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(2021-07-29)This thesis uses the uniform of the Stó:lō First Nation’s Lower Fraser Fishing Authority as a cultural, material item to inform and discuss Indigenous-Crown relationships, the history of the community the object belongs ...
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(2021-07-22)I did not purposely set down to write this work but was compelled by a painful sense of what I should not do. What I should not write. To protect the privacy and autonomy of individuals, to avoid creating harm, and to ...
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(2021-07-06)This Master’s thesis examines the period of transition (1928-1935) in Soviet cinema when the avant-garde directors Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, and Oleksandr Dovzhenko, among others, began to make films under the ...
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(2021-06-08)From 1858 to 1917, Vancouver Island's brewing industry prospered in a community that, especially before the coming of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1886, was small and relatively isolated. Nevertheless, the Island industry ...
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(2021-05-31)This dissertation concerns the satirical Flat Earth Society (FES) founded at Fredericton, New Brunswick in November 1970. The essay’s successive chapters examine the lives and literary works of three understudied authors ...
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(2021-05-28)Since the re-unification of Germany, historians have written numerous books about reworking, reconstructing and rethinking the country's Nazi past. These works do not consider the way in which Germany's institutions of ...
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(2021-04-29)This dissertation examines end-of-world and posthumanist themes in speculative fiction and theory through the concept of “world unmaking.” Reading for world unmaking in three popular U.S. works of speculative fiction — ...
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(Canadian Journal of Human Rights, 2012)How are land-based and water-based cultural harms addressed and remedied for Indigenous peoples? Under existing international legal norms, states and other non-state entities have a duty to provide redress for the harms ...
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(International Journal of American Linguistics, 2011)Phonetic variability—the variability with which we speak—has recently received much attention because of its implications for how sounds are represented lexically. This paper considers phonetic variability in laryngealized ...
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(Nouvelle Revue Synergies Canada, 2017)À partir de l’exemple fourni par les textes théoriques sur l’art visuel publiés par le peintre russe Wassily Kandinsky, je m’intéresse, dans cet article, à la méthodologie transdisciplinaire de la recherche-création ; en ...
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(2003)Canada, unlike the U.S., did not experience a formal separation of church and state. Nonetheless, religion, especially Christianity, has been barred from the Canadian public policy arena. Rather than to deal with the ...
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(2021-02-01)In this study, I have analyzed the poems from the Corpus Sulpicianum (3.8–3.18) as the creation of a single author, Sulpicia. My argument in favour of the uniformity of the cycle is based on the consistency of the authorial ...
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(2021-01-29)The Romantic era, from roughly the middle of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century, was a period of rapid and revolutionary social change. Progressing in parallel was the form of the novel, which ...
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(2021-01-29)Drawing on insights from recent ethnographic and ethnohistorical studies of bureaucracy by scholars such as Akhil Gupta and Ann-Laura Stoler, this dissertation turns the ethnohistorical lens back upon the colonial state ...
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(2021-01-28)The degree to which Nazi Germany and the other Axis powers can be understood within the framework of the European nineteenth century colonial/imperial projects has, in recent years, been a controversial topic in historiography. ...
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(2021-01-13)Taiwan’s February 28 Incident happened in 1947 as a set of popular protests against the postwar policies of the Nationalist Party, and it then sparked militant actions and political struggles of Taiwanese but ended with ...
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(2021-01-13)This thesis investigates a cultural logic of information. In a world saturated with information, how is representation defined, and what kinds of boundaries does it consequently set up for establishing what can be known? ...
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(2021-01-07)Networks are an integral part of everyday life. Today, public concern with the extent to which they influence people’s routines, and how much they affect cultures and societies, has grown substantially. People are thus now ...
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(2021-01-06)Although the sensational world of Gothic literature may seem to have little to do with the “dismal science” of economics, readers and critics have long recognized connections between Romantic-era political economic discourse ...
