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Showing 1 to 20 of 166 for “"Marginalized groups"”.
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Inclusive Representation In Global Decision-Making Processses: Challenges Of Democracy, Sovereignty, And Liberatory Politics For Marginalized Groups
… increasing respect and concern toward marginalized groups on issues that substantively affect them. It argues that decision-making processes that do not offer meaningful influence to those people who are most affected by particular decisions turn those who are supposed to be political …
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Giving voice : the use of interactive theatre as professional development in higher education to reduce alienation of marginalized groups
… in higher education to give voice to the marginalized. The researcher viewed the study through the lens of Critical Race Theory which emphasizes the power of storytelling to reduce alienation of marginalized groups who find themselves invisible and silent. The study population consisted of …
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Developing a publics-oriented participatory design approach to reinvigorate public involvement of marginalized groups in the public policy domain
… approach, which traditionally aims to empower marginalized groups through participation in design, this thesis critiques and expands on a strand in participatory design that mobilises the notion of publics, developed by political theorist John Dewey, to propose that participatory design …
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Whose Nation is it? A Critical Analysis of the Impacts of Conservative Nationalism and Migration Security on Marginalized Groups in America
… the effects of migration securitization on marginalized citizens in the United States of America by examining it through a conservative nationalist lens. While the securitization of migration is “the process through which the phenomenon of migration is framed as a threat to the survival of a …
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The Midwife in Family Advisory Services with Priority on Women's Health in Marginalized Groups /// Акушерката в семейно-консултативната дейност с приоритет женското здраве сред маргиналните групи
… system to improve women's health with a focus on marginalized groups of society and a model of family counselling adequate to their needs. Basic research thesis: Deficits in health care for pregnant women and mothers of small children require the development of autonomous functions of the midwife …
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That hideous noise: Chinese sounds and the transnational making of race and modernity in China and the U.S., 1850-1940
… colonial elites, Chinese intellectuals, and marginalized Chinese laborers between the 1850s and the 1940s. Specifically, it explores how the sounds of Chinese people—early Chinese immigrants setting off firecrackers in the United States., the chanting of Shanghai dock laborers, and Beijing …
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How has Western detective fiction represented and othered marginalized groups such as Asians, women and people with disabilities, how does that fiction relate to Indian detective fiction, and how might that dynamic be subverted through my experimental creative work, Sounds & Shadows: Casebook of the Blind PI?
This research examines how Western detective fiction has negatively represented, othered, exoticized and demonized Asians, women and people with disabilities. It then considers the influence of Western detective fiction upon Indian detective fiction, in terms of both the colonial relationship …
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Subliminal Exposure to Empathy Primes: A New Method to Reduce Intergroup Bias?
… with Blacks) on explicit prejudice towards marginalized groups and Blacks, willingness to help marginalized groups and Blacks, as well as implicit prejudice towards Blacks. In addition, Study 2 considered potential mechanisms for the predicted effects; specifically, general empathy, …
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The social impact of open government data
… data (OGD) should have a noticeable impact on marginalized groups’ inclusion in policy making. OGD researchers and practitioners conceptualize that society’s marginalized use OGD to achieve inclusion by overcoming information asymmetries and holding government accountable with data-supported …
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"Uncovering the Hidden Literacies of ""Have -Nots"": A Study of Computer and Internet Use in a Low -Income Community"
… with a lack of access for ""have-not"" groups. While typical digital divide studies are useful in identifying the groups that are likely to lack access to technology, this approach does not adequately contextualize the problems faced by marginalized groups such as the poor as they …
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"Speaking others, practicing selves: Power, identity, and communications in ""Apna Ghar"" (Our Home)"
… relations reproduced by the construction of marginalized groups as other by the dominant discourses and practices of patriarchy and the West but marginalized groups themselves reproduce multiple power relations by constructing themselves as other through their own discursive and material …
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The integration of adolescents of immigrant origin into the German education system : investigating everyday racism and xenophobia : a case study of an integrated public secondary school in Germany
… in doing so, give voice to the experiences of marginalized groups within the German education system.
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Evaluation of the 1988 user-fee policy in Lesotho
… promotion of equitable access for economically marginalized groups.
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Ephemeral and forgotten: an archaeological investigation of race, marginalization and historic preservation
… investigate and interpret sites occupied by marginalized groups. I examine how the interplay between these issues and historic preservation laws and practices can make it difficult to protect sites associated with marginalized groups. As a result. preservation laws nominally designed to …
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Psychotherapy Training and Ethics: A Liberatory Response to Ideology for the Clinic and the Classroom
… longstanding participation in the subjugation of marginalized groups. Prominent critiques from historical, liberation, and decolonial psychologists have linked the medicalization and standardization of psychology as a decontextualized science with said oppression of marginalized groups. As such, …
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An examination of Simone de Beauvoir's theme of situated embodiment
… existence. Beauvoir's philosophy also focuses on marginalized groups who are in the position ofthe Other. One of the marginalized groups studied are women, and this thesis investigates Beauvoir's understanding of why woman is in the position of the Other. This thesis also addresses two feminist …
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Capitalism, Consumerism, and Individualism: Investigating the Rhetoric of <em>The Secret</em>
… that this rhetoric holds for women and marginalized groups. I will investigate how the theory draws on quotes from spiritual leaders, famous scientists, and revered world figures and abstracts their meanings by placing them in a paradigm for their own use. I will also look at how they …
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The Vernacular Discourse of the "Arab Spring": An Analysis of the Visual, the Embodied, and the Textual Rhetorics of the Karama Revolution
… the analyses of different artifacts produced by marginalized groups in order to understand their perspectives that have largely been foreclosed in traditional cultural studies research. Building on embodied/performative critical rhetoric, the vernacular discourses of the Arab revolutionary body …
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When States ‘Come Out’: The Politics Of Visibility And The Diffusion Of Sexual Minority Rights In Europe
… among states and the political power of marginalized people within them. I show that the key to understanding processes of social change lies in a closer examination of the ways in which-and the degree to which-marginalized groups make governments and societies see and interact with their …
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