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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Affect studies"”.
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A Somatics of Affect: Articulating Affective-Kinaesthetic Experience through BMC approaches to Performance and Writing
… two decades, there has been a ubiquitous turn to affect theory in discourses within the humanities and social sciences. Whilst it is the overarching intention of affect theory to bring the body back into focus in critical and cultural debate, this thesis identifies a paradoxical lack of …
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Effects of the working class label: increased affect and social class identification
… social class group, and showed less negative affect (Studies 2a and 2b). Implications for conceptualizing social class as a valued group identity and its implications for the social class academic achievement gap are discussed.
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Saving Sex Slaves: The A21 Campaign and the Mobilization of Christian Affect
… the A21 Campaign’s discourse mobilizes Christian affect to produce relational proximity between audience members and human trafficking victims. My study intervenes in related literature surrounding Burke’s (1969) idea of identification by acknowledging that discourse can invite audiences to feel …
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The impact of livestock and gender on household expenditure patterns in the Copperbelt province of Zambia
… of livestock, there remains a dearth of studies that have used household data to test the impact of this asset. Using a panel data set from the Copperbelt Rural Livelihood Enhancement Support Project (CRLESP), this study examines the impact of livestock on household expenditures. …
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Narrating Cetacean Conservation: Gray Whale Migration, Histories, and Justice on the North American Pacific Coast
… in relation to broader topics of tourism, touch, affect, and entanglement in the lagoons of Baja California Sur, Mexico. The next chapter moves to the California coast to examine critically historical encounters with gray whales as ‘devil-fish’ and ‘friendly whales’ (circa 1840 to 1970). The third …
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Until I overflow: queer Pentecostal intimacies in & beyond Brazil
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Towards a Poetics of Bafflement: the Politics of Elsewhere in Contemporary Black Diaspora Visual Practice (1990-Present)
… argues for the importance of the psychic and affective spaces that emerge in the work of contemporary black women and queer artists. A poetics of bafflement is foregrounded by racial slavery and diaspora formations that inform contemporary racial antagonisms. The visual work of Deana Lawson, …
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Beside engagement: a queer and feminist reading of socially negotiated art through dialogue, love, and praxis
… of “beside” (Sedgwick, 2003) to explore the affective and corporeal relations that are made, maintained, and transformed as part of the artistic process. The research draws upon queer studies, feminist studies, and affect studies to formulate an embodied criticality that self-reflexively …
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Legible Grief: Discursive Liminality in Twentieth Century Literatures of Trauma
Currently, scholars in the fields of trauma and affect studies are sharply divided on whether “direct” or extra-discursive experience is possible, and moreover about how such a space might function within the fraught contexts of survivor narratives. On the one hand, scholars of trauma in the …
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Neo-Victorianism and empathy : time, affect, and the ethics of reading
… research on narrative temporality, empathy and affect can be usefully brought to bear upon one other in order to interrogate the ethics of reading neo-Victorian literature. I present neo-Victorian literature as a genre defined by its contemporary exploitation of, and experimentation with, …
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Reactions of Nitroxyl and Nitrite in Blood
… acceleration of the nitrite/oxyHb reaction could affect studies aimed at understanding physiological roles of HNO and nitrite and the use of these agents in therapeutics for conditions such as hypertension, hemolytic anemia, heart failure, and ischemia reperfusion injury.
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Mobilizing Affect: The Rhetoric and Circulation of Popular Political Satire News Shows
… question: how do these shows, through the affective processes of production and circulation, impart critical literacies uniquely suited for our current moment?</p> <p>Drawing from classical rhetorical theory, feminist and queer affect studies, and rhetorical circulation studies, I analyze …
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El sabor del amor y del dolor: violence, affect and the (trans)body in the Chican@ historical imaginary
… the fields of Queer, Transgender and Chicana/o Studies. Through a theoretical lens informed by Chicana feminist, Queer and Affect Studies I argue for the transgender and gender non-conforming racialized body as a pedagogical site for understanding how transgender and gender non-conforming …
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Alien Affects: Movement, Migration, and Landscapes of Citizenship
<p><em>Alien Affects</em> is a materialist examination of the ways citizenship landscapes are shaped by three mechanisms of control - extraterrestrial film, border security, and the legal apparatuses of the State - that accelerate flows of dominant national citizenship and hinder the movements of …
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The Feel of the Road: Anxiety, Passivity, and Empathy in Postwar Women’s Road Narratives
… woman-centric communities on the road. I apply affect studies and an interdisciplinary approach to examine postwar filmic and literary texts through the lens of anxiety. The first half of my project focuses on how women’s experiences of anxiety encourage women to challenge gendered expectations …