Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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“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 ... -
Corn Lear: A Perspective on the Agricultural Decline in King Lear
(2019-02)In response to the trend of anachronistic, ecological readings of Shakespearean texts, the goal of this essay is to re-situate the ecological themes in King Lear back into their original context to gain a greater understanding ... -
Isolation and Interconnectedness in Walt Whitman's New York
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The Impossible Urban Pastoral: Howl’s Development of Ecological Consciousness
(Dalhousie Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 2018-01-25)Central to the idea of ecological consciousness is the assertion that individual wellness relies on the state of one’s environment, and that the proper functioning of a society as a whole is dependent upon the wellness of ...
