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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"Community/Identity"”.
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"Baseball as Community Identity: Cleveland, Ohio -- 1891-2012"
Matt Ferguson argues in "Baseball as Community Identity: Cleveland, Ohio --1891-2012," that through studying key flashpoints in Cleveland baseball history by focusing on the history of League Park, Cleveland Municipal Stadium, and Jacobs/Progressive Field, the positive memories of Cleveland Indians …
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Quebec’s Uninhabitable Community: Identity and Community among Anglo-Quebecer Out-Migrants
… the past 45 years perceive and negotiate their identity in relation to Quebec? Since 1971, 600 000 anglophones have left Quebec for other parts of Canada. This out-migration coincided with political tensions that influenced a complete economic and linguistic shift in power from English to …
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Community, Identity, and Masculinity: Changing Men in a Mutual Support Group
The trustworthiness of the account was bolstered by members' appropriation of the research method into their group process, their verification of the transcripts, and an analysis of negative, discrepant cases. Nonetheless, the description should be critically evaluated in the context of its Jungian …
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Professional and community identity in the field of technical communication in Ireland.
… training, status and value, and professional and community structures. The study also acknowledges the impact of technology, on technical communication specifically, and on professional work generally. The study uses a comparative case study approach to explore these themes. It compares the …
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Crime politics and late modernity : an exploration of community, identity and morality
Crime and community have been inextricably linked since New Labour came to power in 1997. The relationship between high crime and community decline is not new and there is a wide range, of criminological theory that explores the link between disadvantage, urban decay and crime rates. Yet under New …
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Muslim women in colonial North India circa 1920-1947 : politics, law and community identity
… the relationship between gender and Muslim community identity in late colonial India. It pursues two broad themes. The first of these is the way in which gender issues were used symbolically by Muslim religious and political leaders to give substance to a community identity based largely on …
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Adobe Walls and Black-Tinted Windshields: The Press and Community Identity in Santa Fe, New Mexico
… social change nevertheless does occur in the community, and that change is facilitated both through some media practices and through channels of communication outside the bounds of the press.
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Doing the heavy lifting: A qualitative study of athletes’ experiences of community, identity, and (dis)identification in CrossFit
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Doing the heavy lifting: A qualitative study of athletes’ experiences of community, identity, and (dis)identification in CrossFit
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Consociationalism and equality within the European Union: a socio-legal study of community identity and gender in Northern Ireland and Belgium
… of inequalities at the intersection of community identity and gender in two areas within the European Union: Northern Ireland and Belgium.<br/><br/>This is approached in four stages. Firstly, theory on consociationalism and equality law is presented, and the specific examples of the two …
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Struggling against the Sea in Ban Khun Samut Chin: Environmental Knowledge, Community Identity and Livelihood Strategies in a Village Fighting Severe Coastal Erosion on the Gulf of Thailand
This research project investigates how a coastal community in the Upper Gulf of Thailand has been dealing with a local ecological crisis, the rapid erosion of their coastline and potential loss of the entire territory of their village. The case study examines the community’s interactions with …
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On an Unshakeable Foundation: An Archaeological Investigation of the Postemancipation Black Community of Bass Street, the Church They Built, and the Lasting Identity They Formed in Nashville, Tennessee
<p>The Bass Street Community lived along the northern base of St. Cloud Hill in Nashville, just below the Civil War-era Union fortification, Fort Negley. The fort was built and defended by conscripted free, enslaved, and self-emancipated Black/African Americans and soldiers from the U.S. Colored …
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Exile, transnational connections, and the construction of identity : Tibetan immigrants in Montreal
… of Tibetans in Montreal constructs a sense of community identity in exile. I argue that membership in the extended, transnational organization, the Tibet Movement, provides the framework within which these processes take place. The incorporation of non-Tibetans, the role of technology, and the …
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The road to Mamre : migration, memory and the meaning of community c1900-1992
… in the Masters Students Programme of Community Education Resources at the University of Cape Town. The thesis investigates the process of historical research in Mamre, a mission village fifty kilometres north-west from Cape Town. CER's research methodology provided the basis of …
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Suburban city : redevelopment of a community's identity
The thesis is a proposal for a community center and residences in Somerville which takes into account three aspects of American residential culture: 1) the changing structure of the traditional family; 2) the changing suburb and the competition with traditional center cities; and 3) the loss of …
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The Mart Theatre Project : exploring identity in a community-based applied theatre project with young people
… theatre as a tool for the exploration of youth identity and relationship to community. Drawing on traditions of ethnography and reflective practitioner research, this document explores the roles of identity and identity-based inequities as they relate to Mart Theatre Project, an applied theatre …
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"Canada's toughest neighbourhood" : surveillance, myth and orientalism in Jane-Finch
… the often-negative representations of the community through conceptual frameworks based on the work of Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes and Edward Said. The question it attempts to answer is: What knowledge and power relationships are embedded within depictions of lane-Finch in popular …
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Colonizing the Mind: The Library as a Site for Colonial American Identity Formation
… culture to navigate individual and community identity in a decidedly unstructured atmosphere—the period shortly before the complete onset of American nationalism. The process of "becoming American," the development of an identity tied to a specific location that emphases class …
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Academic Disciplinary Differences In The Perceived Value Of The Community Of Practice Model
… mission is essential. The perceived value of the Community of Practice model was assessed to address the gap in faculty development through a mixed-methods convergent design study. The quantitative data and qualitative data were merged under the unidirectional framework for convergent design …
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Communication and Community at East Wind
… is to explore how members of an intentional community communicatively co-construct their sense of community identity. This study focuses on East Wind intentional community in southern Missouri. Framed by concepts from Social Identity Theory, this study uses participant observation, field …
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