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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"crisis of representation"”.
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Comfortable others: the process of identity niching among private employment agencies, employers and migrant domestic workers
This thesis explores the process of “identity niching” in the domestic work sector by focusing on the role of and demand for the services of private employment agencies (PEAs) that specialise in placements in Cape Town. The thesis focuses on how Zimbabwean migrant domestic workers' (MDWs) identity …
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Modernist cultural critique: The visual arts and anthropology
This thesis juxtaposes the comparable development of the written discourse surrounding three twentieth century modern art movements, Surrealism, American Abstract Expressionism and the performance art of Joseph Beuys, with that of cultural anthropology with regard to the role of each as cultural …
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Cybernetic maintenance : exploring infrastructure legibility of waste systems at MIT
… what can be learned from an understanding of waste management at MIT as a complex information system? Through engaging people with their role within a waste system, can relations to and practices of waste management change? This thesis presents a case study for making and evaluating …
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A River of Voices: Confluences and Cross-Currents in the Discourse of the Colorado River
… that the Colorado River and its watershed face a crisis of representation as privileged nineteenth-century myths portraying the American West as a frontier, garden, and wilderness have limited an understanding of what and whom the river is for. It examines the contribution of tributary voices' or …
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Academic Literacies as Documenting Becoming Through Mixed Genre Texts
… and complex. I arrived at the idea that one way of capturing the complexities of subjectivities is documenting becoming; this insight, in turn, led me to investigate the literature on academics who experience problems with representing, and on models of writing in higher education. However, the …
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The Burdens of History: Problems Invoked by Occidental Travel Writing on the Balkans
Works on the Balkans currently face a crisis of representation--from Ivo Andric's fictionalized memory to Joe Sacco's humanitarian witnessing, the occidental reader must examine the Balkans within a historical context of colonialism to avoid misrepresentation. The goal of this study is threefold: …
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Dissecting the erotic : art and sexuality in mid-Victorian medical anatomy
… anatomical illustration in England underwent a crisis of representation. Moral authorities were growing increasingly concerned with the proliferation of images of the naked body and the effects they might have on public “decency.” The anatomical profession was sensitive to this hostile climate …
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Mariko Mori and Takashi Murakami and the crisis of Japanese identity
… such as sexuality, technology and the idea of kawaii, or cute. These tropes were associated with emerging youth cultures instigating a “soft rebellion” against social conventions. While emancipated female youths, or shōjo, were criticized for lifestyles based on the consumption of kawaii …
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Chesterton, modernism, and the representation of reality
… propose a resolution to modernism in the form of the thought and literature of GK Chesterton. Chesterton, whilst constantly touted as either a harmless kind of literary clown or as a Christian crypto-fascist, has largely been ignored within all serious academic discourse. Therefore, the work of …
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Reading art otherwise
… identify key exemplars as responses to a "crisis of representation" within a broadly conceived discipline of art history in Britain. These mark significant turns in the discipline, one towards a newly invigorated Marxist social history of art in the 1980's and one towards an increasingly …
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Reading-akin-to writing model for reflective thinking: a case for teaching and learning of Efal grade 11 learners in Amajuba district
… thinking to support the teaching and learning of English First Additional Language (EFAL)in grade 11 learners in selected high schools in the Amajuba District. The expectation was also that the reading-akin-to writing model would augment the reflective thinking of learners across the curriculum …