Browsing by Subject "Identity"
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Affective Mining: The Emotional Narrative around Social Consent for the Corani Mining Project in Puno, Peru
(2022-08-29)In 2018, the Canadian Bear Creek Mining Corporation (BCMC) obtained from the local rural population the social license to operate (SLO) the Corani mining project in the Southern Peruvian region of Puno. This was a major ... -
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 ... -
Dysnosties: Le récit du retour au pays natal dans la littérature canadienne francophone contemporaine
(2014-11-24)This project examines the development of the theme of return to the native land in eleven texts that attest to the diversity of the communities built and represented by contemporary French Canadian literature: Pélagie-la-Charrette ... -
“I HATE MY GENERATION”: CANADIAN MALE IDENTITY IN SLOAN’S TWICE REMOVED
(2014-09-05)In the early 1990s, a Halifax band named Sloan broke Into the alternative rock scene with their debut album Smeared (1993), released by Geffen Records, which received critical and commercial success in both Canada and the ... -
IMAGINING THE PAST FORWARD: FLAMENCO, ANDALUSIAN MUSIC, IDENTITY, AND CULTURAL DIPLOMACY IN THE FESTIVAL DES ANDALOUSIES ATLANTIQUES D'ESSAOUIRA
(2021-04-27)This thesis examines the Festival des Andalousies Atlantiques d’Essaouira (FAAE) between 2010-2020 and uses the 2020 edition as a case study, focusing specifically on flamenco, Andalusian music and the festival’s function ... -
Liminal Communities: An Infrastructure for Identity and Belonging in Planned Resource Towns
(2018-07-31)Following the economic crisis of 2008, residents of Mackenzie, a remote forestry town in British Columbia, watched as all six local mills closed – putting their economy on pause and forcing nearly a quarter of residents ... -
Living in the Liminal: Finding Resilience in Rural British Columbia
(2022-04-13)Off the coast of Vancouver Island, the first Redwood Cedar was felled for industry only a few kilometres from Tahsis, British Columbia. Since then, forestry remains a cornerstone to British Columbia’s economy and its ... -
'Much More Than Chocolate': A Mosaic of Identity in Moirs Advertising, 1830 to 2007
(2020-05-06)The Moirs chocolate company operated as early as 1815 and continued operation into 2007, seeing various changes in ownership and leadership. Throughout the duration of the Nova Scotia based company numerous methods of ... -
“Our boys have upheld the honor of their town in the Hockey rink…” The Culture of Amateur Hockey in the Maritime Provinces, c. 1900-1925.
(2020-12-15)From 1900 to 1925, amateur hockey in Maritime communities filled local newspapers and drew thousands of fans to the stadiums. The Acadian, The Union Advocate, The Advertiser, The Weekly Report and Western Annapolis Sentinel, ... -
Reactivate and Reconnect: A Strategy for the Reintegration of an Abandoned Military Community
(2013-04-05)This architectural design thesis proposes the adaptive re-use of 82 walk-up apartment blocks located in Shannon Park, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. The uniform military housing community, abandoned in 2004, is ... -
Setting the Scene: Cinematic Syntax as a way of Forming Identity in the Generic City
(2022-04-11)There is a syntax that exists in film, architecture, and the city, elements that come together to form a language. This language creates a relationship between different components, forming a point of view, through space ... -
Vancouver's Indigenous Identity: Representing a Narrative
(2017-04-07)As an estranged site that defines a gap along the recreational and accessible water’s edge in Vancouver, it is odd to fi find prime real estate left desolate. With research, the issue of the site was evidently much grander ...
