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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Poststructuralist Theory"”.
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Cartographies of undomesticated ground: Nature and feminism in American women's fiction and theory
… ideologies of nature. Insights from feminist theory, cultural studies, and interdisciplinary postmodern theories of nature enable me to reveal how women's texts transform the representations promoted by literary, popular, and political discourses. By analyzing environmental and feminist …
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Orientations to text: how classroom discourse affords or denies the enactment of critical literacy and learner agency in an English First Additional Language classroom
… township high school. This study is informed by poststructuralist theory, in which the subject is theorised as constructed and contested in language, as well as by critical literacy theory. I draw on feminist poststructuralist theory to describe the key concepts of subjectivity, subject …
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Raymond Williams : literature, Marxism and cultural materialism
… towards the later trends of Althusserian and poststructuralist theory, while at the same time continuing his always defining commitment to socialist politics. While the terms of this larger argument are necessarily present throughout, Chapter Five focuses on them more narrowly, and traces …
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How do students learn about distant places? A critical analysis of how students’ perceptions of Ghana change over a unit of work
This thesis draws upon poststructuralist theory, case study methodology, and multiple research methods to explore children’s representations of distant places, particularly African places such as Ghana. It investigates the ways in which a particular group of children’s representations of Ghana can …
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The Ambivalent Agency: Battered Women Who Kill in Turkey
… women who killed their abusers. Using a feminist poststructuralist theory and intersectionality analysis, the study analysed the patterns surrounding the agency of battered women who kill. Male violence in Turkey continues to be an unresolved problem, which continues to only grow. In the …
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The role of institutional discourses in the perpetuation and propagation of rape culture on an American campus
… the context of football teams. Using a feminist poststructuralist theoretical lens, an examination of newspaper articles, press releases, reports, and court documents from December 2001 to December 2007 was conducted to reveal prominent and counter discourses following a series of rapes and civil …
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Assuming the female part : a critique of discourses of bodily normalcy
… regulative, singular and naturalised. I use poststructuralist theory to demonstrate that, even when authors explicitly seek to address feminist issues of women's exclusion and marginalisation within patriarchal discourse, their recouse to an identifiable 'woman' paradoxically ends up …
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Contemprary lesbian genders: A queer/ sociological approach
… work on identity that has been influenced by poststructuralist theory, and in particular 'queer theory', through an empirical study of the social construction of lesbian genders. I examine sociological work on sexuality, queer theory and feminist work on butch/femme. Lesbian identities are …
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A case study of grade 6 multilingual learners' experiences with monolingual assessment practices in a working-class township school in Cape Town.
… assessments. It draws on a growing body of poststructuralist theory on linguistic repertoire and translanguaging in order to understand how grade 6 multilingual learners engaged with monolingual assessments in a working-class school in the Western Cape where English is the language of …
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Radical Quakerism: a political anthropology of postmodern religion
… the ‘postmodern’ religious subject. Drawing on poststructuralist theory, the research combines critical ethnography with discourse-theoretical analysis. It is framed by a conception of politics as a historically-contingent process that orders human coexistence in conditions of difference and …
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An analysis of dominant discourse in Grade 8 English Home Language textbooks
… commonly known as CAPS. The study draws on poststructuralist theory on discourse, in particular Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), to engage in close, critical analysis of the dominant discourses in two grade 8 English home language learner textbooks. The textbooks are examined in terms of …
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"Motherhood", "the family" and Murphy Brown : New Zealanders' receptions of an American sitcom text
… Drawing on various insights derived from poststructuralist theory and audience reception studies, the first aspect of this tri-partite investigation examines the macro context of this episode's production in the United States in 1992, and identifies competing constructions of 'motherhood' …
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True love stories : the tropical production and authorization of meaning
… love so poorly is that it insists on not being poststructuralist. This project inverts this double steadfastness, in order to sociologize love as a production of its own tropes, and move from feelings to discourse without leaving feelings behind. Love's emotional body is not denied by a …
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Women's experiences of gender and sexuality within football contexts in England and Wales
… and methodology and the analysis draws on poststructuralist theory. Herein lies a particular and located footballing epistemology.
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The Politics of Hospitality: Racism, Security and Migration in Contemporary Greece, 1990-2012
… problematizations of immigration. Drawing on Poststructuralist theory and Psychoanalysis it is argued that the potency of racism in Greek political discourse emerges from its disavowed character as well as from the ways it is specifically inflected in appeals to Greece's selfunderstanding as a …
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Places of discourse and dialogue : a study in the material culture of the Cape during the rule of the Dutch East India Company
… theoretical shift, away from formalism towards poststructuralist theory: discourse theory, literary criticism, feminism. These frameworks enable me to identify contradictions underlying historical events; to deconstruct documents, thus revealing their rhetorical devices for constituting …
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Fashioning Brazil: Globalization and the Representation of Brazilian Dress in National Geographic
… which have encompassed poetry, film studies, poststructuralist theory, literary criticism and anthropology.
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Moving with Words, 1950s–1980s: Language, Notation, Choreography
… notation that leaves its mark on philosophy, theory, and architecture as well as performance. My first chapter traces the development of language scores in New York in the 1950s–60s as exemplary of this wider notational turn. These scores, as privileged instances of language being made to do …
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Students’ negotiation of practice education in occupational therapy: a case study
… university in South Africa. The thesis draws on poststructuralist theory to describe and analyse the complex ways in which three students experience, interpret and act within the multiple teaching and learning spaces that characterise the transition to practice education. A single instrumental …
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Transsexual recognition:embodiment bodily aesthetics and the medicolegal system
… The empirical study has been influenced by poststructuralist theory and feminist phenomenology and focuses on the constructed personal meanings of embodiment and bodily aesthetics for transpeople. Furthermore the thesis explores how trans embodiment is constructed within the medicolegal …
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