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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Discursive landscape"”.
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The Voices of Victimhood and Survivorship
… survivorship prove challengingly intangible in a discursive landscape of denial, appropriation, invalidation, and dismissal. The Voices of Victimhood and Survivorship takes the firsthand testaments of selected victims and survivors of sexual violence and analyzes how these cases reflect the …
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‘Cyprus is the Country of Heroes, Not of Homosexuals’: Sexuality, Gender and Nationhood in Cyprus
… studies, the thesis argues that the Cypriot discursive landscape both restricts and enables the negotiation and reconfiguration of identity-formation processes. Namely, although nationalistic, androcentric, patriarchical and heterocentric essentialisms continue to permeate the Cypriot …
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Reconstructing the War in Iraq: Post-9/11 American War Fiction in Dialogue with Official-Media Discourse
… into the communication context, inhibiting the “discursive closure” (to quote Stanley Deetz) threatened by the unchecked perpetuation of prominent Iraq War narratives. At times directly and at others obliquely, the fictional narratives engage, interrogate, and critique official-media …
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Political theologies in late colonial Buganda
… explore local variance within Buganda’s shifting discursive landscape throughout the longue durée. Second, it is used to investigate the ways that disparate actors and their respective communities used sacred text, theology and religious experience differently to reshape local discourse and to …
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Kantian Relationality: A Reinterpretation of the Kantian Self through Feminist and Intersectional Discourses
This thesis examines the relationship of ‘remote discursive precursorship’ between feminist writing on selfhood and concepts relating to selfhood from the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). Apart from providing a rereading of the Kantian subject from a feminist perspective, its aim is to …
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Vulnerability and identity negotiation in childbirth: a narrative approach
… of women’s experiences of subjectivity in the discursive landscape of birth, while uncovering previously unacknowledged sites of resistance. The linguistic restrictions, sustained by the neoliberal control mechanisms on society and the self, act to shape the reality, feelings and expressions of …
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Architectural Storywork as a discursive design practice: on self-determined Indigeneity, architectural autonomy, and the transmission of knowledge through architectural discourses in Bali, Indonesia
… the co-creation and implementation of a discursive, decolonial design practice with the Pusat Kegiatan Perempuan (PKP) community as they begin to re-design their Community Centre in rural Bali, Indonesia. This is timely, as architectural scholars call on the discipline to develop new …