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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Ambivalences"”.
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Empire, nation, gender and romance : the novels of Cynthia Stockley (1872-1936) and Gertrude Page (1873-1922)
… Rhodesian nationalism. Their novels reveal ambivalences about and conflicts between feminism and maternalism, heroic and bourgeois versions of the romance genre, and bourgeois imperialism and the representation of feminine sexuality.
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Seeing selves and others: rethinking 'the tourist gaze' of township tourism as inter-subjectivity in Cape Town, South Africa
… transformative potentials in the ambiguities and ambivalences surrounding township tourism, as an industry representing evidence of further penetration by neoliberalism in sub-Saharan Africa, that does not pardon the proclivities of late capitalism to widen the gaps of social stratification, but …
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Southern Enlightenment: Reform and Progress in Jefferson's Virginia
… while at the same time confronting their own ambivalences and the realities of a society that was becoming more overtly proslavery.</p>
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Representation of displacement in the exhibition Dis-Location/Re-Location
… reality is shown to comprise multiple ambivalences and ambiguities, and is marked by processes of cultural contestation and inner conflict. Their ambivalences and ambiguities encompass slippages between positions of inclusion and exclusion; insider and outsider; inhabitant and …
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(Dis)Locations, (Dis) Placements and (Un) Belonging in Zimbabwean White Farmer's Auto/biograhies 1995 to 2010
… white auto/biography and exposes the ambivalences, ambiguities, paradoxes and dilemmas that arise in the claims for belonging and the premises for the authority behind such claims. It gestures to white autobiography and biography writing as an opening to what in Zimbabwe has been …
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Sensation, Sacred Landscapes, and the Sense of the Past in Britain and Ireland, 1689-1760
… sensation in their worship and piety. These ambivalences defined the shifting and changing experience and articulation of sacred landscapes through sensation in pre-Romantic Britain.
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Tracing the boundaries: women, nation & modernity in Turkey
… analysis attempts to trace and interpret those ambivalences and point to where the possibilities for a more inclusionary understanding of national identity can emerge.
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The Participation Of NGOs In Healthcare: The Case Of Pediatric Cancer Treatment In Argentina
… notions of childhood; it points out the ambivalences associated with death; and represents a challenge to biomedical practice. This thesis provides a historical reconstruction of pediatric medicine in Argentina with an emphasis on the involvement of non-governmental actors in treatment …
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“Put a crapaud in a suit and people will vote for the PNM”: A critical examination of patronage, loyalty, and the structuring force of party partisanship in Trinidad
… of political partisanship in Trinidad: the ambivalences of being a party loyalist. Extensive scholarship on Trinidadian politics points to the confluence of race and patronage shaping political decisions yet less is spoken of the conflicting subjectivities of loyalists that are obscured by …
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Henry James and "Coterie-Literature"
… neglect some of the complexities and ambivalences within his attitudes towards exclusion and exclusivity. My first chapter analyses the various ways in which James addressed the question of how an author like himself can write responsibly to and of people whom his social experience …
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Henry Fielding : literary and theological misplacement
… deterministic assessment concerning the latent ambivalences of this, one of the earliest novelists, has yet to be explored. Such an assessment has implications for the current relationship between, and the separate study of, literature and theology. The methodology is informed by an awareness of …
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Mediated visibility, morality and children in tabloid discourse
… of mediation that explores the equivalences and ambivalences between the moments of production, text and reception.
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Painting by Mouth: Art, Modernity and Disability. Bartram Hiles (1872-1927)
… method of painting illuminates the ambivalences of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century towards difference, otherness and perceptions of normality.
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Contested Subjects: The Configuration of Conjoined Twins in Contemporary World Literature and Screen Media
… twins as figures to explore tensions and ambivalences surrounding notions of a common identity, for example based on nationalism, ethnicity, race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, or religion. Chapter one provides a historical case study of nineteenth-century, black, enslaved …
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Kinship and Narrative in Old Norse Literature: Parent-Child Relations in Mythic-Heroic Texts
… and mutuality between kinsmen, thereby allowing ambivalences to be overcome. In conclusion, I argue that the root of ambivalence in intergenerational relations is revealed to be their inherent mutability, as kinship roles change and develop, children succeed their parents and kinsmen struggle to …
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Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose
… thesis is particularly attentive to tensions and ambivalences that complicate the typically bifurcated affective spectrum of olfactory experiences, drawing attention to (dis)pleasurable olfactory relations that have socio-political utility. I argue that literary fiction is not only an arena in …
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Envisaging Community in Twenty-First Century US Film and Television: Neoliberalism, Relationality, Ecologies
… *Enlightened* bears numerous contradictions and ambivalences in its utopian visions of ecological futurity and in its satirical and humorous thematisation of social responsibility under neoliberalism. In Chapter 3, I focus on Schrader’s *First Reformed* (2017), examining its engagements with …
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De hjälper oss till rätta : normaliseringsarbete, självbestämmande och människor med psykisk utvecklingsstörning
… shopping, spread to others such as cook-ing. The ambivalences frequently expressed by staff members had only a small or unclear correlation to how the degree of self-determination and inde-pendence were expressed. Instead they mainly reflected the basic ten-sion between instrumental-rational and …
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Everyday Discrimination: The Experiences of Hungarian Roma
… of these interviews allows insight into the ambivalences and complexities in participants’ perceptions of such positive recognition.<br/><br/>Besides investigating participants’ accounts of their experiences of discrimination, I also address questions related to their responses to those …
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Transitions out of crime: intentions, changes and obstacles on the road towards desistance
… late adolescent offenders, the liminal space of ambivalences and inconsistencies that most individuals experience on their path to desistance from crime, acquires a pivotal relevance. This is supported by the first finding of the study, that temporary desistance and persistence categories are far …
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