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Showing 1 to 20 of 110 for “"Embodied experience"”.
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The embodied experience of women who suffered from heart attacks: an existential view
… is to gain a deeper understanding of the embodied experience of women who suffered from heart attacks. The heart attack is primarily seen as a medical concern and is treated on that basis without giving significant attention to the person’s lived experience. Recently, researchers have …
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FAMILIES DESIGNED THROUGH ART: EXPLORING EMBODIED EXPERIENCE AND CONCEPTION DISCLOSURE BASED ON SEXUAL IDENTITY
… and quantitative techniques to examine parents’ experience undergoing fertility treatment as well as conception disclosure. My research has two overall research objectives: first, to explore and analyze variations in the experience of fertility treatment process based on sexual identity; second, …
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Exploring female art-making through reflective practice: A multi-dimensional cultural, spiritual and embodied experience
… of the many elements and influences of lived experience that are present in acts of art-making. Reflective practice in art-making adds the intentional and purposive act of reflective learning to the experience of art-making. In an academic context the challenge arises for a researcher to …
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Grounding in groundlessness, being the change: an existential phenomenological exploration into the embodied experience of postmenopause
… to infertility, postmenopause is a dynamic, embodied experience that is harder to ignore than many signs of ageing. While contemporary research largely focuses on perimenopausal and menopausal symptomology, postmenopause receives less attention, despite lasting around a third of our lives for …
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Womanhood 'under terror': an investigation into the embodied experience of Jewish-Israeli women living in a protracted conflict zone
This thesis constructs femininity within secular Jewish-Israeli socio-culture and considers the influence of 'living under terror' on models of womanhood within this culture. It is my contention that as a Western affiliated culture, Jewish-Israeli mainstream culture tends to deploy its women to …
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Compassion in organizations: sensemaking and embodied experience in emergent relational capability. A phenomenological study in South African human service organizations
… environment. Given these limitations, agents may experience personal distress limiting the capacity for compassion. This study examines agent capacities required for compassion capability in South African human service organizations. The research applies the ontological lens of enaction, an …
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Subjectivity and Embodied Experiences of Time in Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction and Film
… (2002)-- to demonstrate their engagement with embodied experience. This study argues that subjective experience is inseparable from the process of thinking through and with the body. This focus on embodiment, I argue, often gives way to a privileging of present-time experience, even within …
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Embodiment and the senses in travelogue filmmaking
… presents an analysis of the representation of embodied experience in the travelogue film genre. It reflects upon the embodied and synaesthesic nature of the cinematic experience by tracing a shift in travelogue filmmaking from the ocular realism characteristic of early travelogue films to the …
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Giving ground : a personal account of voice, movement and femininity in Texas
… In my thesis report I attempt to lay out my embodied experience of living here and how this intersects with phenomenology and Butler’s theory of the displaced feminine, whilst describing some of the work I have made in response to these experiences. I will talk about, body, voice, ground, …
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Embodying Technology: A Hermeneutic Inquiry into Corporeality and Identity as Manifested in a Case of Strap-On Dildo Use
… object to organ" as Michael gradually comes to experience the dildo as a part of his own body. He also experiences a shift in his gendered and sexual identity, discovering that the dildo is neither a prosthetic penis nor a medical device, but a post-gendered object subject to playful …
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Feeling nature: naturism, camping, environment and the body in Britain, 1920-1960
… and immediate post-war period, debates about the embodied experience of naturists and campers and, in turn, the ways in which Nature was represented within their reflexive accounts. In working through issues of sensuality, self, body culture and morality, the thesis contributes to ongoing …
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Ascend Physical Rehabilitation
… daylighting, and courtyard spaces can shape an embodied experience that fosters both physical recovery and mental well-being. Through this lens, the project proposes a design for a long-term physical therapy center, addressing the complex relationship between patients and their built …
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The Multidimensional Depth of the Image: Body-Environment-Artefact (A philosophical reflection for graphic design)
… how visual materials ‘come to mean’ within the experience of an embodied subject coupled to an affective environment. This thesis proposes an ontology of images that is emergent as a part of what, within the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty, is describes as a mind-body-world system through which …
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The form of possibilities : the body remembered and remembering in the built environment
… the imaginative process of Ideokinesis, as an embodied and performed methodology, where my work is in direct dialogue with a unique system of movement and postural training developed by Mabel Todd, Barbara Clark, and Lulu Sweigard. Its functioning is not with ‘actual’ movement but with virtual …
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Occupying a space in-between: a video art research practice
… notion of a space in-between that arises from embodied experience of illness, loss, anxiety and fear. This leads to a distinctive shift in the research, which has evolved over two distinct time periods, and in turn engages the transient, ephemeral and subjective nature of knowing. My key …
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Sensing the Vexation: an Embodied Reading of the Book of Job
… with Job’s suffering body and the reader’s own embodied experience. Challenging foundational assumptions of biblical criticism, such as the dualisms of subject/object, subjectivity/objectivity, and corporeality/language, I claim that the reader is an embodied subject whose embodiment …
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A low hum, a strong gale
… support of my thesis exhibition: delving into my embodied experience of invisible illness and internalized ableism as it relates to disability justice and crip theory. The body of work aims to reconstruct my practice in order to best accommodate my own access needs. "A low hum, a strong gale" …
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Affect, Literature and the Medical Encounter
… physicians in the amelioration of the illness experience. Affect theory, especially as described by Massumi, Stern, Sointu, Damasio and Frank, employs the concepts of "the virtual", embodiment, and "vitality" in examining the dynamics, and enhanced potential for healing, of the clinical …
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Virtuosic Performance: Rearticulating Disability in the Works of Lisa Bufano, Ron Athey, and Martin O'Brien
… operates in the spaces between representation, embodied experience, and material traces of the diseased or disabled body. Using Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s model of affective, relational bodies, this thesis analyzes Ron Athey’s <i>Deliverance</i> and <i>Self-Obliteration</i> cycle, Lisa …
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EXPERIENCING THE SACRED: A phenomenological exploration of architecture as sentient space
… of sacredness in architecture comes from lived, embodied experience, rather than the presence of religious symbols or functions. Utilizing phenomenological thinkers such as Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard, Pallasmaa, and Norberg-Schulz, this thesis investigates how spatial atmosphere, sensory …
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