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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Identity Shifts"”.
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Social identity shifts across nationality and race in response to socio-political events
Two studies investigated the idea of social identity dynamicism, that social identity is flexible, context dependent, and strategic, at the intersection of nationality and race in the United States. In Study 1, following exposure to a stimulus intended to induce feelings of vicarious shame in the …
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Identity Shifts Among Cis- and Trans- Females Who Sell Sex on the Streets of New York City
<p>The Deviant Identity Shift (DIS) Model that is introduced in this dissertation provides a framework for making sense of how sex workers come to understand their own place in the world, including the experiences of violence that often accompany their lives, and it shifts our attention away from …
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Mothers Making Meaning: An Exploration of Contemporary Ritual Practices Surrounding Childbirth
… American women undergo one of the most intense identity shifts of their lives—becoming a mother—without prescribed ritual resources to navigate that transition. Lacking a common cultural script to follow, these women are inventing their own rites of passage, drawing from various times, places, …
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How professional nurses’ experiences and explanations of traumatic stress exposure influence nursing practice in the Western Cape
… nursing practice through embodied responses, identity shifts, relational-spatial strategies of self-protection as well as forms of resistance to unethical care through practice adaptations and revaluing of the nursing lens. Post-trauma sense-making and insights increased social and …
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Mothers’ living experience of relationship breakdown and divorce: a heuristic inquiry
… multiple traumas vortex, 2) dynamic self-identity processes, 3) intrapsychic conflict and body-mind split,4) interpersonal conflicts as trauma re-enactment, 5) multiple transitions and identity shifts, 6) struggles with sex and sexuality as trauma re-enactment, 7) unresolved loss and …
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Strong voices : a qualitative embedded single case study in Wisconsin examining the influence of youth participatory action research on students’ developmental assets.
… in YPAR empowered students, fostered positive identity shifts, gave students access to relational support and high expectations, increased student motivation and engagement, fostered greater personal responsibility and empathy, and enhanced students’ communication skills. While participants …
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Empire, Province, and Power: Chorbadzhi (Çorbacı) Networks in the Ottoman Empire, 1790s-1860s
… and clerical networks, tax collection practices, identity shifts, and power negotiations with the Ottoman state that transgressed the assumed boundaries of the Millet system. Providing microhistories of individual Christian provincial actors like chorbadzhis, this dissertation offers an example of …
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"I am Not a Hijra": Transgender Women Claiming Citizenship in South India
… South contexts (Richardson 2017). While the identity rubric of transgender is increasingly adopted by individuals in the global South, there is limited research about the empowering and disempowering effects of these identity shifts (Dutta & Roy 2014: 498). By analyzing transwomen’s …
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Negotiating differences in mixed marriages - Christians and Muslims in Greece
… and awakenings to mixedness and present identity shifts and exchanges, negotiations and practices during the family formation process. Novel data on the everyday and festive, religious and social practices of mixed and homogamous families shed light on how mixed couples put their …
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Transforming knowledge, crossing boundaries: exploring educational knowledge brokering
… dynamics of brokering interactions, including identity shifts, systems thinking, and the critical transgressions that happen at the intersection of research and practice. Conclusion: This thesis underscores the complexity and potential of educational knowledge brokering processes, advocating …
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From ‘did it work?’ to ‘what did it do?’: Rethinking financial literacy education impact through the narratives of fisherwomen on the Amazonian coast of Brazil.
… relational, and culturally situated outcomes in identity, social practice, and modes of talk, asking what complex, non‑obvious outcomes can be attributed to the education programme and how shifts in dialogue, self‑perception, and community dynamics reflect deeper transformations. Third, through …