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Anticipating the Astronaut: Subject Formation in Early American Space Medicine, 1949-1959
(2019-03-05)This project expands the scope of existing Space Race histories of the American astronaut mostly focused on daring test-pilots in the 1960sby examining a prior decade of research conducted by doctors and psychologists in ... -
Break, Make, Retake: Interrogating the Social and Historical Dimensions of Making as a Design Practice
(2019-03-05)Making and digital fabrication technologies are the focus of bold promises. Among the most tempting are that these activities and processes require little initial skill, knowledge, and expertise. Instead, they enable their ... -
Dancing in Chains: A History of Friedrich Nietzsche's Physiological Relativism
(2017-07-26)This study examines the historical development of Friedrich Nietzsches physiological relativism through a reading of his private and published works as well as several of the periodicals and scientific popularizations with ... -
Edible Subjectivities: Meat in Science Fiction
(2019-07-02)This dissertation argues for the critical urgency of both challenging the constitution of subjectivity itself and disputing the a priori exclusion of other animals from attaining some kind of ethico-political subject-status. ... -
From Science in the Arctic to Arctic Science: A Transnational Study of Arctic Travel Narratives, 1818-1883
(2017-07-27)This thesis examines the making and communicating of knowledge about the Arctic from a transnational perspective between 1818 and the First International Polar Year in 1882-83. By examining both well-known and hitherto ... -
How Scenarios Became Corporate Strategies: Alternative Futures and Uncertainty in Strategic Management
(2018-05-28)How Scenarios Became Corporate Strategies tracks the transformation of scenario planning, a non-calculative technique for imagining alternative futures, from postwar American thermonuclear defence projects to corporate ... -
I'm a Juggling Robot: An Ethnography of the Organization and Culture of Autism-Based Applied Behaviour Therapies in Ontario, Canada
(2018-11-21)This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the culture, social organization, and everyday practices of providers and recipients of autism-based applied behavior therapies in Ontario, Canada. Autism-based applied behavior ... -
Inventing Psychiatric Drug Maintenance
(2019-03-05)This dissertation explores a major change in the way the maintenance of recovery from mental illness was authoritatively represented between the mid 1950s and the present. A shift from individual case reports to clinical ... -
Knowing Water Worlds: A Postphenomenological Approach to Socioenvironmental Imaginaries in Costa Rica
(2020-08-11)In a context of increasing liberalization and privatization of the energy sector in Costa Rica, a wave of applications for private concessions to build run-of-the-river dams has swept over the country during the last decade. ... -
Marana: Leishmaniasis and the Pharmaceuticalization of War in Colombia
(2020-08-11)This ethnographic monograph explores how the Colombian armed conflict and a vector-borne disease called cutaneous leishmaniasis are inextricably connected and mutually constitutive. The stigmatization of the illness as the ... -
Mediated Cognition: Information Technologies and the Sciences of Mind
(2016-11-25)This dissertation investigates the interconnections between minds, media, and the cognitive sciences. It asks what it means for media to have effects upon the mind: do our tools influence the ways that we think? It considers ... -
Mediating Public Science: Experts, Politics, and Climate Change in the News Media in Canada
(2019-03-05)This project offers a reconstructionist science and technology studies (STS) analysis of climate change coverage in three Canadian newspapers, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and the Toronto Star from 2006 to 2013. ... -
Navigation, Commercial Exchange and the Problem of Long-Distance Control in England and the English East India Company, 1673-1755
(2018-08-27)In this dissertation I address the related problems of expertise and long-distance control in the context of British navigation and the bureaucratic practices of the English East India Company. Expertise, in particular, ... -
Nearly Perfect: Notes on the Failures of Salvage Linguistics
(2018-11-21)This dissertation examines the salvage era of American linguistics (c.19101940) and its focus on the extraction of knowledges and cultural artifacts from Indigenous groups whose civilizations were believed in peril. Through ... -
Never Before Seen: Spectacle, Staging, and Story in Wildlife Film's Blue-Chip Renaissance
(2019-03-05)The topic of this dissertation is wildlife film and its representation of animal behaviour. I identify a blue-chip renaissance of wildlife documentary filmmaking in the early twenty-first century featuring conventional ... -
Potentiating Algae, Modernizing Bioeconomies: Algal Biofuels, Bioenergy Economies, and Built Ecologies in the United States and Turkey
(2017-07-27)This dissertation is an ethnography of potentiation the labourious processes by which potential is imagined and materialized. It investigates how life scientists and engineers potentiate algae as alternative sustainable ... -
Sockeye at the Boundary: Controversial and Contested Salmon in the Cohen Commission, 2009-2012
(2021-07-06)In this STS dissertation, I build on the controversy studies literature by opening the black box that is the Cohen Report, thereby illuminating the various forms taken by, and contestations associated with, controversial ... -
Understanding Open Versus Proprietary Research and Innovation: A Case Study of Canada's Pharmaceutical Sector
(2020-05-11)With decreasing public funding for scientific research and innovation (R&I) in Canada, the onus has fallen on public research institutions strategically partner with industry to ensure that research generates innovative ...