Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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Exploring Euphoria: Delineations of Raving Morality, Collective Effervescence, and Therapeutic Culture in the Halifax Rave Scene
(2024-05)Increasing commercialization of the underground rave scene has led to a decline in so-called “authentic” raves around the world, and an increase in licensed bar and festival-based EDM events, which do not share the same ... -
Sharing meals, making meanings: Foodways among 2nd and 1.5 generation immigrants
(2024-05)Second- and 1.5-generation immigrants must negotiate multiple cultures: the culture(s) of their parents, and the dominant culture where they are born. Foodways play a critical role in the construction of cultural identity, ... -
Parenting and Working: Parents Working as Doctors Returning from Parental Leave
(2024-05)There is an abundance of research on maternity leave in terms of economic impacts, gendered impacts, and health but there is less research on qualitative experiences of returning from leave and navigating a career while ... -
Contemporary Apparitions: Ghost Stories as Personal Narratives
(2024-05)Storytelling, an integral part of the human experience, encompasses a diverse range of narratives, with ghost stories standing out as a near-universal phenomenon. While anthropologists and folklorists have long been ... -
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 ... -
The Gag City Grammar Police: Language and Algorithmic Community on Stan Twitter
(2024-05)Barbz are a group of fans who have formed an online community devoted to Nicki Minaj. Known broadly as a ‘stan’ group, they form speech communities on Twitter/X and present as a closed group despite remaining public. Taking ... -
Trend or Treatment? Stigma, Social Challenges, and the Burdens of Managing Celiac Disease
(2024-05)Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease estimated to affect about 1% of the global population (Biesiekierski et al., 2014). It is managed only through strict lifelong adherence to a gluten free diet. However, this diet ... -
“I Feel Bad for People Who Don’t Have a Chronic Illness:” Refusing Deviance and Reframing Illness Through Summer Camp
(2024-05)Scholarship in medical anthropology has a history of characterizing chronic illness as a “deviant” condition. Emerging research problematizes this paradigm, however, and demands its reconsideration. The growing recognition ... -
Decarbonizing Dalhousie's Investment Porfolio
(2024-04-05)Dalhousie University faces a pivotal moment to realign its investment portfolio with its core values of sustainability and responsibility. This proposal advocates for a comprehensive approach to decarbonizing investments, ...