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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"everyday actions"”.
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Surveillance: From Solutions to New Problems
… Internet continues to facilitate more and more everyday actions of individuals, there is increased risk that more and more of these everyday actions can become subject to surveillance. Understanding what surveillance is occurring, who is capable of accessing this data, and how individuals can …
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Performing Space: A Center for Contemporary Dance
… Transparent and flexible spaces interweave everyday movement, or the "ballet of the plaza," with the choreographed movement of the artists. The pedestrian passer-by becomes the audience, encouraging interaction between art and everyday actions.
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MOVING IMAGE - STILL LIFE
… according to Schrader as the form that links the everyday in something unified and permanent".' Central to my research is the aim to create a still-life image from filmed scenes documenting the everyday actions in my living environment. In some cases however the scenes being staged function as …
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Masculinities and Femininities: Romance and Authenticity on American Dating Apps
… Americans construct their social worlds through everyday actions and interactions on dating apps? How is romance re-conceptualized through dating apps, and what are the consequences of dating apps on gender identity and courtship? A qualitative, mixed methods approach was used to gather data. An …
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Reclaiming Rhetorical Intersectionality: From Silence to Parrhesia and Attuned Listening
… language. The power of language influences our everyday actions. Joining Crenshaw are communication scholars Brenda Allen, Deborah Atwater, and Marsha Houston who recognize that intersectionality is enacted in language. In exclusionary rhetorical frames, people perform language in a series of …
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Jogando e brincando a gente vai aprendendo: práticas e concepções de professoras da educação infantil
… the contributions of fun and games in the everyday actions of early childhood education. Through play a child exercises all its potential, developed entirely by sociality, cognition and motor function. Is specific objectives analyze how the use of games on children's learning and verifying …
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The hydro politics of living with urban wetlands in Zimbabwe: pasts, presents and future
… wetlands, focusing on the power, policies, and everyday actions that shape how wetlands are used, changed, and cared for over time. It examines the case studies of Borrowdale and Mbare in Harare to discover how communities living alongside wetlands, engage with them, the value they attach to …
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From objects to action: a neuropsychological analysis
… the factors that determine the performance of everyday action. Six empirical chapters are subsequently presented. First, I sought to investigate the effects of the presence of distractors and of task load on the performance of everyday life tasks, comparing a patient with ADS and controls …
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Refugee women’s agency through everyday space appropriation: An investigation into Rohingya women’s “invisibility” in the camps of Bangladesh
… investigation into Rohingya refugee women’s everyday actions in the camps of Bangladesh. It engages a framework of intersectionality and an interpretive understanding of the relation between the women’s on-the-ground experiences with broader forces. Building on women’s narratives and deeper …
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DOING TIME IN NURSERY: NAVIGATING THE RULES AND ESTABLISHING A ‘LIFE’
… understanding of the nursery, in terms of the actions of adults and children, at a time of rapid expansion in childcare provision to support working mothers and disadvantaged children in the UK. Field notes collected primarily through observation over a two year period, in an ethnographic …
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Using the visual denotations of image captions for semantic inference
… denotations can be created for descriptions of everyday entities and events. Additionally, we demonstrate that visual denotations can be used as a new model of semantic similarity, and that this model is better at identifying entailment relations between descriptions of images than traditional …
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Intimate Allies: Identity, Community, and Everyday Activism Among Cisgender People with Trans-Identified Partners
… and how is being an ally connected to forms of everyday resistance and educational advocacy? How does technology play a role in articulations of identity, experiences of community, and the ways that partners participate in activism?</p> <p>This work queers sociology by illustrating and …
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The 'Feminization' of the Everyday: Examining the Gendered Nature of Worker Resistance within the Transnational Call Center Industry
… complex relationships that exist between gender, everyday forms of worker agency and resistance, and the global political economy. I argue that the gendered division of labour within the global political economy has led to the development of gendered opportunity structures of worker resistance. …
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Teaching Symbolic Rhetoric for Multicultural Education
… or systems transcending individuals and everyday actions, but are rather constituted in everyday practices. In the discussion of how cultural systems are put into practice I hope to have shown that individuals not only reproduce these cultures but are productive of them as they put these …
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Squeezables : tactile and expressive interfaces for children of all ages
… goal of this thesis is to demonstrate that the everyday actions we do with our hands, such as squeezing and pulling, can be tapped and used for creating sounds and music. The control of this instrument is universal and perceptually meaningful for children of all ages in their quest for …
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Reviving Hellas: the body and natural movement in early twentieth-century Britain
… In particular, this thesis investigates the actions of the body and Madge Atkinson’s (1885-1970) Natural Movement technique and its relation to Hellas. The investigation is grounded in the reconstruction of Madge Atkinson’s Elementary syllabus (through a practice-research methodology), and an …
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The movement of Argentine Tango: an ethnography of improvisation and transnationalism
… of improvisation in dance apply to everyday actions, career choices and transnational movements of my research participants. Just like choreographic choices in the moment form improvised dances, life choices form life stories between opportunities, constraints and unpredictable …
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MODERN AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLACIER MARRIAGE IN GILGIT-BALTISTAN, PAKISTAN.
… living entities whose behaviour depends on human actions. Various indigenous communities inhabit this region, and indigeneity is intertwined in legal obscurity, postcolonial marginalization, and competing narratives of belonging. Indigeneity is contested, and a multi-layered identity is connected …