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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Theorizations"”.
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The Contemporary Female Gothic: Hauntings From the Home to the Colonial Landscape
… This analysis thus incorporates psychological theorizations as well as theorizations of space, place, and empire in order to analyze the mental, emotional, and physical constraints that women writers portray in the Gothic genre. My dissertation focuses on novels by contemporary authors from the …
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The grain of the voice of the cyborg
… of the vocalic body can benefit future theorizations of vocal timbre.
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Sophie Calle: Her(e) but Not Her(e)
… and its continued alignment with the prolific theorizations of Foucault. Making particular use of Foucault’s Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality, as well as a number of his other works, I aim to show the ways in which Calle’s art embraces a politic, albeit an aesthetic one, that …
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The Dialectical Object: John Heartfield 1915 - 1933
… practice of the later 1920s. Drawing on the theorizations of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze regarding subjectivity and aesthetic engagement, the formation of cultural collectives, and processes of meaning production, this dissertation will argue that Heartfield's involvement in …
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Writing on the margins : the experimental poetry of Lyn Hejinian, Yang Lian and Arkadii Dragomoshchenko
… society. These findings undermine prevailing theorizations of the globalization of poetry and thus point to the need for a reconfiguration of theories of global aesthetics. This study employs an innovative approach that makes significant contributions to research at three levels of analysis. …
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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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Fear of a Blank Planet
… is on the work of Sigmund Freud and his earliest theorizations of affect. Freud's theories are re-evaluated through the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. The fourth and concluding chapter examines the writings of Henri Lefebvre on everyday life and, also, the importance that Lefebvre's …
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Computing the Social: How Capitalism and Taste Shape Computational Social Science
… drivers of computational social scientists’ theorizations. These aesthetic attachments shape how social phenomena are conceptualized by computational social scientists. This has implications for how scholarship has linked algorithmic injustices to cultures of computing: providing social …
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A Humanizing Pedagogy and Curriculum: Lessons from Chicanx/Latinx Student Testimonios in A High School Ethnic Studies Classroom
… on the narrative and experiential data and theorizations of my former students, I conceptualize humanizing pedagogy in an ethnic studies classroom as a project that sits on three critical pillars: trust, dialogue, and literacy. By building and maintaining trust, engaging in meaningful …
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POST-COLONIAL DISLOCATION AND AMNESIA: A CURE FROM MOLEFI KETE ASANTE'S AN AFROCENTRIC MANIFESTO
… studies. Capitalizing Molefi Kete Asante's theorizations on agency, location, identity, and history this project applies an Afrocentric approach in its reading of the post-colonial authors and theorists. While current postcolonial theory seems to be at stake with operationalizing many of its …
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Out of the Closet and Into Print: Gay Liberation across the Anglo-American World
… indebted to actor network theory, critical theorizations of counterpublics and the public sphere, and transnational historiography, the thesis develops four main arguments. First, far from a short-lived burst of Stonewall-era radicalism, gay liberation was a distinct formation of queer …
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From Cradock, With Love: Affective Substantive Post -Apartheid Citizenship for Women of Colour
… Eastern Cape, it demonstrates how traditional theorizations are inadequate for understanding the substantive citizenship some small town women desire, live, and demand. Though the research design began with a traditional definition that citizenship rests on the knowledge of and ability to …
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Rummaging Through the Wreckage: Geographies of Trauma, Memory, and Loss at the National September 11th Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center
… research draws on critical geopolitical theorizations of the nation-state, feminist theories of emotion and embodiment, queer deployments of affect, and cultural theories of memory, as tools for navigating post-structural ideas of power, knowledge, discourse, and empire.</p>
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The Stakeholder-Profile Framework for Tacit Knowledge Acquisition in Requirements Elicitation Interviews
… reports that there is a scarcity of available theorizations and solutions for addressing this challenge, posing a key and recurrent challenge in its successful attainment, functional utilization, theoretical understanding and synthesis, as well as<strong> </strong>successful harvesting. The …
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Intercultural Colonization and the Landscape: The Historical Archaeology of San Emigdio, South Central California
… and sense of belonging are developed through the theorizations of colonialism (with the idea of systems of value; Gosden 2004), object and landscape biographies (as suggested by Ashmore 2009, Joy 2009, Marshall and Gosden 1999), with some reference to landscape theory (Ashmore 2009, Zedona and …
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Racialization, sexualization, and resistance: a “subtle” look at Our Nig and “a subtlety”
… forms of protest. With the rise of these careful theorizations of black women by black women (and men), this thesis turns to Nicole Fleetwood’s Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness, Saidiya Hartman’s Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century …
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Suffering for Land: Environmental Hazards and Popular Struggles in the Brahmaputra Valley (Assam), India
… the state. By combining Marxist and postcolonial theorizations of the state and paying special attention to hydraulic infrastructures, my research presents an in-depth analysis of the role of the Indian state in the making of hazardscapes in Assam, thereby advancing our understanding of the state, …
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Rethinking the Liberian Predicament in Anti-Black Terms: On Repatriation, Modernity, and the Ethno-Racial Choreographies of Civil War
… Such rhetoric has made articulable contemporary theorizations of the Liberian civil war as a paradigmatic example of the negro’s irresponsible experimentations with freedom. This dissertation offers a re-contemplation of Liberian historiographical accounts, one that attends to the racialized …
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Foreign bodies in the river of sound : seeking identity and Irish traditional music
… who had re-located to Ireland found current theorizations of musical community inadequate to account for difference and disharmony in group performances. Foreign musicians' failure to assimilate musically ans socially was attributed to their status as strangers, their tactics and their …
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Fixed and Fleeting: An Exploration of Film Poster Art from Weimar Germany, 1919-1933
… high and low art that remains significant to theorizations and explications of cinema today. On the other hand, my examination of the film poster aims to complicate the theoretical understanding of the ontology of the film medium itself by scrutinizing the relationship between still and moving …
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