Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "Ethnography"
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Advocating for Natural Resources: Empowering the Riverine Communities of the Amazon through Landscape Architecture
(2019-12-09)Cultural identity in the Amazon region has been destabilized by tensions between tradition and progress. This architectural thesis explores a contested landscape that both balances and revalues nature. The riverine people ... -
From Grass Roots to Pharma Partnerships: Breast Cancer Advocacy in Canada
(2014-12-04)From Grass Roots to Pharma Partnerships examines the development, over a twenty-year span, of alliances between grass roots breast cancer groups in Canada and the pharmaceutical industry. I conclude that these alliances ... -
SPIRITUAL MALADIES: AA MEMBERS AS INTERPRETERS OF A SYMBOLIC CULTURE
(2020-08-26)This ethnography engages with Alcoholics Anonymous’ (AA’s) self-defined alcoholics and addicts as participants in the co-construction of meaning through AA’s cultural framework. It is concerned with how they determine and ...