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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"ruling relations"”.
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Mapping Ruling Relations Through Homelessness Organizing
… retrenchment. This dissertation examines ruling relations and the social relations of struggle from the standpoint of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. With political activist ethnography as my central theoretical framework and methodological …
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Honors College as Whitespace: An Institutional Ethnography
… counselor—I trace how whiteness structures the ruling relations of honors education. This study explores whether and how honors colleges enact white supremacy culture, how whiteness exists within organizational logics and practices, and how honors practitioners navigate these dynamics. In …
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Institutional Ethnography: How Tenured Academic Women Talk About Success
… interactions that constitute and transform the ruling relations. Institutional ethnography, a feminist methodology, inherently explores where communicative text provides insight into the larger structures of the ruling relations that govern, educate, train and inform. The information provided by …
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Att utmana förändringens gränser : En studie om förändringsarbete, partnerskap och kön med Equal-programmet som exempel
… ethnography and concepts such as social relations and ruling relations. The thesis' analysis points to how the consensus-based organisational form of partnership and the politics and principles that are reflected in the Equal Programme together with notions on growth, leadership and …
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An Ontological Explication of Electronic Benefit Transfer as an Institutional Mechanism of Reification and Relations of Ruling
… and articulate social and institutional relationships. They are used to represent not the lived experience but the institutional view. While they have meaning and use in their original form, hypertexts take on new proportion and significance in terms of social relations. Using …
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Unmasking the Institutionalization of Gender-based Violence in Ontario’s Kindergarten Education Program: The Hidden Effects of Play-based Learning
… Informed by child development and neoliberal ruling relations, children’s work in kindergarten is to involve attaining developmental milestones and learning academic skills through play. However, play at school is rife with unequal gendered power dynamics. Through an institutional ethnography …
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The social construction of child neglect
… women, and how mother work is not valued in the ruling relations of patriarchy. Next, drawing upon Dorothy Smith's methodology of examining the conceptual practices of the ruling apparatuses, data from eighteen case files from the 1991 child neglect caseload of one B.C. Family and Child Service …
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Socio-spatial experiences of part-time community college faculty
… despite the institution's efforts. The ruling relations of the college were evident in individual interactions, uses of space, and institutional policies and processes.
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Everyday Tragedies: People with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in the Liminal Spaces of a Level I Trauma Centre
… to return home. Textually mediated institutional relations through the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC), specifically the Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Resource Rehab Tool, ignite sites of struggle in the provision of rehabilitation for individuals with sTBI. These sites of struggles …
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Exploring Youths' Understanding of Intimate Relationships Through the Education Sector: An Institutional Ethnography
… With youth beginning to engage in intimate relationships at an earlier age in the 21st century, concentrating on the learning opportunity they have in school is paramount. The nature of what has been deemed important to teach in schools has changed throughout history, and focus has shifted …
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An Institutional Ethnographic Account of Mandatory Professional Development in New Mexico
… work processes within a system of social relations focused on compliance. In my institutional ethnographic account of mandatory PD in New Mexico, I used three data sources: 1) institutional texts (n = 13), 2) one-on-one interviews with high school teachers (n = 3) and educational …
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The Logic of Corporate Communication Design
… of design in mundane technical entities and ruling relations over their clients, employees and collaborators. Graphic design subsequently became a tenable profession, but as it gained in credibility, practitioners from other domains (e.g. design management and entrepreneurship) sought to …
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What counts and who is accountable? An institutional ethnographic account of OSCEs
… patients. I traced this discourse back to the ruling relations of the regulatory body, within an accountability agenda. I map an ‘accountability circuit’ to demonstrate what counts institutionally – an objectively and quantitatively verified ‘quality assured’ assessment, promoting an ethos of …