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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"(in)visibility"”.
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(In)visibility and missing persons: Desperately seeking certainty
This thesis is an exploration of (in)visibility and missing persons, specifically the impact of the police response to reports of missing persons and subsequent investigations into the disappearance of people. The literature review builds on a review of harm and missing persons in which …
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Crossing out : transgender (in)visibility in twentieth-century culture
Spanning the period from the early years of the Cold War to the early twenty-first century, Crossing Out argues that medical theories of gender variance which emerge in the middle of the twentieth century are bound by the Cold-War–era discursive limits within which they were articulated, and that …
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The Translator's (In)visibility in Ann Patchett's Bel Canto
<p>Transferring words and ideas from one language to another has always been a puzzling and difficult matter for those involved in it. For centuries, English-speakers and translators have dealt with these difficulties by enforcing, through professional codes of ethics and through publishing …
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Tourist Harlem: Sidewalks, Cyberspace, and the In/Visibility of Race
… New York and the digital community comprising TripAdvisor, the world's largest travel related social media website. The purpose of this research is to identify forces of racial commodification in the tourism industry and analyze the role of digital technologies in this process. This …
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Subjecting The Unruly Body: Staring, Surveillance, And The Politics Of (In)Visibility
Contemporary feminist disability studies, a field pioneered by scholar Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, offers a framework to reconsider the constructions of normality and deviance, to instead place disability at the center of human experience, rather than relegate it to the margin. As she argues in her …
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Social (In)Visibility and Disease Performativity: Qualitative Insights From Two US Case Studies
This thesis centres on questions of (in)visibility in the lives of US “patients” with one of two chronic diseases (alkaptonuria and vitiligo). Specifically, it explores the role that social (in)visibility plays in the everyday lives of “patients” from both disease groups who experience their …
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21st century Black beauty resistance: Collectivism, individuality, and in/visibility in Black women’s writing
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Bordering on (In)visibility: The Mobility and Containment of Haitian Migrant Women in the Dominican Republic's Linea Noroeste
… research with Haitian migrant women who reside in Batey Sol, a former sugar-company labor camp located along the Linea Noroeste (northwest line) linking the Dominican Rebulic's border town of Dajabon with the urban center of Santiago. The multi-sited study considers the larger network of …
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Black male partial (in)visibility syndrome: a qualitative study of the narratives of Black masculine identities at the Pebbles School
… the Pebbles School—an urban all-male public combined middle and high school—constructed, perceived, and negotiated their identities as males. Examining the relationship between masculinity and education, my study is situated at the intersection of education policy, gender and ethnic studies, and …
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Navigating Advocacy as a Disabled Woman: A Qualitative Study of Gender and Disability in Pakistan
This qualitative research examines the lived experiences and advocacy practices of urban Pakistani women with physical and sensory disabilities. Drawing on Feminist Disability Studies and Global South feminist scholarship, it explores how disabled women define advocacy, how they carry it out in …
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Digital representation of gender equality: Analyzing the European Commission's social media strategy for women’s empowerment policies
This research examines the European Commission's social media strategy for promoting gender equality and women's empowerment. By analyzing key campaigns and digital content, the study evaluates the effectiveness of the Commission's communications in raising awareness, engaging audiences, and …
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Balancing the Ticket: How Selecting A Vice President Has Changed in the Modern Era
… century, the role of the vice presidency has increased drastically, to the point that some view the president and the vice president as a co-presidency. When this started and who perpetuated the change is up to debate, but the fact that the vice presidency and the vice-presidential selection …
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The stages of development in the portrayal of African-Americans in television comedy
This thesis involves a historical and critical examination of the utilization and development of African Americans in television sitcoms. By reexamining the initial research by Riggs (1991) and extending it, I will introduce a new stage focusing on contemporary sitcoms; According to Riggs' (1991), …
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Pedalando por direitos: vozes femininas no ciclismo
This work aims to analyze the role of cycling in women's empowerment, highlighting the intersections of gender and race. The study originated from the observation of the underrepresentation of women, especially Black and transgender women, in the cycling world. The research, conducted at the …
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A Narrative Study Carried Out With Older Women With Dementia Who Live Alone: Storytelling About Their Living Arrangements and Wishes For The Future
… explore the significance of gender as an element in the experience of older women living alone at the time of a diagnosis of dementia. It places particular emphasis on power, voice and in/visibility in both research practice and co-production. Older women who live alone may experience difficulties …
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Unbreaking Our Hearts: Cultures of Un/Desirability and the Transformative Potential of Queercrip Porn
This dissertation combines critical disability studies, sexuality and porn studies, radical disability politics, interviews and the collaborative creation of queercrip porn to both explain and challenge the operation of cultures of undesirability in dominant culture. The concept "cultures of …
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Cast Out Urbanites: The Historical Problematization of Cows in Kingston
Animals are regularly defined and managed as problems in urban policies and practices. Despite being common, the problematization of animals is ill-understood and under-theorized in urban geography. In this dissertation, I argue that problematization is important because it has significant …
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