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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Identity and belonging"”.
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Biking, Identity, and Belonging in Twin Cities Bike Shops
Systemic and cultural change is needed in bike shops for everyone to feel welcome. Even though cyclists may not spend much time in bike shops, these spaces can have a significant impact on the relationships a rider forms with their bike and with others in the community. Drawing from feminist and …
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Biking, Identity, and Belonging in Twin Cities Bike Shops
Systemic and cultural change is needed in bike shops for everyone to feel welcome. Even though cyclists may not spend much time in bike shops, these spaces can have a significant impact on the relationships a rider forms with their bike and with others in the community. Drawing from feminist and …
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Occupation, identity and belonging within community: experiences of mental health disability
… The relatedness of occupation to health and the concept of belonging requires further research and understanding within the discipline of Occupational Science and within the practice of Occupational Therapy. Methodology: Purposive sampling was employed to recruit three participants, from …
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Race, Identity, and Belonging in Early Zimbabwean Nationalism(s), 1957-1965
This thesis interrogates traditional understandings of race within Zimbabwean nationalism. It explores the interactions between socio-cultural identities and belonging in black African nationalist thinking and politics, and focuses on the formative decade between the emergence of mass African …
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Yall Aint Heard Us? Black Identity and Belonging in Appalachian Virginia
… black communities whose histories, experiences, and existences remain overlooked. This research explores black identity, belonging, and lived experience in Appalachian Virginia, a space frequently excluded from racial examination. Utilizing interviews, demographic data, and autoethnography, this …
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Racial Identity and Belonging Among Asian American Undergraduate Students in the Midwest
… to inequities in admissions, scholarships, and student support. This perception feeds and is fed by the model minority stereotype, which characterizes Asian Americans as hard-working and high-achieving and creates intense pressure to succeed academically (Poon et al., 2016). In addition, …
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Language and the negotiation of identity and belonging in Harub, Saudi Arabia
… study investigating the negotiation of identity and belonging in Harūb, Saudi Arabia. This thesis addresses the question: how do people in Harūb use language to position themselves in relation to dominant power structures? This question is answered from three different angles using …
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Relational Pathways to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Identity and Belonging
… the relational pathways influencing STEM identity and belonging for historically marginalized groups (HMGs) and women in STEM. This dissertation integrates Relational Theory, Self-Construal Theory, and Universal Human to extend conceptualizations and operationalizations of communal goals …
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Sport in the Waikato c.1897-1974: Narratives of Play, Identity and Belonging
Regional identities and allegiances in New Zealand have most often been revealed at sporting events. From the colours worn, the slogans chanted, and even the ringing of cowbells, players, teams and supporters have presented facets of their collective character. This thesis engages with narratives …
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Placing transnational migration: The circulation of Indian South African narratives of identity and belonging
… nation-based models of citizenship that link belonging to territorial, political, social and cultural membership have been questioned by the transnational approach to migration. However, transnationalism abstracts migrants' experiences outside of the historical-material circumstances of their …
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Separated from Saints and Sacred Spaces: Religion, Identity and Belonging for Peruvian Andean Migrants in the US
… impact how people construct their sense of identity and belonging, and Peruvian Andean religious practices are based in the sacred landscape and local saint fiestas. When Peruvian Andeans migrate away from their communities in the Andes, their religious practices are altered because they are …
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Queer writes: A phenomenological study of LGBTQIA+ students’ identity and belonging following the United States Supreme Court Obergefell decision
… this problem has had upon the developing gender and sexualities identities and sense of belongingness of young adult LGBTQIA+ college students. In addition, too little is known about the impact that first-year writing courses may have upon these college students’ identity and sense of …
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A Jotería Identity and Belonging: Pláticas of Co-Creation with Queer and Trans Latinx Graduate Students in Higher Education
<p>Homophobia, patriarchy, and white supremacy are deeply embedded in academia and our communities; consequently, there is a lack of empirical research that speaks to the collective experiences connected to Jotería, queer people of color, and Latinx graduate students (Tijerina Revilla & Santillana, …
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An intergenerational perspective on migrant senses of identity and belonging: The case of Greek-Cypriot families in South West England, UK
… perspective to investigate how senses of identity and belonging are constructed in a Greek-Cypriot community in the UK. This aim is particularly necessary given increasing rates of migration and mobility worldwide, which has resulted in growing acknowledgment across a number of disciplines …
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Shiftings of the self : towards a deterritorialized view of identity and belonging : the case of East and Central African-Asians in Canada
Who am I? The question of identity is formulated with particular intensity by the fifteen respondents of this study, members of the East and Central African-Asian diaspora residing in Canada. The respondents are Ismaili by faith, a spiritual identity that underpins all other aspects of their …
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2+2 Doesn't Always Equal 4: A Mixed Methods Approach to U.S.-Born Children of Immigrants' Cultural Identities and Belonging
… limited their experiences to cultural identity, as it pertains to belonging. Simply put, the literature supposes that children of immigrants’ cultural identities define their sense of belonging. Moreover, the literature lacks insight into the lived experiences of children of immigrants, …
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Exploring the Impact of Social Media in Shaping STEM Identity and Sense of Belonging Among Women of Color
… of STEM-focused social media in shaping STEM identity and fostering a sense of belonging among professional and graduate-level women of color. Despite ongoing diversity initiatives, women of color remain underrepresented across various STEM fields, reflecting persistent inequities in …
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Representations of belonging in Asian Australian writing
Australia has a long and ambivalent history with Asia. With an increasing visibility of the social and political presence of ‘Asia’ in Australia, the growing importance of the Asian region to Australia’s economy, and a transnational mobility of people and cultures across the globe, it becomes more …
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THINGS WE HAVE IN COMMON: ESSAYS AND EXPERIMENTS
… is a collection of short stories, flash pieces, and image-text experiments that attempts, in the wake of the death of my mother, to excavate the relationship between memory and narrative, identity and belonging against a backdrop of the main forces that have influenced my familial group, namely …
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