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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Counter-narratives"”.
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Reshaping Memory: Counter-Narratives in Kindertransport Literature
This study examines the literary narratives (both non-fictional and fictional) of child Holocaust survivors who were evacuated on one of the Kindertransports to Britain focusing in particular on the writing of Karen Gershon, Ruth Barnett, and Josef Eisinger. My focus is on the Kinder's numerous …
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Rapping Back: Counter-narratives from Auckland, New Zealand
<p>Across the Pacific in Auckland, New Zealand two rap groups, Homebrew and @Peace, are contributing to a theoretically rich and socially conscious Hip Hop scene. Their music critically questions commercialism and conformity in a culture shaped by a history of colonialism. This makes their message …
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Counter-Narratives of Palestinian-American Youth: Resistance, Resilience and Transnational Identity
… identity. Through the collection of counter-narratives, this research works to disrupt the Islamophobic dominant narrative that pervades the educational system and other institutions as well as the wider society in the United States.</p> <p>The findings of this research include the …
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Beyond '9/11': counter-narratives of grief in post-9/11 literature
… extent do the texts examined move beyond ‘9/11’, countering the narrative of ‘9/11’ as a national ‘trauma’ to provide alternative portraits of grief? While there is a plethora of literary studies focusing on trauma in ‘9/11 fiction’, which often conflate or misdiagnose grief as trauma, there is …
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Negotiating normativities: Counter narratives of lesbian queer world making in Cape Town
… and permeable QWM through a series of counter narratives enacted in three interconnected socialities. Generational narratives reveal psycho-social processes of recognition of lesbian desire and coming into a lesbian subjectivity in a range of modes of QWM. Lesbian erotic world making …
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Imagination Movers: The Creation of Conservative Counter-Narratives in Reaction to Consensus Liberalism
… T.S. Eliot. What Kirk really did was to create a counter-narrative to the American liberal tradition that usually began with the French Revolution and revolutionary figures such as English-American revolutionary Thomas Paine. One of my goals was to demystify the fusionist thesis, which states that …
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Counter-narratives and Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s play Invasion!: storytelling that fractures the orientalist narrative
<p>This thesis examines the counter-narratives Jonas Hassen Khemiri constructs to challenge Orientalism in his play INVASION! Khemiri’s use of oppositional narratives and disidentification challenges the narrow confines of Middle Eastern/Arab stereotypes by using story and performance to decenter …
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And Then the Wall Rose: Counter Narratives of Black Males' Experience of Elementary Schooling in Urban Georgia
… opportunities. Methodologically, I utilize counter-storytelling (Bell, 1990; Delgado, 1995; Rousseau, & Dixson, 2006; Solorzano & Yosso, 2009) and fiction (Avi, 2010; Doll, 2000; Ellison, 1995; He, 2003; Wright, 2009), to create five composite black male characters. I fictionalize settings, …
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From Counter-Narratives to Cultural Productions: A practice-led model to challenge extremists’ worldview in the cultural sphere
… cognitive extremism in the cultural sphere. Counter-narratives were once believed to be capable of thwarting extremists’ narratives yet have been proven inefficient and even counterproductive. A growing body of evidence supports the positive effect of dramatisation of identity-related content …
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The Good Italian, the Bad German, and the Survivor: Narratives and Counter-Narratives of the Shoah in Italy
… of the twenty-first century, has a collective counter-memory emerged from within the survivor community to challenge the predominant myths of Fascism, the war, and the Shoah that prevailed in postwar Italy. Receiving fullest expression at the Shoah Memorial of Milan, situated within Milan’s …
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(Neo) revolutionary messages : an analysis of the impact of counter-narratives versus state narratives during the 1991 Coup D'etat in the former Soviet Union
… past to which they wished to return, while the counter-public created a counter-narrative that argued a future of continued reforms would benefit the people of Russia and the Soviet Union. In the end, the counter-narrative achieved stronger approval from the masses, essentially replacing the …
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The (De-)Colonial Dynamics of Im-mobility in 21st Century Representations of Migration: An Interdisciplinary Study of (Counter-)Narratives around (North-)African ‘Harga’ to EU-rope
… engages with a diverse array of harga-centred (counter-)narratives in Arabic and French, spanning different genres, produced in and around the Maghreb between 2015 and 2019. This specific timeframe is significant as it covers a period of heightened media attention to ‘South-North’ illegalised …
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Stories from the ̶p̶e̶r̶i̶p̶h̶e̶r̶y̶ Centre: Counter-narratives of Anglophone Caribbean Teachers on the Permanence of Racism in the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Industry
It is my experiences with racisms that birthed this thesis. It is one of the first attempts in the field of applied linguistics to explore the lived experiences of Anglophone Caribbean teachers with racisms in the TESOL industry. Synergising Critical Race Theory, the polarising theoretical lens …
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Counter-Narratives of La Raza Voices: An Exploration of the Personal and Professional Lived Experiences of Mexican-American/Chicana/O Faculty at California Catholic Institutions of Higher Education
<p>Faculty members of color time and again encounter the greatest number of challenges and barriers (e.g., discrimination, isolation, marginalization, tokenism, inundated with workloads and service commitments, devalued research, and delayed promotion and tenure) in both entering academia and …
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¿De Dónde Eres?: The Construction of U.S. and Immigrant Culture and Identity in the ESL Adult Education Setting
… U.S. and immigrant cultural identities through narratives and counter-narratives, and how these narratives and counter-narratives reproduced and questioned relations of power along the lines of race, class, and gender difference. The theoretical framework for this intercultural study was …
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Critical media literacy and students in youth gang
… from media representations of youth in gangs are counter narratives from youth in gangs themselves. This thesis addresses how youth in gangs can learn how to produce counter- narratives for public discourses. I argue that critical media literacy is a source of empowerment for youth in gangs given …
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Discursive change in Turkish strategic culture: changing narratives, roles and values
… culture, which is conceptualized as change in narratives. In the mainstream literature it has been customary to provide explanations about the change in Turkish foreign policy by applying existing theories which focus on the ideological differences between Kemalism, Islamism and Liberalism or …
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Black girl gaze: A visual (re)membering of black girlhood as an act of resistance
… for the purpose of simultaneously constructing counter-narratives to the stereotypes about Black girls in education and reimagining narratives about Black girls’ lives that center their lived realities as they see it. In response to the negatively constructed images of Black girls in education …
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‘Getting in the Door’ vs. ‘Living in the House’: Racialized Experiences of BIPOC Child Life Specialists in a Predominantly White Profession and Implications for Anti-Racist Leadership
… in child life and healthcare institutions. The counter-narratives constructed through qualitative interviews with 21 BIPOC child life specialists illustrate the salience of racialization as an embedded feature of the child life profession and broader healthcare environment, expressed through …
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