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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"National Belonging"”.
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Home and national belonging : narratives of Zimbabwean middle class women in Cape Town
… class migrant women’s narratives of home and belonging in Cape Town? The women participants in this research self-identify as middle class and have lived in Cape Town for years ranging from three to 22. The women produced subjective knowledges around key themes of otherness, representations of …
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Adrift at home: National belonging and narrative form in the rooms of twentieth-century British fiction
… is particular to a century in which personal and national spaces underwent extraordinary transformation. I examine national change at the level of the interior room, where characters expressly or tacitly pursue a stable home, even as the rooms that constitute their houses are increasingly drafty, …
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Stand up for Singapore? Gay men and the cultural politics of national belonging in the Lion City
… gay men articulate their aspirations for national belonging within a recalcitrant state and its nation-building programs. These men expose the artificiality of the nation and its categories of belonging. Even as the state compels them to submit to its call for economic and biological …
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'Score! You Are Now More Canadian': A Case Study Approach to Understanding Citizenship and National Belonging in Sport
… explores the concept of sport as a vehicle of belonging and negotiating identity via case study of the Umoja Games, an annual faith and community-based sport tournament held in the United States and Canada. This study explores the narratives of the players and the co-founder combined with data …
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Cultivating a New Transnational Elite: Parenting, Schooling, and Belonging in the Age of Global It
… children to become the next generation of transnationally mobile professionals? As a result of their upbringing in two countries, how do transnationally mobile children and youth understand their ethnic identity and national belonging? I address these questions, and more, by analyzing 95 …
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Between Two Motherlands: Struggles for Nationhood Among the Greeks in Bulgaria, 1906--1949
… Its history illustrates the tension between nationality as a form of cultural affinity and national ideology as a political doctrine in the twentieth century: the Bulgarian Greeks considered themselves heirs of the ancient Greek colonists and identified with the Greek nation, yet they had an …
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Be All You Can Be or Longing to Be: Racialized soldiers, the Canadian military experience and the Im/Possibility of belonging to the nation
… negotiation of citizenship, immigration, national belonging and identity. In this dissertation I ask the following questions: Who is the racialized soldier subject? How do racialized soldiers negotiate national belonging? What are their experiences in the Canadian military? This research …
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Heritage tourism and symbolic representation of national identity: an ethnographic study of Changdeok Palace, Seoul
… interrelationships between heritage tourism and national identity. The research focuses on the World Heritage Site of Changdeok Palace in Seoul, South Korea (Republic of Korea). The study's theoretical framework suggests that heritage is not only a fundamental attribute of national culture but an …
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Whose Safety Matters? Exaltation, Risky Refugees, and Canadian Safe Country Practices
… systems of domination, and the parameters of national belonging. I will be performing a discourses analysis of the government’s and the Canadian Council for Refugee’s year one report of the Safe Third Country Agreement. I will also be performing a discourse analysis of the Citizenship and …
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THE POLITICS OF BELONGING AND YOUTH WORK IN MILAN
… suspension, or renegotiation of the criteria of national belonging within the socio-educational spaces in which it operates (Youth Centres). Starting from an urban and media context marked by the growing stigmatization of young people with a migration background—frequently represented as …
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Migrants Reading Māori Television: mā rātou, mā mātou
… and has exerted a pressure to reimagine both national and migrant identities in the context of a society founded on a treaty that promised Māori self-determination. However, in reality its institutions, including the 'mainstream' media, continue to reflect the unequal power relations between …
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A Sense of Place; How Museums in Wales Represent Going Back To Our Roots And Sharing Our History Through Food.
… and to what extent. It dissects the sense of national belonging explored between heritage sites and the significance of representing culture for the purpose of conserving and safeguarding it.
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Stitching from afar. Palestinian embroidery between narration of the self and practice of belonging
… shifted from a regional visual language to a national signifier after the Nakba in 1948, and it is continuously evolving as a site to reclaim national belonging, resistance against occupation, and individual forms of identification as Palestinian in diaspora. The aim of the present research is …
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Constructing the nation : gender bias and masculinity in Syrian nationalism
This is a revisionist study of Syrian nationalism. At the heart of this intellectual enterprise is an examination of the inherent and ingrained masculinist bias. While teasing out this aspect, I enquire about the basis of this prejudice. The masculinist interpretation of nationalism and its …
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Living Color: Aesthetic Surfaces and Political Life in Brazil
… contribute to productions of race, gender, and national belonging. While some of the aesthetic technologies examined herein may be characterized as “bottom up” – or as the self-fashioning tactics of marginalized Afro-Brazilians – others constitute “top down” infrastructural interventions led by …
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Narratives of Exclusion: Gender, Sex, Islamophobia, and Violence in American Political Discourse
… boundaries around morality, modernity, and national belonging. My analysis of each of my three case studies reveals that culture wars around religious liberty, reproductive control, immigration, and gun violence serve as extensions of imperialism and white Christian nationalism. At the end …
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The Domestic Worker in Latinx Fiction: The Discursive Formation of Latinidad
… can understand the embodied context of race and national belonging, and how these contexts establish symbolic borders between the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and the United States. The exclusion of these characters from the canon of latinidad, then, leads to a more careful consideration of the …
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Countering the DREAMer Narrative: Storytelling, Immigration Reform, and the Work of 67 Sueños
… focused on the concept of the nation-state and national belonging.</p>
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Migrant Itinerancy: The Hemispheric Politics of Contemporary Undocumented Migration
… premised upon notions of identity and belonging. Rather than merely reflecting on the effects of the exclusionary logics of immigration discourse in the region, Migrant Itinerancy asks how the tensions and contradictions at the heart of the politics of migration in the hemisphere open a …
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Gays Going Global: Institutional Scripting and Inclusion of Homonationalist Student Identities in Study Abroad
… called homonormativity, is part of a larger nationalist project that constructs and defines the terms of national belonging by extending sexual citizenship to the "good gay citizen." One way that individuals can work towards their inclusion is through consuming homonationalist "prepackaged …
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