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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Sites of Struggle"”.
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Welcome to America?: The Perceptions of Discrimination Experienced by International Students
This study explores the phenomenon of discrimination as it pertains to the experiences of international students studying in Southeast Louisiana. This qualitative study seeks to answer the questions of where and how international students perceive discrimination, and how discrimination affects a …
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Leadership, downshifting and the experience of power in higher education.
The world of higher education is changing and as such what academics must do is different, they must be different. Academic identity is thus considered to be a necessary site of change. This thesis explores what academics are, their identities, as well as what they might be. Identities are …
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Everyday Tragedies: People with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in the Liminal Spaces of a Level I Trauma Centre
… the world. Individuals with sTBI in Ontario are often transported to Level I Trauma Centres, as textually mediated by the provincial Life or Limb Policy, to ensure access to expert lifesaving medical care. After entering these trauma centres, transitions across the spaces of the trauma centre, …
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An Analysis of the Political Dynamics that Influenced the Process of Adopting the 2016 National Land Laws in Malawi: A Gender Perspective
… dynamics that emerged in the formulation of the 2016 land legislation in Malawi influenced the gendered outcomes. It highlights the complexity of the policymaking process that was shaped by divergent interests and power dynamics of the stakeholders. It argues that although the interests …
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Spanish transitions: representation of transgender characters in Spanish film
… examines the different representations of transgender characters in Spanish cinema since their appearance in the 1970s up until today. The history of Spain in the last forty years, with its radical political changes, yields extremely fertile transgender case studies, especially in …
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Between Majority Power and Minority Resistance : Kurdish Linguistic Rights in Turkey
As the most figurative asset of membership in a majority or minority and the most symbolic aspect of national authority, language is a major site of struggle for majority power and minority resistance. For the purposes of this study, which focuses on the question of Kurdish linguistic rights in …
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Dig the herders, display the Hottentots : the production and presentation of knowledge about the past
Knowledge and History have for many years been sites of struggle in South Africa and academic versions of the past are being challenged with commitment by oppressed communities all over the world. Archaeologists, as producers of information about the past, are necessarily involved in such …
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The beatification of Mary MacKillop: What it reveals of experiences of women in the contemporary Australian Catholic Church
… to give meaning and direction to the lives of many contemporary Australian women. Nevertheless, for many women conscientised to the reality of patriarchal sexism the experience of belonging in the church is one of recurring struggle, Mary MacKillop in the nineteenth century cofounded the …