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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Performative identity"”.
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Chipped-stone technology and social diversity in Mesolithic communities: developing a methodology to assess the lithic chaîne opératoire and explore the technical performance of identity
… diversity during the Mesolithic by examining performative identity through lithic technology. A hermeneutic approach is employed to achieve this, utilising a detailed theoretical framework as the foundation for a systematic methodological process. Various ‘choices’ made during the knapping …
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Cowboys, Postmodern Heroes, and Anti-heroes: The Many Faces of the Alterized White Man
… at the same time and continues to function as a performative identity that offers a point of identification for the working class white man suggesting that bourgeois identity is obtainable through the performance of bourgeois ethics. The thesis postulates that the phenomenal transitions brought …
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Smart girls : a deconstructive discourse analysis of smartness
… framework, with a focus on discourse and performative identity, I scrutinize three dominant discourses of smartness that are prevalent and academic and popular press. These constructions frame smart girls as being either Losers, Have-It-All Girls, or Imposters. By conducting …
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Monstrative acts and becoming-monster: on identity, bodies, and the feminine other
… feminine and the corporeal, this thesis links performative identity practices to theories of monstrosity, explaining how fictional qualities adhere to monstrous bodies by proposing a new theoretical category, the “monstrative.” The monstrative is a performative force that makes the Other into a …
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Touching the hero: bodies, boundaries and blood in the Old French Cycle des Narbonnais
… of social prestige; however, by employing a performative approach to identity, overlaid with a psychoanalytic interpretation of the subject’s relationship with the Other, I argue that regulated patterns of touch in the poems iterate and maintain heroic identity. Of course, an identity forged …
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Performativity and gameplay: gender, race, and desire amongst a team of League of Legends players
… context. The relationship between identity and desire, which has been a point of debate in sociolinguistics, is discussed in the context of the clan's interactions. Here I focus on the debate between Cameron and Kulick on the one hand and Bucholtz and Hall on the other. The paper …
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The black, British Atlantic: Blackness in Victorian literature
… racial affiliation. This notion of blackness as performative signifier goes beyond the slavery metaphor in Victorian literature to frame an interpretive paradigm that allows us to read blackness in broader socio-political contexts. As I show how canonical and non-canonical nineteenth-century …
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Moving to the West: Media, Cultural Transnationalism and Identity. Cultural Dynamics of Korean Women in Diaspora
… informed approach to delve into media, diasporic identity, and cultural transnationalism. The analysis draws from six month of intensive fieldwork, including “following” in-depth interviews, participant observation, and digital ethnography. The study aims to investigate the interplay between …