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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"historicization"”.
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Charles Mingus Played Bass?: Rediscovering a Jazz Soloist Through Transcription
… comparing past musicians' opinions with today's historicization of Mingus's bass playing. An extensive analysis of various Mingus solos between 1947 and 1959 will further define Mingus's style, highlight its progressive characteristics, and show his growth as a soloist. Aside from prompting …
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Foucault, Affect, History: On the Art of Feeling
… of the ethical dimensions of affect, and his historicization of separate modalities of relating to those areas of life and experience that belong to affect, emotion, and feeling. In this thesis, I aim to tease out that historicization in the form of two key historical modalities belonging to …
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Reimagining anthropology: towards an anti-racist, feminist ethnography
… Through critical literature analysis and historicization, the research interrogates the complexities of insider/outsider research, collaborative research methods, and the politics of studying up to reimagine ethnography for liberation. </p>
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Re-visionary bodies: Feminist/Brechtian theory in the plays of Paula Vogel
… Brecht's Verfremdungseffekt, social gestus, historicization and episodic structure in the plays The Baltimore Waltz, And Baby Makes Seven, Hot 'N' Throbbing , and Desdemona: a play about a handkerchief to re-vision constructions of gender, sexuality and feminine desire, to re-define the …
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False Cures of U.S. Nationalism: The Border Wall – A Raucous Call from the Silent Center
… individualized way, this paper opts for a double historicization of modern mass-formations. In analyzing the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, the Minuteman Border Fence and We Build the Wall, civil initiatives that aim at fortifying the U.S.-Mexican border wall (D. Trumps central campaign theme), …
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Revisioning Popular Narratives of Trans Lives, 1952–1976
… writing and scrapbooking are essential to the historicization of trans identity at midcentury. By extending the trans canon to include pulp and erotic novels and periodicals like Virginia Prince’s magazine <em>Transvestia,</em> which have often been overlooked in trans scholarship because of …
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American Nationalism in the Early Twenty-first Century: A Discursive Analysis of the Politics of Immigration and National Security
… its purpose toward the de-politicization and de-historicization of immigration as a national security and economic issue. I conclude by reminding the reader that allowing anti-immigrant discourse to become normalized without the burden of proof can lead to curbed freedoms under an authoritarian …
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Preserving bad architecture : radicaL preservation in the post-disaster era
… for future change. In other words, the historicization of past events should not only be manifested as the physical integrity of artifacts, but rather shape and be shaped by the present and future of a place. The thesis seeks to rethink the act of preservation as a means of integrating …
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Crafting Legitimacy: Status Shifts, Critical Discourse, and Symbolic Boundaries in the Cultural Field of Craft Beer in the United States from 2002 to 2017
… high status gastronomic fields, and d.) the historicization of the field craft beer particularly via the mythologization of early pioneers.
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AFGANTSY: THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND CULTURAL LEGACY OF A FORGOTTEN GENERATION
… this verdict became redundant for many, and the historicization of the Soviet-Afghan War became a challenge for 15 independent countries. This study explores the myriad ways in which the Afghan war made an imprint on everyday life in the Soviet Union through the incorporation of a broad range of …
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Making the Past: The Concepts of Literary History and Literary Tradition in the Works of Thomas Gray
… of literary culture of ancient Britain, his historicization of Chaucerian and medieval texts, his celebration of Elizabethan literary culture, and his polemical attack on “neo‐classical” literary ideals intend to relocate the process of canon‐formation within a “pure” source of national …
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The "sent-down" vision: poetics and politics of Zhiqing literature in post-Mao China
… account in which I conducted a careful historicization of the sent-down movement. Instead of seeing the sent-down movement as a finished program locked in the dust of history, I contend that it continues to shape and haunt the zhiqing on practical, physical, and psychological levels. …
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Transnational Film Practices: Hollywood Remakes of South Korean Films and Preference on Genre Films
… textual analysis, transnational film theories, historicization of the South Korean film industry, and cultural studies approaches to cultural specificity. I further argue that these transnational remakes expose multifaceted relations between two film industries, as they depart from a common …
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Remembering and Forgetting in the Archive : Instituting ‘Group Material’ (1979–1996)
My PhD submission is made up of a constellation of three elements that form a body of textual material / theory and practice event / exhibition. (1) A dimension of critical writing or dissertation that has two parts: (a) Retrospective / Prospective: Activating the Archive, September 1, 2010, and …