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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"disavowal"”.
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A Host of Memories: Mixed Race Subjection and Asian American Performances Against Disavowal
… and Asian American Performances Against Disavowal argues for the importance of uncovering the disavowed, residual, and violent conditions of racial mixture. The project situates queer theories of temporality and feminist theories of situated knowledge in relation to Asian Americanist …
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A critique of political self-deception: Kant and Freud at the edge of critical theory
… this dissertation claims the Freudian concept of disavowal indicates the limits of not only rationality, but also political rationality. As such, the political ramifications of a critique focused on the limits of rationality must grapple with the phenomenon of disavowal, a phenomenon that …
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Bird pretender
… beloved, the hope that romantic love may be a disavowal of male authority, and the fear that it may not.
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Chemical Valley: media representations of an inconvenient truth and a comforting lie
… Sarnia Journal, key concepts such as fetishistic disavowal, special liberty, and enlightened catastrophism reveal underlying ideologies contributing to environmental injustice. This study also highlights connections between media ownership and the framing of pollution, underscoring how these …
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Frank Stella, Anne Truitt, Robert Ryman, and Abstraction in the Sixties
… was its ongoing practice a situation of studious disavowal. Instead, I assert and explore the vitality and elasticity of abstract painting through detailed case studies of Frank Stella’s first shaped canvases, Anne Truitt’s three-dimensional paintings, and Robert Ryman’s repetitive white …
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The White Men Are Coming! The White Men Are Coming!: Identifying Navajoness through Reservation Tourism in 30 Days, Jamie's American Road Trip, and Navajo Cops
… elements, reliance on Wild West imagery, disavowal of U.S. settler colonialism, and perpetuation of romantic Native tropes.
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"Pasts With Futures: Temporality, Subjectivity And Postcommunism In Contemporary German Literature By Herta MüLler, Zsuzsa BàNk And TeréZia Mora"
… repetition, nostalgic longing, or psychic disavowal. My analysis extends and contributes to debates in politics and the arts about the status of utopia after communism and the role of society in political entities no longer divided in Cold War terms of East/West, three worlds, or discrete …
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Abrogated identity : Muslim representation in Hindi popular cinema 1947-2000
… culture. But it also sees that the complete disavowal of this cinema is problematic for the Muslim participation in the industry, the possibility of the Muslim spectator pleasurable reading of Hindi films; and the observation that representations change over the period in question. The …
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Reinhold Niebuhr and an Ethic of Humility in Deliberative Politics
… theologies of public life, which at times may disavowal Niebuhr's understanding of natural theology, his correspondent political realism, or otherwise miscategorize Niebuhr's political claims. The degree to which Niebuhr's ethical framework can or should be separated from Christian …
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Audiovisual Afterlives: The Soundtrack of Liberal Nostalgia
… the party’s establishment status, drawing disavowal in a wave of anti-establishment sentiment on both the left and right. ‘Retromania,’ a term first coined by Simon Reynolds in 2010, can be tracked conceptually from the nostalgic inclinations of twenty-first century popular culture to the …
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Studying Janus behavior : how support, deterrence, grievances and organizational structure shape violent and peaceful behaviors
… for violent behaviors can make the total disavowal of violence untenable. In this environment, distant threats of political exclusion would be overshadowed by short-term fears of demise. The research proposed in this work seeks to explain how social, political and historical context …
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From the Movement to the Post -Movement: Rethinking Anti-Hegemonic Discourses in Chicana Feminist Thought
… of academic postmodernism, and the complicated disavowal of mestizaje through non-Western anti-hegemonic theories based in marginal epistemologies in the decolonial work of the era of the multicultural face of global hegemony. This dissertation argues for the epistemology of the oppressed as the …
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Nationalism and internationalism in selected Indian English novels: 1909 – 1930
… loyalty to one’s own nation does not entail the disavowal or denigration of the interests of other nations. Thus their idea of nationalism, as professed through their works, contained the implication of a humanistic internationalism. Though some of these novels have been mentioned in previous …
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Exploring "medically unexplained symptoms" with GPs and counselling psychologists : a Foucauldian Discourse Analysis
… the subjective creation of legitimacy criteria; disavowal of a psychological dimension; and patients receiving costly and ineffective treatment. This research, motivated by the need within this conflict to better understand the implications of how we talk about “MUS”, explores how practitioners …
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Do Rights-Based Moralities Cause Climate Change? Balancing the Rights of Current Persons and the Needs of Future Generations
… us to implement mitigation, but the system’s disavowal of positive rights would simultaneously cause excessive harm to the wellbeing of many. The inability of rights-based moralities to deal with climate change in an effective and ethical manner leads us to question their legitimacy more …
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The Curiosity that is Curiosity: A Psychoanalytic Conceptual-Clinical Study
… in the regressive defence of voyeurism and of disavowal. They have the appearance of curiosity but are defences against it. I used transcripts of interviews with psychoanalytic practitioners and applied an iterative process in moving between data and theory to identify and classify these …
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The Janus-face of capitalist labor: gender, race, and work in early modernity
… Capitalist sociality thus depends on a double disavowal: the freedom of waged work is actually servitude by another name and the condition for the possibility of the wage is work which can never be waged.</p>
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Editorial Collaboration and Control: Laura Riding and the Seizen Press Years
… Riding's years at Seizin Press in her infamous disavowal of poetry in 1941. This study therefore works to place in conversation Riding's years at Seizin with her language theories and, in turn, explore the way such theories defined Riding's reality through her work at the press.</p>
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Doing the work : the Black Lives Matter Movement in Austin, Texas
… at the family separation crisis mutate into a disavowal of the war being waged against Black families. Additionally, I noticed a tendency among organizers to police radical and revolutionary political desire, no matter how benign or incipient. In other words, this study examines how an enduring …
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Sublime dissension: A working-class Anti-Pygmalion aesthetics of the female grotesque
… process of classed construction. Contesting the disavowal of class identity in much art writing, I explore how it shapes art reception, showing how images of the Anti-Pygmalion female grotesque can provoke sublime experiences in viewers who share an empathetic connection with the work’s …
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