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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"alternative ways of knowing"”.
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Unmeasured, detached, and isolated: The legitimation of a domesticated identity
… and isolated explores the lingering effects of colonialism on identity, behavior, and cultural perception through the lens of my personal experience as a Venezuelan immigrant in the United States. I investigate how colonial legacies—especially those codified through manuals of etiquette like …
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Multispecies Entanglements and Rural Mental Wellbeing: An Ethnographic Situational Analysis
… health has become an increasingly prominent site of scholarly, governmental, and public concern, with growing investments in research, policy, and programming aimed at addressing rural populations' mental health needs. Yet, much of this burgeoning topic remains narrowly framed—steeped in deficit …
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Unsayable Somethings: Modern American Poetry, Language, and the Logic of Experience
… categorical similarities between popular models of science, political economy, psychology, and sexuality, this dissertation addresses modern U.S. poetry's obsession with conjuring the unsayable. Chapters 1 and 2 explore the social and conceptual landscape that came to align the sayable with the …
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Reimagining Pedagogies of the Prison Yard: Using Ethnotheatre to Embody Transcarceral Conocimiento
<p>Latinxs make up 40% of California's population but account for 45% of the prison population and 47% of the jail population (Sawyer, 2023). Their overrepresentation in carceral custody not only impacts the individual but also affects families and communities by limiting access to social, …
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Decolonial Museum Practice Through Performance Art and Activation: A Collective Autoethnography
… within cultural institutions. Guided by concepts of decoloniality and decolonial methodology, this thesis critically analyses the potential of performance art to disrupt and subvert hegemonic structures of power and authority within museums. The focus is particularly on the decolonial efforts of …
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Embodied Landscapes: process and participation in filmmaking
… filmmaking strategies to explore creative ways of working in landscapes with human and nonhuman participants. The research defines landscapes as multi-vocal gatherings of experiences and assemblages that interact in unfinished stories and therefore applies a ‘landscape-based approach’. …
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Becoming otherwise: two thousand and ten reasons to live in a small town
… sculptures. Simultaneously operating are a range of critical, subversive, and experimental practices that interact with the public space of cities in a myriad of ways. Although these other types of public art projects may have been engaged in the fields of Fine Art and Cultural Studies, this has …