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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"liminal spaces"”.
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Creating Liminal Spaces
… search for expression within the painting of the liminal space between the real and the imaginary. This document contains a description of the flexibility of the work to be displayed in various and transient formats. It also discusses how I encourage viewer participation on several levels and can …
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Nursing on the edge: nursing identity in liminal spaces
… education from the NHS. Drawing on theories of liminality and Michael Lipsky’s Street Level Bureaucracy, the statement proposes innovative approaches to raising the profile of nursing, beyond a liminal position. The public works are produced from liminal spaces in clinical practice to the …
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Between binaries, borders and boundaries: counselling psychology in liminal spaces
… avoiding their associated stigmas. This liminal position of ‘nervous breakdown’ and its consequences are discussed.
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An Autoethnography on the Liminal Spaces in an Intensive Care Unit
Liminality is an in-between space that, as for the teenager who is neither fully child nor adult, accompanies new norms, routines, and expectations while simultaneously remaining in flux. This thesis explores the history of liminality, its presence in the literature, and then applies Victor …
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Ghostly Faces and Liminal Spaces: Landscape, Gender, and Identity in the Plays of Marina Carr
… dissertation, I argue that Marina Carr creates liminal spaces in her plays, exploring the tensions inherent in the issues of landscape, gender, and identity. She uses these liminal spaces to expose her audiences to more complex conceptions of Ireland in the twenty-first century. For example, …
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An explorative study of Congolese "bouncers" in Cape Town: constructing masculine identities in liminal spaces
… construct their own masculine identities in liminal spaces. This exploration entailed examining the complexities and connections between immigrants, immigrant bouncers and masculine identities; within those areas, encompassing a multitude of periphery factors. The literature reviewed for this …
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Everyday Tragedies: People with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in the Liminal Spaces of a Level I Trauma Centre
… on their selfhood, on their families, and on the spaces where they can exist in the world. Individuals with sTBI in Ontario are often transported to Level I Trauma Centres, as textually mediated by the provincial Life or Limb Policy, to ensure access to expert lifesaving medical care. After …
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Betwixt and Between: Liminal Spaces and the Disabled Body in Burke’s Sublime and Beautiful, Burney’s Camilla, and Dacre’s Zofloya
“Liminal Spaces and The Disabled Body” explores Edmund Burke’s aesthetic paradigms as established in his An Enquiry into the Origin of Our Notions of the Sublime and the Beautiful to recover what disability meant for an eighteenth-century audience. I examine Burney’s Camilla and Eugenia’s …
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Illuminating liminal spaces : a phenomenological investigation of Hispanic students' first-year experiences at a four-year university with prior dual credits
… dual credit program. These students occupy a liminal space because they are classified as first-time freshmen but hold enough college credit hours to be considered a sophomore or junior. Through this study, I explored how these students experienced living in this liminal space. Nora’s (2006) …
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An Excavation of Margaret and Jerry Morgan: How The Architecture of Black Liminal Spaces Shaped Antebellum Conflict between Maryland and Pennsylvania
… work is a study of the structure of Black liminality and how its architecture drove conflicts between Maryland and Pennsylvania in the 1830s and even shaped the national law of slavery. Specifically, it is a social history of Prigg. It explores, through the Morgan family, how the spatial …
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Sinister Spaces: Liminality and the Southern Ontario Gothic in Margaret Atwood's Fiction
… within this subgenre are entrapped in the liminal spaces created not simply by the meeting of seeming opposites, but at the points where their boundaries are blurred. Atwood’s fiction represents these liminal spaces; however, she provides options for a hopeful ending by providing her …
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Architecture as Host: A New Youth Hostel in Washington, DC
… in the project's structure, as well as its liminal spaces. This new hostel offers comfort, protection, affordable accommodation, learning opportunities, and moments of camaraderie to young guests of the nation's capital.
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"Driving Circles Around the Holler:" Liminality and the Grotesque in Donald Ray Pollock's Knockemstiff
… reading, illuminating the layers of different liminalities present in the cycle. These liminalities include narrative liminality of the form of the short story cycle, the social and economic liminal spaces inhabited by the characters, and the ways that the text comments on the liminal nature of …
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Middle Men: Establishing Non-Anglo Masculinity in Southwestern Literature
… to all. The southwest is a land of borders and liminal spaces between the United States and Mexico, between brown and white, legal and illegal. All of these borders converge here to create the last American frontier. These converging borders also encompass converging traditions, cultures, and …
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A Distillation of Resilience: Female Masculinity in Form
… identity. This research will shed light on the liminal spaces and magical places of identity in which masculine women dwell. The goal of this thesis is to determine and define common threads of resilience found in the lived, embodied experiences of masculine women who participate in the research …
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Folding knotworks: a conceptual, sensual and socio-political encounter
… sustains movement and allows work to unfold in liminal spaces. Knotwork operates at thresholds where matter, sense, and thought meet without closure. Folding names a situated handling of materials and relations: gestures of gathering, releasing, and unspooling. Suspended in air, forms shift, …
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"Dashed hopes, bruised egos": Professional identity in investment banking in the context of the 2008 financial crisis
… by the crisis, the bankers responded by creating liminal spaces in an attempt to re-align the identity narratives. The findings bear theoretical implications. Firstly , I argue that trust is a missing component in the theory of recognition when it deals with social cooperation. Secondly, I argue …
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Thresholds
<p>Thresholds focuses on liminal spaces, moments of change, and those who cross these boundaries. For instance, transitions from the old to the new, unconscious to conscious, the known to the unknown, or where man meets nature. Sometimes, I think of them as a threshold where both sides are trying …
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“Such a sort of pariah”: Psychosocial Marginality and the Bildungsroman in Mazo de la Roche’s Whiteoaks
… the diegetic realm’s social boundaries and liminal spaces through a series of “double lives,” in which the other is ultimately found within the home context and potentially subversive centralities outside of Jalna are sacrificed for the sake of representative marginalities at home.
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Diverse Belongings: An Improvisational Inquiry Into Newcomer Worlds, Worldings, and the Literacies of Belonging
… of belonging, not-belonging, and deeply felt liminal spaces between- belongings. Unworlding stories exposed disturbing examples of the participants’ loss of voice, of silencing in dominant English spaces, even among newcomers with English language proficiency. This inquiry seeks to contest …
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