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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Resignification"”.
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"Fracturing the Space of the Real": Deriving a Korean Queer Theory from the Shamanic Feminist Poetics of Kim Hyesoon
… Choi, I read Kim's work through a methodology of resignification (Judith Butler) and disidentification (José Esteban Muñoz) to argue that her agentive resignification of femininity and yin theorizes a disidentificatory performance-space [hyonbin] where queer Korean subjects enact worldmaking and …
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Cali Pachanguero: A Social History of Salsa in a Colombian City
This work explores the adoption and resignification of salsa music in Cali, Colombia, as a case study in the development of contemporary popular identity and experience. By the 1980s, Cali emerged on the global scene as an important centre for salsa consumption and performance, but its roots do not …
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CONSTITUTING THE POLITICAL: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON POLITICAL LIBERALISM
… a defense of freedom of speech as a tool for resignification of social values.
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Espacios alternativos y nomadismo en tres poetas salvadoreñas de la guerra: Leyla Quintana, Kenny Rodríguez y Eva Ortiz
… of Nomadism developed by Rosi Braidotti, the resignification of the feminine subjectivity, as well as the construction of new figurations in order to articulate a counter discourse that challenges the official hegemonic and heteropatriarcal narrative. In the same order, it questions the …
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The virtual-musical other: creating unique worlds through musical sound in videogames
… decontextualization, recontextualization, and resignification of sound breed new possibilities for identity. Videogames allow players to explore this new identity as an expressly interactive and immersive medium, while eclectic digital music embodies and communicates this identity within the …
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A critical discourse analysis of the construction of otherness in the 4T government of Mexico through official educational discourse
… the systematic construction of otherness; the resignification of neoliberal categories within a new moral grammar; the operation of binary logics through the ideological square; and the central interpellation of teachers and schools as political and civic agents. The dissertation concludes that …
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The Persistence of Resistance and the Emancipatory Power of the Aesthetic: On Negt and Kluge’s Critical Theory
… of common interests and needs, and the resignification of imposed identities. This motivates the formation of counter- public spheres, i.e., oppositional social movements. Counter-public spheres, nevertheless, are not sufficient to build a ‘global’ subject. This also requires the …
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The Renunciation of God: Political Theology and Theological Resistance in Georges Bataille, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Simone Weil
… theological movement, one that pushed for a resignification of theology’s central signs and whose importance has yet to be reckoned by theology itself. I begin by with a survey of interwar antifascist writers who understood the crisis of fascism as a crisis internal to Christian theology, and …
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Stigmatisation processes and populations’ responses in turbulent environments: A multi-site case study of the Hazaras in Quetta, Pakistan and the Afro-descendants in Cartagena, Colombia
… such as ‘self-empowerment’, ‘processes of resignification’, ‘raising awareness’, ‘sonic appropriation’, ‘appropriation of space’, ‘blaming’, ‘pride’, ‘acceptance’, ‘confrontation’, ‘avoidance’ and ‘tactics’. As a result, the thesis adds to our knowledge of absorptive, adaptive and …
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Women who kill their abusive partners : an analysis of queer theory, social justice and the criminal law
… cultural intelligibility, materialisation and resignification. The model of social justice used is drawn from the work of Iris Marion Young. One particular aspect of her model of social justice is considered to be pertinent: cultural imperialism. Cultural imperialism maintains that an injustice …
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Curupira e caipora na tradição e nas mídias digitais: ressignificação contemporânea de personagens folclóricas brasileiras
Esta dissertação investiga as ressignificações contemporâneas de Curupira e Caipora no ecossistema do YouTube, tomando como corpus três polos de mediação: o infantil e massivo (Turma do Folclore), o participativo‑metacomunicativo (Folclore BR) e o curatorial‑investigativo (Colecionador de Sacis). A …