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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Symbolic Violence"”.
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SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE AND INTERNALIZED SEXUAL PREJUDICE: PERFORMING MASCULINITY AT THE SUMMIT CHURCH
My thesis explores and analyzes the interwoven relationship between constructions of gender and sexuality, and how ideologies around gender difference function among some conservative evangelicals in the United States. I utilize theoretical concepts from Raewyn Connell, Judith Butler, and Pierre …
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“It’s not banter, it’s called sexual harassment!” Symbolic violence and gender relations in UK horseracing
… capital, habitus, and field, and, in particular, symbolic violence. It is argued that the engrained culture in racing is one that is symbolically violent towards women, and therefore hinders their opportunities within the industry. Research was carried out through a multidimensional approach. …
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Painting a picture of possibility: the transmission of symbolic violence in an urban township school
… and Lefebvre, especially Bourdieu’s notions of symbolic violence and misrecognition. Data is derived primarily from interviews with teachers and students and from observations within the school. The study finds that students are confronted with several messages of promise and threat at school …
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On urban fear: privilege, symbolic violence, topophobia: the everyday experiences of middle-class women in Secunda, South Africa
… new town of Secunda (with a particular focus on symbolic violence). In Lefebvre's 'terrorist societies' fear becomes latent as citizens seek to maintain status quos which maintain systems of privilege. I demonstrate that one such system is white privilege. Secunda assists in maintaining these …
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Violence and the other in the novels of Carmel Bird
… work, Carmel Bird interrogates multiple forms of violence against the gendered and racialised other. Using Judith Butler’s theories of gender performativity and the discursive construction of race, the thesis shows how these constructions not only inform or incite violence against the other, but …
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Slow Stain
… document. They explore forms of subtle violence against women in the domestic space that are easily overlooked by society. The artwork is comprised of works concerning familiar aspects of the feminine disrupted in some way as in interpretation of insidious violence in domestic space. …
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Casting Aside Bent Bodies: Embodied Violence as an Everyday Experience for Filipino Migrant Seafarers
… potential way to understand how structural and symbolic violence is embodied. Through structural violence, seafarers are held responsible for their health and well-being and through symbolic violence, they become complicit in the systems that oppress them. Using a critical medical humanities …
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The cityscape and the modern gaze in Bogotá, 1930-1950
… the social tensions and configured a scenario of symbolic violence that would lead to the actual violence that erupted by the end of the 1940s. The results show the correlation between one type of violence and the other and how they would settle the basis to silently perpetuate a system of classes …
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The French in London on-land and on-line: an ethnosemiotic analysis
… seeks to ascertain, through Bourdieu’s notion of symbolic violence (1993; Bourdieu & Wacquant, 1992), which social forces lie hidden beneath the veneer of reasoned migration decision-making and serve as tacit, yet potent, mobility drivers. Secondly, based on the hypothesis that habitus overlaps …
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The Eternal Wanders: Social Representations of Gypsy/Travellers
… of social representation (Moscovici, 1963) and symbolic violence (Bourdieu, 1989) the research reveals the depth of the prejudice and discrimination experienced by Gypsy/Travellers and exposes the long lived, historical accounts – the Gypsy/Traveller as the criminal, the dirty, dangerous, and …
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Gender and Sexuality in Blame Attributions for Intimate Partner Violence
… perpetrators and victims of intimate partner violence (IPV). Victims of same sex intimate partner violence (SSIPV) have different experiences with IPV than do heterosexual victims, both in articulating their experiences and in seeking legal recourse or professional aid. Blame is at the core of …
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Schooling Habitus: An auto/ethnographic study of music education's entanglements with cultural hegemony
… concepts of ‘habitus’, ‘cultural capital’, and ‘symbolic violence’ offer a framework by which social justice questions and cultural expressions can be merged into one. Accordingly, I use a Bourdieusian framework to explore the way in which habitus is influenced in the context of a youth …
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Marginality, Mayhem and Middle Class Anxieties: Imaginaries of Masculinity and Urban Violence in Contemporary Mexican and Brazilian Film
… Anxieties: Imaginaries of Masculinity and Urban Violence in Contemporary Mexican and Brazilian Film</em> is a comparative study that explores the confluence of cinematic discourse, violence, masculinity and constructions (or denial) of citizenship in present-day Latin America. My argument is that …
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The hare and the baboon: intersecting violences experienced by African sexual and gender-expansive individuals in the UK asylum system
… of the UK asylum regime and how structural and symbolic violences are implicated in the shared narratives. Twenty-seven narratives of the UK asylum system were gathered from diverse sources, including forcibly displaced co-researchers, legal caseworkers, NGO workers and substantive interview …
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"So barbarous a practice": Cornish wrecking, ca. 1700-1860, and its survival as popular myth
… and popularising the wrecker stereotype through symbolic violence and moral panics. The stereotype became reflexive, touted as an accurate description in Victorian histories, and thus burying the reality of wrecking under accretions of moralising discourse. Therefore, the process of historical …
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Stakeholder engagement in the field of sustainability in Malaysia
… achieving economic benefits, which then, create symbolic violence. As a result, stakeholder engagement does not seem to solve the sustainability controversy.
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The Threshold – a Place of the Hunchback. Violence and Transformation in works by Géricault, Dix, Salomon, Magritte, and Kafka
This thesis examines the violence of normative power in contemporary biopolitics, and its expressions in the art and literature of Géricault, Dix, Salomon, Magritte and Kafka. This violence may be invisible. In Foucault’s thought modern power functions as a normalising system that goes beyond the …
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Supporting the integration of refugee and asylum-seeking health professionals into the South African Health System
… and asylum seeker economic, social, cultural and symbolic capital is systematically devalued. It also incorporates critical perspectives on integration, drawing from Ager and Strang's (2008) multidimensional framework and newer research that highlight how integration can involve unequal power …
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“Are we all playing an elaborate game?” A Bourdieusian analysis of children’s participation in decision making in youth justice
… analytical tools: habitus, capital, field and symbolic violence, were utilised to investigate the attitudes and behaviours of practitioners and those under supervision. This original and distinctive study produced new knowledge, uncovering both inclusive and exclusive aspects of practice that …
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The dynamics of organizational change : an analysis of power, professions and new managerialism in the case of CoastElectric
… hierarchies between competing discourses; symbolic violence; critical turning points; recursiveness; creative destruction; legitimation strategies and the reconstitution of subjects in the workplace.
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