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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Life Narratives"”.
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Remembering East German Childhood In Post-Wende Life Narratives
… EAST GERMAN CHILDHOOD IN </p> <p>POST-WENDE LIFE NARRATIVES</p> <p>by JULIANA MAMOU, May 2013</p> <p>This dissertation explores how East German childhood is remembered in four exemplary auto/biographical texts that appeared in the early years of the twenty-first century. In Jana Hensel's …
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Reconstructing trauma and recovery: life narratives of survivors of political violence during apartheid
The central aim of this study was to examine the narratives of survivors of political violence during apartheid and their complex ways of reconstructing trauma and recovery, almost twenty years after the collapse of apartheid in South Africa. The traumatic events experienced by victims occurred …
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Examining the Utility of Life Narratives for the Assessment of Personality Pathology in Emerging Adults
Recent advances in psychiatric nosology adopt a dimensional conceptualization for personality pathology. This framework includes the assessment of an individual’s level of personality functioning (LPF), constituting core features of personality pathology across self- and interpersonal domains. …
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Making sense of political activism : life narratives of political activists from the South African liberation movement
… lives, while others were killed or jailed for life. The struggle to create a society where humanity and justice would triumph over cruelty and racial division was setback a generation. It took nearly three decades of defiance and unrest before Nelson Mandela was released from prison and South …
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Telling The Stories of My Life as a Twin: Understanding Sisterhood through Black Women’s Feminist Life Narratives
… educator that I am today. I will explore my life experiences and the life of my sister and through that my mother’s story. Using the works of bell hooks (2000, 2009), Ugena Whitlock (2007), Patricia Hill Collins (2000), Alice Walker (1982, 1983, 1997), and Rochelle Brock (2005/2010), I use …
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Language and place in the life of Brazilian women in London: writing life narratives through art practice
… postcards, and artist’s books I have explored life-writing genres of diary, language memoir, and correspondence to raise an immigrant consciousness, explore accented voices and create practices for writing life individually and collectively. Assembling words and turning their meanings became …
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Unpacking religious and secular binaries in public school sexuality education: Conceptualizations of sexuality in Ontario Christians’ life narratives
… that plays out across an Evangelical Christian’s life course is as categorically opposed to Ontario’s HPE curriculum as media representations suggest. This study explores how sexuality emerges in the ways Ontario Christians narrate their life stories.
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Citizenship, Normativity and Well-being: an Exploratory Analysis of the Life Narratives of Men in Civil Partnerships in the UK
… biographically. The thesis draws on personal narratives elicited through qualitative life story interviews with 28 men from across the UK. Interviews covered the life course, but were thematically focused around CP to provide insight into: motivations for entering CPs; experiences of planning, …
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Interview Methodologies for Addressing Autobiographical Ruptures and (Re)Constructing Life Narratives - A Longitudinal Study Among Prostate Cancer Patients and Their Spouses
Major life changes may cause an autobiographical rupture and the need to work on one's narrative identity. In this dissertation, I developed new interview methodologies to work through an auto-biographical rupture experience and to support the (re)construction of life narratives. Ten newly …
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A history of the present : recognizing the complex and shifting nature of racism and resistance in the life narratives of the Khayelitsha Internal Forces
… research attempts to represent and analyze the life-story narratives of a group of five former anti-apartheid combatants. Narratives were collected from a total often, in-depth, life-history interviews with five former-members of the Khayelitsha Internal Forces. The Internal Forces represent a …
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"We saw how life was going in Hanover Park and none of us wanted that life for ourselves" : Exploring resilience factors in the life narratives of community-engaged youth.
This study explored resilience factors within the life narratives of adolescents who live in a low-socioeconomic, high-violence community and have become long-standing members of a community youth development programme. Twenty youth were interviewed, ten girls and ten boys. A thematic analysis was …
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Critiquing the Soul of White Supremacy and the Spiritualities of Whiteness: Narrative and Everyday Praxis
… racism, and white privilege by analyzing the life narratives of selfidentified white Christians. I have divided this work into two parts. Part one, comprising Chapters One and Two, outlines the frameworks, theories, and methods I use to analyze the life narratives of the white Christians that …
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Performing the encounter; a practice-led inquiry
… is not merely a vehicle for reproducing real-life narratives but a dynamic practice of engagement, wit(h)nessing, and artistry. Through a practice-led inquiry, two key projects - Sense of Home and Company in the Gardens - are examined to consider how verbatim theatre can foster attentiveness …
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The Materiality of Memory: Everyday Objects in Post-Socialist Literatures and Cultures
… the palpability of material remains is used in life narratives—broadly conceived to incorporate museum guestbook entries and literary works—to demand diversification of state narratives and to reveal the need for positive social changes in the present. Through engagement with everyday “normal” …
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‘My name was mud!’: Women’s experiences of conformity and resistance in post-war Rhondda
… of a small cohort of women’s composure of their life narratives. It thus promotes an understanding of a fuller ‘life history’, as affected by changes with the onset of the welfare state and the impact of community on women’s well-being. The thesis contributes to the growing body of literature …
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The trauma and narratives of adult burn survivors : a South African perspective
… the study was "How does a burn injury shape the life narratives of adult South African burn survivors?" In order to answer this, seven participants living in the Western Cape province of South Africa with a variety of demographics were interviewed utilising semi-structured interviews. A …
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Leaving journalism: Self-identity during career transition for female former Kentucky reporters
… did leaving the field of journalism affected the life narratives of female former Kentucky reporters. </p> <p>Method: Three former Kentucky female reporters were interviewed to gather data on their experiences, including how leaving journalism affected their personal and professional …
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Card Carrying Christians: Credit, Debt, and Believing in Emerging Colombia
… observation, extended interviews, and life narratives to demonstrate how credit has become a matter of belief at the level of lived experience in Colombia.
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Losing home: Housing, displacement, and the American Dream
… frames the growing genre of homeless life narratives as a form of urban theory that has been largely displaced from public memory. Based on close readings of hundreds of memoirs and oral histories of homelessness from cities across the United States, this research highlights the …
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At the Mercy of Ruin: Performative Sites/Sights of Landscapes and Loss
… exchange between land and self where life narratives are summoned as a result of land's presence--this project weaves biographical stories of landscapes and others with stories of my own autobiography. As such, the work utilizes multiple interpretive, ethnographic methods and …
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