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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"subjectification"”.
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Theory of Subjectification in Gilles Deleuze: A Study of the Temporality in Capitalism
<p>This dissertation looks at time as a socially or psychologically imposed ‘structure’ that determines the ways in which past, present and future are weaved together in the subject. This inquiry presents (1) a critical role of temporality in the formation of the subject, (2) a specific temporality …
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Producing Ambiguous Threats: The Xenos and Xenophobia in Postcolonial France
… its traditional meaning to analyse practices of subjectification that have emerged beside the traditional binary, dominating Western differentiation (e.g., French/stranger). To that end, it resorts to a Foucaultian archaeology to analyse the regularity of discursive and non-discursive practices …
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VERBS OF SPEECH AND COGNITION: STRUCTURAL PATTERNS IN NEW MEXICAN SPANISH
… Weber and Bentivoglio 1991), as well as the subjectification of specific verbs (Company Company 2006a; Company Company 2006b; Travis 2005; Travis 2006a; Travis 2006b). This study contributes to the understanding of emergent grammar, subjectivity, and subjectification across languages by …
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Parental engagement, new technologies and education : between two cultures
… education. This study focuses on the impact of subjectification, intersecting identities and post-colonial theory on minority group parents' abilities to engage with schools in their children's education. This study adopts an in-depth qualitative methodology, consisting of 10 months of …
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Tension and possibility: navigating experiences in graduate studies through a/r/tographic currere
… of education (qualification, socialization, and subjectification) and synthesized toward a wider discussion of how living and learning in a knowledge economy has affected our educational experiences but our academic/teacher/researcher identities as well. To conclude, this thesis calls for deep …
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The use and abuse of genealogy : genealogical critique from Nietzsche to Said
… body and power, with regard to the question of subjectification.
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Navigating the neoliberal discursive environment: an inquiry into the experiences of employees in the voluntary and community sector
… the material impacts but also the discursive and subjectification effects for front-line employees. The theory is operationalised through the use of Bacchi’s (2009) ‘What’s the Problem Represented to be?’ (WPR) approach, by examining how contextual challenges are problematised within the …
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Conditions, Contestations, and Pockets of Belonging: Youth Citizenship in Small Town America
… their daily lives. Drawing on an intersectional subjectification (“self-making” and “being-made”) framework, this dissertation advances three arguments. First, I contend belonging in Riverton for the youth is conditional on their positions in racial, class, and gendered hierarchies of belonging. …
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Bestial rooms : a work of prose fiction
… and gender, and also on issues surrounding the subjectification and objectification of desire. Focus is also placed on the narrator's consciousness of her written medium and the degree to which it supplants experience with an artificial facsimile; the narrator's inability to locate a consistent …
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When Time Shall Surrender: Disability, Crip Time, and John Clare's Language of Annihilation
… consequences of irresponsible urbanization and subjectification, just as this new view of Clare’s work advocates a reconsideration of his consistent point of view in both his pre-asylum and asylum-era poems.</p>
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Discourse and Psyche: Three Women's Texts of Empire
… resistance to explore the dynamic ""processes of subjectification"" that women's colonial discourse enacts (Bhabha, ""Other Question,"" 18--19). Taking inspiration from numerous psychoanalytic studies of male-authored imperial texts, this thesis shows how the dynamic forces of aggression, …
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Pregnant in Heels: A Critical Analysis of the Ideal, Maternal Body in Celebrity Magazines
… freedom, liberty, individualism and self-subjectification will also be investigated. A cultural analysis of thirty-seven tabloid publications from 2012 to 2013 will be examined for both visual and written discourse pertaining to the cultural construction of ideal motherhood. Through this …
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Pākehā counsellors consider their positioning: Towards postcolonial praxis
… project, which extends to a consideration of subjectification, agency and positioning theory. This study is also intentionally postcolonial drawing on Said’s seminal works, Orientalism (1979) and Culture and Imperialism (1993) and North American and European writing about identity politics and …
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"There’s literally nothing else I can do apart from cope": a Foucauldian discourse analysis of shame, coping, and the operation of power in parents' narrative accounts of adolescent substance use
… of governmentality, through mechanisms of subjectification, self-surveillance, normalisation, and confession. Attempts to subvert and resist were found in the use of a hierarchy discourse which crucially offered subject position shifts for the narrator, but its use overwhelmingly reinforced …
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Ambivalence and penetration of boundaries in the worship of Dionysos: Analysing the enacting of psychical conflicts in religious ritual and myth, with reference to societal structure
… structures, which are organised around ideas of subjectification that posit that phusis must be severed from polis/ego and projected onto Dionysos and all groups that threaten the precariousness of these boundaries.
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The Threshold – a Place of the Hunchback. Violence and Transformation in works by Géricault, Dix, Salomon, Magritte, and Kafka
… conceptualises the threshold as a place of subjectification that makes visible the inhuman within the human itself. In the light of Adorno’s conception of aesthetic experience, Odradek is an allegorical expression of what makes social criticism possible. Odradek represents my central …
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Global Extraction and Cultural Production: An Investigation of Forms of Extraction Through the Production of Artist-Video
… ‘zones’ of extraction have; forced the further ‘subjectification’ of labour; supported continued and on-going primitive accumulation – through the creation of global space/time; and promoted the intensification of both relative and absolute surplus value, through the mechanisation of reproduction …
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The Dynamics of Sisterhood In the Modern Chinese Imaginary, 1890S-1930S
… My dissertation examines the identification and subjectification of modern Chinese women through the hermeneutic circuits around “sisterhood.” I contend that the oscillations between cohesion and fragmentation beneath the “hood” crystalize the crux of the problem in the construction of modern …
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A Discursive Study of how Mental Health Social Workers Constructed their Professional Selves within the Context of National Health Service Mental Health Services
… discourses, subject positions and a process of subjectification. Twelve social workers were interviewed; seven mental health social workers and five social workers who held positions as managers or educationalists. I asked social workers questions about their professional identity, their answers …
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The social justice agency of secondary school headteachers
… in refusing the dominance of market-oriented subjectification. I hope the study will inform new conversations about headteachers’ role as civic and educational leaders who are producers as well as receivers of national education discourse; structural reformers as well as system leaders.
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