Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This study demonstrates that the New Brunswick government rationalized the 2011 elimination of the New Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women (NBACSW) by discursively framing it as a duplication of services and as a non-essential service. The study relies on interviews with women who had been involved with the NBACSW, as well as literature about the use of neoliberal and anti-… more Full Text: “TOUGH BUT NECESSARY”? AN ANALYSIS OF NEOLIBERAL AND ANTI-FEMINIST DISCOURSES USED IN THE ELIMINATION OF THE NEW BRUNSWICK ADVISORY COUNCIL ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This thesis is a theoretical study of Facebook's surveillance project. It begins by taking one of the predominant organizational forms of modern surveillance, Foucaultian panopticism, and examining the ways in which its form, along with Foucault's broader model of the disciplinary society, is realized, remixed and extended by Facebook's virtual form. Following this… more Full Text: CONTROL, SURVEILLANCE AND SUBJECTIVE COMMODIFICATION ON FACEBOOK 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 Sciences TRENT UNIVERSITY …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>ABSTRACT</p><p>The Ethics of Being-With: Exploring Ethics in Heidegger's Being and Time</p><p>Adam Rejak</p><p> Martin Heidegger is perhaps best known for his work Being and Time, in which he tries to re-discover what he deems to be a forgotten question; the meaning of being. However, what many have missed in this work is the ethical potential it… more Full Text: THE ETHICS OF BEING-WITH: EXPLORING ETHICS IN HEIDEGGER’S BEING AND TIME 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 …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>There is little research devoted to exploring psychology's historical and discursive development. Psychological knowledge is generally presented as the contributions of individuals, but without context. The social, political, and economic aspects of psychology's development are scarcely discussed, including how the discipline came to be considered a science. This thesis project… more Full Text: THE SCIENTIFICITY OF PSYCHOLOGY AND THE CATEGORICAL PARADIGM OF MENTAL ILLNESS: A CRITIQUE OF THE HISTORY OF CLINICAL DEPRESSION AND ANTIDEPRESSANTS A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>My thesis examines anthropomorphism and many avenues in which humans represent nonhumans to evaluate their own lives. Using Isabella Rossellini's <italic>Green Porno</italic> webseries, a collection of two-minute films starring Rossellini as a multitude of nonhumans with costumes transforming her into nonhuman, I posit that a new form of anthropomorphism -- one that… more Full Text: ! (UN)NATURAL PROVOCATION: ABJECTION, OTHERNESS, AND NONHUMAN REPRESENTATION IN ISABELLA ROSSELLINI’S GREEN PORNO WEBSERIES! ! A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of …
Year: 2013, 2013
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This project is a Heideggerian critique of the subject/object metaphysic presupposed in the Representationalist claim that the world is made intelligible solely in virtue of internal states that bear representations. It is comprised of two sections. The first is a critique of the ontological primacy of representational-intentionality/action in which I argue that where Brentano, Husserl,… more Full Text: BACKGROUND PRACTICES, AFFORDANCES, AND THE FRAME PROBLEM: A HEIDEGGERIAN CRITIQUE OF THE REPRESENTATIONALIST METAPHYSIC A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in …