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Showing 1 to 20 of 495 for “"Claiming"”.
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Claiming Iris
… her stab wound as well as her emotional pain. Claiming Iris is about self-preservation, relationships, addiction and continuing on with life.
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Claiming the urban industrial landscape
This thesis presents a propositIOn about a prevalent urban condition, that of marginal, left over, or disused space. It contends that these spaces, generally viewed as negative attributes by their communities have inherent value, and that appropriate and limited interventions will allow for new …
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The Claiming of Carmen de Luna
<p>The Claiming of Carmen de Luna begins in Aguascalientes, Mexico in 1918 where the main character Carmen has just lost her sixth child who only lived a month. In her grief, she begins to doubt both her circumstances and her future and the future of her children during this revolutionary time. …
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Claiming Knowledge, Claiming Lives: Decolonial Feminist Pedagogy and the Experiences of Low-Income Women Undergraduates in Community College
<p>This qualitative study explores the experiences of low-income women undergraduates in a community college classroom anchored in decolonial feminist pedagogy. Analyses of in-depth interviews, student writings, and questionnaires are offered to further understanding of the impact of decolonial …
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Claiborne Avenue in the Treme: re claiming neutral ground
This thesis investigates and proposes a redesign for Claiborne Avenue, a “neutral ground” in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans. The Treme has suffered greatly due to several planning interventions, most importantly the building in 1969 of the elevated I-10 freeway, which runs right over the …
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Make-believe : claiming the real in contemporary fiction cinema
This thesis examines the ways in which certain contemporary fiction cinema posits its narratives as real. Looking at a broad overview of realist movements through the history of cinema, it draws out the codes and conventions which filmmakers have employed and suggests that realist cinema is …
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Archiving the revolution : claiming history in Cuban literature and film
This dissertation examines how both literature and film were responsible for the construction of the Cuban Revolutionary Archive. On one hand, the immediate foundation of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) three months after the triumph of Fidel Castro's 26 of July guerrilla movement in 1959, showed …
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Claiming your ideas to be mine: Moderators of unintentional plagiarism
Contains fulltext : 116863.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Claiming space in post-apartheid urban planning in South Africa
This research investigates the claim for space to practice initiation in the African townships of Cape town, South Africa. These spaces were not initially provided for when African townships were developed and the status quo persists during post-apartheid urban planning. The research draws on the …
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Claiming Space, Redefining Politics: Urban Protest and Grassroots Power in Bolivia
<p>This dissertation analyzes the role of space-claiming protests by primarily left grassroots social movements in Bolivia's current political transformation. <em>Space claiming</em> includes mass protests that physically control or symbolically claim urban space through occupations of plazas and …
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Claiming a Professional Writing Space: The Writing Journal of Nellie Arnott
Literary analysis.
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ReHABit : claiming endangered structures in Washington DC to rethink subsidized housing
There is an affordable housing crisis today in Washington D.C. that is the result of a uniquely complicated history of a capital city and a current economic boom. This thesis responds to that crisis by proposing a new program of subsidized housing that differs from the historically large scale, …
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"I am Not a Hijra": Transgender Women Claiming Citizenship in South India
<p>Through an 18-month ethnographic study conducted with hijras (gender non-conforming people assigned male at birth), newly emerging transwomen, and Dosti, a large NGO in Bangalore, India, this dissertation argues that transgender women claim citizenship by drawing distinct borders between …
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(RE)CLAIMING THE INTELLIGENT HEART: A CRITICAL PEDAGOGUE'S JOURNEY TOWARD CONNECTED SCHOOLING
As a committed social justice educator, I share in this dissertation a theoretically informed instructional autoethnography of my time teaching and researching as a Language Arts and Speech teacher across two different public high schools and two different school years. My story of learning to …
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Creating salsa, claiming salsa: Identity, location, and authenticity in global popular music
1 PDF file (v, 126 pages)
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Modern myth in performance: claiming identity through a reading of fantasy withcraft
In this dissertation, I create a Wiccan dramaturgical lens to analyze three key fantasy sites: The Wizard of Oz film and stage adaptations (especially the Broadway musical Wicked), The Chronicles of Narnia film and theatrical adaptations, and the Harry Potter films and paratheatrical adaptations. …
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Intermediaries of the state : bureaucratic transaction costs of claiming welfare in Mexico
… citizens' engagement with the state, then claiming welfare benefits does not enhance citizenship and produce stakeholders, as research on the welfare state in developed country contexts suggests, but rather intensifies political loyalties to intermediaries This democratic penalty, although …
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Claiming the state : citizen-state relations and service delivery in rural India
Who makes claims on the state and how? This dissertation examines the processes through which citizens seek to secure public resources from the state and, by extension, the patterns of participation and citizen-state relations that emerge. Using the case of rural India, I explore whether and how …
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Beyond the Stars: (Re) Claiming STEM Identities for Black Girls Through Digital Storytelling
This dissertation investigates the narratives of young Black girls and the intentionally designed out-of-school-time STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) environment. My dissertation is organized into three interrelated studies that contribute to a deeper understanding of their …
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