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Showing 1 to 20 of 269 for “"knowledges"”.
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Subjugated scientific knowledges : detecting the Victorian female scientist
This thesis endeavours to examine the presence and absence of female scientists in Victorian fiction by exploring the female experience of science in fiction and in reality. The impact of culture, society and traditional notions of female ‘knowing’ are explored. Real-life women scientists’ work is …
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White wilderness: race, capitalism, and alternative knowledges of natural space
<p>This project investigates discourse about American wilderness, from the first European explorers through contemporary outdoor recreation, to reveal that wilderness is a socially constructed concept. By uncovering nine essential myths, this project argues that wilderness discourse is both …
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KNOWLEDGES, CONTROVERSIES AND FLOODS: national-scale flood management in Bangladesh
This research explores the views, beliefs and knowledges of experts responsible for flood management in Bangladesh. As one of the most disaster-prone nations on Earth, and in response to the neglect of power-holding experts within the existing literature, this project analyses the differences …
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Coordinates of Control: Indigenous Peoples and Knowledges in Bioprospecting Rhetoric
… to how representations of indigenous peoples and knowledges in the rhetoric of bioprospecting weave the people into multiple coordinates of discursive control. Bioprospecting, or the exploration of biological resources in search of valuable genetic and chemical material for commercial use, is …
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A Study of Agricultural Mechanics Knowledges and Skills Needed by Entry-Level Employees in Ornamental Horticultural Occupations and Recommended Levels for Teaching These Knowledges and Skills
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Towards a More Critical Consciousness: Race-Making, Affect, and Counter-Knowledges
… can be transformed in order to foster counter-knowledges. In this reading, the relationship between double consciousness and counter-knowledges also becomes a fruitful site for the formation of forms of affect that can cater to anti-capitalist struggles.
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Feminist counter-geopolitics: knowledges, practices, and spaces of activism in Iranian diasporas
… importance. This dissertation explores how knowledges, practices, and spaces of activism in Iranian diasporas across selected European and Canadian cities create alternatives to state political structures. The present research was conducted between December 2021 and June 2023 and employed …
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Tracking the movement of fish: skipper's logbooks and marine knowledges in fisheries management
Experts in both the line-fisheries and fisheries science sectors specialise in tracking the movement of fish. The knowledge thus gained is integral to both fishing practice and fisheries research, yet the two have often been posited against each other on opposite sides of a spectrum. This …
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Ontologies and knowledges of autonomous resistances in Barcelona: An ethnographic analysis of Can Batlló
… and, to which extent, autonomous resistances knowledges constructed on the ground challenge the academic interpretations of those movements. For this reason, the first part of this dissertation focuses on unravelling how traditional ontologies have been built and underpin majoritarian …
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Indigenous knowledges in health policy in Aotearoa New Zealand and Saskatchewan Canada: A comparative study
For more than two decades, components of Māori knowledges in the form of Māori words and concepts have been part of health policy in Aotearoa New Zealand. Health policy that engages Māori words and concepts resonates with Māori community values and aspirations and is thought to contribute to the …
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Contradictions and Opportunities: Learning from the Cultural Knowledges of Youth with Histories of Domestic Violence
As a society, we do not openly discuss domestic violence and yet its reality is front and center for children and youth whose lives are deeply shaped by it. At best, the school landscape is bleak for many, if not all, HDV youth (i.e. youth with histories of domestic violence and youth currently …
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TEACHING IS A REVOLUTIONARY ACT: THE LEGITIMATE KNOWLEDGES OF BLACK WOMEN TEACHERS ENACTING ACTIVIST LITERACIES
<p>Abstract</p> <p>This dissertation explores the experiences and knowledge of six classroom teachers who engaged in teaching practices that sought to transform the educational experiences of students in urban public schools. The study examined the educators’ life histories and experiences in …
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Employment and Education Pathways: Exploring Traditional Knowledges Supports for Transitions Out of Homelessness for Indigenous Peoples
… five metathemes: Housing Shelter; Indigenous Knowledges Community Connections; Education Employment Pathways; Social Services Programming, and Indigenous Existence in Society. Limitations, future directions, and implications for policy are included in this work.
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Bodied knowledges (where our blood is born): maternal narratives and articulations of black women's diaspora identity
My dissertation titled Bodied Knowledges (Where Our Blood Is Born): Maternal Narratives and Articulations of Black Women's Diaspora Identity is an intervention in black diasporic criticism and black feminism. It highlights black women's diaspora literature, maternal narratives, and interrogations …
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How to do the right thing: Carceral infrastructures, criminal knowledges, and the moral debt of mestizaje
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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'If it's not black gold, then it's bone gold' : contested knowledges of the Prestwich Street dead
… is to map out the nature of these contested knowledges of the Prestwich Street dead, and to describe and analyse the struggles of dominance and resistance these different ways of knowing gave rise to. My argument throughout is that out of the clashing of these knowledges emerged a frontier - …
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In the realm of the Kob Kings : rethinking knowledges and dialogue in a small-scale fishery
… this dissertation examines and rethinks knowledges in a bid to open dialogue between experts (academic researchers, fisheries managers and fishers). The field research for this work was conducted in two intensive ethnographic fieldwork trips of four months and three months respectively …
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Art as a Source of Learning for Sustainable Development: Making meaning, multiple knowledges and navigating open-endedness
This research is a practice-based inquiry into the contribution of art to processes in which communities explore, design and proceed on sustainable ways forward. In rejecting an overly technocratic approach, this thesis follows a learning-based conception of sustainable development. Rather than …
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Anti-Racist Video Activism: Framing and production of new knowledges that challenge the post-truth hegemonic project
… and anti-racism; producing different new knowledges surrounding organisational knowledges of the movement (including collective identity), social injustice in general, dominant hegemonic narratives, and, most importantly, the struggles of migrants and refugees. In doing so, it makes …
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