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Showing 1 to 20 of 970 for “"enquiry"”.
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An Enquiry into Fully Lived Moments
… excesses about the lived in a cross-disciplinary enquiry. To begin with, an original set of historical and thematic alliances is established, that includes Cobra artists and thinkers, and their links, among others, to the Surrealists, Gaston Bachelard, and Henri Lefebvre, who were contemporaries. …
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Interim management: an enquiry into praxis
This paper contributes to the body of knowledge of interim management, through a process of interview, the development of an extended case study and reflection on practice. It develops a theory of interim management that conceptualises interim managers as process consultants working at an …
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Devising Solo Performance: A Practitioner’s Enquiry
… to in detail but not reproduced in full, the enquiry draws on a range of writings, including Oddey, Heddon, Harvie, Alexander and George, on devising and making performance and in particular on Melrose’s concept of practitioner-centred expert knowledge, Lehmann’s notion of the postdramatic and …
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A role for spiritual self-enquiry in suicidology?
Volume one looks at the language of spirituality to deepen our understanding of the suicidal crisis. Spirituality remains the primary motivation for my work. However, two other significant influences have emerged in my research. The first is the intellectual tradition from the school of philosophy …
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An enquiry into gamefarming in the Cape Province
… for such failure within the Cape Province. The enquiry focused on management, research and marketing aspects of gamefarming. Personal interviews, a questionnaire and a literature analysis provided the information for the study. A description of the overall gamefarming situation is provided. …
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Humanity Undone, A practice led enquiry into self-injury
… methodology that blends artistic enquiry with active engagement with phenomenological and new materialist feminist theory. This investigation reveals a dynamic yet subtle relationship between the body-as-object and the body-as- subject, as initially described by Husserl as Leib and …
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An enquiry into Nicolai Hartmann's appreciation of Nietzsche's axiology
In a world and a time when man is confronted with but one ultimate choice: either a return to self-responsibility or the annihilation of life, in which, because of his now proverbial technical ascendancy and its train of spiritual impoverishment, he can indeed neglect to relearn the ability of …
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Afrikan contribution to international relations theory: an Afrocentric philosophical enquiry
The academic field of IR has been haunted by its Westerncentric philosophical founding masters. This has consequently led almost the overall (if not the entire) literature, of this particular academic discipline, to have become a typical platform wherein the Eurocentric driven masternarratives have …
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The prevalence and practice of self-injury: a sociological enquiry.
… on intent and aetiology, this qualitative enquiry used an interpretive mode of explanation, and collected data via indepth face-to-face interviews from a characteristically diverse community sample of fifteen participants. Findings indicated that respondents' aetiologies of self-injury were …
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Images of Violence from Mexico: A performance art based enquiry
The aims of this research have been: To create images and sculptures and explore their use in performative actions; To conduct a practice-based research project that examines how representations of human violence are explored through performance, while maintaining ethical value in aesthetic …
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Enslaving Development: An Anthropological Enquiry into the World of NGO
This thesis investigates the conflict of values that occurs in Bangladesh between NGOs and wider society. It examines the dynamics of BRAC, a large NGO, in order to illustrate the dissonance and inconsistencies in development discourse. Tension is evident in development, which is a multi-stranded …
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Meaning and narrative : a phenomenological enquiry, with reference to psychotherapy
The thesis is grounded in Heideggerian phenomenology. It examines the existentiale of meaning in Heidegger's ontology of Dasein of the 1920s and proposes that the concept of narrative can clarify our understanding of meaning in human life. Narrative theory in turn is critically examined and the …
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The Visible Invisible Object: A Photographic Enquiry 'Recording' A Lived Life
… The Visible Invisible Object: A Photographic Enquiry ‘Recording’ A Lived Life David George Sullivan This practice-led research project is centred upon a photographic ‘recording’ of everyday ‘objects’, which has been built up since 2004. I have ‘recorded’ everyday ‘objects’ that I have …
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Walking Home: The path as transect in an 800km autoethnographic enquiry
This practice-based project articulates the notion of an autoethnographic transect using Walking Home, a particular journey that I made in 2009, as its foundation. Borrowing key terms from the fields of ethnography and ecology, the project articulates a new contribution to knowledge by expanding …
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Anticipated retrospection: manifesting pastness in moving image, an art practice enquiry
This thesis addresses temporal experience in moving image from the perspective of artists’ film and video and asks: "if material qualities are implicated in memory as pastness, how can this be made apperceptible using art practice?” The study contributes to the understanding of temporal and …
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Reading and Writing with a Tree: Practising ‘Nature Writing’ as Enquiry
… writing’, are explored through a sustained enquiry into the reading and writing practices principally undertaken by the author (Camilla Nelson) in relation to one specific apple tree in the walled garden of University College Falmouth’s Tremough Campus, Cornwall. The central claim of this …
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Anxiety after birth: an existential phenomenological enquiry into mothers’ lived experiences
The concept of anxiety after birth has attracted increasing interest from perinatal researchers in recent years, however there are no studies which examine the phenomenon from an existential phenomenological standpoint. The aim of this study therefore was to explore women’s lived experiences of …
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Changing Space: A Practice-Led Enquiry into Representations of the Urban
Changing Space: A Practice-Led Enquiry into Representations of the Urban is an investigation into the evolution of the western metropolis using analogue and digital printmaking processes as analytical tools to mimic the formation and processes of the contemporary urban. As printed ephemera has been …
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