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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"performativity theory"”.
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Bodily Autonomy and Stress Management in Transgender and Gender Diverse (TGD) Populations Through Body Modification in Alabama
… in Alabama and analyzed this data using the theory of gender performativity (Butler 1990; 2004). I investigated how participants perceived their autonomy, as well as the stressors that they may encounter as a TGD individual. Results show transphobia, negative perceptions, attitudes, or …
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Performing class in British popular music
… this dissertation utilises performativity theory to understand how popular music is capable of forming a discourse that provides performed subjectivities that articulate class identities. These identities are not simple manifestations of class-based experience, but are …
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Merchant Marine Deck Officer Agency Through Performative Acts
… with deck officers, studies in actor-network theory, explicit and tacit knowledge theory, and performativity theory in this work. I prove that bridge technologies produce what are called mimeomorphic (repeatable with some variation) actions that contain no deck officer collective tacit …
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Silence as politics : witness and resistance in contemplation.
… self in openness to and for the other. I bring performativity theory in conversation with mystical and contemplative theology, drawing from the work of J.L. Austin, Haig Khatchadourian, and Judith Butler to that of Sarah Coakley, Dorothee Sölle, Meister Eckhart, and Howard Thurman. Contemplative …
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The early years of black radio broadcasting in South Africa : a critical reflection on the making of Ukhozi FM
… Using discourse analysis and Judith Butler's performativity theory (1988; 1990; 1999), I trace the discursive interactions of these stakeholders-an area where 'African tradition' meets 'colonial modernity' (Mudirnbe 1988). I then proceed to show how their performative acts reveal multi-layered …
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Augmenting the agency of marginalised members of society within the semiotic authority of narrative form.
… semiotic analysis is applied, as are Butler's performativity theory and Bakhtin’s theory of Carnival in order to examine the semiotic authority of the dominant culture. The findings suggest that art practices such as those presented provide an environment for reflection upon the mundane …
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The Ladies of Long: how a group of non-gender normative youth construct their identity and perform gender
… the relationship and validity between abstract theory and reality, as it is revealed through an analysis of the articulations and observations of these unique individuals. Furthermore, as this offers more than a nuanced understanding of gender and identity in these people's lives, but an …
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Performativity and gameplay: gender, race, and desire amongst a team of League of Legends players
… of Legends is one such game. With Butler's Performativity Theory as a theoretical starting point, a qualitative sociolinguistic study was undertaken into the gendered dynamics of a male-dominated clan of League of Legends players. The data, collected primarily via audio-recordings of player …
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Beyond the "Baartman Trope": representations of black women's bodies from early South African proto-nationalisms to postapartheid nationalisms
… trope” possible. To this end, I draw on performativity theory and the representational category of intimacy as ethical scholarly approaches to the politics of representation. I interrogate a wide range of literary texts, as well as a number of different scenes of representation that …
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Spaces of male prostitution: tactics, performativity and gay identities in streets, Go-Go bars and magazines in contemporary Bangkok, Thailand
… This thesis draws upon Judith Butler’s performativity theory as a discursive mode of constituting subjects and Michel de Certeau’s theoretical discussion, specifically spatial practices of ‘strategies’ and ‘tactics’, as a means of differentiating between ‘place’ and ‘space’. …
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Choices of non-normativity: On coming out as LGBTQA+ within higher education settings
… identities, coming out, and non-normativity (theory development - research question two), and (3) provide policy and practice suggestions that empower LGBTQA+ individuals in the navigation of their intersecting identities within professional and non-professional university settings (research …
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Political and social indoctrination in Calderon's La Vida Es Sueno and Kleist's Prinz Friedrich von Homburg
… begins with an introduction to Judith Butler’s theory of performativity, the foundation of the thesis. The first chapter differentiates between Calderon and Kleist, in terms of their historical periods and the characteristic spirit behind each work. The second chapter explores the role that …