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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"subject formation"”.
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Problematizing discourses of feminicide in Guatemala : feminist universalism, neoliberal subject formation and hypervisibility
… waged. Intersectionality and a gendered racial formation theory provide a more nuanced basis from which to undertake an analysis of gender violence and feminicide, and the grounds for devising effective long-term strategies for ending violence in its myriad forms. Second, I argue that the …
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Trading solidarity for environmentality: subject formation and intimate government of forests in Kaolack Region, Senegal
… management, some began to develop environmental subjectivities: new ideas of self-interest and commitment to environmental protection. After the close of PAGERNA, these environmental subjectivities led certain residents to collaborate with local government officials and the forest service in …
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SUBJECT FORMATION AND SELF-MAKING IN THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF STATELESS SHAN PEOPLE IN THE THAI-BURMESE BORDERLAND
This thesis investigates the notion of subjectivity and the politics of emotion of stateless Shan people, who are shaped amid nation-state construction, violence, and suffering (known in the Shan language as Tukkha Khanjai). The primary focus of this thesis is on how the subjectivity of these …
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Go Into All the World: Moral-Subject Formation through Evangelical Short-Term Missions from the United States to the Dominican Republic
… of inequalities and cultivate a moral subjectivity in which they are divinely charged with the responsibility of ameliorating others’ poverty, lack of social welfare, and poor living conditions. STM discourses and practices thus legitimize forms of charitable giving that may actually …
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Young and the urban in Addis Ababa: towards a popular history of the 1974 Ethiopian revolution, c. 1950s-1974
… Addis Ababans with a range of class and social formations. They were the authors of the Ethiopian revolution. In addition to documenting the social protests of 1974, however, this study is also interested in tracing the subject formation of the youth in Addis Ababa between the 1950s and 1974. By …
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Sites of resistance: language, intertextuality, and subjectivity in the poetry of Diane Wakoski
… language and related cultural texts and women’s subjectivity. The poststructuralist feminist enterprise of examining and critiquing language and signifying practices for the ways in which they impose social values and of interrogating and undermining the fixity of meanings in cultural texts will …
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Queering Composition and Identity: Moving Beyond Inclusion in Composition Classrooms and the Field
… the negotiations of identity that occur in subject formation within academic writing and beyond. Compositionists have attended to writers' subjectivities that hinge on race, gender, and class status; have studied ESL writers and returning adult learners; and have lauded individualist …
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Bildung beyond the borders: racial ambiguity and subjectivity in three post-apartheid bildungsromane
This dissertation examines the subject formation of racially ambiguous protagonists in K Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents, (2001), Yewande Omotoso’s Bom Boy (2011) and Zoe Wicomb’s Playing in the Light (2006), three Bildungsromane set in post-apartheid Cape Town—the mother city—whose violent, racist …
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Wij zitten in een klem' : argetipiese verhoudingspatrone in 'De verwondering' van Hudo Claus
… could be viewed as archetypal patterns of inter-subject relations. This novel is interpreted by identifying the archetypal patterns which form the depth structure of inter-subject relations in the novel, and discussing the implied mechanisms of these relations in the light of on psychoanalytic …
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Limited possibilities: agency and subaltern subjectivity in four South African allegories
… of the negotiation of black women's subjectivity in four South African allegorical novels. Using aspects of postmodern discourse, and feminist and postcolonial literary and cultural theories on identity formation and subjectivity, I propose that it is in the allegorical mode that the …
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Limited possibilities : agency and subaltern subjectivity in four South African allegories
… of the negotiation of black women's subjectivity in four South African allegorical novels. Using aspects of postmodern discourse, and feminist and postcolonial literary and cultural theories on identity formation and subjectivity, I propose that it is in the allegorical mode that the …
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The City in Mind: Environmental Literacy and Adaptation in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… as antithetical but as dialectical forces in the formation of the self. The concept of an externally negotiated subject challenges both the inward and socially determined conceptions of self that have dominated the relevant criticism. Informed by empiricist, associationist, and evolutionary …
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The Problem of the "Virtual": Virtual Reality, Digital Dualism, and Religious Experience
… worlds and contributes to a false sense of subjective singularity rather than multiplicity that destabilizes how we relate to ourselves and others. Using the study of religion, philosophy, and aesthetics, we can better understand the effects and consequences of contemporary VR, specifically …
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Students’ experiences : choice, hope and everyday neoliberalism in English higher education
The idea of a neoliberal subject has become prevalent within critical debates about changes to higher education. This neoliberal subject is framed as an entrepreneur of the self and an investor in their human capital (Foucault: 2010). Students are urged by political policy and sector discourses to …
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The politics of speaking for : theorizing the limits of liberation and equality in gay and lesbian political discourse
… of two dimensions of representation: as state formation and the law, on the one hand, and as subject formation, on the other. This framework serves to underscore the implications of waging political demands on the basis of that from which gays and lesbians have been excluded, something the …
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The security-identity nexus in Euro-Atlantic integration: rethinking multi-scalar governance
… in an investigation of the process of EUropean subject formation. The three pieces of research together document how the reproduction of the state and processes of governance rely profoundly on spatially-informed articulations of power, scale, and subjectivity. Moreover, the ‘levels’ of …
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Building the Good Life: Architecture and Politics
… of architecture and urban planning on modern subject formation, ethics, and politics under the conditions of de-centralized sovereignty that characterize late-modernity. Following an opening chapter which establishes the mutual relation architectural design and political culture in the …
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Ethnic Intimacy: Race, Law, and Citizenship in Korean America
… legal professionals are interpellated as ethnic subjects in mediating the paths of Korean immigrants toward U.S. citizenship. In contrast, other Koreans---small businessmen and laborers---often challenge the U.S. legal order or disrupt clean-cut legal categories of citizenship and its …
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Agent + Image : how the television image estabilizes identity in TV spy series
… within their narratives the terms by which "subject" and "agency" have been traditionally understood and represented to popular TV audiences. This problematizing in turn opens up possibilities for detecting new modes of subject formation. This paper argues that television, communication tool …
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