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Showing 1 to 20 of 135 for “"problematize"”.
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Mapping the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program and the Restriction of the SAWP Worker
… Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP). I problematize what I suggest is the heightened regulation and subjugation of workers under this labour scheme. I suggest that by more thoroughly understanding the mass exodus of ‘national’, white citizen workers from the Canadian agricultural …
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Limiting Heteronomy : An Account of Autonomy to Deal with Oppression.
… that, as they stand, they are ill-suited to problematize forms of (what I call) ‘subjection’, namely forms of oppression which affect agents’ “normal” developments qua subjects of different kinds. Crucially, Christman’s model lacks resources to problematize settled characters and values, …
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Staging Sodomy: Deviance and Devotion on the Early English Stage
… sequences, this thesis argues that these plays problematize Christ's legendary hostile relationship to the sin against nature.
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Особенности структуры повествования в письмах: эпистолярий Марины Цветаевой /
… letters are autobiographical texts which problematize, in one way or another, the relationship between “poetry” and “truth”, i.e. fact and fiction, an issue that is examined by means of the literary conventions available to a given culture. This dissertation explores the issue of forms of …
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Water and Power: The Environmental Politics of a Virginia Reservoir
This thesis attempts to problematize the power relations in environmental administration and decision making through the analytical lens of environmental discourse and ethics. It argues that developments in environmental politics reveal a marked increase in democratic involvement through an …
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'It's Not That Easy Being Green': Greenwashing of Environmental Discourses in Advertising
… capitalism and greenwashing. There is a need to problematize the corporate discourses that put a price on nature and obfuscate the domination of nature by capital. I use an eco-Marxist framework to examine the ways environmental products are represented through television advertising. I …
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Exploring the Polyvocal Leadership Problem in the Pro-Life Movement: The Case of Rush Limbaugh and Sandra Fluke
… within the pro-life movement. Particularly, I problematize what I call the "polyvocal leadership problem" that occurs in social movements that lack a centralized leadership. I apply Kenneth Burke's work on identification and vilification in order to examine the ways that Limbaugh ruptures the …
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A criminology of catastrophe: a critical analysis of imperialistic state crime and the Haiti earthquake
… is framed by the following question: How can we problematize the notion of “natural” disaster to arrive at a criminological understanding of human culpability in the production of harm? I argue that the degree of human suffering caused by natural disasters is aggravated by imperialistic state …
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Distribution, Use and Cultural Meanings of Ciprés de Las Guaitecas in the Vicinity of Caleta Tortel, Chile
… power, scale and social construction was used to problematize the availability of the tree as a resource by revealing the multiple, contrasting perspectives of different socio-political actors. National and international policy documents were analyzed in order to uncover the discourses that drive …
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Distribution, Use and Cultural Meanings of Ciprés de Las Guaitecas in the Vicinity of Caleta Tortel, Chile
… power, scale and social construction was used to problematize the availability of the tree as a resource by revealing the multiple, contrasting perspectives of different socio-political actors. National and international policy documents were analyzed in order to uncover the discourses that drive …
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Ecocultural Adjustment: A Peace Corps Sojourn
… course of this reflective study, I explore and problematize the human-nature divide currently dominating the anthropocentric understandings of intercultural adjustment experiences. My interpretations point to the profound need to reimagine the sojourner adjustment process as one of both mind and …
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Exploring Selfhood in an Era of Computational Optimization
… of athleisure clothing, my research works to problematize and encourage critical thought around the self-optimization ideal, as well as the everyday technologies that promote it.
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Archival Frictions: The Arab and Arab American as Image in Literature, Film, and Other Archives
… various official collections and “archives” to problematize the identity construct and qualifier, “Arab,” and to read across two distinct moments—the early 1900s and post-1967—of Arab discursive and historical representation and identity after a prolonged encounter with the west and western …
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Maneuvers in the Oeuvre: The problem of confession in the works of Foucault, Mishima and Winterson".
… 3, I argue that Mishima and Winterson further problematize authorial control through more complex works of self-revelation, highlighting both the necessity and inevitability of interpretation and the potential violence it entails.
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Trans*Vocal: Documenting Gender Subjectivity Through Changing Vocality
… for "non-normal" vocalizations. I aim to problematize our current language surrounding gender, voice, and transition and depict transition as a natural part of anyone's vocal journey.
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“We about to be real”… “Literacy is everywhere”… “Ya somos expertos”: Documenting and learning from families’ language and literacy practices
… in home and community contexts. In this study I problematize how schooling, even via “additive” programs such as TWI, are no exception to the demand and deficit views placed on marginalized families (Avineri, Johnson, Brice-Heath, McCarty, Ochs, Kremer-Sadlik, Blum, Zentella, Rosa, Flores, & …
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#JuccoStruggle: A Critical Examination into the Lived Experiences of Black Male Community College Athletes
… the unique experiences of student-athletes and problematize institutional culture.</p>
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Writing a feminist ethnography: A comparative analysis of Iranian women's stories of resistance and agency in Iran and America
… I work against Western stereotypes as a way to problematize the assumption that immersion in Western culture "saves" Middle Eastern women from their supposed cultural and religious "victimization." The focus of my inquiry is centered on four issues, or themes, of analysis, which are: everyday …
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Windows on the World: The Aesthetics of Difference in Neoliberal New York
… for whom differentiated experience served to problematize the certitudes of consensual planning, and follow it through analyses of objects and the publics they generate. I address the production and reception of works by Kara Walker, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Al Diaz; filmmakers Véréna Paravel …
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The structural determinants of media contagion
… notions of mass media and the public, weblogs problematize this classical theory of mass media influence. This thesis aims to elucidate the role of weblogs in media contagion through a sociological study of this community in two parts: First, I will address the issues of modeling the social …
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