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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Power discourse"”.
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Power discourse and the curriculum: silences in the high school geography curriculum of South Africa
… ideology in a society is perpetuated by the discourse in school textbooks, while at the same time the voices of subordinated people are silenced within textbooks. To investigate these notions, the study analyzes the discourse in a South African high school geography curriculum and textbook, …
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Abyssal Ideology and the Amerindians of Guyana: An Eco-Crimes Analysis of Power, Discourse and Cognitive Injustice
… a comparative and critical analysis of the discourses surrounding the indigenous peoples of Guyana, the Amerindians. Massaging the parameters of green criminology and the eco-crimes framework, I synthesize Norman Faircloughs methodology known as critical discourse analysis (CDA) and …
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The use and abuse of genealogy : genealogical critique from Nietzsche to Said
… key Nietzschean and Foucauldian concepts such as power, discourse and the body. Following a rejection of the post-colonial appropriation of genealogy, this thesis concludes by suggesting some revisions for a more coherent deployment of genealogy in post-colonial theory through a closer reading of …
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Colonialism, Customary Authority, and Constitutionalism: Rethinking Gender, Justice, and Tenure Reform in South Africa through Ubuntu and Intersectionality
… socio-legal scholarship to interrogate how power, discourse, and interpretation reproduce inequality, and how alternative epistemologies can unsettle those hierarchies. Using ubuntu and intersectionality as complementary analytical frameworks, the thesis re-thinks the relationship between …
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Lost in Translation: The Legal appropriation of the voice of child sexual abuse victims in Ireland
… studies, Foucault‘s theory of knowledge and power and postcolonial/subaltern theories to highlight the foundations of the knowledge constructions involved. This critical approach is brought to bear on the aspects of knowledge, power, discourse and voice encountered in the data set of the …
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Young People's Health Beliefs and Behaviours: Power, Performance and Spatialities
… particular attention is given to issues of power, discipline, performance and identity. Building on these discussions, the thesis will consider the ways in which global trends, globalisation and local culture intertwine in the sculpting and performance of young people’s health beliefs …
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Regulating Geopolitical Space: EU Interaction with East Africa
… the 1970s under the idea of Europe as a civilian power (Duchene 1972, 1973b). These initial elaborations have served as a key point of departure in political and academic debates on the international identity and role of an integrated/integrating Europe (see for example Solana 2002; Ferrero- …
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Islam på svenska : tidskriften Salaam och islams globalisering
This dissertation focuses on written Islamic discourses in Swedish, especially the journal Salaam - Islamisk tidskrift. The journal first appeared in 1986 and is a part of the activities of Islamiska Informationsföreningen. From the beginning, Salaam has been edited by female converts to Islam in …
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A single qualitative case study of how the introduction of an AEC unit influenced the experiences of patients, carers and NHS staff
… major themes emerged from the data collected: discourse, misalignment, safety and power. Through a sense-making lens, the influences of power differentials, discourse communities, misalignment of values and concerns regarding psychological safety on participants perceptions of experiences were …
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Unravelling Tales of Truth: The Digital Battle Between Greenwashing Giants and Fashion Eco-Warriors
… the contested terrain of sustainability discourses in the global fashion industry, positioning digital platforms as battlefields in the struggle between environmental activism and corporate greenwashing. With a focus on my conceptual contributions, shiny sustainability and digital …
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Occidental Encounters: Early Nineteenth-Century Egyptian travelers to Europe
… the tenets of modern Occidentalism, among them powerless discourse, knowledge, ambivalence, emancipation of women and the use of religion in legitimizing the discourse. I will also investigate the erroneous conception that Occidentalism is the opposite of Orientalism. Even though both fields of …
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A narrative pastoral counselling approach to giving a voice to children with ADHD with anxiety
… in the child`s psychological development. The power dynamics in families is also investigated to ascertain what role this plays when it comes to anxiety in children with ADHD. The study explores early attachment behaviour and behavioural problems in children in the middle childhood of 6 to 12 …
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Resistance to institutional power : positionality, modality, and the statement
… analyses and micro-dynamic analyses of power, discourse, and the subject. The vehicle for application is conflict over privacy rights, and the proposed bridge between the two levels of analysis is the grammatical-pragmatic relation of modality and positionality. This investigation thus …
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DEVELOPMENT OR DEPENDENCY? THE EMERGING CHINESE CULTURAL-LINGUISTIC TV MARKET AND IDOL TV DRAMA IN TAIWAN AND CHINA
… popular cultural/creative policy and the soft power discourse strengthens the ambition and the competition between different states to pursue the crown of the regional cultural center. Third, the domestic state policy plays a determinant role in the dynamic formation of a regional cultural …