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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Problematization"”.
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Cast Out Urbanites: The Historical Problematization of Cows in Kingston
… and practices. Despite being common, the problematization of animals is ill-understood and under-theorized in urban geography. In this dissertation, I argue that problematization is important because it has significant implications for animals: not only in how they are subjected to violent …
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A Critical Analysis of the UK Climate Impacts Programme's Problematization of Adaption.
This thesis critically analyses the problematization of adaptation to climate change that has emerged at the UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP). It finds that its problematization is based on a techno-scientific ontology and epistemology that occludes social forms of knowledge and social …
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Suspensions, Expulsions, and The Black Masculine Student-Body: The Problematization of Exclusionary Discipline in Schools
<p>This study explores how black males suspended and expelled from schools are subject to exclusionary consequences that extend beyond the school-to-prison pipeline. Utilizing Michel Foucault’s genealogical approach, I problematize suspensions and expulsions to embark on a theoretical discourse. …
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"The Protean Essence of Logos: Problematization of Language and Indefinability of Knowlege as Perception in Plato's ""Theaetetus"
The argument that underlies the thesis is that sophistic logos , both as abstract conceptualization and as concrete verbal expression, is problematic and ineffectual. The Theaetetus, with its central focus on the notion of episteme as aisthesis, provides the ideal context in which the sophistic …
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Hacia una poetica feminista Latino Americana: Ana Maria Rodas, Maria Mercedes Carranza y Gioconda Belli
… of the female body as the ""dark continent,"" a problematization and reconceptualization of motherhood, and a problematization and a re-writing of nationhood. The most important topics in these women's poetry--women's sexuality, the concept of love, and the concept of nationhood--provide the …
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A Socio-History and Genealogy of Dementia Thought and Conceptualisation in Western Society
… a critical socio-historical context. Aims: The problematization and conceptualisation of dementia in Western society, including its socio-history, is re-examined, drawing on an approach influenced by Foucault’s history of problematization. Here, through exploring alternative conceptualisations, …
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A Foucauldian exploration of the statutory authority defence to an action in nuisance
… propounded by Michel Foucault; principally problematization, genealogy, archaeology of discourse and power analytics. The thesis will therefore determine what problems are created, or heightened, by the use of the defence (problematization), how the doctrine came into being, and what factors …
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Considerações estéticas e políticas na obra de Lima Barreto: a emergência de um contexto biopolítico
… history, the problem of knowledge and truth. The problematization of the literary in Lima Barreto's work is perhaps the starting and ending point of this work. The literary work and criticism produced by the author corroborate a new perspective on the literary concept. By pointing to a perspective …
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Uma oferta de aplicação de eletrodinâmica com robótica educacional
… to Delizoicov and Angotti (1990): Initial Problematization, Knowledge Organization and Knowledge Application. Structurally, these pedagogical moments are applied through educational robotics using robots from the URA project (One Robot per Student) from UFRN. The application of this work …
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Paranoia, power and male identity in John Buchan's Literary War
… self-defence. Chapter Two looks to Greenmantle’s problematization of the strong masculine self along two axes of interference: homosexuality and homoerotic desire, and empowered femininity. Chapter Three argues that Mr. Standfast brings the Literary War to a close with an image of male power …
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Exploração sexual comercial infanto juvenil: o papel das ONG’s e das redes de mobilização
This work brings the next problematization: What is the contribution of organizations representing civil society in combating the commercial sexual exploitation children and youthful? Therefore, your general objective is to understand the contribution of NGO’s and the mobilization of networks to …
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Policyspridning som översättning : Den politiska översättningen av metadonbehandling och husläkare i Sverige
… brings attention to the importance of a deepened problematization of the policy concept, the actor-dependent character of translation, and to the fact that translation processes are always tied to a local context. Translation should be seen as open, continuous processes that never take place …
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Muslim women of South-Asian origin’s constructions of assisted reproductive technologies in the UK: a Foucauldian discourse analysis
… review of the literature demonstrated the problematization of ARTs and women in the context of their socio-cultural and bio-medical environments, in the United Kingdom and worldwide. Six South-Asian-Muslim women who underwent NHS ARTs in the UK were interviewed. Collected data were analysed …
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Speaking for the poor and oppressed: questioning the role of intellectuals in South African social movements
… This is done by providing an initial problematization of the practice of 'speaking on behalf of others' which is subsequently linked to conceptions of the role of 'the intellectual'. Of particular importance are firstly Zygmunt Bauman's distinction between the intellectual as …
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Impossible Terrain: An Ethnography Of Policing In Atlantic City, New Jersey
… My analysis is in part structured by a problematization of the common tendency within Police Studies scholarship to pose social fragmentation and differentiation as somehow antithetical to the police mandate, that they are encountered by police as a problem, rather than generated by …
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Constructions of Identity and Otherness in Jack Kerouac's Prose
… theory. Tracing the Kerouacian narrator’s problematization of the search for meaning in an accelerating culture, it examines his prose in a post-war context of uncertainty and ambiguity. In active dialogue with his contemporary America, Kerouac addresses and often challenges the dominant …
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Mining masculinities in the Canadian military
… The result of this comparative framework is the problematization of certain structural features of the contemporary Forces, features which address one of it core preoccupations: engendering and sustaining bellicosity in its combatants, and obviating their resistance. These technologically …
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Conundrums of food governance in South African metropoles
… (Adelle, Black and Kroll 2022) the focus of problematization is on how vulnerable people unfold agency in adverse food environments. The paper recounts an intervention that includes actor perspectives in deliberative processes. We argue that participants’ stories impact governance actors’ …
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"The Wearisome Spectacle of Immortal Sin": an Affect History of the Libidinisation of Desire in Mediterranean Antiquity
… of sex,” the transition of a moral problematization of sex centred on issues of power, status and the gender of who “penetrates” in the Greco-Roman context, to a new relation of self to desire mediated in the solitariness of one’s conscience in Christianity. I propose we look at this …
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