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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Cultural productions"”.
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From Counter-Narratives to Cultural Productions: A practice-led model to challenge extremists’ worldview in the cultural sphere
… worldview and address cognitive extremism in the cultural sphere. Counter-narratives were once believed to be capable of thwarting extremists’ narratives yet have been proven inefficient and even counterproductive. A growing body of evidence supports the positive effect of dramatisation of …
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Lo visible, lo invisible y lo imaginable: Neoliberalismo y ciudad en las producciones culturales de posguerra en Centroamérica
… in an important urban shift in regard to postwar cultural productions. I build a theoretical model organizes the investigation in three representative examples of Central American urban imaginaries (The Visible, The Invisible, and the Imaginable) so as to enlighten and/or enrich the analysis of …
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Afterlives: resurrecting the South African border war
… by the emergence of a range of recent cultural productions. Using Jacqui Thompson’s collection of SADF memoirs, An Unpopular War: From Afkak to Bosbefok (2006), and the revival of Anthony Akerman’s play, Somewhere on the Border (2012), this thesis explores how these cultural productions …
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Argentina in The African Diaspora: Afro-Argentine And African American Cultural Production, Race, And Nation Building in the 19th Century
… and the United States as seen through the cultural productions of the early- and mid-nineteenth century in both countries, using as an analytical frame postcolonial, post-structuralist, and subaltern theories. In both the U.S. and Argentina, the African American and the Afro-Argentine …
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Cultura organizacional: una mirada desde los gerentes universitarios de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales de la Universidad de Carabobo
… the emerging thematic units in four categories: cultural productions, philosophical ethos, cultural ontology and university management. The contrasting and interpretation of the meanings with the state of the art was carried out. The epistemic construction was based on the analysis of three …
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Aztlán Potentialities: Queer Male Chicanx Affect and Temporalities
… affective and temporal models offered by these cultural productions. Notably, these cultural productions specifically address queer Chicanxs who are cisgender and male, so the potentialities observed in these texts are molded by this specific identity intersection. In the epilogue, I consider …
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The Tao of South Park: Dissonant Visual Culture and the Future of Politics
… against dominant ideology, but also how such cultural productions are sanctioned and desired by a media system that requires audience loyalty. In South Park silences and traumas become apparent as silences and as traumas, internalizing their own repression and displacing it into poignant …
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Making Mongols: Representations of Culture, Identity, and Resistance
… in Northern China fear the end of a distinct cultural identity. Until the late 19th century, cultural differences between Mongols and Han could be seen through differences in each group's traditional way of life. Mongols were nomadic pastoralists. Han were sedentary farmers. Recent economic …
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Making Queer Anti-capitalist Resistance Intelligible: Reading Queer Childhood in the Ruins of Neoliberalism
In challenging normative social relations, queer cultural studies has shied away from deploying historical materialist theoretical tools. My research addresses this gap by drawing these two literatures into conversation. I do so by investigating how global economic relations provide an allegorical …
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YouTube is the New Tube: Identity, Power, and Creator-Consumer Relationships in a New Culture (Cottage) Industry
… meaning and identity is played out in this new cultural space, centering on amateur creators as they navigate tensions and test semiotic relationships with their productions online. I first situate YouTube within a larger context of cultural criticism that sees meaning as socially negotiated by …
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Pink is the New Bull: The Feminization of Pit Bulls in Visual and Literary Discourses as a Rescue Tactic
… and gendered representations of pit bulls in cultural productions and the nuanced ways in which the intersectional identities ascribed to pit bulls have impacted their status as acceptable pets in the United States.</p> <p>I aim to demonstrate that through visual and literary discourses, …
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Children of the Mexican Miracle: Childhood and Modernity in Mexico City, 1940--1968
… the influence of various domestic and foreign cultural productions for children. The church reached children through lay organizations and children's magazines as it adapted to the increasing presence of secular culture. Mass entertainment designed specifically for children, like Walt Disney …
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The Kaleidoscopic Unsaid: Voice, Memory, and Body of the Afro-Americas
… three chapters show how the subjects in these cultural productions maneuver in such a way that showcases their multifaceted reality, pushing against the often one-dimensional representations that are imposed on them. Ultimately this dissertation attempts to decolonize stagnant representations …
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Anticipating Revolution: The Lebanese Left and the Civil War
… forms of intellectual, political, and cultural productions to interrogate the understandings of Lebanon as a polity within interlocking matrixes of capitalism, sectarianism, and nationalism. Weaving together hegemonic discourses represented by the speeches from political elites …
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Soul as a Gateway to Erotic Possibilities: An Afrocentric Study of Black Women’s Musical Narratives as Extensions of Agency and Freedom
… of traditional practices of intimacy and cultural productions of sexuality. Ethnographic Content Analysis and Iconography are utilized to examine the artists' work in their discography, interviews, photographs, and social media content. The heart of this work examines how Soul as a …
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Staging Identity: The Co-Construction of Whiteness and Indianness in the Drama of Tomson Highway
… other than stereotypical: as counter-hegemonic cultural productions that open up a space of resistence.
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Writing Away: Old Affinities and New Itineraries in Contemporary African Writing
… a particular impulse within the current wave of cultural production emerging from Africa and its new diaspora. It is a reading of five contemporary writers whose works indicate an awareness of the intellectual genealogies of African cultural productions but reflect a departure from the modes of …
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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 …
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Peça [sem] Drama: reflexões sobre jogo dramático
… isolation and the complete halt of in-person cultural productions, which connected the artistic practice to the urgency imposed by the health crisis (COVID-19) during the years 2020 and 2021. This period was also marked by the implementation of policies that discouraged the arts and artists: …
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