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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Political Act"”.
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The Political Act of Writing Feminism- Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and the Utopian Vision
<p>Feminist Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain lived a life of seclusion and oppression like many middle-class Muslim women in colonial India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. During this period, Rokeya used writing as a tool to fight against the oppression women faced from the …
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Lifting Word by Word: Ideologies of Literacy, Education and Feminism in the Rhetoric of Two Nineteenth Century African -American Women
… that for black women, teaching was and is a political act.
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History museum and archive of the lesbian and gay community of New York City
… is an exercise in responsibility regarding my actions as an architect. It is based upon the belief that architecture is a product conveying culture. While architecture can convey culture, it also has the potential to shape and facilitate change q in culture. Therefore, one can view the …
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An exploration of how mental health service users construct meaning from the Work Capability Assessment process - using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis
… policy has seen those that are economically inactive and unemployed constructed as problematic groups who require intervention to become productive members of mainstream society. The Work Capability Assessment process has been criticised for not adequately assessing work capability in people …
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Performing the encounter; a practice-led inquiry
… reproducing real-life narratives but a dynamic practice of engagement, wit(h)nessing, and artistry. Through a practice-led inquiry, two key projects - Sense of Home and Company in the Gardens - are examined to consider how verbatim theatre can foster attentiveness to the complexities of lived …
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Writings From the Borderzone: Tales of Recuperation and Transgression in the Works of Malika Mokeddem, Calixthe Beyala, and Evelyne Accad
… Lebanon, write from a discursive space often characterized by a transnational sense of the female subject as she moves across borders. While fighting to survive the alienation, solitude, and marginalization one often faces while living abroad these women choose to write of their experiences at …
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German Architectural Modernism, Spatial Perpetration and the Concentration Camp, 1933–1945
… Together, the case studies demonstrate the interaction between architectural modernism and the regime, most notably through standardisation in construction; it is argued that establishing and replicating ‘norms’ is an inherently political act and, therefore, the role and responsibilities of …
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Ethnic Identity and the Consolidation of Imperial Power in the Grand Khitan Empire (AD 907-1125) Burial Art as Evidence for Ethnogenesis in a Multi-ethnic Society
… treaty across parts of Asia. By deliberate political strategies of cultural construction and the materialization of ethnic ideology, Khitan leaders maintained a multi-ethnic social fabric, consolidated their imperial power, made the ethnic Khitan distinct with the rise of their state, and …
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Aztec Nation: History, inscription, and indigenista feminism in Chicana literature and political discourse
… of the pre-conquest Aztecs as strategies of political resistance. Claiming themselves la Raza de Bronce the Bronze race) in their art, literature, and political discourse, Chicano activists and intellectuals distinguished themselves racially from white America and worked toward reunifying an …
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I Speak From the Wound in My Mouth
… text constitutes a radical, interpretive, political act. It argues for and is an exemplar of, what I define as a socially conscious, imagination-intellect. It counters the traditional notion that scientists or so-called rational thinkers, and artists or so-called creative-emotional thinkers …
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Farmers' markets as contested sites: From neoliberal redevelopment governance to lifestyle activism
… marketplace. Here shopping is perceived as a political act. People shop at their local farmers’ market to express support for more environmentally friendly, healthy, and humane production methods. They also do so in order to obtain what is widely considered the best meat and produce available. …
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The Politics of Transformation: Improvement, Gender and Transitional Housing in Cape Town, South Africa
To explore what transformation means in practice, this thesis investigates the state-led project of Pickwick Transitional Housing in Cape Town. This empirical example offers insight into the ways in which housing models concerned with social, economic, and physical “transition” connect with housing …
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Views of Feminist Family Therapy: A Q-Methodological Inquiry
… critique of family therapy has had a growing impact on theory and practice for almost two decades (Hare-Mustin, 1978; Bograd, 1990). Writings on feminist family therapy (FFT) reveal both common and diverse opinions about what FFT is. The present study examined how views of FFT are segmented using …
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Healing centered organizing : what side are you on?
… collective humanity. Queer, feminist author and activist Audre Lorde said, "Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." Healing is a political act. My research asks, What does healing look and feel like as an explicit part of youth …
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Cuban Routes of Avant-Garde Theatre: Havana, New York, Miami, 1965-1991.
… introduced a particular vein of experimental practices into U.S. American avant-garde theatre, especially as it intersects with U.S. Latina/o theatre and LGBTQ theatre. I interrogate the theatre history of these three cities as horizontal and contiguous, challenging historical narratives of U.S. …
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'I wasn't educated, I was very lucky': Sylvia Townsend Warner and Education
… posits alternative pedagogical and educational practices that enable individuals to develop more autonomous and political subjectivities that are restricted, if not wholly denied, within conventional forums. Furthermore, it is by exploring the interrelationship between Warner’s political activism …
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Ko wai tō ingoa? The transformative potential of Māori names
… name over one’s lifetime is simultaneously a political act of resistance and an act of normalisation – an act of just being Māori. In particular, the thesis reveals how whānau naming practices endure and are important for whānau identity and belonging. A Kaupapa Māori theoretical approach is …
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What's so private about private property?
… rights, social welfare, and justice, the political authorities—including judges and legislators—who operate the institutions must determine whether, and under what conditions, individual property rights ought to prevail over conflicting rights. I argue that considerations of privacy are …
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Teaching in a Materials’ World: A Qualitative Study of Graduate Teaching Assistants’ Use of Texts for Teaching Culture in The Spanish Classroom
… textbook, which effectively functions as the de facto curriculum. Within these neoliberal institutional contexts, where efficiency, standardization, and assessment-driven outcomes shape instruction, culture is often compartmentalized, weakly assessed, and subordinated to linguistic goals. These …
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Early Childhood Studies as a site for Education for Sustainability, Eco Literacy and Critical Pedagogy
… refer to as ‘meaning making’ through ‘cycles of action and reflection’ (90). The theme of Education for Sustainability is woven throughout the publications, and whilst there is a swathe of literature related to ESD, this body of work is unique in its attempt to acknowledge the synthesis between …
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