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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Social death"”.
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Staging [in]visible subjects: Blackqueer bodies, social death and performance
Staging [In]visible Subjects: BlackQueer Bodies, Social Death and Performance is an examination of the ways in which death and violence operate within the lives of black/queer youth. Black/queer youth experience marginalization across several dimensions of difference (i.e. race, class, sexuality, …
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Caring for a relative with dementia: anticipatory grief and social death
… would result in continued deterioration and death in the sufferer; that is, as a terminal illness, bringing both current and future losses. The emotional and behavioural reactions which previous studies have labelled `anticipatory grief' were experienced - to varying degrees - by the …
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Against social death: rhetorical resilience at the intersection of higher education and the prison
“Against Social Death: Rhetorical Resilience at the Intersection of Higher Education and the Prison” is a qualitative study of the experiences of formerly incarcerated people who participated in college programming in prison or upon their release. Throughout, I argue that incarcerated people engage …
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Blackness as a question of freedom: racial blackness in South African emancipatory thought
… in which the slave's natal alienation and social death establishes the resilient forms of Black (non)being. This project centrally argues against locating a theory of the production of Blackness in the socio-political relations of colonial subjugation, and instead proposes that Blackness is …
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“I’ve Been Murdered”: An Autoethnographic Narrative of the School-to-Death Nexus
… coined a phenomenon and process: the “school-to-death nexus.” This concept encapsulates the intricate ideologies and manifestations of anti-Black violence within schools, portraying them as facilitators of, and gateways to, both physical and social death for Black students. My analysis draws from …
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The Earth is My Altar: A Black Trans Museology
… heteropatriarchal nature of the museum. As two social conditions defined by constructions that privilege whiteness and hetero and cis-normativity, Blackness and transness have resisted the fixity that positions them as singularly subjugated. This work posits that Black transness is an evocation …
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Home from Away: Challenging Extinction Discourse through the Repatriation of Indigenous Beothuk Human Remains
… Canada, has persisted. This discourse of Social Darwinism (where extinction takes place within parts of the human species rather than extinction of the species) has largely been applied uncritically and unquestioningly to such peoples. Literature on “extinct” peoples like the Beothuk comes …
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Post-War African Studies, Underdevelopment, and the French and British New Lefts, 1953-1993
… accounts of how, and under what conditions, social movements ‘modernize’. Chapter 2 shows how the thought of South African émigré Marxists developed within British New Left milieus as a critique of liberal theories of industrialisation and modernisation. It then shows how thinkers associated …
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Paul R. Williams at Work in Photographs: Tarrying With Cites/Sights/Sites of Trouble
… and memorializing, to counter the threat of social death.</p>
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Environmental Transformative Justice: Responding to Ecocide
… of such an approach is its assertion that ‘social transformation’ rather than merely ‘correcting the harm done’ or ‘restoring the status quo’ is necessary for overcoming these kinds of wrongs because absent social change, the conditions that reinforce, entrench, and reproduce these sorts of …
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Heads, shoulders, knees and toes: Exploring bodies, body parts and personhood in late Neolithic Malta through funerary taphonomy
… practices is crucial for understanding the social dimension of the process of death and dying, revealing how the identity of the dead is transformed. This work further explores how mortuary rites responded to understandings of the body held during life. To do so, the treatment of the dead …
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Asian American poetry, American poetry, and the critique of identity: Asian American poetry in comparative context, 1887-2005
… While I see identity, in the sense of the social categorization of individuals, as a discourse that perpetuates the kind of reduction that impoverishes conceptions of those labeled as “others,” ultimately, identity can’t simply be dismissed. My analysis begins with Asian American poets who …
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Governing Masculinity: How Structures Shape the Lives and Health of Dislocated Men in Post-Doi Moi Vietnam
… each other, and their relationships with other social and political institutions. My dissertation explores the challenges that three groups of dislocated men - men who were migrant laborers from a rural setting; men who were among the first methadone patients in the country; and men who sold sex …
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The Monument of Memories as a place/space of multifarious rhetorical action
… an understanding of the disease as it is socially experienced and toward the intricacies of determining its neurological properties. This study analyzes the Alzheimer Society of Windsor and Essex County’s Monument of Memories as a cultural form with the potential to (re)frame how the …
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Globalization of a U.S. community college and the politics of belonging in the time of upheaval: Remaking of race and class of Korean international community college students
… their seemingly lack of competency into a social illness that must be removed. My study revealed that, under the conditions, Korean students embraced the dominant ideology within Korea that their belonging is determined by the neoliberal system rather than recognizing their agency in …
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DISABILITY, DEPENDENCY, AND THE MIND: REPRESENTATIONS OF CARE-GIVING AND RECEIVING
… Eva Kittay’s 1999 book, Love’s Labor, reexamines social contract theory in terms of what she calls the “dependency relation” and its attendant ethics of care. Bringing together mental disability with an analysis of both gender and race, Kittay’s work undergirds my own project’s intervention into …