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Contradictions and Constructions: Psychiatric Perceptions in Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1979
(2000-09)
South African psychiatrists perpetuated apartheid notions of racial difference between 1948 and 1977. However, support of apartheid ideology by South African psychiatrists was not necessarily uniform. Rather, some psychiatrists ...
A Home Within the City : Transitional Housing for Homeless Individuals in Toronto
(2009-07)
This thesis explores the idea of home for the homeless individual who has made the decision to seek assistance for issues of addiction or mental illness and wants to transition to permanent housing in the future through ...
Quaternary landscape evolution of the southern central Andes of Chile quantified using landslide inventories, Be and C1 cosmogenic isotopes and (U-Th)/He thermochronology
(2008-12)
The Andes Mountains--the largest subduction orogen in the world--are a unique natural laboratory suited to test interactions at different timescales between tectonic and surface processes. However, Andean Landscape Evolution ...
Nomads and nomadologies: Transformations of the primitive in twentieth-century theory and culture.
(Dalhousie University, 2003)
On the Threshold : Architectural Responses to Gentrification in Chicago's Neighborhood of Pilsen
(2009-05)
By programmatically and spatially addressing inclusiveness through social architecture, the negative impacts of gentrification happening in Chicago's neighborhood of Pilsen - through loss of culture and displacement of ...
Wall, Hero, and Text : Heroic Narrative Encounters the Warsaw Ghetto
(2004-09)
This thesis examines the intersection of the heroic narrative and the Warsaw Ghetto . It considers both Polish and Jewish texts; Marek Edelman's The Ghetto Fights and Hanna Krall's To Outwit God both vigorously reject the ...
From the Sidelines of Empire : Canada's Protestant Mission to Korea, 1898-1938
(2008-08)
In the early twentieth century the Canadian Presbyterian and subsequent United Church mission to Korea worked within the restrictions of Japanese colonialism until 1 942. Given this setting the mission has been portrayed ...
"It's a black thang maybe": Postmodem Racism in Percival Everett's Erasure
(2007-08)
This thesis examines the nature and consequence of Percival Everett's engagement with the contemporary phenomenon of postmodern racism in his novel 'Erasure'. To avoid perpetuating the idea that a critic is responsible for ...
Aristotle on Phantasia
(2005-10)
This text will argue that Aristotelian phantasia does not form a full capacity in the psyche and, instead, by drawing on its causal origins in perception, acts as an activity serving in the role of helpmate to capacities ...
Culture and sexual health : exploring the experiences of young South Asian women in Nova Scotia
(2005-08)
This qualitative exploratory study examined the experiences of a sample of young South Asian women living in Nova Scotia in relation to their sexuality and sexual health, while examining the influence of a bi-cultural ...