My project advocates that a primary impediment to increased consciousness about Indigeneity lies in how we study the contemporary literature of Indigenous peoples. This requires a reconceptualization of Indigeneity away from its boundedness to specific lands and pasts that valorize ties to first contact, instead embracing the reality that Indigenous peoples are a contemporary presence […]

New York City’s proposed Brooklyn-Queens Connector (BQX) would be the city’s first modern streetcar system and one of the only rail systems directly connecting Queens and Brooklyn – if it ever gets developed. While the BQX is yet to be implemented, plans, advertisements, and expectations for the route are already underway. As the BQX is […]

In the first decade of this century, diamonds and other conflict-laden gemstones spearheaded a global trend toward transparency. Despite the growing pervasiveness of transparency in business strategies, it remains an understudied social practice. Rather than assuming that the category of transparency is itself transparent, this research is an ethnographic investigation of transparency in the diamond […]

Le projet vise à soutenir l’action du comité de développement pour la création d’une structure alternative de scolarisation : le Lab école Agora. Le Lab école Agora repose sur la collaboration entre un organisme communautaire (l’organisme porteur du projet Déclic ) et un centre d’éducation pour adultes; il a pour mission d’offrir un enseignement adapté […]

La présente demande concerne le chantier de recherche sur les « Les pratiques juridiques controversées » : Une partie des coûts de la justice est attribuable à des pratiques situées aux limites de la déontologie professionnelle : rapport collusoire entre praticiens, multiplication des dépenses douteuses, honoraires abusifs, exploitation de l’ignorance des justiciables, engagement dans des […]

Ma recherche de maîtrise effectuée dans le Massif Central (France) avec le dialecte nord-occitan auvergnat, s’est appuyée sur un terrain en terres marginales de l’Occitanie (extrémité nord) et sous l’influence d’une politique française unilinguiste. J’aimerais ici réaliser une analyse comparative avec d’autres régions marginales d’Occitanie. En cela, les vallées occitanophones situées en Piémont (Italie) forment […]

This project explores how one congregate living environment in Edmonton Alberta supports their residents through the use of the material environment including designed spaces and objects created by architectural and interior designers. The web of person-environment relationships and interactions that is complicated, dynamic, messy, and riddled with shifting agency is unpacked revealing how humans depend […]

Building on my recent archival research, my Mitacs project explores the ways early 20th century discourses of betterment and progress, such as eugenics, in southern Ontario were unevenly entwined within rural domestic science educational institutions and connected to cultural histories and legacies of colonialism that diminished and disappeared young women who did not fit the […]

Building on my recent archival research, my Mitacs project explores the ways early 20th century discourses of betterment and progress, such as eugenics, in southern Ontario were unevenly entwined within rural domestic science educational institutions and connected to cultural histories and legacies of colonialism that diminished and disappeared young women who did not fit the […]

La stagiaire se propose d’explorer systematiquement I’offre de technologies langagieres au Canada et de mettre en parallele cette offre avec les roles des systemes d’information dans les organisations tels qu’ils sont presentes par Gurbaxani et Whang (1991). Megalexis, cabinet linguistique multiservice situe a Montreal, est bien place pour formuler des preoccupations et des questions relativement […]

The current project seeks to develop an understanding of the process of startup organization process by examining the individual, team, and contextual characteristics that will lead to the success of a startup organization. Despite the importance of each variable, most of the literature has focused on individual characteristics, ignoring the importance of the team as […]

Environmental education is essential for young Canadians, yet educators have few resources to meet this rising demand. Ontario EcoSchools is addressing this disconnect by providing an environmental certification program and environmental education resources for Ontario elementary and secondary schools. Ontario EcoSchools certification program motivates students, teachers and staff members to implement initiatives to reduce waste, […]