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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"politics of belonging"”.
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THE POLITICS OF BELONGING AND YOUTH WORK IN MILAN
The thesis examines the role of youth work—understood as a form of non-formal socio-educational practice—in the everyday lives of young people with a migration background in the city of Milan. It investigates the role of this actor in the construction, suspension, or renegotiation of the criteria …
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The politics of belonging in Australia : multiculturalism, citizenship and Islamophobia
In the decade since the events of 9/11, Muslims and Islam came to act as symbols for the putative correlation between immigration and the erosion of social cohesion in a number of Western countries, including Australia. Increasingly, immigrant integration was believed to be key to the maintenance …
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The politics of belonging in Australia : multiculturalism, citizenship and Islamophobia
In the decade since the events of 9/11, Muslims and Islam came to act as symbols for the putative correlation between immigration and the erosion of social cohesion in a number of Western countries, including Australia. Increasingly, immigrant integration was believed to be key to the maintenance …
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The press, national elections, and the politics of belonging in Nigeria
… more or less operates under an intricate web of antagonistic ethnic colonies engaged in all-against-all, low-burning feuds everywhere across the land, nurturing puzzling existential questions. This study seeks to validate the notion that the press may have played a significant role in the …
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Fashion, performance and the politics of belonging among Muslim women in Cape Town
… women are appropriating hijab fashion as a means of redefining themselves as Muslim South Africans instead of ?Cape Malays?, the ethnic label given to Muslims in the Western Cape during the apartheid era. I argue that through self stylisation Cape Malay women are performatively rejecting the …
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Politics of belonging and alienation: underprivileged communities' experiences of the False Bay Nature Reserve
This thesis examines the experiences of underprivileged local communities surrounding the False Bay Nature Reserve in Cape Town, focusing on their sense of belonging or alienation. Conservation efforts often inhibit local communities' sense of belonging to nature, as they are seen as detrimental to …
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The Tibetan diaspora and the politics of belonging in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, USA)
… identity in different ways. A good proportion of them emphasise the need for the renewal of Tibetan culture in danger of being lost and political engagement as a means of cultural resurgence. The new emerging identities of the Tibetans who have migrated to the United States and among the youth …
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Rifling through 'nature' an ethnographic account of biltong hunting, late capitalist 'nature' and a politics of belonging in the South African wildlife ranching industry
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Globalization of a U.S. community college and the politics of belonging in the time of upheaval: Remaking of race and class of Korean international community college students
… which racial identities and class positions of lower middle- and working-class Korean international students are reshaped as they are made into transnational, adrift, cheap laborers. This study specifically examines the complicated interrelationships among (1) the emerging identity politics …
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Jewish converts, their communities and experiences of social inclusion and exclusion in post-apartheid South Africa
… to Orthodox Judaism is also a social process of becoming ethnically "Jewish". In this study, two types of converts are considered, namely con-verts who come to Judaism through marriage and converts for religious purposes. Through in-depth-interviews with rabbis and converts, experiences of …
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"Why work here? this place is so ghetto": Portraits of teaching with and for racial justice in an urban school"
Popular representations of urban public schools are replete with failure. In turn, for Black, Indigenous, and persons of color (BIPOC) to escape the racially isolated and poverty-stricken neighborhoods and schools, they must be exceptional (Love, 2019). Advancing this narrative most effectively is …
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Negotiating Belonging in a Divided City: Palestinian Experiences in Nicosia, Cyprus
… who claim a Palestinian identity do so outside of Palestine. Therefore, the challenges and opportunities of Palestinians' local contexts condition their processes of identity and belonging. I examine Palestinians' experiences in everyday life in Nicosia, Cyprus by examining how networks of …
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(Re)storing and (Re)storying Men with Broken Wrists: Using Intsomi as Critical Fabulation to Refute the Notion of Queerness as un-African
… to challenge the contemporary perception of homosexuality as “un-African”. This misconception is often grounded in the perceived absence of queer people of colour from the “archive” of black African (hi)stories that shape our collective understandings of who is and who is not properly …
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(Re)storing and (Re)storying men with broken wrists: using intsomi as critical fabulation to refute the notion of queerness as un-African
… to challenge the contemporary perception of homosexuality as “un-African”. This misconception is often grounded in the perceived absence of queer people of colour from the “archive” of black African (hi)stories that shape our collective understandings of who is and who is not properly …
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The therapeutic relationship as a mental health intervention for gang-associated young people: understanding how it is conceptualised by them and the community mentors working with them: a critical discourse analysis
… accessibility barriers at multiple levels, many of these young people miss opportunities for effective, evidence-based therapeutic intervention. Community-based mentoring, accessible and appropriate to the needs of this population, is considered preferable by young people, and seemingly mirrors …
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Embedded Cities, Excluded Citizens: Governance, Housing, and Rroma Marginality in Post-Socialist Romania
… social housing policy and the lived experience of Rroma in Romania. Focusing on Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca, it asks: To what extent have European Union housing initiatives improved Rroma access to adequate and affordable housing, and where have they fallen short in practice? The study traces the …
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Space, Memory and the Politics of Reconstruction: Conflict-related Property Disputes in Mogadishu, Somalia
This thesis explores the politics of conflict-related property disputes in Mogadishu, Somalia. Conflict-related property disputes are interpersonal disputes over private land and homes that are traceable to the violence that engulfed the city in 1991, and the mass displacements that occurred …
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Language and the negotiation of identity and belonging in Harub, Saudi Arabia
… ethnographic study investigating the negotiation of identity and belonging in Harūb, Saudi Arabia. This thesis addresses the question: how do people in Harūb use language to position themselves in relation to dominant power structures? This question is answered from three different angles using …
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Decolonisation, Africanisation, and Epistemic Citizenship in post-Rhodes Must Fall South African Universities
… African university are not new and are often inscribed within multiple genealogies and intellectual traditions that examine the relationship between colonial formations and the politics of knowledge production. Given this historicity, there is often a rich inheritance of diverse …
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Negotiating normativities: Counter narratives of lesbian queer world making in Cape Town
… thesis explores the different modes and meanings of queer world making (QWM) of lesbians in Cape Town. Through an analysis of in depth interviews and focus groups it reveals lesbians' constructions of their intersectional and permeable QWM through a series of counter narratives enacted in three …
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