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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"everydayness"”.
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Enacting Privacy and Everydayness online: The case study of the Spiteful Tots community
… have the following implications: a) privacy and everydayness enables the Spiteful Tots participants to assert 'freedom from scrutiny and created a zone of "relative insularity"' (Cohen 2000); b) a rejection to heteronormativity is enabled by (re)asserting the right of privacy and validating …
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Living with locally advanced rectal cancer: an exploration of the everydayness of living with rectal cancer
… a longitudinal qualitative study to explore the everydayness of living with locally advanced rectal cancer. The study has identified how this can influence individual’s day to day lives when the focus of care moves away from cure, but prior to the transition to ‘end of life’ care. The aim was to …
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Fear of a Blank Planet
… approach to questions of everyday life: everydayness. It is, ultimately, through everydayness that affect and 'the virtual' might find their most direct and important ways onto the theoretical terrain of cultural studies.
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In Search of the Ooey Gooey Good
<p>This thesis explores ideas of everydayness, the mundane, and the repetitive emptiness of consumer culture. It looks at the malaise that plagues everyday life and examines several attempts throughout history to break from its grips which revolve around a search for a more ideal state. This …
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Hyperrealism and the everyday in creative practice : exegesis, play, novel
… three phases of work, each of which engage everydayness as part of its methodology. A key focus is text dramaturgy, how the text is constructed, critiqued and dramaturged in order to create a finished performance text or novel. Comparison is drawn with other contemporary theatre …
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MOVING IMAGE - STILL LIFE
… activities in my environment but to transform everydayness, as I perceive it, into the permanent and unified quality of the still-life genre. Since I work with video and the moving image it is important to examine structures of movement and time and see in which ways movement once disconnected …
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The Hollow Class: African-American Class-Passing and the Popular
… In focusing on the popular, I highlight the everydayness of class and race anxieties. I build on Gwendolyn Foster’s work on class passing but stress racial intersections with identity performance. I rely on New Historicism and Critical Race Theory to substantiate my examination of the …
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‘Being-at-home’ and homelessness: an interpretive phenomenological analysis of the experiences of Syrian involuntary immigrants living in Istanbul, Turkey
… the crisis of getting out of the comfort zone of everydayness - paved the way for a more authentic existence.
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The Experience of Being Thrown Back in Encounters for Adults who were Physically Abused as Children by a Parent or Caregiver: An Empirical-Phenomenological Investigation
… an encounter tends to unfold within the realm of everydayness, and reveals the past often with surprise and sometimes with shock, but always with a sense of familiarity. This re-experiencing was vivid. The look, with variations, was a significant finding in the study. All participants took care of …
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Protest and Proximity: The World Revolution of 1968 in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084
… power relations occupy in the ordinary everydayness of our lives, when history, as Roth puts it, comes into our living room? Or, when language, in Devi’s formulation, becomes weapon? To explore the way domestic life encounters the global, I turn to international relations professor …
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Protest and Proximity: The World Revolution of 1968 in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084
… power relations occupy in the ordinary everydayness of our lives, when history, as Roth puts it, comes into our living room? Or, when language, in Devi’s formulation, becomes weapon? To explore the way domestic life encounters the global, I turn to international relations professor …
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The meaning of Being as a nurse involved in the work of death investigation. A North American view and its implications to practice in England.
… (the death investigator nurse in action); the everydayness and averageness of Being (community outreach) and the publicness of Being (mass fatality care). This study reveals knowledge concerning the meaning of Being as a nurse involved in the work of death investigation in the USA. Aspects of …
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Everyday Life and Experimental Fiction in France, 1957–1966: A Literary-Conceptual History
… history and contemporaneous theorizations of everydayness. Michel Butor’s *La Modification* (1957) presents a train journey as a figure through which to relate higher moments of experience to the run of everyday repetition: a diurnalization of the Sartrean *projet* that works as a supplement …
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The Meaning of Being Independent: Precarities of Work and Lifestyles and Alternative-Seeking among Chinese Self-Employed Cultural Workers
… non-confrontational cultural politics through everydayness and mobility-seeking. By pursuing three lines of enquiry, this research contributes to an understanding of the meaning of ‘being independent’ in an authoritarian society with residual collectivist, as well as neoliberal tendencies. I …
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The clinic and the community: exploring the role of the designed environment in the creation of social value
… gender and spatial navigation, theories on everydayness, organizational mission, and resource-based theories. Using pre-determined criteria from literature and preliminary research, two sets of social programs, actively supported by clinics, were chosen for a multiple case study methodology. …
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Maxine Greene's arguments on aesthetic literacy and the imagination in the context of contemporary developments in South African education
… simply contract into the "safety and the everydayness" of their own worlds. Unable to find their way through the nettles of uncertainty and change, many individuals feel trapped by the problems of contemporary society without sufficiently developed critical judgement, vision or imagination …
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The povery construct and it's resonance with the experiencing of deprivation. Social relations in a Jamaican community.
This research provides one account of the complex relationship between differentiated experiences of deprivation and the dominant poverty construct in the Jamaican context. It is based on research conducted over a period of nine months in a Jamaican ¿squatter¿ community, Windsor, in the Parish of …
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Authentic Dasein as Pathway to Heideggerianism as a Political Philosophy - a Political Vibration of Being and Time
In the history of Western philosophy, Martin Heidegger is the only philosopher after Plato and Aristotle to have seriously investigated the question of being. Instead of dwelling on particulars as previous philosophers did, Heidegger probes the question of being by investigating the being of the …
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Životní svět trestankyň v řepském klášteře Kongregace sv. Karla Boromejského (na přelomu 30. a 40. let 20. století)
Cílem bakalářské práce je nastínit každodenní život a osudy trestanek v řepském klášteře Kongregace sv. Karla Boromejského na přelomu třicátých a čtyřicátých let dvacátého století. Práce zahrnuje rozbor trestanek na základě jejich národnosti, sociálního složení, typu zločinu, doby trestu, či …