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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"discursive space"”.
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No Girls Allowed: How incels.is Operates as a Gendered Discursive Space
… within the online realm, their impact through discursive means has proved to be destructive, promoting a violent anti-feminist view through a multitude of open access forums. This thesis explores the content collected from the forum incels.is, utilizing a critical discourse analysis to help …
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San Antonio CineFestival: A Reclamation of Chicano Cinema
… the work of Chicanos and promoted a Chicano discursive space. To answer these questions I turned to the Festival film programs and local periodicals. After my research, I found that the CineFestival served a purpose for Chicano cinema because it not only screened Chicano films, but it also …
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My ornament : writing women's moving, erotic bodies across time and space : a novel and exegesis
… and their moving, sexual bodies across time and space. In so doing, its aim is to place women at the centre of literary/critical discourse, emphasising connection rather than differences across cultures. The voices of the two main characters, Rachel and Muddupalani, alternate, cross over, merge …
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Transforming identities in Europe: Bulgaria and Macedonia between nationalism and Europeanization
This dissertation offers an investigation of the discursive function of national identity in the project of European integration. Its focus is the discursive dynamics created in the context of European Union Enlargement to the former communist states, and its geographical locus is the Balkan …
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'If it's not black gold, then it's bone gold' : contested knowledges of the Prestwich Street dead
… of these knowledges emerged a frontier - a discursive space of conflict and turbulence that came into being with the surfacing of the dead, and dissipated with an official decision to prevent basic anatomical research on their skeletal remains. If this discursive battle and this frontier …
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White men speaking : an exploration of intersections, tensions and alternative ways of being white and a man in South Africa
… discourse is challenged and a more robust discursive space for alternative ways of being is allowed to emerge.
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Las Hijas de Violencia: Performance, the Street, and Online Discourse
… as a contentious practice in the rhetorical spaces of the street and social media posting through a case study of the performance group Las Hijas de Violencia. Through anarchistic direct action resistance tactics, the group confronted harassers in the streets of Mexico City and their …
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Participatory Democracy in the Chinese Cyber World: Case Studies from Weibo
… democracy in China. Weibo is a complex social space due to the interplay of different forces and social actors. On the one hand, Weibo provides the space for bottom-up political participation: it expands the horizontal discursive space where plural discourses coexist and interact; provides a …
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GUT ABSTRACTIONS. A PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY FOR THE PRESENT OF FOOD.
… realizations, which creates a fragmented discursive space, where stakeholders operate from often incompatible worldviews. To face these challenges, the dissertation offers a philosophical framework grounded in ontology and conceptual analysis, aimed at systematically analyzing and …
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The German Jewish Post-Holocaust Novel: Narrative and a Literary Language for Loss
… by extension, the readers--to imagine a discursive space for this disnarrated testimony, or "anti-archive." This study uncovers the extent to which post-Holocaust German Jewish literature is underpinned by a conception of Ashkenaz that encompasses both German Jewish and Eastern European …
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'Bridging discourses' in a bilingual South African mathematics classroom with a collaborative teaching model
… (Mercer, 1995) which is framed by different discursive practices in different cultural settings (Gee, 1999; Alexander, 2001). Hence my research question is: within the particular discursive space of this classroom, how is mathematical meaning mediated through 'bridging discourses'?
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Defying gravity: queering the witches of Oz
… In particular, the American theater opens a discursive space for sexuality. The musical Wicked is and continues to be one of the most popular productions of the past decade as it holds strong in his home at the Gershwin Theatre in New York City and sells out touring locations across America …
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Using teacher narratives for reflection, representation and reforms in teacher training programmes
… validation. The use of narratives can provide a discursive space in which to challenge the patriarchal and institutional power structures that exist in educational settings such as religious schools in Montreal and in schools in Northern Quebec and Asia. This thesis illustrates how the …
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Empowering women activists : creating a monster : the contentious politics of gender within social justice activism
… Research Project has sought to investigate the discursive space for 'gender struggles' within contemporary South African class based social justice activism. It has done so in the form of a qualitative case study, analysing particular 'gender' interventions designed by a left-wing popular …
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Anticipating Revolution: The Lebanese Left and the Civil War
… country more recently. By focusing on the rich discursive space of the Lebanese left and their readings of their present and possible futures, I historicize now subsumed temporalities of revolution and a socialist future as vibrant concurrent histories that challenge the centrality of …
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Writings From the Borderzone: Tales of Recuperation and Transgression in the Works of Malika Mokeddem, Calixthe Beyala, and Evelyne Accad
… and Evelyne Accad from Lebanon, write from a discursive space often characterized by a transnational sense of the female subject as she moves across borders. While fighting to survive the alienation, solitude, and marginalization one often faces while living abroad these women choose to write …
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A Rhetorical Analysis of the 1981 Belizean Constitution: National Identity in the context of History, Race, and Language
… different ethnic groups in Belize, allowing the discursive space to reopen a dialogue on what it means to be Belizean.
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The radical music of John Zorn, Diamanda Galás, and Merzbow: a hermeneutic approach to expressive noise
… and aesthetic excellence. From this musical space, vital new musical practices are emerging from composers such as John Zorn, Diamanda Galás, and Merzbow; however, because their music is so utterly unconventional, existing critical tools are failing to lead toward a greater understanding of …
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Student-Teacher Collaboration and Exploring Student Voice to Improve Classroom Instruction and Action Planning in Grade Nine Health Education
… The intent was for students to experience a safe discursive space, and a supportive learning environment to self-express and engage in a wider understanding of complex social and health issues. My aim of this research project is to empower students to have a voice and enable all participants to …
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The space between : discursive constructions of masculinity in contemporary South African men's lifestyle magazines
… of choice. This study attempts to show how the discursive space created in the discourses of masculinity in men's magazines provides the reader with an intimate, yet emotionally elusive place where the reader can navigate these ambiguities of contemporary masculinity.
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