Green Cosmic Dreams: Utopia and Ecological Exile in Women's Exoplanetary Science Fiction See

Exile is not only an appropriate lens through which to view the ecological, social, and psychological destabilizations of the Anthropocene, but also as a state which can inspire the flexibility and creativity necessary to survi...

Essays on Skills and Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants and the Canadian Born See

Inequalities in basic skills and labour market outcomes between immigrants (by admission category) and the Canadian-born, and the underrepresentation of women in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector, are examined using&#x...

Living A Mad Politics: Affirming Mad Onto-Ethico-Epistemologies Through Resonance, Resistance, and Relational Redress of Epistemic-Affective Harm See

Drawing on the theoretical influences of Mad and Disability Studies; philosophical conceptualizations of epistemic injustice (Fricker, 2007), ethical loneliness (Stauffer, 2015), and psycho-emotional disablism (Reeve, 2012; Thomas, 1999; 2007); disabil...

Singing the Vila: Supernatural Beings in the Context of their Traditions See

This thesis presents a critical overview of a supernatural being, the South Slavic vila, as she figures in the oral traditions of Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian peasants collected in the 19th and early 20th cen...