Sumara, DennisMaine, Emilie Mariah2023-07-062023-07-062023-07Maine, E. M. (2023). Is this a good place to live? A queer narrative hermeneutics of geographies, homes, and bodies (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.https://hdl.handle.net/1880/116711https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/41553This dissertation asks a phenomenological question about the experiences of queer-identifying people, applying a narrative hermeneutic approach to interpret those experiences. This dissertation asks: How do queer people experience what it is like to live in Fort McMurray, Alberta in their homes and in their bodies? Through an embodied epistemology, narrative hermeneutic methodology, and queer theory, this dissertation queries into if Fort McMurray is a good place to live for queer people. Data collected from three collective interviews, and one final individual interview with three participants, provided new knowledge and understandings into how queer people in the northern Canadian urban service area of Fort McMurray learn to work and live in and across three nested systems – geography, home, and body.enUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.queernarrative hermeneuticsAlbertaFort McMurrayEducationGender Studiesdoctoral thesis