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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"dissensus"”.
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Instituting Dissensus: The Democratisation of Cultural Institutions in the 21st Century
… cultural studies, it begins by analysing both dissensus, as the democratic principle that entails the never-ending redefinition of the members of the society (meaning, whose voice is heard and recognised as a legitimate partner in the debate), and antagonism, as the founding moment and …
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Generating Stealth Agents in Educational Leadership through Imagination
… leadership, conceptualized through the lens of dissensus and speculative inquiry. In response to growing systemic uncertainty and complexity, it argues for imagination as a pivotal mechanism through which educational leaders might disrupt entrenched inequities and redistribute possibilities for …
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Art in the public realm and the politics of rural leisure: Access and environment
… of Jacques Rancière’s conception of dissensus (Rancière, 2010) modulated through an application of the work of philosopher Slajov Žižek on environmental politics and complementarity - the inscription of the universal within the particular (Žižek, 2011). The thesis’ originality lies in …
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The Iraq crisis of 2003 and press-state relations :an analysis of press coverage in Finland, Ireland and the UK
The dissensus over Iraq on both international and national levels offers a rich setting for a cross-national research to test some assumptions about media-foreign policy relationship originating mainly from American political communication literature. This line of research suggests that the …
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Precarious Bodies in Motion: Choreopolitics, Affect, and Flamenco Dissent in Spain
… micro-political value of dancing in the form of dissensus and as an affective and aesthetic practice in politics. Dissensus, as articulated by Rancière, refers to the collision between the prevailing order and opposing viewpoints that disrupts "the distribution of the sensible" (or common sensual …
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Helping the whole person: the development of the Pluralistic Therapy Integrity Scale
… practitioners concerning the key areas of dissensus discovered in Studies 1-3 showed that there was a consensus over the main principles of pluralistic practice such as the importance of client agency. However, it was also discovered that the theory’s relatability to the therapist or the …
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Hyper-Democracy: The Politics of Aristophanes
… from Brechtian ‘defamiliarization’ to Rancièrian dissensus – a move Rancière himself makes when addressing the thorny issue of the political efficacy of art, discussed in my ‘parabasis’ (‘From Defamiliarization to Dissensus’). These disruptive moments constitute democratic empowerment, as …
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Democratic Transition and Digital Media Activism in Africa: A Zimbabwean Case Study
… (1985) radical democracy is deeply rooted in dissensus and conflict. This study argues that digital media provide communicative spaces for both consensus and dissensus. The dissertation also deployed the social constructivist approach to have a better grasp of how subalterns in African …
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Hidden in Plain Sight: The Social Impact of the Narrative (encoded meanings and creative interventions)
… frameworks of intellectual emancipation and dissensus have also been engaged, wherein art is positioned as a specific sphere of experience that is reconfigured as a rupture to histories by redrawing boundaries.
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Collaborative Learning and the Co-design of Corporate Responsibility. Building a Theory of Multi-Stakeholder Network Learning from Case Studies of Standardization in Corporate Responsibility.
… from multi-stakeholder learning like the role of dissensus in learning and the empowerment of weaker stakeholders are therefore used to create a synthesis of the two theories in a single conceptual framework. This framework is then tested against a pilot case and three case studies of corporate …
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A Souvenir for the Land of Pagodas
… historiography as a process of multiplicity—even dissensus—and proposes the diasporic souvenir as a mechanism for disrupting narrative regimes of power. ¹ “Propaganda” (n.), from New Latin 𝘱𝘳ō𝘱ā𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢, short for 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘨ā𝘵𝘪ō 𝘥ē 𝘗𝘳ō𝘱ā𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘥ā 𝘍𝘪𝘥ē, “Congregation for Propagating the Faith.” 𝘖𝘹𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘥 …
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Turning Left: Counter-Hegemonic Exhibition-Making in the Post-Socialist Era (1989-2014)
… They document, and analyse, the areas of dissensus, and the ideological and pragmatic limitations that emerged, in trying to realise these theoretical propositions (in practice) in a public art museum. The thesis therefore provides a critical framework for the development of an alternative …
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CREATIVE NONFICTION ILLUMINATED: CROSS-DISCIPLINARY SPOTLIGHTS
… should value one another's views and agree on dissensus instead of focusing on denying one another or trying to find a single name and definition. I suggest narrative nonfiction as a subset of creative nonfiction that would benefit students in composition. Creative nonfiction engages students …
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Micropolitics and Southern European socially engaged art practices in the age of austerity
… and binary frameworks, including consensus vs dissensus, ethics vs aesthetics, and dialogue vs critique, that have historically been adopted in the Anglo-American context and their reliance on the present as well as on their presumed universalism. Drawing upon the work of Suely Rolnik, Gilles …
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Radical Democracies: The Politics of the Aesthetic in the Southern Cone
… The notions of both political and aesthetic dissensus, therefore, find themselves under threat at this particular historico-political juncture. In contrast, the texts I examine in this work undertake an aesthetic investment in alternative significatory sensibilities in order to counter …
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In Life's Likeness: Biomimicry and the Imitation of Nature
… idealistic, & performative. I argue that this dissensus around valid imitations betrays the subsumption of biomimicry, and green design in general, by capitalist profit logics. In conversation with anthropologists of nature, design, & imitation, I show how the “bio” in biomimicry, or the …
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Contemporary dance festivals in the former Yugoslav space, 2007-2017: the imperceptible politics of curatorial praxis
… is a political practice through the creation of dissensus, following philosopher Jacques Rancière (1991: 71). Emancipatory qualities of festival-making are analysed as the curators repurpose the terms of international development and escape hierarchies in the field of dance to develop conditions …
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‘Where were we now?’ Ficto-heritage: a new approach to in-situ displays of historical photography
… Chantal Mouffe’s discussion of consensus and dissensus, to investigate how debate might be encouraged or discouraged in the minds of audiences viewing the displays; and the writing of Henri Lefebvre, to explore ways in which in-situ photographic displays produce and maintain spatial and social …
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Organisational volunteering: Meanings of volunteering, professionalism, volunteer communities of practice and wellbeing
… might entail, implicating both consensus and dissensus. Finally, the study demonstrates the key role that relationality plays, both in definitions of occupational identity as well as the construction of collaborative communities of practice.