Browsing Interdisciplinary Studies by Title
Now showing items 1-20 of 44
-
A Creative Exploration of the Use of Intelligent Agents in Spatial Narrative Structures
(2015-01-26)This thesis is an interdisciplinary study of authoring tools for creating spatial narrative structures– exposing the relationship between artists, the tools they use, and the experiences they create. It is a research-creation ... -
All of Us? Marginalizing Dissent in Toronto's Jewish Community
(2015-08-28)Mainstream Jewish institutions like the Canadian Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and B'nai Brith Canada largely communicate the impression of community-wide support for Israeli government policies and actions to the ... -
"Anchored in Our Culture, Focused on Our Future": Negotiating Spaces for Somali Women in Toronto through Gashanti UNITY
(2019-03-05)This research presents and analyses the experiences of second-generation Somali women in Toronto, and argues that there is a significant gap in research about young Somali-Canadian women, and the way they utilize different ... -
Architectural Consumption in Los Angeles: Modernism, Power, and the Aesthetic of Plenty
(2015-08-28)This paper examines the economy produced by modernism as the site for developing an aesthetic grounded in opulence and consumption. While early modern architects aimed to break with tradition and create a new language of ... -
Art, Community & Belonging
(2018-08-27)Communication with others and developing a sense of belonging are challenges that immigrants, including children, must face in a new society. These challenges become a major obstacle when paired with lack of knowledge of ... -
"Ask the Colonial Ghosts": Intimate Histories, Harmful Complicities, and the Search for an Accountable Relationship with the Past
(2016-11-25)I take episodes from my life and my familys past as sites through which to explore connections between individual lives and larger structures, between the ways we tell our stories and the ways that histories are constructed, ... -
Black Youth Educational Under-Achievement Problem: How Peer Influence, Social Attitudes, Education Policy, & Family Circumstance Unite to Maintain this Problem in the Ontario Public School System
(2018-11-21)This research paper is concerned with the problem of black youths educational underachievement in Ontario public schools. The general aim of the thesis is to demonstrate that this problem is not one that education policy ... -
Chasing Vapors within a Disappearing Mist: Conceptualizing Dementia Narratives
(2016-11-25)The built environment within healthcare institutions is of critical importance to persons with dementia, as the characteristics of the interior environment, the lived experience within, and the reciprocal nature of that ... -
Chronic Kidney Disease Unidentified (CKDu) in Sri Lanka: Towards an Integrated Solution
(2018-03-01)This study sought to understand how the problem of the Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu), which has affected the paddy farmers in the North Central Province (NCP) of Sri Lanka is being addressed by the ... -
Cross-Sectoral Policy Coalitions: A Case Study of Sustain Ontario: The Alliance for Healthy Food and Farming’s Efforts to Reform Policy. How a Policy Coalition's Choices Contributed to its Legitimacy and Influence
(2015-08-28)This paper is a case study of the formation and early development of one civil society organization (CSO), Sustain Ontario, the Alliance for Healthy Food and Farming (Sustain, the Alliance, the Network). Sustain is an ... -
Decolonizing Technology through a Tipi: Creation of an Indigenous Mobile Application at York University
(2016-11-25)This research explores the possibilities of how Information technologies can be designed and created by/for/with Indigenous peoples in order to be potentially decolonized. Indigenous members of the Centre for Aboriginal ... -
Doing Just Business: An Empirical Analysis of Mining Multinationals, Human Rights and Sustainable Community Development in Western Ghana
(2019-03-05)This interdisciplinary research examines the ability of gold mining multinationals to fulfill their human rights obligations and investigates how local communities in Ghana attempt to hold these corporations accountable ... -
Encountering the Other: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry into Horse/Human Interaction
(2018-03-01)This thesis asks how and why a serendipitous and spontaneous personal encounter with a being from another species created an ongoing bond. Through the lens of three intersecting disciplines: environmental studies, animal ... -
Evaluating the Shopping Aisles for Emotional Needs (SAFEN) Assessment: Promoting the Emotional Health Needs of Children and Youth
(2018-11-21)This creative thesis consists of a preliminary evaluation of SAFEN (Shopping Aisles for Emotional Needs), a self-assessment design for youth. SAFEN engages youth in identifying their internalizing feelings, strengths, ... -
Every Stain a Story: The Use of Textures on Costumes in Hollywood Action, Horror, and Sci-Fi Movies
(2019-07-02)Dirt on clothing in Hollywood movies signifies cultural agreement about what is seen as defilement in everyday life. Artificially aged and distressed costumes are common in Hollywood films, and especially in genres like ... -
Examination of the Transitioning of the Book from Print to Digital: Inspiration, Possibilities & Application
(2017-07-26)My principal research question is: what future/s might there be for the book as it shifts away from paper volumes and into an ebook protocol, as regards marginal epistemologies, inclusivity, multiple authors, interdisciplinarity ... -
Exciting Instrumental Data: Toward an Expanded Action-Oriented Ontology for Digital Music Performance
(2015-08-28)Musical performance using digital musical instruments has obfuscated the relationship between observable musical gestures and the resultant sound. This is due to the sound producing mechanisms of digital musical instruments ... -
Girls' Schooling Experience in Frankadua, Ghana: A Case Study
(2016-09-20)For the last three decades, girls education has been at the forefront of international development discourse on education. Despite all the available evidence that underscores the gains that accrue to society from women's ... -
"I Can Hear Her Breathing…": Second-Generation Sri Lankan Tamil Womyn Reflect on the 2009 Toronto Tamil Protests
(2015-08-28)Public activism in the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora was demonstrated by the mass protests held in Toronto in 2009, in the months leading to the end of civil war Sri Lanka. Following the protests, research focusing on increased ... -
"I Can't Breath": Race, Police, and the Suffocation of American Democracy
(2017-07-27)The role of violence when it comes to the black experience in the United States is foundational. If one looks at recent studies of slavery, such as Sven Becketts Empire of Cotton and Edward Baptists the Half was never told, ...