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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Cultural Workers"”.
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Being in Deep, Authentic, Dramatic Celebration: Narratives of Community Cultural Workers for Social Change
… Prior to this study, little research existed on cultural workers who teach, and their associated outcomes with marginalized populations of learners. To fill this gap in the research literature, this study explored the question: How do cultural workers define their work, and in what ways do they …
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The Meaning of Being Independent: Precarities of Work and Lifestyles and Alternative-Seeking among Chinese Self-Employed Cultural Workers
… terms relevant to self-employed/independent workers, such as freelancers and flexible workers, and the growing discussion regarding new types of work and entrepreneurship, self-employed workers are still a minority in the Chinese labour market. Without an official definition and uniform …
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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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Contentious Cosmopolitans: Black Public History and Civil Rights in Cold War Chicago, 1942-1972
… looks at how teachers, unionists, and cultural workers used black history to offer new ways of thinking about racial knowledge from a local level. Numerous efforts to promote and teach this history demonstrated how dissident cosmopolitan political currents from previous decades remained …
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Living in an Artistic Labour Market: The Experiences of Gig Musicians in Calgary
… musicians are able to sustain themselves as cultural workers.
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From the Frontline to the Picket Line: Public History and the Cultural Labor Revolution
… labor and collective organizing throughout the cultural sector. Yet while those at the forefront of these conversations hope to leverage this moment into a cohesive movement, cultural labor activism has manifested in different ways throughout the cultural sector. This thesis seeks to understand …
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DESIGNING A CURRICULUM FOR DIFFICULT HISTORY: TEACHERS, MUSEUM WORKERS, AND WAR PHOTOJOURNALISM
… with the public curriculum as envisaged by other cultural workers (curator, or the artist)? Findings suggest that while teachers and museum educators envisioned their work with students in relationship to the development of critical thinking skills necessary for engaging with complex social …
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Globalizing Kenyan Culture: Jua Kali & the Transformation of Contemporary Kenyan Art: 1960-2010
… observed that despite Africa's legacy of woes, cultural productivity in the region is on the rise, leading scholars to refer to the phenomenon as an African Renaissance. This is particularly the case in Kenya where a contemporary art movement is flourishing through both local and global art …
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Tradition, modelling, mechanisms: research on the path of intangible cultural heritage protection for fishermen's music culture in northern Jiangsu
… in northern Jiangsu in the context of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The paper selects three main projects in the cultural life of these fishermen, namely, the fishermen’s haozi, which reflects and expresses their basic way of labour; the paifu, an important boat-building technique; and the yugu, a …
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In Search of Mother: The Libratory Effects of Performance Pedagogy in the Mothering Practices of Black Women
… mining the history of Black women within Western cultural and political economy. I find Mother in the Africana female artists who use their cultural work to nurture, sustain and develop their communities and enhance human potential. I imagine an indigenous feminist performance methodology that I …
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The emergence of cultural policy in Zimbabwe 1984-1997
The thesis re-presents the lived experience of cultural animation and policy production in postcolonial Zimbabwe, seeking to place these observations and theories in the domain of Cultural Policy Studies. The nation was in transition from oracy to literacy and from colonial control to socialist …
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Halls without walls : perpetuation, development & dissemination of the discourse on blues music and blues culture in the digital age (1996-2016)
… from the perspectives of performers, cultural workers and consumers, asking what challenges are made manifest in the present by digitally mediated representations of the past. The study finds that unequal power structures and differentiated notions of individual agency predicated on …
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If We Make It, We Can Change It
… to the concept of ‘common’ by theorists and cultural workers as a framework to reflect, critique, resist and overcome the effects of the neo-liberal transformation of all spheres of human activity. I will describe the common as an ‘already-there’ (Hardt and Negri, 2009) but also as a ‘to …
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Espacios alternativos y nomadismo en tres poetas salvadoreñas de la guerra: Leyla Quintana, Kenny Rodríguez y Eva Ortiz
… the same order, it questions the validity of the cultural codes established and imposed by those groups that hold the political and economic power. These female poets of the war opt for the “margin”, as defined by bell hooks, a place of resistance and multiple possibilities and, in the textual …
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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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From Archives to Legacies: Chicanx and Latinx AIDS Activism and Consciousness
<p>Latinx and Chicanx literary, visual, and cultural productions addressing AIDS demonstrate strategies of AIDS consciousness and activism that are distinctly different from the confrontational and politically symbolic actions of largely white male groups like ACT UP, and, as such, they are often …