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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Body Politics"”.
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The Body Politics of Data
The PhD project The Body Politics of Data is an artistic, practice-based study exploring how feminist methodologies can create new ways to conceptualise digital embodiment within the field of art and technology. As a field of practice highly influenced by scientific and technical methodologies, the …
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Minimal art and body politics in New York City, 1961-1975
… the problem of the city as a problem of the body. At the same time, minimal art was deployed by civic leaders, including New York City's mayor John V. Lindsay, as an instrument to organize a public and project a new urban image in the midst of sweeping social and economic change. The work of …
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Color, Hygiene, and Body Politics: French Neo-Impressionist Theories of Vision and Volition, 1870-1905
<p>Color, Hygiene, and Body Politics: French Neo-Impressionist Theories of Vision and Volition, 1870-1905, explores the little studied "pragmatic" dimension of Neo-Impressionist theory and practice to reveal the full social and political import of Divisionist technique. Specifically, it examines …
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Body politics: an illumination of the landscape of sexuality and nationhood? Re-seeing Zimbabwe through elderly women's representations of their sexual and gendered lives
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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States of savagery : cannibalism and the political in postwar fiction
… possible eradication of the personal and social body. Cannibalism thus registers the interrelationship of political incorporation and state violence. It marks the ways in which political entities are envisioned as body politics that consume and expel, that violently rend individuals in the making …
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Reclaiming Embodiment: An Existential-Phenomenological Exploration of Women’s Tattoos
… women who have voluntarily chosen this form of body modification. I conducted phenomenological research interviews with nine participants about personal meanings, decision making processes, and lived experiences of embodiment (capturing existential themes of lived body, spatiality, …
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Problems of the 'Political' in British Avant-Garde Poetry and Poetics, 2003-2012
… during the project. This methodology develops a body politics through compositional experiments with the typewriter (Olson, 1965; Deleuze & Guattari, 1987; Abramović, 2011), and places emphasis on live performance as crucial to ‘political’ poetry due to its affects. Also provided are case studies …
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An Ethnographic Look at Inclusive Dance and Dancers with Intellectual Disabilities
… and performance and examine the role body politics have played in building a community and performing one’s sense of belonging. In Finland, I focus on access and inaccessibility in rehearsal, the role of listening and sharing in improvisation, and the marginalized experiences of people …
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Islamophobia and the Politics of the Human in Contemporary German Mediascapes
… fantasy of the integrity of the human (body). My first two chapters re-frame the German (and wider European) headscarf debates, firstly, in terms of their epistemological and ontological crisis potential for Western humanist thought, and, in chapter two, in relation to the teen series …
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Running to Labor: Ethiopian Women Distance Runners in Networks of Capital
… a global athletics market. Foregrounding gender, body politics, and global capitalism, my project revises the biology-centered concept of “running economy” into a multi-faceted sociocultural analytic for exploring how aspiring runners strive to make monetary value. How, I ask, can we look at …
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"The Terror Within:" Neoliberalism and the Rhetoric of the Obesity Crisis
… of the "obesity crisis" that position the fat body as a threat to U.S. military power and national identity. Since 9/11, there has been a growing rhetoric that frames obesity as a threat to national security that is weakening U.S. military forces and straining the U.S. economy through increased …
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The nexus between national and student politics: managing student conflicts in four African universities in an era of democratic transition
… the connection between national and student politics, given the historical background of liberation politics, is a major source of conflict in South African and Tanzanian universities. This is with a view to recommend evidence-based policy and conflict management practices aimed at addressing …
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Suspensions, Expulsions, and The Black Masculine Student-Body: The Problematization of Exclusionary Discipline in Schools
… look into how the black masculine student-body has come to be excluded.</p> <p>By problematizing exclusionary discipline in schools, I found that disproportionately black boys are suspended or expelled. This finding led me to investigate how race and gender intersect schools’ discipline …
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Uneasy bodies femininity and death : representing the female corpse in fashion photography and selected contemporary artworks
… and cultural objectification of the female body. Here the study also explores the selected artists' utilisation of the abject and the grotesque in relation to their use of artistic mediums and modes of production as an attempt to create ambiguous and conflicting combinations of attraction …
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Precarious Bodies in Motion: Choreopolitics, Affect, and Flamenco Dissent in Spain
… whereby dancing bodies are capable of performing politics through actions and movements within the boundaries established by existing power structures. Building upon the insights of political theorist Jacques Rancière, dance theorist André Lepecki, and affect theorist Brian Massumi, this study …