Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

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Queer Crip Generativity

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Year: 2024, 2024
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Hill, Megan Katherine, Thesis advisor (ths): Chazan, May, Degree committee member (dgc): Jiménez, Karleen P., Degree committee member (dgc): Rinaldi, Jen, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>Generativity, or a connection to and concern for future generations, is often premised upon the hetero-nuclear family structure and an elimination of disability, excluding queer and disabled individuals. In this thesis, I extend ideas about queer and crip futures by theorizing an alternative model of generativity that centers queer, and disabled experiences. I argue that queer crip… more
Full Text: Title Page Queer Crip Generativity A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY Nogojiwanong/Peterborough, Ontario, …

Making home and making welcome: An oral history of the New Canadians Centre and immigration to Peterborough, Ontario from 1979 to 1997

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Year: 2018, 2018
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Macnab, Maddy, Thesis advisor (ths): Sangster, Joan, Thesis advisor (ths): Chazan, May, Degree committee member (dgc): Lem, Winnie, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>This thesis documents an oral history of the New Canadians Centre, the only immigrant-serving organization in Peterborough, Ontario. This case study builds on scholarship that critically examines immigrant settlement work in Canada. Drawing on interviews and archival research, and employing the analytical concept of home, I investigate how differently-located actors have practiced home… more
Full Text: MAKING HOME AND MAKING WELCOME: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE NEW CANADIANS CENTRE AND IMMIGRATION TO PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO FROM 1979 TO 1997 A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of …

'This is where the poetry comes out': Examining the Peterborough Poetry Slam as resistant space-making

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Year: 2017, 2017
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Baldwin, Melissa, Thesis advisor (ths): Chazan, May, Degree committee member (dgc): Chivers, Sally, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>Since 1984, poetry slams have emerged as a politicized expressive movement of performing the personal and political through poetry competitions. Slams are also discursively spatialized, often represented as "spaces" that are "safe," "inclusive," etc. In this thesis, I investigate how, why, and to what effect the Peterborough Poetry Slam produces,… more
Full Text: “THIS IS WHERE THE POETRY COMES OUT”: EXAMINING THE PETERBOROUGH POETRY SLAM AS RESISTANT SPACE-MAKING Melissa Baldwin (c) Copyright by Melissa Baldwin 2017 Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies M.A. Graduate Program Trent University Nogojiwanong …