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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Cultural Representation"”.
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Rival sensations: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, her adapters, and the contest for cultural representation
"In the nineteenth century, British playwrights exploited a loophole in the copyright law to adapt popular novels at will for the stage. This study documents this moment in theater and literary history to reveal the textual multiplicity that resulted when novels competed for audiences with several …
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A Conscious Creation? Political Economy, Globalisation and Cultural Representation in Terrestrial South Korean Miniseries 2002-2017
… society. It investigates the changes in common cultural themes and representations across this period, unravelling the complex relationship between business, culture, and the evolution of content within this media form. The contribution to knowledge of this research rests on its methods: the …
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'From local hero to national star?' : the changing cultural representation of the professional footballer in England, 1945-1984
… investigates continuities and changes in the cultural representation of the professional footballer in England, modifying one of the major existing assumptions that there was a transformation in his public persona from 'local hero' to 'national star'. It does this by establishing the context …
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State-society exchange in modern Sahelian Africa: Cultural representation, political mobilization, and state rule (Senegal, Mauritania, Chad, Sudan).
Modern African states need to be analyzed from a perspective which complements, corrects, or specifies dependency/world-system and structural marxist explanations of peripheral political dynamics. This dissertation offers such a perspective as it seeks to explain variations in state-society …
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An evaluation of an online mental health awareness resource: perspectives of Mindsight certificate holders
… resource needed improvements with respect to its cultural representation. Conclusion: Mindsight was found to be useful by Mindsight certificate holders; however, cultural representation needs to be improved.
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Children’s theatre in the UK: representing cultural diversity on stage through the practices of interculturalism, multiculturalism and internationalism
… shaped and re-shaped the ethnical, racial and cultural made up of its people. Children’s theatre can be understood as a theatrical dialogue between the adult practitioner and the child as an audience member that takes place at a specific time and place, while set in a wider social historical …
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Culture and crisis: Radical writers and writing in the 1930s
… a consistently contradictory and unstable cultural terrain. More particularly, this desire subverts established modes of cultural representation by exposing the repressed social relations that underpin the universal claims of culture, high and low. From the rhetoric of labor giant, John L. …
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Cultivating Multicultural Learning Environments: A Blueprint for Establishing a Korean Language and Cultural Immersion School in Southeastern Wisconsin
… Jin Abstract This qualitative study explores how cultural inclusivity can be fostered in elementary education through the development of an independent Korean Language and Cultural Immersion School in Southeastern Wisconsin. Grounded in multicultural education and culturally responsive pedagogy, …
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A Cultural and Dynamic Landscape Design
… the nation's history, yet they lack meaningful cultural representation. This project proposes a new urban design framework to transform these streets into immersive cultural experiences. The ultimate goal is to design all 51 state-named streets, ensuring that each one tells the unique story of …
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Dishing It Out: Reimagining Multicultural College Dining Through Student-Centered Design
… fostering not only nourishment but also cultural connection and community. However, when dining centers fall short in catering to the needs of their multicultural student body, students are often left feeling isolated and even further from home. Using MIT as a case study, this thesis …
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The Conceptualization of Gender and Race in Rap Music: Its Impact on the Political Engagement of Black Women
… examines the complexity of how rap influences cultural representation, resistance, and political engagement. Through in depth analysis, several key findings emerged: the burden of responsibility Black women often carry in political spaces; their role as activist and advocates; the empowering …
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Exploring the Phenomenon of “Superficial Appreciation” in Tourism
… which tourists prioritize visual elements over cultural or historical characteristics, motivated mostly by posts on social media sites such as Instagram and Facebook. The research combines Social Influence Theory (Kelman, 1958), the Tourist Gaze theory (Urry & Larsen, 2011), and Authenticity …
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Balancing Flavors, Constructing Identities, and Building a Community: Rethinking Diaspora and Migration Through the Foodways of a Thai Community in Washington, D.C.
… to understand the effects of these processes on cultural ideology and behavior. My focus on a temporary migrant population of Thais in Washington, DC offers a new way to conceptualize what it means to be part of a diasporic community. Whereas previous work has dichotomized diasporic people and …
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Growing 'homeplace' In Critical Service-Learning: An Urban Womanist Pedagogy
… and activist praxis. Presenting Black female cultural expressions and life stories illustrated in the data, the study identifies holistic community-campus partnerships as those that emphasize environmental insight, cultural representation, reflexive relationships, and collective action .The …
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Unpacking American Reception of Glocalized Non-English Content in the Netflix Era
… perceived as an indication of increasing cultural tolerance. However, while a lot is known about what audiences see, far less is known about how they really understand and assess these stories. There is a fundamental vacuum in our understanding of audience reception as a lived, …
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Valorising Hidden Culture: Power, Identity and Affect in Leicester Food Practices
… thesis offers a fresh perspective on mainstream cultural studies discourse, in which culture is conceived as capital, through economic valorisation, and a productionist gaze, which favours culture as produced and as product. The thesis highlights the shortcomings of such an approach, expressed as …
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In search of principles for Chinese subtitling : the application of Lu Xun's 'hard translation' in modern media
… a theoretical proposal relating to the notion of cultural representation is advanced. The proposal stems from the theoretical approach giving prominence to the faithfulness in translation, as propounded by the prominent Chinese writer and translator, Lu Xun, in his practice of "ying-yi" ("Hard …
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In search of principles for Chinese subtitling : the application of Lu Xun's 'hard translation' in modern media
… a theoretical proposal relating to the notion of cultural representation is advanced. The proposal stems from the theoretical approach giving prominence to the faithfulness in translation, as propounded by the prominent Chinese writer and translator, Lu Xun, in his practice of "ying-yi" ("Hard …
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A critique of the logic of consumption in postmodern architecture : the museum as a case study
… debate over the definition of postmodernity as a cultural condition, the position of negation continues to come under severe criticism. This thesis attempts to understand constituents of the ideological discourse of postmodern architecture, approaching it from a perspective free from the notion of …
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We who make one another: Liberatory solidarity as relational
… expanded access to institutional claims and for cultural representation, and yet liberatory movements also have more specific objectives: to challenge the legitimacy of oppressive political and moral regimes, and to put those regimes in the obediential service of the vulnerable and oppressed. I …
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