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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Imagined Communities"”.
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Imagined communities, divided realities : engaging the apartheid past through 'healing of memories' in a post-TRC South Africa
The dissertation argues that, in the attempt to build a shared democratic culture among ordinary citizens in post-apartheid South Africa, insufficient attention has been paid to transformations of interpersonal domains. The dissertation examines the process and effects of the Healing of Memories …
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Communicating Community at Tesla Motors: Maintaining Corporate Values in Blogging Communities
… Master Plan through company blogs to create an imagined community. The theory of imagined communities provided the theoretical foundation. This research used a content analysis of words and phrases within Tesla's Master Plan and 2015 corporate blog. Although the blog provided some indication …
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An investigation into how Algerian women living in the United Kingdom, negotiate social activities and cultural practices within virtual Third Spaces
… concept of home, acculturation strategies, and imagined communities to Third Space. Due to the widespread use of social media, there is now a possibility to explore virtual Third Spaces, and the possibility of linking the previously mentioned concepts to the virtual world, which enables new …
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"A Stranger in a Strange Land": A Translation of “An Icelandic Driver,” a Short Story by J. M. Bjarnason, with Analysis and Introduction to the Author
… thesis explores the motifs of national identity, imagined communities, and anti-Jewish sentiments in the short story "An Icelandic Driver" (Íslenzkur ökumaður), which was written at the turn of the twentieth century by the Icelandic-Canadian author Jóhann Magnús Bjarnason. The story is remarkable …
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Making of nationalistic dance: Agrippina Vaganova and Choi Seung-Hee
… Tradition</em> and Benedict Anderson's <em>Imagined Communities </em>to show how Agrippina Vaganova and Choi Seung-hee's dances became their nation's representative dance forms. Agrippina Vaganova's Modern Russian Ballet and Choi Seung-hee's <em>Sinmuyong</em> (New Dance) made significant …
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Social pressure to speak English and the effect of English language learning for ESL composition students in higher education
… their language learning. Keeping in mind their imagined communities of practice, reducing the pressure to converge can make these students integratively motivated to learn and grant them access to the dominant discourse community."</p>
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Cassava, Coconut and Curry: Food and National Identity in Post-Colonial Fiji
… of division. By utilising the framework of imagined communities (Anderson 1991), I hope to demonstrate how food, as a part of the imagining of the nation, has worked to form an area in which a shared identity has developed. Food provides a point of similarity within a national narrative full …
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Chinese Female Graduate Students' Academic Socialization Across Disciplines - Perspectives On Language, Culture, And Gender
… across disciplines. Participants' immediate and imagined communities significantly influenced their learning investment. Instead of being marginalized, all three female Chinese learners were able to participate legitimately, competently, and strategically in their academic disciplines.
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Engaging aesthetics: American poetry and politics, 1925-1950
… that effective political poetry must fashion imagined communities, collections of people with shared values, goals, and commitments. I read this poetry in the networks of publication, circulation and reception that surround it, taking these practices into account as crucial components of the …
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Imagining sittee : constructions of homelands and grandmother narratives in Arab American literature
… of grandmother figures in the construction of imagined communities in Arab American literature. Through the lens of diaspora studies, it argues that grandmother figures become integral in the creation of an Arab American imagined community based on two main tropes: a theoretical collapse …
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Restart the ‘World’ with Revolutionary Ruptures: Imagining Identity through War & in Crisis – Apocalyptic Rhetoric & the American Civil Religion
… This thesis uses Benedict Anderson's concept of Imagined Communities as it concerns national/historical-time to expand upon Paul Fussell and Lilie Chouliaraki's work on the War Imaginary. It demonstrates how the operative value of myth mirrors and is serviceable to the discursive-reconstitution …
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Going Away to Find Home: A Comparative Study of Heritage/Homeland Tourism
… this dissertation examines what happens when imagined communities (Anderson 1993) become briefly tangible.</p><p>I present analysis of participant observation and interview data from three different American populations to examine the very real desire to belong to a meaningful and worthwhile …
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A transnational religious institution and its role on the construction of collective agency : a case of Korean military brides in a Korean immigrant religious institution
… community becomes broader with comprehensive "imagined communities." This study also indicates that their efforts to create an own boundary comes with the change in their identity management from "commuter" to "integrator" in which their identities become more flexible and multi-layered, and it …
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Extremism, fake news and hate: effects of social media in the post-truth era
… this research shows how several virtual “imagined communities” utilized social media to mobilize physically in one of the largest white nationalist rallies in recent memory. In contrast to similar works, this thesis demonstrates how social media in conjunction with alternative media have …
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The Nation as a Communicative Construct: Toward a Theory of Dialogic Nationalism
… By applying Anderson's (2006) concept of "imagined communities" as an interpretative framework, the nation appears to be a more fluid, contingent space for communication that is grounded in ancient and Enlightenment ideals, but is perhaps reconfiguring in the face of postmodern complexity …
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Creating the Cahokian Community: the Power of Place in Early Mississippian Sociopolitical Dynamics
… Drawing on Benedict Anderson’s concept of “imagined communities” and recent developments in archaeological theory, particularly agency and practice theory, I contend that the social construction of space and community identities at multiple scales were instrumental in the creation of the …
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Toxicity Within the Women's Sport Social Media Discourse
… lenses, including network theory and (digital) imagined communities as they pertain to the women’s sport context on SM. Results from the research revealed several key aspects; first, in relation to the volume of posts collected from two SM platforms, toxicity rates were considerably high for the …
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Secondary schooling for girls in rural Uganda: challenges, opportunities and emerging identities
… by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum) and Imagined Communities and Identities (Benedict Anderson, Bonny Norton) to interpret my findings. My research reveals that girls’ educational opportunities are constrained by many “unfreedoms” (Sen, 1999), such as extreme poverty, sexual vulnerability …
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Written on the Rocks': The Mythopoetics of the Almo Massacre
… the tensions and contradictions inherent to all imagined communities. America is an (im)migrant nation – the one-as-many – founded on the contradictory national rhetoric of the many-as-one. The Silent City’s landscape and the story that it stages convey this inherent tension.
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