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Showing 1 to 20 of 121 for “"everyday experiences"”.
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Spaces of contestation: the everyday experiences of ten African migrants in Cape Town
… is the recurrent denialism of xenophobia on an everyday basis that this project has explored through the narrative accounts of ten African migrants in Cape Town. The lived everyday experiences of ten African migrants have brought forward the central argument of this thesis. From the data, it is …
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Black girlhood celebration: The political courage of Black girls and women in everyday experiences
Bridging critical pedagogy, hip-hop and education, hip-hop feminism, and literature on Black girlhood, this thesis shows how Black girls in Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths (SOLHOT), a community of girls and women in Illinois, make sense of the images they receive through hip-hop. Specifically, I …
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More than race: Differentiating Black students’ everyday experiences in Texas school desegregation, 1968-1978
… and socioeconomic status, differentiate their everyday experiences? This local social history examines this central question, using intersectionality as the theoretical lens and oral history interviews alongside historical methods to analyze how gender, class, and racial identity coalesced to …
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The Influence of Loving-Kindness Meditation on Everyday Experiences of Being Angry: An Empirical Phenomenological Study
… the effects of Loving-Kindness meditation on everyday experiences of being angry. It uses participants' accounts to create a systematic structural description of how Loving-Kindness meditation affects anger. Participants in this study were asked to provide written narratives of an incident …
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"NEET" or left out?, disadvantaged young people, everyday experiences of marginalisation and "accelerated" transitions in urban Scotland
… has linked socio-economic inequalities with experiences of a group of young people often described as being 'Not in Education, Employment or Training' (NEET). Yet, comparatively little is known about the everyday lives and transitions of young people identified as NEET from their own …
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On urban fear: privilege, symbolic violence, topophobia: the everyday experiences of middle-class women in Secunda, South Africa
I consider how the nature and meaning of space shape middle-class women's topophobia in the new town of Secunda (with a particular focus on symbolic violence). In Lefebvre's 'terrorist societies' fear becomes latent as citizens seek to maintain status quos which maintain systems of privilege. I …
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Incapacity, Indebtedness and Illegality: Everyday Experiences of Poverty and Barriers to Better Life and Mobility for a Migrant Community in Delhi, India.
… from Bhatu people’s biographical narratives and everyday experiences. Historically nomadic and labelled a ‘criminal caste’ and ‘backward class’, this migrant community from village Rajasthan now lives in a ‘slum’ resettlement colony on the margins of Delhi. The findings show that Bhatu people’s …
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Qualitative Inquiry into the Everyday Experiences of Secondary School Students within Significant Spheres of their Lifeworld: Family, Friends and School – Narratives from Lahore
Narratives of everyday experiences offer valuable insight into the social and material world that people inhabit. Exploratory research based on the voice of young people has the potential to offer insight into their lived realities. However, research based on first-hand accounts of young people …
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Tiny Ruins: Short Prose Works
… and vignettes. The collection examines the everyday experiences of being an urban millennial, including current electronic methods of communication, such as Twitter and text messaging. Short prose forms proved conducive to the millennial experience because they are able to accurately mimic …
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INDUSTRIAL WORKERS IN MODERN SINGAPORE
… subordination. The second investigates the everyday experiences of workers; with a case study of workers in a shipyard. The third locates the position of foreign workers within the national economy and polity; and considers the consequences for this faction of the workingclass.
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Cultural themes of northern Thailand: Knowledge and emotion in everyday life and the life goals of college students
… which individuals use in their life goals and everyday experiences. Empirical evidence from a year-long ethnographic study of the life goals and activities of students attending a college in Chiangmai, a city in Northern Thailand, is presented and analyzed. The construct of cultural themes is …
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Mediating identity, 'mobile-ising' culture : the social impact of MXIt in the relational lives of teens
… embedded in the relational exchanges of teens’ everyday experiences. Nine focus groups, four group interviews and two one on one interviews were employed across six schools located in four socioeconomically divergent Cape Town suburbs demarcated using middle to upper-income (Milnerton and …
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Redefine the standard : design for the transforming World Wide Web
… over time. These transformations are part of our everyday experiences that are often informative, influential or controversial. We are increasingly replacing interactions of the physical space to the Web, possibly losing opportunities for experiencing subtleties within these physical …
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“It’s a relief to talk…”: Mothers’ experiences of breastfeeding recorded in video diaries
… of ethnography, this study aimed to explore the everyday experiences of first time breastfeeding mothers in the early weeks following birth. Methods: Using a camcorder, five mothers captured their real-time experiences in a video diary, until they perceived their infant feeding was established. A …
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Tempered Tempos: The Politics of Waiting for Public Services in Contemporary Cape Town
… service delivery protests, it foregrounds the everyday experiences of waiting for public services at three key sites in Cape Town: the dispersed everyday waiting for public transport at train stations; the queues at the Department of Home Affairs regional office for South African Identity …
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The Ill-Treatment of Their Countrywoman: Liberated African Women, Violence, and Power in Tortola, 1807–1834
… a microhistorical approach to investigate the everyday experiences of liberated Africans in Tortola during the early nineteenth century, focuses on the violent conditions of liberated African women, demonstrating that abolition consisted of violent contradictions that mirrored slavery.</p>
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Shifting selves: Home beyond the house - A study of ageing, housing and wellbeing of older Chinese migrants to New Zealand
… ageing groups in New Zealand. However, people‘s everyday experiences of settling in a new and unfamiliar environment have been largely overlooked, particularly for older adults. This research explores the biographies, identities and everyday experiences of filial piety among older Chinese …
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ReachMedia : on-the-move interaction with everyday objects
… try to integrate digital information into our everyday experiences but usually require more attention than is appropriate and often fail to do so in a natural and socially acceptable way. In this thesis we present "ReachMedia," a system for seamlessly providing just-in-time information for …
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Interaction, Power, and The Institution: Uncovering the Negotiations that Organize the Planning Work of Social Studies Teachers
… of power that function beyond the daily experiences of teachers? How do discourses and activities in the institution replicate, constitute, and/or challenge those institutional relations? My study drew on tools from institutional ethnography and was embedded in everyday experiences of …
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Staging race: Blackness, performance, and citizenship in Afro-Latin American writers (1940-2000)
… performances created a vocabulary to enunciate everyday experiences of racism and discrimination in the region. I argue these artists used performances to reinvent discourses on blackness, cultural memory, and the meaning of democracy in multiracial societies.
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