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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"counter-narrative"”.
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Hillbilly Talkback: Co-Creation and Counter-Narrative in Appalachia
… issue, it is necessary to produce compelling counter-representations which undermine the dominant regime of representation around Appalachia. In this thesis, I explore some of the most common image types used to represent Appalachia in popular media and assess the potential of co-creative …
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Roberto Clemente Community Academy: A Counter-Narrative on Chicago School Reform, 1988--1998
… in the ""official story."" From this analysis, a counter-narrative emerged that features the reformer's accounts and perceptions situated it in a broader discussion of global cities, neoliberalism, globalization, and colonialism. Citing Chicago's shifting political economy and imbalanced urban …
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Autobiography as Counter-Narrative: An Empirical Study of How Race Enters and Structures the Stories of Our Lives
… about how race enters and then structures the narratives of our life experiences. Critical Race Theory (CRT) was used as a lens through which to examine learning autobiographies and the CRT methodology of counter-storytelling was used to illustrate the ways in which race enters and structures …
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A study of the life and works of Blaze de Bury : a counter-narrative of a transcultural woman’s involvement in nineteenth-century European politics
… national and gender scope by providing a counter-narrative to the discourse about women’s involvement in nineteenth-century politics, focusing on the transcultural and gender-hybrid aspects of Blaze de Bury’s European life and works. It includes findings from both primary archival research …
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(Neo) revolutionary messages : an analysis of the impact of counter-narratives versus state narratives during the 1991 Coup D'etat in the former Soviet Union
… two publics, where the state message developed a narrative involving a glorified past to which they wished to return, while the counter-public created a counter-narrative that argued a future of continued reforms would benefit the people of Russia and the Soviet Union. In the end, the …
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Diagnosing the Demonic: Reading Valerii Briusov’s Fiery Angel as Pathography
Russian Symbolists struggled to write a counter-narrative to the prevailing master narrative of disintegration, degeneration, and social pathology advanced by the emerging fields of social science, psychology, and modern medicine at the turn of the twentieth century. The Symbolists invested their …
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A global theory of justice for new governance : from process to substance with 'parity of participation'
This thesis proposes a new counter-narrative to the neo-liberal agenda that combines two seemingly disparate bodies of work: New Governance and Nancy Fraser’s theory of justice. New Governance is a new and rapidly growing strand of legal thought and practi ce that has simultaneously developed a …
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Power and Science in Participatory Watershed Planning: A Case Study From Rural Mexico
… agencies. These results present a powerful counter-narrative to the prevailing beliefs about how to promote democratic and ecologically sound watershed planning."
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Threatening Discourse: Cultural and Contextual Challenges to Constructing Antiracist Narrative and Practice Among One Elementary School Staff
… highlights the cultural struggle for narrative as it was played out in Woodson's STAR. By focusing on how twenty-four members of Woodson School's professional staff resisted, co-opted, transformed, and adopted antiracist counter narrative, this research informs the extant research on …
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Youth Bear Witness to Mentoring of the Black Church for College Readiness
… race theory, the author analyzed youths’ counter-narrative experiences of being mentored for college readiness in the Black church. The students had informal conversations with the researcher using a grounded theory approach to the semi-structured interview format. Students found mentors …
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Counter-narratives and Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s play Invasion!: storytelling that fractures the orientalist narrative
<p>This thesis examines the counter-narratives Jonas Hassen Khemiri constructs to challenge Orientalism in his play INVASION! Khemiri’s use of oppositional narratives and disidentification challenges the narrow confines of Middle Eastern/Arab stereotypes by using story and performance to decenter …
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The Evolution of the Literary Neo-Hasid
… however, the first chapter will establish a counter-narrative of maskilim who defended Hasidism, or even discerned in it positive qualities. These maskilim set the stage for the blossoming of neo-Hasidism in Yiddish literature. The second chapter is devoted to I. L. Peretz, who appropriated …
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A Phenomenological Investigation of the Lived Experiences of African American Adults in Individual Mental Health Counseling
… Acceptance of Self and Others. This study adds a counter-narrative to the counselor literature that highlights African Americans who do choose to become counseling clients, their experiences, and the meanings they take away from that experience.
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Reimagining Indigenous Identity through Performance Text-Counting Coup on the "Cop in the Head"
… demonstrates the criticality of authoring a counter-narrative that celebrates Indigenous history remembered and survived. Through Indigenous values of relationality and responsibility, it offers an unfinished third act of the play. The final act confers agency upon a future community audience …
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"Jihad is the Way and Death for the Sake of Allah is our Highest Aspiration": A Narrative Analysis of Sayyid Qutb's Milestones
… understanding of extremist ideology critical to counter-terrorism efforts. While this intergroup communication has remained a focus among scholars, the <italic>intragroup</italic> communication within these radical groups is also of significant importance and has remained widely unexamined.
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My Choice, My Fraternity, and My Engagement: Experiences of White Men in Black Greek Letter Organizations (BGLO)
… Organizations (BGLO), this study utilized the counter-narrative tenant presented and supported by Critical Race Theory to examine the racial identity and engagement of fraternity men from a pluralistic experience. Additionally, the researcher hypothesized that there is a special experience of …
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Representing the past in the present with the future in mind : a close reading of the ‘Cell Stories’ exhibition at the Robben Island Museum
… 6; Coombes 2003: 58) . Thus, the triumph narrative has become prevalent at the Robben Island Museum. This dissertation seeks to undertake a close reading of the 'Cell Stories' exhibition at Robben Island Museum, in order to explore if the exhibition has created a counter narrative to the …
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Narratives of Jewish American Public School Educators Amid Rising Antisemitism Post October 7, 2023
… gap in academic literature. A qualitative narrative research approach, grounded in critical theory, was employed. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with eight Jewish American public school educators and analyzed thematically. The findings revealed participants’ …
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Owning the Narrative: Black Working-Class Males’ Social Identity and Resistance
… shape their social identity formation and create counter-hegemonic spaces for transformative actions that challenge anti-Black racism and the capitalist order, including their development of critical Black consciousness and identities of resistance. This study utilized Critical Race Theory and …
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