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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Problematisation"”.
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Tasha: A practice-based problematisation of Australian comedy cinema’s representation of gender, family and nationhood
… film project, is what O’Regan would term a “problematisation” of Australian comedy cinema. The key argument of this project is that Australian national comedy films are uniquely Australian, cinematic explorations of individual identity, socio-cultural identity, landscape and family. Australia …
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The Study of Exception: A methodological reflection on Agamben’s problematisation of the relation between law and life
… a methodological perspective, with Agamben’s problematisation of the relation between law and life. More specifically, Agamben’s work on law is here considered as a veiled reflection on the potentiality of study as a form of non-instrumental praxis, i.e. study as a means without ends. The …
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I Thank Therefore I Am: Postcolonial Affective Governmentality of Higher Education in Pakistan
… of postcolonial affective governmentality, problematisation and ritualisation, are proposed in this study. To study the strategy of problematisation, a critical policy analysis of the historical higher education policies in Pakistan is carried out in this thesis. This analysis highlights the …
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Pandora's box reopened : an essay on death, darkness and the meaning of nature
… of affirmation, and comes to yield a threefold problematisation of (ecocentric) meaning: the problem of methodology, or that of the relation between truth and representation; the problem of morality, or that of the relation between truth and value; and the problem of Immanentism, or that of a …
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Uses of Aboriginality : popular representations of Australian Aboriginality / Robert Windsor.
… representational strategies: primitivisation, problematisation, and spiritualisation of texts, such as the New Age or Christian texts that emphasise the religious or the numimous. The study is concerned with the ways in which these texts use Aboriginality to promote positions, ideas and values …
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Producing Ambiguous Threats: The Xenos and Xenophobia in Postcolonial France
… of the political and epistemological problematisation of difference since Foucault’s “classical age” to demonstrate that the problematisation of ambiguity is typically postcolonial. In the end, by analysing the subjectification of the xenos in postcolonial France, this research …
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The emergence and development of Disability Hate Crime policy and practice in England and Wales : a case of an unsettled and unsettling policy agenda
… of this policy journey with a key focus on problematisation in policy making on Disability Hate Crime. This study found that Disability Hate Crime has faced challenges in its emergence and development as a policy area in the criminal justice system. It has faced challenges at each stage of …
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Reviving Hellas: the body and natural movement in early twentieth-century Britain
… and discourses of the period, and (ii) the problematisation of the body by institutions, Atkinson and her contemporaries. The research has revealed Atkinson’s problematisation of the body and dance and her re-conceptualisation of dance as a transformational and educational force. By doing …
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Judicial Review, Climate Change and Argumentation: The Case R (on the application of ClientEarth) v Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Drax Power Ltd.
… of Appeal, the thesis then develops a third problematisation of judicial review, which it calls the Realist problematisation. This novel Realist account challenges the binary ‘win or lose’ scenarios of dominant accounts of judicial review, foregrounding how litigants can construct spaces of …
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Between Majority Power and Minority Resistance : Kurdish Linguistic Rights in Turkey
… delimiting the Kurdish linguistic rights. The problematisation or de-normalisation of minority rights and minority resistance constitutes the overall aim of this study. This problematisation is done in two parts, first of which includes a deconstructive analysis using three binary oppositions: …
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Illusio in lesson observation: making policy work by playing the game
… discourse which problematises teaching. The problematisation of teaching in official documentation and pronouncements has shaped understanding and experience of teachers’ professional work. By approaching this study from a constructionist perspective, and employing the What’s the Problem …
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Investigating the Problematic of Migrant Identity in South-Asian and Arab Postcolonial Fiction in English: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
… which the migrant figure responds to such problematisation. To this end, I aim to crystallise how in each work the predicament of identity overlaps with issues principally relating to displacement, exile, postcoloniality, and cultural hybridity. Drawing on Stuart Hall’s work, I approach the …
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When one door closes, look for a window: An indigenous autoethnography within the public service of Aotearoa, New Zealand
… career. Fundamentally, this thesis reflects the problematisation of working in a bi-cultural environment where both the acculturation and enculturation of te ao Māori and te ao Pākehā impact on life experiences, both positively and negatively, challenging public sector workers to function …
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What does it mean ‘to be human’? Human nature and the self in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy.
The purpose of this research is the problematisation in Adam Smith's moral philosophy of a classical question in the history of thought: what does it mean ‘to be human’ from a moral standpoint? In particular, I explored the relationship between the concepts of ‘human nature’ and ‘the self’ in order …
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Games and the open world : reading digital games through literary theory
… perspective. The second chapter, through the problematisation of both the ontology as well as the concept of the magic circle itself, will allow us to see the shortcoming of the magic circle and show how literary theory already presents an alternative through concepts such as the rhizomatic. …
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Opening the black box of the health technology assessment process at NICE
… the four stages of Callon's (1986b) model: problematisation, interessement, enrolment and mobilisation.Theoretical and empirical contributions are centred on the examination of NICE, using ANT. Accounting's use of ANT is advanced. The thesis contributes to accounting's work within a …
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Composition Portfolio
… Dewey’s notions of art as a form of creative problematisation. In the second, techniques are developed in which performance flexibility is balanced against structural exactitude, aided by a series of parametric tables that outline a range of variables across the different elements of musical …
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Torn wheels and rough pavements: an ethnography of navigation towards informal and indigenous urban futures amidst crisis in Warwick Junction, Durban
… opportunities – are rooted in the Municipality's problematisation of informality as a survivalist response to moments of crisis, and thus as something counter to ‘a modern Durban', and therefore which ought to be discouraged. This account is challenged by informal workers and NGOs in Warwick, who …
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Deconstructing Gangsterism in the Western Cape Policy Response to the National Anti-Gangsterism Strategy
… is to deconstruct the Western Cape's political problematisation and representation of the ‘problem' by analysing the Western Cape Provincial Policy response to the National Anti-Gangsterism Strategy. From a social constructivist angle, this dissertation presumes policy as prescriptive guidelines …
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Urban Mobility Transitions: Governing through Experimentation in Bristol and New York City
… was more limited than NYC’s. To unpack the problematisation of piecemeal, ‘project-based’ experimentation driven by competitive funding landscapes, the research compares Bristol City Council and NYC city government as two municipalities with a different degree of reliance on external …
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