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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Discursive Formations"”.
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Exploring the American Anti-Immigration Discourse in Scholarship, Politics, and Activism through Michel Foucault and Edward Said
… Said's theoretical contributions regarding discursive formations, this thesis performs a critical discourse analysis of the anti-immigration discourse in America; a flawed rhetoric that uses the power of language to create is own truth. The ultimate research question of this thesis asks what …
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Divergent Discourses: Development Knowledge and Malian Family Planning
… approach, this analysis identifies the discursive formations (ideologies) at work in centralized family planning in order to elucidate the female normative model for whom initiative programs are constructed. This norm is contrasted with the lived experiences of Malian women in order to …
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Global Governance of AIDS : Partnerships with Civil Soviety
… For instance, the Gramscian approach privileges discursive formations, the interorganizational framework prioritizes resource interdependencies, and the network model brings out consensual knowledge as the central concern for understanding the global governance of AIDS. More specifically, from …
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History, ethnography, and the nation: the films of Scotland documentaries
… apparatus that draws on a variety of discursive formations in its production of knowledge. Similarly, the thesis argues that the representation of Scotland should not be understood as an aesthetic failure to represent the reality of life in Scotland, but as a distinct discursive …
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Education in South Africa : towards a postmodern democracy
… relationship between learners and existing discursive formations are then discussed with reference to Philip Wexler's 'textualist' theory of social analysis and education. His advocacy of 'collective symbolic action' is found to be compatible with an uncoercive discourse ethic, oriented to …
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Local Authorities on involving families in the development of Education, Health and Care Plans
… statements are grouped together to form three discursive formations; assessment, inequality, and possibilities for change. This thesis explores how families are positioned within the EHCP assessment process, how inequalities can shape a family’s encounter with the processes and how …
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An Archeology of Postmodern Architecture: A Reading of Charles Jencks' work
… relationship to modernism while examining the discursive dimension of the two movements. The goal of this thesis is not aimed at determining to what extent postmodernism was necessary or avoidable, definable or unintelligible, real or merely fictive. In deference to Michel Foucault's Archeology …
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Cinema, Culture and the Social Formation: Ideology and Critical Practice
… concludes by putting forward the concept of discursive register to account for the ideological connections between elaborated discursive formations and grounded cultural forms.
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The discourse of New Zealand and French television advertising: a comparative approach
… environment. The identification of major discursive objects in the television advertising discourse of each country, the subsequent in-depth analysis of these discursive objects, together with insight into communicators’ thinking, showed that the French and the New Zealand television …
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'Scotland the Real':the representation of traditional music in Scottish tourism
… “real” has been a recurrent, although contested, discursive trope in such representations. In particular, the thesis demonstrates how paradigmatic shifts in conceptions of authenticity have wrought ideological changes on tourist-oriented depictions of Scottish folk music. The thesis identifies …
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Problems of representation and representativeness in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's fiction
… semiotics of the feminine in the conflicting discursive formations of two historical junctures of Kenyan resistance to colonial rule (the female circumcision debate and the Mau Mau insurgency) , in which 'woman' is mobilized as a metaphor for the Kenyan social matrix by Gikuyu …
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The Discursive Commons: The Establishment, "Outside Agitators," And "Communist Subversives" In Gadsden's Depression-Era Political Environment
… Using a theoretical construct called the discursive commons my analysis suggests how very particular ideas such as the trope of the outside agitator, and the idea of the communist radical, were used by the establishment to incite violence against United Rubber Workers union organizers who …
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Be-coming subjects: reclaiming a politics of location as radical political rhetoric
… construct alternative subjectivities and assert discursive agency.;More specifically, in this project I historicize and contextualize a politics of location as it developed within lesbian feminist interchanges during the 1980s and early 90s. This is a significant historical juncture for two …
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How is Citizenship Represented in Theory and Research in Social Education (TRSE)? A Content and Discourse Analysis
… a larger contextual frame. Additionally, the discursive formations that ultimately bind each discourse category across time are identified along with intertextual chains, interdiscursive attempts, and fields most commonly visited within each discourse category. This study sheds light on a …
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Africana Unmasked: Fugitive signs of Africa in Tate's British Collection
… concepts of Africa: described by Mudimbe as ‘discursive formations’ (after Foucault) and embodying postcolonial, transracial identities; in addition, I addressed the problematics of Tate’s British Art collection as a post-imperial brand of ‘cultural capital’. Unmasking fugitive Africana was a …
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State power and revolution : toward a strategic-relational analysis of the 1979 revolution in Iran
… and provide a periodisation of state (trans-)formations in Iran. It identifies two main periods: national state building (1848-1970) and expansion (1970-). By exploring the recontexualization and changing articulation of three discursive formations and taking note of different temporalities, …
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"Like Their Lives Depended On It": The Role of Comics in Subverting Anti-Arab and Islamophobic Discourse
… interpellate subjects regarding the Western discursive formation that conflates Arab, Muslim, and terrorist? What does the medium of comics afford creators in subverting dominant discourses that dehumanize Arabs and Muslims? I argue that as a hypermedium in which text and repeated images are …
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Curriculum reform and identity politics in Iranian school textbooks : national and global representations of "race", ethnicity, social class and gender
… velayat-e-faqih and colonialism. In their discursive formations, nationalist, anti-imperialist, Islamic, middle-class and Orientalist narratives construct a homogenized Iranian citizenry who has always been active in regional/global relations of power. The ideal citizen is represented …
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Project Camelot and Military Sponsorship of Social Science Research: A Critical Discourse Analysis
… the work of Foucault, to explicate some of the discursive objects, subjects, and formations underlying Camelot, to show how this discourse works to shape and constrain social scientists' understanding of (and the nature of their involvement in) this military-direct work, and to trace discursive …
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Displaced romanticism: searching for the self in J.M.Coetzee's autobiographical fiction
… that being derives its co-ordinates from the discursive formations - ideological, socio-historical, philosophical, linguistic - that provide the structure of meaning for self-expression in writing. I introduce my argument by situating Coetzee's work according to a post-structuralist critical …
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