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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Everyday encounters"”.
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Everyday Encounters With the Sacred: Artist, Action, and Image
… artists suggest there is meaning in the sacred encounters because they are not set apart from daily activities, but are embedded in everyday experiences. Through relationships, both with others in the community of like believers and with the images themselves, the artists experience an evolving …
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Racial Microaggression at Work: Implications for Caucasian and African-American Employees
… a form of subtle racism, which are short, quick, everyday encounters that send degrading messages to people of color. The affects of racial microaggression on psychological, physical, and occupational outcomes were examined for both Caucasian and African-American employees. The results of the …
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The Ethics of Occultic Communication: An Invocation of Joshua Gunn and Sissela Bok
… groups. Occultic rhetoric has its uses in everyday encounters, but the abuse of such manipulative strategies, especially by those in the academy and other positions of power and trust, calls for an ethical response. This dissertation submits occultic rhetoric to moral investigation by …
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Cliffhanger
… my work apart is the transformative impact of my everyday encounters, inspired by my 14 years of experience working at Trader Joe's. These encounters have led me to reflect on my profound connections with diverse communities. By delving into the hidden narratives of mundane materials encountered …
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Fragmented Self
… a constantly evolving individual, influencing my everyday encounters and choices. As in the Japanese tradition of Kintsugi, in Fragmented Self, I trace the gold lined cracks that unite my multitudinous selves into one in hopes of answering the question "What makes me who I am today?"
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Experiencing Everyday Prejudice of a Concealabe Stigma: Jews in a non-Jewish World
… in the literature acknowledge the importance of everyday reminders of difference or prejudice for women, racial minorities and ethnic groups (Swim, 2003). Jews with a long history as targets of stigma, prejudice and discrimination are an excellent example of a modern concealable stigma. Previous …
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Small-Scale Events and Everyday Multiculture in Finsbury Park
… the diverse spatial configurations and casual encounters in Finsbury Park act as stimuli for conviviality. It distinguishes specific park spaces where spatial characteristics such as edge conditions, the quality of the physical environment, and strategic placement conjointly influence …
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Distributed: Co-producing Narratives of Belonging in Nairobi
… 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 identities are mutable, context-dependent and in a state of …
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The roles of cultural values in landscape management: valuing the 'more-than-visual' in Highland Scotland
… with more subjective, emotional and embodied encounters with landscapes. This was then used to explore the potential and challenges of adopting cultural and more participative approaches to landscape management. After an initial analysis of the data gathered through the methods, this was then …
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The lived experience of final year student nurses of learning through reflective processes.
… arbitrary occurrences experienced in everyday encounters in the professional and personal worlds of the participants, which stimulate meaningful existential questions that, in turn, demand attention and drive the commitment to ongoing reflection. Engagement with authentic reflective …
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‘Both/and rather than either/or’: an insight into the real-life experiences of Asian/Irish youth in contemporary Irish society
… place during these multi-ethnic young people’s everyday social interactions, based on stories relayed by my children. Subsequently, this study is conducted to try to capture the processes and events that are part of the lived experiences of multi-ethnic Asian/Irish young people living in …
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Encounters & Spatial Controversies
… of structures, boundaries and rules. How such encounters unfold and are responded to and/or recounted – these questions lie at the heart of my work. The form of the work has varied. I have, for example, created posters, performances and a film. Some works have taken the form of insertions of …
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Arriving through Infrastructures: Berlin's institutional shelters for refugees 2015-2019
… ways the urban locations of infrastructure shape everyday encounters and the development of relationships between newcomers and the city. While infrastructures can provide the potential to find stability within the city for refugees to move on from becoming forcibly displaced, the thesis argues …
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Talking back: the dialogical identities of dyslexic students in the figured worlds of the university. A narrative enquiry
… they perceive they are offered in their everyday encounters with teaching staff and peers within educational contexts. The findings foreground the agency and improvisation of individuals of ‘talking back’ and ‘holding their own’ in challenging circumstances within the FWs of school and …
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Feeling difference: history, encounter and the affective life of a postcolonial neighbourhood
… to show how place history, personal identity and everyday encounters come to be co-constituted through affect. I argue that structures of feeling - overarching historical affects - and the feeling of structures - embodied experiences of historical affects and structures of difference, including …
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Incidental teacher<->student moments in an Aotearoa New Zealand secondary school: Entangled encounters with key competencies
… together into stories participants told of everyday encounters with students. In this inquiry the names of key competency categories were put in the background as the group focused their inquiry on the teacher’s values, knowledges and beliefs that were contributing to action in the moment. …
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The Ethics of Reading: Levinas and Gadamer on encountering the other in literature
… or remind us of this primordial encounter. Lived encounters with the other are structurally similar to and signify the encounter with the Other which in turn gives the everyday encounters their meaning. I combine this interpretation with Jean Baudrillard’s argument regarding representation in …
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‘I Need to Work to Be Legal, I Need to Be Legal to Work.’ Migrant Encounters, Haitian Women, and the Chilean State
… the capital of Chile, with a focus on their everyday encounters with Chilean state agents and private employers. It analyses the experiences of Haitian women as they navigate bureaucratic institutions and practices, negotiate their working conditions with employers and public defendants, …