Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Title
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Between Disappearances: The Performance of Affective Archiving in Bracha L. Ettinger's Eurydice Series
(2016-12-16)Artist, philosopher, and psychoanalyst Bracha L. Ettinger’s Eurydice painting series is built upon a practice of sustained aesthetic, psychological, and ethical engagement with archival photographs of the Holocaust. First ... -
Between Figure and Ground: Articulating Heterotopia in the Suburban Paradox
(2013-04-05)This thesis focuses on exploring figure-ground within the amorphous suburban green space of Calgary, Alberta. It is an edgeless prairie city, flooded with unused space and tethered by freeways that stretch toward the ... -
Between Inside and Outside: Expanding Environmental Context Through Building Systems
(2015-04-06)This thesis explores how architecture can expand the conceived notion of enclosure to a greater environmental context, and how a building may become an instrument for experience and engagement across the interior/exterior ... -
Between poetry and life: George Whalley and the drama of mimesis.
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BETWEEN RHETORIC AND REALITY: A PSYCHOSOCIAL EXAMINATION OF RWANDA'S NATIONAL UNITY AND RECONCILIATION POLICY
(2011-12-20)The policy of National Unity and Reconciliation in Rwanda has been the subject of much heated debate in recent years, prompted by the uncovering of repressive techniques of the current government. As the policy is designed ... -
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea? Union Prospects and Deliberative Debate in Nova Scotia’s Public Sphere, 1863-1864
(2014-08-11)This thesis explores Nova Scotia’s 1863-1864 public union debates and examines the roles of political liberalism and loyalism in the colony’s deliberative public sphere. It argues that these debates were thematically broad, ... -
Between the Medina and the Metropole: Race & Urban Planning from Algiers to Paris (1930-75)
(2011-09-06)This dissertation analyses the endurance of colonial logics of assimilation and cultural segregation in contemporary urban France by connecting them with their origins in colonial Algeria. French urban planning and policy ... -
Beware the Women: the Depiction of Anglo-American Female Pirates in Popular Culture, 1721-1995
(2017-09-01)Anne Bonny and Mary Read were female pirates who were active in the early-eighteenth century in the Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy. Little is known of the two women other than what was recounted in Charles ... -
Beyond 70%: Assessing Alternative Waste Management Opportunities for Institutions
(2013-04-05)Initial investigations into the waste management practices at Dalhousie University revealed opportunities for more effective and efficient management of the four major waste streams. However, there was no comprehensive ... -
Beyond Manganese Oxidizing Bacteria: Using Metagenomics for an Improved Understanding of Sustained Manganese Oxidation and Removal in Surface Water Biofilters
(2024-02-05)Manganese has evolved from a contaminant of aesthetic concern due to an improved understanding of the health risks associated with elevated levels of Mn in drinking water and its accumulation within, and subsequent release ... -
Beyond power and privilege: Discourses of rights and liberties in western Nigeria, 1900--1966.
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Beyond radical art: The New York School poets and the neo-avant-garde.
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Beyond spatial segregation debates: Defining ‘social inclusion’ for people with intellectual disabilities in Nova Scotia through grounded action methodology
(2015)Through the application of grounded action methodology, the following research issue emerged from interviews with the study’s participants in Nova Scotia: even though all participants believed in social inclusion for people ... -
Beyond Sui Generis: Situating Postmodern Legal Pluralism as a Framework to Reconstruct the Relationship Between Indigenous and Canadian Law
(2016-08-05)This thesis examines the relationship between Indigenous and Canadian law at points of interaction, including, for example, in the litigation context. In doing so, it draws on the theory of legal pluralism in order to ... -
Beyond The Deepwater Horizon Explosion: What Shaped the Social and Political Engagement of the BP Oil Spill?
(2011-09-06)Drawing on social movement literature, my thesis examines if news media, NGO, business and government engagement of the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico is affected by issue or event complexity, visuality, or issue ... -
BEYOND THE DUTY TO CONSULT: COMPARING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN THREE ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES IN CANADA
(2013-08-19)First Nations in Canada have long struggled to participate effectively in resource development decisions. In 2004, the Supreme Court established that the federal and provincial governments of Canada have a duty to consult ... -
Beyond the Fields: A Media Content Analysis of the GMO Debate in Kenya and its Impacts on Women Farmers
(2024-04-11)Kenya is grappling with intense periods of drought, compromising agricultural outcomes and food security. Genetic modification (GM) is heralded as a potential solution to tackle low agricultural production by infusing crops ... -
Beyond The Game
(2015-04-02)Historically, sports arenas have been used for events of limited duration and frequency. The specialized nature of the venue has led to underutilization. The premise of this thesis is that the social and economic potential ... -
Biased Agonists and Allosteric Modulators of the Type 1 Cannabinoid Receptor: Potential Treatments for Huntington Disease
(2016-04-05)Huntington disease (HD) is caused by the inheritance of a single copy of the mutant huntingtin gene. HD patients suffer from progressive cognitive decline, psychoses, depression, an inability to gain and maintain weight, ... -
Bifunctional ligands in discerning and developing the fundamental and medicinal chemistry of bismuth(III).
(Dalhousie University, 1999)