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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"biographical narratives"”.
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Individuals and society in transition: a narrative study of parents’ use of smacking
… between societal change and individuals’ own biographical narratives of growing up and becoming parents and for some, becoming health visitors.At the heart of this study ‘small’ stories of individual experience are set within the context of what Tilly (1984) referred to as ‘big structures and …
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LABOURING TO LEARN: A SOCIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL UNDERACHIEVEMENT AMONGST TAMIL YOUTHS IN SINGAPORE
… of ‘bridging’ and ‘bonding’ capital. The biographical narratives of ethnic Tamil students from lower ability tracks in secondary schools suggest that racialization in colonial and post-colonial Singapore structurally limits their access to and activation of institutional forms of bridging …
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Une certain équivoque? A study of Vincent van Gogh's ambivalent engagement with prostitution, highlighted by the 1888 Courrier Français controversy
… despite the prominence afforded prostitution in biographical narratives of the artist for that year. It is not however my intention to perpetuate canonical master narratives, or generalized life- and work-studies. By adhering to the principles of micro-history - approaching the well-trodden …
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The representation and consumption of 'Asian culture'
… that have been analysed in conjunction with biographical narratives that I also conducted with each of them. Through the use of this rich and varied empirical data coupled with a thorough review of secondary source material, I aim to add to and question work that has been conducted in the …
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Cumbria's encounter with the East Indies c.1680-1829 : gentry and middling provincial families seeking success
… experience, sensibility and identity; and, biographical narratives that trace the contingent and complex trajectories of people’s lives. The Cumbrian encounter with the East Indies brings a new lens to historiographies beyond Cumbria’s regional history: the changing fortunes of middling …
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Voices in a Knowledge Conversation : an exploration of two narrative representations of Adult Literacy Learners
… in England in recent years, political and public narratives about adult literacy learners have become dominated by the notion of skills deficit, demonstrating a disregard for adult learners’ lives and life experiences beyond employment and skills. At the same time, research in the field of adult …
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The all-clear incarnate? : Helmut Kohl's nationalism and the quest for normality
… connect Kohl's nationalist ideas to particular biographical narratives that shaped Kohl's self-perception and provided his representation of the German nation with an appearance of authenticity. Kohl used his (auto)biography to promote a normalisation of German nationalism during his quest to …
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The all-clear incarnate? : Helmut Kohl's nationalism and the quest for normality
… connect Kohl's nationalist ideas to particular biographical narratives that shaped Kohl's self-perception and provided his representation of the German nation with an appearance of authenticity. Kohl used his (auto)biography to promote a normalisation of German nationalism during his quest to …
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Incapacity, Indebtedness and Illegality: Everyday Experiences of Poverty and Barriers to Better Life and Mobility for a Migrant Community in Delhi, India.
… about poverty and mobility from Bhatu people’s biographical narratives and everyday experiences. Historically nomadic and labelled a ‘criminal caste’ and ‘backward class’, this migrant community from village Rajasthan now lives in a ‘slum’ resettlement colony on the margins of Delhi. The …
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At the crossroads of the identity (re)construction process: an analysis of 'fateful moments' in the lives of Coloured students within an equity development programme at UCT
… and university contexts to develop particular biographical narratives for each of them, so as to better locate the circumstances under which their 'fateful moments' occur and the impact thereof on their sense of self. An in-depth qualitative analysis of each of these students' identity …
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A History and Development of the Intercultural Communication Field in Japan (1950-Present)
The history of the academic discipline of Intercultural Communication in Japan began at the end of the 1950s, in convergence with the historical context of Japan devastated by war and the social context of a population struggling to navigate a new identity and way forward. Both Japanese and …