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Browsing M.A. Social Justice and Equity Studies by Issue Date
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Native women, theory and research : contexts and contestations
(Brock University, 2004-07-14)In this thesis I outline a critical approach to interpreting the considerable academic literature on Aboriginal women in North America. I locate the scholarship concerning Native women within an understanding of three ... -
The impact of social welfare reform and workfare on lone-parent female headed households in the Niagara Region
(Brock University, 2004-07-14)This thesis explores the impact of recent social welfare reforms on the lives of social assistance recipients. The focus is on single mothers who are dependent on social assistance in a small city in southern Ontario. ... -
International volunteers at a Costa Rican organic farm : sheepish volunteers, proud tourists and unwitting developers
(Brock University, 2004-07-14)This thesis analyzes the practices and experiences of two groups of Canadian volunteers who visited the organic fanning and "alternative development" project ofFinca la Flor (FLF) in central Costa Rica. Using both ... -
Power, resistance and Spanish Residential School
(Brock University, 2004-11-04)This thesis explores the relationship between exercises of disciplinary power and acts of resistance as they relate to the negotiation of identities at Spanish Residential School between the years of 1878 and 1930. The ... -
(Re)writing the other/self : autoethnography in the transcultural arena of representation
(Brock University, 2005-05-19)Abstract: In Imperial Eyes Mary Louise Pratt (1992: 7, emphasis original) defines autoethnography as "instances in which colonized subjects undertake to represent themselves in ways that engage with the colonizer's own ... -
"Welcome to my life" : the experiences of single mothers who are the recipients of multiple state provided benefits
(Brock University, 2005-07-14)Abstract This research takes the lens of social reproduction as a starting point for an examination of the effects of recent social welfare reforms on the lives o.fsingle mothers. As the cumulative effects o.f diminishing ... -
Disrupting heterosexual space? : the implementation of a campus Positive Space Campaign
(Brock University, 2005-07-14)Drawing on a growing literature on the interconnection of queer theory, sexuality and space, this thesis critically assesses the development, implementation and impact of a campus-based Positive Space Campaign aimed at ... -
Benefits, challenges, and limitations of fair trade as a social justice movement
(Brock University, 2006-02-16)This thesis answers some important questions about how Fair Trade is experienced and perceived by some Northern sellers, consumers, activists, advocates, practitioners, and an importer. As it relates to sellers, I focus ... -
Production under glass : working conditions and class-consciousness of the Niagara greenhouse workers
(Brock University, 2006-05-19)This study applies a Marxist theoretical paradigm to examine the working conditions of greenhouse workers in the Niagara Region, and the range of factors that bear upon the formation of their class-consciousness. The ... -
Citizen Jane : exploring the relationship between gender and cellular phones in societies of control
(Brock University, 2007-05-21)In this thesis, I argue that the mutually productive relationship between women (as gendered subjects) and cellular phone technology is one of control. Women use cellular phones to organize, manage and otherwise control ... -
On the edge : exploring homeless women's social networks
(Brock University, 2007-05-21)This thesis aims to uncover the ways that previously homeless women in the Niagara region are able (or unable) to rely on friends, family and service providers in times of crisis (homelessness and poverty). Eleven women ... -
Graffiti, memory and contested space : mnemonic initiatives following trauma and/or repression in Buenos Aires, Argentina
(Brock University, 2007-05-21)Graffiti, Memory and Contested Space: Mnemonic Initiatives Following Periods of Trauma and/or Repression in Buenos Aires, Argentina This thesis concerns the popular articulation ofmemory following periods or incidents ... -
Dancing politics : connecting women's experiences of rave in Toronto to ageism and patriarchy
(Brock University, 2007-05-21)Based on a critical analysis of recent Canadian and British media, academic, and political representations of rave, in conjunction with the author's and ten female interviewees' past experiences as active rave participants, ... -
Advocating recognition and redistribution in poverty alleviation programs in Ghana : an examination of state and NGO programs and policies
(Brock University, 2007-11-16)Abstract This thesis argues that poverty alleviation strategies and programs carried out by the government and Non Governmental Organizations in Ghana provide affirmative solutions to poverty. This is because, these ... -
Gendered inequality in academia : exploring women's experiences during the pre-tenure stages of their academic career
(Brock University, 2008-05-21)This research uses the work of Pierre Bourdieu as a starting point for an examination of women's experiences during the pre-tenure stages of their academic career. This thesis is based on six semi-structured interviews ... -
Righteous sounds and reproductive justice : the influence of Ani DiFranco's music for reproductive rights activists
(Brock University, 2008-05-21)In this thesis, I explore how the folk-rock music of Ani DiFranco has influenced the activist commitments, sensibilities, and activities of reproductive rights activists. My interest in the relation of popular music to ... -
A minor theory of the transit of materiality into discourse, Via Campesina.
(Brock University, 2008-05-21)In this thesis I explore how the material properties of plant seed enter the political discourses of the international peasant coalition the Via Campesina and coalition member the National Fanners Union of Canada (NFU), ... -
The shifting terrain of feminist theory and activism : university-based women's centres and third wave feminism
(Brock University, 2009-06-01)This thesis, based on the results of an organizational ethnography of a university-based feminist organization in Southern Ontario (the Centre), traces how third wave feminism is being constituted in the goals, initiatives, ... -
Medicalization and women : O, the Oprah Magazine diagnosed through critical discourse analysis
(Brock University, 2010-03-09)This thesis uses critical discourse analysis (COAl to explore and examine direct-toconsumer (OTC) pharmaceutical drug advertisements appearing in four issues of 0, The Oprah Magazine in 2006. The theoretical underpinnings ... -
The Clemente Course in the Humanities and critical pedagogy : a comparative analysis of Earl Shorris and bell hooks on poverty, racism, imperialism and patriarchy
(Brock University, 2010-03-09)The Clemente Course in the Humanities is an anti-poverty intervention for adults who self-identity as "poor" and humanities instructors. The course was created in 1995 by journalist Earl Shorris, who based the curriculum ...