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Solving the Unsolvable: Western Responses to Otherness From Saint Augustine 

Cicalo, Jordan Christopher (2015-12-16)
Theodor Adorno's writings on the interdependence of subject and object provided the impetus for this project. Following Adorno the work argues that agency comes from an awareness of the limitations of one's conception of ...
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Negotiating Colonial Encounters: (Un)Mapping the Policing of Indigenous Peoples' Protests in Canada 

Dafnos, Democratia (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 ...
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Adaptation Narratives: Climate Change and Environmental Politics in Mexican Costal Communities 

Vazquez Garcia, Luz Maria (2015-08-28)
This dissertation explores some key challenges the Mexican government and international organizations such as the World Bank may face when implementing climate change adaptation initiatives in coastal lagoon communities ...
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Re-Conceptualizing "Contributing" Homelessness and Unpaid Labour in a Neo-Liberal Climate 

Choy, Mary Rebecca (2015-08-28)
The goal of this research was to challenge notions of “contributing” in active citizen discourse. This was done by exploring how individuals experiencing homelessness give back to their communities while surviving through ...
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The Eastward Expansion of the European Union: Perspectives from University Students in Belgrade, Serbia 

Golubovic, Jelena (2015-08-28)
This thesis explores how the eastward expansion of the European Union (EU) affects the lives and identities of university students in Belgrade, Serbia, a post-socialist, post-conflict, and non-EU country. This study involved ...
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Hearing the Voice From the Veil. An Ethnographic Inquiry Into the Mourning For Lady Zainab By Toronto Shiites 

Hirji, Ali Abbas Mehboob (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 ...
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Making it Work: A Study of the Decision-Making Processes of Personal Support Workers in Long-Term Residential Care 

Day, Suzanne Louise (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" ...
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Political Genealogies of a Generation: Kin, Movement and Party in the Greek Diaspora 

Pendakis, Katherine Laura (2015-08-28)
This dissertation is about the struggle of one generation of men in the Greek diaspora to come to terms with––and act within––political genealogies that had shaped their everyday lives since childhood and with which they ...
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From Foundation to Dissolution: Rethinking the Social Contract Tradition 

Follert, Michael Walter (2015-08-28)
The early modern intellectual tradition of the social contract introduces a problematic of the will to the socio-political realm. With power’s institutionalization no longer shrouded by an earlier religious imaginary, the ...
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Universities, Community Engagement, and Democratic Social Science 

Bourke, Alan Gerard (2015-08-28)
The purpose of this dissertation is to identify and compare differences between institutional conceptualizations of community engagement with the understanding and practices of faculty engaged in community-based research ...
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AuthorBourke, Alan Gerard (1)Choy, Mary Rebecca (1)Cicalo, Jordan Christopher (1)Cifelli, Michael Paul (1)Dafnos, Democratia (1)Day, Suzanne Louise (1)Follert, Michael Walter (1)Gerke, Markus (1)Golubovic, Jelena (1)Haw, Jin-Young Jennie (1)... View MoreSubjectSociology (18)Political Science (4)Race (4)Canada (3)Criminology (3)Ethnography (3)Class (2)European Union (2)Feminist political economy (2)Foucault (2)... View MoreDate Issued
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