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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"In-betweenness"”.
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The In-Betweenness: Work Space of the Future
Individuals spend so many hours every day in their work spaces of different kinds. Different people have different needs in term of the quality of the space in which they are working. As a result it's important to provide a variety of spaces for people to be able to choose from and spend their work …
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Theatre and Public Spaces in Singapore In-betweenness as Power in a Soft Authoritarian State
The theatre is a contested realm in soft authoritarian Singapore. Applying the method of transculturality, this study follows Bourdieu’s theory of the ‘field of power’ and analyses the complex relationship between the ‘dominant dominators’ – the government – and the ‘dominated dominators’ – the …
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Cultural Identity and the dilemma of "in-betweenness" in selected Arab-American and Jewish-American novels.
The In-Between status is a position that a diasporic/migrant subject occupies while s/he is attached to two worlds. One of them is the home of origin and the other is the host home. This attachment is of two types. The first type is that which involves a severe confusion concerning both places and …
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Searching for Belonging and Living with Saudade: Emotional Geographies of Brazilian LGBTQ+ Migration to Canada
… drastically remap their lives by emigrating to Canada, having often been denied place-making and the safe (re)production of their queer identities in their homelands. This research traces such northern geopolitical migration trajectories and seeks to understand them at the intersection of …
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In-between Colonial Heritage: Postcolonial Heritage Perception by Local Society in South Korea
… local society’s perceptions of colonial heritage in South Korea, reflecting the in-betweenness of a heritage interpretation. While colonial heritage is often defined by dichotomous views of anti- and pro-colonialism, it also expresses the plural experiences of local residents. An entity occupies a …
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"""Stories from our people"": immigrants, brokers, and literacy as affinity"
… of literacy histories of Romanian (im)migrants in the U.S., my dissertation explores the role of literacy brokers in the context of the transnational movement of people and texts. While recent scholarly accounts of literacy brokers—defined as individuals assisting others with writing—approach …
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On the Move across Phnom Dangrek: Mobilities and Silences in the Thai-Cambodian Borderland
… a historical and ethnographic study of a mountainous landscape of Phnom Dangrek where it has always been the periphery of various political entities and marked by violent Cold War struggle and regional politics. Through analysis of mobility and silence and engagement with decolonizing …
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Balancing Multiple Worlds: The Multiverse and the Fractured Asian American Experience in <em>Everything Everywhere All at Once</em> (2022)
<p>This thesis examines the ways in which the 2022 film <em>Everything Everywhere All at Once</em> (2022) employs the philosophical ideas concomitant with the multiverse hypothesis in order to narrate an emotionally poignant, yet somewhat typical story about a multi-generational Asian American …
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Real to Reel: The "Third Gender" Narratives and Queer Identity in Rituparno Ghosh's Bengali Films
… third gender space that Rituparno Ghosh created in his later films, where he either featured and/or directed the films. The Bengali filmmaker, Rituparno Ghosh was one of the very few filmmakers in India who consciously and vocally spoke for the sexual minorities and represented them in his films. …
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Latino Evangelicals: How Their Multiple Identity Influences Their Political Preferences
… pews of the American Evangelical church are browning, and so is the Evangelical voting bloc. Latino immigrants are fueling the growth of the Evangelical church in America and Latinos have the potential to influence the Evangelical voting bloc writ large. However, we have a limited understanding of …
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Theorising Turkish Gothic : National Identity, Ideology and the Gothic
Despite increasing critical interest in Gothic in non-Western cultures, Turkish Gothic writing remains an undiscovered area of research within worldwide Gothic studies. My thesis fills this gap by bringing together Glennis Byron’s concept of ‘globalgothic’, historically informed understandings of …
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All that is carried
This paper supports my Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition, All That Is Carried, presented at The Fifth Parallel Gallery from November 25 to December 7, 2024. All That Is Carried concerns ideas of home, longing, displacement, and memory. My intention is to convey feelings of disorientation and …
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And The Skylarks Called Out Your Name: Posthuman Encounters with Loss Through Embracing the More-Than-Human World.
Howling at the sea, tears in damp morning air, songs on the wind, syrup-thick summer warmth, dawn before midnight, red moon, humming, whispers. <br/> <br/>Meet me where the sky meets the sea. <br/> <br/>This thesis proposes that immersion in the more-than-human world offers possibilities for an …
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Pastoral support for the flourishing of “in-between” families
Globally, the institution of family is changing rapidly, and Africa is not exempt from these changes. The effects of globalization and urbanization have resulted in numerous families moving out of their communities of origin for economic, political, and social reasons. A consequence of migration is …
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Beyond the Flâneur: Walking, Passage and Crossing in London and Paris in the Nineteenth Century
This thesis examines reworkings of the flâneur in France and Britain during the nineteenth century (1806-1869). It suggests that before it was made famous by Baudelaire, this urban observer emerged out of French and British print culture, and of crossings between them. It has endured because it is …
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Moving Through Space, Pausing In Place: Vietnamese Doctoral Sojourners’ Transnational Experiences of Identity (Re)Negotiation, Sense of Belonging, and Sense of Home
For the past decades, an increasing number of international students have travelled overseas to study for their doctoral degrees. Vietnamese doctoral students have actively joined this international education-migration flow. As they are a highly mobile group, their sequential movement involves a …
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Gesture and the cinéaste: Akerman/Agamben, Varda/Warburg
… an adjunct to recent theories of the haptic contingent upon proximity by considering how embodied engagement might take place at a distance. Developing a broad definition of gesture as a motion away from the (carnal or camera) body that is nonetheless always attached to it, the thesis seeks a …
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Yummy Mummies, baby bumps and body image : shaping 'Postmodern' pregnancy in Melbourne, Australia
This thesis is based on a longitudinal study exploring feelings about body image and `fatness' in a sample of 38 pregnant women living in Melbourne. Framed within discourses of social surveillance, biomedicine, and celebrity, the thesis argues that the most important articulations of body image …
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The Meaning of Being Independent: Precarities of Work and Lifestyles and Alternative-Seeking among Chinese Self-Employed Cultural Workers
Notwithstanding the many emerging terms relevant to self-employed/independent workers, such as freelancers and flexible workers, and the growing discussion regarding new types of work and entrepreneurship, self-employed workers are still a minority in the Chinese labour market. Without an official …