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Guillon, Vincent. "Mondes de coopération et gouvernance culturelle dans les villes : une comparaison des recompositions de l'action publique culturelle à Lille, Lyon, Saint Etienne et Montréal." Phd thesis, Université de Grenoble, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00675684.
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La culture se retrouve au coeur de stratégies de villes comme ressource mobilisée et articulée au sein de projets urbains, économiques et sociaux. Ainsi de nouveaux modèles et concepts apparaissent-ils, véhiculant un discours sur ses vertus territoriales : le cultural planning, la ville créative, la métropole culturelle, le quartier artistique, etc. La culture est alors considérée comme une dimension du développement territorial, faisant perdre au " secteur culturel " une partie de son autonomie. Ces recompositions de l'action publique culturelle sont directement liées à la formation de modes de gouvernance fondés sur une logique politique du territoire. Les principes conventionnels qu'ils génèrent mettent à l'épreuve les acteurs locaux et les équilibres préexistants. Du gouvernement de la culture à la gouvernance culturelle des villes, ce sont les mécanismes d'émergence et d'institutionnalisation de mondes de coopération spécifiques à Lille, Lyon, Saint-Étienne et Montréal qui sont ici observés. Cette thèse entend contribuer au débat sur la constitution des villes en acteurs collectifs, tel qu'il se configure à partir de l'action culturelle
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Gilles, Isabelle. "Lessons from India's constitutional culture: what Canada can learn." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=114609.
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This thesis aims at initiating dialogue between Canadian and Indian constitutional cultures. Canadian constitutional law is arguably characterized by ideologies of liberalism and legal positivism. Because human rights norms are expected to incorporate a vision of social justice into the law, ideologies and legal philosophies are crucial to assess the potential and the limitations of human rights protections. The legal cultures in Canada and India have similar roots, and yet the systems have evolved differently. Among other factors, judicial activism and the quest for social justice of judges at the Supreme Court of India were significant in the evolution of Indian constitutional culture. From a Canadian perspective, it is interesting to study this culture as it offers new avenues in the human rights field and therefore challenges the universal value of human rights norms as interpreted and applied in Canada. This thesis argues that, on the intersection of human rights and social issues like poverty and social classes, important lessons can be drawn from the way the Supreme Court of India has based its human rights interpretation on contextual analyses of Indian social reality. The judges engaged in judicial activism sought to move beyond the traditional ideologies found in the common law, and their jurisprudence is helpful in grasping the limitations these ideologies can put on human rights interpretation.Ce mémoire vise à créer un dialogue entre les cultures constitutionnelles canadiennes et indiennes. Certaines caractéristiques de la culture constitutionnelle canadienne sont empreintes de libéralisme idéologique ainsi que de positivisme juridique. Les normes des droits de la personne représentant pour beaucoup une manière de permettre à une vision de justice sociale de pénétrer le domaine du droit, les idéologies ainsi que les philosophies juridiques sont des considérations cruciales lors de l'évaluation du potentiel ainsi que limites des droits de la personne. Les cultures juridiques de l'Inde et du Canada ont de communes racines, mais les systèmes ont évolué de façon très différente. L'activisme judiciaire ainsi que la quête pour une justice sociale dont ont fait preuve les juges de la Cour Suprême de l'Inde ont participé significativement à l'évolution de la culture constitutionnelle indienne. D'un point de vue canadien, il est intéressant d'étudier cette culture en ce qu'elle offre de nouvelles pistes dans le domaine des droits humains, et ce faisant elle remet en question la valeur universelle des droits de la personnes tels qu'interprétés et appliqués au Canada. Ce mémoire vise à démontrer qu'en ce qui a trait à l'intersection de l'interprétation des droits de la personne et de problèmes sociaux tels que la pauvreté et les classes sociales, d'importantes leçons peuvent être retenues de l'étude de la jurisprudence indienne, et plus particulièrement de l'interprétation des droits basée sur une analyse contextuelle de la réalité sociale en Inde. Les juges faisant preuve d'activisme judiciaire ont cherché à dépasser les idéologies traditionnelles encastrées dans la common law, et leurs jugements sont utiles pour saisir les limites que ces idéologies imposent à l'interprétation des droits de la personne.
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Ginsburg, Alexander David. "Climate Change and Culture Change in Salluit, Quebec, Canada." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12166.
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xiv, 143 p.The amplified effects of climate change in the Arctic are well known and, according to many commentators, endanger Inuit cultural integrity. However, the specific connections between climate change and cultural change are understudied. This thesis explores the relationship between climatic shifts and culture in the Inuit community of Salluit, Quebec, Canada. Although residents of Salluit are acutely aware of climate change in their region and have developed causal explanations for the phenomenon, most Salluit residents do not characterize climate change as a threat to Inuit culture. Instead, they highlight the damaging impacts of globalization and internal colonialism as a more serious problem. This counter-narrative suggests that focusing narrowly on climate change can obscure the broader and more immediate challenges facing Inuit communities. Such a realization demonstrates the need for researchers to locate climate change within a matrix of non-climatic challenges in order to mitigate threats to indigenous cultures.
Committee in charge: Susan W. Hardwick, Chairperson; Alexander B. Murphy, Chairperson; Michael Hibbard, Member
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Henri, Dominique. "Managing nature, producing cultures : Inuit participation, science and policy in wildlife governance in the Nunavut Territory, Canada." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2cde7bcb-4818-4f61-9562-179b4ee74fee.
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In this thesis, a critical analysis is proposed of the relationships between Inuit participation, science and policy in wildlife governance in the Nunavut Territory, Canada. This analysis situates the emergence of a participatory regime for the governance of wildlife in Nunavut, explores its performance and examines the relations between the ways in which wildlife governance arrangements are currently represented in policy and how they are played out in practice across the territory. To pursue these objectives, this research draws upon a number of theoretical perspectives and methodological strategies poised at a crossroads between environmental geography, science and technology studies, political ecology and ecological anthropology. It combines participant observation, semi-directed interviews and literature-based searches with approaches to the study of actor-networks, hybrid forums and scientific practices associated with Latour and Callon, as well as with Foucauldian and post-Foucauldian analyses of power, governmentality and subjectivity. This analysis suggests that the overall rationale within which wildlife governance operates in Nunavut remains largely based on a scientific and bureaucratic framework of resource management that poses significant barriers to the meaningful inclusion of Inuit views. In spite of their participation in wildlife governance through a range of institutional arrangements, consultation practices and research initiatives, the Inuit of Nunavut remain critical of the power relations embedded within existing schemes, where significant decision-making authority remains under the control of the territorial (or federal) government, and where asymmetries persist with regard to the capacity of various actors to produce and mediate their claims. In addition, while the use of Inuit knowledge, or Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, in wildlife governance in Nunavut has produced some collaborative research and management endeavours, it has also crystallised a divide between ‘Inuit’ and ‘scientific’ knowledge, generated unresolved conflicts, fuelled mistrust among wildlife co-management partners and led to an overall limited inclusion of Inuit observations, values and beliefs in decision-making.
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Vormann, Thorsten. "Cultural sovereignty and broadcasting - Canadian content rules." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60632.
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Abstract Not Available.... current Canadian content regulation can hardly be seen as a success. Therefore, l will examine the existing policy with its basic assumptions and consequences. After illustrating the shortcomings of the present regulatory regime, l will provide a survey of various proposed alternatives. Finally, l will introduce my own proposal and address the different objectives of broadcasting policy in a more comprehensive and cohesive way.
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Dewar, Paula Fernandes. "Aboriginal Genocide in Canada and Achieving Transitional Justice." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23693.
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The indigenous peoples of Canada have been severely mistreated since the period of European colonization and the founding of the country up to the end of the last century, resulting in serious human rights disparity. Aboriginal leaders, some politicians and members of the public are calling past actions, genocide. Principally a philosophical thesis, this paper deals with the question of the Government of Canada recognizing that their historical treatment of the indigenous peoples of Canada was genocide and whether, in light of the facts that have come to view in the past twenty years, it is the just response from the government; which I contend would result in aiding the nation to heal and move forward. The component parts for understanding this issue – the Aboriginals, history of the Indian Residential School System, genocide and culture, and transitional justice - are viewed through a conceptual analysis of these contexts, with post-colonial discourse narrative. In this way, one can judge based on merit the validity of the argument. I conclude with a philosophical analysis in normative ethics, that transitional justice and equitable rights fulfillment cannot move forward for all Canadians, if the label of genocide is not acknowledged as applicable to the era of the Indian Residential Schools.
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Veder, Robin. "How gardening pays: Leisure, labor and luxury in nineteenth-century transatlantic culture." W&M ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623995.
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"How Gardening Pays" is a case study of the formation and transmission of cultural practices and interpretations of flower-gardening as profitable leisure, idealized labor, and luxury consumption in nineteenth-century transatlantic culture. Mid-nineteenth-century cant about American flower-gardening as an anti-materialistic and morally improving occupation was premised upon the multiple functions of flower gardening in British working-class culture. Methodologically, this dissertation is unlike most intellectual histories of the ideological significance of nature in American culture, or formal studies of the physical attributes of horticultural history, because it demonstrates how ideologies and material practices were interrelated.;The first half of this dissertation focuses on early-nineteenth-century British working-class flower gardening for profitable leisure and labor reform. British urban Protestant weavers, particularly the militant silk-weavers of Spitalfields, London, practiced floristry as an integral and profitable part of workshop culture. When artisanal floristry declined with the onset of industrialization, agricultural and industrial capitalists reinterpreted and revived flower-gardening as a rational recreation that prevented labor riots and the formation of trade unions. their efforts were often thwarted by surviving traditions of working-class floristry and the elite interest in flowers as fashionable luxuries.;These conflicting circumstances materially and ideologically shaped the development of commercial horticulture in the northeastern United States, thanks to the overwhelming number and influence of imported horticultural texts and immigrant horticulturists who promoted parlor gardening. When material practices crossed the boundaries of class, geography and gender, parlor gardening emerged as a bourgeois translation of both the techniques of artisan florists and the rhetoric of flower gardening as rational recreation.
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Smith, Jennifer Marion. "Resolving inter-cultural value conflicts in Canadian healthcare practice." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/mq27378.pdf.
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Richez, Emmanuelle. "The impact of charter-based judicial review on pan-Canadian cultural citizenship." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=107752.
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This dissertation evaluates the impact of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1982) jurisprudence on Canada's cultural rights structure and cultural citizenship. In total, the dissertation analyzes 49 Supreme Court Charter decisions in the areas of minority language, multiculturalism and aboriginal issues, as well as their reception by governmental authorities. It argues that Charter-based judicial review has confirmed and pushed further the choice Canada made after the Second World War to promote a polyethnic citizenship. The dissertation also formulates three larger theoretical claims. First, that the recognition of specific cultural rights for certain groups that go beyond fundamental political and civil rights brings about positive legal change for minorities. This has especially been the case for the Anglophone minority inside Quebec and the Francophone minority outside Quebec, as well as for aboriginal communities across Canada. Secondly, that constitutionally entrenching rights and the transfer of power to the judiciary to invalidate laws that contravene those rights, is crucial for greater accommodation of diversity. As shown in the Canadian case, the Supreme Court's rulings in favour of minorities have been enforced by governmental authorities. Thirdly, that institutional nation-building objectives limit judicial review's potential for facilitating greater accommodation of diversity. The ideal of a polyethnic pan-Canadian citizenship prevents the recognition of new self-government rights for aboriginal peoples and Francophone Quebecers, even though there is interpretive space for such a constitutional reading.Cette thèse évalue l'impact de la jurisprudence de la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés (1982) sur la structure des droits culturels et de la citoyenneté culturelle au Canada. Elle analyse 49 décisions de la Cour suprême ayant trait aux droits des minorités linguistiques, au multiculturalisme et aux affaires autochtones, ainsi que leur réception par les différentes autorités gouvernementales. Elle soutient que la revue judiciaire basée sur la Charte a confirmé et poussé encore plus loin le choix du Canada, fait après la deuxième guerre mondiale, de promouvoir une citoyenneté polyethnique. La thèse énonce aussi trois grandes affirmations théoriques. Premièrement, que la reconnaissance de droits culturels propres à certains groupes et dont l'étendue dépasse celle des simples droits fondamentaux a conduit à de grandes avancées pour les minorités. Ceci fut le cas pour la communauté anglo-québécoise, les minorités francophones hors Québec ainsi que pour les autochtones à travers le pays. Deuxièmement, que les garanties juridiques qui sont constitutionnalisées et arbitrées par les cours ont un impact important sur l'accommodement de la diversité. Comme démontré dans le cas canadien, les décisions de la Cour suprême en faveur des minorités ont été appliquées par les autorités gouvernementales. Troisièmement, que les objectifs étatiques d'édification de la nation amoindrissent le potentiel d'accommodement de la diversité dont dispose la revue judiciaire. L'idéal d'une citoyenneté pancanadienne polyethnique empêche la reconnaissance de nouveaux droits d'auto-détermination aux peuples autochtones et aux Québécois francophones, même si une certaine interprétation constitutionnelle pourrait le justifier.
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Bassett, Rhodri. "Parole in Sweden and Canada - A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Risk and Electronic Monitoring Parole Practices." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-25097.
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Over the past few decades, new philosophies and technologies have impacted parole around the world. Most notably, predicting recidivism through risk assessments has altered the way in which clients are perceived, while electronic monitoring technology has granted the possibility of constant supervision. Due to these recent changes, there are concerns that countries with traditionally rehabilitative parole systems will become more punitive and supervisory. A thematic and metasynthetic review of two countries with rehabilitative parole systems, Sweden and Canada, revealed that risk and electronic monitoring have been integrated to serve balanced agendas that both care for and control clients.
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Dirnfeld, Rebecca B. "Controlling the "Chinese" of the eastern states? Maine's constitutional amendment of 1893, electoral reform, and anti-French-Canadian bias." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28124.
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This thesis examines a constitutional amendment adopted by the State of Maine in 1893 as part of an electoral reform package. It stated that any man who could not read the State Constitution in English or write his name on or after January 3, 1893 was not qualified to vote. Although some of the amendment's supporters claimed the measure would raise the quality of the state electorate, most supported it because it targeted immigrants, more particularly, French Canadian immigrants. Anglo-Republicans who supported the amendment discriminated against French-Canadians, who were Catholic, spoke French, and chose acculturation rather than assimilation. The amendment was meant to disenfranchise a large proportion of these voters, as many of them were illiterate, French speaking migrants. However, the impact of the amendment proved to be limited. It did not affect Franco-American allegiances to politicians or political parties they thought best supported their wants and needs. This may be why the amendment was quickly forgotten and is not mentioned in any published history of Maine. Statistics collected from the 1910 census, English and French language newspapers of Lewiston, and an out of state newspaper provide much of the primary sources for this work.
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Rancourt, Marie-Laurence. "Archéologie de la radio comme dimension constitutive de l'espace public et culturel québécois : une contribution à la critique de la radio de Radio-Canada." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/27261.
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Dans ce mémoire, nous nous appuierons sur les concepts d'espace public et de culture pour penser le rôle de la radio publique d'expression francophone du Québec. D'abord, nous entendons faire ressortir la complémentarité entre les positions théoriques de Jürgen Habermas et Hannah Arendt au sujet de l'espace public et de la culture. L'objectif est de montrer que leur pensée respective permet de jeter un regard neuf sur l'objet radiophonique. Notre projet est donc d'approcher cette figure à travers le prisme de la pensée conceptuelle d'intellectuels intéressés par les médias et porteurs d'un projet d'émancipation politique et sociale fondée sur la délibération, le dialogue, l'apprentissage et la critique. Ceci, en plus d'une reconstitution historique des origines de la radio de Radio-Canada, nous permettra de suggérer un idéal radiophonique duquel nous pourrons évaluer les conséquences la disparition de la Chaîne culturelle de Radio-Canada, survenue en 2004. Finalement, notre travail va dans le sens d'une théorie critique de la radio publique québécoise, le rapport de l'institution à la culture ayant changé, comme en témoigne l'analyse des mutations de son rôle dans l'espace public. Mots clés : Jürgen Habermas, Hannah Arendt, Radio-Canada, espace public, culture
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Plançon, Caroline. "La représentation dans la production et l'application du droit. Etudes de cas dans le droit de propriété foncière au Canada/Québec, en France et au Sénégal." Phd thesis, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris I, 2006. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00189910.
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Le travail examine la part des représentations du droit dans la construction des cultures juridiques, illustrées par des situations relatives aux rapports à la terre. Trois contextes juridiques différents, la France, et deux de ces anciennes colonies, le Québec et le Sénégal, soulignent le rapport entre la légitimité du droit et la production normative. En se référant à la notion juridique de propriété, l'étude met en évidence les difficultés de diffusion du modèle et de la culture juridique française d'inspiration civiliste au Québec et au Sénégal et montre que le droit n'est pas l'objet de représentations et pratiques universelles, en examinant les mécanismes d'interprétations de ce modèle par les populations et les élites québécoises, amérindiennes et sénégalaises. La perspective historique, nécessaire pour étudier la culture juridique et les processus juridiques, permet d'envisager les pratiques du droit de l'époque contemporaine sous l'angle des relations entre les cultures juridiques que ce soit en terme de confrontation ou en terme d'échange. Deux questions émergent : celle de la nature du droit qui résulte des échanges et celle du rapport entre légalité et légitimité du droit produit. Les rencontres juridiques conduisent-elles à une situation de métissage du droit ou à une situation de pluralisme juridique ? La lecture théorique de cette question ne peut être dissociée du questionnement sur la légitimité de la production normative et conduit à examiner les pratiques des populations en présence.
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Montero, Sarah. "Participation citoyenne et développement culturel : référentiels d'action à Bordeaux et à Québec." Phd thesis, Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00876115.
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Depuis les années 1990, le concept de participation a fait un retour marqué dans la société civile mais également au sein de la sphère politique, sous la forme d'une généralisation du débat public. Intrinsèquement lié au processus d'individuation de la société contemporaine, l'" impératif participatif " s'impose peu à peu aux responsables politiques et questionne la manière traditionnelle, fondée sur la légitimité élective, de concevoir l'action publique. A l'instar des autres politiques publiques, la politique culturelle se trouve elle aussi confrontée à la question de la participation des citoyens à l'élaboration de la décision publique. Les notions de démocratie culturelle et plus récemment celles de diversité et de droits culturels sont venues ainsi affirmer la légitimité des personnes à contribuer de façon effective à l'élaboration d'un projet politique partagé. Néanmoins, l'idéal de démocratisation culturelle qui légitime, depuis la création du ministère, l'intervention publique en matière culturelle, a induit un processus de hiérarchisation au détriment des citoyens, rendant difficile l'émergence d'un nouveau référentiel.Au plan local, la culture s'est peu à peu imposée au cœur des territoires comme un facteur essentiel de développement visant tout autant à accroitre l'attractivité qu'à garantir la cohésion sociale. En outre, les villes ont induit un rapprochement des centres de décision vers le citoyen afin de mieux prendre en compte les besoins et réalités spécifiques au territoire. Elles se sont ainsi emparées des notions de proximité et de gouvernance, qu'elles s'efforcent de mettre en œuvre au travers de dispositifs participatifs variés. Les municipalités pourraient alors initier le changement en matière de gouvernance culturelle et ainsi favoriser un processus d'égalisation des légitimités. Dans un mouvement inverse dit bottom-up, les citadins sont susceptibles de proposer des formes originales de co-construction de l'action publique. Nous proposons, dans une approche comparative, d'observer les dynamiques participatives dans le champ culturel et d'en apprécier la portée politique et sociale.
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Loicq, Marlène. "Médias et interculturalité : l'éducation aux médias dans une perspective comparative internationale (Australie, Québec, France)." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00721174.
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Cette thèse explore le potentiel interculturel des médias. Les médias sont des dispositifs de médiation investis dans des logiques locales et des échanges internationaux ;ils produisent alors des conditions nouvelles d'interaction interculturelle qui nous interpellent.Dans une démarche pratique et analytique, l'éducation aux médias est le terrain privilégié pour développer autant la maîtrise des outils que l'investigation heuristique de la configuration médiatique. Ainsi, avons-nous identifié les dimensions interculturelles du domaine de l'éducation aux médias dans le cadre d'une analyse socio-anthropologique des discours institutionnels de l'Australie, du Québec et de la France. Cette étude montre des logiques discursives et pragmatiques distinctes, et révèle divers imaginaires sociaux sur les médias,notamment dans leur rapport aux questions culturelles. De là, les études de cas nous présentent ces discours comme le lieu de convergence de l'éducation aux médias et des problématiques interculturelles, abordé dans la contrainte du modèle socio-politique national de gestion de la diversité culturelle (multiculturel, interculturel, républicain). Enfin, la perspective internationale comparative permet tout à la fois de singulariser les cas et d'identifier les dimensions transversales qui se présentent comme autant de piliers réflexifs pour envisager l'interculturalité des médias. À partir des questions de communication, de sens, d'identité et de citoyenneté,soulevées dans le cadre institué de l'éducation aux médias, nous proposons alors d'ouvrir la voie à une réflexion sur l'éducation interculturelle aux médias articulée autour d'une approche pluridisciplinaire du concept de représentation.
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Paulhiac, Florence. "Le rôle des références patrimoniales dans la construction des politiques urbaines à Bordeaux et Montréal." Phd thesis, Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III, 2002. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00265082.
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Cette thèse propose une généalogie des référentiels patrimoniaux animant les politiques de renouvellement urbain depuis 50 ans à Bordeaux et Montréal. L'analyse comparée internationale et la perspective historique démontrent le rôle variable du patrimoine urbain dans les stratégies et la composition des projets de renouvellement urbain (de requalification des qartiers anciens, de reconversions industrialo-portuaires, ou à l'occasion de projet de modernisation du territoire) ainsi que le rôle du débat public dans la constitution de ces référentiels patrimoniaux. Une innovation est notamment repérée à travers le cas de la reconversion du Vieux Port de Montréal , celle de la constitution d'une trame patrimoniale, produite à l'occasion d'une planification négociée et participative.
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Bartoszuk, Karin. "Emerging Adulthood in North America: Identity Status and Perception of Adulthood Among College Students from Canada and the United States." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4.
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Perombelon, Brice Désiré Jude. "Prioritising indigenous representations of geopower : the case of Tulita, Northwest Territories, Canada." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:71e14c26-d00a-4320-a385-df74715c45c8.
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Recent calls from progressive, subaltern and postcolonial geopoliticians to move geopolitical scholarship away from its Western ontological bases have argued that more ethnographic studies centred on peripheral and dispossessed geographies need to be undertaken in order to integrate peripheralised agents and agencies in dominant ontologies of geopolitics. This thesis follows these calls. Through empirical data collected during a period of five months of fieldwork undertaken between October 2014 and March 2015, it investigates the ways through which an Indigenous community of the Canadian Arctic, Tulita (located in the Northwest Territories' Sahtu region) represents geopower. It suggests a semiotic reading of these representations in order to take the agency of other-than/more-than-human beings into account. In doing so, it identifies the ontological bases through which geopolitics can be indigenised. Drawing from Dene animist ontologies, it indeed introduces the notion of a place-contingent speculative geopolitics. Two overarching argumentative lines are pursued. First, this thesis contends that geopower operates through metamorphic refashionings of the material forms of, and signs associated with, space and place. Second, it infers from this that through this transformational process, geopower is able to create the conditions for alienating but also transcending experiences and meanings of place to emerge. It argues that this movement between conflictual and progressive understandings is dialectical in nature. In addition to its conceptual suggestions, this thesis makes three empirical contributions. First, it confirms that settler geopolitical narratives of sovereignty assertion in the North cannot be disentangled from capitalist and industrial political-economic processes. Second, it shows that these processes, and the geopolitical visions that subtend them, are materialised in space via the extension of the urban fabric into Indigenous lands. Third, it demonstrates that by assembling space ontologically in particular ways, geopower establishes (and entrenches) a geopolitical distinction between living/sovereign (or governmentalised) spaces and nonliving/bare spaces (or spaces of nothingness).
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Lindqvist-McGowan, Angelica. "From the Ashes of Scorched Earth : The role of procedural justice, provision of promised benefits, and respectful and dignified treatment on perceived truth commission legitimacy." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Hugo Valentin-centrum, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-384534.
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McNichols, Chipo McNichols. "Can The Complex Care and Intervention (CCI) Program be Culturally Adapted as a Model For Use With Aboriginal Families Affected by Complex (Intergenerational) Trauma?" Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1465773400.
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Ohlsson, Katarina. "Private Refugee Sponsorship Groups as Sites of Adult Learning." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för beteendevetenskap och lärande, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-138971.
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Canada’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis includes a unique program where private citizens can raise funds to sponsor a refugee family. This private refugee sponsorship program tasks citizens with both the financial and social aspects of a refugee’s integration for their first year in Canada. The success of the program has led many other countries, particularly in Europe, to consider adopting a similar approach. Although there has been an increased interest in the program, there is a lack of research into the sponsorship experience. This study aims to provide further insight into the sponsorship experience by studying whether it includes an element of learning for the sponsors. This was done by conducting in-depth interviews and analyzing them based on situated learning theory and placing the results in the context of previous research done on sponsors in Canada during the Kosovo crisis. The principle findings of this study show that private refugee sponsorship groups are indeed sites of adult learning for the sponsors. However, the degree to which this is the case differs depending on how sponsorship groups are positioned vis-à-vis the refugee family and the professional settlement community.
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Moussaud, Simon. "Etude de l'implication des cellules microgliales et de l'α-synucleine dans la maladie neurodégénérative de Parkinson." Phd thesis, Université de Bourgogne, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00668186.
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Les maladies neurodégénératives liées à l'âge, telle celle de Parkinson, sont un problème majeur de santé publique. Cependant, la maladie de Parkinson reste incurable et les traitements sont très limités. En effet, les causes de la maladie restent encore mal comprises et la recherche se concentre sur ses mécanismes moléculaires. Dans cette étude, nous nous sommes intéressés à deux phénomènes anormaux se produisant dans la maladie de Parkinson : l'agrégation de l'α-synucléine et l'activation des cellules microgliales. Pour étudier la polymérisation de l'α-synucléine, nous avons établi de nouvelles méthodes permettant la production in vitro de différents types d'oligomères d'α-synucléine. Grâce à des méthodes biophysiques de pointe, nous avons caractérisé ces différents oligomères à l'échelle moléculaire. Puis nous avons étudié leurs effets toxiques sur les neurones. Ensuite, nous nous sommes intéressés à l'activation des microglies et en particulier à leurs canaux potassiques et aux changements liés au vieillissement. Nous avons identifié les canaux Kv1.3 et Kir2.1 et montré qu'ils étaient impliqués dans l'activation des microglies. En parallèle, nous avons établi une méthode originale qui permet l'isolation et la culture de microglies primaires issues de cerveaux adultes. En comparaison à celles de nouveaux-nés, les microglies adultes montrent des différences subtiles mais cruciales qui soutiennent l'hypothèse de changements liés au vieillissement. Globalement, nos résultats suggèrent qu'il est possible de développer de nouvelles approches thérapeutiques contre la maladie de Parkinson en modulant l'action des microglies ou en bloquant l'oligomérisation de l' α-synucléine.
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Ferney, Christian. "Particular Universality: Science, Culture, and Nationalism in Australia, Canada, and the United States, 1915-1960." Diss., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/1116.
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This dissertation examines offers a corrective to the world polity theory of globalization, which posits increasing convergence on a single global cultural frame. In contrast, I suggest that national culture limits the adoption of "world culture" by actors and institutions. Instead of adopting world cultural models wholesale, they are adapted through a process I call translated global diffusion. In order to assess my theory, I follow the creation and development of organizations founded by Australia, Canada, and the United States to foster scientific development within their borders. All three national organizations were initiated around 1915, part of an international wave of state science that prima facie appears to support the world polity thesis.
Through a comparative historical analysis that combines archival material and secondary histories from each case, I demonstrate that concerns tied to national identity mediate the incorporation of models sanctioned as part of a "world cultural canopy" of institutional scripts. More specifically, federal legislatures circumscribe new organizations to fit preexisting ideas of proper government. Secondly, the scientists effectively running state science organizations negotiate often conflicting nationalistic and professional impulses. Finally, the national news media report about science in a selective and nationally filtered way. The result is a kind of particular universality, science layered with national import only fully visible from within the nation-state.
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"Particular Universality: Science, Culture, and Nationalism in Australia, Canada, and the United States, 1915-1960." Diss., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/1116.
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Roussel, Mathieu. "Une anomalie dans les politiques de sécurité en Occident : l'influence de la culture stratégique sur l'absence d'une agence de renseignement étranger au Canada." Mémoire, 2010. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/3553/1/M11598.pdf.
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Ce mémoire s'intéresse à l'influence de la culture stratégique canadienne, développée en majorité depuis la Deuxième Guerre mondiale sur l'absence d'une agence de renseignement étranger au Canada, ayant pour objectif de collecter clandestinement des informations dans des États tiers à l'aide de ressources humaines. Il analyse d'une part les limites des gouvernements canadiens dans l'élaboration de la politique de sécurité de l'État et montre que la culture dominante au Canada influence les préférences stratégiques des dirigeants étatiques sur la création de certaines institutions de sécurité. En effet, si le Canada possède une culture basée sur l'idéalisme, l'internationalisme, la défensive et sur la volonté de se distancer des États-Unis, l'élaboration d'institutions de sécurité comme une agence de renseignement étranger pourraient être écartées de facto, même si celles-ci peuvent paraître essentielles à un État qui accorde beaucoup d'importance à ses activités sur la scène internationale. Il semble à première vue que les répercussions politiques négatives d'un tel projet dépassent largement les bénéfices qu'une agence de renseignement pourrait apporter au Canada et surtout à sa contribution au partenariat avec les États-Unis ou avec l'OTAN. Non seulement le mémoire explore les facteurs qui influencent la formation de la politique étrangère canadienne mais il mettra particulièrement l'accent sur l'étude de facteurs internes, particulièrement historiques, identitaires et culturels conditionnant la formation d'une politique canadienne de sécurité spécifique.
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Paquette, Francis. "La confessionnalisation de l'aide canadienne au développement." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11712.
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Plusieurs indices permettent de croire que la politique étrangère canadienne ainsi que l’Aide publique au développement (APD) ont été remodelées de manière considérable durant la dernière décennie. Sur plusieurs thèmes, l’arrivée du gouvernement conservateur de Stephen Harper coïncide avec ces changements. Parmi ceux-ci, il semble que certaines Organisations non gouvernementales religieuses (ONGR) en partenariat avec l’Agence canadienne de développement international (ACDI) soient favorisées dans leur financement fédéral.
L’objectif de ce mémoire est donc, dans un premier temps, de quantifier cette tendance dans l’allocation des fonds de l’APD. Dans un second temps, il s’agit d’expliquer les raisons ayant initié ce virage du régime de l’APD canadienne. L’hypothèse de recherche est que l’aspect religieux de l’idéologie du cabinet de Stephen Harper constitue un élément fort de la culture stratégique (CS) qui modifie le comportement et les décisions quant à la gestion de son régime de l’APD.
Ce mémoire, en utilisant une démarche empirique, démontre que les théories institutionnalistes typiquement utilisées dans les études de l’APD ne permettent pas de saisir adéquatement le phénomène observé. Ce mémoire résout de manière novatrice ce déficit théorique en utilisant le concept de la culture stratégique et les approches constructivistes.Several indicators suggest that Canadian foreign policy and the Official Development Assistance (ODA) have been remodeled significantly during the last decade. Several of these changes coincide with the arrival of the Conservative government of Stephen Harper. Of these, it seems that some religious non-governmental organizations (RNGO) in partnership with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) are favored in their federal funding. The objective of this thesis is twofold; first, to quantify the trend in the allocation of funds to the RNGO. The second objective is to explain the reasons for this shift in the orientation of Canadian ODA. The research hypothesis is that the religious aspect of the ideology of the Harper cabinet is a strong element of its strategic culture that can influence the behavior and decisions facing the management of its ODA. This thesis, using an empirical approach, shows that institutionalism theories typically used in the studies of ODA do capture adequately the observed phenomenon. This thesis solves in a novel way, this theoretical gap by using the concept of strategic culture and constructivist approaches.
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Golick, Greta Petronella. "Frank Nunan and the Guelph Bookbindery: A Documentary Investigation." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/26183.
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The History of the Book in Canada / Histoire du livre et de l’imprimé au Canada and other national book history projects have been a catalyst for research into the local production of print and have highlighted the need for more study of the print trades in smaller centres. In Ontario during the nineteenth century independent weekly newspapers were printed in most villages, while larger towns boasted more than one print shop and often one or more booksellers and stationers. Bookbinders were active members of the book trades selling books and stationery, ruling paper, binding local pamphlets, periodicals, and books, and manufacturing blankbooks for a variety of purposes. Since much local printing was ephemeral in nature, the only evidence of its existence is found in the record books kept by printers and binders. Partial business records and other surviving artifacts of the Guelph Bookbindery, which operated from 1855 to 1978, are both a rich source of evidence of the day-to-day operations of the bookbindery and a key to the intersection of print trades in Guelph, Ontario, and the surrounding counties. This study uses local imprints, blankbooks, authors’ papers, newspapers, directories, maps, assessment records, photographs, museum artifacts, and oral history accounts to reconstruct a history of the bookbindery and its place in the print culture of nineteenth-century Guelph. It documents the transformation of a business selling books, stationery, and wallpaper into a commercial bindery, which along with local printers produced large numbers of pamphlets, ubiquitous then but increasingly rare today. It is a view into the microcosm of a dynamic community where print was a vital medium for communication reflecting the cultural, commercial, and entrepreneurial discourse in nineteenth-century Canadian society that reached far beyond its borders.
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Berhanu-Denka, Tamiru. "Association between pathogenic and indicator pathogenic and indicator bacteria and some control points of a risk assessment model for food producing establishments in Quebec, Canada." Thèse, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/19807.
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Leprince, Caroline. "L'approche pangouvernementale canadienne : étude de l'équipe provinciale de reconstruction à Kandahar." Mémoire, 2012. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/5296/1/M12681.pdf.
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Depuis 2005, le gouvernement canadien a adopté une stratégie dite « pangouvernementale » qui met à contribution l'expertise des agences nationales spécialisées et des ministères afin de mieux répondre aux situations complexes de crise et de reconstruction post-conflit. Bien que cette stratégie pangouvernementale ait été développée comme outil optimal pour intervenir dans des États fragiles, il ne peut être présumé qu'une intégration suivra naturellement entre les parties. Les diverses organisations réunies sous un effort pangouvernemental possèdent toutes une culture, des valeurs et des pratiques qui leurs sont propres. Ces différences peuvent favoriser l'émergence de tensions entre les partenaires qui partagent parfois des objectifs divergents. Cette étude s'interroge sur la manière dont ces tensions organisationnelles affectent les dynamiques d'interaction entre les principaux acteurs prenant part à l'approche pangouvernementale. Afin d'examiner les sensibilités des organisations publiques impliquées dans un contexte pangouvernemental, cette étude se fonde sur le cadre d'analyse de la culture organisationnelle, développé par Edgar H. Schein. Cette recherche s'appuie sur une étude de cas et étudie l'engagement du Canada dans l'Équipe provinciale de reconstruction (ÉPR) à Kandahar, en Afghanistan. Les résultats présentés dans le cadre de cette étude se basent sur des entrevues réalisées auprès de quatorze représentants canadiens provenant de l'ensemble des agences et ministères (i.e. MAECI, ACDI, FC, SCC et GRC) qui ont participé à l'ÉPR. Cette étude analyse plus précisément les dynamiques interministérielles qui ont lieu à l'ÉPR à Kandahar, suite à la publication du rapport du Groupe d'experts indépendant sur le rôle futur du Canada en Afghanistan, en janvier 2008. Les changements, qui ont succédé la publication de ce rapport, ont eu des retombées bénéfiques sur la mise en œuvre de l'approche pangouvernementale canadienne.
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Chapman, Matthew. "The evolution of professional aviation culture in Canada, 1939-1945." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3023.
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The rapid expansion of the postwar commercial aviation industry in Canada was
made possible, in part, by the thousands of wartime pilots who filled the ranks of
the nation’s major airlines beginning in 1944. Through mentorship of subsequent
generations of peacetime aviators, wartime pilots had lasting impacts on the
Canadian commercial aviation industry during their time flying for companies such as Trans Canada Airlines (TCA).
Following an examination of the agreements made between the Royal Canadian Air Force and TCA between 1944 and 1945 for the transfer of pilots between the two organizations, this thesis tracks the development of the professional culture
of wartime RCAF aviators through an analysis of their training and subsequent
operational flying during the war. It concludes that while there were numerous
benefits for commercial aviation in Canada through this process, there were,
likewise, a series of negative repercussions for the safety of the Canadian aviation industry.
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Clapperton, Jonathan Alex. "Presenting and representing culture: a history of Stó:lō interpretive centres, museums and cross-cultural relationships, 1949-2006." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2151.
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How can museums, which have been critiqued as colonial spaces to house the curiosities of disappearing races and to show the superiority of the colonizers, be redeployed as assertions of alternative (aboriginal) worldviews?
I argue that while Stó:lō Nation and Stó:lō individuals have redeployed museum techniques to serve their own purposes they are still constrained by external and internal factors. Throughout this study I note where the Stó:lō have worked with existing museums, constructed their own interpretive centres, and changed their interpretive centres to differ from and be similar to non-aboriginal-run museums. I also explain how these different museums/interpretive centres are actually coming closer together ideologically. I examine three museums/interpretive centres: the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology, located in Vancouver, and the Stó:lō-owned Shxwt'a:selhawtxw (The House of Long Ago and Today), located in Sardis, and Xa:ytem Longhouse Interpretive Centre, just outside of Mission.
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Mark, Simon. "A comparative study of the cultural diplomacy of Canada, New Zealand and India." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2943.
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This thesis examines the concept and practice of cultural diplomacy. Cultural diplomacy is carried out by a government to support its foreign policy goals or diplomacy (or both) by using a wide range of cultural manifestations for a variety of purposes. The thesis examines aspects of the cultural diplomacy of Canada, Québec, New Zealand and India in order to investigate how cultural diplomacy presents a national image abroad (potentially as part of a national brand); its role in the protection of cultural sovereignty; and how it advances domestic objectives. The thesis argues that cultural diplomacy, in presenting a national image abroad, frequently emphasises a state’s modern-ness or its cultural distinctiveness. This raises the question of the link between national image and national brand and highlights the limitations inherent in national branding. For some states, cultural diplomacy plays a role in the protection of cultural sovereignty. Canadian cultural diplomacy supports the international activities of domestic cultural industries and has sought to maintain the right to provide this support within the multilateral free trade framework. Québec’s cultural diplomacy has sought to protect the province’s cultural sovereignty from a perceived threat from the Canadian federation. Cultural diplomacy helps advance domestic objectives. The cultural diplomacy of Canada has asserted the right of the federal government to be Canada’s only diplomatic voice, and to counter Québec’s claims to sovereignty. Québec’s cultural diplomacy has asserted the province’s constitutional rights and distinctiveness within the Canadian federation. In a similar way, the international exhibition Te Maori advanced the interests of Maori in New Zealand. Cultural diplomacy’s domestic impacts include positive international recognition for a state’s culture, which contributes to a state’s sense of being a distinctive national community and to its confidence, economic prosperity and nation-building. The thesis concludes that cultural diplomacy remains a valuable tool of diplomacy and is likely to become more important to governments, particularly to their public diplomacy and as a contributor to soft power, because of cultural diplomacy’s promulgation of a distinctive national identity, the increasing importance of a cultural aspect in economic interests, and the intrinsic appeal of culture to globalised populations.
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Korpan, Cynthia Joanne. "Authentic culture: the Inkameep plays as Canadian Indian folk drama." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1756.
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During the early decades of the 20th century, a public and governmental concentration on authentic Canadian culture included the languages and cultural practices of Indigenous peoples. The position of Indigenous peoples as ‘original’ to the land was conflated as evidence that their cultures were authentic, and as such, uniquely ‘Canadian’. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, a small group of children from the Osoyoos Indian Band along with their Irish immigrant teacher produced a series of short dramatic plays based on traditional Okanagan stories. This thesis examines how the production, circulation, and consumption of these Okanagan-based plays by children came to be seen as a manifestation of early Canadian drama that was arguably a part of the foundation of an emerging national identity.
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Saint-Gelais, Sylvain. "Culture du saumon de l'Atlantique Salmo salar en eau salée dans l'estuaire du St-Laurent, Québec (Canada) avec hivernage en eau douce." Thèse, 1986. http://constellation.uqac.ca/1748/1/1413441.pdf.
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Sur une bonne partie de la côte est du Canada, l'eau de mer est trop froide en hiver pour que le saumon de l'Atlantique Salmo salar y soit gardé continuellement en captivité. De plus, la présence de glaces dérivantes ne permet pas l'amarrage en hiver de cages flottantes pour l'élevage. Pour éviter ces problèmes, nous avons expérimenté une stratégie d'élevage qui consiste à placer les poissons en eau salée durant un premier été, à les transférer en eau douce pour l'hiver, puis à les retourner en eau salée pour un deuxième été.
Une première expérience d'hivernage a été réalisée avec des saumons de l'Atlantique et des ouananiches S, s., ouananiche qui furent placés dans des cages flottantes dans la rivière aux Outardes. Les résultats ont montré que les problèmes causés par les glaces peuvent être surmontés si on utilise des techniques relativement simples. Ces techniques sont l'utilisation d'une estacade de bois pour retenir les cages lors de la débâcle au printemps et la pose de boîtes isolées dans les cages pour former une zone libre de glace pour le nourrissage.
Le taux instantané de croissance du saumon de l'Atlantique en eau douce l'hiver fut semblable à ceux de saumons élevés en mer. Celui des ouananiches fut cependant inférieur. La mortalité fut impossible à mesurer en raison des pertes importantes de poissons causées par des brèches dans les filets de plastique.
A l'été 1983, l'expérimentation de la stratégie complète a débuté par l'élevage d'un groupe de saumons de l'Atlantique en eau salée dans l'estuaire du St-Laurent. A l'hiver 1983-84, ces poissons ont été transférés dans la rivière aux Outardes, puis en pisciculture. Au printemps, ils ont été replacés en eau salée jusqu'à l'automne 1984. Durant l'été 1983, un autre groupe de saumons, provenant du même lot que le groupe expérimental, a été élevé en eau douce seulement pour servir de comparaison. Les saumons de ce groupe ont été placés dans les mêmes milieux que le groupe expérimental à partir de l'automne 1983.
A partir de poids moyen de 43 g, le groupe expérimental a atteint, après 17 mois, un poids moyen de 1,28 kg et un taux instantané de croissance en poids de 0,64%-jour. Le groupe de comparaison a atteint un poids inférieur, soit 1,00 kg.
Le transfert en eau douce pour l'hiver cause une décroissance limitée dans le temps ainsi qu'une mortalité faible. Durant l'expérience, aucun poisson n'a atteint la maturité sexuelle. La survie et les croissances relativement faibles des deux groupes, comparativement à d'autres élevages réalisés en mer seulement, peuvent s'expliquer par la sous-alimentation au début de l'expérience.
On conclut que 1'élevage du saumon de l'Atlantique en eau salée selon une stratégie comportant un hivernage en eau douce est techniquement et biologiquement réalisable. On propose un modèle de ferme commerciale basée sur cette stratégie.
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Ardenghi, Diego Machado. "Dentist patient relationship: a cultural historical theoretical approach." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2126.
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This thesis is about ethics in the dentist-patient relationships. Using cultural-historical activity theory and discourse analysis as theoretical and methodological frameworks, I investigate (a) how ethics emerges in dentists' discourse when they talk about dental-patient relationships; (b) how dentists deal with conflicts that emerge in their interaction with the patients; and (c) how a dental clinic is organized and works on a daily basis. I also discuss the implications of a theory of unknowability of actions for dentistry practice. My database is composed of dentists' narratives during videotaped interviews, and an ethnographic study in a private dental clinic in Canada. I conclude that ethics is embodied in the dentists' actions; that the development of phronesis helps dentists to solve conflicts in the workplace: and that the trajectory of the dental treatment is conducted in states through a complex division of labor and often in more than one activity system.
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Berube, Lise. "Conflict resolution and Canada World Youth: examining the link between international exchange, cross-cultural communication, and conflict resolution." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1010.
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This thesis examines the link between international exchange programs, cross-cultural communication, and conflict resolution. Through a case study of the Canada World Youth Core Program, my research sought to answer the question: How do the participants of the Canada World Youth Core Program perceive their adaptability, cross-cultural communication, and conflict resolution skills to have been developed or improved as a result of their participation in the program? I asked eleven former Canadian participants of the program to share their stories of conflict and challenges throughout the exchange, which resulted in rich and detailed qualitative data.
My findings suggest that increased opportunities to engage in cross-cultural communication through international exchange programs, such as Canada World Youth, can increase an individual’s adaptability, cross-cultural communication, and conflict resolution skills. I therefore conclude that such programs are an important component to the Canadian educational system, and should be supported, promoted, and made widely available to Canadian youth.
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Khan, Salaha. "The Process of Crafting an Authentic Identity in the Context of Immigration to Canada: The Muslim Experience." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/34079.
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This study looked at the experience of religion and the formation of a contemporary ethnoreligious identity in the lives of first generation Pakistani Muslim immigrant men and women who have been residents of Canada for five to ten years. The present research explored the life experiences of Muslim immigrants from Pakistan who immigrated to Canada with their immediate families and resolved the ensuing cultural dislocation. In order to understand the subjective meanings of immigrants’ lived experiences in Canada, the present study used a Grounded Theory framework. The analysis of data revealed a four stage theory of Muslim identity formation. Those stages describe the step-by-step process that highlights immigrants’ experience of culture shock, resolution of culture shock through immigrants’ reaffirmation of their religion that lays the groundwork for an authentic identity through differentiation of self from their country of origin, and formation of an authentic Muslim identity in the host society. It is proposed that the resolution of culture shock and the creation of a post-immigration identity mirrors the developmental process of Differentiation of Self and Other as outlined by Watson (2011) in her process model of becoming a self-governing person. Using their faith as a key resource to cope, these immigrants achieve a renewed sense of self and a revitalized faith. Immigrants come to an enhanced appreciation of Islam as the best system of life for themselves. An improved relationship with faith enhances immigrants’ awareness about the actual philosophy of its system and helps immigrants internalize the desirable Muslim character traits which focus on altruism, modesty, tolerance, fairness, forgiveness, and inclusion. Internalizing the pro social values of Islam brings about a fundamental shift in these immigrants’ perspectives about self and the host society. They successfully differentiate themselves from their country of origin to thrive in their adopted country. Canada provides them a conducive context which helps them access their positive potential in becoming their ideal self, the true Muslims. They come to an increased appreciation of the new society and accept it as their new home, thus form a new identity that speaks for the authentic version of Islam.
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Tachibana, Rumiko. "Processing sushi / cooked Japan: Why sushi became Canadian." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1311.
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Sushi is a widely consumed food in North America. Along with other ethnic cuisine and food items it is subject to fusion and localization. This thesis explores the transformation of sushi in Victoria, BC, on the basis of an extensive survey, participant observation, and interviews with producers and consumers. The physical and symbolic transformation of sushi is analyzed both from the vantage point of business and cultural trends. It is shown that sushi became a food item different to what is known as sushi in Japan. This makes Victoria as one of the North American markets which threatens the Japanese national identity. This study thus not only reveals the local process of transformation of sushi but also shows how a food item becomes a multi-vocal symbol. While consumed by North Americans as healthy and exotic in its transformed style, it becomes a politically significant concern of national identity in Japan.
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Fortin, Marilyn. "Une typologie tridimensionnelle des pratiques de consommation d’alcool au Canada : usages, contextes et motivations de boire." Thèse, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/12827.
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Cette thèse de doctorat a pour objectif de développer une typologie socioculturelle de la consommation d’alcool à partir des mesures d’usages, de contextes et de motivations à boire pour approfondir notre connaissance sur les pratiques collectives de boire au Canada et d’explorer la variabilité des pratiques selon les caractérisations sociodémographiques et socioéconomiques des buveurs . Partant du constat des limites conceptuelles des modèles typologiques développés en alcoologie qui ne permettent pas d’observer toute la complexité des pratiques du boire dans une société puisqu’ils sont construits principalement à partir de l’usage, cette thèse propose de conceptualiser les pratiques de boire comme l’interface de l’usage, des contextes de consommation et des motivations à consommer.
Les données utilisées proviennent de l’enquête GENder, Alcohol, and Culture: an international study – Canada. Uniquement les buveurs réguliers (consommant au moins une fois par mois) ont été retenus dans le cadre de cette thèse. Des analyses de correspondances et des analyses de classes latentes ont permis de dériver des typologies tridimensionnelles des pratiques de boire et de les associer à des caractéristiques sociales.
Les résultats de recherche sont présentés en trois articles scientifiques qui répondent chacun à un objectif spécifique de la thèse. Le premier article présente une classification des buveurs réguliers canadiens en six grands types et établit le lien entre ces types et le genre ainsi que le groupe d’âge. Le deuxième article teste l’invariance de la typologie selon le genre et propose des classifications distinctes pour les femmes et pour les hommes en lien avec le groupe d’âge et le niveau d’éducation. Le troisième article se concentre sur les buveurs réguliers en emploi et examine l’association entre la position socioprofessionnelle dans la hiérarchie sociale et les pratiques de boire.This doctoral thesis aims to develop a socio-cultural typology of alcohol consumption through measures of use, contexts and motivations to drink in order to explore and deepen our knowledge about collective practice of drinking in Canada, and to explore the variability of practices along demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of drinkers . The general hypothesis of the thesis stipulates that existing typologies in alcohol research do not allow for the exploration of all the complexities of drinking practices within a society because they are based primarily on alcohol consumption. We believe that adding contextual and motivational dimensions to the dimension of use allows for improving the observation and description of collective practices of drinking, which are associated with it. Quantitative data from the GENACIS, GENder, Alcohol, and Culture: an international study – Canada project helped to validate the main research hypothesis. Only regular drinkers (consuming at least once a month) were selected as part of this thesis. Multiple correspondence analysis and latent class analysis permitted to derive three typologies of drinking practices, associated to social features. The results of the research are presented in three scientific articles, each of which responds to a specific objective of the thesis. The first article presents a classification of Canadian drinkers in six major types and establishes the link between these types, age and gender. The second article tests the invariance of the typology according to gender and proposes separate classifications for women and men in relation to age group and level of education. The third section focuses on regular drinkers’ employment and examines the association between professional position in the social hierarchy and practice of drinking.
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Yates, Robin. "Living in two worlds: First Nations women leaders' perspectives on cultural continuity, cultural identity, and youth." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/903.
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This research project explores the relation between the participation of First Nations women in local governance and the well-being of First Nations youth. To explore this relation, semi-structured interviews were carried out with eleven First Nations women leaders. Special attention was paid to how these women conceptualized their relationships with youth and the differing approaches the women took to connect youth with their culture. The research aimed to identify: (1) the historical, social, and cultural influences that supported or challenged these women’s participation in government and their ability to influence youth; (2) how the women’s interest in the well-being of youth was influenced by their gender, family, and cultural roles; and (3) how these women described their contributions to the health and well-being of youth. Results point to four main themes that underpin the women’s activities as they relate to youth health and well-being: Identity, Relationships, Living in Two Worlds, and Holistic Caregivers.
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Jamin, Kathryn Rose. "Culturing performance: exploring performance elements in Québec folk culture." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1999.
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This study explores performance elements in Quebec folk culture events in the context of evaluating the resources needed to construct studies in québécois theatre history for Anglophone students. Using the metaphor of history as a map that charts the landscape of the past and needs many layers of information to do so effectively, resources dealing with Quebec theatre history in English and in French are surveyed and underdeveloped areas are marked for future research. To deal with the unusual circumstance of a very low incidence of theatre practice in Quebec from 1606 until late in the 1800's, juxtaposed against the vibrant and international developments in the last 50 years, three instances of Quebec folk culture are investigated for their performance elements. That research is structured in accordance with the guidelines and definitions in Living Folklore (Sims & Stevens, 2005). Performance elements revealed through the study include full body synchronized movements, mask and costume, improvisation, role-playing, choral work and monologues. The relationship of these events to present-day québécois theatre is analyzed.
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"From Policy Instruments to Action Arenas: Toward Robust Fisheries and Adaptive Fishing Households in Southwest Nova Scotia." Doctoral diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.24856.
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abstract: The coastal fishing community of Barrington, Southwest Nova Scotia (SWNS), has depended on the resilience of ocean ecosystems and resource-based economic activities for centuries. But while many coastal fisheries have developed unique ways to govern their resources, global environmental and economic change presents new challenges. In this study, I examine the multi-species fishery of Barrington. My objective was to understand what makes the fishery and its governance system robust to economic and ecological change, what makes fishing households vulnerable, and how household vulnerability and system level robustness interact. I addressed these these questions by focusing on action arenas, their contexts, interactions and outcomes. I used a combination of case comparisons, ethnography, surveys, quantitative and qualitative analysis to understand what influences action arenas in Barrington, Southwest Nova Scotia (SWNS). I found that robustness of the fishery at the system level depended on the strength of feedback between the operational level, where resource users interact with the resource, and the collective-choice level, where agents develop rules to influence fishing behavior. Weak feedback in Barrington has precipitated governance mismatches. At the household level, accounts from harvesters, buyers and experts suggested that decision-making arenas lacked procedural justice. Households preferred individual strategies to acquire access to and exploit fisheries resources. But the transferability of quota and licenses has created divisions between haves and have-nots. Those who have lost their traditional access to other species, such as cod, halibut, and haddock, have become highly dependent on lobster. Based on regressions and multi-criteria decision analysis, I found that new entrants in the lobster fishery needed to maintain high effort and catches to service their debts. But harvesters who did not enter the race for higher catches were most sensitive to low demand and low prices for lobster. This study demonstrates the importance of combining multiple methods and theoretical approaches to avoid tunnel vision in fisheries policy.Dissertation/Thesis
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Gassama, Yakhara. "Les caractéristiques de la déviance des adolescentes judiciarisées à Dakar (Sénégal) en comparaison aux adolescentes judiciarisées de Montréal (Canada)." Thèse, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/4371.
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Malgré les problèmes que pose la délinquance juvénile au Sénégal, les réponses des décideurs semblent inefficaces, surtout pour les filles déviantes. Ainsi, l’objectif de notre étude est de déterminer les caractéristiques familiales, scolaires et des amis des adolescentes judiciarisées à Dakar en les comparant à celles de Montréal. Les enquêtes se sont déroulées à Dakar sur trente adolescentes interrogées avec un instrument adapté du MASPAQ.
Les similitudes entre les échantillons concernent l’âge moyen et le statut judiciaire quasi-identiques, le milieu socio-économique défavorisé et la structure familiale en majorité monoparentale matricentrique. Les autres résultats concernent surtout les liens sociaux plus forts chez les dakaroises alors que l’activité marginale est plus importante chez les montréalaises.
Les liens sociaux des dakaroises constitueraient une protection contre la déviance. Le contexte culturel également, en favorisant un contrôle social, pousserait à développer plus de contraintes internes, autre protection contre la déviance. Des perspectives sont envisagées notamment utiliser l’instrument avec des garçons.Despite problems caused by juvenile delinquency in Senegal, authorities'answers seem not to be very efficient, in particular with delinquent girls. This study aims to describe the family, the school and the peers of adjudicated adolescent females in Dakar and compare these features with those of adjudicated adolescent females in Montreal. The study occurs in Dakar with thirty adolescent girls interviewed with a questionnaire adapted from the MASPAQ. The similarities between the two samples are the girls' average age, their judiciary status, their socio-economic status which is disadvantaged and their family's structure which is for most of them a single-mother one. The other results describe the social bonds which are stronger for the Senegalese sample whereas the deviant behaviour is more important for the Montreal's girls. The social bonds may serve as a protection against deviance. The cultural context, as it facilitates social control, may also develop more internal constraints, which constitute another protection against deviant conduct. One possible perspective is to replicate the study using the same questionnaire among samples of male offenders.
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Wheatley, Wendy Christy. "Co-management of Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site: panarchy as a means of assessing linked cultural and ecological landscapes for sustainability." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1970.
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I analyse the emergence of a co-management system for protected area governance at Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site on the northwest coast of Canada. Of primary concern is the analysis of the co-management structure for properties that are essential for maintaining a sustainable trajectory and an exploration of the key mechanisms for its development. The underlying framework for the analysis in this thesis is panarchy which is based on four categories of factors for building resilience: 1) learning to live with change and uncertainty; 2) nurturing diversity for re-organization and renewal; 3) combining different kinds of knowledge; and 4) creating opportunity for self-organization. This framework emerges from the conclusions of a multi-year team study of the dynamics of socio-ecological systems and how to enhance the resilience of these complex systems to tackle complexity, uncertainty and global environmental change. As the Archipelago Management Board (AMB) is the institutional structure that is managing the future of Gwaii Haanas, therefore, I focus on how this structure facilitates resilience. 1 argue that it should be an arena for flexible collaboration with multi-level governance that facilitates adaptive management (learning and building ecological knowledge into the institutional structure) and nurturing elements of resilience (cultural and ecological memory).
The Lyell Island blockade in 1986, was a collective action against a crisis (cultural and environmental degradation caused by industrial logging) where key stewards and several Haida elders provided leadership, vision and trust. Parks Canada helped end the conflict by offering a management approach that accommodates Haida rights to their traditional lands, the formation of Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site. Here I argue that the power-sharing structure of the AMB provides political space for experimentation. As such, the AMB appears to be an adaptive co-management system that is flexible, community-based, tailored to specific situations and supported by and working in collaboration with a concerned government agency to ensure sustainable resource management. So far, this arrangement has been able to successfully move away from a less desired trajectory toward a more sustainable one with the capacity to nurture the ecological health of Gwaii Haanas and the Haida culture on which it depends. I discuss the key role of co-management in re-coupling society to ecological feedback, creating political space for experimentation, accommodating varied ways of knowing and learning, including traditional ecological knowledge to link management with ecological understanding, and extending management into the social domain.
I conclude that management in the implementation of protected area policy in Canadian National Parks could benefit from a more explicit collaboration with local communities who have special interests and site-specific ecological knowledge to better understand and monitor complex systems for long-term sustainability of protected areas.
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Vernon, Karina J. "The black prairies: history, subjectivity, writing." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/896.
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This dissertation contributes to the fields of Canadian literature and black cultural studies in Canada a new regional archive of literature, the black prairie archive. It unearths and brings critical attention, for the first time, to the unknown history and cultural production of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century black pioneer writers on the Canadian prairies, and connects this historical literature to the work of contemporary black prairie authors. The black prairie archive thus brings together one hundred and thirty five years of black writing on the prairies, from 1873-2008.
Theorized in terms of what Pierre Nora calls a lieu de mémoire, or a site of memory, the black prairie archive operates as a site of collective black-inflected memory on the prairies. It retrieves memory of a repressed but important black history and culture and brings it into consciousness of the present historical moment. In its ability to remember what has been repressed and forgotten, the archive functions as a literary counterhistory, calling attention to the aggressive exclusions and erasures involved in the historical, social, critical, and legal construction of the prairies as an ideological—not a geographic—space in relation to race.
In addition to bringing a new regional black literature to light, this study offers the black prairie archive as a discursive formation that points to a new methodology, a methodology capable of addressing the limits of certain critical debates in Canada. Specifically, it offers a strategy for theorizing black belonging and territoriality in terms other than the problematic metaphors of black indigeneity; for reading the regional particularities of black prairie literature and subjectivity; and for overcoming the impasse at the centre of black Canadian cultural studies, represented by the debate between Rinaldo Walcott and George Elliott Clarke, regarding which model, the archival or diasporic, best articulates the space of black Canada. The black prairie archive demonstrates how the archive can become a critical, activist, anti-national strategy for recovering repressed black histories, literatures, and presences.
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Koryzma, Céline Marion. "Relations among acculturation, parenting and depressive symptoms for immigrant Chinese mothers and fathers." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2284.
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The relations among acculturation, parenting and depressive symptoms were examined among 98 immigrant Chinese mothers and fathers with early adolescents in Canada. Parents completed measures assessing their involvement in Canadian and Chinese culture, their symptoms of depression, and their parenting practices (i.e., expressive warmth, firm control, Chinese parenting beliefs and restrictive control). Greater Canadian orientation was associated with more expressive warmth and firm control for parents, whereas greater Chinese orientation was associated with stronger Chinese parenting beliefs. Greater Canadian orientation was associated with fewer depressive symptoms for all mothers, and for fathers who were low in Chinese orientation. Symptoms of depression were negatively related to firm control and expressive warmth for parents, and positively related to restrictive control for fathers. Finally, symptoms of depression partially mediated the relation between Canadian orientation and firm control for mothers, as well as the relation between Canadian orientation and expressive warmth for fathers.
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Van, Ginkel Aileen, Brian J. Walsh, Don Posterski, Gary Duim, and Nicholas Terpstra. "Perspective vol. 17 no. 3 (Jun 1983)." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/251284.
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Chia, Ai-Lan. "An investigation of cultural influence upon depressive symptomatology and its comorbid anxiety symptoms among Chinese Canadian university students." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2559.
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The first goal of the current study was to comprehensively assess depressive and anxiety symptomatology, and examine the resultant symptom structures among 206 Caucasian Canadian and 251 Chinese Canadian university student samples in relation to the tri¬partite conceptual model put forth by Clark and Watson (1991). The current study used 14 symptom measures assessing the affective (e.g., low positive affect), the cognitive (e.g., worry), and the somatic aspects (e.g., autonomic hyperarousal) of depressive and anxiety symptomatology. Items that were found to function differently across the current two samples via the techniques of item response theory were considered to be culturally biased and were subsequently removed from these 14 measures so that the true structural relations among measures of depressive and anxiety symptomatology could be illustrated. The current study identified differences in symptom structures between Chinese and Caucasian samples (e.g., worry and autonomic hyperarousal), as well as differences
between these two samples' symptom structures and the structures of the original tripartite model (e.g.. lack of depression specific element). After the cross sample differences and similarities in symptom structures of anxiety and depressive symtomatology were identified, the second primary goal of the current study was to further investigate cultural influences on between-group similarities and differences in the resultant symptom structures of anxiety and depression. Symptom factor scores were found to relate only to specific but not generic indicators of an individual's cultural experiences (e.g., Negative Acculturating Experiences). Furthermore. among 201 items of the 14 symptom measures included in the current study, 52 items (about 26%) were found to be culturally biased, with about one half of them being more likely endorsed by the Chinese sample and about the other half more likely endorsed by the Caucasian sample. The phenomenon of cultural bias at an item level was common, because all scales used in the current study contained culturally biased items, and because bias responding tendency was found within both Chinese and Caucasian samples. Cultural contrast response tendency, a composite variable of all cultural biased items. was found to relate to some but not all aspects of cultural orientations (e.g.. Canadian External Orientation). It also showed a greater relation than symptom factors with cultural orientation measures. The third goal of the current study was to explore individuals' cultural and depressive experiences with a qualitative approach using a semi-structured interview, in order to discover new culturally relevant themes that may link individuals' cultural background with psychopathology. Three themes were identified among the interviews of Chinese Canadian university students. portraying the role of Chinese culture in understanding an individual's depression, illustrating the mechanism linking culture with psychopathology, and highlighting the significance of a qualitative research approach in understanding a Chinese individual's experiences. Clinical implications for assessing depression and anxiety symptomatology, especially for individuals with Chinese origin, were discussed.
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de, La Rochelle Renaud Guillaume. "Les cultures stratégiques canadiennes et l’opinion publique : une étude de la représentativité du gouvernement libéral de 2015 à 2017." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/20716.
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Khiyani, Muhammad Faheem. "A comparison between DNA-DNA checkerboard hybridization and culture techniques for the detection of Candida species in denture stomatitis." Thèse, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/21475.
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