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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"human difference"”.
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Being the Other: A Transpersonal exploration of the meaning of human difference
This research recognized that being other was an experience we all endure at varying times. Rooting itself within post-colonial theories, this research sought to expand the understanding of this experience into the worlds of relational psychotherapy and the transpersonal. With a phenomenological …
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Wastelands of difference? Urban nature and more-than-human difference in Berlin and Gothenburg
This thesis explores more-than-human entanglements of contemporary urban environments in order to develop a rearticulation of urban landscapes as spaces decidedly beyond the exclusively human. Taking its cue from the question “How do we live with urban difference today?,” such spaces, the thesis …
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Sodomy and human difference: Anglophone conceptualisations of Ottoman male same-sex activity, c.1590–1700.
… dissertation focuses on the ideas of sodomy and human difference in early modern Anglophone discourses. The purpose of my thesis is to historicise and to complicate our understandings of Anglophone conceptions of sodomy in relation to the Ottoman Empire. This thesis argues that, far from being …
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Japanese 'civilisation' and ideas of progress in Britain, c. 1880-1945
… the significance of this rise for ideas of human difference and world order in British intellectual life and beyond in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries.
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Nature and Environment in Nineteenth-Century Austrian Literature
… in global claims of eternal truths about human difference, rationality, and transcendence." With the help of ecocriticism, my research explores the development of ecological themes in the writings of four nineteenth-century Austrians from deforestation to industrialization to the growth of …
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Murdoch, Woolf, Rhys, and the Ethics of the Resistance to Narrative Closure
… that seeks to affirm the irreducibility of human difference against the violently reductionist tendencies of narrative form. Murdoch's call for an ethically responsible aesthetics of representation is grounded in her development of 'contingency' and 'attention,' two concepts that work …
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Genomic Designation: New kinds of people at the intersection of genetics, medicine and social action
… must work in and through existing categories of human difference in order to inform clinical practice or social mobilization. By contrast, I go beyond the specter of reductionism and examine the emergence of new kinds of people at the intersection of genetics research, clinical practice and …
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Reading "Monstrous" Humans in Reformation England
… examines how the intersection of Renaissance humanist and Reformed Christian epistemologies led to the inauguration of a new framework for interpreting human and bodily difference in sixteenth-century England. Taking the notion of ‘monstrosity’ as its starting point, it demonstrates how the …
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Costume Albums in Charles V’s Habsburg Empire (1528-1549)
… and surviving attempts to make sense of cultural difference by compiling visual information about regional clothing customs in and around Europe and further abroad. Their method of codifying sartorial customs through representative costume figures became a prevailing method through which to …
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Whiteness and exclusion: An ethnography of the racialised discourse of the UK’s Widening Participation agenda
… More specifically, the study shows how human difference is reified through widening participation discursive practice along racial lines and how white perspectives and dominance are normalised. Core to the study’s findings is the lack of a critical approach in widening participation …
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Yellowing the Logarithm: How Money Solved the Problem of Freedom
… of value and race as the form of appearance of human difference. It demonstrates this relationship through a study of experiments with monetary value in eighteenth-century British America. At a time when Bank of England notes circulated primarily among merchants and within London, colonial …