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Talking with our mouths full : performance and feasting as intercultural dialogue
(2015-07-16)In May 2015, Vancouver Moving Theatre produced The Big House, a theatrical feast in which culturally significant food, art, and narratives were shared. The intent was to create a space for "coming together". The feast was ... -
The techne of making a ferry: a non-representational approach to passengers’ gathering taskscapes
(Journal of Transport Geography, 2011)Drawing upon ethnographic data collected in British Columbia’s ferry-dependent island and coastal communities, non-representational theory, and mobility studies literature this article examines the process of making, or ... -
Technologies of the sky: a socio-semiotic and critical analysis of televised weather discourse
(Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2007-04)We offer a critical reading of televised weather reporting and forecasting discourse. We analyze text obtained from a US affiliate station of The Weather Channel over three days when a winter front advanced through the ... -
The technology of hope : twitter and the #BringBackOurGirls campaign
(2015-09-01)On April 14, 2014 Boko Haram, an Islamic militant group, abducted 274 girls from a secondary school in the Chibok region of northeastern Nigeria. The mass abduction of the Chibok girls shook Nigerians and spurred a social ... -
Terra Firma and the digitally co-present migrant : exploring the significance of landscape for the newcomer
(2018-08-30)This thesis presents an interpretative phenomenological analysis in anecdotal narratives of several digitally co-present migrants’ agency, access, and attachment process in the context of their new geography, the landscape ... -
The Cumberland commons : a forest ethnography
(2019-09-24)This study is a forest ethnography, which is an ethnographic genre that explores “what forests are” and “how they came to be” primarily by examining the complex social histories of those that live near forested spaces. ... -
The dyad leadership model : defining a new physician/nurse relationship
(2019-08-13)Health care systems across Canada continue to be challenged to meet the growing health care demands of the population. These challenges are set against the backdrop of fiscal realities that demand strong leadership that ... -
The proposed Michel Coal Project : exploring ideal impact assessment relationships through an appreciative inquiry lens in an evolving reconciliation landscape
(2022-07-28)In collaboration with a local Métis chartered community in British Columbia (BC), I used an appreciative inquiry lens to explore ideal impact assessment relationships within an evolving Indigenous capacity and reconciliation ... -
The tools and materials of making : an ethnography of makers
(2020-07-20)The maker and handmade movement have influenced many aspects of our popular culture. The embracing of the handmade has become a value-based proposition for many consumers. So much so that the maker is the subject of much ... -
To Die For: The Semiotic Seductive Power of the Tanned Body
(University of California Press, 2004-08)Human skin burns with prolonged exposure to ultraviolet light. This simple physiological process acquires meaning through social interaction—whereby tanned skin assumes symbolic and semiotic properties. In this article we ... -
Toward a Technography of Everyday Life: The Methodological Legacy of James W. Carey's Ecology of Technoculture as Communication
(SAGE Publications, 2009)This article identifies Carey's contributions to the concept of technoculture and attempts to systematize his writings on communication, culture, and technology in order to craft a methodological strategy for the study of ... -
A tribal journey : canoes, traditions, and cultural continuity
(2011-08-09)In addressing the necessity of cultural transmission from one generation to the next, this ethnographic study examines ways that Indigenous canoe journeys enable communication of ancestral teachings and traditions, ... -
The twitter citizen : contributing to civil society discussion or adding to the noise?
(2013-09-17)This study examined the civic properties afforded by Twitter and considered whether hashtag communities achieve issues-pluralism in order to facilitate at least some viewpoints to popular expression otherwise absent from ... -
An uncharitable chill : a critical exploration of how changes in federal policy and political climate are affecting advocacy-oriented charities
(2015-10-20)Starting in 2012, the Canadian federal government deployed denunciatory rhetoric against environmental organizations and charities, increased enforcement of regulations governing resources that charities devote to “political ... -
Unheard stories : narrative inquiry of the cross-cultural adaptation experiences of refugee women in metro Vancouver
(2012-07-13)The purpose of this study is to explore the barriers and opportunities that government-assisted refugee (GAR) women experience in settlement. Using a narrative inquiry approach, I elicited the stories of fourteen GAR ... -
Unlikely connections : place-based learning in online post-secondary education
(2021-03-04)Place-based learning has been setting its roots in academia for some time and only recently has it expanded its reach into the realm of online courses in post-secondary institutions. This research is twofold: It discusses ... -
Unveiling Yukon intergovernmental communication
(2011-07-11)Yukon is unique in Canada for its four orders of government—federal, territorial, First Nation and municipal. Determining the differences in communication characteristics, strategies, mechanisms, and processes of the ... -
Values-based post-secondary brand architecture modelling
(2021-09-29)In an environment where funds are shrinking and competition is increasing, post-secondary institutions would benefit from the unification of administration, service staff, and faculty efforts under a single authentic brand ... -
Walking the talk : leading change-related communications in Girl Guides of Canada–Guides du Canada, British Columbia Council
(2017-09-21)This interpretive phenomenological study used an appreciative inquiry-based methods approach to explore how Girl Guides of Canada―Guides du Canada, BC Council could leverage its organizational values to communicate and ... -
West coast waters : fishing this place
(2015-01-15)Utilizing ethnographic and autoethnographic approaches this research explores the culture of recreational sport fishing around the southern tip of Vancouver Island. Grounded in the interpretivist paradigm, this research ...
