Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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Understanding Ecologies: Post-Conflict Service Provision and the Resilience of Children Born in Captivity
(2018-04-27)The conflict in northern Uganda often provokes images similar to those in the 2012 viral video of a warlord abducting young children and forcibly recruiting them to battle in a civil war. While these images helped to garner ... -
TELENOVELAS AND NARCONOVELAS: LOVE AND INTIMACY IN CALI, COLOMBIA
(2018-04-27)This thesis explores the importance of Latin American soap operas – henceforth telenovelas – and narconovelas – contemporary audiovisual productions inspired in the phenomenon of drug trafficking in Colombia – in the ... -
MUSIC IN PEACEBUILDING: Examining Music within the Peacebuilding Discipline
(2018-04-25)This thesis will examine the peacebuilding discourse, alongside current findings in the music discourse, to determine whether the integration of music could enhance current peacebuilding practices. Music is an important ... -
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 ... -
The Politics of Reality: Coextensiveness in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping
(Carmel Mikol, 2018-01)A great deal of scholarly and critical analysis of Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize nominated debut, Housekeeping, focuses on themes of the domestic, definitions of home, and female relationships. Often read as a feminist ... -
Power, Discipline, and Dis/comfort: Indigenizing University Curricula
(2017-04)Since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission issued its Calls to Action in 2015, Canadian universities have emphasized the importance of inclusivity and diversity and set strategic goals to incorporate Indigenous perspectives ... -
Childless or Childfree? Women’s Narratives of Ambivalence and Identity
(2017-04)The childlessness discourse is overpowered by biomedical interventions of infertility, while ambivalence is overlooked. This study aims to vocalize this overlooked perspective by focusing on the identity narratives of seven ... -
"How do you even Define Success?": Parents' Experiences of Raising Children Today
(2017-04)The change in our perceptions of parenting only occurred over the last half of the 20th century. Intensive parenting and resilient parenting practices, which coincide with neoliberal social policy and the rise of the risk ... -
Dying Professions: Exploring Emotion Management Among Doctors and Funeral Directors
(2017-04)There are few more emotive experiences in life than death. Drawing on Arlie Hochschild’s concept of emotional labour, this study compares the emotional responsibilities of two groups of death professionals: doctors and ...