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Showing 1 to 20 of 388 for “"power dynamics"”.
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Women and class: Power dynamics in contemporary Mexican literature and culture
… analysis to explore the complexity of the power relationship between employer and employee in everyday interactions. Chapter 3, “Substitute Motherhood: Nannies in Mexican Culture,” explores the ultimately failed mothering of upper-class children by working-class women in texts such as Balún …
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Power dynamics in the long-term development of employee-friendly flexible working
… friendly flexible working, through understanding power dynamics between the individual and the organisation. It is argued that changes in the demographic composition of the workforce are altering the needs, attitudes and expectations of employees. At the same time, organisations are increasing the …
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Institutional Global Maternal Nutrition Communication: Unblackboxing Rhetorical Power Dynamics in Transnational Spaces
… the transnational issues of negotiation and power and (mis)articulations within the realm of global maternal nutrition (MN) communication design. Specifically, I sought to demystify the behind-the-scenes interactions and negotiations among funders (in this case, USAID headquarters), …
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Understanding how stress impacts power dynamics between OCTs and RECEs in kindergarten classrooms
… study aimed to understand how stressors impacted power dynamics between OCTs and RECEs working in an educator team. Using a mixed-methods approach, an online demographic survey using Google Forms was administered using Facebook groups and LinkedIn. Eighty-six participants responded to the survey, …
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Analysing contemporary Shi'a political landscape in post-2003 Iraq: a Bourdieusian perspective on power dynamics
This dissertation investigates the evolving power dynamics within the Shi'a political landscape in post-2003 Iraq. The study employs Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical framework and conflict resolution theories to dissect the interplay of historical legacies, cultural, symbolic, and coercive capital …
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Exploring the Impact of Business Intelligence (BI) Use on Organisational Power Dynamics: A National Health Service (NHS) Case Study
… regarding its resulting impact on organisational power dynamics. Thus, there remains an under researched area of discussion in the literature from the perspective of BI users. While studies report how BI can impact organisational effectiveness, facilitate data driven decision making and supposedly …
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Mental Illness and Psychiatry in the Victorian Era: An Analysis of the Prevailing Power Dynamics Between Women and Male Authority Figures Through Gilman and Freud.
<p>In this research paper, I intend to focus on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s <em>The Yellow Wallpaper </em>(1892)<em> </em>and Sigmund Freud’s <em>Dora</em><em>: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria</em><em> </em>(written in 1900 and published in 1905), with an aim to represent the prevailing attitudes …
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Intentionally Diverse: A Historical Investigation of a Southern Private School's Ten-Year Diversity Initiative
… States, it is vital to discover how existing power dynamics between white mainstream and marginalized cultures might be embedded and reflected in this initiative and the ways in which these power dynamics informed this seemingly progressive reform.</p>
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Contesting transdisciplinary climate knowledge: a decolonial perspective on the FRACTAL project in Windhoek, Namibia
… The potential of replicating existing power dynamics into these transdisciplinary spaces has, however, not sufficiently been critically questioned yet. This study proposes that transformative change in development of African cities requires a deconstruction of these power dynamics, that …
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Kinky Reading: Power, Pleasure, and Performance in Middle English Texts
… literary instances of medieval sexual power play via theory on contemporary BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and masochism). It begins with a chapter outlining the history and theory of BDSM. The remaining chapters explore concepts of fantasy, …
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Why South Africa's energy-poverty policy ignores female well-being : a case of non-decision-making?
… Bachrach and Baratz (1962) guide to uncover power dynamics veiled in the formal processes of energy-poverty policy development in South Africa. This thesis asks how energy-poverty policy can contribute to addressing the so-called gender-energy-poverty nexus, recognising that social constructs …
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The influence of decentralisation on tourism development in decentralised rural communities
… remains underexplored, particularly regarding power dynamics, community empowerment and participation, financial mechanisms, and the role of government. This thesis examines the influence of decentralisation on tourism development in decentralised rural communities, focusing on the dimensions …
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Power, Relationships and the Influence of Community Development in Alberta Community Housing
Canadian social housing exists in a web of power dynamics that creates a complex relationship between housing provider landlords and tenants. Housing providers have control over a significant aspect of tenants’ life through the approval and administration of their home. Community development, as a …
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Using novel participatory mapping techniques to identify high leverage points for intervention in the education systems of Eswatini and South Africa
… high leverage points, and to explore stakeholder power dynamics situated at these points. Grounded in critical realism and relational ontology, the study adopts a systems thinking epistemology, and acknowledges the inherent complexity and interrelatedness of social systems. An exploratory, …
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Using novel participatory mapping techniques to identify high leverage points for intervention in the education systems of Eswatini and South Africa
… high leverage points, and to explore stakeholder power dynamics situated at these points. Grounded in critical realism and relational ontology, the study adopts a systems thinking epistemology, and acknowledges the inherent complexity and interrelatedness of social systems. An exploratory, …
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The politics of coordination in the Western Cape: the case of national, provincial and local government (2010–2018)
… exploration of how managers navigate power dynamics across different geographical scales and how these strategies are implemented and challenged through formal and informal means. In other words, managers may need to deal with power dynamics within their immediate teams or …
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Twin Cities Temporalities: Queer Blackness and Hmong Refugeeism in The Hip Hop Dance Scene
… of Breaking, outlining how patriarchal power dynamics gained a foothold and were sustained over time in the scene. The second chapter centers on the queer Black femme Hip Hop dance crew New Black City (NBC), exploring the contributions and challenges of two members, Yoni Light and Mimi …
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Squatter upgrading in Zambia : adequacy of the institutional framework
… post-colonial socialist housing policies and power dynamics between central and local government - and the growth of informal housing within Zambia. Further, it has shown that the culture of clientelism is a major barrier to future efforts to upgrade squatter settlements. While this study took …
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Islamism and Women’s Movements in Iran: Hijab as a Burden of Representation
… efforts have concentrated on the changes and dynamics between Islamic discourse and feminist resistance. Particularly in Iran, attention has primarily been given to the Islamism project, often treated as separate from social movements in post-Islamism. This thesis explores how social movements …
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