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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Lines of Flight"”.
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'Lines of flight': digital musical instruments, inclusive music bands, meaningful engagement in music-making and learning
In this study I examine the development of three inclusive music bands in Cork city. Derived from Jellison’s research on inclusive music education, inclusive music bands involve students with disabilities coming together with typically developing peers to make and learn music that is meaningful …
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A Continuum of Traversing Lines: Youth Political Participation in Gaia Online
… forums in Gaia Online experienced as a continuum of overlapping of lines, including molar lines, lines of flight, and molecular lines?” Although smooth lines of flight may occur in Gaia, there are always mechanisms that work to re-territorialize them as more striated molar operations. Conversely, …
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Imagining and improvising with theory and practice : a narrative inquiry with first grade students during reading workshop
This paper illuminates the possibilities of thinking with poststructural theory when storying an emerging process of engaging in research with young children. The purpose of this paper is to describe processes, tensions, and imaginings while infusing poststructural theories into conversations with …
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In danger of jammed minds: A deconstructive discourse analysis of the criteria for early onset schizophrenia and imagination in children's literature
The purpose of this research is to expose and complicate those discourses of childhood imagination as demonstrated in the diagnostic criteria for early onset schizophrenia by using an antipsychiatry perspective. This will be done by evaluating those discourses alongside those found in popular …
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The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and the College of Sociology: Avant-Garde Collectives in Contact
… A book or text can provide an initial model of a collection. Letters, words, sentences, paragraphs collide to form some sense of meaning. Disparate elements, brought in proximity of each other, gain significance through such closeness. These spheres of related elements often coalesce into …
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Agency as dynamic and rhizomatic: An exploration of learner identities in two secondary classrooms
This thesis is premised on “a politics of becoming” (Gowlett, 2013, p. 149), a Deleuzo-Guattarian notion which speaks to social justice research. Rather than a focus on reductionist reformist politics, I explore moments of possibility as lines of flight that disrupt dominant discourses. As outlined …
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Assembling a Hispanic-Serving Institution: A Campus Landscape Analysis of a Hispanic-Serving Institution
<p>Post-secondary educational spaces are often thought of as a backdrop to where education takes place. Architectural designs are seen as neutral sites; however, higher education institutions are sites of ideological production and therefore, fundamental exercises of power (Ford, 2017). The study …
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NOMAD ART Traversing smooth and striated spaces in textile practice
… research explores textile-making as a form of nomadic art through the lens of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of “nomadology.” The study investigates the dynamic between “smooth” spaces (exemplified by boundless deserts where nomads dwell) and “striated” spaces (characterised by the linear, …
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“The New Reality”: Hardcore’s Shifting Authenticities Under Capitalist Realism
… hardcore’s geographical origin and primary locus of discourse – the subculture’s norms have been reterritorialized alongside late-20th and early-21st century neoliberal capitalist expansion. Using the theoretical framework of capitalist realism introduced by Mark Fisher (2009), and considering the …
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Playing with the Absurdity of Welfare: Experiences of Irish Welfare Conditionality
… thesis critically explores the lived experience of negotiating and resisting work-related conditionality and sanctions in Ireland’s burgeoning labour activation regime. Post-crisis Ireland has witnessed the emergence of a definitive policy trajectory emphasizing lifelong attachment to the labour …
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Curriculum Becoming in the Assemblage of Lower Secondary Education in Ireland
… thesis is concerned with mapping the becoming of this new curriculum. It proffers the emerging changes through a focus on the following areas of interest: a. The assemblage of lower secondary education in Ireland. b. The purpose of education as desired by the assemblage. c. The ideology, …
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(Hi)stories in Displacement: The Poetics and Politics of Errancia in Post-1960s Latin American Literature
… and political dimensions and takes the work of Reinaldo Arenas, Adelaida Fernández Ochoa, Roberto Bolaño and César Aira as cardinal points in a contemporary mapping out of errancia. Figurations of errancia are analysed in the interplay between autobiographical traits, imaginary biographies of …
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African city- Cape Town in pieces/aesthetics, theories, narratives, fragments
Six sections, six ways of reading African cities and, by extension, Africa. Anchored in the Cape Town metropolis - an important node in both North?South and South?South global trade networks ? this project investigates the African urban as a site of knowledge production. Rather than attempt to …
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Policy contexts and student identity/ies: a post ’92 university case study
… Success in a knowledge economy? Drivers of student identity in a post-92 university environment: a case study. This work concerned itself with the becoming and being of studenthood against a policy environment that appears to position the student as both watchman and inmate within the …
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The Way of All Flesh: A History and Historiography of Violence and Death in Italian Cinema (1943-1980)
This study narrates a history of Italian cinema from 1943 to 1980 by the light of its evolving imaginary of violence and death. As both lived and represented experience, the antifascist Resistance is the starting point whence we proceed to hypothesize that the history of such imaginary ran parallel …
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Ontological Possibilities: Rhizoanalytic Explorations of Community Food Work in Central Appalachia
… This claim has been subject to the criticism of a variety of scholars and activists, some of whom contend that the alternative food movement is complicit in the re-production of neoliberalism and is therefore implicated in the making of the unjust system. In this dissertation I use theories of …
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Flesh and the text: poststructural theory and writing research
This thesis is an analysis and practice of writing otherwise in academia. It takes off from Barthes’ claim that “Science will become literature” (1989, p. 10) into a labyrinth of writing in different contexts and genres. In local and specific writing contexts, the author contrasts (social) …
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Becomings-Unsettled? (Un) Braiding Settler-Treaty Life Writing
… than viewing this abstract as a simple outline of the main ideas, the nuts and bolts, the meat and potatoes, the name of the game, and the bottom line, I consider it a story. It is another moment for practicing life writing as research. On an early December morning, a large group of Canada geese …
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Aesthetics, poetics, and cognition: a new minor literature by autists and modernists
… recognizing that many texts written at the end of the twentieth century by individuals with autism spectrum disorders share distinctive aesthetic and poetic characteristics with experimental modernist texts. Despite the literary significance ascribed to modernism, texts in both genres are still …
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Disability as an entanglement: A new materialist reimagination of disability
… disabled remain positioned on the margins of humanity, despite decades of hard work from the disability rights movement, support workers, and families and whānau, among many others (Goodley, 2017). In this thesis, I seek to find some answers as to why this situation persists. I seek further …
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