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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"collective narratives"”.
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Delta Raiders: A study of collective narratives within veterans’ reunions.
… rationality (probability and fidelity) of the narratives that these veterans provide one another, this study seeks to understand why Vietnam veterans continue meeting for reunions, what in particular is so strong about the Delta Raider reunions, and how personal narratives communicatively …
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Alive Scene: Participatory Multimodal AI Framework for Collective Narratives in Dynamic 3D Scene
… recording dynamic 3D environments and building collective interpretations of objects, events, and atmospheres within them. For instance, a user can browse a recording of a room and describe objects or events to locate them; or select a time frame, adjust the camera angle, and add a comment to …
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Negotiating individual and collective narratives in a contested urban space. An investigation of storytelling dynamics in contemporary Bradford.
… contestation within individuals’ stories and the collective stories of the communities in which they live. The research is focused on trying to understand the relationship between public stories constructed about place and community, and the stories told by the inhabitants of those places. A case …
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The subjective response of people living with HIV to illness narratives in VR
… effectiveness of telling personal and collective narratives in an HIV I AIDS support group. This fact, together with the tested ability ofVR as a therapeutic medium, let to the development of a virtual support group with an aim to test its therapeutic efficacy. A low cost, deployable …
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Teachers Without Borders: Exploring Experiences, Transitions, and Identities of Refugee Women Teachers from Yugoslavia
… throughout the document including individual and collective narratives. Each narrative contributed to a detailed picture of immigration and settlement processes as women spoke of continuing their education, knowing or learning the official language, and contributing to Canadian society and the …
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Born of war in Colombia: Narratives of unintelligibility, contested identities, and the memories of absence
… addresses the production and reproduction of narratives about people born as a result of war-related sexual violence in Colombia. I focus on the social processes through which these individuals have become part of the realities of the armed conflict that are apprehended by the Colombian …
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Death as Poetics of Dislocation in the Global South: René Depestre, Maryse Condé, and Santiago Gamboa
… linked to questions of self-definition and collective representation. In a context of political and cultural domination, creative writers found themselves in the privileged but constrictive position of being the voice of a national community that was invested in articulating and affirming …
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Climate change, perceived human environment changes, and adaptation responses in coastal Indigenous community of Akplabanya, Ghana
… five participants, focused the community's collective narratives on changing environment and adaptation responses. Participant observation conducted throughout data collection helped me to understand daily life of Akplabanya. Data collection occurred over a period of two months (December …
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"Blind to Certain Truths": Social Movement Narratives, The Supreme Court, and Cultural Change
… bisexuals form one group of storytellers whose "collective stories" are told. It is this set of stories that this paper investigates, following the "narrative turn" in sociology to analyze LGB social movement narratives in the empirical setting of the Supreme Court. I present the findings of my …
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Talking stones : the politics of memorialisation in post-conflict Northern Ireland
… works and trends in the conceptual fields of collective/social memory and the politics of memory. Here, I also discuss methods and ethical issues related to my research. Chapter 3 sets the historical background of my study, delineating the history of the Northern Irish conflict with particular …
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Critical Climates: <i>Stimmung</i>, Voice and Mythopoesis in German Literature from 1950–1989
… the relationship between narrative, ideology and collective moods in a way that can be spoken of in terms of a mythopoesis. This project builds upon contemporary scholarship that focuses on <em>Stimmung</em> as a way to refigure literary studies beyond cultural studies and poststructuralism, as …
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Telling stories not to die of life : myth, responsibility and reinvention in The smell of apples and Country of my skull
… that we are self-conscious, we live in our narratives – our discourse - about our actions, thoughts and feelings"(Schwarz, 1991, 108). Narrative and the identity created and maintained through it does not exist exclusively in the space of the individual, but is influenced by the cultural and …
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Konsten att lyckas som par : Populärterapeutiska berättelser, individualisering och kön
… couple is constructed in popular therapeutic narratives. This couple is simultaneously autonomous and responsible for doing “couple work”, but also dependent on the experts’ definition of ideals of “the good couple” as well as on guidelines for ways to get there. As a result, the popular …