Due to the disruption of refugee women's lives before, during, and after flight, they take on new roles and responsibilities that raise the need for refugee women to acquire new skills and tools with which to handle their new life. The conventional approach is to look at a refug…
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The purpose of this study was to explore the process of collective-national identity development and related social psychological factors among Palestinian students in the Israeli universities with reference to the degree of their involvement in student activism (high, moderate …
This study explores the complex connection between the social dynamics of societies in conflict, memory and denial. It investigates the politics of denial and memory, as it addresses the difficulties faced by societies in coming to terms with their past. Analyzing the internal d…
This study examines the experience of spiritually oriented peace activists effective within a cross-cultural environment in Israel. Researchers have performed the majority of past research on peace activists based on a western psychological framework and without acknowledging an…
This dissertation explores various elements and issues of the black movement in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, through activists' personal stories, intra- and inter-movement politics and dynamics, and the diasporic character of the movement. I argue that the interplay of racial framew…
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…
Documentary films play a significant role in promoting activism and socio-political change in Pakistan. Documentaries created by Pakistani filmmakers have received international recognition and critical acclaim through numerous platforms including the Academy Awards, Berlinale T…
This thesis examines the collective memory of Toronto’s Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement (GLLM) in the 1970s and 1980s through queer cultural memory. This queer cultural memory is informed by photographs and articles of protest and violence in the gay liberation magazine, The…
For transgender and gender-expansive people, medical transition is not a single event but a long and complex process involving constant exchanges between people, bureaucracy, and bodies. As patients pursue transition care, they must interact not only with healthcare staff but al…
This qualitative oral study study’s primary purpose is to elicit, preserve, and explore personal stories from individuals who participated in the April 2018 Oklahoma Teacher Walkout. The study also builds understanding of narrators’ experiences of the events surrounding the Walk…
Young American Jews are increasingly diverging from the American Jewish consensus on Zionism, while theoretical arguments for Jewish diasporism have been developed over the past several decades. I argue in this thesis that over the past half-decade, Jewish diasporism has develop…
This study utilizes adult learning, working-class masculinity, and political economy theories to explore the education and learning that supports engagement in the Just Transition movement in Central Appalachia. The central research question is as follows: in communities with ec…
In Taiwan, abortion ritual attempts to appease or rescue Yingling (fetus spirits), who are the spirits of fetuses that have died from abortions or miscarriages. Within most contemporary religious discourse, abortion is seen as an inappropriate means of ending a life. Yingling ar…
This dissertation explores how several Arab NGOs in Morocco, Palestine, Egypt and Kuwait practiced human rights from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. Drawing on institutional archives and interviews, it argues that these organizations provide new insights into the history of h…
We live in a time of unprecedented risk to human life on earth as a result of human-made climate change, and we face enormous and growing social, political, and international challenges and threats. At the same time, we are struggling to cope with a technological landscape that …
In this thesis, I bring Afropessimist/Black studies theories of Blackness and social death into conversation with Black feminist, decolonial, and trans studies scholars to think about the experiences of racialized gender violence (anti-Black violence) for Black trans women. To d…
This thesis investigates components of Black communities’ diasporic activism through a community archives project at La Maison d’Haïti, a Montreal community-based organization founded by Haitian student activists in the early 1970s. The study examines how community archiving and…
This thesis is the first ethnographic attempt to study contemporary dissident activism in Vietnam. As a country that became known and keeps being remembered as a war-torn postcolony by the West, Vietnam has managed to lift itself from one of the poorest to one of the fastest gro…