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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Strategies of Resistance"”.
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Strategies of Resistance in Post-Fordism: A Feminist Performance Perspective, Over-identification with Benign Evil
The central concern of this practice-based research project is how to create resistance from a feminist perspective by exploring and developing strategies in performance art. This resistance is aimed at the current economic and political conditions of post-Fordist production, in which an increased …
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Developing Latin American Feminist Theory: Strategies of Resistance In the Novels of Luisa Valenzuela and Sandra Cisneros
… literary theory has developed in the face of identity crises arising throughout its history as critics, theorists, and writers attempt to identify what is truly "Latin American" and not merely the imitation of works and importing of ideas from First World colonizing powers. Latin American …
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Racialization of Muslim-American Women in Public and Private Spaces: An Analysis of their Racialized Identity and Strategies of Resistance
The aim of this research project is to investigate how Muslim-American undergraduate women experience racialization in public and private spaces, examine whether those experiences give rise to a racialized identity, and highlight how they resist and cope with their racialization. The recent …
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A seat at the table : an instrumental case study on the personal and professional strategies of resistance Black women professionals adapt while employed at a predominantly White institution.
Black women have been central to the progression of higher education for centuries yet relegated to background roles in the conversation of equity, inclusion, and belonging. Recent scholarly contributions illuminate and center the plight of Black women professionals at predominantly White …
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Verses, subverses and subversions in contemporary postcolonial poetry : the arts of resistance in the works of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Lesego Rampolokeng
… seeks to analyse insubordination and resistance manifested in postcolonial and post-apartheid poetry as ways of subverting dominant Western discourses. More specifically, I focus my analysis on textual strategies of resistance in the poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Lesego …
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The highland heart still beats : Cape Breton cultural identity in the fiction of Alistair MacLeod, Sheldon Currie, and Lynn Coady
This thesis examines the construction of a "Scottish Folk" identity in Cape Breton, first developed by the Nova Scotia government in the 1930s to strengthen the tourism industry. I read fiction by Alistair MacLeod, Sheldon Currie, and Lynn Coady, as well as the film Margaret's Museum, for their …
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Things seemed to fall apart when he was in the room: Survivors' representations of violence, agency, power, and resistance in their online posts
… research, I examined the ways in which survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) negotiated, in their online narratives, multiple IPV and gendered discourses to represent the context of men’s violence and to construct their subjectivities. I analyzed 26 online forum posts using Coates, Todd, …
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The telling is political & intentional: resistance through testimonio for Latinas in higher education
… the challenges, difficulties, and triumphs of Latinas in higher education-the motivation of our families, the feelings of guilt and alienation, and the experiences of discrimination and marginalization. The analysis is developed through a close reading of the 22 testimonies in Jessica De …
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RAP AND RESISTANCE: VISIONS OF SELF AND SOCIETY IN AMERICAN, AFRICAN, AND FRENCH HIP HOP MUSIC
Rap and Resistance: Visions of Self and Society in American, African, and French Hip Hop Music probes the ties between the formation of subjectivity in rap and its strategies of resistance against state, cultural, and societal violence and control of minority groups. This study examines the themes …
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Watch Me Disappear: Gendered Bodies, Pro-Anorexia, and Self-Injury in Virtual Communities
… disorders and self-injury practices. The use of the internet to represent and foster particular categories of material bodies, such as the anorexic, the fitness buff, and the self-injurer, has gained substantial visibility due in part to the proliferation of visual imagery presented through …
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Seeds of Resistance; Harvesting Justice: An exploration of spaces where native seeds grow
This project claims space for articulations of resistance and justice that seek healing for land, people, and all living things. It is intended as a contribution to a revisionist global history that explores strategies of resistance to corporate models of existence. It seeks to situate specific …
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Reclaiming Humanity in the Global Borderlands: Collective Homeplace Praxis among Women of Color Educators in International Schools
… schools function as global outposts of colonial residue, where neoliberal individualism and Eurocentric 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 …
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Resistance On The Great Plains: The Bismarck Indian School, 1916-1921
<p>The Bismarck Indian School was one of twenty-eight off-reservation boarding schools erected by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to assimilate Native children into the dominant White society. The school, located in Bismarck, North Dakota, opened in 1908 and briefly closed in 1918. The school started …
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Making Home : (Re)Writing Motherhood and Identity in African American Women’s Fiction
This thesis examines representations of motherhood and acts of domestic and diasporic homemaking within four African American women’s novels of the twentieth century. Combining black feminist critique, maternal theory and historical enquiry, the work develops across four chapters, beginning with …
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From Targets to Agents: Women's Perceptions of Their Vulnerability and the Strategies They Use to Resist
… ample evidence that women can successfully fight off assailants using physical force (Clay-Warner, 2002; Ullman, 2007), women’s self-defense training initiatives are not funded by the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) or any national anti-violence organizations (Carlson, 2014). The NRA, on the …
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The lived experience of leaving a Muslim marriage, as experienced by Muslim women in South Africa
The lived experience of leaving a Muslim marriage, as experienced by South African Muslim women is the focus of this master's thesis. Using a qualitative research design approach, four Muslim women from Cape Town, KwaZulu-Natal and Johannesburg were interviewed to learn more about leaving a …
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Integrative genomic approaches to dissecting host-tumor and host-pathogen immune processes
… First, we conducted a systematic exploration of how the genomic landscape of cancer shapes and is shaped by anti-tumor immunity. Using large-scale genomic data sets of solid tissue tumor biopsies, we quantified the cytolytic activity of the local immune infiltrate and identified associated …
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Maori and museums : the politics of indigenous recognition : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Museum Studies at Massey University, Palmerston North
As a result of colonialism indigenous peoples have been marginalised within their own customary territories. In an analysis of the politics of cultural recognition Tully (1995) proposes the reconceptualisation of the 'common ground': sites, including public museums, within which different cultures …
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¡Tú Puedes! (You’ve Got This): Exploring the Challenges & Opportunities for Women of Color in Stem Doctoral Programs
Women of Color (WOC) remain significantly underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) doctoral programs in the United States. Despite national efforts to broaden participation in STEM, structural barriers—including racialized and gendered exclusion, isolation, and …
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Invisibility, appropriation, subversion: British Army observation posts at the Shankill Falls divide, 1972
… and barriers form the accepted understanding of conflict era architecture in Northern Ireland. Invisible surveillance structures also played a role, but little is known about them or their whereabouts. To examine and evoke the invisible, the measures I have had to take range from ethnographic …
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