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“More traumatic and humiliating than assault itself”: Exploring students’ perceptions of Dalhousie University’s management of sexual assault issues
(2017-04)
Sexual assault on university campuses remains a pervasive issue, with Dalhousie University being no exception. It has been argued that universities regularly fail their victims of sexual assault as they do not adequately ...
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 ...
Tapping into Mental Health: Exploring Indigenous Water and Mental Health Issues through Canadian Media
(2017-04)
It seems both unjust and ironic that the first peoples on the land now known as Canada are some of the last to obtain access to their fundamental human rights. This research explores the occurrence of relationship, region, ...
Picturing Halifax: Young Immigrant Women and the Social Construction of Urban Space
(2017-04)
This study explores the social construction of space in the lives of young immigrant women. Drawing upon data from photo-elicitation interviews, I analyze how young women who recently immigrated to Canada interpret and ...
On Thin Ice: Examining Youth Hockey Participation in Canada
(2017-04)
Picture your local community, and chances are you will see two things: a hockey arena and an outdoor rink. Many Canadian children of all backgrounds play hockey. It is the quintessential Canadian sport, and yet previous ...
Friendship Through the Ages: A Technological Perspective
(2017-04)
Friendship is a socially constructed phenomenon that is part of the everyday lives of human beings. Its practices have been researched for many years by sociologists and social anthropologists. The use of digital communication ...
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 ...
Perspectives of Officers Policing in Aboriginal Communities Across Canada, 1996 and 2007
(Atlantic Institute of Criminology, 2016)
This paper focuses on the perspectives and work experiences of officers policing
in Aboriginal communities in Canada in 1996 and 2007. It is based on two separate
nation-wide surveys, the first in 1995-1996 by Clairmont ...
GUNS, SHOOTINGS AND THE DRUG CULTURE
(Atlantic Institute of Criminology, 2013)
Spending Right? Precariat Students’ Experience of Student Loans
(2015-06-01)
Drawing on the concepts of “habitus” (Bourdieu & Passeron, 1990), “stigma management,” (Goffman, 1963) and “moral boundaries” (Sayer, 2005) which feature strongly in the existing literature on working-class students, this ...