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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"cultural conditions"”.
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Socio-cultural conditions of Japan reflected by factors inducing recent Japanese immigration to Canada
This dissertation examines the socio-cultural conditions of Japanese society as reflected in factors that induce recent Japanese immigration to Canada. The examination is based on interview research done with six female and six male Japanese immigrants living in Vancouver, who arrived in Canada …
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Investigating the structural and cultural conditions that reproduce coloniality and inhibit decolonisation at a private higher education institution in South Africa
… at vantage points to assess the structural and cultural elements that stunt the progression of transformation. The study established that the absence of institutional commitment to decolonisation informed the lecturers' peripheral influence in executing a decolonisation agenda. It was also …
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The technique of plot study to determine soil losses and runoff under field conditions due to fertilizer treatment
… with soil and water losses under a wide range of conditions, but no study has been conducted on plots under actual field cultural conditions. These investigations have been very valuable in that they have revealed much needed information but they have added very little knowledge of plot technique …
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A study of academic resilience amongst first generation university students in South Africa
… aims to generate insight in to the structural conditions of first generation students who have accessed higher education and to better define the “overwhelming odds†that are frequently deemed to be against them. More importantly perhaps, this study seeks to generate understanding about the …
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Sex, sadism and spain: the spanish horror film, 1968-1977
… understanding of the political, social and cultural conditions during this contentious period in Spain's long history. Between the years of 1968 and 1977 Spain experienced a boom in horror movie production that rivaled other sectors of production and yielded impressive statistics. This work …
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Acts of hospitality: Relations between ‘guest’ and ‘host’ as art practice
… Ireland, I am also uncovering the historical and cultural conditions that lie beneath or behind my ‘Irish’ identity. In this research, I consider the perspectives of guest and host, not as binary but as interconnected. The movement or flow between perspectives is embodied in acts of hospitality. I …
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The energization of KwaBhaza : a case study in rural energy and development
… 'anthropological aspects' do not refer to cultural conditions in the field but rather the anthropology of development, expressed as a holistic examination of the project and a critical assessment of the development framework within which it operates. It is with this in mind that the …
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Empirical Studies in International Entrepreneurial Finance
… of this essay point to institutional and cultural impediments to the effectiveness of entrepreneurship around the world. The impact of entrepreneurship is significantly mitigated by excessively strong creditor rights that limit entrepreneurial risk taking. Furthermore, the data indicate …
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Navigating Advocacy as a Disabled Woman: A Qualitative Study of Gender and Disability in Pakistan
… out in everyday life, and how gendered and socio-cultural conditions shape these practices. Based on semi-structured interviews across multiple Pakistani cities, the findings reveal that participants navigate several challenges: structural inaccessibility, restricted mobility, familial …
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Exploit the Land, Exploit the People: The Treadmill of Production and Community Advocates for Farmworkers in Texas
The structure of the agricultural industry in the United States has changed significantly since World War II, with consequences for agricultural laborers. This study is framed by Schnaiberg's (1980) treadmill of production theory, using semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 16 community …
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Self/scape: an exploration of belonging and wayfaring
… through sound as well as exploring the socio-cultural conditions and the lived experiences of a globalized Latino. Following the framework of Practice as Research (PaR), Miguel has been creating and theorizing about and through this piece during his two-year degree. This piece is the …
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Neoliberal Modernizers: The American Friends of the Middle East and Its Subversion of Arab Nationalism, 1951-67
… civil society organization that operated various cultural and technical programs in the Middle East. This thesis analyzes its activities and interactions with Arab states, particularly Egypt, during the early Cold War era. The AFME was committed to an agenda of neoliberal modernization. Its …
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Come As You Are, As I Want You to Be: Grunge/Riot Grrrl Pedagogy and Identity Construction in the Second Year Writing Program
… that typically appealed to the economic, cultural, and social conditions of the early 1990s. These public personas -- perceived as “honest” -- were defined by negotiation with mainstream culture, the notion of the “confessional,” and gender construction. By examining how these identities …
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Respectable from their intelligence: the education of Louisiana's gens de couleur libres, 1800 to 1860
… a historical analysis of the socioeconomic and cultural conditions that influenced the unprecedented educational attainment of Louisiana’s gens de couleur libres (free people of color) from colonization to the dawn of the American Civil War. Many in this community came to possess notable wealth …
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From demon to god : the evolution of the vampire in literature.
… to its enormous symbolic power to reflect socio-cultural conditions of society at the time of its creation, which not only determines how the vampire figure has changed within modern literary history, but also makes it possible to pinpoint certain social conditions influencing this change. The …
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Power and resistance in the age of informationalization
… might be possible under political, social, and cultural conditions which are increasingly manufactured and mediated by information technologies. More specifically, I will focus on how the work of Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard might be used to better understand the political problems and …
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The Final Frontier of Freedom: a Prospectus for Future Democratization of the Middle East
… flawed because the religious, political, or cultural conditions in the region would constrain, or prohibit outright, democratization. However, upon examination, the central cultural and religious institutions of the region do not appear to have an endemic impact on democratic governance one …
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The developmental conditions of classroom teaching and learning in a primary school in Zimbabwe
The study investigates the prevailing conditions of schooling and classroom teaching and learning in southern Zimbabwe, using the Vygotskian socio-cultural theory to analyze the consequences that the breakdown of schooling and classroom teaching and learning had on learners' performance and …
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A preliminary survey of the fungus flora of caves. 1. Aquatic phycomycetes
… has been studied and described under unifungal cultural conditions. The occurrence and distribution of each species is cited and any variations in morphology or development are discussed. Questions dealing with the taxonomy and nomenclature are considered in each case. The cavernicolous …
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Exploitation of Land and Labor in Appalachia: The Manipulation of Men in Ann Pancake's Strange as this Weather Has Been
… shows how the author’s ignoring the material and cultural conditions that create and maintain the relationship between men and industry results in a double exploitation of the men in Appalachia: once by the capitalist system, and a second time by a natural ecofeminist representation of them that …
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