Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research by Author "Jaffe, JoAnn"
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Branching Out: Examining the Possibilities and Challenges of Community Garden Expansion
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2022-03-29)The North Central Community Gardens (NCCG) – the urban agriculture program of the North Central Community Association (NCCA) in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada – introduced the Branch Out Project (BOP) in the summer of 2020. ... -
Confronting barriers to the practice of participation in international development: A call to internal revolution.
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2001) -
Distorting the Reality of Climate Change: Anti-Reflexive Narratives of Conservative Think Tanks in Canadian Newspapers
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2019-07)Despite the existential threat to life on this planet posed by climate change, many North Americans continue with ‘business as usual’. While the substance of the debate is different, in each country awareness of the gravity ... -
Embodied Social Capital: An Analysis of the Production of African-Canadian Women’s Identity and Social Network Access
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2013-10)This study examines how race and gender mediate access to social networks. Following the work of Louise Holt, the theoretical framework is informed by Judith Butler’s work on performativity with Pierre Bourdieu’s work ... -
Fear Rises from the Dead: A Sociological Analysis of Contemporary Zombie Films as Mirrors of Social Fears
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2013-01)This thesis explores three contemporary zombie films, 28 Days Later (2002), Land of the Dead (2005), and Zombieland (2009), released between the years 2000 and 2010, and provides a sociological analysis of the fears in the ... -
Jane Jacobs The Ethicist: Systems of Survival and Jacobs' Moral Philosophy
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2018-04)This work intends to show that Jacobs’ moral philosophy makes a strong case for objective moral knowledge. She posits that there are two moral syndromes that are intended to guide working life morality. Roughly speaking, ... -
Knowledge Management Using SpiCE
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2016-06)The idea of Knowledge Management (KM) is continually evolving. A traditional and popular idea of KM is one that emphasizes the activity of transforming data to in- formation, and information to knowledge. Another popular ... -
Living in XTC: An Autoethnography and Institutional Ethnography of My Experience Residing in a Government Funded Long-Term Care Institution
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2019-03)This thesis is an autoethnography and institutional ethnography of my experience as a disabled young adult within a publicly funded long-term health care facility. By way of explication and analysis of a number of factors, ... -
Poststructuralist political ecology: Cultural and ecological destruction and modern discourses in the case of colonization and development of the Ainu and Hokkaido.
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Reconciling the Divide: An Analysis of Farmers’ Land Strategies Within the Corporate-Environmental Food Regime
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2013-02)After twenty-five years of contested change following the collapse of the mercantile-industrial food regime, a corporate-environmental food regime appears to be consolidating. The new food regime consists of two distinct ...
