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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"life-drawing"”.
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Re: Drawing. Reconfiguring a feminist response to life drawing practice.
… of the female nude within the context of life drawing practices. The research interrogates the problematisation of life-drawing practice for female practitioners, proposing that perceived tensions and conflicts can be resolved through practice-based enquiry. In response to this, practice …
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Colonial shorthand: Swift, the ascendancy, and internal Colonialism
… him directly in England's domination of Irish life. Drawing on post-colonial theory, I argue that colonialism's effects on Swift are seen most clearly in the language he shared with other members of the Ascendancy, a shorthand that allowed him to equate Ascendancy interests with Irish …
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Life and death are wearing me out
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out is an orchestral composition inspired by Mo Yan's novel of the same name, which explores themes of existence, resilience, and socio-political turmoil in China during a specific period. Through the journey of Ximen Nao's multiple reincarnations, the piece delves …
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Lamas and Followers: Doing Tibetan Buddhism in Contemporary Chengdu
… and affect of Tibetan Buddhism in urban life. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in 2023 across domestic, monastic, and communal settings, the thesis analyses three key dynamics: the spatial transformation of Tibetan Buddhist practices from monasteries to urban homes; the reconfiguration of …
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Faith, Fatherhood, and the Ethics of Care: Exploring Father–Daughter Relationships in South Africa
… care, faith, and emotional intimacy in everyday life. Drawing on qualitative research, it explores the moral and affective dimensions of fatherhood within Christian households, focusing on how love, guidance, discipline, and tenderness coexist in relationships shaped by faith and social change. …
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Risk and Socio-technical Systems: A study of the Taiwanese Campus Accident Reporting System
… events as found within people’s daily life drawing on culture theory, risk society and risk management approaches, and attempts to evaluate the relationships between risk, risk management and organisational culture. The research starts from the exposition of risk management ideas, …
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Social, Cultural and Biomedical Construction of Menopause in Punjab, Pakistan
… time, and menopause as a neutral time of life. Drawing on Scott’ (2018) conceptual framework of the sociology of nothing and McGoey’s analytical framework on the sociology of ignorance (McGoey, 2012), this research study demonstrates that cultural and social framing of menopause is …
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The lion in Chinese space and social life
… of the lion motif in Chinese space and social life. Drawing on textual, linguistic and archaeological sources, it addresses the fundamental problem inherent in the study of the lion motif in China, that is, why a foreign import was adopted, transformed and assimilated into an existing culture …
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Bodies on the Line: The Politics of Regulating Pornography in Los Angeles
… and reshaping the domains of erotic life. Drawing from eighteen months of ethnographic research, I explore several interlocking forms of regulation. I begin by examining the formation of pornographic production cultures during what I call the "pre- Freeman" era. During this period …
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The Social Codes of Tech Workers: On the Quest to be Middle-Class Wealthy and Morally Worthy
… algorithms and platforms that permeate social life. Drawing on theoretical concepts from Bourdieu, Foucault, and Lamont, my thesis pursues two interconnected questions: Firstly, what kind of social codes structure the subjectivity of tech workers? And secondly, what forms of boundary-making go …
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The Gun in US American Life: An Ethnographic Christian Ethics
… hold a vexingly unique place in US American life. The United States has by far the highest rate of private firearm ownership and firearm-caused death among high-income nations in the world. Further, guns and conservative evangelical Protestantism stand in an intimate cultural relationship to …
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Old Age in Venice and the Terraferma, c.1550-1700
… age, vecchiezza – in structuring the political life of the city is familiar, historians have overlooked how old age was defined and what it meant outside of elite circles, and more crucially how age affected everyday social and economic interactions among the working and artisan popolani who …
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Towards a Peripatetic Practice: negotiating journey through painting
… fusion of styles and techniques of painting and drawing, notably Persian miniature and life portraiture as a means of accounting for and sharing the abiding experiences and encounters yielded through travel.
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Towards a Peripatetic Practice: negotiating journey through painting
… fusion of styles and techniques of painting and drawing, notably Persian miniature and life portraiture as a means of accounting for and sharing the abiding experiences and encounters yielded through travel.