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Showing 1 to 20 of 124 for “"Subject Positions"”.
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Subject positions of British South Asian women with inflammatory bowel disease: a Foucauldian discourse analysis
… Discourse Analysis (FDA). The analysis revealed subject positions sourced in sociocultural and medical discourses. These were the Seeker Woman, the Private Woman, the Flawed Woman, and the Empowered Woman. These subject positions illustrate how sociocultural factors and medical practices …
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“A Fine Race of Girls”: Occupational Therapy and Clinical Governance in the District Health Boards of Aotearoa New Zealand
… discipline, both foregrounding the emergence of subject positions aligned with quality and safety, and acting as instruments of surveillance so that conduct at all levels of the organisation can be monitored and corrected. This research explores how clinical governance discourses circulating …
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Discourse, Narrative and Agency: A Contribution of Local Stories to Disability Theory, Research and Professional Practice
… were able to take up alternative and preferred subject positions when they had been positioned in ways that removed or reduced their agency on account of their having an impairment and/or illness. The six people who participated in the study are introduced at the end of Chapter Four and the next …
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Breaking as making: In what ways can making sculpture contribute to understanding experiences and perceptions of breaking?
… my methodology. Since both methodology and subject are ‘breaking’, each contributes to the understanding of the other. In 2006 I broke my collarbone three times, my wrist and my hand and when I returned to making sculpture I could only relate to my previous artwork by breaking it. By using …
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‘It’s a problem with the brain’: A discursive analysis of parents’ constructions of ADHD
… The concepts of interpretative repertoires and subject positions are used to argue that prevalent understandings of ADHD place parents of children with ADHD at the centre of a highly moralised debate. Specifically, the prevalent psychosocial repertoire is identified as aligning ADHD with …
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A Discursive Study of how Mental Health Social Workers Constructed their Professional Selves within the Context of National Health Service Mental Health Services
… sense of self, produced from discourses, subject positions and a process of subjectification. Twelve social workers were interviewed; seven mental health social workers and five social workers who held positions as managers or educationalists. I asked social workers questions about their …
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Student Engagement Within Peer-led Literature Circles: Exploring the Thought Styles of Adolescents
… was shaped by their dynamic, ever changing subject positions as adolescents, students, boys and girls, and as members of the middle class. This study explores their subject positions and how they shaped student engagement as reflected their interactions and talk for the purpose of generating …
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Computing Cultures: Information Technologies and Narratives of Self
… All three sites illustrate that to question subjectivity involves an engagement with the multiple institutions that not only shape technology usage, but also construct the possible subject positions we can inhabit at the close of the mechanical age. I argue that we need to challenge …
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Die desentralisasie van die subjek : 'n post-strukturalistiese beskouing van Breytan Breytenbach se Die Ysterkoei moet sweet en ("YK")
… frames of reading which presuppose a definable subject and a hierarchy of real poet and poem are problematized and transgressed by the Breytenbach texts. How these texts confront the normative, predetermined and rigid definitions of the subject and subject positions is one of the challenges …
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Muslim women of South-Asian origin’s constructions of assisted reproductive technologies in the UK: a Foucauldian discourse analysis
… of ARTs were mapped out, their impact on subjectivity, technologies of self and practice were addressed, along with the role of National Health Service fertility clinics and social environment on these constructions. The analysis identified that participants construct their understanding …
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Discourse and Subjectivity in the GirlZone: How Literate Activities Construct a Community Organization
… reflect, and be reflected by, the development of subject positions and the discourses within this institution. In addition, GirlZone provides a case study for examining how these expanded definitions of literate activities affect (or not) the sustainability of a site devoted to structural change …
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"There’s literally nothing else I can do apart from cope": a Foucauldian discourse analysis of shame, coping, and the operation of power in parents' narrative accounts of adolescent substance use
… the limitations and possibilities of the subject positions offered by each, enabling them to remain within established regimes of truth whilst narrating a story of deviance which often tested boundaries of inclusion. Expressions of stigma and shame most often accompanied constructions of …
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Exploring Constructions of Self and Identity amongst South Africa s Homeless Population
… unsheltered individuals drew on as well as the subject positions they occupied and lastly to discern the agentic possibilities available to participants within these positions. Of the seven discourses identified, the two most prominent related to absence and the homeless identity itself. While …
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Dead cars in Westall: a narrative exploration of multicultural migrancy, postcolonial sexuality and commodity culture in cosmopolitan Melbourne
… and automobilic and describe mobile subject positions, which traverse time and space. The 'dead car way' of resistance, influenced by Chela Sandoval's Methodology of the Oppressed and explicated throughout the text, produces a third space of cultural possibility, that of the Uiminal' …
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Emerging identities: New subjects within gay adoption
… thesis explores the identity construction and subject positions of gay male foster and adoptive parents. Using late twentieth and early twenty-first century cultural texts, I apply a Foucaultian perspective to analyze how controversies over gay adoptions articulate shifts in contemporary …
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Selves colliding with structure : the discursive construction of change and non-change in narrative of rape crisis volunteers
… study explores the discursive construction of subjective change and non-change in the narratives of women volunteering at a Rape Crisis (henceforth RC) centre). Of key interest within the study are the dilemmas and negotiations triggered when selves collide with new structures (and alongside …
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Identität bei Herta Müller: Schreiben als Mittel der Selbstbehauptung
… ways to understand her unstable, transitory subject positions. Due to the constant movement as a result of overdetermination and subversion of these positions — the Banat Swabian, the Romanian, and the German, Müller's identity is characterized by a lack of stability and continuity, and, …
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"""&Iquest;que Va a Pasar Con Los Indios Cuando Todos Seamos Indios?"" Ethnic Rights and Reindianization in Southwestern Colombian Amazonia"
… an extraordinary and hierarchical diversity of subject positions, social experiences and cultural identities underlying both the category of indigenous as well as that of mestizo . Color, a colonial legacy used to measure the degree of the racial-ethnic mixing, proved to still be alive. Color …
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Seeing selves and others: rethinking 'the tourist gaze' of township tourism as inter-subjectivity in Cape Town, South Africa
… the particular" that might demonstrate the inter-subjectivity of 'hosts' and 'guests' subject-positions so often presented as static and oppositional of township tourism in Cape Town, South Africa. The majority of research engages in a continuing debate that emphasizes either the 'hosts' or …
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The ‘Woman-child’ in Fashion Photography, 1990-2015: Childlike Femininities, Performativity, and Reception Studies
… the ‘woman-child’ continues to be a prominent subject-position in fashion photography of the West. This thesis builds upon earlier feminist critiques of the infantilisation of women by considering the meaning of childlike femininities in the period spanning 1990 to 2015. In particular, it …
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