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The Cuban Recipe for Food Sovereignty: Investigating the contextual variables that shape Cuba’s cuisine and food culture
This thesis investigates the linkages and contradictions between Food Sovereignty and Slow Food’s principles within Cuba. The Cuban food system is influenced by external factors including the US embargo, broader international ... -
LEARNING LESSONS THROUGH EXPERIENCES WITH DISASTERS: Exploring Institutional Memory-Building and the Informing of Disaster Relief in Nova Scotia and Beyond
This thesis explores the central research question: how are lessons learned from experiences with disasters? Based on three case studies detailing Nova Scotia Emergency Management Office’s experiences responding to the ... -
BORDER TRANSGRESSIONS AS A FORM OF SURVIVAL FOR THE DOWNTRODDEN ZIMBABWEANS: THE CASE OF BEITBRIDGE BORDER POST, 2000 – 2020
The economic meltdown in Zimbabwe forced many people to engage in informal livelihood pursuits. This thesis documents the dynamics of informal cross-border trade and extends a justified contextualisation of this phenomenon ... -
A DIFFICULT LINE TO WALK: NGO AND LGBTQ+ REFUGEE EXPERIENCES WITH INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT) IN CANADA
This thesis project explores the uses of Information and Communications Technology (ICTs) between SOGIE asylum seekers and refugees in Canada and Canadian NGOs who work with these populations. Based on interviews, this ... -
In Dialogue with Chen Yi: Compositional Images, Techniques, and Influences
(2020-07)This is an edited transcript of the question and answer period that concluded a special session on Chen Yi’s music on November 3, 2017, sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women at the 2017 Society for Music Theory ... -
Dialogue with Chen Yi: Compositional Images, Techniques, and Influences
(2020-07)This is an edited transcript of the question and answer period that concluded a special session on Chen Yi’s music on November 3, 2017, sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women at the 2017 Society for Music Theory ... -
GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT IN CANADA’S OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE: GAPS BETWEEN THEORY, POLICY AND PRACTICE 1970-2019
The main argument of this thesis is that the gaps in the practice of equality have limited Canada’s capability to transform inequality. The research is What are the policy gaps and problems weakening Canada’s transformative ... -
Madness in the Media: News Coverage of Police Lethal Force on Persons with Mental Illness
(2020)Police encounters with persons with mental illness have been increasing since the deinstitutionalization of the 1960s. As a result, persons with mental illness are the most vulnerable demographic to police use of lethal ... -
“Open Yourself to the World”: Reasons for Studying Foreign Languages in University
(2020)Canadian universities are constantly promoting the importance of multicultural education. However, the departments that are strongly suited to developing intercultural understanding among students, namely humanities and ... -
On the Possibility of a Cinema of Cruelty
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Coercion in Octavia E. Butler's Xenogenesis
(Dalhousie University, 2020-03)Throughout Octavia E. Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy, which introduces humanity to an alien species called the Oankali, there are many imbalances of power. Between violence from toxic masculinity and alien sedatives, the ... -
"All Imagination Compact:" The Ambiguous Relationship between Human Nature and Nonhuman Nature in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(2020-03-03)Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream probes the mysterious Elizabethan relationship between human and nonhuman nature. The common belief at this time saw nature as an almighty force of God; yet, there were many contradicting ...
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