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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Critical Theorists"”.
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Principles for Education of The Social Reconstructionists and Critical Theorists: A Yardstick of Democracy
… democracy of the Social Reconstructionists and Critical Theorists form the theoretical framework for the dissertation and a Yardstick of Democracy is developed that draws upon the tenets of John Dewey, George S. Counts, Jane Addams, Paulo Freire, and Michael Apple. Included in the study is a …
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Between Culture and Barbarism: Aesthetics, Politics and the Redemptive Origins of Critical Theory, 1918-1969
… influences, such as Hegel, Marx, and Freud, the Critical Theory of those linked to the “Frankfurt School,” I argue, developed out of criticisms and engagements with an array of conservative German intellectuals, many directly affiliated with Nazism. The ideas of such thinkers and artists—in …
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Critical Pragmatism: Peirce and Marcuse on the Socio-Political Influences on Human Development in Advanced Industrial Societies
… of the pragmatists and Herbert Marcuse of the critical theorists. I demonstrate the affinities between the two philosophers with a focus on their contributions to socio-political thought in advanced industrial societies. After addressing the antagonisms between the two traditions I offer a …
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Maintaining NASTRAN: the politics and technics of aerospace computing
… concern and suggests to learn from both critical theorists and social constructivists. Chapters Two and Three tell the story of NASA and NASTRAN, a computer program developed by NASA for solving problems of airframes and space structures. The story of NASA and NASTRAN demonstrates a …
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Normalising global neo-liberalism and workplace change through career management and development discourse: a New Zealand case study
Critical theorists call for the denaturalisation of complex processes within society that render individuals unconscious to particular forms of power and domination. They promote resistance and transformation based on liberatory aspirations for humanity. I have explored the extent to which …
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Max Scheler's Critical Theory: The Idea of Critical Phenomenology
… way core elements of phenomenology map on to the critical theory program in order to demonstrate phenomenology's relevance for ideology critique. "Critical phenomenology" means putting the findings of phenomenology to work for the sake of social critique. I argue that phenomenology gains a …
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Crawlspace
… a sense of identity found in literary works. The critical introduction of this piece makes use of primary sources, involving Rick Bass, Ron Carlson, Jonathon Culler, Jennifer Egan, John Gardner, James Joyce, Ursula Le Guin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Haruki Murakami, and James Wood. Some of these …
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Without Content: Rhetoric, American Anarchism, And The End(s) Of Radical Politics
… rhetoric," and suggest that rhetoricians, critical theorists, and those on the Left would do well to look beyond the dialectical and State-based models of communicative interaction that undergird metaphysics and Marxism to the "anarchistic" facets of rhetoric, which includes an emphasis on …
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Level of Service: Design Standards, Imposed Car Dependence, and the Production of Urban Space in the Capitalist State
… scholarship has become increasingly critical of design standards and engineering methods that promote car-dependent development patterns in American cities. Level of Service (LOS) is a design standard that has received scrutiny for its misapplication to urban streets, accommodating …
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Cosmopolitanism Now: Fragmented Belonging
… surveillance, and global capitalism. Engaging critical theorists such as Kwame Anthony Appiah, Homi Bhabha, Pheng Cheah, and Roland Barthes, the thesis identifies fragmented belonging as an ethically charged response to the asymmetrical realities of contemporary globalization. Cole’s narratives …
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Cultivating Agricultural Resistance: Alternative Farming as Slow Modernity
… project is grounded theoretically in the work of critical theorists, especially Herbert Marcuse, because the Frankfurt School\'s criticism of instrumental rationality and understanding of domination functions to elucidate the societal conditions that allow for agricultural (over)production to be …
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(Re) Visiting Female Entrepreneurs: An Emancipatory Impulse
… aim is pursued through a multidisciplinary and critical inquiry that destabilises this metanarrative conceptually and empirically. A critical interrogation of economic studies reveals the embeddedness of the metanarrative in neo-classical economic growth theory. Far from being a true reflection …
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Water fluoridation: A contest of control; An analysis of social discourses in the New Zealand fluoride debate
… original introduction in the USA in the 1950s. Critical theorists have questioned the assumption on which medical ‘experts’ self-ruling and enormously powerful position in society is based. The ‘age of the internet’ has enabled unforeseen access to information allowing ‘non-experts’ to become …
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Human rights, reproductive rights, and population policies: a theoretical intervention, an analytical proposal, and an application to the case of Mexico
… on human rights in light of the debate between critical theorists, communitarians and liberal philosophers about the possibility of universal moral judgment. Situated within that theoretical debate, in chapter two I analyze the social and normative meaning of reproductive rights. I also offer a …
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Pandatopia: a novel with a critical commentary, TEOTWAWKI
Pandatopia: a novel with a critical commentary, TEOTWAWKI comprises a novel of my own creation, alongside a commentary that reflects on aspects of the creative process and aims to contextualise my work within the genre of Science Fiction. Pandatopia is set in a world where half the global …
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Preparation of school administrators and its implications on their administrative performance in selected upgraded secondary schools of Lufwanyama district.
… on trial and error’. The study was guided by the Critical Educational Administration Theory and the Human Relations Approach. Critical theorists elaborate the values and practices within schools which maintain the ideological perspectives of schools. The study revealed that most of the …
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Preparation of school administrators and its implications on their administrative performance in selected upgraded secondary schools of Lufwanyama district.
… on trial and error’. The study was guided by the Critical Educational Administration Theory and the Human Relations Approach. Critical theorists elaborate the values and practices within schools which maintain the ideological perspectives of schools. The study revealed that most of the …
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'Close' as a construct to critically investigate the relationship between the visual artist and the everyday.
This research proposes and develops a critical framework - a 'matrix' to make sense of the artistic process from the practitioner's perspective. It draws from the research of de Certeau into everyday culture and the art historical discourse of Bourriaud that positions art within models of social …
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Uncommon work: Utopia, labor, and environment in late twentieth-century American fiction
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, critical theorists have lamented in elegiac fashion the disappearance of any political economic system, real or imaginary, that could feasibly offer an alternative to liberal capitalism. Utopia, understood as the aesthetic expression of the desire for alternative …
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Magical Girls: Contemporary Girlhood in Children’s Fantasy
… body, and the natural world. Engaging with critical theorists such as Stacy Alaimo, Elizabeth Grosz, Karen Barad, and Donna Haraway, this study offers close readings of prose and visual media – novels, anime shows, graphic novels, and a picturebook – produced in America and Japan. Chapter 1 …
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