Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Title
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Catching the Public Eye: The Body, Space, and Social Order in 1920s Canadian Visual Culture
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-05)In the cultural upheaval of the 1920s, Canadians became particularly invested in looking at and debating women’s images in public. This dissertation looks at how English-Canadians debated, accepted, and challenged modernity ... -
The Celebrity Imprint: "Religion" and Identity Among Fans of John Lennon and Johnny Cash
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-23)Fandom-as-religion literature examines similarities between fandom and religion and, in particular, dimensions of the fan experience such as beliefs, emotion, and ritual. This area emerged in the last thirty years and ... -
Celtic, Roman, and Everything in Between: The Evolution of the Sacred in Romano-Celtic Wales
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-26)Celtic religion is usually summarized with a quick discussion of druidic practices and human sacrifice. The actual ancient religion of the Insular Celtic populations was a lot more complicated. This thesis introduces the ... -
Cemeteries & the Control of Bodies
(University of Waterloo, 2006)There has been a substantial change in cemetery administration over the last century. Where once cemeteries were predominantly run by religious organizations, now they are mostly run by local municipalities. This ... -
Challenging Collaborative Consumption at a Critical Juncture: Airbnb in the Matrix of Gentrification and Colonization
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-30)Ten years since the nationwide J14 housing protests against Israel’s increasing cost of living, affordable housing remains just as scarce, even prompting some city-dwellers to seek cheaper living in West Bank settlements ... -
Change in International System: a Comparative Study of Hierarchic and Anarchic Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2005)This thesis focuses on change and persistence of the structure of the international system. It attempts to address the question why hierarchic structures prevailed during the Ancient and Classical eras (3000 B. C. ? ... -
Changer la donne. Contre « l’intraduisibilité » de l’hétérolinguisme dans le théâtre trinidadien
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-21)Cette thèse en recherche-création remet en question l’idée que les textes hétérolingues sont intraduisibles. J’y traduis la pièce de théâtre Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (1958) du dramaturge trinidadien Errol John en utilisant ... -
Changes in Canadian Identity Attitudes Over a Twenty Year Period: 1981-2001
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-01)This project examines attitude change between 1981 and 2001 for a population of young, well educated Canadians, employing evaluation, potency and activity (EPA) semantic differential ratings of approximately 800 social ... -
Chaoulli v. Québec (Attorney General): Understanding Provincial Reactions to the Decision
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-18)This thesis focuses on provincial reactions to the Supreme Court decision on 5 June 2005, Chaoulli v. Quebec (Attorney General). In this decision, the Court struck down the government of Québec’s ban on private insurance ... -
Characterizing Cognitive Control
(University of Waterloo, 2011-06-09)A series of experiments examined both the phenomenological nature and centrality of Cognitive Control in common cognitive paradigms. This was done primarily by employing manipulations of Congruency Proportion (CP), ... -
Characterizing Colour-Word Contingency Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-28)Contingencies are constantly found in everyday situations and humans are extraordinarily adept at learning them, whether implicitly or explicitly. The learning of contingencies can benefit behaviour in many ways, some ... -
Characterizing the Psychophysiological Signature of Boredom
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)Recent research has suggested that boredom is a construct that can be distinguished from similar affective states including apathy, anhedonia, and depression, using self-reports. The current study investigated whether ... -
Charlevoix, lecteur de Sagard
(Université Laval, 2016)Résumé Dans son article, Guy Poirier analyse la façon dont Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix perçoit, dans son Histoire et description générale de la Nouvelle France et dans son Journal de voyage, l’oeuvre du récollet ... -
Charting the path from self-reflection to self-appraisal in social anxiety: What are the roles of self-immersion and self-distancing?
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-28)Past studies have suggested that individuals who adopt a psychologically immersed, as opposed to a psychologically distanced perspective when reflecting on negative emotional experiences, tend to experience greater negative ... -
Chasing Leisure: A Hermeneutic of Late Modernity
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-29)This dissertation addresses shortcomings in the sociological study of leisure through providing a new conceptual approach for understanding human action and meaning making. It reformulates leisure as the leisure imaginary, ... -
The Chester 'Command' System c. 71-96 C.E.
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-13)This thesis centres on the operations of the Chester ‘command’ system in the region of North Wales, roughly from the first year in which Petilius Cerialis served as the governor of Britain to the death of Emperor Domitian. ... -
CHI PLAYGUE: A Mobile Conference Networking Game
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2016-11-06)Modern professional networking relies on social media. To take advantage of this fact, we present CHI PLAYGUE, a conference game designed to facilitate interaction among strangers and encourage social networking to create ... -
The Chicken Is Just Dead First
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-30)My thesis exhibition encapsulates my lived experience as a Black woman from Barbados who moved to Guelph, Ontario at eighteen. My studio and artistic research is focused on the ways that food, ritual, hair, and colonialism ... -
Children accept information from incongruent speakers when the context explains the communicative incongruence
(Elsevier, 2019-07-30)Past work has shown that children are less likely to solicit information from speakers who use incongruent communicative cues (i.e., demonstrate an emotion nonverbally that differs from the emotional valence of the words) ... -
Children prefer to acquire information from unambiguous speakers
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)Detecting ambiguity is essential for successful communication. Two studies investigated whether preschool- (4- to 5-year-old) and school-age (6- to 7-year-old) children show sensitivity to communicative ambiguity and can ...