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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Relational Ontology"”.
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CATCH | BOUNCE: Towards a relational ontology of the digital in art practice
… of in an ‘expanded field’ of art practice, where ontology is flattened such that it is not defined by a particular media? This text, together with an installation of art work at the Exhibition Research Lab, Liverpool John Moores University (13-24 March), constitutes the thesis submission as a …
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Agential realism and the “female harpist”: The relational ontology of genderharp in Georges Aperghis’ Fidélité (1982)
The confluence of feminist scholar Karen Barad’s critical theories (agential realism, posthumanist performativity, posthumanism, new materialism) and Greek-French composer Georges Aperghis’ solo harp work Fidélité: pour harpiste seule regardée par un homme (“for female harpist watched by a man”) …
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Relational Interreligious Dialogue: Interdisciplinary Arguments from Creator/Creature Theology and Quantum Entanglement
… emphasize religious autonomy instead of any relational connections between religious traditions. These prevalent methods hinder effective interreligious dialogue.</p> <p>In response, this project proposes relational ontology as a constructive method to address existing issues within …
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Knowing the divine persons: an engagement with Wolfhart Pannenberg’s doctrine of Revelation and Trinitarian theology
… epistemology of Michael Polanyi to establish a relational ontology that leads to a conception of persons that is active and dynamic. The first chapter explores Polanyi’s philosophy of science in his specific milieu. The second chapter assesses the wide range of personhood within modernity and …
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Sharing “the flesh of the world”: alterity, animality, and radical community in Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy
… Merleau-Ponty's philosophy - especially the relational ontology of "flesh" that he develops in his later writings - provides powerful resources for dismantling anthropocentric or human-exceptionalist philosophical commitments, as well as a positive basis for deveiopi.ng a genuinely …
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Reason and care: constructing an inclusive moral theory for civic education
… and political science, in both practice and relational ground, the new caring theory not only is compatible with rational moral philosophy, but is also more inclusive and capable to face the challenges derived from the modern information technologies age. My thesis first identifies four core …
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Connecting at the intersection: Conversing identities on a street corner in Cape Town
… by the space of the street corner. A central relational ontology emerged throughout the research, emphasizing the multiple underlying connections and interdependencies that structure their worldview and deeply influencing my personal development. The negotiation of their identity was shaped by …
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Bridging Environmental Education and Nonviolent Communication: The Role of Empathy and Place in Ecological Identity From the Inside Out
… an understanding of empathy as a natural relational process, and the perception of Earth as an attachment figure. Taken together, these findings suggest a shared relational grammar in which ecological identity develops through processes of relational emplacement—an empathic placement of …
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Reclaiming Humanity in the Global Borderlands: Collective Homeplace Praxis among Women of Color Educators in International Schools
… expertise are commodified at the expense of relational, embodied ways of being and knowing. This research addressed the systemic marginalization of women of color (WoC) educators in these liminal sites, where institutional comfort masks racialized and gendered exclusion. Guided by …
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Material words for voicing dancers: a practice-led inquiry into the role of voice for the improvising dancer
… voice’ is limited and uses Tim Ingold’s relational ontology, and particularly his notion of ‘ensoundedness’, as a foundation for expanding the terms of engagement. The author suggests that ‘voicing-and-listening’ can more fully account for how voicing(s) are produced by dancers in a …
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The Ontopolitics of Complexity: Toward Agonistic Democracy and Ecological Political Economy
… to functionalist organicism, I articulate a relational ontology of life, in the tradition of Robert Rosen and Terrance Deacon, that creates affordances for agency that is both creative and reflexive. I explore how such an ontology destabilizes politically conservative, neoliberal, …
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Exploring Networks of Interaction at the Iron Age Site of Mtanye, South Western Zimbabwe
… of Mtanye, the aim of this study is to create a relational ontology in which agency is distributed among heterogenous entities. Moreover, this study attempts to demonstrate how networks of interaction might have shaped this community. Mtanye is a Leopard’s Kopje phase 2 site with stratified …
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A Pacific Coast Ontology of Intensity and Process in the Writings of Alfredo Vanín-Romero, Antonio Preciado-Bedoya, and Gregorio Martínez
Through an engagement with Deleuze and Guattari’s relational ontology of intensity and process, this thesis performs a reading of selected Pacific Coast texts from Colombia, Jornadas del tahúr (2005) by Alfredo Vanín-Romero; Ecuador, De sol a sol (1992) and other poems by Antonio Preciado-Bedoya; …
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Network Hierarchies: Nested Hegemonies and the Global-Regional Orchestration of Order in International Politics
… recasting both problems as part of the same relational ontology. I propose that both international orders and interstate hierarchies should be understood as social networks and that their formation and transformation is connected and shaped through a network of hierarchical relations among …
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Using novel participatory mapping techniques to identify high leverage points for intervention in the education systems of Eswatini and South Africa
… these points. Grounded in critical realism and relational ontology, the study adopts a systems thinking epistemology, and acknowledges the inherent complexity and interrelatedness of social systems. An exploratory, multiple-phase case study methodology was developed to explore the education …
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Using novel participatory mapping techniques to identify high leverage points for intervention in the education systems of Eswatini and South Africa
… these points. Grounded in critical realism and relational ontology, the study adopts a systems thinking epistemology, and acknowledges the inherent complexity and interrelatedness of social systems. An exploratory, multiple-phase case study methodology was developed to explore the education …
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Qualifying Sustainability : A Study of Firm-based Strategies.
… stable qualities. This study endorses a relational view of strategy to investigate how sustainability qualities emerge and how different actors influence, and/or are influenced by a company's ability to develop and establish sustainability qualifications. This thesis is positioned at the …
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Taking responsibility for climate knowledge in a warming world: Exploring responsibility assembled in and around the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
… conceptual and empirical engagement with relational and practice-based notions and geographies of responsibility in the assessment, but also the production, communication and enactment of climate knowledge has been limited. Centred around the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change …
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Making a Difference that Matters: A New Materialist Approach to Environmental Education in the Age of Algorithms
… allows for agency and change, and what type of ontology and ethics it entails. As agents of educational, civic and institutional change, New Materialist and Deleuzoguattarian ontologies and ethics reveal the relational power of collective agencies that are never only human – in particular, …
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