Projects

Reconceptualizing third places: Countering social isolation in lives without workplaces

This critically-located ethnographic study explores the significance, characteristics, and contributions of third places within lives absent of stable workplaces.

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Social isolation, third places, and precarious employment circumstances: A scoping review

This scoping review explores the types and characteristics of third place that addresses social isolation for adults experiencing precarious employment.

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Possibilities and boundaries in the socio-political shaping of unemployment

This collaborative ethnographic study, done in one Canadian and one U.S. city, examined the implications of an individualizing approach to long-term unemployment.

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Shaping the modern retiree

This qualitative study utilized critical discourse analysis and critical narrative inquiry to examine the discursive re-shaping and narrative negotiation of retirement within Canada.

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