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Senghor's Contribution to Development: Culture, Cosmopolitanism and Earth Wisdom
(2011-09-06)This thesis is an exploration of how Senghorian thought can be useful for rethinking development. I argue that the criticisms provided by post-development are valid but that we need not reject development entirely. Rather ... -
Settling on Nova Scotia: Exploring the Meaning of Home after Relocating During the Covid-19 Pandemic
(2024-05)Since 2016, Nova Scotia has experienced an upswing in migration to the province after decades of out-migration. The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated this phenomenon, with an estimated population growth of over 20,000 people ... -
Sharing the Catch: Understanding Women's Roles and Work in Uganda's Lake Victoria Fisheries
(2016-08-25)This paper examines the divisions of labour between women and men in the artisanal fisheries of Uganda’s Lake Victoria. Traditionally in Uganda gender norms prescribe fishing as a male occupation, while women have generally ... -
Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Finance in South Africa: Implications for private sector-led development
(2010-12-17)Efficient financing for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is important so that SMEs can grow and be sustainable. This thesis applies a qualitative approach informed by the concept of private sector-led development (PSD) ... -
SMALL TOWN POLICING AND THE COMMUNITY-BASED POLICING MOVEMENT
(Atlantic Institute of Criminology, 1997)In this paper, we intend to explore the ideological construction of the concepts Small Town Policing (STP), police professionalism and Community-based Policing. Although CBP may have originated as a reformed urban model ... -
Small-town, Professional, and Community-based Policing: Reformative and Strategic Rhetoric
(2012)In this article, we explore the ideological construction of the concepts Small Town Policing, police Professionalism, and Community-based Policing (CBP). Professional policing responded to the major deficiencies of Small ... -
Smudging and Concrete: Indigenous Traditional Ways in the City of Halifax
(2013-04)In spite of the increasing importance of urban-Indigenous (urban-Aboriginal) issues in Canada, very little is known about these topics in relation to Atlantic Canadian urban centers. Urban-Indigenous peoples are the fastest ... -
Sober Sociability: How non-drinking students navigate outside the norm
(2023-05)Drinking culture on campuses has been written about for decades, and drinking students see drinking culture as a means of forming and maintaining friendships, socializing in large groups and vital in their university ... -
Socio-demographic Survey of Police Officers Serving in Aboriginal Communities
(Alderson-Gill & Associates Consulting Inc., 2008-11) -
Spending Right? Precariat Students’ Experience of Student Loans
(2015-06-01)Drawing on the concepts of “habitus” (Bourdieu & Passeron, 1990), “stigma management,” (Goffman, 1963) and “moral boundaries” (Sayer, 2005) which feature strongly in the existing literature on working-class students, this ... -
Star Chamber Reports: Harley MS 2143
(2018)Only the introduction is available here, given copyright restrictions. -
The Status of Poor Women in Rural Bangladesh: Survival Through Socio-political Conflict
(2011-09-06)This study is based on how rural poor Muslim women in Bangladesh have become the target of both international donor agencies and of Islamic preachers. In Bangladesh, religion and politics are not viewed separately, nor are ... -
Staying Connected: Life Online During the Covid-19 Pandemic
(2021-04)The Covid-19 pandemic brought about lockdowns and public health guidelines and left Canadians to grapple with the changes it inflicted on their daily lives. With the onset of the pandemic in March 2020 a great deal of ... -
Straight Until Proven Queer: Exploring Young Queer Attitudes Towards Coming Out
(2022-04)Much has been said about the coming out process in sociological literature — including varying characterizations of the process and varying claims about the significance of the process. This study aims to uncover how young ... -
A Strategic Plan for Justice Programming in Elsipogtog
(Atlantic Institute of Criminology, 2006-03)