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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"ordinariness"”.
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Visual framing and social networking: a content analysis of the 2012 Barack Obama and Mitt Romney Facebook pages
… statesman, compassionate, mass appeal, and ordinariness. There were significant differences between candidates in the subcategories. It appeared to be a main campaign strategy to frame Mitt Romney as a statesman. Many Romney photos were filled with symbols of patriotism and campaign …
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Black and White on Black: Whiteness and Masculinity in the Works of Three Australian Writers - Thomas Keneally, Colin Thiele, and Patrick White.
… of these depictions. As invisibility and ordinariness are endemic to white and masculine actions, interrogating these ideological constructions aids in facilitating a better awareness of the racialized stereotypes that exist in Indigenous representations.</p>
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Peripheral Alternatives: Media and Tibetan Nationalism in the Chinese Tibetosphere
… propagandas into the torrent of everyday ordinariness. Conducting the one-year ethnography on Tibetans’ everyday use of Chinese mainstream media (official media) and alternative media (traditional Tibetan communicative platforms, small media and social media) in Tibet Autonomous Region, …
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Heritage discontinued: tracing cultural ecologies within a context of urban transition
… Its potential lies in capturing the layered 'ordinariness' of place and in harnessing the imaginative responses arising from local idioms, practices and traditions as the shared imaginary of tomorrow.
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From lifestyle media to lived practice: an ethnography of class, gender and ordinary gardening
… garden and the increased importance of 'ordinariness' in contemporary culture. Part Two turns to methodological matters and explains why ethnography is the principal research method of the study. Further chapters unearth the ethnographic findings on class, gender and lifestyle media …
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The Palaces of Comfort, Consolation and Distraction - The Pie and Mash shop as a performative space of a contested London working class memory
… came to represent a particular type of ‘ordinariness’, subsequently reconfigured around the gains of a Welfare State and a national economy that continues to be periodically valorised according its usefulness to capital at times of political stress. Utilising sensory ethnography and …
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Human hagiography : the saint figure in modernist British literature.
… compassion in the saint while also establishing ordinariness as necessary for the modernist saint. The process of becoming a saint is an irrational, i.e. supernatural, process, not the product of the will, self-control, or reason. Fate, providence, miracles, and grace are present and challenge …
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The garden as art: a new space for the garden in contemporary aesthetics
… contemporary, improvisatory dance; and that the “ordinariness” of many of gardens materials may be better understood in terms of Arthur Danto’s claim that esse est interpretari, that is, that meaning and value derive from the interpretative process. The new account also proposes personhood as a …
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Living on the Edge of Burnout: Defamiliarizing Neoliberalism Through Cyberpunk Science Fiction
… a biopolitics that theorizes death in terms of ordinariness and suggests that biopolitics is still a useful analytic within neoliberalism. In other words, Foucault's biopolitics can do more than theorize a genealogy of biological racism and genocide. Rather than advocate for moving beyond …
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The Social Codes of Tech Workers: On the Quest to be Middle-Class Wealthy and Morally Worthy
… hybrid professionalism, as well as lifestyles of ordinariness and mindfulness – tech workers transform the figure of a market-oriented self whose normative capacities exhaust themselves in a longing for creative self-actualisation. My analysis unearths that tech workers are on a quest to be …
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"""The Everyday Affective Life of Racism"": Forms of Racial Melancholia in Early Asian American Literature"
… American subjects. In chapter 2, I uncover the ordinariness of racial melancholia as it materializes in silence and its counterpart, understatement. Using Sianne Ngai’s definition of tone, the chapter focuses on how an understated tone develops through the mode of mimesis, where narrators forego …
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Huddled Masses: Death and Citizenship in New York City
… circumstances, how does Hart Island’s very ordinariness trouble people? To answer these questions, I draw on anthropological literature on citizenship, death, memorialization, stigma, and social memory; and on ethnographic data gathered over fifteen months of fieldwork across New York City’s …
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The Extraordinary in the Ordinary.
… a kind of comfort in the ‘normalness’, the ordinariness of their very existence. I began to realise that although these objects are almost invisible to us as they are such a familiar presence in our lives, they nevertheless have a value that we may not immediately recognise and perhaps they …
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Ordinary Salviness and the exceptional everyday
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-14 without embargo terms