Satire has many effects on its audience, from callous laughter at politicians to seriously thinking about the experienced social and political reality. This thesis explores satire’s effects on those who watch Kukly, a famously banned political satire show in Russia that is only …
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The education system of the western world is a tool of hegemony used to command replication of an ontology rooted in oppression. Teachers interested in combating oppression must work toward decolonizing their praxis, a nuanced task accomplished with the help of critical inquiry …
The complexity of traumatic experiences and their influence on psychological wellness continues to expand and inform the clinical practice of trauma-specific interventions. Race relations within the United States have created and sustained long-standing pervasive issues that hav…
Is it possible for the victim of epistemic injustice to be appreciative of it? What we get from the literature is that victims of epistemic injustice are either unaware of, indifferent to, or resistant against, the injustices that they experience – never appreciative. But how sh…
Areas often called food deserts are sites that overlap physically and metaphorically with Black food geographies. Black feminist and womanist perspectives offer valuable insights when developing an understanding of these spaces because of the socio-historical construction of foo…
This dissertation engages poetic contemplations of nonhuman and human animals in order to propose what I call a vegan poetics : that is, an applied reading/writing practice in service of an inclusive liberatory struggle and by way of imaginative translation, transformation and e…
Native Hawaiians are overrepresented in both child maltreatment and foster care entry rates in Hawaii’s child welfare system. While these racial disparities are well-documented, less is known about the reasons for why they are happening. This multi-method study analyzed 2019 dat…
With the increasingly racialized schooling and social contexts of the ongoing anti-immigrant, anti-Latinx, and xenophobic national climate, there is an urgency to examine how K-12 Ethnic Studies (ES) classrooms can support Latinx students with navigating and confronting racializ…
In recent decades there has been an increased call for teacher preparation programs to incorporate social justice themes into their curricula. This is in response to glaring educational inequities that fall along racial, linguistic, and socio-economic lines, among others (Ladson…
This dissertation is a constructivist grounded theory study of queer fans and their overlapping interactions with fanfiction texts, online platforms, and each other. Informed by queer theory, assemblage theory, and other perspectives from Library and Information Science (LIS), M…
This thesis investigates the distinction between terror and horror that Robert Hume first established in his 1969 article on categories of the gothic novel, a distinction that I redefine as a scholar working after the #Metoo movement and broader cultural recognition of the terro…
This dissertation presents findings from the first known Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis study of how nine transgender and/or gender expansive youth, aged 13-17, experienced their gender identities and additional intersecting identities. The purpose of this study was to…
The complex politics of Zimbabwe’s multifaceted land issue calls for a nuanced approach to unravelling the overlapping layers of the country’s land question. The thesis acknowledges the specific complexities of how the politics of land and state making processes have been intert…
The purpose of this study was to ascertain the attainment of social justice through the teaching of sexual diversity education in Life Skills in Namibia. In many cases inclusivity is claimed to be applied but social justice is not served. Therefore, access and equity as provided…
This thesis focuses on the Ogoni minority ethnic group in Rivers State, which forms part of the Eastern Niger Delta, Nigeria. It explores the Ogoni people’s struggle for survival by tracing the problems of the Ogoni to British colonial rule and its political effect on the minori…
In her landmark study on gender in Russian literature, Barbra Heldt observes, "there is no lack of general pronouncements about how women act or feel or think in Russian literature... [yet they] have been overwhelmingly made by men." Paradoxically, this phenomenon is most pronou…
This research set to read the reign of the Modjadji Rain Queens from a gender-critical lens. The setting of their dynasty on the one hand in a South African democratic space with an appraisal of women’s rights and on the other in a rural traditionalist setting where women have a…
I here hypothesize a causal relationship between the conditions of oppression and expressions of utopia. Roughly: the more a people, culture, and/or ethnicity experience physical space as a site of political, cultural, and literal encroachment, the more that distinct cultures ut…
Lesbians and queer women are often labeled “invisible” in and beyond the academy within a politics of visibility used to describe lgbtq people and their movement. This dissertation is a historical geography of contemporary lesbian and queer society, culture, and economies in the…