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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"performance theory"”.
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Math Performance as a Function of Math Anxiety and Arousal Performance Theory
… was no relationship between math anxiety and performance on a non-math task, but an inverse relationship between math anxiety and performance on the math portion of a working memory intensive math task. Math Anxiety was directly related to perfectionism and fear of negative evaluation. There …
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The effects of integration and organization on investment decisions and performance : theory and evidence from the pharmaceutical industry
… subsequently the effect of such decisions on the performance of the firm. This thesis uses the biopharmaceutical industry in order to investigate these issues due to the heterogeneity of organizations and of the levels of integration that can be observed in this industry. The first chapter is …
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Playing at being other: the self-less process of artistic co-creation
… to co-create placespecific installation and performance projects. Using an in-depth study of the international arts collective Libertalia, the research examines artistic co-creation as a shared, relational process rather than an individual act of authorship. Drawing on reflective practice, …
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Vegetal Being: Dreamwork, Ritual, and Performance in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian
… it is impossible to separate body from theory from text from ecological context. To engage with this form of ecofeminism, I center an autotheoretical methodology with voices from ritual theory and performance theory in order to examine how Yeong-hye, the titular vegetarian of Han Kang’s …
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"Forms and ceremonies to be gone through" : performance and self-knowledge in Elizabeth Gaskell's "Cranford", "North and South", and "Wives and Daughters".
This thesis looks at blatant and subversive performances in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters. Referencing studies of nineteenth-century performance theory, I will argue that Gaskell, aware of her contemporaries' obsession with theatricality, created works that …
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Gender identities at play : children's digital gaming in two settings in Cape Town.
… Studies, Game Studies, domestication and performance theory. The concept ludic gendering is developed in order to explain how gender "works" in games, as designed semiotic and ludic artefacts. Ludic gendering also helps to explain the appropriation of games through gameplay, and the …
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Historicizing performativity: Constructing identities in Victorian England
This dissertation draws upon performance theory and new historicism to read Victorian literature and culture. By fusing the gender consciousness and social constructionist agenda of the former with the rigorous dedication to historical specificity of the latter, I am able both to ground potentially …
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Religion, politics and Symbolic Performance: An Analysis Of The Work Of Archbishop Desmond Tutu From July 1989 To February 1990
This document follows the performances of Desmond Tutu, the Archbishop of Cape Town, from the international release of theological statement until the release of South African political prisoner, Nelson Mandela. The leadership of the Archbishop is analysed using the broad methodological framework …
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Skateboard Jesus
… and engages with themes of identity and performance as objects of its larger concern, often filtered through the lens of music. In addition, my work often focuses on religion, mental health, and gender and sexuality. This collection, by the very nature of its concerns, engages in …
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We Call It Pulling a Thread: Deconstructing Femininity at the Molly Brown House Museum
… Using new museology, feminist anthropology, and performance theory, I analyze data from staff interviews and tour participant observation to explore how the museum deconstructs popular understandings of historical femininity. Through visitor surveys, I measure the extent to which the museum is …
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Transgender YouTubers and the Power of Coming Out: Existentialism, Gender Performance, and Self-Actualization
… through the lens of existentialist and gender performance theory. Employing a qualitative content analysis of gender disclosure videos to explore this problem, this study shows how transgender YouTubers seek personal authenticity and self-disclosure, especially with the help of and in relation …
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Grímr-Visaged War: Viking Age Battle, With an Eye to Performance
The tools of performance theory are applied to Old Norse material by casting battle in the late Scandinavian Iron Age and medieval period in terms of a performance process. The community analyzed is the hall-based warrior elite that developed throughout the Viking Age. By approaching the material …
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The Caribana Parade: Storming and Issues of Power and Control
… this analysis. Through the lens of Carnival and Performance Theory, it interrogates issues of spatialization, power relations, cultural commodification, and other factors that make the parade a site of contestation in a post-1991 era.
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The Price Tag of a 5-Star Culture: Cultural Performance and the Politics of Luxury in Oʻahu’s Hotel Industry
… sites of leisure but also as stages of cultural performance where issues of labour, sovereignty, and representation are continuously negotiated. Grounded in Indigenous studies, performance theory, and critical tourism studies, the thesis argues that the politics of luxury in Hawaiʻi are …
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Revealing place through performance : a seismic research center in Kaiti, New Zealand
… of spatial form by a critical understanding of performance and performance theory. Performance is defined as a physical action which manifests a fundamental transformation of conscious understanding of an existing situation or condition. Substantively, performance can generate a substitution of …
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"Performing Marriage in Early Modern England: Wooing and Wedding in ""The Shoemaker's Holiday"", ""The Taming of the Shrew"", ""The Spanish Tragedy"", and ""Titus Andronicus"
… One I draw on and rethink social history and performance theory to investigate drama's unique and self-conscious role in reshaping marital ideologies. Chapter Two argues that The Shoemaker's Holiday's clandestine wedding allows Rose to work against her father's demands, against class endogamy, …
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PERFORMANCE FOR ETHNOGRAPHY, DIALOGUE, AND INTERVENTION : USING ACTIVATING THEATRE TO EXPLORE THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ISSUES FACING KENYAN ADOLESCENT GIRLS
This thesis explores the utility of using performance, specifically activating theatre, both as a reproductive health intervention and as an ethnographic tool for exploring the reproductive health worldview of 17 adolescent girls, all peer counselors at a state-run all-girl boarding school in Rift …
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The Tradition of Microtonal Guitar on the American West Coast
… Coast is connected to the microtonal guitar in performance, theory, and construction.</p>
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The practice of memory: Decolonial resistance in indigenous Chile and the Chilean diaspora
Through analysis of poetry, performance, and theatre – three sites in which body and text are entwined – “The Practice of Memory: Decolonial Resistance in Indigenous Chile and the Chilean Diaspora” argues that memory is a crucial site for decolonial resistance. It analyzes memorial practices in …
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Artistry in Air: The Story of the Younkins
… died, after the Franklin plane crashed during a performance in 2011. Because the Younkin’s story is at the intersection of at least three theoretical research fields, it serves as a unique model providing important research information. This 52-minute film will detail the Younkins’ story and …
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