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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Dominant Narrative"”.
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Artists for Humanity's Sake: An Ameliorative Project Concerning Artists and the Existentialist Struggle Against the Dominant Narrative
Existentialist ethics tell us that we as individuals cannot be truly liberated until all are. This means that we must pursue a more just world for all. Interestingly enough, as we look at the evidences of the ways in which cultural violence have been used historically and today as a means to …
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What lies beneath: probing the cultural depths of a nature conservation conflict in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland
… how a social-ecological system responds to the dominant narrative of conservation in the marine policy environment.<br/>This thesis explores the cultural depths of a conflict between the local community and the Scottish Government around the creation of two marine Special Areas of Conservation …
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"Alive & Kicking": Queer Cultural Memory of Toronto's Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement Through Photographs of Violence and Protest in The Body Politic (1971-1987)
… memories; the texts communicate the textual metanarrative (dominant narrative of the GLLM), while the photographs show the visual narrative. Both comprise the movement’s collective memory. To analyze these photographs, this thesis establishes a visual methodology based on techniques in cultural …
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Critical Literacy in Literature Instruction: Canonical vs. Young Adult Literature
… and physically- and mentally-abled authors and narratives. To counter the dominant narrative, educators can and should adapt a pedagogical approach to contemporary literature instruction that promotes critical literacy with paired canonical and young adult literature text sets and essential …
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The gloaming : narrative in contemporary painting
… who re-imagined the role of pre-modernist narrative painting and re-asserted it in contemporary practice. Contemporary narrative painting occupies a different role from that of its pre-modernist predecessors, such as Romantic painting. It also occupies a different role in relation to …
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Law, the American Corporation, and Society
… about the corporation came to become part of the dominant narrative about the corporation within the American academic context. The first presumption is that the American contractarian theory of the corporation most accurately frames an understanding of the corporation. This presumption underpins …
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Sound and Image: Experimental Music and the Popular Horror Film (1960 to the present day)
… that challenge the overall applicability of the dominant narrative-based theoretical framework. Recent scholarship suggests that a proper theoretical comprehension of horror film music's primary function requires a refocusing of the hermeneutic emphasis upon dimensions of the cinematic (or …
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Distributed: Co-producing Narratives of Belonging in Nairobi
The dominant narrative in Kenya, spanning the realms of political rhetoric, museum exhibition practice and everyday encounters, is that ethnicity is the defining characteristic of an individual. This reduced, and fundamentally politicised, notion of ethnicity disregards the extent to which …
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A Narrative Exploration of 'Unhealthy' Attitudes Towards 'Healthy' Eating.
This qualitative research study employed a narrative method, in order to explore how individuals who consider themselves to have an ‘unhealthy’ approach to ‘healthy’ eating make sense of this experience through the stories they tell. Narrative interviews were undertaken with four research …
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Boipatong : the politics of a massacre and the South African transition
… the agency of certain political actors, a dominant narrative of the Boipatong massacre arose. However, the truths this narrative posited remain contested and contentious.
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Arts space under (narrative) construction.
… notions of spatial practices. By combining a narrative research approach for data analysis with an arts-based research text, this communications case study demonstrates the conscription of artists as characters in the dominant narrative of urban gentrification and the influences limiting their …
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Their throats were constricted: nationalism, history, and memorials in Nana Rao Park
… of memorials that work to reinforce certain narratives. Today, the memorials tell the story of the 1857 Rebellion through the lens of Indian nationalism. Before Indian Independence in 1947, however, the park operated as a space to ideologically reinforce British imperialism. Each iteration of …
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White Power and Profit in New England School Desegregation, 1964–1972
… than 1,000 archival sources to challenge the dominant narrative portraying segregation as a Southern issue and desegregation as inherently racially progressive. I introduce the concept of “extractive inclusion” to describe how Black and Indigenous children were admitted into institutions that …
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The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts
… narrator trying to break free from "dominant narrative." In this way, my work aims to challenge the nature of narrative itself. Other pieces such as, "Taino Instructions for Communicating with Dead Mothers," re-purpose historical figures into present day in order to create a mythic …
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Anarchist Strategy and Visual Rhetoric in Brazil, 1970: The Living Theatre as “The People in the Street”
The dominant narrative of the Living Theatre, an anarchist-pacifist, activist performance group, situates the company within a historical framework of the "New Left". Implications of this strategy are identified and critiqued. Both due to the simplification of historical time periods between the …
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Anticorruption Television Dramas: Between Propaganda and Popular Culture in Globalizing China
… degree of openness for negotiation. Although the dominant narrative about corruption is provided by the official discourse, these drama serials are much more complicated narratives that engage a variety of alternative discourses about corruption. Through textual analyses and audience interviews, I …
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Perpetual Shuttling: An Investigation into Design for Chinese Diasporic Identities in Negotiation
… are challenged and problematized. Although the dominant narrative in Western culture is Anglo-Saxon, the increasingly multicultural nature of Canadian society gives rise to a continual mapping of diverse cultures and identities. Historically, the Chinese Canadian diaspora was essentialized and …
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Shadowing practices: Ethnographic accounts of private eyes as entrepreneurs
… remain primarily descriptive yet linked to dominant contemporary discourses. Consequently, an overview of dominant narrative themes in popular and academic discourses about private investigating and entrepreneurship are included. Based on the framework of this methodology, dominant narrative …
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Stories of Disablement and Displacement - Experiences of Syrian Refugees and their Families: A Qualitative Narrative Research Inquiry
… and practices (Atkinson, 1998; Greenhalg, 2016). Narrative research allows participants to take back their own stories by starting with ‘firstly’. Dominant groups have often appropriated the telling of stories, particularly of those who are vulnerable and marginalized (Dossa, 2013). I interviewed …
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Counter-Narratives of Palestinian-American Youth: Resistance, Resilience and Transnational Identity
… identity. Through the collection of counter-narratives, this research works to disrupt the Islamophobic dominant narrative that pervades the educational system and other institutions as well as the wider society in the United States.</p> <p>The findings of this research include the …
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