Thesis Chapters by Kim Chi Tran
My research explores how youth from Mongolian pastoralist families experience the influences of I... more My research explores how youth from Mongolian pastoralist families experience the influences of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) as they travel between different localities that construct their educational landscape. This poster is part of my ongoing efforts to find a way to reflect the qualitative, interdisciplinary and visual participatory characteristics of the research, in my dialogues about the research. The poster has three embedded movies containing sample data that have emerged from the visual participatory research methods that I used during my recent nine-month fieldwork in Mongolia. Readers will need Adobe Reader v9 and later, QuickTime or Window Media Player to play the embedded movies.
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This thesis ethnographically explores how whistleblowers, as individual actors and as members of ... more This thesis ethnographically explores how whistleblowers, as individual actors and as members of a collective, have been transforming the whistleblowing landscape of the Canadian public service. Traditionally, whistleblowing in the public service has been understood to be isolated events of public servants using the media to call the public’s attention to acts of corruption that are linked directly to the misuse of public funding. This research thesis provides the evidence that whistleblowing is rather a process in which personal ethics and ideologies are negotiated with those of the organizations over matters that constitute a new kind of corruption - institutional corruption. Drawing on Victor Turner’s concepts of liminality and communitas, this thesis examines the formation of a whistleblower’s group and its attempts to provide support to its members and to improve the ability of Canadian civil servants to challenge institutional corruption. Assessing its success and limitations, this research posits that these whistleblowers have contributed to new understandings of whistleblowing within the Canadian public service through their participation in the politicization of whistleblowing and through their personal and communal transformations.
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Thesis Chapters by Kim Chi Tran