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Showing 1 to 20 of 113 for “"Lived-Realities"”.
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Climate-related risks and coastal livelihoods: lived realities, gender and adaptation
… exploration of the experiences and lived realities of the people of Tshani Mankosi within the broader socio-ecological, economic and gendered context. Empirical evidence was collected using semi-structured interviews, focus groups and direct observations of community life. In …
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“Sharing Ontological-Metaphors”: Meanings, Expressive Agency, Lived- Realities, and States-of-Being, in Uttarakhand, North India.
… as active and embodied “gestures” or “lived-realities”, via concepts of “sharing” and communicative relationality. These concepts were ethnographically researched in the far northern, religiously-plural Indian state of Uttarakhand. This is a state with faith-based populations variously …
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Lived realities of NICU-to-home transition in Malta: The experiences of parents of preterm infants, and of neonatal staff
… a deeper understanding of the meanings, and lived experiences of NICU-to-home transition from multiple perspectives: mothers and fathers, and neonatal staff. This is a Heideggerian hermeneutic phenomenological study of the experiences of Maltese parents of preterm infants and, of neonatal …
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Learners Engagement During a Novel Residential Environmental Education Experience: The Influence of Personal Histories on Interests, Identities, and Stewardship
… examines how participants' cultures and lived realities interact with a unique, annual residential environmental education program that engaged youth in novel experiences in a semi-pristine wilderness. This research took place over two-years, using ethnographic methods, including; …
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Trading sugar : teenage girls, older men, sexual choice and gender inequalilty in the slums of Kibera, Kenya
This thesis describes and analyzes the lived realities, sexual choices and the meanings accorded to these experiences of six sugar girls who have relationships with sugar daddies. These girls are aged 18 to 20 and from the slums of Kibera, Kenya.
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Journey With Me: Wanderings and Wonderings Through Childhoods
… challenged these assumptions by recognizing the lived realities of children as contextually specific and historically dynamic, and by acknowledging the existence of multiple situations and perspectives of childhood (James & James, 2012; Mayall, 2002; Prout & James, 1997), however, these …
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Home
… broadens the narrative of young Black girls lived realities in America. “Home” depicts the realities of what it means to be young, Black, queer women in a world marked with religiosity, abuse, and grief, while in the process of becoming.</p>
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From manual to makeshift: the practice of community health work in Wallacedene and Bloekombos informal settlements
… between the prescribed 'manual' for care and the lived realities of their field, exploring how prescriptions of public health are reappropriated through the micro-politics of everyday practice. What inventiveness, agency and tactical manoeuvres are woven between abstract ideals and situational …
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The matter of sex and gender: A dialogue between trans bodies and feminist theory
… and produces disjunction between our lived realities and academic theory. I conclude by presenting new and alternative ways or perceiving systems of sex that are fluidly inclusive of broader identity categories.
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Perceptions of Sex Trafficking Legislation By Sex Workers
… legislation. These tweets expressed the lived realities, perceptions, and emotions endured by sex workers in the wake of SESTA/FOSTA to better understand the impact of this legislation on the lives of sex workers. Taken together, the data provide insight into the ramifications of anti-sex …
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Seeing: The Multiple Narratives of Northern Xinjiang
… representation in Northern Xinjiang through the lived experiences and spatial practices of Kazakh pastoral communities. Beginning from a position of uncertainty and misalignment, the research questions how dominant narratives of modernization and settlement shape the perception of land while …
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British Columbia institutions teacher curricula and the ministry of education teachers act standards
… school children and youth. My study explores the lived realities of novice and experienced teachers focusing on the quantity and quality of their university training and their preparedness to implement standards. Participants' stories reveal vast differences in teacher training institutions …
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Probing polygamous marriages in Zimbabwe
… The research is therefore presented through the 'lived realities' of the affected women in polygamous marriages in Gutu District located in Masvingo Province of Zimbabwe. The study was conducted in a village called Matizha. In the study, a qualitative research approach was employed to stimulate …
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African youth constructions of safety: A multi-country photovoice study
… socio-political contexts and their everyday lived realities, often shaped by unequal globalised power relations, colonial legacies, and contemporary socio-economic dynamics. Through a presentation and analysis of both the unmediated and mediated youth accounts of safety and danger, I …
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Lovelife: productions and re-productions of gender constructs and HIV
… and participants as they intersect with the lived realities of South African adolescents. All of the primary data is qualitative, and therefore, limited in scope. The research is experimental and iterative in nature and the data produced is varied. Nevertheless, it provides a useful snapshot …
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Feminist engagement with law in the new millennium
… concepts can be made more responsive to women’s lived realities. The thesis demonstrates that law is an important site of power and public discourse where feminism in all its forms needs to have a presence. Several of the publications address feminist challenges to human rights, but advocate …
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Transnational Mothering in South Africa A Contemporary Approach
… pattern is South-South and hones in on the lived realities of poor black undocumented transnational mothers in South Africa from the SADC region. Macro-level factors such as documentation, access to services and the labor market will be reviewed in the analysis, as well as micro-level …
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"Real" lives and "ordinary" objects: Partisan strategies of art making with garment makers of the Western Cape
… objects to create political art and render the lived realities of garment workers in the Western Cape. Scholars like Paulo Freire, Achille Mbembe, Anthony Bogues and Jacques Rancière undergird these kinds of aesthetic projects, with their discourse on oppression, freedom and emancipation.
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