Thesis (M.A.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of History, 1967. / [Typescript].

Zhou, Yi. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 153-168). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.2 / Table of Contents --- p.6 / Introduction --- p.8 / Chapter Chapter One: --- Return to the Parole --- p.22 / Chapter 1.1 --- The Language Dilemma and Appeal of Asian American Literature --- p.23 / "Language: Community, Nation and Power" --- p.24 / Claiming a Right to Standard English --- p.29 / Claiming a Right to Multiple Tongues --- p.32 / Problems with Previously Mentioned Ways of Resistance --- p.36 / Chapter 1.2 --- Kingston´ةs Language Choice and Writing Strategies --- p.40 / Poetic Language: From Kristeva to Kingston --- p.41 / Heterogeneity: Kingston as a Bilingual Writer --- p.44 / Diversity： A New Fusion Language --- p.51 / Dialogism: From Words to Culture --- p.58 / Chapter Chapter Two: --- Return to the Body --- p.73 / Chapter 2.1 --- From Parole to the Body --- p.76 / "Langue, Parole, Subject" --- p.77 / Deconstruction of the Subject: The Maternal Body --- p.79 / “Chora´ح-- A Bodily Metaphor for Resistance to Langue --- p.81 / Chapter 2.2 --- Body-Based Writing --- p.83 / Let the Body Speak --- p.84 / "Female Writers, Body Consciousness" --- p.87 / Kingston´ةs Bodily and Life Experience --- p.90 / Chapter 2.3 --- Gaze on the Body´ؤKingston's Body Writing on Male --- p.93 / Objectification: Seeing and Being Seen --- p.94 / Objectified Body-From Body to Flesh --- p.96 / Objectification as Alienation --- p.99 / Body´ةs Spontaneous Resistance: Pain --- p.103 / Chapter Chapter Three: --- Return to the Minor --- p.111 / Chapter 3.1 --- Speech Act: Another View on Resistance to Langue --- p.113 / Austin: Speech Is Itself a Form of Action --- p.113 / "Derrida: “Iterability""" --- p.116 / Judith Butler： A Politics of the Performative --- p.119 / Chapter 3.2 --- The Revolt of Minor Tongue: On Language Appropriation --- p.122 / "Performing a “Twin Skin""" --- p.123 / The Stereotypical Linguistic Reality --- p.127 / "Insurrectionary Speech Act: Towards a “Parasitic"" Language" --- p.130 / Chapter 3.3 --- One Man Play: On Minor Writing as Felicitous Political Speech-Acts? --- p.134 / A Performance of Identity Politics --- p.136 / Minor Writing: A Site for Felicitous Performance? --- p.138 / Conclusion --- p.145 / Bibliography --- p.153

The process of shelter consolidation which has been observed in spontaneous settlements gave rise to the idea that it could be transferred to formal housing projects. The development and improvement of shelter for the urban poor through formal channels has also often followed a model of progressive development based on the provision of tenure and basic services. This was done through "sites and services" and "area upgrading" projects. / An assessment of this process was carried out by observing two sites and services projects, Nannyville Gardens and De La Vega City, located in the Kingston Metropolitan Region, Jamaica. The manner and extent of consolidation is analyzed from data gathered during a survey which consisted of interviews with key informants and residents through a questionnaire, observation notes, physical measurements, slides and aerial photographs. The analysis dealt with variables such as; changes in the habitable area, the level of finishes undertaken at each stage of addition and the incorporation of space for home-Based Enterprises. The participants' physical priorities for housing are identified through the changes that have occurred in the variables over the life of both housing schemes. / The results indicate that sufficient habitable area takes precedent over the level of finish in the early stages of dwelling development. The findings also suggest that the economic use of dwellings (renting, vending, trading and the provision of personal services) in formal low-income housing projects is an inevitable part of the consolidation process which should be given serious consideration when formulating such projects.

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The Cataraqui River, which drains 930 square km of watershed before emptying into the inner harbour of Kingston, Ontario (pop: 113,000), has a long history of anthropogenic use. More than 40 industries have existed within the inner harbour over the last century, and while many of these industries are no longer present, the properties that they operated on remain to the present day as potential sources of persistent contamination. This study examined total mercury (THg) concentrations in depth profiles of 21 sediment cores within the inner harbour. THg in pore waters was measured in some selected cores along with methylmercury (MeHg), and total organic carbon measured as % Organic Matter (OM). Results show that the spatial distribution of THg in the surface sediment is not homogenous; concentrations in surface sediment along the southwestern shoreline, adjacent to the former industrial properties, are significantly greater than the rest of the inner harbour, and above the severe effect limit (2000 μg/kg) guideline for sediment. MeHg was detected in some sediment cores, and was found to have a significant, positive correlation with [THg] in surface sediment. THg in pore water was below detection limits in most cores, indicating possible strong associations with sediments, however OM only showed significant, positive correlations with THg in one core sampled. To determine the sources of Hg to sediments, soils, runoff and storm sewer discharges near high concentration sediments were measured for THg. Hg was not detected in storm sewers, but was detected in terrestrial soil near the Kingston Rowing Club at a concentration of more than 4000 μg/kg. Significant [THg] was detected in runoff draining shoreline soils, indicating that erosion from terrestrial sources may be an ongoing source of Hg to sediment. Since [THg] was correlated to the [MeHg] in surface sediment, reducing the amount of Hg entering the river from terrestrial sources may reduce the amount of bioavailable Hg in sediments of the inner harbour. / Thesis (Master, Biology) -- Queen's University, 2007-11-01 19:12:24.364

Precarious employment refers to forms of work characterized by limited job security, few employment benefits, lack of control over the labour process and low-wages. Restaurant work demonstrates a range of precarious forms of employment and reveals the complexity of issues that such jobs raise in the context of the regulation of the local labour market. This thesis analyses the nature of precarious employment in the restaurant industry in Kingston, Ontario. In particular, it seeks to understand how precarious employment is shaped by the structure and dynamics of the local labour market. The research highlights the role played by labour mobility, in shaping workers’ experiences of precarious work. Labour mobility refers to the movement of workers between different jobs and between different worksites within a structured local labour market as they seek to better their economic situation and generate a sustainable income for themselves. Through a discussion of labour mobility, this thesis seeks to contribute to a new lens through which the impacts of a precarious and flexible labour market can be better understood as they shape the lives of workers themselves. The objective of this study is to better understand the factors which shape the lived realities of precarious restaurant workers in one specific local labour market. The empirical analysis draws on data collected by Statistics Canada and interviews conducted with both employers and employees in local restaurants to analyze the structure of the local labour market and the nature of precarious employment. The research demonstrates that the restaurant industry in Kingston is comprised of three distinct submarkets, each of which appears to operate largely independently of one another. Interviews were conducted with employees and employers in the submarket located in downtown Kingston. Within this submarket the combined processes of labour market segmentation and labour mobility has a significant impact on workers experiences of precarious employment. By understanding the complex interaction of these two features within the labour market, we can begin to conceive of ways to address the issues associated with the precariously employed in the low-wage service industry. / Thesis (Master, Geography) -- Queen's University, 2008-07-23 11:01:41.562

This dissertation explores poor retail food access in low-income, class-segregated communities through a social justice lens. Disadvantaged communities with poor food access—often called ‘food deserts’—have received ample scholarly attention, however the problem has yet to be analyzed from a normative, critical perspective. For this research, I use the case study of two communities in Kingston, Ontario’s North End, whose retail food geography changed significantly between 2006 and 2009. Critical political economy is my primary theoretical framework. I conducted forty-two qualitative interviews with key informants, four focus groups (three with low-income North Kingston residents and one with elderly Kingston residents), two door-to-door surveys in Rideau Heights, archival research, and I attended public meetings around a grocery store closure in the North End. I advance several research findings based on my results. Most broadly, I argue that the food desert problem represents capital’s ability to shape the ‘everyday geographies’ of simple, mundane activities like food shopping through the manipulation of the urban built environment. As such, capital is able to distribute the costs and burdens of food procurement in ways that reproduce class relations and class contempt to suite the dynamics of capitalist accumulation. I propose three interpretations of poor retail food access as a social injustice: (1) poor access represents the unequal and disproportionate allocation of burdens and costs of food acquisition on those with the fewest resources to mitigate these costs; (2) class disparity is inherently supported by urban governance systems that protect the interests of capital, therefore scaled-up retail capital is not accountable to residents of communities or their non-economic needs or wishes; and (3) the consolidated retail food geography of North American cities deprives low-income people of freedom, choice and dignity that is often embodied in the act of enjoying a ‘normal’ middle-class shopping experience. In the transition to a post-capitalist retail food geography, therefore, activists should abandon a romantic notion that low-income people should drive the change by somehow adopting a more agrarian lifestyle or lead the food system re-localization agenda – change driven by desperation rather than personal values. / Thesis (Ph.D, Geography) -- Queen's University, 2010-09-23 16:02:39.366

Thesis (D. Miss.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1992. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 281-308).