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Showing 1 to 20 of 113 for “"Everyday practices"”.
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Territories of belonging: Citizenship and everyday practices of the state in Bodoland
… in Northeast India. I look primarily at the everyday practices of the state in an ethnically diverse region with a history of separatism, armed militant struggle, and violence between different ethnic groups. My understanding of citizenship is developed in the backdrop of Assam’s contemporary …
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"""Writing teachers must write"": tracing trajectories of teacher participation across professional and everyday practices"
… teachers’ participation in out-of-school writing practices shapes their writing instruction. To date, most research on teacher practice has been limited to institutional settings like classrooms, pre-service education settings, and professional development sites. This dissertation broadens the …
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A different place in the making: the everyday practices of rural migrants in Chinese urban villages
… to display the place-making process through the everyday practices of the rural migrants in their urban settlements and to examine the relationship between this place-making process and the formation of the migratory identity in contemporary Chinese urban society. Based on long-term participative …
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'THE LOCAL' IN THE HUMANITARIAN PSYCHE: HOW EMOTIONS OF HUMANITARIAN WORKERS MEDIATE THE EVERYDAY PRACTICES OF PARTICIPATION
… studying IR through the study of international practices – patterns of behavior endowed with social meaning. However, the same pattern of behavior may be endowed with different meanings by different actors, thereby altering the nature of the practice. Emotions can explain how practices become …
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Everyday practices and Shariʿah interpretations: the dynamics of Shariʿah interpretations in the life of Muslims in Belgium
… the dynamics of Shariʿah interpretations in the everyday lives of Belgian Muslims? I deal with this question in five main empirical data-driven chapters. This is the first comprehensive thesis on Muslims in Belgium that adds a new dimension to the existing theoretical literature on Shariʿah by …
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Managing mobility in practice : empirical studies of the everyday practices and technology use of film and television freelancers
… to this endeavour by exploring the mobile practices and technology use of a type of mobile worker little considered within the literature: film and television freelancers. The thesis expands current understandings of mobile people and their practices by examining the freelancers’: • mobile …
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Constellations of Elsewheres: Queer and Trans* Youth Lives in Suburban Toronto
… infrastructure of suburban Toronto, how their everyday practices of dwelling shift the possibilities that this infrastructure affords, and how they build grassroots social infrastructure in Toronto’s suburban elsewheres. To explore these everyday practices, this research employs go-along …
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Greener pastures of home: an ethnographic study on everyday sustainable practices in Nyanga, Cape Town
… emerging sense that an appreciation of ordinary, everyday practices at the level of the community is important for developing a nuanced understanding of what sustainability might be in Southern cities. There is agreement on the need to pay attention to social and cultural practices in urban …
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The Intersection of Schools and Families: Unpacking the Discourse on Family Involvement in Early Schooling
… partnerships, and dilemmas encountered in their everyday practices of parent involvement.
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Policing Children in Street Situations in São Paulo, Brazil: Relations of Violence and Exclusion in the City
… the ways these connections are shaped by everyday practices within participant’s life contexts. The fieldwork took place in the city centre of São Paulo city, Brazil, where the concentration of children in street situations is at a historic high. The increase of this population coupled …
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Everyday I'm Hustlin? Hiphop Rhetorics and the Art of Makin? Do
… centering non-written texts, non-linearity, everyday practices, and embodiment. It looks at how hiphop produces resistance, survival, agency, and pleasure through everyday practices and rhetorical traditions based in African, Latino/a, and Indigenous ways of knowing. Rooted in sociopolitical …
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Habitar o Patrimônio: práticas cotidianas e disputas na preservação dos bens edificados
… preservation of built cultural heritage and the everyday practices of residents in listed cities, having as its empirical field the city of Goiás (GO). It seeks to understand how the ordinary experiences of inhabiting, circulating and intervening in listed buildings for improvements in their use, …
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An Exploration of Practice Surrounding Student Writing in the Disciplines in UK Higher Education from the Perspectives of Academic Teachers
… literacies in the UK context by exploring the practices of subject-based academic teachers around student writing through the lens of teachers’ experiences. Empirical work has yielded a great deal of insight in recent years into students’ experience of writing in higher education; less …
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Building Stories: Critical Geography of Architecture and the Study of Everyday Practice in Detroit, Michigan
… of non-representational theories, or those everyday practices that provide evidence not just of what symbolic meaning one may assign to a space, but rather what that space does—how it is enacted through everyday practice. This exploration provided Lees with another way to think about the …
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Amerikan dreams: Dialogues with white supremacists
… our political and economic institutions, everyday practices and unconscious (Ansley 1997; Feagin and Vera 1995; Kovel 1970; Fanon 1967).
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Dead cars in Westall: a narrative exploration of multicultural migrancy, postcolonial sexuality and commodity culture in cosmopolitan Melbourne
… of interlocking narratives, examining the everyday practices of multicultural migrancy, postcolonial sexuality and commodity culture in the cosmopolitan global/local nexus of Melbourne. These narratives are supported by postmodern and poststructuralist theoretical underpinnings pertaining …
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Everyday citizenship: people, place and politics in Philippi
… Philippi, where areas of Neoliberal planning practices remain as exclusionary imaginaries of city and citizenship that promote collective amnesia (Miraftab, 2009). Insurgent planning scholarship calls for collective memory and looks to liberating planning imaginaries and histories of …
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Enhancing early mathematical professional learning with fully online learning communities (FOLC) and collaborative action research
… competence concerning processes congruent with everyday practices. Findings suggest CAR as a potential mechanism for RECE professional learning as it provides opportunities to connect with others on issues related to one’s practice. Additionally, FOLC environments, emphasizing equitable, …
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Marginalized Multiplicities: The Journeys of Chicana/Latina Lesbian and Bisexual High School Students
… and research that implement transformative practices in school communities and begin the journey to deepen an intersectional discussions on how multiple layers of identity (sexual identity, gender, race and class) exist in everyday practices and routines in school communities.
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Mestizaje Ideology as Color-Blind Racism: Students' discourses of colorism and racism in Mexico
… <p>embedded in political, cultural and economic practices; and therefore limits democratic</p> <p>and inclusive practices for all. Working with high school and college students, this study</p> <p>will uncover students' experiences with colorism and racism by focusing on the ways in</p> <p>which …
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