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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"post-structural"”.
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The questioning of intuition; a post structural analysis of nurses’ stories
… The data analysis was completed using the post structuralist philosophy of Roland Barthes, diachronic evidence from the literature review, was compared to the synchronic evidence from the data analysis, interrogating the text to potentially present an alternative perspective, from what is …
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Severed texts : aspects of aestheticization in Roland Barthes’ post-structural writings
… discussion of the specificity of Roland Barthes' post-structural theorizing by examining some of the themes and techniques of aestheticization running through his writing--reverie, pleasure, "perversion," and the hyper-textualization of the human subject and culture. Following this …
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The long and winding road to reflexology: A post-structural narrative inquiry
… doubt. This study explores the topic through a post-structural lens to discover new possibilities for the discipline. Methodology: The research design used a narrative inquiry and emerged a Derridean theoretical approach encompassing some of the key concepts of Jacques Derrida’s writings …
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Going Viral: A Critical, Post-Structural Exploration of Feminist Culture Jamming As Cultural Therapeutic
… framework informed by critical theory and post-structural philosophy (particularly via the works of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler), this dissertation proposes the existence of pathology at both individual and cultural levels. Shifting away from the language of social problems, I propose …
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Lesbianism : a post-structural/post-modernist critique of selected theories relevant to clinical practice
… and relevant to clinical practice. The post-structuralist/post-modernist framework employed considers lesbianism as a category constructed in a particular socio-historical context and involving particular power relations. The role of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in this process of …
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A post-structural analysis of perceptions and experiences of continuity and change within the UK automotive supplier base
… car manufacturers and their partner-suppliers. Post-structuralist approaches are introduced as part of an attempt to establish and appropriate research methodology that can explore and deconstruct the discourses surrounding 'modernity', 'supply chain rationalisation', 'flexible specialisation' …
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Connections between gendered constructions and women's lived experiences in light of feminist awareness: An empirical hermeneutic study
… Gender was conceptualized in feminist post-structural terms, which meant that it was seen as an identity conferred upon women in the service of creating a hierarchical discourse. Since feminist post-structural theories are rarely explored empirically and women's experiences have often …
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Power, management and complexity in the NHS: a Foucauldian perspective
This thesis is a critical and post-structural exploration of the discourse of managerialism in the NHS secondary care sector in Wales. Its central intent is to destabilise the dominant thinking about NHS management practice and to evoke intellectual debate about alternative discourses of management …
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#LeadingMamas: A Visual Ethnography
… educational leader. Using an emergent feminist post-structural method, this study explores how women who identify as educational leaders and mothers negotiate these identities in their everyday lives. Four participant collaborators employed visual ethnographic methods to create representations …
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Smart girls : a deconstructive discourse analysis of smartness
… analysis of smart girlhood. From a feminist post structural framework, with a focus on discourse and performative identity, I scrutinize three dominant discourses of smartness that are prevalent and academic and popular press. These constructions frame smart girls as being either Losers, …
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Trailer Park Royalty: Southern Child Beauty Pageants, Girlhood and Power
… for a multitude of reasons. A bricolage of post-structural feminism, critical ethnography, critical hermeneutics and cultural studies lenses will analyze how the performances of participants and the power exercised by the beauty pageant culture work to formulate girls' identities. Analysis …
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Secondary physical educators' content negotiations
… & Taubman, 2004), and range of critical and post-structural social theories (Ingram & Simon-Ingram, 1991; Wilber, 2001). This qualitative study was grounded in the interpretive tradition. Eight middle school teachers were observed and interviewed for five whole days over the span of one …
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Useable space
… The hypothesis was that the pervasive effect of post-structural thinking in architectural theory and design education have created an environment that does not adequately prepare students to explore, engage and communicate personal values in their work, particularly in relation to the immediate …
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Influence and Its Opposite: Presence and Absence in the Work of Harold Bloom
… it is not Bloom's defense of canonicity against post-structural Marxism, feminism, and New Historical criticism that generates the most resistance; instead, Bloom's dissenters more often come from the ranks of conservative traditionalists who might be expected to support him. The reaction of …
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Theorising evidence based policing: a discourse analysis
… policy’ in other fields. Drawing on post-structural theoretical perspectives after Foucault, this thesis reports discourse analytical research into selected EBP texts illuminating its ‘smaller practices’ to reveal relations of power, presented around story-lines, subject …
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Masculinities and the Paedophile: Discursive Strategies in Irish Newspapers.
… social constructionist approach and informed by post-structural perspectives, this research examines the ways in which the masculinities of the man represented as `the paedophile¿ are constructed. This research demonstrates how the normative is reinforced through the delegitimation of the …
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Hombres Normativos: The Creation and Inculcation of Martial Masculinity during the Franco Regime in Spain (1939—1975)
… husband and father. Utilizing Foucauldian, post-structural, ethnographic, and feminist theories and situating its findings in the context of Spain's cultural, economic, and social changes during the 1960s and 1970s, the dissertation argues that the regime failed to normalize its version of …
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How might poststructuralist ideas influence the teaching of 10 year olds?
… epistemological outlook – an outlook informed by poststructuralism. This thesis chronicles my second year of philosophy teaching, during which I attempted to move beyond teaching philosophical thinking skills toward a philosophy that was inspired by my thoughts on post-structuralism. During the …
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A Visual Studies Approach To Critical Historiography
… critical historiography and its methods. Though post-structural approaches to historiography have afforded attention to the literary construction of written historical narratives, they have all but ignored Derrida's caution against the suppression of writing to rhetoric, which reduces writing to …
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The dynamics of Zambia's copper value chain
… in contextualising my research questions within post-structural adjustment programme trajectories in the Copperbelt. I adopt a theoretical framework based on the Global Value Chain approach. Additionally, I draw extensively on the international business literature.
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