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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"agency and resistance"”.
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Agency And Resistance Strategies Among Black Primary Care Patients
<p>Research has identified marginalized and minority patients as displaying fewer participatory behaviors during the clinical interaction. Using a culture-centered framework, this study examines the process by which patients with a previous history of discrimination employed agency and resistance …
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Transgressive matriarchs: an exploration of female agency and resistance in South African telenovelas
… on the works of Sisonke Msimang, Pumla Gqola and Sabine Binder, specifically their analyses of the iconography surrounding Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, this paper interprets the two Black female protagonists under this study within a political and historical framework. Through close textual …
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Alternative media for public pedagogy: "Chief" concerns and human agency
… correlates with the rise of social movements and their influence on contemporary manifestations of resistance, this research uses critical ethnographic methodologies to document the narratives of alternative media producers in the pro-Indigenous and anti-“Chief” campaigns at the University of …
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Transcending Absence, Transforming Presence: Undocumented Migrants and the Navigation of Forced and Chosen Space
… while also throwing into stark relief the power and control exercised by the state over undocumented migrants along the arc of their journeys. Two main questions guide my analysis: 1)<em> How are migrants forced to enter and navigate geographic space and zones of exclusion? </em>and<em> …
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A Chronological Study of Discourse on Prostitution Policy, Anti-prostitution Feminist Movements, and Sex Workers' Rights Movements in South Korea
… research examines the history of sex workers' agency and resistance to prostitution policies and anti-prostitution feminist movements in defense of their rights in South Korea based on a transnational feminist approach. I first analyze the violent impacts of government prostitution policies and …
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National identity construction and the popular ballad in nineteenth century Ireland
… By the nineteenth century however, and particularly in the post famine period with the sharp decline in the use of the Irish language, anglicisation was a trend that was felt to be fast becoming irreversible and with its progression, some perceived, went any legitimate claim for …
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The 'Feminization' of the Everyday: Examining the Gendered Nature of Worker Resistance within the Transnational Call Center Industry
… exist between gender, everyday forms of worker agency and resistance, and the global political economy. I argue that the gendered division of labour within the global political economy has led to the development of gendered opportunity structures of worker resistance. Further, by gendering James …
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Fixing the national security state: commissions and the politics of disaster and reform
… that actively mediate the politics of disaster and reform. Typically endowed with the legal authority to establish causes of dramatic policy failures and make recommendations to prevent their recurrence, commissions can prompt major governmental reorganizations. Yet commissions are also …
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THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF SLAVERY: CONSUMER IDENTITY AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN HACIENDA LA ESPERANZA, MANATÍ, PUERTO RICO
… the Americas. It reviews the history of slavery and the plantation economy in the Caribbean and how the different European regimes regulated slavery in the region. It also provides a literature review on archaeological research carried out in plantation contexts throughout the Caribbean and their …
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Navigating the (Im)Perfect Performances of Queer Iranian-American Identity
<p>Within the social sciences and humanities, failure to adequately account for the intersectional ways people of color navigate their multiple identities within contesting cultural systems, creates an unfinished portrait of queer identity. For queer people of color, negotiating queer identity is …
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An Alternative Mediterranean Space. Narratives of Movement and Resistance Across Italy and North Africa
… a comparative analysis of contemporary literary and visual narratives that dialogue across the Mediterranean Sea, in this dissertation I apply the category of narrative to the field of Mediterranean Studies. Working across different genres, different media, and different languages, I explore the …
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What is it 'to move' a photograph? Artistic tactics for destabilizing and transforming images
… a photograph? Artistic tactics for destabilising and transforming images. This dissertation presents the findings of practice-led research that explores how artistic practices intervening in existing images ‘move’ images — in the sense of destabilise and transform. The notion ‘to move’ has guided …
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Writing a feminist ethnography: A comparative analysis of Iranian women's stories of resistance and agency in Iran and America
… in the West by examining women's experiences of resistance and agency within the diaspora and in Iran. Through a feminist ethnographic analysis of Iranian women's narratives, I work against Western stereotypes as a way to problematize the assumption that immersion in Western culture "saves" …