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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Cultural Work"”.
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Sisterly Sleuths: The Hidden Cultural Work of Serial Modernism
… have been vilified or ignored by literary and cultural critics. Serial narratives, which include continuing stories published in installments and independent tales that form part of an overarching plot, have been maligned for their content, for the material realities of their mass production, …
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Chicago's Goodman Theatre: Plays and cultural work in an institutional theater
During the cultural war of the 1990s, a major institutional theater presented socially-serious art which represented multiple positions on important topics while striving for artistic excellence. Chicago's Goodman Theatre sought social relevance, though its productions, in representing and …
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Art and ephemerality: The cultural work of American poetry broadsides since 1960
Poems become available for cultural and political use, not as abstractable linguistic forms independent of their specific publication, but as printed artifacts that circulate in the culture. Broadsides--single, unbound, and self-contained printed sheets that can range in quality from mimeographs to …
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Artist as Citizen: Transnational Cultural Work in the National Democratic Movement of the Philippines
… my own experiences as a Filipino transnational cultural worker in this movement. There has been research done on Filipinos in the arts and social movements, however there is a paucity of information concerning Filipino cultural work. Cultural work and cultural workers are intentional in creating …
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Dividing the Blue Line: the Cultural Work of Rural Policing in Upstate New York
… this project advances a theoretical framework to understand the often-inconspicuous role of policing in shaping localized social inequality and disparities based on who is deemed valuable, worthy, and deserving. Bound up with this alternative framework for seeing and navigating social …
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Class, gender and cultural work in British documentary film production: Experiences, subjectivities and policy discourses
This thesis explores class, gender and cultural work in British documentary film production. It investigates documentary filmmaking as creative labour by using interview, ethnographic observation, and discourse analysis. The methods allow analysing experiences of class and gender and modes of …
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The Politics of Post-Industrial Cultural Knowledge Work
… practices, nature and theory of post-industrial cultural work and the humanities- and arts-based civic dialogues which cultural work promotes. Given the broad neglect of utopian thinking in the mainstream of critical social science and in an attempt to sketch out a vision of an alternative …
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An Analysis of the Economic and Social Values Attributed to a Variety of Occupations as Portrayed in Adolescent Literature
… in one of the following categories: professional work, industrial work, housework, hustling work, and counter-cultural work. Each job was then given a prestige rating of 0 to 100. Fourteen of the twenty-two novels focused on professional work, four on industrial work, three on hustling work, one …
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Oudano as praxis: archives, audiotopias and movements
… orientation in various respects, by looking at cultural work that questions institutional constraints and exclusions. This study departs from the disjuncture between cultural work that is authorised by hegemonic national heritage discourse and unauthorised cultural work in action, offering other …
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Strangers Among Us: Invasive Plants In British Literature, 1669-1800.
… such accounts do not fully acknowledge the cultural work that images of foreign plants do. I opt instead for an ecocritical reappraisal of the idea of “invasive species,” one that acknowledges imperialism while accounting for the ways in which these flora act as more fluid and adaptable …
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Politics of Refusal: Justice and Liberation for Black Trans Lives
… Black trans community. I will also examine the cultural work of Black trans people and what they teach us. The Brooklyn Liberation march and the TV show <em>Pose</em> is an important part of Black trans legacy. They both look at the complications surrounding Black trans lives and contributes to …
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Mangos with Chili: Two-Spirit, Queer and Trans People of Colour Performance as Social Movement Building
… consider: the economic context of precarity of cultural work; spirituality and healing in performance; and the politics of vulnerability and interdependence. By examining the challenges MWC faces and the methods MWC offers for social justice movement building, the author argues that MWC offers a …
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Whose Safety Matters? Exaltation, Risky Refugees, and Canadian Safe Country Practices
This thesis seeks to examine what cultural work is done on behalf of the state by the Safe Third Country Agreement and Bill C-31’s designated country of origin policy? I will be drawing on the work of Critical Race feminists and Critical Security Studies theorists to examine the concept of safety, …
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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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Trailer Park Royalty: Southern Child Beauty Pageants, Girlhood and Power
… critical ethnography, critical hermeneutics and cultural studies lenses will analyze how the performances of participants and the power exercised by the beauty pageant culture work to formulate girls' identities. Analysis will also include how power operates to perpetuate this subculture and its …
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Cracked commodities, cursed gifts: Transacting women and conceptualizing exchange in early modern England
… practices became a highly charged arena of cultural work, and the distinction between gifts and commodities became an important ideological question. In responding to this question, Renaissance drama reveals how contemporary constructions of marriage and female sexuality both participate in …
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TRAUMATIZED WIVES AND THE TRANSATLANTIC NOVEL: UNVEILING THE CULTURAL NARRATIVE OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY MARITAL SUFFERING
… marital culture. The novel serves as the body of cultural work that both represents and shapes women's marital experiences inside a society that legally forced them to surrender their identity, person, and property to their husband, as well as socially holding them to a much higher standard of …
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The specter of Salem in American culture
… examines this persistent interest by tracing the cultural memory of Salem witchcraft in the nineteenth century.</p><p>This thesis argues that by examining the use of Salem witchcraft as a metaphor, we can see the cultural work of history in nation building. By its invocation within a variety of …
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Insurrection in Black: Reading Race and Revolt in the Long Nineteenth Century
… From enslaved uprisings and black armies to worker strikes and insurgent plots, black rebellion appeared as a recurring image across the antebellum and postbellum periods. “Insurrection in Black” argues that these images of rebellious violence functioned speculatively, imagining for readers …
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"To claim voice": The Discourses of Impoverished Children in the Great Depression
… of the poor child's voice does major cultural work that has been long ignored in studies of the 1930s, cultural work that expands discussions of poverty and teaches us how to listen to what we might otherwise reject. The astonishingly complex voices that the poor child in these …
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