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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"Genealogies"”.
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The Genealogies of 1 Chronicles 1-9
Recent breakthroughs in the study of genealogies have prompted this new study based on 1 Chronicles 1-9. Although the following discourse is by no means a final answer, it should be viewed rather as a step in the right direction.
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Quantum Regimes: Genealogies of Virtual Matter and Healing the New Age Body
<p>This dissertation makes sense of New Age healing practices and the spiritual currents undergirding the increasingly popular landscape of alternative healthcare. To do so, it argues, we must first determine its material ontology – the conception of materiality that shapes how New Agers understand …
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Genealogies of the Postcolonial State: Insurgency, Emergency, and Democracy in Sri Lanka
This dissertation comprises an investigation into the conditions and contemporary implications of an historical event, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) insurrection of 1971. At the broadest level, it revisits the insurrection and its aftermaths to reframe the contemporary question of emergency …
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Genealogies of the Citizen-Devotee: Popular Cinema, Religion and Politics in South India
This dissertation is a genealogical study of the intersections between popular cinema, popular religion and politics in South India. It proceeds with a particular focus on the discursive field of Telugu cinema as well as religion and politics in the state of Andhra Pradesh from roughly the 1950s to …
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Queer Genealogies in Transnational Barcelona Maria-Mercè Marçal, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Flavia Company
… in these authors’ fragmented, transnational genealogies. A queer bringing together of disparate fragments suggests how we might navigate difference in an increasingly entwined, yet ever more fractious, world in which notions of ‘pure’ or ‘simple’ origins are often violently at odds with …
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Genealogies and narratives of San authenticities the ?Khomani San land claim in the southern Kalahari
In this thesis, I examine the narratives of authenticity, the limits thereof, the potential interests served by these narratives, and the power relations involved in the promotion of an authentic San identity. I focus on four key areas to achieve this goal: the methodological issues involved in …
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Genealogies of Resistance to Incarceration: Abolition Politics within Deinstitutionalization and Anti-Prison Activism in the U.S.
<p>"Genealogies of resistance to incarceration: Abolition politics within de-institutionalization and anti- prison activism in the U.S." looks at two main sites in which abolition of "total institutions" is enacted. The first site is activism around penal and prison abolition. The second site is …
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Genealogies of feminism : leftist feminist subjectivity in the wake of the Islamic revival in contemporary Morocco
This dissertation is an ethnographic and genealogical study of leftist feminist subjectivity in the wake of the Islamic Revival in contemporary Morocco. It draws on two years (2004-2006) of field research amongst founding members of the Moroccan feminist movement whose activism emerged out of their …
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The context, purpose, and dissemination of legendary genealogies in northern England and Iceland c. 1120 – c. 1241
… and multidisciplinary study of legendary genealogies in the historical writing of northern England and Iceland c. 1120 – c. 1241. Historical writing was produced in abundance over this period in both areas and the frequent contact between England and Scandinavia, as well as shared use of …
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My name is Afrika: Setswana genealogies, trans-atlantic interlocutions, and NOW-time in Keorapetse Kgositsile's life and work
South African poet laureate Keorapetse Kgositsile lived in extraordinary times marked by extraordinary challenges and changes. Born in 1938, exactly a decade before the draconian apartheid regime came into power, his life and work emerge from the milieus of British colonial South Africa, apartheid …
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Examining the dynamic cascading of international norms through cluster genealogies. 1998 UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and Other Cases
… with an enhanced life-cycle model using cluster genealogies and the processes of replication and particularization. The reformulated framework is tested for robustness and feasibility using two preliminary cases – UNSC Resolution 1325 and the Chemical Weapons Convention. It is then used to …
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Can the Ummah speak? reexamining genealogies of Black Muslim Women within the Black freedom movement through the examples of Betty Shabazz and Clara Muhammad
<p>The thesis analyzes the legacies of Clara Muhammad and Betty Shabazz through their children, Imam W.D. Muhammad and Ilyasah Shabazz, and the impact they maintained through communal relationships. By utilizing secondary texts, audio, internal documents, and speeches, the project seeks to …
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On naturalistic saltation genealogies of content: an exploration of continuity & discontinuity in nonreductive diachronic explanations of content by Adam H. Schroeder supervised by University of Cape Town
… fitting this strategy Naturalistic Saltation Genealogies of Content. Despite the benefits this strategy affords in avoiding the perennial objections naturalisation projects face in relation to normativity, my aim is to show that it is susceptible to its own set of difficulties due to the …
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Race, gender and empire: transnational and transracial feminism in the first novels of Pauline Hopkins and Olive Schreiner
… on different spectrums of feminist literary genealogies despite writing during a similar time-frame and sharing converging feminist agendas. This thesis analyses The Story of an African Farm (1883), Schreiner’s first completed novel, alongside Hopkins’ first full-length novel, the romance …
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An ecosystem for the sentient object - Two new taxonomic models for New Zealand museums
… storing of collections by prioritising object-genealogies over museum nomenclature. The model realigns traditional museum systems to better fit and understand the needs of the cultural artefacts and objects in our care, allowing us to consider how object-genealogies can lead to a more logical …
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Ancestral Paths: Redefining local genetic ancestry and its inference with application to Europeans
… of methods that aim to reconstruct population genealogies from genetic variation data. Together with an understanding of how evolutionary processes alter genealogies, this has allowed inference of historical and ongoing processes in real world populations. The latest updates in these approaches …
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Variational Inference Using Approximate Likelihood Under the Coalescent With Recombination
… with the transition rates between local genealogies derived empirically by simulation. This derivation enables VICAR to work directly with three or four taxa and through a divide-and-conquer approach with more taxa. Using a simulated data set resembling a human-chimp-gorilla scenario, I …
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Tranny Muse
… personal, historical, and socio-cultural genealogies, functioning as both a record and an archive. As the speaker of these poems, I explore my life thus far: from growing up Mormon and coming out as gay and trans/nonbinary to performing in drag and finding new forms for home and community. …
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