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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"rootedness"”.
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The importance of rootedness in the contemporary canadian novel
"This thesis is a study of the importance of rootedness in contemporary Canadian fiction, both English and French. The rootedness discussed here is to be understood in the deepest, most fundamental sense of the word, which includes the traditional meaning: origination from the soil of a country and …
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Rootedness in School Microsettings: Children's Experiences of Places in School
… microsettings (settings within settings) and rootedness (feelings, relationships, and behaviors related to microsettings) are introduced as extensions of place experience constructs. Children named microsettings such as the gym, playground, and classroom as liked places, and the classroom, …
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Sense of Place, Place Attachment, and Rootedness in Four West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana Bars
… place: sense of place, place attachment, and rootedness. These three concepts have each been researched and discussed on their own in journal articles, books, and book chapters, but the terms rarely appear in the same sentence let alone the same research article. In the United States, places …
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JEWISH LANDSCAPES ROOTED, EMBEDDED, ENSHRINED, AND TRANSCENDENT: METAPHOR AS COMMUNICATED IN JEWISH MUSEUMS IN NEW YORK, JERUSALEM, AND SAN FRANCISCO
… Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Four metaphors--rootedness, embeddedness, enshrinement, and transcendence--capture the ways each of these museums conceptualizes and presents Jewish culture.
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Becoming Cosmopolitan? Roots, Emotions, and Everyday Diversity Encounters amongst New Chinese Migrants in New Zealand
… I examine how different degrees of sense of rootedness towards China (or New Zealand) interrelate with the strength of cosmopolitan openness to cultural others and the socialising patterns displayed in daily interactions. In doing so, the research transcends the Eurocentrism that dominates …
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Independence and other poems
… events, people and places and in a deliberate rootedness in concrete things, the poems also try to capture complicated states of being and to illustrate questions relating to various aspects of freedom: how can one be free from the memory of the past, from discontinuity, from loss? What do …
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Transience and Permanence: An Architectural Dialogue
… is also the inherent need to have a sense of rootedness, the need for a place to call home, to belong. The current thesis is an architectural exploration of creating a dialogue between this duality. The approach is to explore a composite system, where modular prefabricated architecture is …
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I Don't Know Why You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello: Concepts of Place in Eudora Welty's <i>The Optimist's Daughter</i> and Elizabeth Bowen's <i>The Death of the Heart</i>
… the Heart exhibit a partiality for mobility over rootedness. In The Optimist's Daughter, Welty's protagonist must confront a possible loss of heart and home, and in The Death of the Heart, Bowen's protagonist is faced with an actual loss of freedom and mobility. Thus, through a study of these two …
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Refracting Immigration Rhetoric: The Struggle to Define Identity, Place and Nation in Southern Arizona
… myth of nation and, on the other, in rootedness to the cultural and historic particularities of place. These disjunctures point to a profusion of contradictory ideations, the struggle over which exposes the efforts of community members to contest and redefine the boundaries of societal …
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Alliances and Preferences: Party System Institutionalization's Potentially Intervening Role on Pre-Election Cooperation in Australia, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea
… stability, volatility of results, and rootedness of parties--from fluid systems. Party behavior can be depicted rationally as a response to both institutional incentives and the historical and sociological context of a nation's party system. Electoral incentives promoting certain types …
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Merging Symbols, Space and Identity in Appalachia: An Examination of the Ramp
… data has uncovered the impact sense of place and rootedness in the Appalachian mountains has on identity creation through festival performance.
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New Media and Social Movements. How the Indigenous People of Biafra Movement Has Used the Internet to Mobilise for an Independent Biafran State
… between Biafra activism and the socio-political rootedness of Nigerian democracy. This approach allowed for providing analogies and new perspectives from the research and interpreting implications of human action. The thesis has found inconsistent, sometimes contradicting, data on the implication …
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The dynamics of contingency: neoliberal redevelopment governance in Chicago and Buenos Aires
… the inseparability of local-ness, place rootedness, historical specificity, human agency, and political variability that poignantly embeds within the human made operation and effects of locally circulating structures.
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Strategies of British-Pakistani Muslim women : 'subject' and 'agency' reconsidered through (an) analysis of marriage, divorce and everyday life
… and members of an ethnic minority community, the rootedness of their regional affiliations in Pakistan, class, age and their location at intersections of historical and geographical movements are subsumed by an essentialized understanding of their being Muslim. An investigation into the strategies …
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The practical worship theology of Robert E. Webber
… worship in common historic patterns (historic-rootedness). Second, Webber focuses on embedding God’s narrative in American evangelical worship, ensuring that all aspects of worship are Christocentric (narrative quality). Third, Webber advocates for the active participation of the congregation …
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Home and Away: Home, Migrancy, and Belonging Through Landscape Photographic Practice
… The thesis challenges and complicates ideas of rootedness to examine the possibilities of meaningful immersions and interactions within communities related to personal biography, history and diaspora as a practice method. In this sense the work locates ways, through practice, which have …
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Conceptions of intimacy: men in relationships
… distinctiveness, trust, empathy, and rootedness were found woven through the fabric of the conceptualizations of intimacy. Shared experience, acceptance/support, and specialness were three manifestations or ways in which intimacy was experienced. The manifestations provided a holistic …
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Rebuilding the Rainbow Bridge: A study of the historical development of Nordicism and its evolving relationship with Modernity
… came into being as a source of psychological rootedness and grounded reality with which to counter the disembedding, disenchanting impact of an ever-changing and accelerating state of modernity. Its conceptual framework draws on Roger Griffin’s model of modernism as a reaction to the corrosive …
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Discerning Redeeming Communities: Rita Nakashima Brock and Elizabeth A. Johnson in Dialogue
… produce rich soteriological fruits. Without rootedness in creation theology, theological anthropology is anthropocentric, not sufficiently holistic or ecologically aware. Similarly, without development of a feminist theological anthropology, soteriology inevitably reflects the distortions of …
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Architetture arcaiche. Invarianti tipo-morfologiche e principi dello spazio nuragico
… a poetic approach grounded in principles of rootedness and continuity, the thesis abductively delves into the topic of archaic architecture as a symbolic art form, pinpointing its spatio-temporal coordinates within the context of the megalithic phenomenon. It investigates modes of …
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