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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"embodied memory"”.
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What Remains: Dance as Resilience and Embodied Memory
… explores dance as a tool for resistance and embodied memory. It examines how movement can serve as both a personal and collective response to trauma, engaging with themes of structured violence, intergenerational pain, and the reclamation of agency. Through choreographic research, …
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Moving-voicing-remembering resonating embodied memory through performance as research
… practice, offered an opportunity to engage embodied memory as corporeal traces of sound knowledges that live within and are maintained by, a range of resonant relationships. Inspired by the works of German sociologist Hartmut Rosa and Indian American political theorist Anita Chari, I use …
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Culture, food, memory and health : an intergenerational study in Liverpool
… study within Liverpool communities employed embodied memory as an analytical tool to explore the changing nature of food practices and the consequent implications for diet and health. The methodology had a qualitative focus using a phenomenological approach that employed the ethnographic …
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Mending
… that one must intellectually excavate deep memory. Rather, the processes used to create the body of work engage a sensorial approach, and attempt to both reconstruct embodied memory and reconcile trauma. The act of mending is an historically feminine gesture appropriate for resolving the …
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Capoeira as a Resource: Multiple Uses of Culture Under Conditions of Transnational Neoliberalism
… practice to new lands and commercialized their embodied knowledge and cultural difference. While they initially sought to create economic capital, a whole range of indirect repercussions followed: they generated affective communities, disseminated a Brazilian imaginary soon transformed into …
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Making Indigenous Futures: Land, Memory, and 'Silent Knowledge' in a Skolt Sámi Community
This dissertation considers experiences of embodied memory and indigenous connection to land by which people reconstitute social life in Skolt Sámi resettlement areas of Arctic Finland. After their Petsamo homeland was ceded to the Soviet Union following the Second World War, Skolt relocation to …
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The effect of visual distraction on memory for words, pictures and complex events
… distraction disrupts retrieval from long-term memory. Eyewitness testimony research shows a fairly consistent picture: visual distraction (or its removal though eye-closure) decreases retrieval-accuracy of details embedded in an event. However, research on verbal memory suggest that distraction …
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Documents et Cheminements: tracing the postmemory of the second world war and the Algerian war of independence
… also focuses on the question of vectors of memory in France and Algeria, as well as intermediality in contemporary French and Algerian narratives. My guiding theoretical framework throughout the dissertation draws on Marianne Hirsch’s discussions of what she calls “postmemory.” However, …
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Feeling the fleshed body: The aftermath of childhood rape [thesis]
… I employed a multi-modal, complementary, and embodied methodology using a combination of autoethnography, somatic inquiry, writing-as-inquiry, and performance-making-as inquiry. In addition to my autoethnographic explorations, I gathered information from other women raped in childhood, as well …
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Inhabitance
… the inhabitance of trauma into an awareness of embodied presence. From a space of reflexivity, Inhabitance asks you to come back to your body through heart-minded creative action. This practice-based interdisciplinary methodology integrates the emancipatory powers of women and gender studies, …