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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"2002 Cultural Studies"”.
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Mixed hues on the palette: reflections of the diasporic artist painting across two landscapes
… affects them in working across two different cultural landscapes. More specifically, the study explores: how does diasporic existence shape the artistic performance?
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Diasporic orchestrations: a database narrative of Australian and Bulgarian cultural entanglements
… semiotic resources whose potential for producing cultural knowledge often remains underutilized and underappreciated. By challenging conventional ways of doing research that rest exclusively on the medium of written language and testing novel means of presenting and disseminating research data, …
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(Re)viewing big brother and (per)forming the real
This research project, [Re]Viewing Big Brother and [Per]Forming the Real, set about a critical examination of watching and being watched; specifically, ‘everyday’ people in the traditionally private space of the home mediated by surveillance technologies. The research methodology was …
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A study of the South Sudanese refugees' perspectives of settlement in the western suburbs of Melbourne
… condition and the social, economic, cultural and political impact of forced displacement. This thesis is arguing that there should be an alternative approach and empathy in nurturing refugee communities in proactive ways rather reacting over their demanding needs while settling. This …
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Gozo in the world and the world in Gozo : the cultural impact of migration and return migration on an island community
… Melboume whose situation captures the dilemma of cultural 'hybridity'. Through Lina, the reader is introduced in turn to the concept of crossings into worlds beyond the familiar, a metaphor which is employed throughout the thesis.
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Recognising the constraints that affect professional women’s choices: how do Australian women develop and grow in their professional lives?
This study explored the way women of different age groups experience development and growth in their professional lives and how they made sense of that development and growth. Narrative research methods were used to analyse the dialogue that the women in this study present as significant to their …
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Contested identity : Macedonians in contemporary Australia
… constructed in response to changing social and cultural circumstances. The thesis describes these processes as they are enacted in the Australian context, including the contestation Macedonian identity that was part of what has come to be known as 'the Greek- Macedonian debate'. The thesis …
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Dissonant discourses : othered voices from Australia's workworld, 1994-2002
… whom 1 interviewed in 1994-95 and again in 2002. NESB workers lost jobs in large numbers in the 1990-92 recession, but in the recovery period and as employment improved over the 1990s, the employment figures for particular groups remained comparatively poor. Yet there was little public and …
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Womanhood 'under terror': an investigation into the embodied experience of Jewish-Israeli women living in a protracted conflict zone
This thesis constructs femininity within secular Jewish-Israeli socio-culture and considers the influence of 'living under terror' on models of womanhood within this culture. It is my contention that as a Western affiliated culture, Jewish-Israeli mainstream culture tends to deploy its women to …
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Social change and the Chinese traveller: Guangdong's outbound travel market since 1978
Since China opened its door to the world in the late 1970s, this most populous nation on earth has undergone significant reforms, which have had an enormous impact on its society, driving social changes in a profound and extensive way, and leading the country onto the path of social re-structuring. …
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Longing and belonging : an ethnographic study of migration, cultural capital and social change among Ho Chi Minh City's re-emerging middle classes
Almost 20 years ago, Vietnam introduced doi mai ('renovation') reforms that opened the economy and the society to new possibilities. Among the new possibilities were increasing opportunities for young, unmarried women in the urban labour market, opportunities which drove a 'third wave' of mass …
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Expression of emotion in children from four ethnic groups and mothers' concerns
This study investigated the expression of emotion of Anglo-Australian, Indian, Hong Kong Chinese and Turkish children who were aged 5- to 8-years. These ethnic groups were chosen because Hofstede (1980) had shown that they held different culture level values and behaved in ways that reflected these …
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Ethnic tourism and the Kayan Long-Neck Tribe in Mae Hong Son, Thailand
The long-neck Kayans have long been subjected to scrutiny by both Thai and foreign writers. This study traces the historical existence of the Kayans in Burma and their status as refugees within Thailand. Since the arrival of the first group of Kayans in late 1984, this tribe has been of interest to …
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Life satisfaction of adolescents: a cross-cultural study in malta and Australia
… among adolescents is scarce especially at cross-cultural levels. The nature and the means to attain life satisfaction vary from one culture to another (Bradley & Corwyn, 2004; Lu & Shih, 1997). The current study examined life satisfaction in native Maltese, Maltese-Australian, and …
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Travel behaviour and its cultural context : an empirical study of the Vietnamese community in Australia
… and meaning. Geographically removed from their cultural place or context, migrants undergo the shock of displacement and confront the possibility of losing their identity and sense of meaning. They carry their culture with them. However, it is cut-off from its roots and support system. It is …
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Outsiders in a distant land : a case study of ten Islamic Lebanese families and their views on citizenship
This thesis is concerned with issues of ethnicity, identity and citizenship. In particular, it focuses on the views of Islamic Sunni Lebanese families on the issue of citizenship as a notion of rights and participation. The key question which the thesis addresses is, in what ways can universal …
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Matrices and mavericks: a Kristevan analysis of the poetry of Shelley
Kristeva, in her work, Revolution in Poetic Language, analyses nineteenth-century avant-garde poetic texts as exemplars of the manifestation of the otherwise repressed semiotic chora. This thesis involves an analysis of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poetic texts in a similar critique. Shelley's poetry, …
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Australian stories of coffee in Melbourne and environs: a selective cultural history
… in summary, as what I have termed a 'selective cultural history'.
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Italian Australians, the church, war and fascism in Melbourne, 1919-1945
There is no doubt that the Irish have played a major part in Australian Catholic Church history, but I question the notion that they have been the only contributor to the Australian Catholic Church in Australia. Numerous Australian Catholic Church histories fail to acknowledge the Italian …
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Physical activity and fitness of Vietnamese adolescents : cultural, environmental, and socio-economic factors
… (PA) and fitness in adolescents contains no studies on Vietnamese subjects. Given that habitual PA in adolescents is shaped by cultural and environmental context, such a study is necessary to establish a comprehensive understanding of PA and fitness in adolescents. To date no measure of PA …
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