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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"critical scholarship"”.
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Sensory Encounters in the Age of Computation
… data visualizations and search interfaces. This critical scholarship complements projects with engineering colleagues at CSAIL to build more inclusive data representation systems. Drawing on work in feminist technoscience, disability studies, and the history and anthropology of computing, this …
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Atonement in John: The Death of Jesus in Light of Exodus Typology
Although many in Johannine critical scholarship have argued against viewing Jesus' death as a vicarious atonement (e.g., Bultmann), their arguments have failed to adequately deal with the text of the Fourth Gospel (FG). Morgan-Wynne has recently published a concerted effort to demonstrate that …
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Masochism and Decadent literature: Jean Lorrain and Joséphin Péladan
… Silverman); an engagement with current literary-critical scholarship in Decadence (Emily Apter, Charles Bernheimer, Bram Dijkstra and Rita Felski), and in Sacher-Masoch (Nick Mansfield, John K. Noyes, and Anita Phillips), and his influence on Decadent writers.
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Walt Whitman, Kosmos : A Study of the Persona of "Song of Myself"
… Myself" has been the subject of a great deal of critical scholarship, there is general disagreement among the critics regarding the "I" of Whitman's poem. Four major strands of critical thought regarding the persona are evident in the literary criticism, and I have categorized these critical …
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"If you don't laugh you'll cry": the occupational humor of white American prison workers and social workers
… ethnic category the study contributes to critical scholarship on race, humor, and work, while remaining firmly grounded in original insider ethnography.
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Beyond Prediction: Climate Change Adaptation, Science & Technology Studies (STS), and Transformational Change
… changes required to reduce vulnerability. Critical scholarship has focused on conventional planning and decision-making processes to explain the inadequate and inequitable outcomes of adaptation. This thesis applies Science and Technology Studies (STS) theories as a complementary means of …
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Claiming a Place in the Magic Kingdom: A Queer Analysis of Disney Movies from 2010 to 2020
… in their films as protagonists. For this reason, critical scholarship is necessary to understand Disney's role in building, replicating or changing culture. Although some critical work on Disney has focused on gender or race, queer theory is underutilized to understand Disney films, especially in …
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Publishing Anglophone Wales: Politics, Culture and the ‘Classic’ Novel
… the development of twentieth-century literary critical scholarship. The processes of political devolution initiated in the closing years of the last century have only sharpened these questions for critics working in the newly empowered nations of the United Kingdom. In the tension-filled …
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The conscience of capital: philanthropy at the Chautauqua Institution
… this process. For that I position my work within critical scholarship focusing on philanthropy and augment that literature through insights gained by applying the work of Mikhail Bakhtin on ideological exchange, the work of Marcel Mauss on gift exchange, and the perspectives of Keith Basso, Akhil …
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A Comparative Study of the Triadic Relation Between Time, Identity and Language in the Works of Julio Cortázar, Marcelo Cohen and Nāgārjuna
While current scholarship acknowledges the influence of Buddhist ideas on Julio Cortázar’s fiction, critical analysis of this element of his work does not often engage in depth with Buddhist thought. Buddhism is frequently characterised as something mystical or mythical when read in relation to the …
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Synthetic Solidarities: Theorizing Queer Affectivity and Trans*national/temporal Emulsification as Embodied Resistance to Global Capitalism
… disciplines via a theoretical constellation of critical scholarship including affect theory, queer theory, (neo)Marxist theory, Black feminist theory, post- and de-colonial theory, disability theory, and transnational feminism.
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The Choteadora's Body in Performance: Carmelita Tropicana and the Intersectional Strategy of Choteo
… work, I map out the terms of this practice of “critical Cubanía,” foregrounding the intersectional and disidentificatory potential of this representational strategy. Utilizing this methodological groundwork, the project analyzes two performances—Memorias de la Revolución/ Memories of the …
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On the Move: Games and Gaming Figures in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature
… repository. To find meaning in literary objects, critical scholarship must reconstruct the contexts that allow them to signify; yet it has often proven difficult to track a context that is based on motion and spatiality and operational possibility using primarily non-procedural forms (novels, …
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Building Urban Palestine: Jaffa and Nablus 1870-1930
… and dynamics, it contributes to emerging critical scholarship in architectural and urban studies, imperial and colonial histories, and area studies. The dissertation is structured around four interrelated themes, comprising its main vehicles for interpreting urban change: inter-urban …
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The Anglo-Catholic quality of Christina Rossetti's apocalyptic vision in The Face of the Deep.
Critical scholarship on Christina Rossetti's The Face of the Deep: A Devotional Commentary on the Apocalypse, where it exists at all, tends to interpret the work as an individualistic and subversive foray into biblical interpretation. However, this dissertation argues that Rossetti's apocalyptic …
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Fierce: Black Queer Literacies of Survival
… larger racist and homophobic forces. Despite critical scholarship on the literacies of both Black and queer communities, there has been limited research that brings together these two perspectives and bodies of research. The foundation of my study is based on audio/video interviews and …
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Confusion in the Karnatic Capital: Fusion in Chennai, India
… contestation about fusion has led to a lacuna of critical scholarship that this dissertation remedies. I argue that rather than being a reason to overlook fusion, fusion's contestation loads it with meaning and makes it a rich, unexamined site of expressive culture. It provides a unique domain to …
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Crossing over: theorising Mehta’s film trilogy; practising diasporic creativity.
… Practising Diasporic Creativity” articulates a critical-creative research discourse. It crosses over in terms of traversing critical scholarship on genre and audience, assuming multiplie cultural positions, as well as in bridging the theory/practice divide. The most critical theoretical …
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The Smart City in Motion: Food Delivery Apps as Mobile Infrastructure in Seoul
… apps and platforms, hailed for playing a critical role during the COVID-19 pandemic by facilitating food delivery for immobilised populations, continue to proliferate. Ordering food using a mobile app is now an everyday urban practice. By generating and governing flows of people, food, …
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Process, purpose and profit: organising the creation of shared value in an emerging economy
… and address this gap, I embark on a journey of critical scholarship that reveals how the conceptual intent of shared value creation is misaligned with its practice. I argue that the basis of this misalignment is ontologically and epistemologically derived, and is therefore, the source of the …
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