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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"foundational assumptions"”.
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Sensing the Vexation: an Embodied Reading of the Book of Job
… reader’s own embodied experience. Challenging foundational assumptions of biblical criticism, such as the dualisms of subject/object, subjectivity/objectivity, and corporeality/language, I claim that the reader is an embodied subject whose embodiment contextualizes this sensory-engaging drama, …
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The matter of sex and gender: A dialogue between trans bodies and feminist theory
… analysis of theoretical texts to expose the foundational assumptions prevalent in prominent gender theorists who sometimes fall into the trap of pre-supposed sex signifiers. I explain why this tendency erases the terminology's complexity and inadvertently silences diverse trans identities. …
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Falling isn't the End: Reimagining Demolition as a Creative Practice
… prompting reflection on the discipline’s foundational assumptions while connecting it to broader cultural and systemic challenges. Ultimately, this thesis redefines resilience—not as resistance or mere survival but as a dynamic and imaginative practice. It advocates for architecture’s …
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Vector Based Control for Power Electronics Dominated AC Power Grid
… root of these unexpected behaviors lies in the foundational assumptions of these control methods (Droop control and Virtual Synchronous Machine) i.e. frequency is considered to be a steady state quantity which is constant within the fundamental line cycle. This thesis critically examines these …
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'Score! You Are Now More Canadian': A Case Study Approach to Understanding Citizenship and National Belonging in Sport
… building and belonging. This study utilizes the foundational assumptions of post-colonial theory and social constructivism lens to conceptualize, examine, and analyse identity and the notions of belonging. This study reveals multiple interconnected themes that allow for a better understanding of …
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GEOGRAPHY HESITANT AND AFRICAN ASCENDANT: ADDICTION, DEBT, AND OTHER BIOSOCIAL BARRIERS TO (RE)MEMBERING—A CASE FOR BLACK SPACE AND AFRICANA GEOGRAPHICAL STUDIES
… survival on Earth? Less explored are the foundational assumptions being made about who does and does not constitute the “human” in Human Geography, and who has the authority to make such determinations. What is clear is that other people’s ability to define the metes and bounds of another …
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Does the European Union have a reverse gear? Environmental policy dismantling, 1992-2014
… perspective, this thesis also questions foundational assumptions in EU studies – on what drives EU actors, on where the EU is headed. Finally it offers a different reading of the history of EU environmental policy, stressing the role that contestation in general, and dismantling in …
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Discursive positioning in theory and practice: a case for narrative mediation
… mediation by the problem-solving method. Several foundational assumptions of the problem-solving method are identified: a) the idea of the mediator as a neutral facilitator; b) the idea of negotiating on the basis of underlying interests or needs rather than polarised positions; c) the idea of a …
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Seeing by moving: revisiting pattern vision through fixational eye movements
… The first part of this thesis revisits foundational assumptions in spatial vision. In a first study, it presents a proof-of-concept model that extends a standard spatial vision model by ocular drift and temporal processing. The active model components facilitate edge extraction, but also …
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An Analysis and Comparison of the Missional Doctrine Hermeneutics of Kevin J. Vanhoozer and Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, with Emphasis on their Notions of God, Eschatology, and Mission
… of theological identity cohering with the foundational sources of theological authority. Others privilege theological constructions that assimilate the context and the missional situational framework of understanding. This dissertation strives to examine the diverging missional hermeneutics …
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Technology I, II, and III: Criteria for Understanding and Improving the Practice of Instructional Technology
… criteria to help practitioners understand what assumptions about their work could help them develop well-designed instruction, as well as what assumptions could lead them to develop rigid instruction that did not characterize the goals they had for their practice. They named these criteria …
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Producing Humans: An Anthropology of Social and Cognitive Robots
… producing, and sometimes challenging, core assumptions about what it means to be human. The dissertation draws on three and a half years of ethnographic research across a number of robotics research laboratories and field sites in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States between …
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Selfhood, Historical Consciousness, and the State in International Relations Theory
… dissertation seeks to reorient the theoretical assumptions of international relations in two ways. I develop a theory of the of the state that seeks to explain the mechanisms by which individuals are able to form collective social institutions and to endow them with authority and agency. I …