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From Pain to Power: A Socio-Psychological Investigation of Anti-Racist Feminist Ressentiment
(2018-11-21)In recent years, identity-based movements have increasingly been criticized by outsiders for espousing a culture of outrage both in terms of their academic expressions and activist mobilizations. In the present study, I ... -
From Revolution to Referendum: Processes of Institutionalization and Practices of Contestation in Post-Socialist Civil Society Building, 1989-2006
(2019-03-05)At the intersection of civil society studies and contentious politics research lies an opportunity to better understand the development of civil society through contentious practices. Drawing on a diverse body of work in ... -
From the Incinerator to the Bank: A Feminist Qualitative Study of Private Cord Blood Banking in Canada
(2015-08-28)This is a feminist, qualitative study of private umbilical cord blood banking in Canada. Drawing on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 12 women who banked cord blood, 6 key informants from 4 different private cord ... -
Gladue Courts: Navigating Contradictory Orientations to Rehabilitate and Punish
(2015-01-26)This research thesis details a year-long observation and analysis of Gladue (Aboriginal-specific) courts in Toronto from April 2013 – July 2014. The primary focus of this project is the way Gladue courts reconcile and ... -
Governing Irregular Migration: Logics and Practices in Spanish Immigration Policy
(2015-08-28)Since the first substantive changes to Spanish immigration laws in the 1980s, immigration to Spain and the policies designed to govern it have changed greatly. The pace of this continuous transformation has recently slowed ... -
Hearing the Voice From the Veil. An Ethnographic Inquiry Into the Mourning For Lady Zainab By Toronto Shiites
(2015-08-28)The religious flux experienced by Indo-Pakistani Shiites in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) raises insightful questions about how and why their lamentation assemblies are modified. Although the martyrdom of Hussain and his ... -
"I Had a Lot More Faith in Doctors Back Then:" An Analysis of Chronic Pain Content in Ontario Medical Curricula
(2017-07-27)This study is an assessment of pain content in three undergraduate medical curricula in Ontario. While chronic pain is a notoriously common condition affecting one in five Canadians, persistent pain remains undertreated ... -
Imagining the Unimaginable: Psychopathy, (Un)Criminality and the Body
(2017-07-27)Many scholars have noted that representations of crime and criminality cannot be divorced from considerations of power relations, especially in the way that they often reproduce derogatory and stereotypical images of ... -
In the Hands of Strangers: The Myth of Choice and Self-Determination for Chronic Pain Patients in Ontario
(2018-05-28)This study aimed to better understand and explain the lived experience of chronic pain patients within Ontario primary health care settings, their perceptions of self-determination, and the impact on their capacity to ... -
Indigenous Life Courses, Racialized Gendered Life Scripts, and Cultural Identities of Resistance and Resilience
(2016-09-20)The aim of this research project was to understand the cultural identity of young Indigenous adults living between on-reserve, off-reserve rural settings, and the city. The secondary research question examined the gendered ... -
Invisible Worker(s), Invisible Hazards: An Examination of Psychological and Physical Safety Amongst Frontline Workers in Long-term Residential Care Facilities in the 'New' Global Economy
(2016-09-20)Research has consistently demonstrated that the long-term residential care (LTRC) frontline workforce encounters a range of serious health and safety hazards and risks that result in physical and psychological injury, ... -
Lighten up: Exploring Skin Lightening Practices among Canadian South Asian Woman
(2017-07-27)This thesis examines how and why South Asian women decide to engage in the beauty practice of skin lightening within Canada. Skin lightening involves the use of products, treatments and procedures to lighten, whiten and ... -
"Make York Belly Dance": An Exploration of Feminism, Orientalism, and Embodiment in the Lived Experience of Belly Dance
(2018-08-27)Belly dance is a popular form of exotic dance in the West. Dancers, who are primarily White women, partake in weekly classes and perform at recitals and festivals. However, 2nd wave feminism argues that belly dancing ... -
Making it Work: A Study of the Decision-Making Processes of Personal Support Workers in Long-Term Residential Care
(2015-08-28)This dissertation explores the decision-making processes of personal support workers (PSWs) in long-term residential care (LTRC). These workers are lowest in the LTRC labour hierarchy, performing the majority of "hands-on" ... -
Mapping the Division of Labour in Long-Term Residential Care Across Jurisdictions
(2015-01-26)Despite the international emphasis on care in private homes, the demand for long-term residential care is rising given the growing number of older persons and those living with severe disabilities. Rising acuity levels of ... -
The Micro-Politics of Border Control: Internal Struggles at Canadian Customs
(2014-07-09)This dissertation explores the remaking of Canadian customs from the point of view of border officers tasked with processing trucks and commodities. Historically employed for tax collection, border authorities have gradually ... -
Modern Imperialism: Canadian Renditions to Torture and the Production of Impunity for Sovereign Racialized State Violence
(2016-11-25)This dissertation focusses on four Muslim Canadian men, Ahmed Elmaati, Abduallah Almalki, Maher Arar and Muayyed Nureddin, and how their renditions to torture were organized by Canadian state officials and explained to the ... -
Murals Talk Back: An Understanding of Community Murals in Jane Finch
(2017-07-27)This thesis is based on a study of three community murals in Jane Finch, a densely populated, racially diverse, inner-city neighborhood in the northwest quadrant of Toronto, Ontario. Within Jane Finch, there are several ... -
Negotiating Colonial Encounters: (Un)Mapping the Policing of Indigenous Peoples' Protests in Canada
(2015-08-28)This dissertation adopts an analytic concept of settler colonial pacification to examine shifts in the policing of Indigenous peoples’ protests in Ontario from the mid-1990s to 2013. Following the high-profile conflicts ... -
New Directions For Mutual Fund Governance In Canada: Investor Protection From Excessive Fees and Expenses
(2016-05-31)Canadian investors pay among the highest expenses and advisory fees worldwide. There is currently no mechanism in the existing Canadian mutual fund governance regime to protect investors against excessive advisory fees. ...