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ETD SWORD Deposit
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Making Science Popular: Readers, Nation, and the Universe in Chinese Popular Science Periodicals, 1933 - 1952
(2022-08-08)In 1933, a group of scientists and educators based in Shanghai published a magazine they hoped would spread science to Chinas ordinary people, entitled Kexue huabao . The direct translation of the title is Science Pictorial, ... -
Emmanuel Macron and the Passive Revolution of French Neoliberalism: Discipline, Defection, and Dissent in Contemporary French Politics
(2022-08-08)Understanding the rise of Emmanuel Macron and by extension, the expansion of French neoliberalism necessarily entails a breakdown of traditional disciplinary boundaries. Political science alone cannot account for the ... -
Without These Things, I Would Be Invisible
(2022-08-08)This paper Trace and Retrace accompanies my Masters of Fine Arts thesis exhibition titled Without These Things, I Would Be Invisible. The exhibition took place in Special Projects Gallery at York University in April 2022. ... -
Locating the Indian Gendered Subaltern on Digital Platforms: Digital Activism in #section377 and #metooindia
(2022-08-08)This work examines the relationship between technology and activism in India, and the role that digital infrastructures play in the development of gendered digital protest. Through a combination of textual discourse and ... -
De Ia maison a l'ecole : Ia place du Kreol Repiblik Moris a l'ile Maurice
(2022-08-08)Ce mmoire de matrise sinscrit dans le champ de la sociolinguistique et traite de lvolution statutaire du Kreol Repiblik Moris (KRM). Le KRM, maintenant langue nationale de la Rpublique de Maurice, tait, lorigine, une ... -
"ALL RIGHTS MATTER": A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE ONTARIO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION'S SYSTEMIC CHANGE INITIATIVES IN
(2022-08-08)This dissertation examines the Ontario Human Rights Commissions (OHRC) partnership engagement with police services via the use of voluntary Project Charter agreements. Through an analysis of OHRC policy documents spanning ... -
Amplifying the Voices of Kenyan Women in Canada: The Implicit Contradiction of the Federal Skilled Worker Program
(2022-08-08)My own experiences and those of other women from East Africa as recently landed immigrants inspired this autoethnographic research paper regarding experiences under the Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP) in Canada and ... -
The Effects of Context, Voice, and Vowelization on the Word Recognition Speed, Accuracy, and Comprehension of L2 Arabic Readers at Different
(2022-08-08)The present study focuses on the effects of context, grammatical voice (hereafter, voice), and vowelization on the word recognition of L2 Arabic readers at different proficiency levels. It examined the role of different ... -
Theorizing Sustained Solidarity: The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement in Toronto
(2022-08-08)This dissertation seeks to understand the multiscalar dynamics that led to the fragmentation of the once relatively unified Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Toronto. The dissertation analyzes the interplay ... -
Choose Your Own Adventure? The Experiences of Occasional Teachers in the Reproduction or Transformation of Educational Systems
(2022-08-08)This research looks at the experience of occasional teachers (OTs) in the reproduction and/or transformation of teacher roles and forms of education in schools. I examine if, how, and to what extent the experience of OTs ... -
Shaper
(2022-08-08)This work is a cross-genre memoir that draws upon critical disability theory, literature, images and theoretical discourse in order to examine, express, and critically expand upon my experience of living within the confines ... -
Feeling Subtle: A Practice-Based Study of How the Body Listens, Tunes in, and Becomes Present in Performance (and in COVID-Time)
(2022-08-08)This is an embodied research project that explores the subtle, unseeable, unhearable forces at work within performance. It uses a common improvisational duet as its anchor, the rules for which seem paradoxical: move in ... -
POWER ON THE PLANTATION COMPLEX: BIOPOLITICS AND THANATOPOLITICS
(2022-08-08)This study examines how planters in Barbados, from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, exercised three modes of power (sovereignty, discipline, and governmentality) in the management of those enslaved. The first ... -
Producing Play: The Political Economy of "Actual Play" Media
(2022-08-08)Actual Play (AP) is a recent genre of online videos and podcasts focusing on unscripted play of tabletop roleplaying games (TRPGs). Its most popular exemplars, such as Critical Role and The Adventure Zone, account for large ... -
The Forms of Capital and Intergenerational Change in Higher Education Access: A Case Study of Aranguez
(2022-08-08)The study explores higher education access in a marginalised community within a post-colonial context, specifically, why access was low given supportive government policies. The case study of Aranguez, a former sugar-cane ... -
Revolutionary Forms: Unsettling Dance Through Site-Relational and Transformative Aesthetics
(2022-08-08)Reflecting on ways in which site-specificity in dance reproduces settler colonial logics, this thesis seeks to address questions about relationships of embodiment and land in screendance, remote interactive performance, ... -
Relationality over Coloniality: An Inquiry into Decolonizing Settler-isms with Indigenous Futurisms
(2022-08-08)Reconciliation between non-Indigenous/settler peoples and Indigenous peoples has become a central tenet of Canadian education. In this dissertation I examine the ways a settler-colonizers capacity to dream a vision of ... -
Cold War Therapeutic Formations: Reconfiguring Political Subjectivity in American Literature
(2022-08-08)This dissertation considers how American fiction from the years of 1947-1967 that engages with psychiatric treatment responds to the expanding cultural authority of psychiatry and its place in constituting Cold War political ... -
Giving Pause: Epistemological Diegesis and Self-Sentience created through the novel Our Life in Red Jello
(2022-08-08)The effect of the global pandemic on systems of education in Ontario has renewed the call for mental health resources in schools. The detrimental impact of Covid-19 on mental-health related issues for students resulting ... -
A Place for Fire and The Matter of Deep Time
(2022-08-08)Fire is the subject, matter is the object. This paper is written to accompany my MFA thesis exhibition, Stone like Fruit, Fruit like Fire. Emerging out of fire, objects made of metal, stone, wood, and paper, in addition ...