• Dishwasher Tetris experts and excellent meal planners: How fathers and mothers navigate foodwork and gender in the nuclear family 

  Mills, John (2022-12-21)

  Feeding the family is a core component of parenthood. Foodwork—the labour of acquiring, preparing, and consuming food—is a key site where parents ‘do’ gender in complex ways. Through their practices of foodwork, parents ...
• Beyond the Ivory Tower: A First-Person Exploration of Navigating the Intersections of Academia and Community 

  Barton-Bridges, Rachael (2022-08-25)

  This autoethnographic study investigates my experience as a graduate student engaging in a collaborative and community-driven research project with the University 101 Learning Community. Building on the work of many scholars ...
• A Siri-ous Conversation about AI: Understanding Human Relationships with Artificial Intelligence 

  Jesperson, Talya (2022-08-25)

  Voice assistants are a remarkable example of the potential for AI to become further entwined with social life. However, they are produced by some of the world’s largest tech corporations and are rooted in capitalistic ...
• On Intra-Becoming: Beyond Egoic Individualism. A Decolonizing and Phenomenological Exploration of Youth Climate Justice Activists’ Lessons for Transformative Eco-Social Change on Turtle Island 

  Nelems, Rebeccah (2022-05-27)

  At the heart of the intertwining eco-social crises we are currently facing on Turtle Island is a crisis of disconnect. Enacted by individualist and ego-centric lifeways, anthropocentric, capitalist and colonial institutions ...
• Spirituality as a means of resilience for women recovering from intimate partner abuse 

  Nadal, Samantha (2022-01-04)

  Intimate partner abuse is a prevalent social concern which causes long-term physical, emotional, and cognitive effects on survivors. Studies suggest that spirituality is a useful resource for individuals recovering from ...
• Freedom v. Protection (v. Fence-sitting) narratives in the euthanasia debate: a qualitative narrative policy analysis of Canadian media from 2007-2017 

  Bethune, Keely D. (2022-01-04)

  In 2016, Gray and Jones adapted the narrative policy framework (NPF) to a qualitative context. In this research, I build from their resulting Qualitative NPF (Q-NPF) method to analyze 300 randomly selected Canadian media ...
• Unmasking workers in the Victoria, BC restaurant community: women's serving experiences before and during the COVID-19 pandemic 

  Kostuchuk, Jennifer (2021-12-13)

  This exploratory study investigates the serving experiences of seven women with work experience in the Victoria, BC restaurant community before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Informed by work from Erving Goffman’s ...
• The challenges farmers face at Vancouver Island’s farmers’ markets 

  Glatt, Kora Liegh (2021-09-17)

  Farmers’ markets are often thought to be the hallmark of the local food movement. However, there appears to be relatively little research which considers farmers’ experiences there. Drawing on 12 open-ended interviews with ...
• White collar crime perspectives on deregulation under Trump 

  Deschner, Finn (2021-09-13)

  This thesis employs a qualitative content analysis of media sources to investigate the erosion of controls on elite actors under the Trump administration. Findings demonstrate the emergence of an aggressive new trend of ...
• An uncomfortable city: a community-based investigation of hostile architecture 

  Annan, Jessica (2021-08-20)

  Hostile architecture is a medium through which social exclusion is enacted in the public and common areas of our cities. By limiting who is allowed to occupy space, and how they may do so, it functions to define the contours ...
• Comedy knows no caste: Nation and caste in English political stand-up comedy on the Internet in India 

  Ganguly, Shreyashi (2021-08-18)

  Scholarship on humour in the Indian context has hardly looked at how performative humour or comedy intersects with the different axes of social stratification to impact caste groups perched at a disadvantageous position. ...
• Haunting murders: feminicide, ghosts, and affects in contemporary Mexico 

  Revilla Sanchez, Sarah (2021-08-12)

  Corpses and disappeared bodies have become part of the Mexican landscape. Within the overall increase of violence, feminicide has become an urgent matter. Around ten women are murdered each day and most cases remain unsolved. ...
• LGBTQ+ experiences in Conservative Christian communities 

  Block, Kelsey (2021-08-11)

  Using in-depth interviews with six participants, this qualitative project examines LGBTQ+ experiences in Conservative Christian communities in British Columbia and Alberta through the lens of queer theory. The research ...
• The sparring instinct: diaries of mixed martial arts 

  Mallette, Thomas G. (2021-05-05)

  Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a combat sport where pugilists combine various martial art forms to compete in sanctioned bouts of hand-to-hand cage fighting. Through immersive ethnographic research at an MMA gym, this thesis ...
• The mental health and well-being of informal caregivers in Europe: regime type, intersectionality, and the stress process 

  Browning, Sean (2021-04-27)

  This dissertation addresses the role of welfare state/family care regimes, intersecting social locations and stress process factors in influencing the mental health and subjective well-being of informal caregivers of care ...
• The hegemony of the neoliberal narrative: right wing discourses of ‘common sense’, the weaponization of the term ‘liberal’, and the shifting of the political spectrum 

  Nascimento, Victor M. A. (2021-04-08)

  Among the most notable trends of the last several decades in the United States have been the rise of corporate power, the entrenchment of neoliberalism, the rise in inequality, along with discussions regarding the ‘culture ...
• Capitalism, the State and minority ethnic relations in British Columbia 

  Dutton, Alan William (2021-03-26)

  This study attempts to explain the uneven treatment of Chinese, Japanese and East Indian ethnic minorities in British Columbia in terms of the social, economic and political conditions produced by the development may be ...
• Unfree wage labour, women and the State: employment visas and foreign domestic workers in Canada 

  Cornish, Cynthia Dale (2021-03-26)

  The present study examines federal government programs to admit women to Canada as foreign domestic workers, their exclusion from labour standards legislation, the conditions of work and wage-rates which result from this ...
• On the criminalization of HIV nondisclosure: HIV vulnerabilities and implications for HIV testing among survival sex workers in a qualitative study from Victoria, Canada 

  Benner, Bryan Eric (2021-03-17)

  Background: In Canada, failure to disclose HIV+ status before sex can result in incarceration and status as a registered sex offender for life. In 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that there is no legal mandate for ...
• Of duty, deen (faith), diaspora, and dilemma: narratives of care and intergenerational support exchanges in aging South Asian Muslim families 

  Khan, Mushira Mohsin (2020-12-22)

  International migration flows have increased at a rapid pace over the past decade and are often accompanied by emergent and evolving global realities, fluid and permeable borders, (re)negotiation of identities and familial ...

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