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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"hybrid forms"”.
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The Hummingbird Bargain
… poems are mostly free verse with a few formal or hybrid forms and represent my quest to combine narrative with lyric elements to reflect the life of a physician poet looking back on forty years of medical practice. The natural world provides reflection and consolation to the world of the hospital …
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Power from the Grassroots : Strategies and Resilience of Cambodian Land and Environmental Activists
… authoritarian rule, and activists’ strategic forms of resistance to them, the study bridges Social Movement scholarship and Development Studies. It develops a broad understanding of civil society organizations’ operation by examining mobilization processes, adaptation, sustainability, …
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The Grief You Can Swallow and the Rage You Can't
… of mourning. The work engages with established forms like the ghazal and tanka while simultaneously developing experimental structures that challenge conventional approaches to grief poetry. Central to the manuscript is the metaphor of mutation, both in its exploration of cancer and in its …
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Shhhuicide Stories: A Crip Critical Analysis of Attempt Survivors' Narrations of Suicidality
… survivors make sense of their suicidality in hybrid forms by utilizing biomedical frameworks while also describing social causes for their attempts, notably including the ableist Othering of people deemed "mentally ill." Through this analysis, what results is a fuller understanding of how …
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Lessons from Hybridity: A Look into the Coupling of Image and Text in Karen Tei Yamashita’s <em>Letters to Memory</em>, Claudia Rankine’s <em>Citizen: An American Lyric</em>, and Ilya Kaminsky’s <em>Deaf Republic</em>
… always enough. This thesis focuses on the use of hybrid forms in recent publications that address this issue, placing images alongside the written word, letting readers also personally visualize and interpret a perspective different from their own. Specifically, it will look into three examples of …
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SPEAKING OF GENDER, LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY: WRITING THE PERSONAL
… They include experimental prose, poetry, hybrid forms of writing that merge theory and practice, and scripts for live performance and digital film. To these examples I apply an autobiographical writing method, one that simultaneously reflects and creates, in an enquiry designed to uncover …
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Nonprofit Leader Experiences in Sector-bending After Lean Six Sigma Training: Tension, Concepts, and Changed Behaviors
… (DiMaggio & Anheier, 1990). The emergence of hybrid forms and increasing isomorphic pressures in the nonprofit sector (Bromley & Meyer, 2017; McCambridge, 2014) have challenged the traditional separation of organizational forms. This study explored the phenomenon popularized as …
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Chere
… South America, I am interested in the process of hybridization as a consequence of migration. I draw inspiration from African textiles and their African American hybrid forms, quilts. This project analyses Ptolemaic concepts in regards of pre-Columbian and African map conventions, and African …
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Integrating land administration systems in peri-urban customary areas in Ghana
… customary land management could improve through hybrid land administration, incorporating both customary and statutory systems (Whittal, 2014). In this study, statutory and customary land administration systems are examined to understand how they can be integrated to improve effective land …
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Border Control Paradox: The Political Economy of Smuggling Between Colombia and Venezuela
… deepening violence, and institutionalizing hybrid forms of authority. This "border control paradox" is explored by tracing the evolution of the ELN from a rural insurgent group into a binational actor with territorial control over smuggling routes and informal crossings. Methodologically, …
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Dress as metaphor in diasporic fiction
… understanding of centuries of exchange and the hybrid forms of colonial encounters. In subsequent chapters, I examine the work of Santha Rama Rau, in particular her memoir Home to India (1945), and the dilemma in articulating Indian identity. Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961) …
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Reading the Genre Codes in Giorgio Scerbanenco's Hybridised Romanzi Rosa
… possible, I argue that they are best assessed as hybrid forms. Although the view that Scerbanenco habitually blended genres is now widely held, I take a more even-handed approach than is usual in the critical literature, arguing that the sentimental strand of romance has a weight and validity …
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Taming the impossible
… theory, the dual of glut theory. The resulting hybrid theory, which makes use of two distinct speech acts of assertion, is glap theory. Surprisingly, the logic of glap theory is a quite strong logic that adds to the logics of glut and gap theory two hybrid forms of modus ponens. Turning to …
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Expansive Hybridity: Multilingual and Visual Poetics in Contemporary Experimental Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry
Although the term hybrid has gained much traction in literary analyses of contemporary experimental poetry, there is a notable divide within scholarly discourse wherein its uses pertain to either form or content. The term has been used by literary critics and anthologists to categorize works of …
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Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon: Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence, Support, and Justice
… described as overcrowded spaces with complex and hybrid forms of law and governance. Previous research has found that camp residents face multiple protection challenges and a high prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV). While IPV is a universal phenomenon, it is shaped by local conditions, …
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The Ngoma Consciousness: IsiNgqi neSandi as existing and accessible tools for healing and therapy in Africa
… in various sectors of society and introduce hybrid forms of sound therapy and psychosomatic treatments, involving unique healing methods through Ngoma rhythmic manipulation. My findings argue for a clear distinction between performance studies and indigene ritual studies. This distinction can …
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Cultures of performance and reward in UK employee-owned businesses
… spent within a greater number of organisations. Hybrid forms of ownership are acknowledged and further investigation into them would be beneficial.
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Impact measurement in social enterprises: rationales & current practices in an Australian context
… of impact measurement as situated within hybrid organisations, such as social enterprises (SE), experiencing tensions of having multiple and competing social and commercial objectives. Claims of making an impact are no longer sufficient, and evidence of the impact an organisation makes is …
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