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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Re-enactment"”.
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Programmed path : the conceptual re-enactment of a Charlestown warehouse and dock
Conceptually re-defining the role of a 100-year-old waterfront brick and timber warehouse structure, it is turned inside-out : interior becomes path. Programmatic functions imitate the physical characteristics of a conceptual dichotomy set in motion by the creation of two sides to the 'path'. …
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Interstitial passages: re-enactment of queer bodies of color in art and literature
My project explores the connections between literature and visual art to re-enact and re-imagine queer bodies of color in liminal spaces or porous passages as a means of contesting invisibility, exclusion, and displacement. I engage in the literature of James Baldwin and John Rechy and the …
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'Conditions of time and space': a re-enactment experiment with the British TV series Doctor Who.
… to provide a contribution to knowledge in two areas. Firstly, it seeks to further our understanding of the historical conditions of British television drama production; in particular the constraining and liberating influences of production space on the role of the director, and their …
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An Examination of the Performative Nature of Rituals in the Theatrum Mundi
… a perspective on understanding the nature of rituals, many of which are rituals in an unspoken manner, which are carried out in a regular and commonplace context.<br/><br/>In the first division of this thesis, I begin by examining the various concepts and terminologies that will be used …
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Mothers’ living experience of relationship breakdown and divorce: a heuristic inquiry
Relationship breakdown and divorce are deeply personal, often traumatic transitions that can catalyse profound self-discovery and growth. Despite the growing prevalence of lone mother families in UK and the West, research has largely overlooked the subjective experiences of mothers navigating …
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The discourses of ritual, culture and ethics has, over the years, been a primarily ethnographic, philosophical and dramaturgical concern. Secrecy seems central in setting boundaries. Using ritual and culture as the common thread, I question the boundaries that are transgressed by contemporary South …
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Structural Analysis of Family Dysfunction (Interaction, Interpersonal Assessment, Scapegoating, Direct Observation, Markov Analysis)
… behavior. Each family also engaged in a conflict re-enactment, which was videotaped and coded using Benjamin's SASB coding schema. Results suggested that sample families were similar with respect to the salience of the dimension of autonomy-control in both the rating and behavioral interaction …
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Common factors in the facilitation of the reliving process across three cathartic therapies
… what common factors/ behaviours/conditions were involved, in the facilitation of the reliving process, across three different types of cathartic therapy: Cathartic Hypnotherapy, Primal Therapy and Bioenergetics. In this study, the reliving process was found to be a key element, across three …
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The Materiality of Text and Body in Painting and Darkroom Processes: An Investigation through Practice
This research study ennploys practice-based strategies through which material processes might be opened to new meaning in relation to the feminine. The purpose of the written research component is to track the material processes constituting a significant part of the research findings. Beginning …
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Speaking Out of the Dust: Religious Reenactments with the Specific Iconic Identity of Place
Sometimes, the place where a play is performed is as important as or more important than the play itself. The first known theatrical rituals were performed in spaces which came to hold deep religious significance. Many religious traditions regard certain places as sacred because of spiritually …
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Battlefield tourism: strategies and tactics for the development and tourism planning of the battlefields of the war of Independence/peninsular war in Spain and Portugal
… to contribute to fill an important gap in the awareness and knowledge of the potential of these tourist attractions in Portugal and Spain, presenting at the end of this thesis a model of Strategic Tourism Plan specific to the battlefields of the Napoleonic era. The main research question was: how …
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Nora's Transformative Journey: From A Doll's House and The Little Mermaid to The Way Home
… engagement paper employs the practical work and research conducted for my MFA graduating installation performance The Way Home. For decades, domestic violence researchers analyzed abused women coping with abuse based on their psyche, which portrayed them as having certain needs that abuse …
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Visualising 'The Waste Land': Discovering a Praxis of Adaptation
This research examines the issues and visual processes that arise in the production of self-representations derived from literary texts. The construction of a series of photographic and video installations drawing upon T. S Eliot’s poem 'The Waste Land' (1922) allowed for the exploration and …
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Accounting for taste : conversation, categorisation and certification in the sensory assessment of craft brewing
The recent rapid growth of “craft beer” has led to a search for definitions and categorisation of that sector with “beer style” used as one criterion. This thesis explores the origins of these style definitions and how they act as a technology of classification which affects how sensory judgments …
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The mathematical biographies of primary school teachers and how this may affect their teaching; a grounded theory study.
… the UK population has been the aim of many different government education strategies over many decades. This piece of research uses grounded theory to explore the conscious psychological processes of primary school teachers when they are teaching maths to the children in their class. The question …
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The Dissemination and Reception of the Ordines Romani in the Carolingian Church, c.750-900
The ordines romani are products of a ninth-century attempt to correct liturgy across Europe. Hitherto, scholarship has almost exclusively focused on them as sources for the practices of the city of Rome, narrowly defined, disregarding how they were received creatively and reinterpreted in a set of …
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Exploring the Medico-legal death scene investigation of sudden unexpected death of infants admitted to Salt River mortuary, Cape Town, South Africa
… however, it is unclear how many countries adhere to them, and to what extent they are followed. Therefore, a systematic literature review was undertaken to assess the scope of SUDI DSI performed internationally. It was found that national protocols have been established in some countries, and …
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Curating <i>The Eternal Network </i>After Globalisation
This practice-based research project investigates the production, distribution and reception of network art practice before and after globalisation. It does so to engage with the Internet as ‘the most material and visible sign of globalisation’ (Manovich 2001) whose emergence as the pre-eminent …
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Intergenerational transmission of domestic violence in refugee families in Durban, South Africa
The World Health Organization in 2021 reported that 30% of women globally experience violence, with South Africa being infamous for particularly high rates of violence against women, including domestic violence. Despite this, domestic violence experiences and its intergenerational transmission …
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