Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
“Finding Joy in the Act of Giving:” Volunteering Amidst Tensions of Altruism and Egoism
(2019-04)Volunteering is an action commonly assumed to be altruistic and beneficial to society; one such benefit is the assumed potential of volunteer work to create community ties. This study uses the gift exchange framework to ... -
“How do we Better Prepare for the Future?”: Political Ambivalence and Income Guarantees in Canadian Media
(2019-05)Economies in the globalized world are undergoing rapid changes due to automation. These changes have exacerbated wealth inequality in many nations, prompting calls for more effective poverty reduction strategies. In Canada, ... -
The Pain of Change: The Montage Framework of "The Collected Works of Billy The Kid"
(Dalhousie University, 2019-03-08)In 1975, Michael Ondaatje said that in The Collected Works of Billy the Kid he was “trying to make the film [he] couldn’t afford to shoot, in the form of a book” (Solecki 20). How literally can we take this claim? If ...
