Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "identity"
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21st Century Monument Architecture: The Dialogue Between Local Place/Migrant Identity
(2017-04-10)21st Century Monument Architecture: The Dialogue Between Local Place and Migrant Identity confronts the loss of cultural identity in a global culture of increased mobility and migration. Growing nomadism and trans-border ... -
Bridging the Cultural and Generational Divide: Revitalization of Historic Fabric in Shiraz
(2017-08-31)This thesis investigates architectural heritage as a source of urban revitalization. The project site is the historic Zand complex in Shiraz, which has symbolically and functionally been central to the structure and identity ... -
Experiences of Aging and Older Adult’s Identity Tensions Across Socio-Economic Lines
(2024-08-23)The present research explores the effects of aging on the identities of people aged 65 years and older, and how these experiences vary across socioeconomic lines within the context of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Drawing ... -
Growing the Network: Cultivating Alternative Food Systems in the Prairie City
(2019-08-06)The province of Alberta faces considerable challenges to food security due to urban expansion into agricultural land, loss of landscape identity, and deficits in fruit and vegetable production. While inefficient global ... -
Living Seniors Living Rural: Mobile Architecture as a Means to Facilitate a New Rural Ageing Typology
(2015)With the realization of population trends and the impact the aging population will have on our society, an architectural focus is developing. One that examines the roles seniors play in our built environments. This focus ... -
Negotiating ‘Gastro-anomie’: Exploring the Relationship Between Food, the Body & Identity in Halifax, Nova Scotia
(2014-04-30)This thesis explores the relationship between food and identity. Drawing on the concept of ‘gastro-anomie’, or ‘food normlessness’, it asks how individuals’ make sense of food and eating in the context of an increasingly ... -
ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS AND BARRIERS TO ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: ADDRESSING THE ROLE OF COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE, LANGUAGE, AND MENTAL MODELS IN ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
(2011-08-16)The current state of organizational environmental management is inadequate to face the risks posed by the natural environment such as resource scarcities resulting from natural, social and/or economic processes such as ... -
Pour désorienter une autoethnographie orientale : une étude des représentations identitaires chez quatre écrivains québécois d’origine asiatique
(2014-11-13)Since the end of World War II, migration has significantly changed the demography of ethnic minorities in Canada. In Quebec, the writing of this heterogeneous group participates in the questioning of identity that has been ... -
Regionalism on the Celtic Fringe: How a Peripheral Community Resists, Negotiates, and Accommodates Political and Economic Integration
(2017-04-03)‘Informal’ peripheral regions have received limited scholarly attention in Canada. This political-economic history of Cape Breton Island analyses how institutional actors build, maintain, and reconstruct a peripheral region, ... -
Understanding Filipino Immigrants' Lived Experiences of Leisure and its Roles in Identity in Times of Un/Underemployment
(2021-07-05)Filipino immigrants' lived experiences of leisure, identity, and un/underemployment remain understudied. Since recent immigrants are more likely than others to be un/underemployed, experiences of identity are relevant to ...