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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"cultural resistance"”.
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Understanding place after Katrina : predatory planning and cultural resistance in New Orleans Tremé Neighborhood
The fate of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is uncertain. The rebuilding of the Gulf Coast presents the nation with the most massive redevelopment project in a single location ever. Reminiscent of the Urban Renewal changes between the late 1940s and early 1970s. Urban Renewal …
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Cultural Resistance: An Ethnographic and Phenomenological Case Study of Palestinian Music Educator Mohamed Fadel's Life and Work
… national accomplishment, leading to community cultural capital as resistance; (c) being in a liminal space between the contested occupied Palestinian territory and the West; (d) modelling independence, courage, and empowerment with which to resist colonization, occupation, and oppression. The …
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Resistance through literature in Romania (1945-1989)
… thesis analyses how literature, as a form of cultural resistance, offered a small margin of freedom to people in communist Romania. The study is specifically concerned with the intellectual and psychological survival within the Romanian totalitarian system maintained through oppression and …
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The makings and unmakings of Americans: Indians and immigrants in American literature and culture, 1880-1924
… Recovering a genealogy of a combined cultural resistance to regimes of “making Americans” in a variety of literary genres and in silent film, this project shows how American Indian and Immigrant students of American democracy carved their own spaces in turn-of-the-twentieth-century …
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Layamon's Brut and the March of Wales: Merlin, his Prophecies, and the Lex Marchia
This study explores Layamon's engenderment of cultural unification for the explicit purposes of an Anglo-Welsh cultural resistance to the Norman overlords in the March of Wales. In essence, I examine some of the most important cultural signifiers in medieval English and Welsh culture and the …
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Women and the natural world and their marketplace activities
… An interpretation based on de Certeau's work on cultural resistance is presented to explain the women's marketplace activities. In particular, Poster (1992)'s interpretation of de Certeau's theories of consumption and resistance is offered as a theoretical framework to explain the women's …
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Mujeres de mal vivir: Gender, religion, and the politics of power in colonial Guatemala, 1650-1750
… analyzes the gender and ethnic dimensions of cultural authority and power within the process of colonial rule in Guatemala. To do so, I focus on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century accounts of the lives and practices of female healers, midwives, sorcerers, and clandestine cult leaders in the …
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The efficacy of performance management systems in enhancing employees’ performance at the University of Venda
… hampered by technical disruptions, skill gaps, cultural resistance to viewing PMS as bureaucratic, and disconnects between ratings and development/rewards, which risk turnover. Recommendations include hybrid evaluation frameworks (40% qualitative portfolios with 360° validation), tiered training …
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Sou porque faço, faço porque sou: agência sociopolítica e identidade de uma ativista comunitária do Bairro da Paz, Salvador
… the various forms of political organization, cultural resistance, and the construction of citizenship and identity has shown that, beyond formal institutional instances, distinct forms of activism and sociopolitical agency have been gaining strength in the peripheries and in other popular …
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The impact of cultural and social factors on the success of e-governance systems in Kuwait.
This study examines the socio-cultural, economic, technological, and regulatory factors influencing the nature of adoption and accessibility of e-governance in Kuwait. A dual-methods approach integrating interviews (22) and focus group discussions (4) was used. Findings reveal that low levels of …
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Intellectual formations in the Romantic period: a comparative study of cultural politics and social criticism in the British public sphere, 1802-32
… the bases of two divergent strategies of cultural resistance to the social crises of industrialism. By highlighting the ways in which a central literary genre like periodical social criticism was materially constructed out of distinctive modes of intellectual sociability, we can rethink …
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Tradizione orale, letteratura e violenza nell'Amazzonia peruviana: l'epoca del "caucho"
… during field work and they are not just a cultural resistance operation, but also an effective practice of decolonization, in the way that they give an account of the unbalanced power relationships and present an alternative way to understand them.
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Digital Diaspora and (Re)mediating Black Women in Britain
… Black online users is entangled in processes of cultural transmission, counter-cultural resistance, and the construction of a digitally-mediated collective Black consciousness. As such, there is discussion of the notion of Black digital diaspora, in relation to analysis of the online media …
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Gender Representation in Kenyan Journalism: Analyzing Gender-Sensitive Reporting Pedagogy and Faculty-Student Perspectives in Journalism Programs
… support, and the influence of socio-cultural norms on GSR approaches. A thematic analysis that involved open coding of the data was preferred to identify recurring themes and patterns. This survey research revealed three significant findings: (1) Kenyan journalism programs lack …
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CULTURE, POWER AND RESISTANCE: POST-COLONIALISM, AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MALAYSIAN INDEPENDENCE
… has enabled exploration of mundane but abiding resistance. While some notable differences are found in the character of resistance, there remains a persistent theme of democratic aspiration in the counter-narratives of Malaysian politics and society, alongside the persisting elite structures of …
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A Matter of Life and Def: Poetic Knowledge and the Organic Intellectuals in Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry
… and poetry contribute to the production of cultural consciousnesses; and finally, how did <em>Def Poetry Jam</em> offer an archive of knowledge about the United States, particularly those experiences of African-Americans and people of color, in the early twenty-first century? Following a …
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Overcoming Barriers to Digital Transformation in Pakistan’s Public Sector: A Change Management Perspective.
… economic, and social changes while overcoming cultural resistance, systemic inefficiencies, and institutional inertia. The study draws on detailed literature review of barriers to digital transformation, change management in the public sector, and both national and international case studies …
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A Realist Synthesis of Implementation of School-based Comprehensive Sexuality Education Programs in Mozambique
… education is limited by social, structural, and cultural barriers. In response, school-based Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) has been positioned as a key strategy to address these challenges. Although the Mozambican government has committed to nationwide implementation, outcomes vary …
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Towards the Development of an Innovative Mahosi-Led Model: Primary Prevention Strategies in Fighting Against Male-Generated Gender-Based Violence in the Vhembe District, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… and awareness campaigns. Challenges include cultural resistance and resource constraints. To address these challenges, it was recommended that intervention strategies should be subject to continuous assessment and adaptation. The Mahosi led initiatives have been found to have ample impact on …
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Teilhabe an der Datenwirtschaft für Industrie-KMU in Deutschland – Entwicklung eines generischen Konzepts mit Reifegradmodell, Reifestufen und Implementierungsplan für die Daten-Wert-Transformation – Eine qualitative Untersuchung mit Handlungsempfehlungen
… specific challenges such as limited resources, cultural resistance, and a lack of strategic alignment. These insights shaped the maturity model, the six levels and the implementation plan. This dissertation contributes significantly to research and practice by equipping SMEs in Germany`s …
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