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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"Production of knowledge"”.
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Authority and the production of knowledge in archaeology
This thesis examines the role of authority in the production of archaeological knowledge. It examines how fluid ideas and observations formed in the field become authoritative, factual, solid archaeological products, like scientific texts, reconstructions or museum displays. It asks, what makes a …
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Elastic Solidarity: UK solidarity with Palestine and the production of knowledge
This thesis examines the role of activists in the production and dissemination of two streams of knowledge. On the issue of Palestine/Israel, my research reflected that the knowledge produced and used within the Palestine solidarity movement in the UK typically came from either the academy or …
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Rhetoric and the social production of knowledge in criticism of Henry V
… critics are organized through an understanding of the social production of knowledge so as to consider connections between their different critical discourses on Henry V and the possible production of knowledge through their critical interaction. This thesis is not meant to suggest, however, …
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The (a)rchitectural Lexicon of (B)lack Hair: A Production of Knowledge
… preserve, distribute and publicly display copies of the thesis, or release the thesis under an open-access license.
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Diasporic Reasoning: The Idea of Africa and the Production of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America
<p>This dissertation explores the significance of Africa (both as a literal geographic space and as an imagined or symbolic space) in 19th century American intellectual and literary culture. I argue that when nineteenth-century intellectuals grappled with the institution of slavery, the …
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Words Make Worlds: sexuality, discourse, and the production of knowledge in the Anglican Church of Rwanda
… and discourse in generating new concepts of homosexuality in the Anglican Church of Rwanda (ACR). By means of identifying and analysing Rwandan Anglican sexuality discourse, this dissertation locates as the source of such language a particular conservative discursive world within the …
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An Amikwa Family Through Their Eyes: An Auto-ethnographic Study of an Indigenous Community in Northern Ontario Canada
… discussion, we attempt to unravel the multitude of ways in which knowledge and the production of knowledge can be interpreted and understood in a variance of ways historically, and cross-culturally.
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Biocapital : the constitution of post-genomic life
… debates not simply around the nature and production of knowledge and value, but also around the place of larger belief-systems - relating to religion, nation and ethics - in such productive enterprises. It simultaneously intervenes in conceptual debates within cultural anthropology …
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Putting the poor to work: a conceptual and critical analysis of the Expanded Public Works Programme in South Africa
This thesis looks into how the concept of Public Works Programmes has developed along historical and theoretical lines to reveal how authors writing for international institutions such as the World Bank have substantially dominated the production of knowledge on the topic. This has led to …
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Tracking knowledge : science, tracking and technology
Knowledges are not distinct entities. They cannot be held in isolation as if bounded, discrete, or systematic. They are far too dynamic and complex to be thought of in this way. 'Scientific' and 'Indigenous' knowledge, however, are often discussed polemically and held in dialogical tension against …
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Insecurity as Imagination: Securitization and Reproduction of Knowledge about Insecurity, The United States and Iraq (January 2002 – March 2003)
This dissertation is a political sociology of production of knowledge about insecurity that focuses on the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003 as its empirical study. Inspired by Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology and the insights of Critical Discourse Analysis, it analyzes the media coverage of Iraq …
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Should We Give Every Cow Its Calf? Monopoly, Competition and Transaction Costs in the Promotion of Innovation and Creativity
The work presented here is part of a wider research programme oriented around three specific questions. First, how do individual agents appropriate returns from innovation and how is this affected by the availability (or not) of intellectual property rights such as copyrights and patents? Second, …
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The impossible paradigm: an approach to producing knowledge
Processes of knowledge production frequently evade formal education spaces, like universities. We should never assume that these spaces genuinely operate towards the production of knowledge, and rather should identify most of them as acting in opposition. In other words, this thesis begins by …
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O impacto da internet nos produtos e serviços da biblioteca universitária
Analyzes the impact of the Internet on the products and services of university libraries, as well as the evolutionary changes in the provision of services and the provision of information products aimed at assistance to information needs of users of libraries in the academic sphere focusing on the …
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History, ethnography, and the nation: the films of Scotland documentaries
The Films of Scotland Committee (1938 and 1954-82) produced one hundred and sixty eight documentaries on Scotland and Scottish life; the thesis is an archaeology of those documentaries. The thesis breaks from a film theory discourse that has marginalised documentary to argue that the genre should …
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Politics of popular creativity and popular knowledge: on the case of adbusters and Harry Potter fans
… and the politics involved in the context of cultural studies. </p> <p>My first case looks at advertisements that are placed under attack, or busted. I investigate the different politics of defamiliarization between two specific busted ads. The politics of defamiliarization create moving …
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Contribuições do gênero textual história em quadrinhos nas séries iniciais do ensino fundamental: uma ação pedagógica
… has for objective to discourse the contributions of Comics in the motivation and learning process of students ' reading/writing of the initial series of elementary school in the school hall, located in the municipality of São Sebastião de Lagoa de Roça-PB. This research was conducted from projects …
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Lovelife: productions and re-productions of gender constructs and HIV
… loveLife, was examined to determine how its production of knowledge and values relates to transforming gender relations as they impact on HIV/AIDS in a South African context. The research originated out of a concern that loveLife, the world's largest HIV/AIDS youth education organisation in …
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"That Ancient People": Exploring an Ideology of Rock Art at Tsul'Kalu Rock
This thesis is analysis of multiple forms of language - conversation, text, signage - that demonstrate features of what I call an ideology of rock art. These features are culturally informed ideologies of temporality, language, and indigenous personhood that come together and aid in the production …
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Unstable Actors, Alternating Currents: Reimagining Bureaucratic Knowledge Production in the Technopolitics of Development
… landscapes and the changing subjectivities of partners, clients, and intended beneficiaries. Understanding the production of knowledge and technical expertise within these bureaucracies requires a dynamic, historically contingent, and relational conceptualization of bureaucracy itself. This …
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