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Showing 1 to 20 of 296 for “"transgression"”.
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transgression
"transgression" is a poetry collection with claws and nail polish. Across four acts, Reres uses a chorus of voices to interrogate the role of the transgressing woman—both present and past, privately and publicly. Transgressing, for Reres, is a performance. Moreover, it is a performance in which …
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[D]urbanism: The revelation of repressed transgression
Detroit lays stunned as the product of abusive parenting. The loyal workhorse of the American Dream wallows in the dedicated obsolescence of an economic monoculture and fiends for the opiate of capitalism. Yet despite the neglect, a new vitality is brewing amongst the shadows of post-fordist …
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Athletes’ Post-transgression Csr Communication Strategy in Sport
… situation if athlete endorsers have committed transgressions. Thus, it is imperative to understand the potential risks created by athlete endorsers’ transgressions, especially given the lack of existing relevant studies (Wilson, Stavros, & Westberg, 2008). However, it has not been established …
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Toward a Female Clown Practice: Transgression, Archetype and Myth
Women who learn to clown within Western contemporary theatre and performance training lack recognizably female exemplars of this popular art form. This practice-as-research thesis analyses my past and present clowning experiences in order to create an understanding of a woman-centered clown …
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Consuming Mutilation : Affectivity and Corporeal Transgression on Stage and Screen.
This thesis suggests the possibility that psychoanalytic frameworks may prove insufficient to apprehend the workings of post-millennial horror. Through a sustained exploration of how affect theory may be applied to horror, I propose a new affective corporeal model that accounts for the impact of …
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German-Polish cross-border co-operation and the politics of transgression
… of power. The author analyses the concepts of transgression and regression in order to describe the current constitution of states, borders and practice. The example of German-Polish relations shows how this constitution has changed throughout history, from a clear delineation of the Other to …
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Trickster at play: an inquiry into transgression in a colonised world
This is an inquiry about transgression of colonial discourse. My intimate encounter with the ongoing ecological destruction of the world fills me with grief and shapes my perspective. This grief is made invisible in our lives and business through hegemonic discourses that marginalises ecological …
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Transgression in the closet: Gay academics’ experiences of heteronormativity in China
Homosexuality was decriminalised in China in 1997 and removed from the official list of mental disorders in 2001. However, it is still a social taboo and Chinese queer people face persistent discrimination from the authorities and the public. While international research has documented queer …
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Anatomy of a Carboniferous transgression: upper Tullig Cyclothem, County Clare, Ireland
… sequence in County Clare, western Ireland. The transgression in focus is at the top of the Tullig Cyclothem, and is exposed in several sections over a distance of 46 km. The aims of this thesis are to describe and interpret: 1) the detailed sedimentology and stratigraphy of the transgressive …
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ADVANCING COMMUNICATION OF MEDICAL ERROR: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN TRANSGRESSION AND TRANSPARENCY
Over the past two decades the world of medicine has witnessed an about-face in publicly endorsed attitudes toward medical errors - from concealment, cover-up, and turning a blind eye to transparency, acknowledgment, and prevention. Medical error is a pervasive problem, with the Institute of …
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Bodies in Transgression: Exploring Same-Sex Relations in Contemporary Francophone Caribbean Literature
… discrimination, and violence dominate. Bodies in Transgression examines how recent literary and historical texts explore the tensions of same-sex practices, while also looking at the broader context in which these practices acquire and maintain their visibility.The corpus of novels and short …
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Towards the development of a questionnaire of post transgression motives and behaviours /
… were divided into five proposed domains of posttransgression concerns: God, Self, Victim, Others/Society, and Relationship. Within these domains, the following more specific types of concern were explored: Avoidance of punishment, concern about public image, emotional well-being, self-image, …
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Bellicose Beauties: Villainesses, Gender Transgression, and Martial Drama in Beijing, 1774-1911
This dissertation examines the narratives and performances of female warriors and villainesses in vernacular martial plays, with a special focus on the Beijing theatre during the second half of the Qing dynasty (1774-1911) when miscellaneous local performing arts (Flowery operas) flourished in the …
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The Effects of Power and Assurance of No Future Transgressions on Post-Transgression Responses
… against, or forgive the transgressor following a transgression. The secondary aim of this Dissertation was to examine one potential boundary condition as well as potential mechanisms that underlie these effects. Guided by the approach/inhibition theory of power (Keltner et al., 2003), it was …
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Unruly brides of Christ: virtuous transgression and interruption as ethos in religious women's rhetoric
This thesis explores how three religious women rhetors – St. Catherine of Siena, Sarah Grimke, and Mary Daly – rhetorically navigated and ultimately subverted the stringent ethical codes and gendered expectations imposed on “virtuous women” by crafting an ethos of interruption. Aristotelian ethos, …
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Between Tradition and Transgression: Education, Culture, and (Inter)national Pedagogies in Spain (1857–1931)
… the ties and tensions between tradition and transgression in an array of areas that range from religion, economics, and governance to gender, class, and national identity to the prospects and/or specters of revolution. Ultimately, the dissertation explores the interconnected relationships …
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Regulatory Transgression? Drivers, Aims and Effects of Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Regulation in Pakistan
The harmonization of money laundering and terrorism financing regulation is a key feature of the contemporary global economy. Since 9/11 particularly, the remarkable growth of this field of regulation has been characterized by both scale and intensity. However, this drive towards regulatory …
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