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Showing 1 to 20 of 129 for “"Theorization"”.
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User-Generated Content and Revolutions: Towards a Theorization of Web 2.0
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine how characteristics of Web 2.0, users’ beliefs on freedom of information in the Web, and external forces combine to create social stability and how changes in these factors can lead to revolts. While still an emerging phenomenon, the web has evolved …
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Investigation and theorization of the adoption of strategic management accounting (SMA) practices in large U.K. organizations.
This study focuses on an investigation of the recent development of SMA practices in large UK business organizations. SMA is introduced as an evolving concept and its development over the past two decades are summarized. To facilitate a more comprehensive understanding of SMA practice, it is argued …
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“Most of All, I Wanted My Life to Count for Something:” Toward Black Feminist Theorization in Histories of California Medicine and Medical Education, 1858 to 1942
<p>This dissertation explores the histories of California’s earliest Black women physicians, Ruth J. Temple (1892–1984) and Edna L. Griffin (1905–1992), within the broader landscape of medicine and medical education in the United States from 1858 to 1942. By foregrounding the intellectual …
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Conceptualizing Displacement Through Poetry: An Analysis of Persian and Chicana Poetry Through Embodied Women of Color Feminisms
… it is crucial to draw upon Persian and Chicana theorization as well as women of color feminist theory. Writers whose work I engage include Gloria Anzaldúa, Audre Lorde, Cherríe Moraga, Mariana Ortega, María Lugones, Shireen Roshanravan, and Sara Ahmed. With the support of their theorization, I …
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"Fracturing the Space of the Real": Deriving a Korean Queer Theory from the Shamanic Feminist Poetics of Kim Hyesoon
… poetics of Kim Hyesoon, arguing that her theorization of Korean indigenous spirituality [musok] and the shaman song "Abandoned Princess Baridegi" constitutes a counter-epistemological framework capable of articulating queer possibility outside the ideological constraints of Western …
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Power and Reason: The Construction of a Mathematics Teacher's Pedagogical Discourse and Practice
… be challenged. Lastly, the use of Foucault's theorization of power, knowledge, and subjectivity can help us explore the dialectic between the lifeworld of the individual and the social structure in which he or she is situated.
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Retelling Michel de Certeau
… "places" and dynamic "spaces", and the theorization of the figure of the "addressee" which, as this study argues, is a central and complementary step to de Certeau's ideas. The conclusion suggests an alternative reading of the notion of "tactics" supported by concepts developed by …
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Not Meant to Be Read: The Stories They Silence, the Resistance That Speaks
… fracture that surveillance demands. I offer a theorization of the membrane—a permeable, resilient site where trauma, memory, and resistance move, tangle, and sometimes transform. Built on Barad's (2007) theorization of quantum entanglement, I situate trauma not as a linear inheritance but as an …
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Language ideologies and the positioning of learners in a multilingual Grade 1 classroom: a case study
This study is motivated by the under theorization of language and the impact that perception and discourse about languages have on diverse language users in the classroom. It draws on the theoretical understanding of Bourdieu's linguistic capital, as well as language ideology and Critical Discourse …
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Spaces of Reproduction: How Teenagers Co-construct Post Industrial Soundscapes in Smithfield, Dublin
… Lefebvre’s theory of space, particularly his theorization of symbolic spaces. It also offers a critique of the politicizing and policing of noise within the EU, as well as Ireland’s adoption of quantitative models to measure sound.
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WHEN I BELIEVE, I AM BIASED: TWO ESSAYS ON WHEN AND HOW CONSUMER BELIEFS LEAD TO JUDGMENT BIAS
… and consequences of hope emotion and to the theorization of hope as a compensatory emotion.
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Perception of menopause : black and white working-class women's experiences
… working-class women. The main implications for theorization on menopause from this study are that (1) there is no single comprehensive model or perspective which alone adequately explains the meanings of menopause for women, and (2) that it is essential to understand the ways in which bodies …
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The shifting shape of useful knowledge in literacy teaching
… develop an empirical evidence base to ground the theorization of teachers’ classroom work would help to promote evidence-informed decisions about literacy curriculum design and teaching.
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The social relations of a basic life science laboratory and its heterotopic milieu
… contests in which it was primarily invested. A theorization of these relations is carefully distinguished from prior approaches in "science studies" and elsewhere, thereby providing a new framework for analyzing inter-scientific relations.
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Insecurity as Imagination: Securitization and Reproduction of Knowledge about Insecurity, The United States and Iraq (January 2002 – March 2003)
… addition to its analysis of agency, it offers a theorization of time in security and securitization. By analyzing evidence (intelligence), it explores the question of ‘acceptance of audience’ in Securitization Theory. Contextualizing securitization in a broader social space, this project argues …
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A study to develop and evaluate a taxonomic model of behavioral techniques for representing user interface designs
… the epistemological cycle of observation, theorization, and evaluation. The model provides a framework for discussing, analyzing, extending, and comparing existing behavioral representation techniques, as well as being a springboard for developing and evaluating new techniques.
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Exploration of eye movement desensitization as part of treatment of traumatic memories/post traumatic stress disorder in rape survivors in South Africa
… to be further explored and considered in its theorization. Finally, implications of the findings for clinical work with PTSD in South Africa are discussed.
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Falling Forward: Continuity and Change in the Poetics of Eden
… of a secular Eden by which various non-normative theorizations of time and self are made possible. The invocation of a rich and multifarious Eden may be effectively understood through its relationship to the psychoanalytic theorization of origins by which Eden’s powerful potentiality for …
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Lee Bontecou's Early Reliefs (1959-1965): A Critical and Contextual Analysis
… ‘60s. Using historian Reinhardt Koselleck’s theorization of historical time where history is constituted by an amalgamation of “temporal layers” based on particular historical perspectives, this thesis will explore the varied stylistic associations of Bontecou’s early reliefs by investigating …
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A Forward-Looking Conceptualization of Information Privacy
… future-oriented research that allows for active theorization that can adapt to rates of technological progress and resulting socio-technical changes. </p>
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