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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Identity Studies"”.
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Queer Intersectionality: Queering the Limits of Identity Studies in Critical Intercultural Communication Research
… in how individuals maneuver their/our concurrent identity/ies as oppressor and oppressed. I argue that this simultaneous identity is a holistic embodiment that demands complex maneuvering and that requires our vigilant attention. In addition, I am interested in the critical potential of such …
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Chromatin accessibility informs cell identity: studies in silico, in vitro, and in vivo
… provides key regulation in defining cell identity as it exhibits control over the ability of transcription factors and transcriptional machinery to bind to regulatory elements and initiate changes to gene expression. In this thesis I elaborate on the intricate relationships between genome …
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Multicultural social intervention and nation-building in South Africa : the role of Islamic counselling and psychotherapy
… areas of enquiry like Islam, diversity and identity studies, religio-cultural healing, gender studies, democracy, and human and social transformation.
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VIRGIN POLITICS: AN IDEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF "VIRGINITY" IN THE EGYTPIAN VIRGINTY TESTS
… for social conflict theory, technology, and identity studies.
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Investigating the Intersection of Chinese and Euro-American Healthcare Practices in Nevada from 1860-1930
… Drawing upon theories in material culture and identity studies, this research explores several possible reasons for Chinese consumption of Euro-American medicines.Examination of curated collections of Chinese medicine led to the creation of a visual guide which facilitated the identification …
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Bodies, Identities and Behavioral Choices: How Focusing On the Contextual Factors that Contribute to Swazi University Students' Sex-Related Decisions Could Enhance On-Campus HIC/AIDS Campaigns
… HIV/AIDS epidemic. In this dissertation, I identity and describe social contextual factors that contribute to Swaziland's university and college students' decisions to engage in sex without a condom and to participate in multiple concurrent partnerships. I argue that these findings, based on …
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Changing gender narratives using inclusive design
… which holds together our sense of social identity. Studies show that human brains use correspondence bias - the purported basis of gender stereotypes - to group people and thereby assume behavioral traits based on their activities. This thesis aims to understand whether gender-inclusive …
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‘Cyprus is the Country of Heroes, Not of Homosexuals’: Sexuality, Gender and Nationhood in Cyprus
… discourses of nationhood and national identity as well as the processes, norms, institutions and mechanisms of Europeanization, affect local approaches to the relationship between national identity, gender and sexuality. -- Chronologically, the thesis covers the period between the early …
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The Women of Little Paris: Women's Fashion in Interwar Bucharest 1919-1939
… disciplinary discourse analysis, using fashion studies and cultural, urban, gender, media, literary, identity studies, and semiotics. The Literature Review outlines the context of the Romanian metropolitan and urban cultures within my thematic and theoretical framework. The following chapters …
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Media and Identity in Wartime Donbas, 2014-2017
… of these discourses in the construction of group identity. Drawing on nationalism studies, identity studies and social psychology, I trace how authorities and media actors in these two unrecognised territories sought to build legal legitimacy and public support, and to shape collective identity …
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Visual Power and Elite Subjectivity in Private Portraiture from Imperial Greece
… concerns but, by virtue of its contribution to identity-studies, to questions of politics and class. The manifold expressions of local identities and the macro-identity of imperial Hellenism are mutually supportive in highlighting the problem of subjectivity and visual power in Roman Greece. …
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Constituting Modern Matron: exploring role, identity and action in an English NHS Trust
… managers, patients and the public. Identity is a useful analytic frame for exploring professional role dynamics and has pertinence for studies of health care professionals as they negotiate these changes. This study considers professional identity as constructed through the enactment …
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Former Major League Baseball (MLB) players and athletic identity
… world at their sport. For these men, athletic identity is the dominating force in their lives, yet all MLB players must eventually retire from the sport that has defined their lives for so long. Transition into retirement is difficult for players who have never considered a life without playing …
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A Littoral Place: Loss and Environment in Contemporary Newfoundland Fiction
… among loss, environment, and Newfoundland identity. Studies of Newfoundland literature often perform environmentally deterministic readings, or readings that characterize Newfoundland as a nostalgic and pathological culture fixated on loss and disaster. Newfoundlanders are too frequently …
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Religiosity and Ethnic Identity as Predictors of Identity Orientation Among African American and Caucasian American Women
… on the role of religion and ethnicity in the identity orientation of women has been largely neglected in psychology for many years. While previous identity studies have attempted to examine a range of variables as it relates to the general population, how women specifically experience identity …
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New narratologies: an examination of the interplay between life, land, and story
… consideration in the field of Narratology studies. This thesis illustrates how land and geography play a role in the maintenance of traditional culture and narratives in the rural communities of DeKalb and Neshoba counties in Mississippi. The first chapter argues that memory through story …
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Itakuchi: Echoes from the Twilight House
Itakuchi, the cadejo, is no phantom or myth. It is an echo Of both history and culture Of the personal and traditional Of memory and sound Of exile and belonging Of language and silence Of withering and bloom Wandering the hueco, the space between–The Twilight House–what was and what might be. …