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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Ontological Security"”.
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Ontological Security: State Identity and Self-Image in the Digital Age
… vulnerabilities that present studies on state insecurity in cyberspace focus on. This vulnerability in cyberspace is an ontological insecurity. Ontological insecurity reveals itself in the contradictions in official state discourse regarding cyberspace. State security of self—preserving and …
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Ontological Security and Status-Seeking: Thailand's Proactive Behaviours during the Second World War
… influence? This thesis employs the approaches of ontological security and status concern to interpret Thai proactive behaviours during the wartime period. It argues that concerns for status and recognition from the great powers were the primary motivations of Thailand’s proactive behaviours. In …
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‘Governing Strangers, Conquering Stigma’: Moderate Islam, Ontological Security, and the Politics of Counter-Terror in Malaysia
… counter-terrorism through the framework of ontological security, arguing that counter-terror is not merely about attaining physical security. Rather, it is an enterprise of ontological security-seeking that operates on two levels. On the international level, the politics of counter-terror …
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The Buddhist and the Khaek: A Study of the Thai State's Ontological Security and Self-Identity
… to examine and analyze the manifestations of the ontological security and self-identity anxiety of the Thai states through its rhetoric in relation to Thai and Malayu Muslims. The main question being posed in this thesis is how the Thai state justified the use of force during the Tak Bai Incident …
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Finding ontological security in a world of precarity : a sociological study of the use of high cost credit by people on low incomes
… participants felt a deeper sense of ontological security. The unique contribution of this thesis is that it challenges the pejorative narrative attached to high cost credit. It provides original empirical evidence to demonstrate the value low-income participants place on access to …
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Towards a theory of trust in libraries and democracy
… for trust and democracy. I also introduce ontological security as a theoretical frame for public libraries to deepen their understanding of their work and its systemic impact. Anthony Giddens, a prominent English sociologist who is known for his holistic view on modern society, offers a …
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The Politics of Stigmatization: Poland as a ‘Latecomer’ in the European Union
… ideas and norms guiding a state’s pursuit of security. I go beyond the existing literature to argue that the guiding principle of a state’s strategic culture is the pursuit of not just physical but ontological security, which refers to stable subjectivity (Giddens 1991; Kinnvall 2004; Mitzen …
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Clinical Simulation-Based Assessment in Respiratory Therapy Education
… learning environment, including trust, ontological security, and fidelity, may be at risk in the face of the evolving assessment practices in health professions education. As an at once undertheorized yet highly technologically enhanced and connected approach to learning, a shift towards …
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From Haiti to Canada: The Migration That Binds
… research. Ideas of slow harm and ontological security are also integrated into this relational theoretical framework. Based on interviews in two Canadian provinces with people of Haitian backgrounds, empirical findings point to the intensifying impoverishment and insecurity …
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The security imaginaries of an unarmed people: popular and elite security discourses in Iceland
This dissertation analyzes public and elite security discourses in Iceland, drawing on focus group interviews and political debates to develop an understanding of what serves as the foundation of security and insecurity at the societal, environmental, and political levels. The thesis uses discourse …
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Hospitality in Adventure Tourism:: Being, dwelling, guiding
… philosophical and sociological concepts such as ontological security, existential comfort, being, dwelling, communitas and hygge. The findings aim to enable commercial tour providers to develop a better understanding of customer needs, and thus give recommendations for adapting the practices of …
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'Ourfoodstories@e-mail.com', an Auto/Biographical Study of Relationships with Food.
… a sea of remembering that engendered a sense of ontological security. Foodways are, thus, part of a habitus that is gendered, classed, temporal and historical. Women in the study conformed to cultural scripts of heteronormative femininity, whilst men resorted to hegemonic masculinities to …
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Constructing the Active-Body: A Sociological Investigation
… a sense of belonging, which in tum engenders the ontological security about the physical self that serves to stabilise long-term patterns of participation.
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Order in a world of chaos: a comparative study of a central dialectic in works of Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka and Luis Cernuda
… for absolute order, which would give genuine ontological security and a sense that there is ultimate meaning and purpose in the cosmos. This quest does however fail, but there are other quests for order, in both 'love' and erotic impulses and in art. The problems however continue, for 'love' …
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Mobility, *Being, Global Network: A Technography of Laptops and Cellphones
… performances, allowing individuals to maintain ontological security through technological performativity, irregardless of their transience as global subjects. This dissertation elaborates this theoretical premise in greater detail, and in the tradition of ethnomethodology, illustrates it with …
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Crisis Thought
… some of the linkages between crisis thought, security, and liberalism. The second goal is to examine through various examples and vignettes how, where, and why crisis thought manifests itself in US politics and in ordinary life. Some topics addressed in this study include: news media, …
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BETWEEN EXISTENTIAL AND ONTOLOGICAL (IN)SECURITY: THE BALTIC STATES AND THE EUROPEAN UNION’S RESPONSE TO RUSSIA’S MILITARY INTERVENTIONS IN GEORGIA (2008) AND UKRAINE (2014)
… with the guiding concepts of existential (in)security and ontological (in)security to explore the hitherto overlooked efforts of the Baltic states to gain visibility and assert agency during two crises in the EU’s eastern neighbourhood. This thesis adopts a mixed qualitative methodological …
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Housing qualities: Myths and meanings in Auckland, New Zealand
… social and material environment but also through ontological security and the expression of self that enables residents to experience housing qualities.
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Teaching-Focused Faculty and Their Pedagogical Practices in Middle and Upper-Level Engineering Courses
… as amplifiers and filters of pedagogical agency. Ontological security, routinization, and time-space constraints related to class size, curriculum structure, available teaching support, student preparedness, evaluation system and institutional policy, etc. shaped how instructional intentions were …
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Exploring indigenous knowledge practices concerning health and well-being: a case study of isiXhosa-speaking women in the rural Eastern Cape
… practices in facilitating cultural identity and ontological security. This thesis contributes to theories of knowledge and how knowledge and knowledge reproduction may be viewed and understood, particularly with regard to informal learning. These insights can be applied to developing curricula …
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