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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Identity practices."”.
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Ethnicity Mediated: Identity Practices of Greek Diaspora on a Social Network Site
… focuses on the processes by which new media practices may result in redefining ethnic belonging for diasporic populations. Similarly to other social media, the social network site of Facebook mediates the diasporic experience of Greeks in London. The thesis's methodological choices are aimed …
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New speaker language and identity: Practices and perceptions around Breton as a regional language of France
… additional information on speakers' individual practices and beliefs. The findings show that in these contexts, speakers often avoid some of the more extreme features associated with the new speaker stereotype, and that medium and register can be relevant factors in what sort of lexicon is used; …
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Practising identity : emerging adults, digital social technologies and contexts for self
… adults has had significant implications for the identity practices of these individuals, and consequently creates a diverse and emergent space for researching digitally networked practices. The pervasiveness of digital social technologies across blurred digital and physical boundaries has led to …
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Le réveil de l’immatériel. La production onirique du patrimoine des Indiens Zápara (Haute Amazonie)
… become one of the key elements of new forms of identity practices and identification processes – as those narrated here by two Zapara political leaders will attest. In search of their material and immaterial heritage, these leaders make use of the realm of dreams, using occurred dreams to orient …
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Monstrative acts and becoming-monster: on identity, bodies, and the feminine other
… the corporeal, this thesis links performative identity practices to theories of monstrosity, explaining how fictional qualities adhere to monstrous bodies by proposing a new theoretical category, the “monstrative.” The monstrative is a performative force that makes the Other into a living sign …
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A Different Shade of Grey: Intimacies of Older Filipino Gay Men in Canada
… for queer or non-normative gender and sexual identity, practices, and performances. I specifically investigated how older bakla engage and express their intimacies with the three significant groups of people in their lives, namely, their sexual partner, their family or bloodrelated kin, and …
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Social Identity, Scientific Practice, and the Production of Social Knowledge: An Ethnographic Investigation of American Social Psychology Laboratories
<p>Social identity has the ability to permeate a multitude of domains in everyday life. Therefore, the science of social psychology—influential due to its impact in education, social and public policy, and the law—rightfully foregrounds the presence of social identity categories in the theorizing …
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The identities and practices of faculty managers in a higher education institution in South Africa
This study addressed the identities and practices of faculty managers (FM) in a higher education institution (HEI) in South Africa. There is limited research on faculty managers in South African HEIs, specifically in relation to their self-formed ethically related identities and practices. My aim …