Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

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    Abject Utopianism and Psychic Space: An Exploration of a Psychological Progress Toward Utopia in the Work of Samuel R. Delany and Julia Kristeva

    Year: 2014, 2014
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Ellis, Cameron Alexander James, Thesis advisor (ths): Hollinger, Veronica, Degree committee member (dgc): Eddy, Charmaine, Degree committee member (dgc): Panagia, Davide, Degree committee member (dgc): Stavro, Elaine, Degree committee member (dgc): Pero, Allan, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>This dissertation utilizes the psychoanalytic theories of French psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva as a lens through which to read the novels of American author Samuel R. Delany. I argue that concepts proper to Kristeva's work--namely abjection and/or the abject--can provide a way to think what it might mean to be utopian in the 21st century. Delany's novels are received… more

    Pursuing Different Policy Paths in Long-Term Care: Manitoba, Ontario and the Politics of Commercialization

    Year: 2014, 2014
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Twomey, Amy, Thesis advisor (ths): Struthers, James, Degree committee member (dgc): Chivers, Sally, Degree committee member (dgc): Armstrong, Hugh, Degree committee member (dgc): Anastakis, Dimitry, Degree committee member (dgc): Wiseman, Nelson, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>Because federal funding for long-term care was not included as part of Canada's publicly-funded universal health care system, provincial governments have been free to determine how much, or how little, they will rely on the for-profit sector to meet the long-term care needs of their senior populations. The proportion of beds in the for-profit sector differs in each province,… more

    Growing Up in Postwar Suburbia: Childhood, Children and Adolescents in Canada, 1950-1970

    Year: 2014, 2014
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Onusko, James, Thesis advisor (ths): Sangster, Joan, Degree committee member (dgc): Marshall, Dominique, Degree committee member (dgc): Steffler, Margaret, Degree committee member (dgc): Walden, Keith, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>Growing Up in Postwar Suburbia: Childhood, Children and Adolescents in Canada, 1950-1970</p><p>This dissertation explores the intersections between the suburban landscape both `real' and imagined, childhood, children and adolescents. I contend that there was a richness and diversity in the experiences of children and adolescents in postwar Canada that resists simplistic… more

    Pausing Encounters with Autism and Its Unruly Representation: An inquiry into method, culture and academia in the making of disability and difference in Canada

    Year: 2014, 2014
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Marris, John Edward, Thesis advisor (ths): Chivers, Sally, Degree committee member (dgc): Epp, Michael, Degree committee member (dgc): Rankin, Pauline, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>This dissertation seeks to explore and understand how autism, asperger and the autistic spectrum is represented in Canadian culture. Acknowledging the role of films, television, literature and print media in the construction of autism in the consciousness of the Canadian public, this project seeks to critique representations of autism on the grounds that these representations have an… more