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Showing 1 to 20 of 219 for “"Collective Identity"”.
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Italian creations : elaborations of collective identity in Milan, Italy
… study of local elaborations of Italian national identity based on fieldwork primarily undertaken in Milan, Italy from May through August 1997. In this work I examine ways in which a localized network of individuals variously construct a sense of intimacy within the collective identity of an …
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CollectiveIdentity.org: Collective Identity in Online and Offline Feminist Activist Groups
This study examines collective identity, a concept that is used in social movement theory to understand why people are motivated to participate in social movements and social movement groups. Collective identity is a social-psychological process that links the individual to the group through a …
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Eco-spirituality: Collective identity and spirituality in the wilderness action group
At a peripheral glance the collective action of a social movement group creates a perception of rational and homogenous internal group identity. This façade has led some social movement theorists to take for granted the internal cohesiveness of the groups they are studying. Yet this emphasis on the …
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FRAMING RIGHTS-CLAIMS: COLLECTIVE IDENTITY GROUPS IN THE TURKISH PUBLIC SPHERE
This dissertation investigates how collective identity groups frame their rights claims in the public sphere by exploring what types of framing processes specific groups of activists adopt. My empirical focus is on how certain social movements in Turkey has framed their rights claims in the …
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Reaching union families: collective identity, union advantages and the American ethos
… a tendency to articulate a moderate sense of collective identity and the importance of structural constraints on economic opportunity.
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Collective Identity in Appalachia: Place, Protest and the AEP Power Line
… movement theory has focused on constructs of identity, such as race/ethnicity, gender and sexual preference, for collective identity construction. Prochansky (1983:59) introduces the concept of place identity, situating it along with the other components of identity, such as the ones mentioned …
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The Useable Past: History and Collective Identity in Nova Scotia, 1835-1920
… between historiographical evolution and colonial identity creation was so close that one could argue that in reconstructing their past, elite Anglo-Nova Scotians narrated both the past they wanted and the future they dreamed.
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The Battle For The Battle of Adwa: Collective Identity and Nation-Building
… array of tactics, with none more useful than the collective memory of the Battle of Adwa, and what it means to the Ethiopian people. The argument of this thesis is that Adwa has served the state of Ethiopia, in three different eras of government, with a tool with which it can use in …
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Qualifying social work education and the collective identity of social work in England
… between them in their relevance to professional identity. It suggests that attention should be given to the notion of collective professional identity, conceived of as a shared occupational social identity, but including the capacity for action in the face of threats or challenges, and in …
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The Intersections of Social Activism, Collective Identity, and Artistic Expression in Documentary Filmmaking
… dependent on literal truths and realities. Collective identity formations among activist filmmakers, ethical dilemmas, queer filmmaking, questions of impact, the dialectical relationship between researchers and subjects, and future directions for research, of which there are many, are also …
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Customary Practice: The Colonial Transformation of European Concepts of Collective Identity, 1580-1724
… and Francis Bacon opened up a new discourse of collective identity that found its most developed expression in the writings of the French and English people who first colonized North America. Among the authors whose work I examine are Marc Lescarbot, Thomas Morton, Anne Bradstreet, Marie de …
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From victims to warriors: collective identity construction at cancer movement assemblies in South Africa
… Questions were raised about the generation of collective identities during these assemblies, the nature of the activated identities, and how these relate to the broader debates about cancer and identity. This inquiry investigates the unexplored intersection of cancer and identity in the context …
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The creation of the Khalsa : a study into the rhetorical strategies of collective identity transformation
… this study, the processes and methods of this identity transformation were isolated. Guru Gobind activated social and collective levels of identity through the medium of performance in order to transform his audience of Sikhs into the Khalsa.</p>
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Experiential Commensurability and Identity Correspondence: Examining Deaf Culture Movement Collective Identity in the United States
… assesses the alignment of personal and collective identities within the context of the Deaf Culture Movement (DCM) in the United States. Though social movement researchers assume that identities, culture, beliefs, and values are developments of interactional processes, the current …
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The construction of collective identity in Northern Ireland in relation to minority ethnic and immigrant populations
… The current research investigated how forms of collective, or in-group, identities are constructed in relation to the presence of ethnicized or immigrant populations, through the discourse analysis of media and text-based material from Northern Ireland. <br/><br/>This constructivist perspective …
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