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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Performance ethnography"”.
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Exploring Performance Ethnography to illuminate mobile banking Capabilities in Western Kenya: Capability Approach Study
… research project answers Denzin’s (2003) call to performance, a performance which contributes to a more “enlightened and involved citizenship”. It is “revolutionary” in that it “enlightens citizens to the possibilities” of MPESA by staging dramatic texts or performances rewritten from the …
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Performance Rights: A Historical Performance Ethnography of Contested Displays by American Women, 1920-1930
Taken as a whole, this investigation shows how women of the 1920s enacted their lives and thereby immeasurably enriched the era of history that is often recognized as the very threshold of American modernity.
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Exploring the First Year of Teaching Through Focus Group Discussions, Ethno-Mimesis, A/r/tography, and Performance Ethnography
… discussions, ethno-mimesis, a/r/tography, and performance ethnography are used to explore the first-year teachers experiences. Findings from the study demonstrated that the first-year teachers endured a significant transition from student teaching to teaching and encountered unexpected …
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Performances of an Able, Academic Mind
… more precarity in the process. This project is a performance ethnography of my time in the academy, starting with my life as an undergraduate being disciplined into academic life, moving toward recruitment for graduate school, and ending with events surrounding the construction of this very …
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Moving: knowledge, image, embodiment and Iranian-American identity in the post-911 USA
… ascribes an extended methodology of auto-ethnography to the problem of apprehending the cultural and affective crossways symbiotic with post 911, late capitalism, in the United States and on the Transnational Stage. It introduces a performative approach derived from Somatics and forms of …
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Homegirl Going Home: Hip Hop Feminism and the Representational Politics of Location
… a three-part research design, which includes autoethnography, a series of textual analyses, and a semi-structured focus group interview from a purposive sample of five young Black women from a Virginia public housing community, the former home of the researcher. The three-part qualitative research …
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THEATRE PRODUCTION AS EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING: THE SUMMER MUSICAL PROGRAM AT THE SITAR CENTER FOR ARTS EDUCATION
… focus. In this study, I utilize educational and performance ethnography to examine the effects of the theatre program and the ways in which it helps fulfill the greater mission of the center. In addition, I explore the relationship between more traditional programs and applied theatre methods in …
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Sites of Passage: Art as Action in Egypt and the US-- Creating an Autoethnography Through Performance Writing, Revolution, and Social Practice
As a performance artist and arts activist I present my research project to the audience in performative writing, a postmodern research style that advocates the integration of the artist/researcher identity. In the summer of 2010, I left for Egypt to teach a performance and installation art workshop …
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Performing Race, Performing History: Oral Histories of Sundown Towns in Southern Illinois
… the history of sundown towns and use performance as an analytical tool to understand racial dimensions in community members' stories. I examine how everyday community narratives reveal racialized performances and construct current manifestations of sundown towns. I further examine the …
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"Consuming the ""authentic"": globalized nostalgia and the politics of hybridity through culinary tourism and heritage foodways. A case study of Galicia, Spain."
… the tensions between tradition and modernity as performance ethnography and the autoethnographic voice weave through an examination of policy, affect, history, and culture. Presenting Galicia, Spain as a case study, this investigation recognizes the linkages between regional and national …
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An Ethnographic Look at Inclusive Dance and Dancers with Intellectual Disabilities
… dance companies. This dissertation is a critical performance ethnography about two inclusive dance companies, South Africa’s FLATFOOT Downie Dance Company, and Finland’s Kaaos Dance Company. In-person observation of the dance companies results in a nuanced understanding of how people with ID …
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Our Stories: (Re)Imagining Disability Futures Through Autobiographical Performance by Neurodiverse Artists
… this dissertation explores autobiographical performance as a vehicle for self-advocacy and imagining disability futures differently. Over seven months in 2021, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I brought four neurodivergent artists together on Zoom to co-create a performance piece …
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How to be a superhero: stories of creating a culture of inclusion through theatre
… through an applied theatre praxis and critical/performance ethnography. Progressive pedagogy informs the methods, ethics, and values of each cross-cultural inclusive project. Participants with neurodivergent, or atypical (dis)abilities are contextualized as heroes within the metaphoric framework …
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Cumulative Impact: Digital Ethnography of Environmental Activism in the Mountain View Community
<p>While digital ethnography is a growing genre in communication, there is a salient need to fill the gaps of knowledge concerning health communication using a digital format. Digital ethnography holds the potential of reaching larger audiences, incorporating more stakeholders, and adding …
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Staging [in]visible subjects: Blackqueer bodies, social death and performance
… Subjects: BlackQueer Bodies, Social Death and Performance is an examination of the ways in which death and violence operate within the lives of black/queer youth. Black/queer youth experience marginalization across several dimensions of difference (i.e. race, class, sexuality, gender, etc). …
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In their own performance: an ethnographic study of mothers’ accounts of interactions with professionals at a children’s centre
… mothers’ stories, I designed an arts based performance ethnographic methodology. Through the use of theme boards and stream of consciousness writing in a drama group context, text was collected over an eighteen month period from 16 mothers. Initial review, editing and distilling of text was …