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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Cultural narratives"”.
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VENI, VIDI, VIDS: TRANSFORMING CULTURAL NARRATIVES THROUGH THE ART OF AUDIOVISUAL STORYTELLING
… characters were presented and what types of cultural narratives existed. Then I sampled from seven different vidding communities, collecting a total of 105 vids and 6509 comments on those vids as the second part of my sample. Then drawing on the sociological subfields of social psychology, …
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Historical and cultural narratives in landscape design : design applications for Miami Beach, Florida
… designers can relate the historical and cultural significance of particular places and peoples. The designer must be concerned not only with the contents of the story, but with the role of the readers, the community and in the ideologies and worldviews these narratives imply. The issues …
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Policies and practices of Chamorro cultural narratives in the community and schools of Guam
… aspects of ethnography to explore the role of cultural narratives in the educational experiences and daily life of the Chamorro people. The major method of collecting the data used in this study included official documents, interviews, and written surveys. These different sets of data …
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Cross-Cultural Narratives: A Comparative Analysis of "Yo Soy Betty, La Fea" and "Ugly Betty"
<p>This thesis examines the cross-cultural adaptation of the Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea (1999–2001) into the American dramedy Ugly Betty (2006–2010), by analyzing how the latter reimagined the original narrative to address U.S.-specific cultural dynamics. Through qualitative analysis …
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Intellectual formations in the Romantic period: a comparative study of cultural politics and social criticism in the British public sphere, 1802-32
… the bases of two divergent strategies of cultural resistance to the social crises of industrialism. By highlighting the ways in which a central literary genre like periodical social criticism was materially constructed out of distinctive modes of intellectual sociability, we can rethink …
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Transforming sustainabilities: grassroots narratives in an age of transition. An ethnography of the dark mountain project
… between humans and nature implied by dominant cultural narratives. Through building a theoretical understanding of how human-nature relationships can be understood and studied, and devising a methodology for examining individual and collective ontologies and epistemologies, it investigates how …
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Imvotho: Umz'omkhulu Reclamation of Xhosa people's narrative on their relationship with water
… origins of assumed myths about indigenous cultural beliefs and associations with nature and allows undocumented cultural narratives that are slowly vanishing to be recorded. The fragmented and vanishing narratives impact on the loss of cultural identity of black people. This fragmentation …
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Performing "Camp, Vamp & Femme Fatale": Revisiting, Reinventing & Retelling the Lives of Post-Death, Retro-Gothic Women
… to the authors' and cast's reappropriation of cultural narratives about female vampires. The chapter goes on to survey the narrative, cinematic and critical work on women as vampires. As many of the texts were developed as part of the fantasy role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade, this …
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Creating shared meaning: Narratives of youth violence, mindfulness, and counselling psychology
… impact of broader social contexts and dominant cultural narratives were explored. Suggestions are made regarding therapeutic work with young people engaged in such behaviour, and avenues for future research suggested.
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Narrative Identity Within A Workers' Rights Organization
… how the organization negotiates the broader cultural and institutional narrative identities with the personal narrative identities of the worker-members in a cultural context hostile toward undocumented immigrants. Further, I examine how the worker-members themselves both internalize and …
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“We've All To Grow Old”: Representations of Agingas Reflections of Cultural Change on the Celtic Tiger Irish Stage
… 1995 and 2010—a period of economic and cultural change known as the “Celtic Tiger.” This study argues that the way that aging and senescence—defined jointly as the process of aging and as the state of being “aged”—are represented on stage reveals …
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The Age of Obsolescence: Senescence and Scientific Rejuvenation in Twentieth Century America
… culture, I document the formation of several cultural narratives of aging--or, formulaic ways of addressing aging produced by repeated metaphors, imagery and story lines--that circulated with reciprocal influence through all of these spheres, determining attitudes toward, and experiences of, …
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Multiple Axes of Social Location and Transpeople: Interrogating the Concept of "Intersectionality"
… middle-class, whitenormative, and heterocentric cultural narratives. My dissertation contributes to our understandings of the interconnections of the social structural contexts of race, class, gender, and sexuality, and of how they shape the meanings we attribute to our experiences of self and …
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Telling Our Own Stories: An Analysis of Asian American Community Museums in the U.S.
… named “community museums,” challenge dominant cultural narratives and offer spaces for preserving, sharing, and celebrating the diverse experiences and heritage of Asian American communities. This thesis analyzes the role and significance of Asian American community museums in the United …
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Decloaking disability : images of disability and technology in science fiction media
… how images of disability are used to frame cultural narratives regarding technology. As advances in biotechnology ensure that more people will be living with technological prosthetics against and beneath their skin, there is an increasing importance in examining how such bodies challenge …
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Coming In and Coming Out: Navigating the Spaces between Cultural and Sexual Identity
… their sexual orientation, 2) to explore the cultural narratives that emerge in their disclosure process, and 3) to generate ways to support LGBQ international students. Research on the disclosure process for LGBQ persons have been comprised largely of white, middle-class individuals and …
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Voces Silenciadas: Victimización Infantil en La Literatura y El Cine Contemporáneos
… victimization with those constructed in selected narratives, analyzing how these works depict minors’ suffering, reflect societal realities, and promote awareness and social change.The study divides its analysis into four chapters, each addressing specific forms of child victimization: bullying …
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Blood, Tears, and Sweat: An Intersectional Excavation of the Literary Vampire in Neoliberal Discourse
… race-dependent understandings of cultural narratives that draw upon the ideological frames of neoliberal institutions to perpetuate social inequality.</p>
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Towards a trans-Caribbean poetics: A new aesthetic of power and resistance
… the implicit role of logo centrism in shaping cultural narratives. Third, it presents fragmentation as a phenomenon that is both discursive and thematic. Finally, it develops the multiple strategies of visual and linguistic disruption in order to suspend normative representations of Caribbean …
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