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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"social resistance"”.
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Tale of two cultures: Hip-hop and schooling and the impact on African American identity and academic achievement
… the various ways in facilitating black youths resistance and disengagement within the educational system in an attempt to narrow the achievement gap between African American students and their white counterparts. Hence, four questions guide this study: How do urban young adults affiliated with …
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Battle of the Bains: Tactical Bathing in Two Expository Texts, One Film and a Novella
… strategies and tactical moves, which abet social resistance. I argue that one can posit the hammam, and acts of shared bathing in two expository texts, a film and a novella as riposte: Le bain turc is as a pool of resistive, not passive, odalisques. In this work I draw on Victor Turner's …
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Own Your Politics: The Entanglement of Resistance and the Luxury Fashion Industry
… subject the increasing instrumentalization of social and political content by the fashion industry in recent years. Such content raises questions about the relationship between notions of political resistance and market capitalism. Marxist theorists such as Frederic Jameson and David Harvey …
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Pedalando por direitos: vozes femininas no ciclismo
… means of transport but as a powerful tool for social resistance and empowerment. Key findings from the research indicate that cycling promotes visibility for Black and transgender women, combating stereotypes and enabling greater inclusion in public spaces; and that the revolutionary potential …
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From Community College to Degree: Examining the Success of Undocumented Community College Transfer Students
… (i.e., aspirational, familial, navigational, social, resistance, linguistic, and alliance) to overcome educational barriers. It also examined the factors that shaped undocumented community college students’ willingness to trust and disclose their immigration status. Using a narrative research …
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Gay male performances in American confessional documentary and reality television.
… It specifically focuses on the representation of social actors involved in performance, as well as contextualising the contribution of producers. Although it does not present an historical analysis, it examines a timescale: between 1971 and 2004. A central context is the hypothesis that …
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Unity, diversity, and resistance: The fight for maíz criollo in southern México
… to serve as a well-rounded presentation of the social resistance against transgenic corn and the fight for maíz criollo occurring in southern México today. In chapter two I discuss México’s history of corn modernization and the affiliated social movements that have grown in opposition as a …
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A holistic framework for environmental change: socio-environmental cohesion for sustainability
… issues have become a regular debate within social, business and political arenas. The need to combine social, environmental and economic systems to achieve a sustainable future (Triple Bottom Line), is gaining prominence within many international development projects. The study of …
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Knowledge Controversies and Renewable Energy Transition: Exploring Science and Policy Debates
… energies, as well as the role and nature of social resistance in the context of emergent concepts of energy democracy. This dissertation comprises three standalone articles (chapters 3-5). Chapter 3 uses rhetorical analysis to explore how scientific facts about wind energy’s impact on human …
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The meaning of motherhood: adolescent childbearing and its significance for poor Dominican Haitian women
This article looks at how a group of marginalized young women, in the Dominican Republic, understand and conceptualize the experience of becoming a mother at an early age. The dominant discourse on adolescent motherhood frames the phenomenon as problematic. Adolescent motherhood is typically …
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The Talking of Objects: Migratory Experiences and Subjectivities of British Chinese Women in Contemporary Britain
… views visibility and material culture as acts of social resistance to make visible the lesser heard voices of British Chinese women. Centred on facilitating the visibility of the women and representation, Materially Embodied Visions was developed as a conceptual framework to distill the …