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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"ReFashion"”.
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“I think myself as good as anybody” : nationalism, manliness, space and identity in Boswell’s London Journal
… chronicled his self-conscious attempts to refashion himself from the uncultivated Scottish youth that he worried he was into the refined London gentleman he desperately wanted to become. Moving to London at a time when Post-Union Britain was supposedly ushering in a new era of …
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Middle-Class Identity and Hindu Women's Ritual Practice in South India
… urban Tamil women continue to fashion and refashion their own rituals of self-making. From marriage and menstrual pollution to urban religious festivals and community-building, the following dissertation will highlight how rituals are simultaneously being reinvented and reinforced in …
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Remaking lives and community in the gooseless goose capital of the world /
… has been granted to how people manage to refashion their identities, cultures, and communities. This is a dramatic oversight precisely because selves and ways of life will have to be refashioned in response to environmental transformations associated with climate change if communities are …
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National consciousness in Postcolonial Nigerian children's literature
… of nation and national identity in the aim to 'refashion' the nation. Following from this, I examine the role of the child reader in relation to the adult authors' intentions and pose the question of what the role of the female is in the authors' imagining of a 'new nation'. The study concludes …
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HENRY JAMES AND ROMANTIC REVISIONISM: THE QUEST FOR THE MAN OF IMAGINATION IN THE LATE WORK
… writings as a single text in which we see James refashion an identity by transforming the divisions or splits in the modern subject into the enabling condition for renewed creativity. In contrast to the Modernist myth of Henry James the master reproached by recent scholarship, I offer a new …
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New media is a joke : tracing irony, satire, and remediation in online discourse
… scholars. Understanding how these new forms refashion public discourse to address new contexts is important. In order to understand these differences it is necessary to understand how newer media work in relation to older media. I contend this relationship can be understood through the trope …
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Fierce: Black Queer Literacies of Survival
… ways Black queer people have had to reread and refashion literacy in order to navigate a system that regularly oppresses, silences, and erases their knowledges, histories, and lived experiences. Finally, my research contributes to understandings of how Black queer people use diverse language …
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Staging the Post-conflict City: Tourism, Urban Change, and Symbolic Contestation in Belfast, Northern Ireland
… local entrepreneurial actors are simultaneously refashioning these cultural symbols to make the area more attractive to tourists and potential investors.</p> <p>This study investigates the role of tourism development, place marketing, and urban staging in cultural identity politics and conflict …
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Subterranean governance: The political work of artisanal miners in the northern Peruvian Andes
… which are extraofficial agreements that seek to refashion state formalization design by incorporating a vertical and tridimensional orientation for the governance of underground space. These arrangements allow us to understand the political work of artisanal miners as an assemblage practice that …
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Re-constructing inner cityscapes as spaces of consumption
… visitors; b) To explain the processes that refashion inner cityscapes as 'ethnic cultural quarters', with critical examination of the effects on social inclusion and exclusion in the public realm, and how public engagement is incorporated into urban design; c) To compare developments in …
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Transient Constellations: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Actuality of Idealism
… explore how Adorno and Benjamin deconstruct and refashion Idealist notions, while also providing the post-Idealist theoretical armature to read Idealism in speculative directions. Through this mosaic, I pose questions regarding the actuality of philosophy, considering how thought might open …
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Power, Policy, and Digital Switchover: An Analysis of Communication Policy Making and its Challenges for Regulating Ghana’s Digital Television Sector
… policy making process was an opportunity to refashion policy and regulatory structures towards the public interest that went beyond the modernisation of broadcasting transmission infrastructure and the innovations digital switchover brought. The thesis investigates whether, and the extent to …
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Caryl Churchill’s Later Plays: Textuality and Practice
… that Churchill’s later plays both recycle and refashion her earlier work. This offers an original critical perspective on a playwright who is often described as never repeating herself. Churchill is widely considered to be the most important playwright of the last twenty-five years. This thesis …
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Decolonising legal research: Developing legal theory to articulate Māori and non-Māori legal research paradigms equitably
… Eurocentrism’s complex meaning it is possible to refashion Eurocentrism to include the notions of “partnerships”, that value subjective experience over objective, and that, in reality, include “Indigenous cultural” qualities. This style of decolonising jurisprudence pushes strenuously for a legal …
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When Even the Best is Bad: Thomas Pynchon's Alternatives to the Wasteland
… the Spartacan ringleader, Grover Snodd, to refashion sinister events of his daily life into an adult cabal, allows Herbert Stencil and Oedipa Maas to reinvent terrifyingly random void worlds through the mental projections of a malevolent "V."-plot and a ubiquitous Tristero conspiracy. …