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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"collective identities"”.
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Collective Identity in Appalachia: Place, Protest and the AEP Power Line
… gender and sexual preference, for collective identity construction. Prochansky (1983:59) introduces the concept of place identity, situating it along with the other components of identity, such as the ones mentioned above. In addition, literature on Appalachia has shown land to be …
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Forging Identities in the Multicultural Society: Cultural Landscape Construction in Langde, China
… national and local powers that seek to construct collective identities. The dissertation asserts that ethnic minority heritage practices in multicultural societies need to be understood as being profoundly shaped by nationalist discourses and practices. My ethnographic research, of Langde, a Miao …
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Eco-spirituality: Collective identity and spirituality in the wilderness action group
At a peripheral glance the collective action of a social movement group creates a perception of rational and homogenous internal group identity. This façade has led some social movement theorists to take for granted the internal cohesiveness of the groups they are studying. Yet this emphasis on the …
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Experiential Commensurability and Identity Correspondence: Examining Deaf Culture Movement Collective Identity in the United States
… assesses the alignment of personal and collective identities within the context of the Deaf Culture Movement (DCM) in the United States. Though social movement researchers assume that identities, culture, beliefs, and values are developments of interactional processes, the current …
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Italian creations : elaborations of collective identity in Milan, Italy
… construct a sense of intimacy within the collective identity of an Italian national community and the ways in which national identity intersects with affiliation with other collective identities. These are considered in relation to the contradictions within Italian society that belie the …
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Parallel Processes: Embassy for the European Community
… of a system within which individual and collective identities may coexist.
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Destruction as Rule: Containment, Censuring and Confusion in Pakistani Balochistan
… These networks, or “counter-societies,” are collective identities that transgress and resist the state’s version of society proper, e.g. through the collective identities of the anti-colonial rebel, the revolutionary communist, or the separatist ethnonationalist. In turn, society proper is …
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The quest for territorial autonomy: Mapuche political identities under neoliberal multiculturalism in Argentina
… territories” and “autonomy,” indigenous collective action uses the language of territorial autonomy to challenge the framework and functioning of neoliberal multiculturalism at the local level. By studying neoliberal multiculturalism as a form of government over indigenous populations at …
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What are they gabbin about?: A relational realist approach to small stories (re)told on Gab
… as a tool for the (re)construction of collective identities and boundary formation, Alexander's (2006) work on the civil sphere and its civil/anti-civil symbolic codes and discourses of liberty and repression, and Georgakopoulou's (2013) concept of 'small stories,' I conducted a …
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From victims to warriors: collective identity construction at cancer movement assemblies in South Africa
… Questions were raised about the generation of collective identities during these assemblies, the nature of the activated identities, and how these relate to the broader debates about cancer and identity. This inquiry investigates the unexplored intersection of cancer and identity in the context …
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Religion and the Law in modern pluralist states: Towards a more balanced judicial approach to manifestation of belief in secular societies
… to the making of contemporary individual and collective identities. The thesis advocates a more contextual approach to manifestation of belief which views religion as an element of identity rather than an elective characteristic of the individual. It therefore promotes collaborations with …
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Women's Work: Stitching New Identity Narratives in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings
… experiences of violent conflict through sewing collectives can inform conflict transformation work. I engage in this exploration within the framework of narrative theory, using Kenneth Burke’s dramatistic pentad to analyze the narratives presented in a selection of textile pieces created by …
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Multiple Axes of Social Location and Transpeople: Interrogating the Concept of "Intersectionality"
… perform ("do") their own multiple social identities (such as race, class, gender, and sexuality) and how they incorporate their perceptions of others' attributions of multiple dimensions of social location. Finally, I suggest how the collective identities of identity-based social …
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A cognitive categorization-based approach for understanding identity representation online
Computationally representing social identities using social networking profiles traditionally involves the reduction of identities to fit into simplistic categories such as "friends." In contrast, this thesis proposes that the data structures underlying user identities can be algorithmically …
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"Catching time" : pathways to engagement in the elementary classroom through the visual arts
… that are representations of their individual and collective identities. Experienced together, this pedagogy of connection , along with explorations of identity through the visual arts, served to build a bridge between the children's experiences outside the school and their lives in the elementary …
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Vanguards of consumption, laggards in politics? The emergence of a new middle class in South China
… in their consumption. They also show strong collective identities, but these are based in personal networks rather than in a sense of a common class location that they share with others outside their personal networks. In contrast,the younger generations appear more flexible and hedonistic. …
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Ideová skladba lidu a její vliv na normotvorbu : legitimizační vztah v heterogenní společnosti
… majorities and minorities, and the role of collective identities (linguistic, cultural, historical, religious, and socio-...
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Everyday Exclusions And Empowerment: Social Identities In Neighborhood Associations
… to say, people negotiate multiple social identities based on race, gender, and class. In general, gendered identities were activated far less than racial or nationalistic identities, and when they were activated, it was in the context of a private interview not a public meeting. In the …
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Female society portraits: representing the elite woman in eighteenth-century New Spain
… as an agent in the formation of individual and collective identities, this study delves into the ways in which portraits construct identity by mobilizing and representing values and ideas related to class, status and gender that circulated in eighteenth- century New Spanish culture. …
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Together We Stand? Spanish and Italian LGBTQIA* organisations crossing boundaries through social media
… on social media. Within scholarship on collective actors characterised by strong collective identities, LGBTQIA* collective action fields have been conventionally found to be rather fragmented and polarised, as well as isolated from other fields. Nonetheless, recent studies have shown …
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