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Showing 1 to 20 of 171 for “"longing"”.
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Longing for Beloning
… heightening social connectedness and sense of belonging in women. Life satisfaction, happiness, physical well-being and mental health become missing elements resulting in conditions where empathy and compassion are absent. Random acts of kindness are of benefit in providing a social environment …
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Heroin Addiction and Longing to Belong
This study explores the lived experience of being parented in childhood and adolescence in individuals with a long history of heroin/crack cocaine dependence. This investigation uses attachment theory (Ainsworth & Bowlby, 1991; Bowlby, 1969, 1973, 1980) as a central pillar of the explanatory …
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LONGING TO BELONG: IDENTITY AND ORGANIZATION THEORY
… as motivated by identity self interest - or the "longing to belong" - as by instrumental self interest. The first paper (chapter 2) spells out this insight and its implications for the governance of knowledge intensive organizations; the second paper (chapter 3) offers an empirical test of the …
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Limitations and Longing: Sacrifice in Global Anglophone Literature
… fleetingly or improbably--a sense of longing for something beyond the text's reaches. At this point, when the narrative reaches the edge of its circumscribed space yet casts out for something beyond, sacrifice becomes an important motif by patterning both limitation and longing. The …
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The photographic other: Paradox in the cathexis of longing
A photographic and written examination of paradox in relation to the photograph This research aims to illuminate the relationship between paradox and photography, elaborated via Julia Kristeva’s notion of the abject. Paradox is considered in relation to photography in terms of repeated and …
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Memoria : an exploration of longing, desire and transcience in the everyday
This is a very personal body of work from a specifically feminine perspective. I have felt enormous pressure for most of my life to try to maintain what I believe to be an acceptable appearance. I have struggled with my weight and with acne for many years. As a result, I have constantly feared …
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Internet and diasporic communication: Dispersed Nigerians and the mediation of distance, longing and belonging
… a triangular framework of possibilities (i.) for longing and belonging, (ii.) for connecting migrants with Nigeria and (iii.) for shaping diasporic connections among the migrants in transnational and national contexts. The project employs qualitative and quantitative research methods, which …
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The fragmented self the longing (novel) and intergenerational relations in a Chinese Indonesian family (exegesis)
… of two parts, a generational novel, “The longing”, and an accompanying essay, “Intergenerational Relations”. The novel is set in Indonesia over several decades from the 1950s to the Reformasi era in the 2010s, covering the 1965 Communist Purge, Suharto’s New Order (1966-1988) and the May …
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Nostalgia, Home and Be-longing in Contemporary Postapartheid Fiction by Zakes Mda and Ivan Vladislavić
Nostalgia, Home and Be-Longing in Contemporary South African Fiction: Zakes Mda and Ivan Vladislavić Abstract The dissertation examines the representation of nostalgic longing and the question of home and belonging in selected South African novels by the contemporary writers Zakes Mda and Ivan …
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An imperative of longing: apprehending God in the "Kephalaia gnōstika r" of Diadochos of Photike
The Kephalaia gnōstika rhas been very influential in the history of Orthodox monasticism, not least because it is the earliest detailed articulation of the practise of using the monologic prayer 'Lord Jesus' to achieve interior stillness and so be able to contemplate God without distraction. It is …
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Navigating Landscapes of Longing and Belonging: Dialogues of Capoeira and Welsh Folk Dance in Intercultural Performance
… identity, place, space and temporality, and belonging that arise from both practices of capoeira and dawnsio gwerin within the context of intercultural performance making. Key themes of saudade and hiraeth offer lenses through which presence and absence, and bringing the past into the present, …
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THE LACK OF A FUTURE:UTOPIAN ABSENCE AND LONGING IN TWENTIETH- AND TWENTY-FIRST- CENTURY AMERICAN FICTION
It is well-established that, in the United States in the twentieth century, it is difficult to conceive of utopia, due to a feeling that society is oppressive in a way that precludes any such thing. However, the question of the specific mechanics of utopia or lack thereof in this milieu has been …
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Longing for the Good: The Growth of Moral Order in the Ethics of F. H. Bradley
Bradley's critique of abstract, atomic individualism in social and political theory addresses persistent shortcomings of liberalism. At the same time, his account of the growth of moral order in the individual offers a counterweight to excessively organicist theories of the moral self, which …
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Love in Separation: An exploration of longing in devotion (Viraha-Bhakti) in the Hindu and Christian faiths.
… possessing distinctive characteristics, the longing for God in his divine absence that is encountered in Hinduism and Christianity corresponds closely with each other and forms an important devotional practice within both traditions. Focussing on a relatively unexplored subject in academic …
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"Longing in vain to climb into the ducal bed": gossip and rumor in Orderic Vitalis' Ecclesiastical History
For twelfth century Christians talk was an important tool and potential snare. The monastic chronicler Orderic Vitalis viewed talk as a potentially powerful tool and the EH reflected his belief that a sensible person, particularly a person whose duties required the maintenance of a good reputation, …
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Longing and belonging : an ethnographic study of migration, cultural capital and social change among Ho Chi Minh City's re-emerging middle classes
Almost 20 years ago, Vietnam introduced doi mai ('renovation') reforms that opened the economy and the society to new possibilities. Among the new possibilities were increasing opportunities for young, unmarried women in the urban labour market, opportunities which drove a 'third wave' of mass …
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Be All You Can Be or Longing to Be: Racialized soldiers, the Canadian military experience and the Im/Possibility of belonging to the nation
… of citizenship, immigration, national belonging and identity. In this dissertation I ask the following questions: Who is the racialized soldier subject? How do racialized soldiers negotiate national belonging? What are their experiences in the Canadian military? This research study …
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The Pastoralism in Shakespeare's Plays
… in part even in this world. This instinctive longing is perhaps the basis for that vast body of literature termed "pastoral." |Many elements, it is true, enter into pastoralism. The idea of a "golden age" is, however, consistently present in the pastoral, even if found in other forms. …
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So, We Go
… short stories, which focus on themes of loss and longing, finding and acceptance.
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