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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Popularisation"”.
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Unleashing Science Popularisation: Studies on Science as Popular Culture
… thesis aims to broaden the concept of science popularisation. It argues that the conventional view of popularisation as the public communication of appropriately simplified versions of established facts to lay audiences fails to capture the multifaceted nature of popularisation practices …
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The Word of Science: Popularising Darwinism in Romania, 1859-1918
This dissertation explores the popularisation of Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory in Romania from 1859 to 1918. Placing Darwinism in the Romanian context is important in several ways, as not only gives a picture of the interconnectedness between the political and the scientific construction of …
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The Role of Women in the Canonisation of Shakespeare: From Elizabethan Theatre to the Shakespeare Jubilee
… Jubilee in 1769 marked the climax of the popularisation of his works. It is said that since then, he has maintained his position as the ‘national poet’ of England (or Britain). Although women had supported Shakespeare even before his works had established their canonical status, the extent …
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"Weird Sex Science" in Britain, ca. 1900-1939: Narratives of Naturalisation and Eradication
… to a vibrant area of scholarship on science popularisation by examining how leading biologists, F. A. E. Crew and Julian Huxley chief among them, exploited semi-popular and popular platforms, including Britain’s newspapers, to relate their sexological studies of sex variations to their social …
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Mapping the complexity of forensic science : implications for forensic science education
… agencies and judicial systems and its popularisation through the mass media. Consequently, forensic science education has been characterised by a rapid expansion in both the number of forensic science courses and the number of students enrolling in such courses. However, very little is …
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Qu'ranic exegesis and thematic coherence : comparing the approaches of Amr Khalid and Amin Islahi.
… influence, this study underlines an increased popularisation of thematic commentary in a competing arena of exegetical approaches this century. This research area is enmeshed within a wider set of questions related to the interpretation of scripture and the central role the Qur’ān plays for …
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Optimising outcomes in the treatment of lower limb varicose veins
… significant evolution is the development and popularisation of minimally invasive therapy, especially endovenous laser ablation (EVLA) in the last two decades. This thesis focuses on the optimisation of outcomes in the management of this very common condition.Four studies were performed to …
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Maud Powell, Marie Hall and Alma Moodie: A gendered re-evaluation of three violinists
… of recording, recognising its importance for the popularisation of art music. However they were assigned, at best, second place by historians. Therefore this research, by a modification of the traditional, patriarchal estimations of their legacy, aims for a more profound assessment of their merits …
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Cut off by the 'Iron Curtain'
… Therefore there is still a need for the popularisation of some important for the Polish nationality films outside of Poland and for deeper critical thought about Polish cinematography - which is an reflection of the society itself.
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An assessment of the state of science journalism in Namibia : A case study of the Namibian, Namibian sun, and New Era newspapers
… media and scientists and ensure accuracy in the popularisation of science
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Mass media and public understandings of nature in interwar Britain
… in particular child audiences, I show how the popularisation of natural history and biology came to be defined by the appeal to people’s ‘everyday’ experience.
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The 47 Loyal Retainers: The Heroification of Illegality
… the moral crime. This thesis discusses the popularisation and heroification of the 47 ronin’s illegal actions by examining the historical facts and the ronin’s standing as samurai warriors in feudal Japan and whether they could have gone about their vendetta in a legal manner. It also looks …
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The Celebrity Scientists
… credentials, achieve public appeal through popularisation, particularly publishing popular science books, and speak in general culture on behalf of science. The subjects, to varying degrees, embody scientism as the supreme epistemology, but their public intellectual work is marked by a weak …
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Spiritual business? A critical analysis of the spiritual therapy phenomenon in contemporary Japan
… This "spiritual boom" has stemmed from the popularisation of what this study calls spiritual therapies, which correspond to the group of alternative therapeutic techniques that, in the West, are characteristic of the New Age Movement. Examples of spiritual therapy include past-life …
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Contested Ruralities: Housing in the Irish countryside
… each owner-occupied. In addition, the media popularisation of the debate, rather than establishing the facts of rural housing, has rested In anecdote and emphasised the emotive. The housing debate strongly contests issues, such as who has the right to live in the countryside, how traditional …
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CROW - CultuRal co-evOlution of corvids: Winged omens of the times
… corvid killing heightened further following popularisation of gamekeeping in the 18th century. Many of the historical allegations against corvids persist within modern persecution narratives despite ecological evidence objecting to the necessity of widespread corvid extermination. This thesis …
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CROW - CultuRal co-evOlution of corvids: Winged omens of the times
… corvid killing heightened further following popularisation of gamekeeping in the 18th century. Many of the historical allegations against corvids persist within modern persecution narratives despite ecological evidence objecting to the necessity of widespread corvid extermination. This thesis …
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Femininities Reimagined: Gender Politics in Contemporary British Moving Image Art
… progressive process of institutionalisation and popularisation that threatens their countercultural potential. Contemporary artists working within the legacy of 1970s feminist film criticism and moving image must contend with a changed socio-political and institutional landscape where feminism …
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Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire: British Discourses on the ‘Ottomans’, 1860-1878
… discourse undergoes both a radicalisation and popularisation following the graphic coverage in the British press of the atrocities committed in the Balkans which is picked up by politicians who feel the need to respond to pressure from the streets. The Conclusion sums up the main findings of …
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The beautiful Gothic: an investigation into the use and development of the beautiful and death in Gothic literature
… the Beautiful is an important step towards the popularisation of the vampire in fiction. As I will be focusing more on the Beautiful rather than the Sublime, my thesis will therefore primarily address the idea of whether or not the Gothic genre can be considered as a literature of the Beautiful …
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