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Showing 1 to 20 of 272 for “"articulations"”.
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eBhish' - articulations of Black Oceanic presence eThekwini
The legacies of colonialism and apartheid echo in many forms of social practice in contemporary South Africa. Ibhish' laseThekwini (the Durban beachfront), a seaside public space, is imbued with a racialized tension that stems from these colonial histories. Historically, the beach was the nation's …
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Articulations of memory in Northern Cyprus:between Turkishness, Europeanness and Cypriotness
This research explores how memory and national identity have been articulated in the context of competing discourses after the presentation of the Annan Plan in Northern Cyprus. Focussing on key mechanisms of memory such as history textbooks, commemorations (national days, museums, monuments), …
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A Syncretic Modernism: Articulations of Painting in Turkey (1910s-1940s)
… Turkish painting over the period in question as articulations of a complex system, presenting a counter-history of one modernism among many. This, I argue, strove for synthesis but ultimately remained syncretic—a strategic amalgam of Turkey’s highly polyglot reality that refused to be smoothed …
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Articulations of equity: practice, complexity and power in facilitated art projects
This is a practice-based research project which analysis how democracy and facilitation are articulated within two different social contexts. The purpose of this research is to make apparent, through two facilitated art projects- the Elder Flowers project and the Exwick Image Project - the …
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The Antigone Discourse: Zines and Blogs as Articulations of Young Women's Subjectivites
Zines and blogs written by the young women in this study are an important form of inquiry that, if considered by educators, may push us to critically question discourses of young womanhood, questions of subjectivity, and the way we engage with texts. I use readings of Antigone to shape a reading of …
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Archival Articulations of Belonging: Resistance, Reimagination, and Resilience in School and in Incarceration
<p>Belonging is a universal desire, providing purpose and comfort, that supports our ability to survive and triumph through difficulty. A lack of belonging can impact one’s likelihood of becoming incarcerated. In turn, incarceration stigmatizes individuals and disrupts connections with family, …
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Co-framing employability: mapping transferable skills with media students (mobilising articulations through practice).
… the signification of our research resides within articulations themselves, as attributed through the student experience; contingent on their interpretation and contextualisation at the point of articulation. I considered the absence of curriculum emphasis regarding student capacity to articulate …
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Platform work in Bengaluru: worker articulations and platform design in India's informal economy
The global North has a discursive hold telling us how digital labour platforms impact workers. The fear inherent in this discourse comes from the fact that many global North workers are faced with only ‘casualized' platform work rather than job opportunities that come with career progression, …
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Appropriate Articulations of Taste: The (re)production of gender in contemporary youth taste cultures
This thesis explores gender in contemporary youth taste cultures, contributing to the academic field through its illumination of taste’s role in the (re)production of gender. We continue to see inequality on the basis of gender in contemporary society and thus this thesis provides a much needed …
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Mute articulations representing the body when the self isn't what it used to be
The topic of my research is an exploration of the concept of the 'mute body. The mute body is the body which stages a certain inderminacy and distance from the viewer. It is a form of hiding, but also a form of play with narcissistic implications and perhaps even seductive intent. The mute body is …
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Bodied knowledges (where our blood is born): maternal narratives and articulations of black women's diaspora identity
… Our Blood Is Born): Maternal Narratives and Articulations of Black Women's Diaspora Identity is an intervention in black diasporic criticism and black feminism. It highlights black women's diaspora literature, maternal narratives, and interrogations of identity. I employ a black feminist …
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Rewriting the Future: The Construction of Masculine Subjectivity Within Articulations of Russia's Post-Soviet National Idea
… contestation of masculine Subjectivity within articulations of Russia's post-Soviet national Idea. As Russia endeavors to define itself after years of turmoil and strife, gender identities have become deeply enmeshed in understandings of quintessential Russianness. From discourses of the state …
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I Cannot Sing You Here, But For Songs of Where: Contemporary Alt-folksong and Articulations of Place
This practice-based research questions the potential defining characteristics and status of contemporary alt-folksong and its role(s) in the articulation of place through a collection of twelve original songs with accompanying written research. The thesis relates the term ‘place’ to the notion of …
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Vietnamese villages in the Mekong Delta: their articulations with a wider society and the implications for local social organization
… the nature and consequences of village-nation articulations in the Mekong Delta. If it is successful here, then it cannot only resolve some of the difficulties encountered in the study of other Southeast Asian societies but ultimately contribute to the development of a theory of peasant …
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The Urban Politics of Settler-Colonialism: Articulations of the Colonial Relation in Postwar Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1945-1975 (AND BEYOND)
This dissertation documents some of the ways that colonial practices and mentalities have shaped relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in the historical and material conjuncture of Minneapolis, Minnesota, with a focus on the period 1945 to 1975. Building on political and …
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Stratégie et consensus : les articulations stratégiques et consensuelles de la règle constitutive de langage comme structure processuelle de communication.
… de la communication. Il integre plutot ces articulations relationnelles a la structure processuelle de la communication en reformulant une conception de la cooperation qui s'actualise dans l'effectif meme de la relation interlocutive. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Articulations of Empire and the Nation: Christopher Columbus in Nineteenth-Century Spain, Italy, the United States and Spanish America
"In chapter one, an analysis of historiographic and literary texts from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is presented to establish what the author calls an ""interpretive tradition"" according to which Columbus is a figure inevitably associated with empire. After a brief review of the …
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"(Un) Privileged Embodiments of Femininity, (Un) Hegemonic Articulations of Desire: The Shifting Grounds of the New Veiling Trend in Jordan"
This dissertation examines the new veiling trend as it is embodied by Jordanian Muslim women. It approaches veiling in terms of being an experience of femininity and desire and unpacks its complex bodily implications. I place the emphasis on one of the trend’s increasingly popular manifestations in …
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Bow Articulations in the Late Galant (1775–1812): An Analysis of Bow Strokes in Selected Violin Sonatas of Mozart and Beethoven
… 454. Op. 12, No. 1, Op. 96). An analysis of bow articulations supplemented with annotated music examples is provided for these works, as well as information on the bow innovations and French violin school pedagogy at the turn of the 19th century. Understanding the style of bowing during the late …
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