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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"foundational texts"”.
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Exploring the Role of the Self in the Islamic-Western Human Rights Discourse: A Comparative Examination of Foundational Texts of Key Scholars from the Shī‘ī-Muslim and Western Philosophical Tradition - ‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib, Zayn al-‘Ābidīn, Søren Kierkegaard and Immanuel Kant
… engaging in a comparative analysis of these texts, I aim to construct a role for the self that is appropriate for the human rights discourse and introduce a framework to access it. I argue that human beings from whatever religious background they originate need a way to understand their …
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Racism without Race: The Racialization of Middle Eastern and North African Students at U.S. Colleges
… history with Islam and the MENA world. Using foundational texts on critical race theory, current scholarship on Arab Americans and foreign-born students, and facets of the Ethnic Identity Scale (EIS), this study examined the experiences of MENA students who study amid a national backdrop of …
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(De)composing Transhumanisms: Fungal and Trans Ecologies in Jeff VanderMeer's <em>Annihilation</em>
… in a trans ecological framework. By expanding on foundational texts such as Jackson Jesse Nash’s “‘I Am Not Returning Home’: A Transgender Reading of Jeff VanderMeer’s <em>Annihilation</em>”, this paper argues that representations of fungus in <em>Annihilation</em> present a possibility for trans …
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Ripple of Hope: Understanding the Lived Experience and Academic Achievement of Latinx Students at Arrupe College and Dougherty Family College: A Case Study
… A qualitative study was undertaken using foundational texts and frameworks on critical race theory and Latino critical theory to discover insights into the academic success of Latinx students at the two institutions. Factors such as community cultural wealth and critically relevant …
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Strata, Soma, Psyche: Narrative and the Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Science of Lyell, Darwin, and Freud
… to the narrative structures of the primary texts that most influenced coterminous literary movements of the period. My work thus attends closely to the narrative and imaginative form of scientific writing that attempts to transcend the limits of what can be seen. All three of Charles …
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Merton Priory as a Centre of Learning 1117-1538
… activities within the monastery, and using two foundational texts, the lives of Gilbert the Sheriff and Guy of Merton. Chapter 3 explores the library, both the physical location and the collection of books and manuscripts within the monastery. It includes a discussion of each of the extant books …
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ECOCUIR AESTHETICS: GENDER, ECOLOGY AND FORM IN LATIN AMERICAN FICTION
… human/non-human and nature/culture divides, the texts I analyze revisit moments in which colonial images of Nature are sedimented. By rewriting foundational texts, historical scenes or engaging directly with literary traditions that carry forward this imagery, these contemporary works take the …
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Politics of Parity: Gendering the Tunisian Second Republic, 2011-2014
… and post-colonial authoritarian contexts. However, analysis of the development of gender parity legislation from its introduction in the interim electoral law in advance of the 2011 elections, through the constitutional and electoral law drafting processes, and its implementation in …
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Contextual Pentecostalism from a classical Pentecostal movement to a contemporary Pentecostal church movement: a study of the Assemblies of God of Malaysia with special reference to Joel 2:28-32
… of AGUSA’s main beliefs and practices from the foundational texts alluded to Joel 2 – Acts 2, in providing a backdrop of the development of Pentecostal pneumatology from classical understanding to the contemporary understanding as the theological framework/lens for the theological reflection on …
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Narrative Fidelity to the Little Red Book in the Collective Action Framing Efforts of the Red Guard Movement: A Theoretical Model for Foundational Documents
… social movement theory. I am interested in how texts matter to social movements. I present a novel synthesis of concepts I use to uncover ideological elements in texts. I argue that foundational documents influence frame presentations, and that texts steer the early stages of mobilization …
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Magic is might?: Uncovering abjection in Shakespeare's The Tempest and J.K Rowling's Harry Potter series
… The Tempest. The Tempest is one of the foundational texts for the representation of the wizard figure in the British literary canon, and it is a tradition Harry Potter, one of the most iconic representations of this wizard figure in recent years, inherits and works with. By placing these …
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Transparent cultures: Imagined users and the politics of software design (1975-2012)
… by its members. Examining the movement’s foundational texts, I argue that open source principles reflect a strong opposition to transparent design. Its founders assert that writing software is a form of expression and refuse to distinguish between sociocultural and technical concerns. In …