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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"ideological constructions"”.
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Black and White on Black: Whiteness and Masculinity in the Works of Three Australian Writers - Thomas Keneally, Colin Thiele, and Patrick White.
… white and masculine actions, interrogating these ideological constructions aids in facilitating a better awareness of the racialized stereotypes that exist in Indigenous representations.</p>
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INTERNATIONAL CHINESE AND CANADIAN STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES OF INTERNATIONALIZATION AT A CANADIAN UNIVERSITY
… the influences of globalization. Contemporary ideological constructions of globalization are seen in historical and cultural contexts and not as naturalized and reified economic processes. Various themes were identified in international Chinese and domestic students’ accounts of their …
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Legal Texts, Human Bodies: Reading Embodiment in the Biotech Age
… legal determinations of filiation are normative ideological constructions about how societal relations between children and parents should be ordered. They are based on particular understandings of the relationship between social and biological facts and operate to create asymmetrical …
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Constructions Of Anarchism In British Fiction, 1885-1914
This thesis examines constructions of anarchism in selected fiction published in Britain between 1885 and 1914. It does so in the larger context of ideological constructions of anarchism within late-Victorian and Edwardian media, popular and literary culture. It also makes use, particularly in its …
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Reconciling humans with nature : using Marx's dialectical materialism to critically explore philosophy and politics in contemporary environmentalism and to develop a perspective on environmental justice
… attitudes towards nature as natural, and not as ideological constructions. Dominant techno centric and ecocentric discourses within contemporary environmentalism unselfcritically regard nature as a commodity and as a moral authority respectively. These alienated and romanticised views of nature …
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Social representations informing discourses of young leaders: a case study of Tanzania
… aims at unveiling the Tanzanian culture-specific ideological constructions and the powers that, in interaction, frame and mediate discourses and meaning-making. Part II searches for those 'relationships between history, social representations and contemporary discourses of young leaders', showing …
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Gender, Body and Parenthood in Muscovite Russia
… seventeenth centuries, this thesis explores how ideological constructions of parenthood shape and are shaped by changing forms of conceptualising and representing the gendered body. In so doing, it underscores the need to interrogate modern assumptions about sex to recognise the variable …
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The underside of borders: reading Chican@ and Native American literature at the turn of the twenty-first century
… To this end, I draw a connection between the ideological premises underlying processes of Americanization and the violence inflicted on non-dominant histories and lived experiences that disrupt a homogeneous and sanitized version of national genealogy. Overall, I argue for a critical …