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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"backstage"”.
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Going Backstage: Examining Justice Perceptions of Electronic Performance Monitoring
… employees the ability to turn off EPM or “go backstage” is likely to be viewed differently by those who are at higher levels of a hierarchy in comparison to those at lower levels. Utilizing experimental vignette methodology (EVM), I find evidence that managers and front-line employees are …
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The Role of Dramaturgy in Change Management in Shell Oman Marketing Company
… concludes that front stage performances and backstage performances are witnessed extensively in SOMC, and concludes that the boundary between front and backstage is blurred, that stories, metaphors and body language play an important role in performances, and that the audience perception of …
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Behind the Door: A Study of Cell-Sharing, Wellbeing and Coping in Prison
… can enable individuals to engage in backstage activity that is important for individuals’ self-narratives and sense of wellbeing, such as the reflexive project of the self (Giddens, 1991). It is argued that in order to understand how people respond to cell-sharing and, consequently, …
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It’s like being on a tight-rope : an ethnography of the working lives of professional stand-up comedians in the UK
… and gained access to ‘liminal’ spaces such as backstage areas and green rooms, observing backstage happenings, activities and interactions. This research makes two original contributions to knowledge. Firstly, it applies a novel methodological approach to study the working lives of stand-up …
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The relationship between perceived job pressure and self-reported bulimia symptoms among female Las Vegas production show dancers
… dance and Pilates studios as well as backstage at two of the shows. The surveys measured perceived weight oriented job pressure, body dissatisfaction in response to weight oriented job pressure, and differences in self-reported attribution between symptomatic bulimic and non-bulimic …
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Me, Myself, & Identity Online: Identity Salience on Facebook vs Non-Virtual Identity
… front stage projections in relation to backstage information and the resulting differences in identity. In effect, people are “themselves” on Facebook, just a consistently “good” version of themselves.</p>
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Masculinity in the nineteenth-century Paris opéra ballet
… to the Opéra. Subscribers engaged in backstage affairs with ballerinas, replicating an aristocratic tradition and exchanging financial protection for sex. In this thesis I ask why male dancers grew so unpopular at this time and what their unpopularity reveals about French masculinity. …
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A performing arts center on the Potomac
… towers, with seating on one side of the wall and backstage areas on the other. A serpentine “riverwalk” connects the towers and four plazas, encouraging public use of the river’s edge. Parking is provided by a crescent-shaped garage which also serves as a buffer to the adjacent expressway traffic.
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Performance, power and production: a selective, critical and cultural history of the radio interview.
… has been placed on how both ‘on air’ and ‘backstage’ interaction has been experienced by an institution, an interviewer and an interviewee. For instance, how might the interview have been used to serve, restrict or benefit the needs of a particular group, an individual or an institution? …
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Depression, Volition, and Death: The Effect of Depressive Disorders on the Autonomous Choice to Forgo Medical Treatment
… on deeper, avolitional structures (e.g., backstage cognition, cognitive heuristics and biases, automaticity, emotionally-valenced memory, etc.), and hence, shifting the cognitive model towards reductionistic and deterministic philosophies and psychologies. Medical ethics models must adapt …
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The Middlestage: State-Sponsored Overseas Chinese Academics and China's Managed Cultural Globalisation
… dramatism such as the frontstage and the backstage, I adopt the middlestage as the primary conceptual lens of my investigation. The middlestage of China's managed cultural globalisation is examined as a fluid and embodied space where state-sponsored OCAs and Chinese state institutions …
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Att arbeta i dödens närhet : Rutiner och ritualer i äldreomsorg
… or, according to Goffman’s (1963) concept of "backstage", somewhere staff can retire for a break, rest or reflection. I consider working with older people suffering from dementia to be an extremely demanding work and I am surprised that screens and backstage areas that exist in most other …
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Performing toilets: putting matter into place
… performance, the toilet is transferred from the backstage to center stage. Out of place, the toilet defamiliarizes and refunctions the body’s techniques, proprieties, and ceremonies of the body. I explore the body at the level of its practices and move from “body to self to society” (Frank 47), …
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Ironic Distancing: Injecting Bigotry into the American Mainstream
… mainstream situations, allowing for previously backstage discrimination to become a normalized part of the American mainstream rhetorical environment.
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Press and Parliament, Liberalism and Colonialism: Italy's 1891 Livraghi Affair and the Waning of the Civilizing Mission
… explanation attributes the scandal's outcome to backstage plotting by military and political elites. However, this explanation overlooks the changed public perception of the killings by December. By then, the debate framed the killings as a matter of colonial security rather than corruption or …
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Socialising The Archive: Art and Archival Encounters
… This practice based research sheds light on the backstage of archival engagement and knowledge production processes. Following the trajectory of a single artist’s encounter with a particular institutional archive, The Baring Archive, and the onward encounters this precipitates, this thesis …
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Taming the tiger: the political ecology of prawn production in Tanzania
… of political ecology, as ecology often takes backstage to social-political dynamics. My engagement with the analytical approach of social-ecological resilience provides a more nuanced understanding of the ecological structure and function of socio-ecological systems. Seemingly “apolitical” …
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Blame avoidance in government communication
… crisis of the late 2000s; field data from the backstage of British government communication), and integrating political science literature on the politics of blame avoidance with the linguistically rooted discourse-historical approach to the study of social problems. I show how reactive and …
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Set Pieces: Theatrical Space and the Arrangement of Things in Classical Hollywood Cinema
… and Me (1938), and a corpus of Busby Berkeley backstage musicals show how cinematographic sets choreograph which objects and subjects are allowed to matter, and consequently how sets in general underpin legal, commercial, and spectacular regimes. By recovering the historical interplay between …
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