Karyn Ball, University of Alberta

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Latest funding

Visceral reason: resurgent instincts and rationalized aggression in debates about the Middle East
SSHRC · 2010 · Principal investigator
$69,599
The entropics of discourse: climates of loss in contemporary criticism
SSHRC · 2004 · Principal investigator
$111,817

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Visceral reason: resurgent instincts and rationalized aggression in debates about the Middle East

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: Ball, Karyn M.

Keywords: trauma and affect studies; memory politics and ethnonationalism; primordialist thesis; primitivist motifs; debates about Israel/Palestine

$69,599

The entropics of discourse: climates of loss in contemporary criticism

Principal investigatorSSHRC2004Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Ball, Karyn M.

Keywords: rhetorical analysis of politicized approaches and melancholic moods in recent literary and cultural criticism

$111,817

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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