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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"post-structuralism"”.
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"The baby will grow" : a poststructuralist and psychodynamic analysis of a community psychology intervention
… Health Care Workers. This study provides a post-structuralist and psychoanalytic analysis of the process of intervention in order to offer potential suggestions for future community work and to explore how the interface between psychoanalysis and post-structuralism may offer possibilities …
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An investigation of the resources available for interpreting visual cultural production related to male homosexuality in Britain : 1940 to the present
… those that use the protocols of psychoanalysis, post-structuralism and certain forms of social/sexual politics and theory.
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Videocentric criticism, postmodernism and the deconstruction of television
… criticism; Chapter one assesses the modern and postmodern condition. Philosophy from the Greek and modern Enlightenments suggests that Western society's videocentrism is a developing process originating in these periods. It then addresses modernity and postmodernity. Postmodern cultural …
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Poetry as a Pedagogy of Touch
… and technology, especially quantum physics and post-structuralism, have redefined representation to encompass the necessary reflex of the representer. To be sure, my research has also found feminist and postcolonial criticisms to echo this theory: both have sought to challenge representations …
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"He fell in love with me in English": language negotiation in the bilingual couple
… sociolinguistics as well as later theories from post-structuralism ushered in new paradigms that approached language as much more multifaceted than ever before. Language is now viewed not just as an act of individual communication, but an aspect of social representation, a measure of cultural …
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The crisis of leftist urban theory in postmodernism : the case of the L.A. 'School'
… mid- nineteenth century through the advent of post-structuralism and postmodernism into the present. It is not an attempt to portray the whole history of social theory in this period but instead it is an investigation into the ways a particular group of leftist scholars approach a city having …
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Gender-konstruksies in die afrikaanse letterkunde : 'n ondersoek in kultuurstudies, litterêre teorie en kreatiewe skryfwerk
… on the developments in modem literary theory: structuralism to post structuralism. The influence of the internet is discussed in a chapter. The thesis comments on the value of inter-disciplinary work and programmes. Psychoanalytic and (post)structuralist theories are blended with creative texts …
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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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An Ecology of Immanent Otherness: The Onto/eco-poethics of Hélène Cixous
… To conceive such an ethics, I turn to feminist post-structuralist Hélène Cixous. Cixous remains under-represented within eco-theoretical readings of post-structuralism, despite expanding interest in her contemporaries. Too material for social constructivism, and too textual for new materialism, …
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Disenfranchised workers : a view from within the public service
… case studies, phenomenology, feminist post-structuralism and narrative theories to make sense of the stories of people working within organisations that have failed, traumatised, belittled, ignored, bullied and destroyed them. The study looks at the experiences of twenty disenfranchised …
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The Liminal Space of Dreams: Narration of Dreams in Graphic novel and Comics
… the experience of dreams; Roland Barthes on the structuralism and Post-Structuralism, semiotic language narration; Scott McCloud and other comic scholars on the visual aesthetic of dreams and history of dream comics. This essay unravels the storytelling of dreams to create a non-linear logic of …
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Learning in adaptive spaces : how customer experience professionals experience learning during technology-mediated interaction, and implications for organisational learning
… the research employed a conceptual framework of post-structuralism and complexity to investigate how digital technologies affect organisational learning and knowledge management. Complexity Leadership Theory was used as a way to interpret the complexity dynamics that occur through digitally …
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The Concept of Self-reflexive Intertextuality in the Works of Umberto Eco
… philosophic, and historical. Notwithstanding the postmodern ideology of the irrelevance of the author (in terms of identity and intentionality) to a text’s interpretation, Eco’s novels offer another level of reading and interpreting that includes the author’s own personal reading experiences. In …
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A reader-response approach to Susan Sontag's Death Kit
… Reader-Response Criticism From Formalism to Post-Structuralism, a collection of essays by reader-based critics, as a catalyst for a self-examination of my reading of Death Kit. After reading these essays and writing about Sontag~s novels, I see my reading of those books as heavily influenced …
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Democracy, subjectivity and voice: Emersonian perfectionism and radical democratic theory
… examines these issues from the perspectives of post-structuralist and perfectionist traditions of democratic political thought. Both traditions fear that dominant contemporary political theory, here represented by Rawlsian liberalism, is insufficiently attentive to voice. I seek to explore the …
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AIDS/representation and psychological practice : (inter)subjectivity in HIV counselling
… an HIV positive man. Literature, informed by post-structuralism, on the representations and practices that surround the HIV/AIDS epidemic is examined as a background to the study. Self psychological theory concerning mourning, the psychodynamic consequences of having AIDS and selfobject …
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Podium Discourse: Verbal Communication in Secondary School Band Programs
… discussion. Discourse Analysis and Foucault’s Post-structuralism were used as the framework for analysis for this study. The four main themes emerging from the data were communication from the podium, teaching musical concepts, improving musical performance levels, and changes in verbal …
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An Analysis of Commerce and Personal Identities at the Pearl Fishing Settlement of Muharraq Town, Bahrain, 1600-1950 AD.
… identities, a theoretical framework combining post-structuralism, practice theory, and critical theory was derived. From this work, site use pre-1800 AD is evident, including remains relating to industrial activity. Additionally, the response of pre-existing regional trade networks – and the …
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Journey With Me: Wanderings and Wonderings Through Childhoods
… of childhood, critical childhood studies, and post-structuralism, the aim of this inquiry is to explore from the perspectives of children themselves. Employing poetic inquiry alongside a thematic narrative analysis the child participants’ narratives are explored through the discussions of …
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Living a Curriculum of Tensions: Experiences of Learning to Teach Physical Education
… experience with other research paradigms such as post-positivism, Marxism, and post-structuralism. While traversing these borderland spaces and inquiring into my own stories of experience, a research puzzle was named: how learning to teach is experienced by pre-service teachers and how they dwell …
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