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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"New narratives"”.
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Including Exceptional Children in a Christian Learning Community: New Narratives in Special Education
<p>Research Topic</p> <p>The majority of Christian schools in the United States exclude children who have disabilities from their learning communities. This study examines the practices of 11 Christian schools throughout the United States, through conversations with a top leader in each school, …
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Fibre Production Among the Coastal Hunter-gatherers of South America’s West Coast: New Narratives from Plant Fibre Technologies
… Period. Furthermore, this research shows that new elements were being added to fibre production, such as camelid hair and various pigments near the end of the Preceramic Period, which coincided with the appearance of more elaborate artefacts. The function of the fibre artefacts in coastal …
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Identity and Social Change in North-Western Europe (BCE 250/100 - 200 CE): new narratives through funerary evidence
The thesis contends that local identities in North-Western Europe in the PRIA and early Roman period were more altered by the experience of empire than has previously been understood in archaeology. The work offers insights into local and regional attempts at organising coherent funerary traditions …
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On Hing Travel Agency Fictional Archive of Disappearing Hong Kong
… curating maps, brochures, and layered narratives to immerse travelers in speculative thinking. By bridging the past and future, real and imagined, OHTA is a attempt to demonstrates how fiction can reclaim agency within the politics of disappearance, transforming loss into a catalyst for …
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A demonstration of riches: landscape narratives at Chatsworth
This thesis looks at the current landscape narratives at Chatsworth; England’s most visited country house, and proposes new narratives that are more socially inclusive and that cover a broader swath of history. It also proposes a new mode of information dissemination based on the increased use of …
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Postures
… disparate forms and images coexist, forming new narratives aside from their individual isolated implications; incorporating art production methods that construct an evolving dichotomy that contains a sense of play, tension, and irony while evoking references to our current social experiences. …
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A psychological sense of community as experienced among immigrant survivors of torture
… this value, members influenced each other‘s new narratives about what it means to have been tortured, and about what it means to become survivors. This influence toward survivorship filled an important psychological need. The new narrative and the fulfilled needs also became the basis for the …
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The story of a video game: reading the Assassin's Creed universe
<p>In the digital age, fictional narratives worthy of serious analysis are no longer confined to print. In recent years, video games have come under the eye of scholars from many fields. What can video games offer? How do they change the hature of fictional narrative? And how can we study them with …
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"There will be many stories": museum anthropology, collaboration, and the Tlicho
… members of the community, and involves creating new narratives about things of interest to the partners and wider public. This study interlinks applied anthropology, ethnography, ethnohistory, Indigenous archaeology, art, museums as places of interaction, and cultural revitalization, through the …
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Landscape ruin: groundmass excavation at Higgovale Quarry
… that can reveal ancient landscapes and suggest new narratives. My research revolves around ruin discourse, and the idea that a 'dig' is a sort of ruin in reverse. I began thinking about the criteria that define a ruin and applying them to landscapes. The study culminated in the idea of the …
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Making Sense of Nonsense
… merge into unsteady structures that hint at new narratives of their functionality, or lack thereof. </p> <p>Questioning realms of visual and verbal language, aesthetics, and functionality are fundamental to this exhibition as they are constantly discussed, edited, and revised by theorists, …
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A Meshrep in Our Home... Where There Is No Meshrep: Contrasting Narratives in the Reinvention of a Uyghur Gathering
… affected Uyghur perception of meshrep, creating new narratives of the gathering as foundational to Uyghur culture. I focus on how the proliferation of the term meshrep and staged portrayals of its practice after attaining UNESCO status reveals how different actors within Xinjiang use meshrep as a …
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Los Angeles Artists and Revisionist Historiography: A Diasporic Intervention
… discourses, by shifting absent or marginal narratives to the center, modeling a process of writing history that goes beyond merely inserting peoples of diverse backgrounds into the history of art, but revisions history from a more equitable perspective. Furthermore, drawing on a broad field …
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Historic settlement on Unst, Shetland. An holistic study of abandoned settlements on Unst, Shetland utilising historical archaeology and prospection approaches
… archaeological and landscape contexts to form new narratives for the field remains around two abandoned house sites. Assessment of the historical settlement of Unst highlighted a much greater degree of variation between the different evidence strands for the perceptions to truly represent the …
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Social innovation systems for building resilient communities
… policy and planning. The study represents a new approach to research in architecture that takes an international perspective in the analysis of phenomena such as transdisciplinarity, insurgent activism and politics in space. Findings suggest that new narratives - platforms and spaces - in …
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Beyond the trauma hero: the discourse of American war fiction from the Global War on Terror
… a turning point for the United States. This new period of relative warlessness allows the nation to reflect on its collective experiences of the last 20 years of war and think critically about our actions and policies that governed the Global War on Terror. An essential first step in …
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Intercultural Competence Development: Exploring International Graduate Student Leaders' Journeys through Contemplation and Mindfulness-Based Inquiry
… Circle (Deardorff, 2020c). Findings depicted new narratives that challenged a deficit view about international students and revealed (a) participants’ perceptions about IC, (b) their journeys of perspective transformation, (c) their engagement in the meaning-making processes, and (d) the role …
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My hart kry swaar: reconsidering patriarchy through queer abstraction, phenomenology and the haptic
… classification, as well as imagining new narratives of desire and belonging. The project is situated within the fluctuating temporal boundaries of queer narratology, referencing theorists such as Florian Zitzelsberger, Sara Ahmed, Jack Halberstam, David Getsy, José Esteban Muñoz, Laura …
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Playing with Anger: Lessons from Contemporary Black Feminist Dramas
… emotion, reshapes spectatorship, and generates new narratives about Black women and girls.
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Changing narratives of minority peoples' identities in Welsh and Basque film
This thesis discusses how changing narratives of Welsh and Basque identity have been represented in film. It builds on Higson’s (1989) notion of ‘heritage film’, and ideas derived from postcolonial theory to develop a threefold system of classification. It develops an argument that narratives of …
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