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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"Construction of identity"”.
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Issues in the construction of identity of some contemporary women artists
This thesis is based on an empirical study of forty-three contemporary women artists. The aim of this research was to explore how a number of factors impact on these women’s construction of their identity as artists. The women were selected through the East Midlands Arts register of artists, and …
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My Cherished Enemy: The Construction of Identity and Otherness in Russia
As of 2018 the Russian Federation is home to 185 registered ethnic groups, ranging in size from 5.3 million of the Volga Tatars to the merely 64 people of the Votes. Many of them are adherents to religions other than Orthodoxy with Muslims, Jews and Catholics being the most numerous – Muslims alone …
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Exile, transnational connections, and the construction of identity : Tibetan immigrants in Montreal
… the processes through which a small group 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 …
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The Material Construction of Identity in Sparta and Lakonia (750–480 BCE)
This dissertation explores the construction of Spartan and Lakonian identity through material culture from 750–480 BCE. To resolve the lingering shadow of the mirage Spartiate, an image of Sparta constructed through a retrojection of later sources onto the Archaic period, I turn my attention in …
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Fundamental Words: The Construction of Identity in the Protestant Fundamentalist Community, 1925--1940
"This study explorer, the question of how religious identity is formed within faith communities. It argues that for fundamentalists, the identity construction and reconstruction process centered on the language shared by community members. In particular, it focus on three discursive domains: the …
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Indian streets outside India : the construction of identity in Southall and Jackson Heights
This is a study of how street businesses owned by immigrant Indians in London and New York City construct an identity for themselves, and then lend that to the streets on which they operate. The research is conducted at Southall, a neighbourhood in West London, and at Jackson Heights in Queens, New …
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Civic historical imagery and the construction of identity in York, c.1486-c.1603
… Reformation had on the civic historical imagery of York. This imagery was the outward physical manifestation of collective memory. The changes which the Reformation affected to civic drama, processions, regalia and record-keeping, to name but a few, are considered at length. For the elite of a …
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The construction of identity through race and ethnicity : coloured South African women in Western Australia
The formation of ethnic and racial identity is important psychologically. Mainstream psychological theory and research on identity has been criticised for its failure to adequately address the lived experiences of historically marginalised groups in society. The purpose of my research was to centre …
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Images of Jenny Lind and the Construction of Identity for the Nineteenth-Century Female Performer
This thesis examines how images of the Swedish singer Jenny Lind worked to distance her from the typical nineteenth-century view. Because of their position within the public sphere, female performers were thought to be sexually available and often had the reputation of prostitute. Lind achieved a …
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British far right and anti-fascist media's construction of identity: Searchlight and Spearhead, 1964 – 1982
… runs the magazines transmitted their own notions of a new Britain, and mobilised activists to enact that change on the streets of Britain. This thesis will examine these two oppositional print cultures from the period of their creation in 1964 until 1982. This was a period of wider change for the …
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The discursive construction of identity and legitimation in the UN mission in Haiti (2004 - 2015)
… a secure and stable environment in the aftermath of a coup that ousted President Jean Bertrand Aristide. In this thesis, I investigate how the leaders of MINUSTAH discursively constructed legitimation and a Latin-American identity in the context of the mission. To analyse these processes, I …
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Black honor: belonging and the construction of identity among the writers of O Clarim d'Alvorada
In Brazil of the early twentieth century one of the most important signs of prestige was (and still is) skin color. In the city of São Paulo black skin color was such a negative signifier that it prevented many educated black people from advancing socially. As a result, many blacks in São Paulo …
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The Contested Ground of the "Peaceable Kingdom": Environmental Change and the Construction of Identity in Early Pennsylvania.
… environmental changes that attended the founding of the colony of Pennsylvania and its capital city of Philadelphia in the latter part of the seventeenth century. Through engagement with the analytical methods of environmental history, ethnohistory, and ecocriticism, this dissertation demonstrates …
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Looking at the intractability of the Israeli/Palestine conflict with a focus on the construction of identity
… with investigating the causes and conditions of conflict that contribute to its intractable nature. Often, a key starting point in the examination of intractable conflicts is to explore the relationships between the different processes driving the conflict. Prominent authors investigating the …
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The paradox of "indigenous modernity" : a case study of the construction of identity among the ‡Khomani San
… minor dissertation examines the complex question of the issues relating to the identity of the ‡Khomani San of the Southern Kalahari in South Africa. Through qualitative fieldwork and secondary research, the dissertation illustrates that the ‡Khomani San have an identity, even though it is …
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The Impact Of Social Competencies And Role Factors On The Relational Construction Of Identity And Participation Of Physician Leaders
Physicians as many other professionals are often promoted into leadership roles based upon their clinical or professional performance. Yet, many do not have the skills or the inclination to lead. In a response to increase the effective influence of professional physician leaders in healthcare …
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Walking the frailty tightrope: exploring the construction of identity in older people with frailty within an NHS Day Hospital.
… to recover from illness and are at greater risk of falls, institutionalisation and death. Rates of frailty are increasing and expected to rise as the population ages putting great pressure on the NHS. Over the last 20 years frailty has been explored in terms of biomedical assessment and …
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"""Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory"": The Citizen-Soldier and the Construction of Identity in Northern Civil War Literature"
I analyze the army as an example of the transformation of local symbols into an abstract ideology that takes place in the formation of the modern nation-state, and I focus on literary representations of the citizen-soldier. Rather than a static convention, this figure served as a site of conflict …
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Recurrent Structural and Thematic Traits in Jeanette Winterson's "The Passion" and "Sexing the Cherry": Time, Space and the Construction of Identity
Este trabajo analiza las implicaciones ideológicas de dos parámetros narratológicos (el tiempo y el espacio) en la construcción de la identidad de los personajes de dos de las novelas escritas por la autora británica contemporánea Jeanette Winterson. Aunque el tiempo y el espacio son rasgos …
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