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Showing 1 to 20 of 125 for “"Post-Structuralist"”.
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Sexual subjects : a feminist post-structuralist analysis of female adolescent sexual subjectivity and agency
… and relations of power. Drawing upon feminist, post-structuralist and discourse analytic theoretical, methodological and analytical frames, the study focuses on the discourses available to young women for making meaning out of their experiences with their bodies, their relationships and sexual …
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The Sovereign State as Political Community: A Revisiting of the Post-Structuralist Critique of the Neorealist State
The continued commitment to and assertion of the primacy of the sovereign state within international relations theory has resulted in a discourse which theorizes and examines only those issues and conflicts of international politics which can be made to fit neatly within the prism of the neorealist …
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Planning strategies in an age of active citizenship: a post-structuralist agenda for self-organization in spatial planning
Civic initiatives in spatial development are on the rise. They emerge from civil society spontaneously and are unpredictable, dynamic, and multiplicity. Therefore, they are often at odds with the inclusionary and disciplinary confines of participatory planning and existing planning frameworks. …
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Towards a philosophy of theatre inspired by Aristotle’s poetics and post-structuralist aesthetics in relation to three South African plays
… in what has become known as The Struggle in a post-apartheid South Africa and post-colonial Zimbabwe by comparison with historical conditions in South America, India, even China. The values of nous, phronesis and sophia, intuitive, practical and interpretative wisdom are connected to the …
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‘Black women’ therapists' impressions of the social differences of ‘race’ and gender in the therapeutic process: a post-structuralist phenomenology narrative exploration
… phenomenological approach incorporating post-structuralist principles to explore ‘Black’ women therapists’ accounts of their lived experience of social differences (race and gender) in their clinical practice. It aims to provide rich descriptions of the women’s experiences, which are …
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To what extent may health and well-being experiences of Roma migrants in London be perceived and understood through a post-structuralist lens?
… culture, identity, agency and nomadism, from a post-structuralist theoretical perspective, the study seeks to explore the wide range of narratives impacting on Roma health and well-being in London and across the UK. The findings locate the health and well-being experiences of Roma people in …
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Troubling creativity discourses: A Foucauldian feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis of the idea of ‘creative subjects’ in public texts and in the context of A level decision.
… and humanities. Through a Foucauldian feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis, the thesis casts light on hidden discourses of creativity in the public sphere and in a school context. The thesis aims to reveal the current dominant discourse about creativity in education and how it might …
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Lesbianism : a post-structural/post-modernist critique of selected theories relevant to clinical practice
… and relevant to clinical practice. The post-structuralist/post-modernist framework employed considers lesbianism as a category constructed in a particular socio-historical context and involving particular power relations. The role of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in this process of …
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The notion of the self with special reference to Karl Rahner and Julia Kristeva
… a critical engagement with Julia Kristeva’s post-structuralist notion of the speaking subject. This offers an experimental exploration of contemporary theological understanding of subjectivity, with specific reference to ideas of relationality, and with a particular interest in the …
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Interrogating post-Marxism: Laclau and Mouffe, Foucault, and Žižek
… to Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, our postmodern era and its correlate political problematic requires a shift in positing socialist strategy. Their wager is that by shifting away from essentialist Marxism, and towards a post-Marxist theory of hegemony which they adapt from Gramsci, the …
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Possibilities of transformation: discourses of difference in organisational communication
… organisational context. I draw on feminist and post-structuralist theory to ask the question: How is ‘difference’ constructed in organisational communication? I use the term ‘difference’ here to indicate that I am interested in how ‘gender’ works in relationship with other kinds of difference, …
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A Practice-as-Research Project utilizing Butler’s (1990) Feminist/ Post-structuralist theory of Gender Performativity, as well as Connells (2001) system of Hegemony, Complicity, and Subordination to Interrogate the Formation of Toxic Masculinities through Practice-as-Research and Live Art Methodologies
In the past twenty years or so, the concept of masculinity has come under increasing scrutiny. What used to constitute as socially acceptable behaviour for men to engage in, has increasingly become challenged by developments such as the MeToo movement. There are now stable grounds to argue that …
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Shifting identities of Bengali female learners in ESOL : a poststructuralist feminist exploration of classed, ‘raced’ and gender identities
… (English for Speakers of other languages) from a post-structuralist feminist position. My research is conducted within the post-compulsory educational context, exploring how Bengali women construct identities in relation to educational experiences of learning English as a second language, and …
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That terrible vowel, that I : autobiography and Derek Walcott's Another life
… discourse in which it is pronounced" and the post-structuralist notion that the "self" is a linguistic construct. I conclude that Walcott's I assimilates both romantic and post-structuralist properties.
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The Path of the Political Culture towards a Post Structuralist Theory. The case of the origin of the Tuscany political culture in the 19th century. [Verso una teoria post-strutturalista della cultura politica. Il caso dell'origine della cultura politica toscana nel XIX secolo.]
… cultura politica e fornire una nuova prospettiva post-strutturalista. Per centrare questo risultato, il presente lavoro non si limita ad una modifica o innovazione dei precedenti modelli d'indagine del concetto. Anche evidenziando alcuni ottimi risultati passati, l'analisi si rivolge soprattutto …
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Repetition Repeated: Reconstructing a Lacanian Subjectivity Through Kierkegaardian Repetition
… whether there is a subject at all. By the time post-structuralism trains its eyes on subjectivity, the subject is thoroughly dismantled. Jacques Lacan inaugurates this dismantling by positing a subject rooted in desire and borne out of a constitutive lack, a subject created by a linguistic and …
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Democracy, subjectivity and voice: Emersonian perfectionism and radical democratic theory
… examines these issues from the perspectives of post-structuralist and perfectionist traditions of democratic political thought. Both traditions fear that dominant contemporary political theory, here represented by Rawlsian liberalism, is insufficiently attentive to voice. I seek to explore the …
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Interrogating History or Making History? Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, DeLillo's Libra, and the Shaping of Collective Memory
<p>In the wake of the post-structuralist skepticism of language and language's ability to represent reality, the philosophy of history has likewise been questioned, since we gain our knowledge and understanding of the past primarily through language—through written and spoken testimony, and through …
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Michel Foucault and the Politics of Coalition, 1968-1980
… and rejected totalising schemes, Foucault’s post-structuralist political thought is usually associated with particularity and social fragmentation. I show that this is a very partial framing. Across the 1970s, he searched for ways to knit localised campaigns into a joined-up politics at the …
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