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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Negotiating identities"”.
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Negotiating Identities: The Case of Evangelical Christian Women in London
… women negotiate their religious and gendered identities in London. My findings are based on a 12-month ethnography and 33 semi-structured interviews with unmarried evangelical women (aged 22 – 40) living in London. Recognising the unique challenges that single religious women face, including …
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Across Lands: Double Consciousness and Negotiating Identities in Early Chinese American Literature, 1847-1910s
… demonstrates their across lands strategies of negotiating identities prior to and during the Exclusion Era (1882-1943). My formulation of what I call 'across lands theory' focuses on the self-representations of Chinese and mixed race immigrants in their struggle to acquire a place in the United …
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Negotiating identities in post-apartheid South Africa : black African managers' experiences in an English-speaking university
… Worlds/Borders Resisted. The strategies for negotiating identity in the workplace included conforming to the institutional culture, integrating or "plugging in" selected values of the African home culture into that of the company, resisting the dominant culture of the company and leaving the …
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Not a proper mathematician, like those with a mathematics degree: ‘Subject switchers’ negotiating identities as beginning teachers of mathematics
… switcher might influence the negotiation of identities as a teacher of mathematics. Four participant stories were constructed, from a range of narrative sources, to explore individual journeys to becoming a qualified teacher of mathematics. The subject switchers participating in this study …
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White English-speaking South Africans of the transition generation: negotiating identities through the intersecting discourses of whiteness and the' New' South Africa
This study is particularly concerned with white English-speaking South Africans who were born from 1980 to1989, which this study has named the 'transition generation'. This is a generation of young South Africans who were born on the cusp of apartheid's demise, and therefore they are not completely …
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The connection between the decision to join a secular Jewish-oriented group and perceived Jewish identity: A comparative study between American and Israeli joiners
… revealed an attempt to bridge polarized selfidentities and thus create a continuous and balanced self-story. The social context subtlety influenced the decision to join a SJOG. Finally, in negotiating identities, individuals created outer social constructs to accommodate their identity …
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To Play Jewish Again: Roots, Counterculture, and the Klezmer Revival
… are reflections of the long project of Jews negotiating identities as both American and Jewish—the attempt to fit in from the margins while maintaining or being ascribed certain ethnic differences—in the United States throughout the 20th century.
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The Social History of a National Collection: Anthropology, Repatriation and the Politics of Identity
… demonstrate the role that collections play in negotiating identities. For that purpose, I begin with the supposition that objects shape as well as materialize identity, and that disciplines define themselves by virtue of what they collect. I examine recent shifts in what is deemed ethically …
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The Everyday Lives of Men: An Ethnographic Investigation of Young Adult Male Identity
… social debate in recent times surrounding men’s identities, men’s health and wellbeing, and men’s place within contemporary western society. The purpose of this thesis was to contribute to new knowledge of these issues through an ethnographic exploration of two small sub-cultures of young adults. …
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Performed and Perceived Masculinity in Father-Son Relationships from the Perspective of Sons: A Thematic Narrative Analysis
… narratives surrounding the construction of sons' identities, roles and relationships within father-son relationships, the following three themes emerged: (1) <em>perceptions of father(ing)</em>; (2) <em>sons' perceptions of self</em>; and (3) <em>turning point perspectives</em>. <em>RQ3</em> which …
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Constitution and negotiation of rural student identities at an urban South African university
… from rural areas consti-tute and negotiate their identities within an urban South African university. Much of the re-search on rurality in South Africa has focused on rural areas as places, and not on the people occupying them. Using a convenience sample of 12 participants, this study was …
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Students’ negotiation of practice education in occupational therapy: a case study
… findings show the complexity of the process of negotiating access to the occupational therapy practice education discourse. This process was marked by navigation of issues that stem from language, curriculum, pedagogy and identity. Three themes emerged that signal creative ways in which …
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An exploration of Key Stage 3 girls' peer group friendships outside the class-room and their influence within the class-room
… used as acts of resistance. The data showed that negotiating identities (by curtailing the tension between the personal and the social) and generally managing social relationships were a key element in a school pupil's life and important in their overall identity, but this area still remains …
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Foreign Objects in Local Contexts: Mortuary Objectscapes in Late Colonial Nubia (16th–11th Centuries BC)
… of power, hierarchies and strategies for negotiating identities based on people’s ability to consume foreign objects and their ways of handling them.