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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"dualisms"”.
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Tracking knowledge : science, tracking and technology
… against one another. They are part of a set of dualisms that work under certain universal assumptions critical to Western epistemology. These dualisms include modernity/tradition; nature/culture; and subject/object. This study examines the multiple perspectives, including both scientists and …
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This is a Present from a Small, Distant World
… us from the natural. In a dissection of the dualisms of man and nature, and progress and sustainability, I create microcosms of our detached condition.</p>
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Knowing primary physical education movement culture
Background: Mind-body dualisms create particular difficulties for researching and justifying learning and knowledge within PE practices. These issues are compounded in the UK by prevailing cognitivistic ideas of education, knowledge and learning. Crum (1993) suggests reconceptualising PE as …
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Changing narratives of minority peoples' identities in Welsh and Basque film
… a transitional stage featuring the reversal of dualisms on which the ‘traditional’ is grounded and narratives based much more on the individual and connected to a crisis in masculinity; to a stage that transcends these dualisms through featuring ambiguous narratives of multiple selves and …
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Binarism and indeterminacy in the novels of Thomas Pynchor
… of several major critical issues, concepts, dualisms and presuppositions. The thesis consists of an Introduction which sets forth a brief rationale for the graft described above, followed by a short and unavoidably inadequate synopsis of Derrida's work with a brief review and explication of …
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Sensing the Vexation: an Embodied Reading of the Book of Job
… assumptions of biblical criticism, such as the dualisms of subject/object, subjectivity/objectivity, and corporeality/language, I claim that the reader is an embodied subject whose embodiment contextualizes this sensory-engaging drama, rendering the Book of Job a phenomenal experience. Backing …
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Who do I say that I am? : identity as a construct and its implications for Christian anthropology
… lens which, inter alia directly challenges the dualisms upon which western philosophy is founded. Having outline some approaches to the question of identity, the study concludes by examining some of the consequences and possibilities for Christian anthropology in its understanding of what it …
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Controlling Bodies: Mothers, Adolescents, and Bad Advice
… adolescents. Ultimately, this project uncovers dualisms of wrong versus right bodies and fat stigmatization in the "objective" language of health about obesity. This polemic leaves pregnant women and adolescents little choice except either to conform or to face a world of media and medicine that …
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Blazing Turquoise and Coral Light Jewels of Veiled Empowerment: Buddha Ye shes mTsho rgyal (ཡེ་ཤེས་མཚོ་རྒྱལ) and Saint Hildegard von Bingen in the Lotus of Ever-Excellent Feminist Dialogue
… paradigms that convert gendered mind/body dualisms into both/and gender-integrative reciprocity through embodied religious practice. Through selected sections of the faith journeys of Buddha Yeshe Tsogyal (ཡེ་ཤེས་མཚོ་རྒྱལ) (757–817 CE) and Saint Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179 CE) who lived …
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The Gift of Living Water: A study of the relationship between water symbolism and the Spirit in the Gospel of John
… incorporating effective use of symbolism, irony, dualisms, double entendres and eschatological allusions supports his high Christology, which demonstrably distinguishes the Fourth Gospel from the Synoptics. The study affirms Jesus as the ultimate vehicle for spiritual transformation and sustenance …
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Animal ethics and contemporary art : an exploration of the intersections between ethics and aesthetics, humans and animals, human and animal injustices
… towards the animal and dismantling entwined dualisms. With regard and respect, we are encouraged to appreciate the animal as a singular, specific, valuable being, rather than a predetermined, dualistic category. Formally and conceptually informed by contemporary art addressing both human and …
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Consciousness and Physicalism
… problems for consciousness, as well as for the dualisms which explain consciousness under these assumptions. This thesis advances a position called “continuous physicalism” which takes all material to result from deformations in the physical medium of space, and any changes in these materials to …
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Telepathy and the Visual in the Late Novels of Henry James
… slipperiness of the borderlines between three dualisms: observation and imagination, subject and object, and the verbal and the visual. A chapter is dedicated to each. Reading James in this innovative way allows me to conclude by situating his late novels within an extended milieu of literary …
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Probing the politics of the female body: Robyn Orlin's deconstruction of the Classical Ballet canon
… attention is given to the origins of patriarchal dualisms and the way in which these manifest in contemporary Western culture. Emphasis is placed on the institutional repression of the body as a way to preserve particular power structures. In this instance the theories of Michel Foucault, in …
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Verso una nuova postura poetica: rinascere a ogni istante
… stance was developed, capable of overcoming the dualisms typical of our modern cultural and philosophical tradition. This new stance is capable of drawing on a relationship with the natural environment and with all other beings that is less destructive and more open to the radical interconnection …
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Internet of Props. A performative ontology and design framework for the internet of things.
… of: 1. speculative inquiry into the ontological dualisms of ‘objects’ and ‘things’ and the emerging social dimension of humans and non-humans; 2. the identification of an ontological-performative model based on the idea of Props; 3. the entanglement of theory and practice to construct a …
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Sting of the Gallfly
… The plot is heavily tied to the concept of dualisms, with a major goal of the narrative being to explore complications, quirks, and muddling events. These story turns expose the different sides of characters, forcing them to play multiple roles and occupy simultaneous realities, just as …
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Sense-Making Bodies: Feminist Materiality and Phenomenology in Constructive Body Theologies
… which explicitly seek to overcome body/mind dualisms often reinscribe them when they neglect to attend to perception as a critical element of bodily experience. Phenomenological analyses of perception (such as suggested by Merleau-Ponty) strengthen and refine our conception of embodiment. …
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Religious objects and performance : testing the role of materiality
… emerge which challenge commonly accepted modem dualisms, i.e. subject/object, mind/matter.
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