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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"memory work"”.
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These Are Stories About Our Bodies: Collective Memory Work and the Pedagogical Imaginaries of Our Teacher Bodies
Much of the current work on bodies in schools and classrooms is, appropriately, focused on a critical examination of the docile bodies (Foucault, 1995) of students and the violence inflicted on them. But teachers’ bodies are also subjected to surveillance, management, and control by larger systems …
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Finding the spaces between forms: An inquiry into memory work through the intermedial interplay between media and presence
… frictions between embodied and recorded forms of memory. What emerged was an inquiry into the interplay between media and presence in memory work, which is the “conscious and purposeful staging of memory” as proposed by Kuhn Annette (2000: 186). Through a self-reflexive and responsive …
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Digital Archives as Relationship-Building: Reflections on Worldmaking in Community-Based Latin American and Caribbean Diasporic Memory Work in Southern California
… between academics and communities, this work has yet to effectively disrupt the status quo. Using a transdisciplinary approach I reflect on my first-hand experiences working in partnership with U.S. Latin American and Caribbean diasporic groups on personal digital memory projects as an …
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An evaluation of a psychosocial intervention for orphans on HIV treatment: A phase II RCT of memory work therapy at PASADA, Tanzania
… mixed methods study aimed to determine whether Memory Work (MWT) Therapy 1 week group intervention improves outcomes for this complex population, in terms of their self-esteem, coping and psychological wellbeing compared to standard care, and to establish mechanisms of action. Method/Issue: An …
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Growing up or growing down: Pakeha women's memories of adolescence
… to school together in the 1960’s. The study used memory-work, an approach which engages a group of co-researchers in writing and analysing memories of their earlier lives. Feminist relational psychologists, such as Brown and Gilligan and Jean Baker Miller, have powerfully examined the lives of …
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Ties out of bloodshed: Collective memory, cultural trauma, and the prosecution and execution of Timothy McVeigh
… This dissertation explores how collective memory of the bombing among family members and survivors was constructed through their participation in groups tormed after the bombing and in the legal proceedings against perpetrators Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. These acts cultivated the …
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Traumatic and Healing Memory in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
… with a focus on individual as well as collective memory work in historically marginalized indigenous and African-American communities, respectively. This represents a critical study of how the novels invoke progressive and redemptive models of remembering, as well as foreground the role of …
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Installation Art and Memory: A Practice-As-Research Exploration
… 2009), can be used to generate knowledge about memory work through experience of site. Working in dialogue with the ideas of Daniel C. Dennett, Lucy Lippard and Gaston Bachelard, I attempted to create a permeable and fluctuating creative setting for the memory work of participants. An approach …
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We have always been here : world-traveling and digital praxis in cuir and trans Latine community-based archives
… archives as models for the liberatory power of memory work, but much of the current scholarship has focused solely on U.S.-based community archives. While this scholarship has provided useful frameworks to understand the potential of community archives beyond the recovery of history by looking …
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Trust and gender in patient-practitioner relationships
… providers. Using the qualitative methodology of Memory Work, this research draws largely on social constructionism to understand gendered 'lived' experiences of trust within the patient-practitioner relationship. The central question of this research, then, was: How do male and female patients …
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Come to Your Senses, Remember Belongings: A Pedagogy of Making, Memory and the Haptics of Home
The relationships of memory to place, and of place to body, assert haptic memory and sensory knowing in this art practice research. Beginning with evocative objects a wardrobe, a pair of shoes, a dress this dissertation traces a circuitous material journey to a sensual biography of place. It …
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Media Memories: The Newseum Story of News
This document explains the origins and work of the Newseum, with an appeal to the idea that the mythology of the civic compact that undergirds press power and privilege requires ongoing maintenance. Through an analysis of the Newseum's origins, aspirations, methods, and location within a broader …
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An exploration into the reasons why Māori men (Tāne) are secluded in acute mental health services in New Zealand more frequently than men of other ethnicities
… experiences of being a mental health nurse working in acute mental health services. It utilised the method known as memory-work to generate narratives from the perspective of a mental health nurse caring for Tāne, These narratives were analysed as a way to explore the key issues surrounding …
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When the "Unprotected" Body Speaks: The Narratives of Nineteenth-Century Black Females in the Caribbean and the United States
… Seacole and Wilson incorporate sentimentality, memory, work ethics and even intimacy as literary tropes in their narratives that distinguish them as individuals, in spite of nineteenth century socialized and racialized limitations. In other words, by writing and publishing her story, each of …
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Between memory and history: Shimon Attie's art of remembrance
… using photography to evoke both absence and memory. As a work enacted in public space, Attie sought to reinhabit both the neighborhood and the minds of those who see his work with the memory of Berlin’s forgotten Jewish community, creating an active, experiential form of memory work. Through …
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Memory, Cinema and Deathscapes: Re-membering the Holocaust in Poland
Holocaust memory is at a critical juncture. The intersection of anxieties about survivors and firsthand witnesses growing fewer and frailer, the ever-growing importance and ongoing boom in popular media representations of the Holocaust across the last four decades, and the contemporary threat of …
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The Klondike Memory Project: Klondike Memory Project: Race, Counter-Memory, and Planning Processes
… expands on existing community-driven archiving work started by the Klondike-Smokey City Community Development Corporation (KSCCDC) in 2016 to share untold and lesser-known collective histories from Klondike and Smokey City neighborhoods in Memphis, Tennessee. Using a photo essay and forth-coming …
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‘Imagining' the Rohingya: Navigating Identity, Memory, and Visibility Examining different methods of documenting Rohingya identities, experiences, and lives.
… initiatives aimed at mobilising memory work, that are intended to act as a tool for the Rohingya as a means to navigate their identity and memory politics, agency and advocacy. The need for recognition, dignity, and forms of healing through trauma has been instrumental in …
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Colonial architecture as heritage: German colonial architecture in post-colonial Windhoek
… Namibia; and this informs a wider discourse on memory. Memory is found to play a crucial role in evoking a sense of both individual and shared ownership, through its capacity to create meaning, which can in turn ascribe value to a place. Memory is also dependent on visual cues for its continued …
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Mother as curator: performance, family and ethics
… 31 Days Old (2016), and a series of smaller works Bed Bound (2014) and Children’s Practice (2014-17), plus digital documentation. The main argument focuses on the role of the mother-artist who initiates an art making practice with her family and considers the personal, professional and …
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