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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Collective Body"”.
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A Critical Interpretation of Olivier Roy: On Globalization, the Cosmopolitan and Emerging Post-Secular Religiosities
… rather, 'deculturates' religion from a cohesive, collective body embedded within a particular society and within a traditional culture towards an individuated, and existential experience of faith within the autonomous religious subject. There are various reasons for this shift, as there are …
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Intercorporeality and Technology: toward a new cognitive, aesthetic and communicative paradigm in the performing arts
… to reassess the relationship between the moving body and technology, and more specifically, to focus on recent perspectives in the performing arts which inscribe new manifestations and dynamics of cross-pollination between the somatic and technology. According to Dr. Andrea Davidson, 'Such …
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Depression and 'crises of meaninglessness' in the political-economic theology of the money-God
… ‘crises of meaninglessness’ that pervade the collective body of Western contemporary societies have, as one of its consequences, the expansion of depression rates. Meaninglessness in contemporary times is the primary object of investigation of the thesis. The concept, in the context of this …
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Control, Detention and Torture in the So-called Global War on Terror
… three solo survey museum exhibitions that form a collective body of research contributing new knowledge about unseen or underrepresented aspects of conflict and counterterrorism in the so-called Global War on Terror, including the detention camps at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, the …
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Leadership for learning and teacher self-efficacy as the antecedents of teacher collaboration, instructional quality, intended turnover, and equitable teaching practice
… the perspectives of individual teachers, collective faculty, and principals has been a challenge. Additionally, research for the past four decades has consistently suggested that leadership effects on student outcomes is mediated by numerous school conditions, culture, and staff capacity. …
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Sexuality, Identity and the Clothed Male Body
‘Sexuality, Identity and the Clothed Male Body’ is a PhD by Published Work that draws together a collective body of work that deals specifically and significantly with the dressed male body. This thesis presents a case for the collection of publications included in the submission to be viewed as a …
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The ‘Marae on Paper’: The Meeting House in the Anglophone Fiction of the Maori Renaissance
… apex structure that traditionally symbolises the collective body of a Maori community and narrates their history through the imagery that is carved into its internal walls and supporting structures. It is strongly associated with storytelling and historical record keeping, while also acting as a …
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Towards Intercultural Documentary
… essay and an academic book chapter to form a collective body of work in film and text focused on what Rughani proposes as ‘intercultural documentary practice’. This body of work configures ‘intercultural documentary practice’ as a space or arena in which people of radically different …
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Women writers on art and perceptions of the female connoisseur, 1780-1860
… to focus on these largely neglected texts as a collective body of work, and to demonstrate women's sophisticated engagement with contemporary and historical art in this period. Through their social networks, travel, meticulous research and self-presentation as 'proper' women writers, individuals …
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Reconsidering early modern English spiritual autobiography. Quaker women's self-writings in 17th-century England
… the early Quaker movement. It investigates the collective and communitarian value of women Friends’ autobiographical writing, as well as the theory that Quaker women authors had created a distinctive literary space by the end of the 17th century. The sources informing this research are a set of …
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The Erotics of Race Suicide: The Making of Whiteness and the Death Drive in the Progressive Era, 1880-1920
… between the self-willed deaths of the collective body and the individual body. By attending to the literary depiction of suicidal characters’ difficult negotiation of the twin discourses of race and sexuality in such works as Henry James’s The Bostonian (1886), Kate Chopin’s The …
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Negotiating a path to professional efficacy: A narrative analysis of the experiences of four pre-service educators
… educators to a larger dialogue and to the collective body of evidence of how one learns to become an educator with a sense of professional efficacy.
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PERFORMANCE AND THE PAGE: An artist's investigation of the dialogue between the musical event and the written score
… and the musical event; Volume 2 contains a body of original works (scores, recordings and performance documentations). The relationship between the two is symbiotic; the works might be seen as exemplification of the ideas propounded in the written discourse, or the written discourse may be …
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Just Don't Know How She Does It: a Feminist's Showroom of Subversive Machinations
I have created a body of work that takes the form of a series of inventions or products aimed at giving their users the appearance of conforming to existing gender stereotypes pertaining to the roles of women, whilst actually allowing them to live a life of their own choosing. I have communicated …
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Architecture incorporated : authorship, anonymity, and collaboration in postwar modernism
… this shift, in particular the rise of the body of collaborative and team-based methods of production that would come to be labeled as corporate architectural practice. An exploration of these practices reveals a climate of speculation in the postwar period on the corporation as a social and …
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ninthWavesound: Feminism Low-Frequency Sound and Empleasurement
… project affirms the potential of individual and collective feminist imaginaries through the pleasure of low-frequency sound vibrations, proposing an emergent empleasured sonic bodie. This practice-orientated research draws on a feminist paradigm of embodiment (Rosi Braidotti; Elizabeth Grosz; …
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Understanding the role of local condensed phase environments in pyrolytic and catalytic biomass conversion
… involve proton transfer. More generally, the collective body of work in this thesis could act as a framework for future studies that seek to understand the role of condensed phase environments in biomass conversion as well as to develop strategies that use such environments for improved …
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Bird song as a basis for new techniques and improvisational practice with the baroque flute
… for contemporary musicians, accompanied by a body of writing that embodies a kind of treatise on the instrument with potential for use by other contemporary musicians. Thus, the written thesis, together with recordings of experiments, improvisations and concert-performance should be considered …
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Evaluating the effects of hydrogeologic processes on the fate of salinity and halogens in headwater catchments
… ultimately contributes to the growing and collective body of knowledge regarding halogen transport and sources in freshwater systems and provides valuable insights to future water resources security.</p>
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Shared Habitats: the MoverWitness Paradigm
This practice-led research thesis analyses and visualises central components of Authentic Movement, with particular reference to the work of Dr Janet Adler. By contextualising and comparing this improvisation method with modern, post-modern and contemporary movement practices the author describes …