• Edge effects: poetry, place, and spiritual practices 

  Bubel, Katharine (2018-05-01)

  "Edge Effects: Poetry, Place, and Spiritual Practices” focusses on the intersection of the environmental and religious imaginations in the work of five West Coast poets: Robinson Jeffers, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hass, ...
• A phonetic and phonological investigation of North American English (NAE) segments in the interlanguage grammar of a native speaker of German (SHG) 

  Suessenbach, Lisa (2018-04-30)

  This thesis investigates the L2 English pronunciation of a native speaker of German who has lived in western Canada for 25 years. The goal of the study was understand the defining features of his accent, to determine what ...
• Prosodic structure of the foxtrot 

  Richards, Matthew (2018-04-30)

  Language is a common metaphor used to describe dance and how people understand, observe, dance and relate to dances. This metaphor implies that dance has a communicative aspect between people and there is a structure to ...
• Technology and interactivity in modern/post-modern Japanese theatre 

  Draker, Diana Lily (2018-04-30)

  Multimedia technology in theatre is nothing new, but various companies in modern and post-modern Japan, such as Dumb Type, Hatsune Miku, and the robot theatre of Oriza Hirata and Hiroshi Ishiguro, have been experimenting ...
• North Korea, representation and armament: an investigation into the politics of missile defense 

  Chlumecky, Nicholas (2018-04-30)

  This thesis examines how corporations use North Korea’s media portrayal to profit. By gaining government contracts to develop weapons and missile defense systems, companies such as Lockheed Martin make billions of dollars. ...
• Sporting multiculturalism: Toronto's postwar European immigrants, gender, diaspora, and the grassroots making of Canadian diversity 

  Fielding, Stephen (2018-04-30)

  This dissertation offers an alternative lens to understand Canada’s gradual embrace of multiculturalism. Scholars have typically “worked back” from Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s famous 1971 declaration to unearth the ...
• The role of storytelling in the development of pronunciation of Brazilian learners of English as a foreign language 

  Rezende Lucarevschi, Claudio (2018-04-26)

  A number of studies in the literature claim that storytelling is a powerful tool in the development of receptive (i.e., Reading and Listening) and productive (i.e., Speaking and Writing) language skills, including pronunciation ...
• Shinzo Abe’s version of history and the “Rise of China” 

  Lai, Kong Yeung Ronald (2018-04-25)

  This thesis examines how Shinzo Abe’s historical perspectives on “comfort women” and the Nanjing Massacre are influenced by global demands. Abe’s official account on these issues have been affected by pressures to reconcile ...
• A "Colony of Unrequited Dreams"? Settler colonialism and the failed-settlement narrative in the Ottawa-Huron Tract, 1850-1910 

  Murray, Derek (2018-04-18)

  In the 1850s, the government of Canada West initiated a project to colonize a vast region of the Canadian Shield known as the Ottawa-Huron Tract. Later, in his influential interpretation, Arthur Lower argued the myth of ...
• Does time heal?: cinematic reconstruction of historical trauma in twenty-first century China 

  Zhang, Shiya (2018-04-10)

  While the whole world is talking about China’s rise in wealth and power, most focus has been placed on understanding China’s present policies and future orientations. However, very little attention is devoted to examining ...
• Performative metaphors in Caribbean and ethnic Canadian writing 

  Härting, Heike Helene (2018-02-19)

  Postcolonial theorists tend to read metaphor generally as a trope of power that synthesizes its inherently binary structure of tenor and vehicle to produce totalizing meanings. Although some critics have emphasized the ...
• Death, burial and mutuality : A study of popular funerary customs in Cumbria, 1700-1920 

  Callaghan, Brenda Doreen (2018-02-05)

  This thesis investigates the impact of modernisation upon popular death customs in Cumbria between 1700 and 1920. Specifically, it explores the role and nature of mutuality, arguing that despite the growth of individualism, ...
• Tsemsyaenhl-get: sixteen battles in the military history of the nine allied Tsimshian tribes 

  Buddenhagen, Jeremy (2018-02-02)

  There is a deeply held bias in Northwest Coast scholarly literature that suggests pre-contact Indigenous warfare was primarily made up of simplistic nighttime sneak attacks to raid for slaves or treasure. This thesis ...
• Limxhl Hlgu Wo'omhlxw Song of the Newborn : knowledge and stories surrounding pregnancy, childbirth, and the newborn. A collaborative language project 

  Dworak, Catherine (2018-01-30)

  The Limxhl Hlgu Wo'omhlxw (Song of the Newborn) project is situated on Lax Yipxwhl Gitxsan (Gitxsan Territory) and embraces a decolonizing and Indigenist (Wilson, 2007) methodology. The project is a collaboration between ...
• Theoretical and empirical considerations in investigating washback : a study of ESL/EFL learners 

  Saif, Shahrzad (2018-01-19)

  Researchers' and educators' recognition of the positive/negative effects of tests on teaching and learning activities goes back at least four decades. However, this phenomenon, referred to as “washback” in the applied ...
• “Go back to the capital and stay there”: the mining industry’s resistance to regulatory reform in British Columbia 1972-2005 

  Addie, Sean C. (2018-01-19)

  The Barrett (1972-1975) and Harcourt-Clark (1991-2001) New Democratic Party (NDP) governments attempted to redefine their relationship with the mining industry by changing the regulatory structures that governed mining in ...
• Success and failure in British Columbia's softwood plywood industry, 1913 to 1999 

  Griffin, Robert Brian (2018-01-15)

  British Columbia's plywood industry between 1913 and 1935 bore little relationship to the industry of the post-World War II period. In 1913, the Canadian Western Lumber Company's Fraser Mills plant manufactured Douglas fir ...
• A rebel band of friends : understanding through women's narratives of friendship, identity and moral agency 

  Donawa, Wendy (2018-01-11)

  This narrative inquiry is grounded in friendship. It draws its data from the narratives of four longstanding women friends in the Caribbean, where I have spent my adult life. I draw on these narratives, and on my own ...
• The Bird Commission, Japanese Canadians, and the challenge of reparations in the wake of state violence 

  Findlay, Kaitlin (2018-01-09)

  The Royal Commission on Japanese Claims (1947-1951), known as the “Bird Commission,” investigated and offered compensation to Japanese Canadians for their losses of property during the 1940s. It is largely remembered for ...
• Corporeal canvas: art, protest, and power in contemporary Russia 

  Ehle, Kate (2018-01-02)

  This thesis examines the recent emergence of corporeal protest art in Russia. Through analyses of cultural, social, and economic shifts in the post-Soviet Era, I observe how this corporeal turn reflects a significant ...

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