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Showing 1 to 20 of 427 for “"subjectivities"”.
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ON THERMICITY.TECHNOCULTURES, SUBJECTIVITIES, AND ELEMENTAL AESTHETICS
… of these media on the formation of thermoceptive subjectivities. The work demonstrates that the experience of heat is not a simple sensory datum, but rather a performative and transformative field in which bodies, environments, technologies, and imaginaries are interwoven. The goal is to lay the …
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Motherhood politicized: Gender and political subjectivities in Mexico
Contains fulltext : 173926.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Subject and Aesthetic Interface - an inquiry into transformed subjectivities
The present PhD-thesis seeks new definitions of human subjectivity in an age of technoscience and a networked, globalized, Information Society. The perspective presented relates to Philosophy of Science, which includes the Human, the Natural, the Social and the Life Sciences. The project is …
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Consumer Mutations: Mediated Subjectivities of the Incipient Digital Age
… people they consume online mutates their subjectivities. I isolate and define the heterogeneous “digital subject” cultivated from this mutation, a subject marked by the tenets of postmodernism and the platform through which it emerges. Rooted in media studies discourse, my project also …
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Transforming subjectivities: global mental health, biopolitics, & depression in Chile
As the leading cause of disability around the world (WHO 2012), depression has become a major public health concern. The global mental health movement has organized to increase access to mental health care within primary care and to protect the human rights of those who experience mental illnesses. …
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Indie Music in Post-bomb Bali: Participant Practices, Scene Subjectivities
This dissertation focuses on music practices that have been largely uncharted in Balinese music studies. In the twelve years following the 2002 terrorist bombings, during which time an economic downturn and subsequent accelerated tourism development and urbanization transformed southern Bali, …
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Heteronormative Discourses and Women's Bodily Subjectivities in Aotearoa-New Zealand
This thesis examines how women’s bodily subjectivities in Aotearoa-New Zealand are discursively constituted through heteronormative norms that privilege slimness and align with male-centred ideals of desirability. While body image research has primarily focused on young, heterosexual, white women, …
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Reading Speculative Subjectivities: The Second Generation and the Afterlife of Migration
This dissertation takes a transethnic, transnational, relational, and comparative approach to literature about the children of immigrants, the second generation. It argues that second generation is a distinct subject position that is shaped but not wholly defined by race, ethnicity, and nation and, …
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Imagining a right to health: HIV/AIDS, subjectivities and notions of entitlement
This research is an investigation into how the subjectivities of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) are shaped by their illness and how this ultimately influences their conceptualization of entitlements and rights. It achieves this by analyzing the broader historical and modern contexts in which …
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Feminist Subjectivities: sources for a politicised practice of women's personal development education
… account of the processes through which feminist subjectivities are constructed. Subjectivity is a central theoretical concept of the work and is conceptualised throughout from a poststructuralist perspective. Implicit in this perspective is the understanding that subjectivity is social, dynamic …
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Linking the Academy and Activism: From constructed subjectivities to participatory, communicative agency.
This thesis presents a narrative that connects discussion of a number of my papers submitted for consideration of the award of PhD by published work with reflections on methods and theory within a critical sociological context. This analysis of my publications is extended by a critical engagement …
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Abanyasida: Emergent Subjectivities And Socialities In Rwandan Associations For People Living With Hiv
… HIV. In it, I examine the reshaped individual subjectivities that emerged within the group, the emergent socialities that came to life, and the influences of the governmental and nongovernmental institutions in the wider Rwandan context. The study design combined three main features – …
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'Like a playground should be?' Experiencing and Producing Bi Subjectivities in Bisexual Space.
Much recent work on bisexual subjectivities has taken a discourse analytic approach to exploring how bisexual identity is discursively produced as paradoxical, and why it is so difficult to articulate a culturally intelligible bisexual subjectivity. This thesis responds to such work by suggesting …
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¿CAMPO PARA LA/OS JÓVENES? EXPLORING CAMPESINA/O YOUTH SUBJECTIVITIES IN CONTEMPORARY COLOMBIA.
… and policies play roles in young campesina/o subjectivities. Using qualitative methods based on semi-structured interviews, farm tours, and policy and social media analysis, this work finds gendered situations to be attentive to, such as the mandatory military service and war labor that young …
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Repositioning Queer Modernism: Men’s Fashion Photography and the Production of New Gay Subjectivities
The production of men’s fashion photography is given a conceptual and practical framework in this thesis, establishing it as a vehicle for queer political ideas. In order to do this, it establishes connections between the historical and cultural contexts, themes and techniques of modernist gay …
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Discursive (in)stability: Moral subjectivities and global hierarchies in transnational migrant women’s narratives
My dissertation considers the role of discourse in transnational migrants’ construction of moral and national identities for themselves, focusing on the case of women from Uzbekistan living in the United States. While research has highlighted how transnational movement destabilizes identity and …
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`Exploring relationships': a study of young people's (hetero)sexual subjectivities, knowledge and practices
… between young people's sexual knowledge, sexual subjectivities and (hetero)sexual practices. It also aims to investigate how young people's articulation and experiences of their sexual knowledge, subjectivities and practices are gendered. A further goal is to re-examine what is theorised as a …
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Playing with ethics?: A Foucauldian examination of the construction ethical subjectivities in Ultimate Frisbee
… rationality and problematic sporting subjectivities are well established (e.g., Beamish & Ritchie, 2006; Donnelly, 1996; Hughes & Coakley, 1991). In recent years, however, critical scholars have taken an increasing interest in how athletes and coaches might find ways of problematizing …
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