Social Fabric: Lumpen Social Reproduction in Settler Urban Space as Relational Praxis Art
(2020-11-13)With this dissertation I look at the unique and indispensable political position of low-income peoples that I assert is not effectively represented via left progressive and working class struggles, academic theory or ... -
Race and Waste: The Politics of Electronic Waste Recycling & Scrap Metal Recovery in Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana
(2020-11-13)Agbogbloshie scrapyard in Accra, Ghana is featured in images and documentary films as a charred landscape of disassembled computers, worn-out appliances, mangled plastic, derelict vehicles (in various stages of disassembly), ... -
At Home in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg: Racialized Long-Time Residents' Perspectives on Urban Development and Social Mix Planning
(2020-11-13)After decades of stigmatization, the historically working class and immigrant neighbourhood of Wilhelmsburg, in Hamburg, Germany, is experiencing a flurry of planning and development attention from the city-state. The city ... -
Anticolonialism, Nationalism, and State Formation: The Rise of Pakistan
(2020-11-13)There is ongoing popular and scholarly debate about the rise of Pakistan as a nation-state. Much of this literature frames the emergence either in cultural terms as a territorial expression of transhistorical Muslim ... -
Storytelling Seasonally Dry Neotropical Forest: The Social Production of Space and Nature in Peasant Communities of a Costa Rican Dry Forest
(2020-08-11)In the state-created settlements of Bagatz and Falconiana in the province of Guanacaste, Costa Rica, spatialized social relations are co-constituted with processes of production and reproduction. This dissertation illustrates ... -
The (Un)Making of the Working Class in Karachi, 1980s -2010s
(2020-08-11)This dissertation traces the evolution of working-class politics in Karachi (Pakistan) over the past four decades. I develop an integral and non-teleological approach to the study of class, state, and civil society by ... -
State Steering in Polycentric Governance Systems: Climate Policy Integration in Ontario and California's Transportation Sectors
(2020-08-11)The post-Kyoto era of climate governance has witnessed a dramatic increase in the number and diversity of actors and organizations, resulting in a complex institutional regime that displays the essential features of ... -
Why the Pirate Flag is the Only One Worth Flying Direct-Action and the Enforcement of International Marine Wildlife Conservation Laws
(2020-08-11)The subject of international law is fraught with debate over its legitimacy and efficacy. If laws without enforcement are merely good advice, then how can the environment be meaningfully protected by international legal ... -
The Deployment of Difference: The Space of Possibility and Garifuna Resistance to Dispossession in Honduras
(2020-05-11)This dissertation focusses on Garifuna struggles against dispossession from their territories in Honduras. My work focusses on two organizations and their affiliates in the present and is based on an ethnographic analysis ... -
Common Health: The Role of Non-Profit Organizations in Supporting Community Action for Health Equity and Justice
(2020-05-11)This dissertation explores the ways in which reporting requirements, evaluations, management decisions and other metrics and processes contribute to a growing gap between community development goals of community health ... -
Protected Areas, Indigenous Peoples, and Reconciliation in the United States of America
(2019-11-22)This dissertation examines the relationship between the Chinook Indian Nation and United States National Park Service (NPS) at two small national parks along the Columbia River Lewis and Clark National Historical Park and ... -
The Experience of Ontario Teacher Candidates who care for the Environment: Seeking Ways to Define, Integrate, and Support Teacher Candidates' Passion and Activism for Food and the Environment into Their Pre-Service Learning
(2019-11-22)A qualitative study of 13 teacher candidates (TCs) involved in and passionate about environmental issues was conducted. This study explored how activist TCs developed their identity as learning teachers who want to incorporate ... -
The Impact of School Eating Environments on the Wellbeing of Children Transitioning from Full-Day Childcare to Full-Day Kindergarten
(2019-03-05)This study explored the impact of school eating environments on the wellbeing of children in the Full Day Kindergarten (FDK) Early Learning Program in the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) and compared childrens experiences ... -
Beyond the End or the Means: Co-Theorizing Engagement for HIV Programming and Service Provision
(2019-03-05)Within health, community engagement is positioned as either a means, or an end. It is often framed as an apolitical, linear, and/or individualistic process, thus eschewing the relational or socio-structural factors that ... -
Material Society and the Science-Policy Interface in Environmental Decision-Making: Understanding Risk and Mercury Pollution Policy in Canada 1995 to 2005
(2019-03-05)The intrinsic conflict investigated herein is that on the one hand, scientific evidence is required as a basis for environmental policy decisions; however, socio-economic and political dimensions of risk dominate decision-making ... -
Contexts, Conditions and Methods Conducive to Knowledge Co-Production: Three Case Studies Involving Scientific and Community Perspectives in Arctic Wildlife Research
(2019-03-05)Decision-makers require current and robust information to address the effects of social-ecological changes facing ecosystems, wildlife, and humans; however, research defined by single disciplines and knowledge systems is ... -
Back-to-the-Land: Analyzing Rural Anarchist Practice in Relation to Anarchist Theories of Community-Building: A Case Study of the Dragonfly and Black Fly Land Collectives
(2018-11-21)This dissertation problematizes the idea of the rural as a backwards and reactionary place and addresses the theoretical and practical contributions of anarchism to reconsidering the rural as a site of revolutionary ... -
Chinese International School Students Discuss Sustainability: A Mixed Methods Study in Guangdong, China
(2018-11-21)This mixed-method study was conducted at an international school near Guangzhou, China and included a total of 40 Likert-scale questionnaires, a focus group and nine individual interviews with the 100% Han Chinese student ...
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