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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"power resistance"”.
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Power, resistance and Spanish Residential School
… relationship between exercises of disciplinary power and acts of resistance as they relate to the negotiation of identities at Spanish Residential School between the years of 1878 and 1930. The school itself, originally Wikwemikong Industrial School, was administered by the Jesuits and the …
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Power, Resistance and Ritual: Paternalism on the Clonbrock Estates 1826-1908
Until now works on big houses and landed estates have been published in two separate and specific genres. On the one hand there are the familiar coffee table books with glossy photographs depicting architectural splendour, lavish interiors, or ghostly ruins, and on the other there are the academic …
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Mainstreaming of Deaf Education in the Republic of Ireland: Language, Power, Resistance
… system. It is particularly concerned with the power relations at play in the system. Using theories on power by Michel Foucault and John Allen, I analyse the changing geographies of power and resistance at play in mainstreaming of deaf education. Historically, the field of deaf education has …
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"Speaking others, practicing selves: Power, identity, and communications in ""Apna Ghar"" (Our Home)"
"This project examines the relationships among power, resistance, gender and immigrant identity construction through discursive and material practices of battered immigrant women in Apna Ghar (Our Home), a shelter for battered immigrant women in Chicago, Illinois. The project extends current …
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Nuns' stories, nuns' voices: Resistance at the margins of patriarchal ideology
… interesting subjects for a feminist study on power, resistance and representation. This work starts out by putting the concept of nun into historical perspective and by analyzing the act of becoming a nun as a particular practice of womanhood. Chapter I looks at female religious communities …
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LOW-POWER LOW-VOLTAGE ANALOG CIRCUIT TECHNIQUES FOR WIRELESS SENSORS
<p>This research investigates lower-power lower-voltage analog circuit techniques suitable for wireless sensor applications. Wireless sensors have been used in a wide range of applications and will become ubiquitous with the revolution of internet of things (IoT). Due to the demand of low cost, …
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"No particular place to go": A poststructuralist feminist reading of middle managers' subjectivity
… to add emphasis to dimensions of gender and power, and on the other, to take into account the changes in organising process which, it is often argued, are moving from modem to postmodern forms. A model, the Management in Three Movements Model, is generated from critical analysis of the …
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Assessment of joint kinetics in elite sprint cyclists
… requires the production of explosive muscle power outputs up to very high pedalling rates. The ability to assess muscular function through the course of the sprint would aid training practices for high-level performers. Inverse dynamics provides a non-invasive means of estimating the net …
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Mouth-pieces of the limit: liminal spatial praxis in Israel / Palestine and Northern Ireland
… with the former holding significantly more power and authority. If the primarily theoretical and generalised knowledge of the experts is privileged, then the more visceral and specific knowledges of those who inhabit relevant places are to some degree elided. The experts’ knowledge is, …
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El arte de la resistencia: música, literatura y tradición oral en la región andina desde el período pre moderno hasta el siglo XVII
… ones, thus converting this music into an art of resistance. The first chapter outlines the creation of the Incan Empire, aided in part by the songs that were composed to celebrate each military conquest, which at the same time contributed towards the preservation of memories that were passed down …
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Chaotic Schooling: State schools and the making of (un)freedom in contemporary Brazil
… schools represent spaces of freedoms, hope, and resistance. I adopt the definition of freedom provided by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum’s Capability Approaches to conceptualise freedom as opportunities to be, to do and to become valuable things in life. Here, I understand that formal education …