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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"marginal groups"”.
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Aesthetics and authority: Fin-de-siecle intellectuals and London music-halls
… between literary investigators and the socially marginal groups represented on the music-hall stage, and examine how gender impacted the attempts of social actors to lay claim to London's public spaces."
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RAP AND RESISTANCE: VISIONS OF SELF AND SOCIETY IN AMERICAN, AFRICAN, AND FRENCH HIP HOP MUSIC
… and societal violence and control of minority groups. This study examines the themes of the body, economy, and social grouping through analyses of rap music and lyrics. The first chapter focuses on state control and violence, particularly in Black populations in the United States. The second …
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A comparative study of how to avoid stigma in uncompetitive political systems: HIVself-testing in China and South Africa
… without a cure, HIV/AIDS is often related to marginal groups, which are easily stigmatized by mainstream society. In China, men who have sex with men (MSM) is a high HIV/AIDS-infected group, which is often excluded by mainstream society because homosexual marriage is illegal. To weaken …
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Prior Commitments: Multiply Affiliated Women Writers and Modernism's Shifting Boundaries
… high-profile group, women and members of other ""marginal"" groups often had multiple commitments to modernist and nonmodernist circles, both by choice and of necessity. This dissertation considers how modernist impulses combine with an array of other commitments and strategies in the work of …
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The creative dance of love and consciousness: an integral, phenomenological inquiry into the experiences of belonging and not-belonging
… to a sense of alienation and the behaviour of marginalisation, as well as those inherent to the movements of integration, healing and growth. Multiple methodologies combine to integrate evidence which reflects the four quadrants of the AQAL model. Included here is a Case Study of the social …
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The link between social representations of HIV/AIDS and sexual behaviour amongst young people in Ghana and the U.K.
… of HIV/AIDS; blaming attitudes towards specific marginal groups within society; and stigmatizing attitudes towards those with the disease. The results of these studies provided some evidence in support of the hypothesis in relation to stigma (but not the other blaming variables). In both studies, …
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Politics and the problem of speaking for others in the work of Naomi Mitchison
… the potential difficulties in representing those marginal voices.;Examining texts from the 1910s through to the 1970s, this thesis traces Mitchison's political development to show how her socialist outlook emerged, shifted and directly responded to socio-historical contexts throughout the …
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Cuerpo, mujer y nación: el Bildungsroman posrevolucionario mexicano
… tool to observe the circumstances around marginal groups, as well as excluded and ignored communities by the official discourse during the reconstructive post-revolutionary era. Chapter 1 analyzes Cartucho (1931) by Nellie Campobello through the configuration of the body as an image. The …
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The effects of zinc intake and exercise on iron status of pregnant Sprague-Dawley rats
The effects of marginal zinc intake and exercise on the iron status of Sprague-Dawley rats during pregnancy were observed. The dams were assigned to one of four groups: zinc marginal (6.18 ppm zinc sulfate), exercise or sedentary; zinc adequate (37.63 ppm), exercise or sedentary. The dams swam …
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Civic Tinkering in a Small City: Imaginaries and Intersections of Art, Place and Marginality
… cultural imaginary, as well as the engagement of marginal groups and their concerns in those processes. This research examined these issues through the experiences of key actors involved with the creation of Roanoke's first city-wide arts and cultural plan and the creation and growth of the …
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Minority Parents' Narratives of Living with Their Child with an Autism Spectrum Disorder
… the impact of ASD on family dynamics in marginal groups. This study attempts to add to the sparse literature and to increase understanding of the specific experiences of minority parents of children with ASD. Family systems theory, family systems-illness model, and social constructivism …
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Race, Identity, and Belonging in Early Zimbabwean Nationalism(s), 1957-1965
… narrative provided by the experiences of marginal non-black supporters (including white, Asian, coloured, and Indian individuals), it argues that anti-colonial nationalist organisations during the pre-Liberation War period were heavily influenced by the competing racial theories and …
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Framing online communications of civil and uncivil groups in post-conflict Northern Ireland
… explores the ways in which civil and uncivil groups in Northern Ireland use the Internet to generate soft power. This research assesses whether the Internet creates a critical multiplier effect for marginal groups, such as terrorists and interface communities. A coding scheme, adapted from …
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In Harm's Way: How Philadelphia's Urban Renewal Practices Steered Marginal People to Marginal Land
… dumping of locally unwanted land uses (LULUs) on marginal communities has been well documented, however environmental justice scholars have rarely written about how marginal groups have come to occupy their landscapes, particularly when natural hazards lie beneath.</p> <p>This dissertation …
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Youth Activists in Kashmir: State Violence, Tehreek, and the Formation of Political Subjectivity
… of anthropological scholarship that analyzes how marginal groups come to contest relations of power and articulate alternative political projects that traverse local moral systems as well as the global languages of justice. Taking these projects as “politics on the periphery,” I trace how …
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The political economy of inequality : poverty, drought and aid programmes in Botswana, c. 1982 - 1988
… now threaten the very subsistence baseof many marginal groups.An assessment of the government's commitment to tacklingthe problems of rural poverty can, be derived from a studyof its own welfare programmes. The third section of thethesis is concerned with the nature and effectiveness ofthe food …
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Material factors affecting the publication of black British fiction
… in Britain in the promotion of fiction by marginal groups, and it is argued that the market success of African American women's writing was an important influence on decisions by feminist publishers to publish black British women writers in the UK. This is followed by a detailed …