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Baquet, N. Eugene. "Blues Story: Narratives of Cultural Identity." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2006. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/BaquetNE2006.pdf.
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Milnes, Kate. "Dominant cultural narratives, community narratives and past experience : their impact on 'young' mothers' personal narrative accounts of experience." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.289416.
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Na'Allah, Adbul-Rasheed. "Yoruba folktales, cultural plurality and oral narratives." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0020/NQ46891.pdf.
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Bortolazzo, Sandro Faccin. "Narrativas acadêmicas e midiáticas produzindo uma geração digital." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/128901.
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Inscrita no referencial teórico da vertente pós-estruturalista dos Estudos Culturais em Educação, esta tese procura mostrar a produção de uma Geração Digital a partir da interlocução entre narrativas acadêmicas e midiáticas. Discute as condições culturais que têm permitido atrelar crianças e jovens a um rótulo geracional específico e sinaliza um denominador comum balizado pela conexão desses sujeitos com artefatos eletrônicos digitais, a exemplo de computadores e telefones celulares. A pesquisa mapeou as variadas narrativas acadêmicas que demarcam uma geração conectada às tecnologias digitais, dando destaque aos estudos de autores reconhecidos nesse debate como Tapscott, Prensky, Carr, entre outros. O mapeamento das narrativas midiáticas acerca dessa geração foi realizado mediante uma análise das reportagens de capa de duas revistas semanais – Veja e Época – no período de 1998 a 2013. O foco central da tese recaiu sobre as interlocuções entre as narrativas acadêmicas e midiáticas, destacando-se aí a emergência de certas representações e saberes que circulam sobre essa parcela da população jovem. O referencial teórico da pesquisa compôs-se de autores que discutem os conceitos de identidade, geração, narrativa, representação e cultura digital, com destaques à Bauman, Rose, Hall, Lister, Buckingham, entre outros. Os resultados da pesquisa expõem uma geração que vem sendo instituída por narrativas que apontam a convivência, familiaridade e extraordinária habilidade para operar aparatos digitais como o que distingue os digitais dos sujeitos de outras gerações. Observou-se que, ao associar determinadas características a crianças e jovens, tais como a destreza em operar smartphones e tablets, as narrativas acadêmicas e midiáticas acabam produzindo verdades sobre nossa sociedade e os sujeitos que nela vivem. Tais narrativas sinalizam também para os perigos da imersão de crianças e jovens no universo digital – riscos que se encontram ancorados, frequentemente, nas falas de especialistas provenientes de distintas áreas de conhecimento. Ambas as narrativas sublinham o quanto a ideia de velocidade e consumo estão intrinsicamente relacionadas às tecnologias digitais, o que vem permeando também a convocação ao uso dos aparatos tecnológicos nos espaços escolares.Inscribed under the theoric referential from post structuralist strand of Cultural Studies in Education, this thesis aims to show the production of a Digital Generation from the interlocution between academic and mediatic narratives. It discusses the cultural conditions that have allowed linking children and youth into a specific generational label and signalizes a common denominator marked by their connection with digital electronic artifacts, as computers and cell phones. The research mapped the several academic narratives that demarcate a generation connected to digital technologies, with prominence for studies of recognized authors in the field such as Tapscott, Prensky, Carr, among others. The mapping of mediatic narratives about the Digital Generation was conducted through an analysis of cover reportages from two weekly magazines – Veja and Época – from the period between 1998 and 2013. The central focus of the thesis fell under the interlocution between academic and mediatic narratives, highlighting the emergence of certain representations and knowledges that circulate about this parcel of young population. The theoric referential of the research is consisted by authors who discuss the concepts of identity, generation, narrative, representation and digital culture, with highlights to Bauman, Rose, Hall, Lister, Buckingham, among others. The research results expose a generation that has been instituted by narratives which point the conviviality, the familiarity and the extraordinary ability to operate digital devices as a fact to distinguish digitals from subjects of other generations. It was observed that, by associating certain characteristics to children and youth, such as the skills to operate smartphones and tablets, the academic and mediatic narratives end up producing truths about our society and the subjects who live on it. Such narratives signalize also the dangers for the immersion of children and youth in the digital world – risks that are frequently anchored by expert speeches from different knowledge fields. Both narratives underline how much the idea of speed and consumption are intrinsically related to digital technologies, which is also permeating the convocation for the use of technological devices in school spaces.
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Fink, Gerhard, Marcus Kölling, and Anne-Katrin Neyer. "The cultural standard method." Europainstitut, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2005. http://epub.wu.ac.at/450/1/document.pdf.
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The proposed method enables us to identify cultural standards, i.e. the underlying norms of thinking, sensing, perceiving, judging, and acting that the vast majority of individuals in a given culture is considering as normal for themselves and others. Norms of behaviour can be different across societies even if the underlying values are the same and can cause critical incidents to emerge. A sequence of methodological steps allows systematically dealing with sampling, interviewer, interpretation, construct, and culture bias in cross-cultural qualitative research based on narrative interviews.(author's abstract)Series: EI Working Papers / Europainstitut
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Hammond, Julia Leanne. "Homelessness and the postmodern home: narratives of cultural change /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1192191901&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 224-233). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Burkhardt, Kate J. "Narratives of Inuit inmates, crime, identity and cultural alienation." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ52519.pdf.
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許子東 and Zidong Xu. "Narratives of the "Cultural Revolution" in contemporary Chinese fiction." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31237915.
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Saliba, Therese. ""Saving brown women" : cultural contests and narratives of identity /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9444.
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Scott, Jesse James. "Disturbing the peace [electronic resource] : cultural narratives and reparations /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7594.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of American Studies. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Ferreira, Sônia Lúcia Bahia. "Comunidades: redutos de identidades culturais narrativas e práticas afirmativas." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2009. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=5000.
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Esta tese Comunidades: redutos de identidades culturais, narrativas e práticas afirmativas, problematiza e questiona as identidades culturais no momento contemporâneo, refletindo em que medida o discurso sobre comunidades é aglutinador das novas tentativas de afirmação das identidades. Subentende - se que partiu do pressuposto de que há novas formas de reinvenção da identidade, ainda que os motivos para tal feito sejam os mais diversos. O presente projeto discute esta possibilidade através da investigação das práticas afirmativas e das narrativas elaboradas pelos sujeitos pertencentes a duas instituições distintas em duas regiões brasileiras O Rio de Janeiro e a Bahia. Teve como foco de análise o Centro Cultural Cartola na comunidade da Mangueira (RJ) e a Associação Sociocultural do Ilê Aiyê na comunidade do Curuzu (BA). Mapeou os cenários de tais instituições e identificou quais foram as lógicas histórico - culturais que serviram de lastro para o entendimento que os sujeitos fazem de si mesmos nesses locais e como pretendem através de re-interpretações particulares serem reapresentados. Adentrou ao exame dos produtos culturais que as instituições elegem como representações de seus movimentos e como elaboram novas formas de fazer-se sujeito e atingir sua emancipação. Compreendeu uma nova perspectiva para os movimentos que realizam e como avaliam suas potencialidades para enfrentar a condição de vulnerabilidade social. Várias foram as categorias atravessadoras do descortinar da paisagem teórica e dos cenários que emolduram a problemática desta pesquisa. Foi desenvolvida a partir do enfoque Fenomenológico aliado á Etnopesquisa, Microsociologia, Psicossociologia e os referenciais de Pierre Bourdieu e, especificamente os trabalhos do Laboratoire de Changement Sociale da Universidade de Paris VII, Denis Diderot. Por fim diferenciou-se as gramáticas específicas de cada movimento e redimensionou-se os termos de suas construçõesThis thesis Communities: place of cultural identities, narratives and practical affirmations, insisted on paying and question the cultural identities at the moment contemporary, arguing where measured the speech on communities he is agglutinant of the new attempts of affirmation of the identities. Of this if assume that, it left of the estimated one of that it has new forms of represent, invention of the identity, despite the reasons for such are most diverse. This agreement through the inquiry of the practical affirmations and the narratives elaborated for the pertaining citizens argues the two distinct institutions in two Brazilian regions Rio de Janeiro and the Bahia. The cultural center Cartola in the community of the Mangueira (RJ) and the sóciocultural association of the Ilê Aiyê in the community of Curuzu (BA), chose as focus of analysis. Identified the scenes of such institutions and stand out which had been their historical logics cultural that it served of ballast for the agreement that the citizens make exactly of itself and as they intend through an reverse speed-interpretation to be resubmitted. It came into the examination of the cultural products that the institutions choosen as representations of its movements and new forms of elaborating to become subject and to reach an emancipation. It understood a new perspective for the movements that carry through and as they evaluate its potentialities to face the conditions of social vulnerability that reaches them. Several had been the categories profiteers of disclosing of the theoretical landscape and the scenes that frame the problematic one of this research. But the cultural studies are basic of the understanding of the complexion of this research. Using also of the reference of Bourdieu and the psicossociologia, specifically of those conceived to the works developed for the Laboratoire de Changement Sociale of the University of Paris VII, Denis Diderot. Finally the grammars are differentiated specify of each movement and dimension the terms of its constructions
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Ncube, Nolwazi Nadia. "Narratives of the transnational student: a complicated story of cultural identity, cultural exchange and homecoming." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13703.
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Includes bibliography.This research study gives a glimpse into the ways in which transnational study complicates students' cultural identity, sense of belonging and homecoming; interweaving their experiences into a new transnational identity and a plural sense of belonging. The study examines a sub-group of elite, highly mobile people referred to as "transnational students" - who in a working definition are students who have travelled to; lived, studied and even sometimes worked in at least two countries during the course of their degree programmes. It draws on their autobiographical narratives in order to demonstrate the way in which they exist in a suspended state of 'temporary permanence' and with time, develop a' contaminated' sense of cultural identity, diluted by their 'foreign exchanges'. The study reveals the mercurial fluidity with which abstract and concrete constructions of home are made by transnational students. It also portrays the ways in which these students navigate their multiplied entities as a result of their cultural exchanges abroad. Finally, it tells a story of (dis)connects and (dis)connections to bring out the challenges faced by these students abroad and at home.
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Nelson, Amy. "Cross-Cultural Conversion Narratives: An American Missionary in Taichung, Taiwan." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 1998. http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTNZ,2354.
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Przybyl, Veronica Ashley. "Eating Disorder Narratives: Personal Experiences of Anorexia and Bulimia." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/anthro_theses/42.
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The following paper explores the ways in which we currently understand eating disorders, examining the current theory and literature as well as providing the stories of three women and one man with first-hand experience with eating disorders. Through the use of formal interviews, the paper focuses not only on the ways in which an eating disorder affects an individual’s life but also on the ways in which an individual’s life affects the manifestation of his or her eating disorder.
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Oliveira, Maria do Socorro de Jesus. "O IMAGINÁRIO ARTÍSTICO-CULTURAL NAS LENDAS TOCANTINENSES." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2013. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/3181.
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Previous issue date: 2013-02-18This study, concerning the myths, tales and legends, discusses the influence of imagination and creativity in the behavior of three bordering cities: Araguatins, São Miguel do Tocantins and São Sebastião do Tocantins. Located in the Bico do Papagaio region in the state of Tocantins. Moreover, search and rescue record, with field research, which drew upon personal experiences residents of these cities. Componsig a collection of twenty four texts are on a CD in annex B. With litles: The Boat of the divine , the Boiuna reported in three versions by three narrators, the Black D´water reported in three versions by narrators, Garupinha the Shout at the cemetery , Guardian angel or Ghost , sumer of man , the Caipora , the Blond road reported by two narrators, the Werewolf , Araguatins excommunicated by the priest , the Bug that appeared in Araguatins , the Big snake reported in two versions, two narrators, the Rosa´s alligators , the Iara , the Nonatinho , the Dolphin . It is hoped that the publication of these narratives, can contribute to the cultural heritage of the state. The reports were transcribed in the form of summaries, and analyzed with emphasis on artistic cultural imaginary, the intertextuality and dialogue with other texts of the oral tradition, in a process of interaction between cultures. Through research, we can see the influence of popular culture on the behavior of its residents by transmission from generation to generation, the stories told and taken as truth. The narrators characterize and adorn their stories, always narrated as real events relating to your area and see accompanield by misteries and hauntings characters, provoking fear and promoter of mythicconsciousness.
Este estudo, concernente aos causos, mitos e lendas, aborda a influência do imaginário na criatividade e no comportamento dos ribeirinhos de três cidades: Araguatins, São Miguel do Tocantins e São Sebastião do Tocantins, situadas na região do Bico do Papagaio no estado do Tocantins. Além disso, busca resgatar e registrar, com pesquisa de campo, as narrativas da tradição oral, em que valeu-se de experiências pessoais dos moradores dessas cidades. Compondo uma coletânea de vinte e quatro textos, encontram-se em um CD no anexo B. Com os títulos: o Barco do divino , a Boiúna relatado em três versões, por três narradores, o Negro D água relatado em três versões, por três narradores, Garupinha , o Grito no cemitério , Anjo da guarda ou Fantasma , Some homem , o Caipora , a Loira da estrada , relatado por dois narradores, o Lobisomem , Araguatins excomungada pelo padre , o Bicho que aparecia em Araguatins , a Cobra grande relatado em duas versões, por dois narradores, o Jacaré do Rosa , a Iara , o Nonatinho , o Boto . Espera-se que a divulgação dessas narrativas, possa contribuir para o acervo cultural do Estado. Os relatos foram transcritos em forma de resumos e analisados com ênfase no imaginário artístico-cultural, na intertextualidade e no diálogo com outros textos da tradição oral e universal, em um processo de interação entre culturas. Pela pesquisa, pode-se perceber a influência da cultura popular no comportamento de seus moradores pela transmissão, de geração a geração, dos causos contados e tidos como verdade. Os narradores caracterizam e enfeitam suas estórias, sempre narradas como acontecimentos reais, referentes à sua região e vêm acompanhadas de mistérios e de personagens de assombrações, provocadoras do medo e promotora da consciência mítica.
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McDonnell, Madeline Clark. "MUSEUMS OF PARIS: FORMER ROYAL RESIDENCES TO CREATE NATIONAL CULTURAL NARRATIVES." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1166.
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the reason why Parisian museums are in previously contracted buildings rather than creating a structure for them upon their creation. Looking at the examples of the Musée de Cluny, Musée du Louvre, and the Musée d’Archéologie National. Upon examining these cases, it is evident that Paris had a vacancy of buildings that allowed to put its buildings into previously constructed former noble residences. Drawing on the collections and timing of the creation of the museums creates the clear differences between the cohort cities of London and Paris.
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Silva, Erika Vanessa de Lima. "Narrativas de professores de surdos sobre a escrita de sinais." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/79675.
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A presente dissertação tem como objetivo analisar as narrativas de professores de surdos sobre a escrita da língua de sinais (ELS), que é o sistema de registro escrito da Língua Brasileira de Sinais. Para isso, foram realizadas entrevistas narrativas com nove profissionais que trabalham em escolas de surdos. A construção desta dissertação se deu entre os anos de 2011 e 2013 e durante o trabalho contatei com as escolas que tinham alunos surdos matriculados buscando aquelas que utilizavam a ELS em suas práticas escolares. Obtive o retorno de três escolas e nelas entrevistei professores e equipe diretiva. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida na perspectiva dos Estudos Surdos e dos Estudos Culturais em Educação, campos a partir dos quais utilizo os conceitos de narrativa, identidade, diferença e cultura, dialogando com autores como Hall (2007), Silva (2009), Perlin (2005), Stumpf (2005), Zappe (2010) e outros. A ELS é a escrita visual da língua de sinais e se situa na história da educação de surdos muito recentemente. A partir das respostas das entrevistas, foram feitos os seguintes agrupamentos temáticos: a importância da ELS; ELS como estratégia ou produção surda? e ELS no currículo escolar: surdos empoderados.The intention of this dissertation is to analyse the narratives of deaf teachers about sign writing (SW). SW is the written system of the Sign Language. To achieve that, narrative interviews with nine different professionals that works in schools for deaf were made. The data was collected between 2011 and 2013 and, during the work, I searched schools that had deaf students enrolled, seeking those that use SW in their school practices. Three schools answered me and I interviewed their teachers and directive board. The perpective adopted in this research was the Deaf Studies and Cultural Studies in Education, and I use the concepts of narrative, identity, difference and culture that are in these perspective, using authors like Hall (2007), Silva (2010), Perlin (2005), Stumpf (2005), Zappe (2010) and others. The SW is the visual writing of the sign language and is part of the recent history of deaf education. Taking the answers of the interviews as an starting point, some thematic groups emerged: the importance of SW; SW as an strategy or deaf production? SW in the school curricula: deaf empowered.
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Souza, Andrea Bittencourt de. "Narrativas sobre o ensino da dança : caminhos tramados e traçados em escolas do Rio Grande do Sul." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/131888.
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A presente tese, Narrativas sobre o ensino da dança: caminhos tramados e traçados em escolas do Rio Grande do Sul, investiga como se constitui as identidades do professor de Arte/ Dança na escola diante do recente processo de curricularização dessa prática. A Dança contemporaneamente assume o status de área de conhecimento e saber disciplinar na escola, processo esse, desencadeado no Rio Grande do Sul, pela emergência de várias graduações em Dança nos últimos anos, assim como um conjunto de práticas que possibilitaram a realização de concursos públicos para o professor licenciado em Arte/ Dança. Dessa forma, selecionei a entrevista como a principal ferramenta para obtenção das narrativas das professoras que atuam ou atuaram em escolas de diferentes redes de ensino do Rio Grande do Sul. O material analítico consistiu nas narrativas de 9 professoras entrevistadas presencialmente e 1 através de email, entre 2012 e 2014; outros materiais como editais de concursos, acompanhamentos de nomeações, legislações e documentos foram também entremeados ao texto no sentido de atender a questão principal do estudo. A pesquisa situada no campo teórico dos Estudos Culturais em Educação na vertente pós-estruturalista, articulou-se com alguns referenciais da Dança e da formação de professores, e a partir de alguns conceitos chaves como identidades, narrativas e discursos procuramos realizar uma análise cultural, a qual nos possibilitou evidenciar que: uma nova posição identitária, - o professor de Arte/ Dança -, emerge no contexto sul-rio-grandense, a partir das práticas discursivas que posicionam a Dança como uma área de conhecimento e disciplina escolar. Essa identidade não é fixa, nem estável, é constituída por múltiplas experiências advindas de suas formações como bailarinos/ dançarinos, como acadêmicos da Dança e, principalmente, pelo exercício da profissão no cotidiano da escola, o que lhes permite construir uma “outra” dança decorrente do processo de curricularização dessa prática. Essa outra dança não é algo classificável em um estilo ou outro, carrega traços dos discursos contemporâneos acerca da dança, mas é forjada no dia a dia da escola, delimitada por suas paredes substantivas e subjetivas do disciplinamento da modernidade, assim como pelos sujeitos contemporâneos que nela transitam. Essa intensa relação tensiona o professor de Arte/ Dança a criar modos de ensinar particulares adequados às diferentes realidades que podemos nomear escola, a qual cobra continuamente certezas em termos metodológicos. Emerge então nesse contexto não somente outra dança, mas também outro professor de Dança advindo dessa experiência singular na escola.The thesis Narratives about dance teaching: paths woven and designed in schools in Rio Grande do Sul investigates how Art/Dance teacher’s identities are shaped in the school amidst the process of curricularisation of this practice. Today dance assumes the status of field of knowledge and disciplinary knowledge in school, this process being unfolded in the state of Rio Grande do Sul through the emergence of many degrees in dance in recent years, as well as a set of practices enabling art/dance teachers to public selection exams. Therefore I selected the interview as the main tool to draw narratives by female teachers working in different kinds of schools in the state. Nine female teachers’ presential narratives, one through email between 2012 and 2014 made up the analytic material; and other materials, such as public selection exam announcements, assistance in appointments, legislations and documents were interspersed in the text to see the key question in the study. The research is located in the theoretical field of poststructuralist Cultural Studies in Education, and was articulated with some referentials of dance and teachers’ formation. Based on some key concepts such as identities, narratives and discourses, we have sought to conduct cultural analysis to show that with a new identity position the art/dance teacher emerges in Rio Grande do Sul context from discursive practices positioning dance as a field of knowledge and school discipline. This identity is not stable; it is shaped with multiples experiences resulting from their dancing formation, dance academic courses and, chiefly, by the exercise of the profession in the everyday school, which allows them to construct ‘another’ dance from the process of curricularisation of this practice. This another dance cannot be categorised in one or other style, it has traces of contemporary discourses about dance, but is forged in the daily school restricted by substantive subjective walls of modernity disciplining, and by contemporary subjects circulating there. This intense relation urges the art/dance teacher to create particular ways of teaching for different realities we can call school, which demands continuous certainties in methodological terms. In this context, not only another dance, but also another dance teacher comes out of this unique experience at school.
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Nogueira, Hellen Ovando da Camara. "A narrativa web como espaço de encontros entre mídias, cultura e sociedade." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2016. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/8619.
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In this dissertation we propose the study of the many associations conducted by the YouTube channel named Porta dos Fundos while it articulates various media formats and promotes the hybridization between serialized narrative and Brazilian traditional television humoristic shows with the intention of creating new practices, experiences and meanings of consumption, focusing on the web as its main media. Since the narrative ways proposed by Porta dos Fundos are part of an established social, cultural and political ecosystem, this research aims to investigate how that narrative acts together with this ecosystem by means of the thematic behind the sketches. To achieve this objective, we analyze the elements composing: I) the media used to exhibit the narrative (Internet); II) the aesthetics and structural components of the television makeup used while making audiovisual products to the Internet; III) the relationship between those texts and the contemporary context. Therefore, we understand Porta dos Fundos as an audiovisual piece immersed in the spirit of its time, with this research seeking to single out the many clues provided by its text that can help to grasp the social and historical environment that coexists with the narrative.
Esta dissertação propõe o estudo das associações realizadas pelo canal do YouTube, Porta dos Fundos, ao articular os suportes midiáticos e promover a hibridização dos formatos narrativos de ficcionais seriados e dos programas tradicionais de humor da televisão brasileira, a fim de propiciar a produção de novas práticas, experiências e significados de consumo, tendo a web como mídia principal. A pesquisa, por entender que as narrativas propostas pelo Porta dos Fundos estão inseridas em circunstâncias sociais, culturais e políticas, procura investigar seus diálogos com estas por meio dos tratamentos das temáticas dos esquetes. Neste sentido, foram analisados os elementos que constituem: I) o suporte midiático de exibição das narrativas (Internet); II) as configurações estéticas e estruturais da linguagem televisiva que são utilizadas na feitura do audiovisual de Internet; III) as relações dos textos com seu contexto contemporâneo. Compreende-se o Porta dos Fundos como uma obra imersa no espírito de sua época. Este trabalho procura, portanto, individualizar as pistas oferecidas pelos textos do canal, que auxiliam na compreensão do momento social e histórico coexistente às narrativas.
FAPESP: 2014/03189-0
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Chang, Miao-Jen. "A cross-cultural study of Taiwanese and British university students' oral narratives." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/7826.
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This cross-cultural study investigates the structural and cultural differences and similarities evident in 13 Mandarin (TM) and 17 English language narratives (TEFL) produced by Taiwanese university EFL students and 17 narratives (BE) produced by British university students. This study also explores how the Taiwanese L2 learners’ identities might affect their use of L2 discourse norms within their narratives. The findings show that within the three sets of narratives, past experiences, in general, are recounted in chronological order and the organisation of narratives follows the sequential order defined by Labov (1972). In terms of orientation, there is some cultural variance. The TM and TEFL narratives underscore the importance of family values in Taiwanese society and underline the role of teachers in these students’ worlds. However, the data shows some variance with Labov’s (1972) results in terms of the relationship between complicating action, resolution and evaluation. In terms of external evaluation, the British narrators use much more evaluation in directly addressing their listeners. In terms of internal evaluation, there is significant variance within the three sets of narratives i.e. stress usage, adverb usage, and repetition. The findings suggest that there is no major difference in tellership and tellability in the three sets of narratives. In terms of learner identity, although some Taiwanese EFL students demonstrate high levels of integrative motivation, they have difficulty using L2 discourse norms in their narratives. This is evidenced by their anxiety in relation to their locus of control. It is also manifest that their learner identities have changed over a period of time and were constructed in various sites of struggle, and by relations of power, in which they assumed different subject positions.
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Al-Mulla, Mariam Ibrahim. "Museums in Qatar : creating narratives of history, economics and cultural co-operation." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/11328/.
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This thesis traces the history of museums in Qatar to investigate a significant period of transformation - politically, economically and socially - and their role in the reordering of ' things'. I compare the way in which Qatari museums have been used during two different eras, from the 19705 to 1995 and from 1995 to the current day, to demonstrate how museums in Qatar have been politically driven and where they have been used to strengthen a national profile, locally. region ally and globally. A specific study of Qatar National Museum allows for an exploration of how Sheikh Khalifa's aims for the museums in the country changed the community's understanding of their everyday objects, when they were shown in a museum context as a part of a specific narrative of history and change. The economic, social and political paradigm shifts that Qatar is witnessing currently have brought about recognition of the need for a wider and more important role for museums and their acquisitions. Alongside moves to modernise the country, there has begun to be an emphasis on the need to preserve Qatar's traditions and heritage and the desire to rebuild some sites and cities from Qatar's hi story. Throughout these projects, Qatari and Islamic heritage have been utilised in the politicians' vision and plans for globalisation and modernisation. The new museum culture in Qatar acts as a very powerful tool to generate narratives about the country as a nation; however, the opening of these new museums invites debate about why certain objects have been brought together and why specific narratives have been constructed around them. I have completed this research as both a curator employed by the Museums Authority in Qatar since 1998, and as a doctoral student at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. This has created an interesting tension in my work. As an insider, I have had to engage with the cultural basis of understanding demanded of a curator working in Qatar. However, as a research student, I have been required to question, analyse and critique Qatari museum practice. This is the first thesis to explore the history of museums in Qatar conducted by a Qatari employed by the Museums Authority and I have addressed the challenges of this position in my research.
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Söderlund, Ellinor. "In a football bubble: Cultural transition narratives of Swedish elite football players." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för hälsa och välfärd, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-38196.
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The purpose of the study was to investigate cultural transition experience in elite football. More specifically, to explore three Swedish football players experience of their first transition abroad when relocating to play professional football in Europe. A narrative inquiry approach was used, with help of the cultural transition model (Ryba, Stambulova, & Ronkainen, 2016) a semi-structured interview guide was created. The cultural transition model was also used as a lens for analyzing the data. The participants were non-randomly sampled and recruited with help from the Swedish Football Federation. Four players responded positively and initiated the interview, three was fully conducted while one dropped out. The data were analyzed with holistic-content and categorical-content analysis to show three unique pathways but also common themes of their cultural transitions. The first result showed the uniqueness of the players pathways; preparing for the worst and saved by the football bubble, taking responsibility and a key role as a foreign player to gain respect in the team, and a big step for personal development: from homesickness to being hungry for more. Secondly, the result showed that the participant shared experience in the cultural transition process which are presented in 12 themes (e.g. Pre-transition phase: satisfaction in Swedish club before leaving, Acute cultural adaptation phase: adjustment in football as first priority in host culture, and Sociocultural adaptation: perceived ability and efficacy to adjust to new cultural settings). In conclusion, adaptation in football was prioritized during the first period of relocation, that means that they fully invested to show that they were good. However, after this first phase, having a meaningful life besides football became one of the most important things to feel satisfied. Although there are still questions unanswered regarding cultural transition in elite football, implications to Swedish Football Federation were given in further working with professional players who go abroad.
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Brownfield, Kristi. "VENI, VIDI, VIDS: TRANSFORMING CULTURAL NARRATIVES THROUGH THE ART OF AUDIOVISUAL STORYTELLING." OpenSIUC, 2015. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1100.
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The focus of this research is “fanvids” which are the creative work of fans that combine clips or images from a visual “canon” source (usually a television series or movie) to music to create an alternative narrative. By using qualitative content analysis methods, I sampled from the television show Supernatural and the 2009 film Star Trek to understand the ways diverse characters were presented and what types of cultural narratives existed. Then I sampled from seven different vidding communities, collecting a total of 105 vids and 6509 comments on those vids as the second part of my sample. Then drawing on the sociological subfields of social psychology, gender, cultural studies, as well as the broader literatures of media and film studies, I analyzed both the data from canons and fanvids. My analysis centered on the following research questions: a) What are the cultural narratives present in the canon sources and how are those narratives rejected, accepted, replaced, or otherwise transformed within fanvids? (b) How do the narratives present within the canon source and within the vids reflect the ideologies and spirit of the culture that produces those narratives? (c) Are these vids and discussions a sign of potential change in cultural ideologies and narratives and, if so, what change is taking place? My findings within the two canons include an emphasis on a masculinity that maintains control through violence and aggression; in contrast vids reject this type of masculinity and the larger cultural narratives that support it, except when that violent masculinity is sexualized in the context of homosexual relationships. Further, vids predominantly reject the heteronormativity found in both Supernatural and Star Trek in favor of presenting queer relationships. Within this dissertation, I have used the transformation from canon to fandom as a narrative proxy for cultural change. The differences and similarities between canon and vid point to deficiencies both in narrative and in representation in the media we are producing in the U.S. as well as narratives that are stable and enduring, so much so that fans add them even when they are not present in canon. These are the stories our culture, right now, is built on; essentially, these are the narratives that are part of the cultural ideologies that reflect hopes, dreams, beliefs, and ideologies of the people within our society.
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Lindner, Susan Helga. "Narratives of working within a complex organisation : ethnographic study of cultural competence." Thesis, Queen Margaret University, 2011. https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/7308.
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The aim of this research was to shed light on the multiple social realities within an organisation and provide perspectives on how individuals made sense of the social world, which enabled them to participate in these social realities. As Smircich (1983) explained, culture is something that an organisation is, rather than has. As such, the literature considered ways of assisting individuals to survive and thrive within complex social realities and the personal costs associated with participating in them. The literature was used to demonstrate how my view changed from understanding organisations as beings to considering them as subjective cultures. I based this research on an interpretative phenomenology. My views were influenced by my desire to explore and interpret the experiences of individuals, who were the organisation’s directors. Ethnography enabled me to take into account the knowledge shown in everyday social interactions in the workplace. Multiple perspectives and influences, which shaped this social world, were illuminated by bringing to the surface individual experiences and perceptions. These were achieved by gathering responses to a questionnaire; transcripts of interviews with the eleven directors; four pilot interviews with employees, who were not directors; pre and post interview sheets; and my reflective diary. The diary provided a transparent account of the research process and included an acknowledgment of any potential bias. This research relied heavily on the views expressed by the eleven directors in their interviews and my own views. Consequently, I wrote this thesis in the first person whenever possible. I chose a theatrical method, aligned to the work of Goffman (1959), to present this research; using acts and scenes to represent the main formal and informal cultural clues, which emerged. I presented Burke’s dramatism model (1945, 1969) of human behaviour as a means of understanding the cultural clues, which were revealed. The findings contribute to an understanding of organisational life and are relevant for those, who want to understand the dynamics of human groups, which, ultimately, may lead to improving our lives in this world. By acknowledging the existence of the cultural scenario and by revealing the characteristics of those, who blunder and those, who exploit, this research demonstrates that individuals have to be encouraged to see the cognitive and visible aspects of the culture, which exist within the structures and processes, the roles and the knowledge and communication, which exist within organisations. We can comprehend this world from many viewpoints if we only take the time to look.
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Firmino, Raniery Fontenele. "Versões do patrimônio: usos e narrativas dos moradores do Poço da Draga." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2013. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/7542.
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This research starts with a reflection on the draft decree no 3.551 establishing the record of cultural immaterial nature of the Brazilian cultural patrimony and that, somehow, it has been extending the meaning of the patrimony category. So, this dissertation investigated the construction process of the social reality of what comes to be constituted and defined as significant cultural patrimony, having as reference the processes for grabs control of the area around the historic center of Fortaleza-CE. It took specifically as empirical field for anthropological analysis and understanding the case of residents Poço da Draga who have resided in the neighborhood Centro for over 70 years. The category of patrimony here is thought ethnologically with reference to the views of residents, their uses and their narratives in the space the neighborhood Centro.This research starts with a reflection on the draft decree no 3.551 establishing the record of cultural immaterial nature of the Brazilian cultural patrimony and that, somehow, it has been extending the meaning of the patrimony category. So, this dissertation investigated the construction process of the social reality of what comes to be constituted and defined as significant cultural patrimony, having as reference the processes for grabs control of the area around the historic center of Fortaleza-CE. It took specifically as empirical field for anthropological analysis and understanding the case of residents Poço da Draga who have resided in the neighborhood Centro for over 70 years. The category of patrimony here is thought ethnologically with reference to the views of residents, their uses and their narratives in the space the neighborhood Centro.
Esta pesquisa parte de uma reflexão acerca da proposta do Decreto no 3.551 que institui o registro de bens culturais de natureza imaterial constituintes do patrimônio cultural brasileiro e que, de certa forma, tem alargado os significados da categoria de patrimônio. Assim, esta dissertação investigou o processo de construção da realidade social do que vem a ser constituído e definido como patrimônio cultural significativo, tendo como referência os processos em disputa de controle do espaço, em torno do Centro Histórico de Fortaleza. Tomou, especificamente, como terreno empírico para análise e compreensão antropológica o caso dos moradores do Poço da Draga que têm residido no bairro Centro por mais de 70 anos. A categoria de patrimônio aqui é pensada etnograficamente tendo como referência o ponto de vista desses moradores, seus usos e suas narrativas no espaço do bairro central.
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Arnold, Annika [Verfasser], and Ortwin [Akademischer Betreuer] Renn. "Narratives of climate change : outline of a systematic approach to narrative analysis in cultural sociology / Annika Arnold ; Betreuer: Ortwin Renn." Stuttgart : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Stuttgart, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1118369149/34.
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Vieira, Maressa de Freitas. "O saci na tradição local no contexto da mundialização e da diversidade cultural." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8142/tde-22022010-145342/.
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Geradas pela globalização, as constantes transformações nas tecnologias, nos meios de comunicação e na sociedade como um todo tornam instáveis as identidades fixadas em repertórios de bens exclusivos de uma comunidade local ou nacional. Isto porque as inovações tecnológicas, o fortalecimento da industrialização e dos meios de comunicação modificaram nossos hábitos e nos deram um horizonte mais cosmopolita, ao mesmo tempo em que unificaram os padrões de consumo, inclusive em relação à Cultura. Mas a cultura nacional não se extingue, e sim se converte, se modifica, se reconstrói para interagir com as diferentes culturas mundiais, de acordo com o mercado consumidor, já que a Indústria Cultural proposta por Adorno (1974) mercadifica os bens culturais. Neste estudo propusemos a análise da figura do Saci, indagando se as narrativas a seu respeito continuam sendo uma maneira de regular o comportamento social, mesmo no mundo globalizado e pudemos verificar o quanto sua figura acabou se modificando para se adequar aos padrões da sociedade. Visto por muitos como a identidade do brasileiro, a figura do Saci não ficou ritualizada, mas foi e continua sendo reconstruída em torno desse processo de mundialização.Produced by globalization, the constants transformations in the technologies, in the media and in the society at all turns unstable identities fixed in repertories of a local or national communitys exclusive properties. Therefore, because of the technological innovations, the industrializations strength and the media have changed our habits and gave us a more cosmopolitan range of perception, at the same time they have unified the consume patterns, including Culture. But the National Culture doesnt be extinguished; it converts, modifies, reconstructs in order to interchange with world different cultures, according to consumer market, so that Cultural Industry, proposed by Adorno (1974), trades cultural properties. In that study, we have proposed to analyze the Sacis figure, investigating if the narratives in regarding to Saci continue being a way of regularize the social behaviour, even in a globalizated world and we verified how the Sacis figure have been modified in order to be adapted on society patterns. Seen by many people as Brazilians identity, the Sacis figure doesnt be ritualized, but it was and continues being reconstructed around the mundialization process.
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MacKay, Stephanie. "Skirtboarder Net-a-Narratives: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of a Women's Skateboarding Blog." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23076.
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This dissertation examines: (a) the discourses of femininity circulating on a female skateboarding blog produced by the Skirtboarders (a group of women skateboarders based in Montréal, Canada); (b) the ways in which the Skirtboarders use Internet blogging (which I label “community media”) to contest (sexist) dominant discursive constructions of sportswomen deployed in mainstream and alternative media; and (c) the ways in which users read and make sense of the Skirtboarders’ blog. For this project, I collected 262 blog posts, including 1128 associated comments, conducted semi-structured interviews with eight Skirtboarders and four users of the blog and incorporated some observational notes. This information was then subjected to discourse analysis informed by the theoretical perspectives of Michel Foucault. This research makes a significant contribution to a growing body of literature in the sociology of sport exploring media (re)presentations of bodies, especially women’s bodies, and lifestyle sports because it is one of the rare studies that goes beyond doing an analysis of media texts – it also uncovers the intentions of the producers of the texts and, in addition, examines the effects of the media discourses for audiences (herein referred to as users). My findings reveal that the Skirtboarders offer something different than mainstream and alternative skateboarding media (re)presentations (i.e., I examined what narratives the Skirtboarders produce about themselves to understand how they appropriate, accommodate or resist gender discourses). The women who produced the blog consciously and purposely challenged dominant discursive fragments. Although users considered the blog inspirational for promoting female skateboarding, they had diverse readings of the Skirtboarders’ attempts to reflexively start a “movement” and, in doing so, construct and circulate a collective identity. I therefore suggest that the Skirtboarders’ blog is one of many political tools and strategies required to change the landscape of the global female skateboarding world. Ultimately, I argue that the Internet is a space where women can have access to predominantly masculine sport and create more fluid definitions of sporting femininity. It provides women with opportunities to control their own (re)presentations, which will challenge male dominated institutions such as mainstream and alternative media organizations.Cette dissertation étudie : a) les discours sur la féminité qui circulent sur le blogue des Skirtboarders (un groupe de femmes planchistes de Montréal, Canada); b) comment les Skirtboarders utilisent le blogue (que je nomme « média communautaire ») pour contester les discours dominants (sexistes) sur le corps sportif féminin déployées dans le mass média et les média alternatifs; et c) comment les utilisatrices interprètent et accordent un sens au blogue des Skirtboarders. Pour ce projet : j’ai recueillis 262 articles de forum sur le blogue, incluant les 1128 commentaires; effectué des entrevues semi-dirigées avec huit Skirtboarders et quatre utilisatrices du blogue; incorporé des notes d’observation. Ces informations ont ensuite été soumises à une analyse du discours inspirée de la perspective théorique de Michel Foucault. Cette recherche apporte une contribution importante à une littérature croissante en sociologie du sport explorant les (re)présentations du corps, spécialement les corps féminins, et les sports alternatifs; car il s’agit d’une des rares études qui s’aventure au-delà de l’analyse des textes médiatiques. Elle porte aussi sur les intentions des productrices des textes et examine en plus les effets des discours médiatiques sur l’auditoire (c’est-à-dire les utilisatrices). Mes résultats révèlent que les Skirtboarders offrent un contenu qui diffère des (re)présentations du skateboarding dans le mass média et les média alternatifs (par ex., j’ai examiné quels récits les Skirtboarders produisent à propos d’elles-mêmes pour comprendre comment elles s’approprient, s’accommodent ou résistent aux discours sur le genre). Les femmes qui produisent le blogue contestent consciemment et délibérément les fragments discursifs dominants. Quoique les utilisatrices considèrent le blogue inspirant pour la promotion du skateboarding auprès des femmes, elles offrent diverses lectures de la tentative réflexive des Skirtboarders d’initier un «mouvement » et, en ce faisant, de construire et de propager une identité collective. Je suggère donc que le blogue des Skirtboarders est un parmi plusieurs outils politiques et stratégiques requis pour changer le paysage de la scène mondiale des femmes planchistes. Ultimement, j’avance que l’Internet est un espace où les femmes peuvent avoir accès au sport dominé par les hommes et créer des définitions fluides de la féminité sportive. L’Internet offre des occasions aux femmes de contrôler leurs propres (re)présentations, lesquelles contesteront les institutions majoritairement masculines telles que les organisations de mass média et de média alternatifs.
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Nielsen, Emilia Victoria Llewellyn. "Disruptive breast cancer narratives: shaping cultural politics, informing feminist bioethics and performing repair." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44733.
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This project explores the narration of experiential knowledge about breast cancer arguing that personal narratives, in the form of “disruptive breast cancer narratives,” have the potential to shift public perceptions, breast cancer culture and biomedical understandings of the disease. In Chapter 2, I explore the potential of narrative enquiry in qualitative health research and establish my interdisciplinary framework which turns to patient-centred knowledge creation, affective illness histories and archiving feelings as well as cultural studies of the body, critical gender and sexuality studies. Chapter 3 outlines my theoretical approach to disruptive breast cancer narratives and involves an exploration of the scholarly potential and limitations of illness narrative study and turns to narrative approaches to feminist bioethics. Chapters 4, 5, and 6 explore disruptive breast cancer narratives through close readings of narrative texts. In Chapter 4, I examine feminist anger through Barbara Ehrenreich’s (2001) “Welcome to Cancerland,” Audre Lorde’s (1981) The Cancer Journals and Kathlyn Conway’s (1997) Ordinary Life. In Chapter 5, I read Wendy Mesley’s (2006) Chasing the Cancer Answer and Kris Karr’s (2007) Crazy Sexy Cancer as documentary films that purport to disrupt the dominant discourses of breast cancer by exploring them in relation to discourses of personal responsibility and a figure I call the “cancer killjoy.” In Chapter 6, I begin with an examination of Eve Sedgwick’s (1993) “White Glasses” which provides a powerful critique of how gender and sexuality are constituted through a breast cancer diagnosis and treatments and advance this critique through readings of Catherine Lord’s (2004) The Summer of Her Baldness and the television drama The L Word (2006); this chapter is guided by S. Lochlann Jain’s (2007a, 2007b) conception of “elegiac politics.” My project concludes in Chapter 7, by exploring the potential of counternarratives of illness and of performing resistance, patienthood and narrative repair; here, I necessarily reflect on my own experience of chronic illness.
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Brunton, Jennifer. "Cultural narratives and the historical subject : Annie Garnett, her diary, life and works." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301817.
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This thesis investigates and contextualises as a historical subject a woman textile artist, Annie Gamett (1864-1942). It explores her personal writings, in particular the diary which she kept between the years 1899 and 1909. The use of autolbiographical writings requires a reflexive methodology. In recognising this I engage with the fragmentary material in the archive using feminist theories and discourses to produce an 'intellectual biography', within which the elements of Annie Gamett's life, revealed through her own words, interact with the cultural narratives which challenged and impinged on her individual life. In engaging with Annie's subjectivity, as a historical 'site', I aim to reveal the subtle complexities of 'real' lived experience, and show how a woman, who was inspired by her love of nature and troubled by the effects of industrialisation, was able to develop her creative skills and run a successful textile business within the remit of the Arts and Crafts Movement. My approach to this historical subject unites a feminist perspective with an endorsement of the discipline of Women's History and its central commitment to the recovery of lost vOIces.
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Saglia, Diego. "Images of Spain in British romanticism : poetic narratives of cultural difference (1808-1814)." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.287769.
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Pateridou, Georgia. "Yannis Psycharis's Greek novels (1888-1929) : didactic narratives, cultural views and self-referentiality." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2004. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7669/.
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The aim of this thesis is to examine Psycharis's Greek novels by focusing on his modes of writing and the ideas manifested in them. Psycharis saw his role as that of an intellectual aiming to reform Greek culture and he fought consistently for the establishment of the demotic - as he understood it as the language of literature. Yet his novels serve as a filter not only for his views on language and literature, but also for other social and philosophical issues of relevance to his time, and even to contemporary readers. I have defined three major areas for examination: the didacticism of the novels, expressed in the themes and in the narrative techniques employed by the author; the overall recurring cultural views presented in them, and the preoccupation with the importance of fiction, the role of literature and of the prose writer. The novels will be examined in chronological order and I shall address each of the three major areas explained above in turn, emphasising the most prominent one in each case. The objective of this thesis is to make Psycharis's Greek novels better known and to indicate the role that he played in the development of Modern Greek prose and culture.
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Dzegede, Anyeley Yawa 1976. "Historical and cultural narratives in landscape design : design applications for Miami Beach, Florida." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65721.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (p. [94]-[97]).
Narrative landscapes are designed environments that use physical elements, spaces and stories to convey messages and make place. Through the use of narrative landscapes, designers can relate the historical and cultural significance of particular places and peoples. The designer must be concerned not only with the contents of the story, but with the role of the readers, the community and in the ideologies and worldviews these narratives imply. The issues involved with creating narrative in the landscape are in the incorporation of the stories and elements of the past and the use of symbolic and didactic media. In our multicultural and highly mediated society, landscape designs for public places should be pluralistic and multi-dimensional. A pluralistic design conveys the stories of personalities, communities, historic events, and places and is made within a community process or with community input. The multidimensional aspect of narrative designs emanates from the blending of abstracted or symbolic forms of communication and didactic forms that carry a series of messages. Narrative landscapes were examined to determine how designed elements and sequencing tell stories in the landscape. The information gathered was used to develop a potential design approach for the Indian Creek Corridor in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Kurttila, H. (Henri). "Brixton 1981–2011:rioting, newspaper narratives and the effects of a cultural vanguard." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2014. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201403131174.
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During the 2011 England riots, numerous interpretative narratives appeared in the media, each of them offering a different view regarding the nature of the riots and their origins. Alongside these general narratives, a number of minor narratives that tended to focus on individual events and incidents surfaced as well. The primary goals of this work are to examine, analyse and categorise the narratives that appeared during and after the riots and explore an entirely different cultural narrative that the mainstream media has entirely ignored. This is accomplished through media analysis, which collects data from three focus newspapers: The Guardian, The Telegraph and Daily Mail. The overall research is both qualitative and quantitative. The exact number of articles that possess a certain narrative pattern or focus on an individual aspect of the riots is recorded and analysed, but the ultimate narrative analysis is highly qualitative. Most of the quantitative analysis is present in the media analysis section, where the goal is to establish the presence of certain narrative trends. The media analysis, though somewhat technical, is strongly influenced by Lule’s research on journalistic myths present in, for instance, Daily News, Eternal Stories: The Mythological Role of Journalism. The media analysis is split into two sections: one of them focuses on reporting that occurred during the riots and the other one focuses on the period after the riots and the narrative development that has occurred. These two sections are preceded by chapters that aim to explain both the background of rioting in Brixton, which holds a cultural legacy of social unrest and is the area that many journalists decided to focus on when the riots started. The specific background of the 2011 riots, which is the death of Mark Duggan, is also discussed before the media analysis sections. The work’s theoretical approach to rioting in general is based on Waddington’s flashpoint analysis and Upton’s Urban Riots in the 20th Century: A Social History. The conclusive sections have a very distinct focus on comparing and contrasting the narratives present in the media with the cultural narrative that is established in the latter sections of the thesis. Using Gilroy’s cultural analysis present in, for instance, There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack as a basis and combining his approach with a more musicological assessment of cultural trends, such as local rap music and Linton Kwesi Johnson’s dub poetry, the thesis contrasts The Telegraph’s “culture of criminality” and The Guardian’s socioeconomic approach with the concept of a cultural vanguard. While the traditional narratives have their strengths, they completely fail to take Brixton’s unique cultural connection to rioting and social unrest into account. Additionally, they ignore the fact that the seeds of this cultural vanguard may have spread and morphed over the years, creating a cultural atmosphere that is particularly volatile to flashpoints that turn into large riots.
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Dell-Jones, Julie Vivienne. "Intersecting Stories: Cultural Reflexivity, Digital Storytelling, and Personal Narratives in Language Teacher Education." Scholar Commons, 2018. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7144.
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This narrative inquiry dissertation explores stories from three students over a two-year trajectory as they develop into language educators in diverse contexts. The study begins in a teacher education course focused on technology for language teaching in English as a second language (ESOL) and foreign language education (FLE) classrooms. As instructor, I implemented a digital storytelling (DS) project with the pedagogical goal of supporting the much-needed practice of reflexivity, and specifically, reflexivity of intercultural competence (IC) and culturally-responsive pedagogy (CRP). The DS, as an autoethnographic multimodal narrative activity, provided a creative outlet for undergraduate and master’s level students to explore their own cultural background or intercultural experiences. In this study, I re-story the experiences related to the DS project and follow my former students, now teachers, to explore how personal narratives promote or support reflexivity of critical multicultural concepts or practices. I combine and juxtapose multiple perspectives based on observations, data from the student-authored DS and reflections, and in-depth interviews. Using a critical-based autoethnographic approach, I add my own instructor-researcher narrative. The resulting descriptive and interpretive narrative inquiry accentuates complexities, invites conversation about the critical and reflexive potential of DS or personal narrative, and contributes pedagogical and methodological insights into teacher training via the “meaning-making” story process and the innate accessibility of learning through stories.
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Lando, Jennifer Rose. "Living In/Between Two Worlds: Narratives of Latina Cultural Brokers in Higher Education." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1431001259.
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Pettis, John P. Jr. "Interrogating the Myth of Modernity: Cultural and Political Narratives in Robert Coover’s Fiction." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4221.
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This thesis explore the use of Cultural and Politcal narratives in Roberts Coover’s fiction. Coover’s writing questions the validity of the monolithic grand narratives within our society, and complicates the grand narrative by subverting its conventions with the comic and the erotic. The tone of the narrative, while often absurd or grotesque, offers distinctive insight into modern culture. In Coover’s work these themes meld with society’s libidinal urge for the absurd, the sexual, and the ritualized archaic. His characters are often faced with overt savagery and violence, but are also surrounded by high culture and idealism. In examining these notable works of Coover, spanning over fifteen years, patterns emerge throughout his oeuvre. The shifting of Cold War politics, the carnivalesque, theatrics, history, politics, and the exploration of metanarratives are present throughout these works. In navigating these cultural and political structures, Coover’s writing deconstructs these ideological concepts, and in turn both affirms and subverts them.
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Maddox, Gregory. ""Blind to Certain Truths": Social Movement Narratives, The Supreme Court, and Cultural Change." OpenSIUC, 2012. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/483.
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Stories abound within our culture, and rarely are stories bestowed more legitimacy than within the courts. Social "facts" might be established within the legal forum, but nonetheless connect to everyday life. Research in social movements and judicial politics is thus becoming increasingly useful as social movement organizations increasingly compete before the Court to effect cultural change through the reification of their stories. Lesbian, gay and bisexuals form one group of storytellers whose "collective stories" are told. It is this set of stories that this paper investigates, following the "narrative turn" in sociology to analyze LGB social movement narratives in the empirical setting of the Supreme Court. I present the findings of my content analysis of the amicus curiae, or "friend of the Court," briefs and Court opinions in the Bowers v. Hardwick and Lawrence and Garner v. Texas cases, two of the most significant LGB rights cases, covering a span of nearly twenty years. Despite virtually identical casefacts, the Court handed down differing decisions, first ruling against the social movement before later reversing its decision. This research assesses how the narrative voices in the cases changed within the discourse of the Court, and how these collective narratives resonated within a changing culture. First, I assess how LGB social movement organizations, their allies, and countermovement organizations changed their framings and frame alignment processes, how they changed their emotions work and rhetoric, and how these changes were evidence of organizations' identity work processes during the interim between cases. Next, I assess changes in framings and frame alignment processes and emotions work and rhetoric within the opinions handed down by the Court. This serves two purposes: it allows for a comparison of organizational frame resonance with the Court, and also allows analysis of the decisions' resonance within the larger culture. Analysis is also made of the symbolic meanings found within the opinions of the Court in both cases. This analysis shows that LGB social movement and countermovement organizations operate within a cultural code of sexuality. Narratives are useful in observing how norms within this cultural code are enforced, strengthened, or changed by negotiation and legitimization before the Court. Consequently, this research contributes not only to our understandings of cultural change, but also to social movement theory, especially of identity work processes, to the field of social psychology, to the sociology of sexualities, and to the sociology of emotions and emotions work.
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Tao, Hsiao Hsuan. "Narratives of Marriage and Migration: Thai Women in Cross-Cultural Relationships in Australia." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/12467.
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The motivations driving international migration have often been simplified through the lens of economic imbalance between countries: this factor in turn applies to the motives for marriage of migrant women from Southeast Asian countries. Given that conjugal relationships are supposedly based upon emotional commitment and love, women who are regarded as marrying for migration, or for other material reasons, are frequently both condemned and demonised as ‘gold diggers’ or ‘marriage frauds’, out to dupe their western/foreign husbands. They are also seen as ‘mail-order brides’, women lacking personal agency. While their life experiences are posited as static and homogenous, the diversity within this group of women is largely overlooked. This thesis researches the life experiences of Southeast Asian migrant women by looking at the narratives of 20 female Thai migrants. It explores their perceptions of and attitudes towards cross-cultural relationships and cross-border mobility, and the dynamics of interpersonal relationships. An attempt is made to try to understand the heterogeneity of these women, and how they present their agency as forms of resistance and compliance in response to the specific contexts in which they exist. The accounts provided by the Thai migrant women showcase the diversities and similarities that distinguish them. The former are indicative of how they rationalise their choices of cross-cultural relationships and migration, how they interpret their love for and intimacy with their Australian partners, how they perform the roles of daughters and daughters-in-law and deal with interpersonal relations involving other Thai people. The similarities between them reflect the shared reality and layered structures they face in their lives. The thesis argues that Thai women who migrate to marry become situated in social and cultural contexts to which they either have to adhere or find ways of compromising with the prevailing social norms and cultural values.
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au, r. lee@murdoch edu, and Regina Lee. "Theorising the Chinese Diaspora: Canadian and Australian Narratives." Murdoch University, 2005. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20060418.160334.
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This dissertation presents a study of Chinese diasporic narratives from Canada and Australia and examines the formation and negotiation of diasporic cultural identity and consciousness. Drawing upon theoretical discussions on diasporas in general, it investigates how the Chinese diaspora is imagined and represented, as a visible minority group, within the context of the multicultural nation state.
This dissertation begins with a taxonomy of the modes of explaining diaspora and offers three ways of theorising diasporic consciousness. In analysing the filmic and fictional narrative forms of the Chinese in Canada and Australia, the practices of cultural self-representation and of minority group participation and enjoyment of the nation are foregrounded in order to advance critical analysis of the Chinese diaspora. While taking into account the heterogeneity of the imagined diasporic Chinese community, this study also contends that the formation and negotiation of diasporic consciousness and diasporic cultural identity politics is strongly and invariably affected by the multicultural conditions and policies of their host countries. The adaptation and manifestation of minority groups cultural practices are thus a matter of social, cultural and political contingencies more often aligned with dominant cultural expectations and manipulations than with the assertiveness of more empowered minority group participation. This dissertation therefore argues for a broader and more complex understanding of diasporic cultural and identity politics in the widespread attempts to merge and incorporate minority group narratives into the key foundational (grand) narratives of the white nation state. The importance of reinscribing Chinese diasporic histories into the cultural landscapes of their receiving countries is moreover increasingly propelled by the speed and momentum of globalisation that has resulted in the growing number of multicultural societies on the one hand but also led to the homogenisation of cultural differences and diversities.
In focussing on the fictional and filmic narratives from Canada and Australia, the diversity of the Chinese diasporic community and their conditions are emphasised in order to reflect upon the differences in the administration and practice of multiculturalism in these two countries. The comparative reading of Chinese-Canadian and Chinese-Australian novels and films locates its analysis of notions of homeland and belonging, community and national and cultural citizenship within the context of the development and negotiation of diasporic identity politics.
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Colatosti, John G. "A participant observational study of specific narratives associated to men's experiences in one interuniversity football team." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/10403.
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The social production and reproduction of traditional forms of masculinity has been associated with various sports including football. The purpose of this case study was to examine language as one particular feature of an all-male football environment. More specifically, the study focused on the narratives accompanying interactions on the football field, in the locker room, and at team social gatherings for one Canadian interuniversity football team, and examined the function of these narratives as well as their interpretation by the players. A triangulated methodology was used and information pertaining to the narratives was gathered through: (a) a content analysis of official documents including guidelines regarding the behavior and language of interuniversity football players; (b) a participant observation of the players' interactions and narratives; and (c) in-depth interviews with a sample of the players. Results of the study indicate that racist narratives are very rare, but that sexist, homophobic, violent and macho narratives are prevalent within this football subculture, as well as narratives related to pain and injury. The main functions or reasons identified for those narratives were: (a) conformity or peer pressure, (b) insecurity, (c) need to demonstrate superiority over teammates, opponents, and selected social groups, (d) male bonding and need to have a common language, (e) need to uphold the stereotypical tough "masculine" football image, and (f) isolation associated with an all-male environment. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Bitton, Daniel. "Nation, narration and conflation: a mutual blind spot in historical narratives of the Israeli Palestinian conflict." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=123057.
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In the aftermath of the collapse of the Oslo peace process in 2000, many academics and educators began to focus on antithetical Israeli and Palestinian historical narratives as an important obstacle to a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A decade later, initial optimism at the prospect of a "bridging narrative" that would foster mutual comprehension by integrating Israeli and Palestinian versions of history has waned, with many early enthusiasts abandoning the idea as unrealistic. This paper compares Zionist and Palestinian historical narratives about the conflict as a whole, to the work of historians specializing in land issues in Palestine in the period 1881-1939. The comparison reveals important mutual lacunae in both sets of conventional narratives, which if integrated into an overall history suggest a potentially productive integrated "bridging" narrative.Après l'échec du processus de paix d'Oslo en l'an 2000, plusieurs universitaires et éducateurs ont commencé à considérer les récits historiques antithétiques israéliens et palestiniens comme étant un obstacle à la résolution pacifique du conflit Israélo-Palestinien. Une décennie plus tard, l'optimisme initial d'une perspective de récit commun, susceptible de favoriser une compréhension mutuelle, s'est dissipé. Plusieurs des premiers fervents de cette idée l'ont abandonnée car ils la considèrent irréaliste. Ce document compare les récits historiques Sionistes et Palestiniens, du conflit dans son ensemble, à l'œuvre des historiens qui se spécialisent dans le domaine des questions foncières et territoriales en Palestine entre 1881 et 1939. La comparaison révèle des lacunes importantes dans les deux récits historiques et suggère qu'un récit commun potentiellement fructueux pourrait voir le jour si l'on tenait compte des travaux des historiens, mentionnés ci-dessus, en les intégrant à l'histoire globale.
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Ryan, Bernadene J. "Life Change Narratives: When The Road Diverges." DigitalCommons@USU, 2013. http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1505.
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Transformation events can be a change in a person's work, a change in philosophy, a sudden insight, or a break in a relationship. According to David Hufford and Marilyn Motz, narrating these experiences are ways in which people perform, construct, and communicate belief systems. The narrators within the context of this thesis experience their transformation through a career transformation. The narrators rediscover their initial passion and transform that desire into actions that results in a shift of career. Sometimes seen as inexplicable, nevertheless the narrators provide analysis and reflection on the influences that led to their change. Some of the actions or thoughts that the narrators incorporate in their stories demonstrate not only the progression of events but also the alterations narrators experience in their worldviews. The context in which these changes occur is essential to interpreting and understanding the experience. Narrative components are filtered through an interpretive process that includes personal meaning, contrast with social norms and cultural beliefs and the impact on the receiver to enable narrators to justify their experience. It is the reflection on these experiences through which people gain insight and establish relevance to events that seem sometimes beyond their control. Stories from pop culture to ordinary citizens who change their lives daily demonstrate the pervasiveness of the transformational effect of states of crisis through which people journey. People's lives are turned upside-down through these experiences which place the narrator out of their normal element. There are two levels to these story types: external and internal transformation. At a superficial level there is the journey to change careers but at another level there is a relationship to opening up cultural expectations or acting generatively, as role-models. Narrators are effecting change through their positive attitudes and acceptance of the trials they encounter during their transitions. Narrators discuss specific actions that create transformative life changes or philosophical shifts. My investigation studies how individuals are involved in transitional events in which they experience a disengagement from a previous life, spending some time in liminal space where they transition or regenerate into a new place in society. Part of my approach to this subject matter used theories introduced by Victor Turner (pilgrimages) and by Arnold Van Gennep (rites of passage). Regina Holloman proposes that rites of passage can occur not just as physical/material transformation but can occur psychically as well. Some of the narrative patterns that narrators use to construct these tales are identified within the context of folk belief and folklore scholarship.
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Muhic, Dina. "Ring Around the Rosie: Queer Temporality in Narratives of Trauma." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23180.
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This dissertation employs both traditional and digital tools to analyze fictional texts through the converging lenses of narratology, queer theory, and trauma studies. I am invested specifically in the work fictional narratives perform within the current cultural context, which is itself problematized by our increasingly fractured media landscape.
While most of the work on trauma and queerness examines the trauma that is often implicated in the experience of being queer, I take a different approach, investigating ways in which the experience of trauma is itself queer. Drawing on medical and psychiatric studies of post-traumatic stress disorder, I posit that the fragmented temporal and affective space of trauma is also the space of queerness. “Ring Around the Rosie” locates an intersection between Edelman’s anti-futurism and Muñoz’s utopian hope in the disavowal of the restrictive circularity of traumatic memory, and the subsequent embrace of Stockton’s concept of lateral growth.
Written language and linear narrative inevitably fail to adequately reconstruct, convey, and process trauma because traumatic memories are formed in the part of the brain that functions outside of language and chronological time and relies instead on sensory experience. I confront this barrier through queer temporality and a form of destabilized communication that does not rely on such language alone.
Since any true employment of the concept of the queer must itself perform queerness, I allow my analysis to develop in a manner as fragmented and multiplicitous as television programming itself, which includes an approach of critical closeness and an increasingly organizationally destabilized presentation of the argument. This project’s preoccupation with form stems, in part, from my desire to not only allow for but demand an affective and personal component to academic research and analysis. The supplementary digital module culminates this study of form through its online presentation that enacts the theories argued within it.
Paradoxically, “Ring Around the Rosie” is unified through fragmentation: of traumatic memories, of queer temporality, and of viewer engagement with fictional texts.10000-01-01
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Burchiel, Meridith. "The Intersection of Perceptions: An Investigation of Children’s Personal Narratives." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/310.
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My thesis focuses primarily on child portraiture and attempting to express the imaginative quality of young thought that has the potential of being forgotten with age. While my concept originated with the idea of children affected by the Holocaust and World War II, I have broadened my scope to examine the ways in which imagination is seen while children are sharing thoughts through storytelling. Using ink and pen, the quality of line will vary to depict different stages of a particular fragment of emotion. My research concerns children’s worldview and understanding of internally perceived reality as it to their environment. I also investigate the opera Bründibár written by Hans Krása during World War II as a historically contextualized example of children’s narratives and their outcomes. The transcending theme of my cumulative work is regarding the moments of intersection between outside stimulus and children’s imagined reality.
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Dines, Martin. "Homecoming queens : gay suburban narratives in British and American film and fiction." Thesis, Kingston University, 2006. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20244/.
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Since the early 1980s, an increasing number of British and American stories in print and on screen have offered detailed fictional and autobiographical accounts of the suburban experiences of gay men. The aim of this thesis is to examine these texts, and to assess the position that suburbia holds in the gay imaginary. In so doing, this study will make a significant contribution to knowledge with regards to the interactions of sexual identity, space and narrative. Specifically, it will develop an understanding of the characteristics, functions and implications of cultural representations of suburban homosexualities, which, whilst widespread, have hitherto drawn only minimal critical attention. The thesis identifies and evaluates the various strategies with which gay narratives negotiate suburbia. Each strategy is considered as constituting a particular conceptualization of gay subculture, and as articulating certain forms of engagement with mainstream society. The thesis firstly examines texts which represent adolescent homosexuality in suburban settings through an analysis of the narrative trajectories of, and the characterization of suburbia in, conventional American coming-out novels, recent popular British gay films and American 'New Narrative' writing. Far from simply showing the need for homosexual youth to escape the suburbs, these texts extend the boundaries of gay identity, by recuperating early, disavowed experiences as gay. They also demonstrate the opportunities that such environments hold for gay men: suburbs appear to offer the possibility of greater freedom and authenticity, or constitute places where reconciliation with heterosexual society can be staged. Secondly, the thesis considers representations of adult gay men visiting and living in suburbia. I investigate the 'return' to the suburbs from the perspective of conservative gay critics and writers based in the United States and of radical British and American writers. I show that their respective aims of demonstrating the desirability of an assimilated, 'ordinary' gay suburban life, and of disrupting, or 'queering', heterosexual space, are unrealizable. A variety of fictional texts demonstrate that a more practicable and felicitous tactic is to revisit and reclaim suburban sites with gay subcultural significance.
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Nicklow, Stacy Olivia. "Sisterly Sleuths: The Hidden Cultural Work of Serial Modernism." OpenSIUC, 2016. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1195.
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Over the last two centuries, mass-produced serial narratives, especially those created for women, have been vilified or ignored by literary and cultural critics. Serial narratives, which include continuing stories published in installments and independent tales that form part of an overarching plot, have been maligned for their content, for the material realities of their mass production, and most simply for their popularity. Serial texts aimed at female audiences have been subjected to further criticisms: they have been judged as being trivial or insipid in content and as lacking aesthetic merit or cultural weight. Despite these criticisms, serial narratives were exceedingly popular with audiences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and by the end of the twentieth century became the dominant mode of storytelling across nearly all media. Popularity, far from being a reason to disparage these works, suggests the enormous power serial narratives have to both reflect and shape the culture that produces and consumes them. This cultural agency has long been overlooked, and this study hopes to change that. Serial narratives, it will be argued, train readers and viewers in various ways to actively participate in the narrative and in parallel ways in real life, an outcome especially noteworthy for modern female audiences. Ongoing and repetitive, serial narratives invite long-term engagement that enables audiences to participate imaginatively in the story itself and to embody the attitudes and behaviors of the serial protagonists in their own lives. In addition, because they are published on a potentially infinite basis, serial narratives are a medium through which modern audiences come to understand themselves and the world they inhabit. This connection between the reading and viewing choices of the modern citizen and their lived experiences, what I call serial modernism, provides a way of understanding how serial texts enact this connection particularly in relation to the modern woman’s increasing sense of agency and her continually evolving identity. Several serial texts from different eras and in different media that powerfully engage with evolving expectations of American women over the last 150 years will crystallize this connection: Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women series (1868-1886) and her serialized novel Work (1873); two silent film serials, The Perils of Pauline (1914) and The Hazards of Helen (1914-1917); two teenage sleuth series, Carolyn Keene’s Nancy Drew (1930-2003) and Margaret Sutton’s Judy Bolton (1930-1967); and Sara Paretsky’s adult detective series V.I. Warshawski (1982-present).
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Coulter-Pultz, Jude. "Exploring narratives in Ainu history through analysis of bear carvings." Thesis, Indiana University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10119500.
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The dominant narrative mode in Ainu studies today stresses an activist agenda that, although worthwhile, limits the potential for new research in the field. In this thesis, I analyze historical accounts of the development of Ainu bear carvings as a case study of the characteristics of the dominant activist mode and present an alternate narrative in order to demonstrate the need for a variety of approaches to Ainu research.
The activist narrative mode is structured to engender sympathy for Ainu people and respect for their cultural heritage. Activist accounts of Ainu bear carvings often claim that the carvers were pressured by the Japanese tourist industry to violate religious taboos against producing realistic depictions of bears. In this way, the carvings serve as a symbol of oppression of Ainu people under Japanese imperialism. At the same time, activist scholars state that the Ainu bear carvings followed a linear progression from tourist souvenirs to respected works of “fine art.” Thus, the carvings also reinforce optimistic projections regarding the future status of Ainu culture and socioeconomic condition.
My alternate narrative focuses on the complexities and ambiguities in the field and avoids judging events in moral or sympathetic terms. I explore a broad range of contextual issues, tracing the regional production of wooden bears from the paleolithic ancestors of Ainu people, examining the role of bears and woodcarving in Ainu culture, analyzing Ainu interactions with Japan, Russia, and other neighboring empires, and investigating the commodification of bear carvings as tourist souvenirs.
Activist narratives have contributed a wealth of valuable research to the field of Ainu studies and remain a useful tool for promoting social and cultural equality for Ainu people. However, automatic conformity to the dominant activist mode perpetuates the obfuscation of certain details in Ainu history, including the diversity within Ainu and Japanese cultures and institutions, instances of political cooperation between Ainu and Japanese communities, and unanswered questions regarding the complex development of Ainu cultural practices and beliefs. Although any historical account (including this thesis) inherently simplifies its subjects, varying our narrative approach helps us to identify and fill some of the gaps.
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Stubbs, Glenn E. "Remembering a Workplace Disaster: Different Landscapes—Different Narratives?" Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1427661080.
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Gui'zar, Josefina Mari'a Cendejas. "Sustainable Development Discourse and Cultural Diversity : Forest Policy and Indigenous Narratives in Central Mexico." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.526960.
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