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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Counter-discourse"”.
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Multiply Voiced, Multiply Heard: Double-Voiced Discourse in Toni Morrison, Maryse Conde, and Nuruddin Farah
… collective past by creating a double-voiced discourse narrative framework that allows them to envision a reality that might-have-been while acknowledging the presence of dominant discourses that are. Morrison, Condé, and Farah overlap contradictory forms in order to show that narrative …
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Subversive Liminality and Ideological Warfare: The Zombie Mash-Up as Resistance to Hypermasculine Revenge Narratives Post-9/11
… Jim (2009) to examine liminality as subversive counter-discourse to the masculine hegemony post-9/11. Second, I use Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009) to look at the effects of revenge culture and how non-emphasized femininity and hegemonic (hyper)masculinity co-construct each other. </p>
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Russia Eternal: Recalling The Imperial Era In Late- And Post-Soviet Literature And Culture
… vectors of a more thoroughly liberal humanist counter-discourse on the pre-Soviet past. I claim that this counter-discourse was always productively skeptical of Soviet liberal and conservative models of historical inheritance, and that it arose simultaneously with the Perestroika and proceeded …
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From Discourse to Reality: A Critique of the Sustainability Discourse for Activities in Earth Orbits
… and propagation of misleading and manipulative discourses on the fundamentals of space sustainability. The elites have utilized their discursive powers to create knowledge, attitudes, and ideologies among the general public in favour of geopolitical, military, and capitalist domination, …
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WORDS AS DEEDS: GENDER AND FEMINIST DISCOURSE IN BRITISH SUFFRAGE PERIODICALS (1907-14)
… significant, as it led to the creation of a true counter-discourse that also meant to overcome biased views on the matter of votes for women. Lately, scholarly research has focused on re-investigating the suffrage movement in a sort of revisionist emphasis which has also followed a new wave of …
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Self-Representation of Black Queer Athletes in the WNBA: Resistance to Misogynoir and Heteronormativity in Women's Basketball
<p>This work is a critical discourse analysis of the media (mis)representations and self-representations of Black queer women athletes in the WNBA. WNBA players have found paths of resistance and self-representation through social media and their relationships with individual journalists in …
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Resisting division along ethnic lines: a case study of two communities who challenged discourses of war during the Yugoslav conflict 1991-1995
… a worldview, which became part of the dominant discourse, inter-ethnic violence in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina was inevitable and the division of the population along ethnic lines was needed to stop the violence. In this thesis I problematize the dominant discourse on the ethnic nature and …
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Talking Trains, Planes and Automobiles: Machine Anthropomorphism in Children’s Fiction
… support the promethean ideology, provide a counter discourse, or turn it on its head completely. The case studies focus on promethean representations in The Railway Series/Thomas and Friends and Bob the Builder; on fraternal representations in Ivor the Engine and WALL·E; and on reverse …
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Mobility Without Mayhem: Disciplining Mobile America Through Safety
… addresses the relationship between culture, discourse, and governing. It focuses on American notions of personal mobility and freedom and argues that they have been increasingly shaped and governed by safety concerns. This is not only evident in public discussions of auto-mobility, but also …
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I Know Him Not, and Never Will: Moby Dick, The Human and the Whale
… reader to empathise with them, so allowing for a counter discourse against whaling to emerge. The industrial consumption of marine animals is highlighted in Moby Dick, as Melville notes the various ways in which whales and similar creatures are used for food and other products. Unscrupulous …
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"There’s literally nothing else I can do apart from cope": a Foucauldian discourse analysis of shame, coping, and the operation of power in parents' narrative accounts of adolescent substance use
This qualitative study applied a Foucauldian discourse analysis to explore the discourses which characterised and constructed parents' narrative accounts of their experiences of parenting an adolescent who misused substances. The analysis identified three dominant discourses; risk management, moral …
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Professionals’ perceptions of young males in child sexual exploitation policy: a critical policy genealogical analysis
Background: The discourse on young males affected by or involved in child sexual exploitation (CSE) is often silenced due to the preoccupation with, and generally greater publicity of, female victims within professional practice, policy and research. Historical and contemporary CSE discourse is …
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Trading Futures: Future-Talk, Finance, and Christian Eschatology
… dissertation suggests instead that financial discourse conjures a particular mode of future-talk, one that renders the future as somehow predictable, manageable, and profitable. This mode of imagination informs broader social, political, and theological discourses and, in fact, constitutes a …
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Beyond mourning and melancholia: depression in the work of five contemporary North American women writers.
… addresses women's historic exclusion from the discourse of melancholia from a feminist perspective. It will consider the political and theoretical implications of women's absence from this discursive field by focusing on the cultural legacy of their devalorised status. Freud's essay, 'Mourning …
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The discourse of women writers in the French Revolution: Olympe de Gouges and Constance de Salm
… have extensively studied how Rousseau's domestic discourse impacted the patriarchal ideology in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and contributed to women's exclusion from the public sphere. Joan Landes, Lynn Hunt, and many others, argued that the French Revolution excluded women from the …
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Defying distance : remembrance, narration, and the gender imaginary in Assia Djebar’s Loin de Médine
… practice of transmission not only inscribes counter-discourse in tradition but also recovers the dynamism and collective voice of oral literary culture. Djebar re-enters the scene of history and invites the reader to dwell on events through women’s perspectives, unsettling narratives that …
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‘What we came through to get here’: the educational experiences of Somali women graduates in London
… experienced their education: the challenges encountered; the resources and strategies that enabled their achievements; and how they navigated and framed their identities through their experiences. The research aims to present a counter-discourse to the focus of early education studies of the …
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Virgil Ortiz: American Indian Artist, Representational Trickster, and Identity Shapeshifter
… study opens the door for a re-thinking of how discourse shapes American Indian representation and identity. As such, contemporary American Indian artist, Virgil Ortiz, his art, and the discourse surrounding both art and artist are examined to reveal the strategies and tactics employed in his …
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Theatre : the art of human being : locating the cultural value of theatre in the Age of Broadcast Media and a retrospective paper on the process leading towards the 2000 performance Involving Eternity
… present the critical position, which post modern discourse offers regarding these notions. Ultimately I foreground the notion of simulation in contemporary aesthetics and the erosion of the phenomenological space. My analysis of performance focuses on the emergence ofthe new ideologies of actor …
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Alien Sex Club: Educating audiences about continuing rates of HIV transmission using art and design
… In these ways, Alien Sex Club operates as a counter discourse to the prevailing minimalist representations of HIV. The PhD generates knowledge about how to educate audiences on continuing rates of HIV transmission and extends understandings of the nature of the artist as activist.
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