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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Discursive formation"”.
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Horace Kallen Confronts America: Jewish Identity in Discursive Formation
… Horace Meyer Kallen (1882-1974) explores the discursive fields from which American Jewish modernity developed. Through a close analysis of Kallen's writings and relationships, of his engagement with print culture, and of his understanding of science and scientific culture, I describe one …
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The Domestic Worker in Latinx Fiction: The Discursive Formation of Latinidad
… careful consideration of the novel as a transformational tool, an analysis of the role of the writer as an authority over certain stories, and the ability of fiction to morph and change perception and political reality in the world at large. Finally, we consider whether latinidad can exist …
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Writing ethnicity on the Internet : communicative practices of the Ukrainian virtual community
… thesis examines the process of ethnic identity formation through computer-mediated communication. In so doing, it inquires into the relationship between ethnicity and computer technology. It explores the ways in which ethnicity is expressed and articulated through the writing practice of …
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The Citizen-Soldier in the American Imagination: Traces of the Myths of World War II in the "Army Strong" Recruitment Campaign
… citizen-soldier functions as an individualized discursive formation with specific rules of formation. I contextualize the construction of this individualized discursive formation within the historical era of World War II, and show how it excludes in direct contradiction to the ideals of civic …
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International politics and construction of climate security by small island developing states: Maldives and Samoa form broader meanings of security
… Small Island Developing States' (SIDS) discursive formation of national and foreign policy narratives on climate change as a security concern. It recognises SIDS have played an important role in promoting comprehensive approaches to climate security at the United Nations Security Council …
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Will the "fight" ever end? : a critical reading of the metaphors and discourses that construct HIV/AIDS in an African context
… particular attention to the role of metaphor in discursive formation, I have found that military metaphors, usually used in conjunction with biomedical discourses, continue to dominate what is said about HIV/AIDS. However, the use of military metaphors to conceptualise HIV/AIDS contributes to …
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George W. Bush, September 11th and the rise of the Freedom Agenda in US-Middle East relations: a Constructivist Institutionalist approach
… the aftermath of the “crisis”, and how this laid discursive tracks for the evolution of the Freedom Agenda. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the Bush administration appropriated and articulated multiple discourses into a distinctive ideological-discursive formation, which in turn, sedimented …
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Whiteness and the Movement of Signification: Toward a Deconstruction of Ontologies of Absolute Difference
… that whiteness needs to be understood as a discursive formation operating within a movement of signification. Deconstruction allows for an understanding of how whiteness arises out of a process of constructing meaning. This thesis uses four novels as case studies: Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim, …
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Distorted Security Discourses. The ROK’s Securitisation of the Korean Nuclear Crisis, 2003–2013
… the distorted security discourses by applying a ‘discursive chasm’ as a preliminary concept, which indicates a discursive structure that fundamentally impedes the performance of securitising actors’ articulation, and that distorts the discursive formation (securitisation processes). The chasms …
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Stepping over the threshold of time: The Brezhnev era and the rise of the heritage temporality (1964-1982)
… for the emergence of heritage, understood as a discursive formation, in any given society. Taking as its case study the example of the Brezhnev-era Soviet Union, the study examines the relationship between changing notions of time and the rise of a sensibility for heritage preservation in the …
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White talk : white South Africans and the strategic management of diasporic whiteness
… the thesis traces the pervasive and resilient discursive formation that it calls white talk: a resistant and flexible set of ideologically-charged discursive strategies which attempt to perpetuate privilege into the new dispensation while paying careful attention to self-presentation. While the …
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GHOSTS BEYOND OUR REALM A neo-abolitionist analvsis of prisoner human rights and prison officer occupational culture
… within what Foucault (1972) has called a "discursive formation": that is, the complex interrelationship between penology, law, penal policy, and occupational culture. Utilising a neoabolitionist normative framework, the legitimacy of the current meanings of prisoner human rights are …
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Reality Bites? The Cultural Politics of Generation X and Youthful White Masculinities in Sport and Popular Culture in 1990s America
… by, and constitutive of, the Generation X discursive formation of this era. In particular, I examine the images of white masculinity produced within media representations of American tennis star, Andre Agassi, a 1997 Sports Illustrated cover story, ""Whatever happened to the white …
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The discourse of cultural leadership.
… the evolution of cultural leadership as a discursive formation in these contexts. It traces the short history of the term itself and situates it within longer trajectories of cultural policy. Through critical discourse analysis the research questions the relationship between cultural …
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Commodifying urban space : the case of branded housing projects in Istanbul, Turkey
… of urban space, together with analysing discursive formation and development processes of this phenomenon to investigate enabling mechanisms for this commodification. As a result, the research proposes the concept of hyper-commodification of urban space to explain multi-layered deepening …
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Reframing (im)maturity : interrogating representations of the transition to adulthood in contemporary American film and television
… understandings of individual psychosocial formation. This thesis argues that adolescence, and consequently the subject position of the adolescent, should be understood as an assemblage of a wide array of practices employed in the management and regulation of a specific population. …
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The construction of "hegemony" in selected nuclear nonproliferation "regime" literature
… journals. They tend to reproduce a particular discursive formation: that of a constructed U.S. dominance, or hegemony, regarding the formation (Nye), boundaries and elements (Nye and Smith), and maintenance (Nye and Smith) of the nuclear nonproliferation 'regime' (hereafter NNPR). The role of …
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The construction of "hegemony" in selected nuclear nonproliferation "regime" literature
… journals. They tend to reproduce a particular discursive formation: that of a constructed U.S. dominance, or hegemony, regarding the formation (Nye), boundaries and elements (Nye and Smith), and maintenance (Nye and Smith) of the nuclear nonproliferation 'regime' (hereafter NNPR). The role of …
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Crisis Thought
… discourse. Specifically, crisis thought is a discursive formation, a concept used loosely here to refer to an assemblage of signs such as anxiety or fear that evoke or invoke similar, but inaccurate connotations as crisis in political and everyday usage. The general question this study …
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The PRC's Official Discourse on Mongolia since 1990
… of such changes and discrepancies within the discursive formation regarding Mongolia, and to do so from the perspective of the developments found in the more dominant, all-embracing discourse on Chinese/Zhonghua nation that have gained strength in the PRC throughout the 1990s. The thesis …
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