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Ewenstein, Boris. "Post-subculture and reflexivity : cultural learning in London and Berlin." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.415051.
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Mckenzie, Murray Hugh. "(Re)remembering the inner city : cultural production, reflexivity, and Vancouver's heritage areas." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44117.
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Cultural production constitutes a significant force in the reconstruction, reterritorialization, and reimaging of the postindustrial inner city, the privileged site of clustered production within a reconfigured metropolitan space economy. This has been best demonstrated within older precincts notably characterized by the adaptive reuse of heritage structures, often to the extent of the comprehensive restoration of entire blocks or subareas. The unique material characteristics of these enduring new industrial districts have led to an association of cultural production with a heritage built environment, generating an alluring and paradoxical aesthetic where the brick and iron of an older industrial vernacular mixes with the auras of technology, globalization, and modernity. Following the work of scholars who have introduced spatiality and materiality to the cultural industries research domain, this thesis addresses the reflexive relationship that cultural producers maintain with the unique material and semiotic characteristics of these enduring new industrial districts, in which heritage imageries and signifiers of collective memory inform creative personas, processes, and outputs. This ‘reflexive project of the self’ influences the maintenance of the built environment and has the capacity to alter imageries and collective memory wherever signifiers are re-associated or obscured. Drawing on interviews in Vancouver, British Columbia, as well as on a broad literature review incorporating sources on cultural production, the aesthetics of residential gentrification, and the ‘city of collective memory’; this paper seeks to assess a range of responses to the history of Vancouver’s inner city landscapes. The analysis demonstrates how Vancouver’s historical imageries have been romanticized and reinterpreted to inform a mythology of cultural production in the city. Our conclusions will be of interest to geographers attempting to ‘place’ cultural production within their understanding of the changing landscapes of the twenty-first century city, as well as to planners in need of a more critical interpretation of the dynamics undergirding the insistent upgrading of production districts.
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Greenman, Andrew. "The architecture of cultural enterprise : a study of design reflexivity in action." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2008. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13993/.
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The cultural industries have an increasingly important role to play in policies addressing the UK's present and future economic competitiveness. Researching how entrepreneurial activity leads to the creation and maintenance of cultural enterprises is central to understanding the value added by such organisations. The present research contributes to our understanding of these important issues. An ethnographic approach, which is defined here as a set of methods for conducting field work (e.g., participant observation and semi-structured interviews) and a methodology for textual representations of social activity, is adopted to explore design thinking in action. The study aims at developing existing analyses which claim that contemporary production is becoming more design intensive and therefore reliant upon individuals and organisations supplying knowledge about design. This heightened awareness about the value of design for business is defined as design reflexivity, although the term is not used to indicate an epochal shift in capitalist production. Instead, design thinking is represented as central to the modem institutionalisation of knowledge. By adopting the concept of identity work, the research addresses the importance of the role of the cultural entrepreneur to the contemporary organisation of work. Empirical material, comprised of interview transcripts and field notes, is examined to understand how research participants engaged with the role of owner-founder of a design business. By 'limiting' the research to individuals located in an inner-city area and the design sub-field of the cultural industries, the research presents localised interpretations of the typical process of cultural enterprise. The metaphor of architecture is adopted to describe the act of arranging the voices of research participants through the application of an analytical model comprised of three phases. This phased analysis is not over-privileged above the participants' accounts, but to organise empirical materials which show how research participants accounted for their engagement with contemporary role of the designer (articulation); the limitations and opportunities of place and time (emplacement) and the accumulation of economic wealth comprised of tangible and intangible property (entanglement). The research connects the research participant's entrepreneurial organisation of design reflexivity together with analyses of the centrality of reflexive knowledge to study one area of knowledge intensive contemporary production.
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Gustafsson, Henrik. "Out of Site : Landscape and Cultural Reflexivity in New Hollywood Cinema 1969-1974." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Filmvetenskapliga institutionen, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-6790.
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This dissertation examines landscape as a concept for analysis and interpretation in film studies by considering the New Hollywood cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Contextualized within the contested notion of nationhood at the time as well as the concern among filmmakers to probe the properties, practices and traditions of American cinema, this was also a period when landscape underwent widespread redefinition as a field of artistic and academic practice. From the outset an aesthetic and pictorial concept, landscape is understood as consisting of a number of interacting ideas and systems of representation which are addressed in terms of intermedial relations. Not something to be encountered or discovered and fixed on canvas or film, landscape involves an ongoing process of construction, appropriation and transformation. Departing from a discussion of the historical role landscape has played in cultural practices of self-representation and self-definition, this study is concerned with how it can be turned against itself and used as a point of departure for adversary and antagonistic views of national myths and media. The organization is roughly chronological, based around a series of reconsiderations of key films, mainly focusing on road movies and genre-revisionist work of the period. Rather than a repository of stable identities and values, each chapter shows how landscape can be advanced in a process of reflecting on attempts to impose meaning, order and linearity. Taken together, Out of Site argues that an engagement with the surfaces and depths of landscape enables new perspectives on the interrelations between the highbrow and the popular, aesthetics and ideology. Bringing attention to how story patterns and audience expectations are displaced, landscape is examined for the questions it raises regarding representational and narrative strategies, the formation of identity and memory, and our own habits of reading.
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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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Sutherland, Ian. "From Weimar Republic to Third Reich : composing agency in changing socio-cultural contexts." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/99393.
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This dissertation interrogates the nature of composers as aesthetic agents re-orienting from the socio-cultural contexts of the Weimar Republic (1919-1932) to those of the Third Reich in Germany (1933-1945). Work in the sociology of culture, sociology of arts and sociology of music has focused on cultural consumption, including music, as bound up in the reflexive projects by individuals and groups to constitute and reconstitute their social reality. Within my research I focus on the creation of cultural artefacts, in this case ‘works’ in the Western art music tradition, as central to processes of aesthetic agency where composers are engaged in reflexive projects of constituting and reconstituting their social reality and acting within those constructs. To begin the opening historical chaper, ‘Mortification of Modernism’, uses Goffman’s work in Asylums (1968) to contextualize the cultural policies and activities of the Weimar Republic, considered the classical era of modernism, as a home world from which those involved in modernist ventures developed presenting cultures supported by bespoke institutions established in the early post WWI years. During the waning years of the Republic and the rise of National Socialism, these support structures, including the individuals that made up the cooperative networks of modernism, were destroyed removing most connections to the Weimar Republic modernist home world. In the first years of the Third Reich through numerous denunciations, dismissals, policies, etc. the presenting culture of Weimar modernists was mortified through abasements, degradations and humiliations. Having identified – through qualitative mapping of concert programmes, music reviews and festival participation – composers involved in modernist circles in the Weimar Republic, their career paths and compositional outputs were traced throughout the years of the Third Reich to interrogate the aesthetic agency of composers in light of significant situational and perspectival incongruity. The dissertation then considers each of five composers in depth in separate chapters – Paul Hindemith, Rudolf Wagner-Regeny, Ernst Pepping, Heinrich Kaminski and Wolfgang Fortner. The five were selected based on four criteria: a high degree of activity in Weimar modernist circles (festivals, concerts, societies); continued presence in Germany for a significant portion of the Third Reich; continued professional activity as composers during the Third Reich; access to relevant source material both secondary (biographies, reviews, stylistic analyses, etc.) and primary (scores, letters, diaries, authored texts, etc.) from the subjects. The data illumines complex repertoires of adaptive strategies these individuals engaged in – with, through and to musical products – and how music is not only shaped by wider socio-cultural contexts, but how its construction is a primary resource for agents to respond to and structure the socio-cultural contexts around them. Key findings include the constitution of music as resource for showing both complicity with and subversion against the Nazi Kulturpolitik; as a resource for proxy presence in multiple social spaces (private homes, concert halls, opera houses, etc.) affording the construction and dissemination of composer identity and philosophy; as a technology of self for personal therapy; and in total as a resource for weltanschauung - world-building activity where composers construct and re-construct their social realities through musical creation – music as an active tool in and reflexive resource for individual social reality.
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Luo, Gang. "Beyond Symbolic Interactionism: Second-Order Self-Reflexivity as a Disruptor, Interrogator, and Creator of Discursive Meaning-Making in Cultural Conflict." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1595580326749323.
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Qazi, Kamal. "Practitioners' perspective on competitiveness : a Bourdieusian approach." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/practitioners-perspective-on-competitiveness-a-bourdieusian-approach(fef24b5a-f020-41de-96a5-1f7513baa3da).html.
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UK policy-makers, politicians and practitioners over the past few years have based the narrative of competitiveness around the idea of 'rebalancing the economy'. This entails viewing competitiveness as a rational process (through the Porterian lens) and identifies strategies from a top-down perspective. However, there is generally a lack of understanding of how competitiveness is practiced from the bottom-up. Therefore, this study adopts a practice-based perspective to investigate competitiveness from a practitioner's perspective. In this thesis, Bourdieu's habitus and reflexivity is used along with Maclean, Harvey and Chia's notion of life history storytelling through the lens of sensemaking and legitimacy. The thesis employs a constructivist perspective to collect and analyse qualitative evidence from 41 practitioners during the two phases of data collection. The data was analysed using thematic analysis, codes generated and inferences made. In the pilot-study (Delphi-study and semi-structured interviews), senior strategists (20) practicing in local enterprise partnerships (LEP's), universities, regional development agencies, manufacturing associations and various manufacturing firms confirmed the initial assumption that policy is prescriptive and rationalistic. The second phase consisted of semi-structured interviews (21) with senior, middle and lower level practitioners belonging to various types of manufacturing firms and allied services. The main contributions of the thesis are that (1) reflexive practitioner's past experiences shaped existing practices and perceptions of competitiveness and (2) three distinct thresholds of competitiveness inform the position of the practitioner and their desire to be competitive. This has implications for policy and practice.
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Moratori, Raquel Barbosa. "Dimensão cultural do trabalho técnico em gestão em saúde." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2014. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=8364.
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Esta tese apresenta uma proposta teórico-metodológica baseada no conceito de cultura profissional, visando à análise da dimensão cultural do trabalho técnico em gestão em saúde, que tem na categoria cultura profissional e nas suas subcategorias constitutivas trajetória, identidade social e reflexividade interativa as bases desta investigação. Neste sentido, busca compreender a dimensão cultural deste trabalho ao problematizar as questões que atravessam a vida laboral dos trabalhadores técnicos de saúde, ou seja, como eles compreendem a realidade em que vivem, quais trajetórias formativas e profissionais os levam a este lugar, quais os laços identitários os unem enquanto grupo, e também quais são seus espaços de decisão e de elaboração crítica das questões que atravessam seu cotidiano de trabalho. Num mesmo movimento, esta proposição reafirma o materialismo histórico dialético como o método de análise deste estudo, apresentando os pares dialéticos utilizados na interpretação dos dados coletados no trabalho empírico. A hipótese deste estudo é que a análise da dimensão cultural deste trabalho técnico, a partir do referencial marxista, permite captar a dinâmica interacional deste grupo e relacioná-la com as questões econômicas e políticas que afetam o trabalho na sociedade contemporânea. Os resultados encontrados indicam a pertinência desta proposta para compreensão dos conflitos e contradições que perpassam a dimensão cultural do referido trabalho, assim como o aprofundamento deste debate permite avançar num projeto de qualificação para estes trabalhadores, em torno do desenvolvimento de uma proposta de formação humana que permita criticar e transformar este trabalho, ao mesmo tempo em que reafirma o projeto de saúde pública universalThis thesis presents a theoretical and methodological approach using the concept of professional culture with the aim to analyse cultural dimensions of technical jobs in health care management. The grounds of this research rely on the professional culture category and its sub-categories, i.e. career, social identity and interactive reflexivity. The goal is to understand cultural dimensions of such jobs discussing issues that may happen on the working life of technical health workers, i.e. how they recognise their reality, which educational and career paths lead them to their working positions, which identity connections unite them as a group, as well as their decision spaces and critical elaboration on issues that may happen on their daily routine. This investigation reaffirms the dialectical historical materialism as the analytical method, in which dialectical pairs are applied to understand the data that has been collected in an empirical fashion. The hypothesis of this study is that analysing cultural dimensions of technical jobs, from the Marxist framework perspective, allows capturing the interactional dynamics of this group as well as making links with economic and political issues, which affect the job itself in contemporary society. Obtained results indicate the relevance of this approach to understand conflicts and contradictions that may permeate cultural dimensions of such jobs. Additionally, further discussions allow creating projects to improve the qualification of such workers with the development of a more sensible career path, which enables workers to criticise and transform their jobs, while reaffirming the universal design of a public health system
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Klein, Tatiane Maíra. "Práticas midiáticas e redes de relação entre os Kaiowá e Guarani em Mato Grosso do sul." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8134/tde-14012014-121443/.
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Observando processos de apropriação de tecnologias de comunicação por povos indígenas, essa dissertação apresenta uma etnografia de práticas midiáticas realizadas pelos povos Kaiowa e Guarani, em Mato Grosso do Sul. Seu principal objetivo é pensar a produção de narrativas midiáticas de autoria indígena como uma forma de objetivação de saberes e de reflexividade cultural, capaz de multiplicar ou atualizar relações eficazes entre pessoas e coletivos. Assim, busca descrever as formas como coletivos indígenas escolhem performar a cultura em plataformas midiáticas, tendo em mente que o uso de tecnologias de comunicação por povos indígenas faz aparecer não apenas produtos. Navegando por redes de relações ameríndias, esses produtos e discursos midiáticos adquirem significados específicos em comunicação com humanos e não-humanos.Observing processes communication technologies appropriation by indigenous peoples, this dissertation brings up an ethnography on media practices conducted by Kaiowa and Guarani peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul. Its main purpose is to present indigenous driven media processes as a form of objectification of knowledge and cultural reflexivity, which is able to multiply or update effective relations between people and collectives. Thus, it attempts to describe the forms chosen by indigenous collectives to perform \"culture\" in media platforms, keeping in mind that the use of communication technologies by indigenous peoples does not produce and show only its products. Navigating through Amerindian relation networks, these products and media discourses acquire specific meanings in communication with human and non human relations.
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Pettersson, Helena. "Boundaries, believers and bodies : a cultural analysis of a multidisciplinary research community." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Institutionen för kultur och medier, Umeå universitet, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1088.
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Van, Zyl Izelle. "Single fathers' experience of fatherhood." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30736.
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In recent years various factors have contributed to the dissolution of the traditional family and the subsequent emergence of alternative family systems like the single parent family. Single parent families have become a reality in our society, a fact reflected by statistics which indicate an increase in the occurrence of single parent families over the last couple of years. However, the single parent family is still mostly perceived as consisting of the mother and her children, rather than the father and his children. Research narratives seem to support the single-parenthood-equals-single-motherhood plot in that there is an abundance of single parent accounts in the literature that mostly tell the stories of single mothers. Thus, fathers who find themselves in the position of single father seem to be marginalised in society and stories regarding their experiences are few and far between. The aim of this project was to explore and describe how single fathers in South Africa experience fatherhood by focussing on their personal narratives. Therefore the research inquiry for this project took the form of a narrative inquiry which provides a way to understand people’s experiences by privileging their stories. The researcher conducted unstructured interviews with participants to produce languaged data which were analysed using a narrative analysis strategy. A narrative analysis aims to investigate not merely the content of the story, but rather the story itself and the way in which it is told within a specific cultural and historical context. Hopefully, in the telling, listening and retelling of their stories these fathers’ voices will become more pronounced in the research narratives and thus contribute to the body of knowledge pertaining to single fatherhood. CopyrightDissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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Allred, David A. "Representing Culture: Reflexivity and Mormon Folklore Scholarship." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2000. http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTAF,3899.
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Jones, Timothy. "Animating community : reflexivity and identity in Indian animation production culture." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2014. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/53461/.
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Animating Community examines the cultural practices of animators in India, and particularly the role of practitioner testimony in conceiving and negotiating social structures underpinning the nascent Indian animation industry. Recognizing a tendency in practitioner accounts towards theorization of contested industrial discourses, this research takes as its object the reflexive practice of animators in trade texts and interviews. These reveal how local practitioners understand production culture as an emergent phenomenon, resulting from learned processes of negotiation and collective action. However, practitioner testimony also reflects dramatically different degrees of agency in cultural production and discourse. Focusing on the identity work of diverse creative professionals – corporate elites, freelancers, teachers, and students – reveals underlying tensions between global industrial constraints and local social capital. Based on discursive analysis of testimony, this thesis asks how Indian animation practitioners conceive of their creative activity and identity in relation to negotiating a culture of animation production, and how the shared discourses and modes of engagement that result both shape and are shaped by institutional structures. These questions are addressed through practitioner accounts in three sectors of Indian animation: first, the context of production – considering large outsourcing firms and smaller studios; second, the provision of education – instruction in skills and social norms supplied by the public and private sectors; and third, the creation of dedicated community structures – professional organizations and trade information networks. Animating Community is most interested in how local media professionals articulate different discourses from aesthetic to economic value in order to approach an imagined sense of cultural identity. This sheds light on the way practitioners make sense of their creative and professional worlds. Ultimately, the conclusions offered in this project argue for a more nuanced conception of the relationship between critical practice and creative labour, and greater understanding of the different contexts where this may emerge.
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Kerestetzi, Katerina. "Vivre avec les morts : réinvention, transmission et légitimation des pratiques du palo monte (Cuba)." Thesis, Paris 10, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA100179.
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Cette thèse a pour objet le palo monte, culte initiatique d’origine bantoue que l’on pratique aujourd’hui sur tout le territoire cubain. Ses adeptes, les paleros, se lient rituellement à certains esprits des morts, les nfumbis, afin de bénéficier de leurs pouvoirs extraordinaires. Religion peu prescriptive, le palo monte laisse à ses adeptes une grande latitude en matière d’innovation rituelle et d’improvisation. En l’absence de corpus mythologique, de textes sacrés, de liturgie fixe et de toute autorité institutionnalisée, chaque groupe initiatique définit sa méthodologie religieuse de façon autonome. L’objectif de cette thèse est d’expliciter comment des pratiques religieuses se créent, se légitiment et se transmettent dans un contexte de variabilité extrême. Je porte d’abord une attention particulière à la matérialité du culte et tout particulièrement aux interactions quotidiennes entre les paleros et leur nganga, chaudron qui condense la présence du mort : objet-sujet omniscient, la nganga médiatise un réseau relationnel complexe qui permet l’émergence en continu des pratiques du palo monte. Je m’intéresse ensuite aux rites paleros en tant que performances au cours desquelles les prêtres forgent leur réputation en créant une sorte de cosmologie personnalisée. Tout en proposant une analyse interactionnelle de ces rituels, je montre comment certains aspects de la personnalité des adeptes interviennent dans la définition de la forme rituelle de chaque groupe. Enfin, je montre comment les actes réflexifs des paleros, omniprésents sous la forme de critiques, de justifications, de confrontations, etc. sont constitutifs de la transmission et du renouvellement des pratiquesThis thesis is on palo monte, a Cuban initiatory religion of Bantu origin, widespread over all Cuban territory. Its worshippers, the paleros, establish ritual bonds with determined spirits of the dead, called nfumbis, in order to receive their supernatural powers. Imposing a small number of prescriptions, palo monte enables its devotees to operate a wide range of ritual innovations and improvisations. Indeed, the inexistence of a mythological corpus, a sacred text or a strict liturgy, and more generally of any kind of institutionalized authority, allows every initiatory group to define its religious methodology in an autonomous way. The aim of this research is to explain how these religious practises are created, legitimized and transmitted in a context which allows for extreme variability. In this perspective, the analysis focuses primarily on palo monte’s materiality and more specifically to the daily interactions between the paleros and their nganga, a cauldron condensing the presence of a dead man. I argue that the nganga, as an omniscient object-subject, mediates a complex relational network and enables a constant reinvention of palo monte’s ritual practises. I focus thus on palero rituals as performances through which priests make a name for themselves by creating a kind of customized cosmology. By putting forward an interactional analysis of these/their rituals, I show how determined aspects of the adepts’ personalities intercede in the definition of each groups’ ritual patterns. Finally, I point out how paleros’ reflexive acts – in the form of pervasive critique, vindication, debates, etc. – are constitutive of their practices’ transmission and renewal
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Peyron, David. "La construction sociale d'une sous-culture : l'exemple de la culture geek." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LYO30089.
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Cette étude porte sur la « culture geek » et son émergence en tant que sous-culture et identité culturelle revendiquée en France depuis le milieu des années 2000. En effet, ce mouvement d’abord américain a fait une entrée remarquée dans l’espace public qui incite à s’interroger sur sa réalité sociologique. Les geeks sont abordés ici comme fans de mondes imaginaires fantastiques (science-fiction, fantasy…), passionnés de nouvelles technologies et en tant que public premier et fondateur du processus de convergence culturelle théorisé par Henry Jenkins. La montée en visibilité du phénomène geek est ainsi liée dans cette étude à celle de pratiques médiatiques associées à ce processus (fanfictions, démocratisation des outils numériques, œuvres transmédiatiques et immersives, etc.). Dans ce cadre, le tournant réflexif (vers un sentiment d’appartenance à une identité collective) et la mode médiatique autour de la culture geek ces dernières années trouvent leurs racines dans les moments fondateurs de la convergence culturelle (depuis les pulps fictions et la naissance des comic books jusqu’à la sortie de Star Wars, du Seigneur des anneaux, des premiers jeux de rôles et jeux vidéo). Mais cela doit aussi à la radicalisation récente des croisements médiatiques, des pratiques participatives, de la mondialisation des partages liée aux technologies numériques et au passage des identités prescrites aux identités choisies dans les sociétés contemporaines marquées par l’individualismeThis dissertation is about « geek culture » and the emergence of this subcultural identity in recent years in France. This movement, born in North America, has entered the public sphere in a spectacular way and it encourages us to study its sociological reality. Geeks are seen here as fans of imaginary worlds (science-fiction, fantasy…), new technologies lovers, and as first and original audience of the process of cultural convergence defined by Henry Jenkins. The increasing visibility of the geek phenomenon is connected to many practices associated with this process (fanfictions, wide use of digital technology, transmedia and immersive storytelling, etc.). From this point of view, the reflexive moment (the feeling of being part of a collective identity) and the geek trend are both rooted by the beginnings of cultural convergence (from the pulp fictions, and the birth of comic books, to the release of Star Wars, the Lord of the Rings and the first role-playing or video games). It also has to do with the recent growth of links between media, with the success of participatory culture, the possibility of worldwide share thanks to digital technologies and the shift from preassigned identities to chosen ones in our individualistic society
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Latham, Jr G. Eric. "From Within the Abyss: Drug Users in Areas of Rural Poverty." TopSCHOLAR®, 2014. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1323.
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This research was completed to deal with many unanswered questions regarding drug use, specifically drug use in areas of rural poverty. Look at any "Faces of Meth" billboard or listen to any corporate-news program and one might assume there is a drug epidemic in rural areas. Without research, this allows the viewer to assume that poverty is the fault of the drug user who happens to live in rural places. This study sought to take a qualitative and ethnographic methodology to "embed" the researcher in this setting to see for himself whether these views were valid or invalid. The questions of functional drug use were at the forefront of the study, as was the possible relationship between drug use and rural poverty. This study transformed into a serious analysis of a network of drug users in the town of Mulch Valley. While standard sociological (and policy issues) concerns are dealt with, this thesis moves beyond such concerns. Theoretical concerns are brought into questions as new concepts, such as: cultural narrative of addiction, master sociality, slave sociality, and Derridity." "Crushing. Cheating. Changing. Am I deaf or dead? Is this constricting construction or just streets with rusty signs of something violent coming?" (Manson, 2012)
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Etheridge, Kate. "Dynamic reflections : mirrors in the poetic and visual culture of Paris from 1850 to 1900." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0ad79384-a85e-4fbd-93d5-d5b993844ffb.
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This thesis explores the transformation of the mirror's symbolic role in the poetry and visual art of late nineteenth-century Paris. For centuries the mirror has been associated with both truth and artifice, whether in religion, popular culture, art, or theories of aesthetics. In the context of nineteenth-century literature, M.H. Abrams uses the mirror to represent the age-old idea of the artist as an objective reflector of the world, juxtaposing this with the nineteenth-century notion of the artist as a subjective lamp. However, this thesis shows that, far from being abandoned as a symbol of artistic expression, the mirror motif was reclaimed and reinterpreted by Baudelaire and his artistic and poetic successors. The thesis argues that their works highlight the distortions and ambiguities that the mirror can produce, using it as a motif to challenge and alter our mode of vision. This thesis focuses on the visual and poetic culture of Paris between 1850 and 1900, when mirrors were increasingly visible in a range of public and private settings. Building on Walter Benjamin's descriptions of Paris as a city of mirrors and a locus of multiple, shifting gazes, the thesis examines how the perceptual experiences of modernity feed into the development of the mirror's symbolic role. Through a series of close readings, the thesis analyses the dynamics of mirror-vision and explores the shared preoccupations of art and poetry in their treatment of subjectivity, vision, and self-reflexive artistic practices. The thesis is arranged into three sections, examining texts by Charles Baudelaire, Henri de Régnier, Jules Laforgue, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Marie Krysinska, and artworks by Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Berthe Morisot, and Mary Cassatt. The first section assesses Baudelaire's works as a turning point for the mirror's symbolic significance, particularly examining how Baudelaire reinterprets the association between mirrors and femininity. The second section explores this latter connection in the art and poetry of Baudelaire's late nineteenthcentury successors. The third section examines the mirror's appearance in various ambiguous or ill-defined spaces, assessing how this affects the reader's or viewer's perceptions. I conclude that in the art and poetry of this period, the mirror becomes an emblem of self-reflexivity. Through works that prioritise mobility, multiplicity, and fragmentation, these artists and poets subvert the mirror's associations with mimesis in order to expose the dynamic uncertainty of vision and artistic representation.
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Silva, Junior Wilton Valença da. "Consumir e ser consumido, eis a questão! configurações entre usuários de drogas numa cultura de consumo." Programa de Pós- Graduação em Ciências Sociais da UFBA, 2005. http://www.repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/11365.
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Este projeto propõe uma leitura configuracional dos estilos de vida de específicos professores universitários: Homo academicus usuários de drogas, recortados numa cultura de consumo onde se busca um maior equilíbrio entre indivíduo e sociedade nas suas operacionalizações da liberdade e da segurança. A análise de suas práticas e representações em meio às comunidades várias do cotidiano - da família à academia, passando pelas redes básicas de sociabilidade – visa capturar como eles lidam com os controles sociais, como ressignificam o estigma de usuários tendo como contraponto o status de professor, e como a partir do papel de professor eles refletem a problemática das drogas para a sociedade.
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Zerbib, Olivier. "Je(ux) en ligne : pour une approche socio-communicationnelle des technologies numériques et des formes de réflexivités culturelles." Phd thesis, Université d'Avignon, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00674659.
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Comment rendre compte des transformations opérées dans le champ culturel par les technologies numériques ? Au-delà des grands récits technicistes, quelle entrée choisir pour observer les mutations induites par le numérique dans les rapports qu'entretiennent les publics avec les objets culturels ? Sur quels terrains se placer pour tenter de saisir les transformations issues de l'émergence d'une technologie hybride et protéiforme, sans pour autant faire de l'informatique une pratique culturelle " comme les autres " ou verser dans le déterminisme médiatique ?En pointant les doutes et les hésitations ayant marqué ce travail de thèse, en les examinant et en les contextualisant diachroniquement, il s'est agi de contribuer à l'analyse de la réception et des dynamiques culturelles en lien avec les technologies numériques. Cette réflexion, construite sur une longue durée, s'est attachée à l'exploration d'usages du numérique qui, en leur temps, semblaient devoir s'imposer comme radicalement " modernes ". Ainsi, en trois temps et trois focales nous avons choisi d'étudier des objets apparemment hétéroclites mais qui devaient témoigner des profonds changements culturels engagés par l'émergence des technologies de l'information et de la communication. Ce cheminement nous a conduit à étudier des pratiques aux statuts sociaux et scientifiques divers, depuis les lectures en bibliothèques jusqu'aux jeux vidéo en passant par les écritures intimes sur les sites de rencontres ou les blogs. Cette méthodologie nous a finalement conduit à isoler un élément transversal aux objets étudiés, et dont le déploiement est favorisé par les technologies numériques : l'essor des capacités réflexives des publics de la culture.
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Doern, Rachel R. "Understanding barriers to small business growth from the perspective of owner-managers in Russia." Thesis, St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/546.
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Silva, Junior Wilton Valença da. "Consumir e ser consumido, eis a questão! (parte II) Outras configurações entre usuários de drogas numa cultura de consumo." Programa de Pós- Graduação em Ciências Sociais da UFBA, 2010. http://www.repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/11362.
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Nos debates acadêmicos e nas representações midiáticas sobre a problemática das drogas, se tende a centralizar a abordagem na relação entre tráfico, violência e exclusão, muitas vezes naturalizando o consumo de substâncias psicoativas como um fator de desequilíbrio nas configurações socioculturais contemporâneas. Tal perspectiva enfatiza menos o discurso emitido do lugar do usuário que o seu papel como elo mais vulnerável da rede de consumo – principalmente sendo o comércio das drogas ilícitas um dos mais rentáveis do mercado. Se, ao naturalizar a relação entre drogas e ilicitude, se estigmatiza a identidade e as marcas distintivas do usuário, esta pesquisa investiga o discurso identitário que perpassa representações de estudantes universitários usuários – em um momento histórico no qual estes são colocados em evidência pela ampla exibição do filme Tropa de elite, e das proibições da apresentação do filme Maconha/Grass (a verdadeira história da proibição da maconha) em uma universidade federal e da Marcha da Maconha em várias capitais do país.
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Anaya, Viviani. "Currículo, educação à distância e cultura do estudo autônomo em curso de Pedagogia: limites e possibilidades." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2013. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/9754.
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Previous issue date: 2013-12-02This research discusses distance education and the culture of self-study, with a view to a more active and effective participation of students in the process of knowledge construction. Therefore, the concept of autonomy becomes crucial role to play. In this research, the culture of self-study emerges as a central element and is discussed from the standpoint of contemporary, pointing to overthrow the boundaries of time and space, influencing greatly in the concept of autonomy. The notions of time, space, criticality, reflexivity, autonomy, empowerment, interpersonal relationships, meaningful learning, are striking features when the focus is on distance learning courses, as the notion of linear time and space and Cartesian posed by classroom education in distance learning courses, are gradually replaced by the space occupied virtually therefore more flexible as well as study time determined by academic independently defined. These concepts emerge exacerbated because the configuration of a course offered in distance mode presupposes knowledge and internalization of these elements by students, becoming a "sine qua non" for the continuation of studies. However, other factors influence the formation this autonomous culture. These secondary elements, namely, the organizational structure of the curriculum, the didactic aspects, methodological and evaluative, as well as materials available in virtual learning environments, permeate this search and constitute themselves into categories, providing elements for the analysis of data collected research, allowing the definition of the question that guides research: What are the limits and possibilities that pervades higher education in distance mode, considering the culture of self-study, teaching practice undertaken by teachers / tutors and curriculum of a course in pedagogy? Defined the issue, determine the locus and the research subjects. This study aims to contribute to general discussions about the limits and possibilities of higher education in the distance mode, considering the culture of self-study, teaching practice undertaken by teachers / tutors and curriculum of the Faculty of Education, object of this analysis. Specifically, this study attempts to identify if the student opts for distance education has the culture of self-study, identify the digital culture is present in the daily student who opts for distance mode; relate teaching practices, culture and self-study distance learning, recognize the importance of concepts such as autonomy, emancipation, reflexivity, collaborative work, interpersonal relationships, meaningful learning, while categories to be included in structured courses in distance mode. In this research, a qualitative approach guides both the collection of data regarding the analysis of the data collected thus abstracts itself as hypothesis, that the student who opts for training in distance mode, does not possess the culture of self-study. With this focus, this research aims to contribute to a better understanding of the condition students in distance education. This condition is established from the contemporary discussion about the culture of self-study, changing the architecture curriculum, education and geography teachers s pedagogic practice
Este trabalho de pesquisa discute a educação à distância e a cultura do estudo autônomo, com vistas a uma participação mais atuante e efetiva dos alunos no processo de construção do conhecimento. Para tanto, o conceito de autonomia passa a desempenhar papel fundamental. Nesta pesquisa, a cultura do estudo autônomo emerge como elemento central e é discutida do ponto de vista da contemporaneidade, que aponta a derrubada de fronteiras de tempo e espaço, influenciando, sobremaneira, o próprio conceito de autonomia. As noções de tempo, espaço, criticidade, reflexividade, autonomia, emancipação, relações interpessoais, aprendizagem significativa, são características marcantes quando o foco são os cursos à distância, pois a noção de tempo e espaço linear e cartesiano, posto pela educação presencial, nos cursos a distância, vão sendo gradualmente substituídos pelo espaço ocupado virtualmente, portanto, mais flexível, bem como o tempo de estudo determinado pelo acadêmico, autonomamente definido. Esses conceitos emergem potencializados, pois a configuração de um curso oferecido na modalidade à distância pressupõe o conhecimento e a introjeção destes elementos pelos estudantes, tornando-se condição sine qua non para a continuidade dos estudos. Todavia, outros elementos interferem na constituição desta cultura autônoma. Estes elementos secundários, quais sejam, a estrutura organizacional do currículo, os aspectos didáticos, metodológicos e avaliativos, bem como os materiais disponibilizados nos ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem, permeiam esta pesquisa e constituem-se em categorias, fornecendo elementos para a análise dos dados coletados na investigação, permitindo a definição da questão que norteia esta pesquisa: Quais são os limites e possibilidades que perpassam a formação superior, na modalidade à distância, considerando a cultura do estudo autônomo, a prática pedagógica levada a efeito pelos professores/tutores e a estrutura curricular de um curso de Pedagogia? Definida a questão, determinamos o lócus e os sujeitos da pesquisa. Este estudo tem como objetivo geral contribuir com as discussões sobre os limites e as possibilidades da formação superior, na modalidade à distância, considerando a cultura do estudo autônomo, a prática pedagógica levada a efeito pelos professores/tutores e a estrutura curricular do curso de Pedagogia, objeto desta análise. Especificamente, esta pesquisa objetiva identificar se o aluno que opta pela educação à distância possui a cultura do estudo autônomo; identificar se a cultura digital está presente no cotidiano do aluno que opta pela modalidade à distância; relacionar práticas pedagógicas inovadoras, cultura do estudo autônomo e ensino a distância; reconhecer a importância de conceitos como autonomia, emancipação, reflexividade, trabalho colaborativo, relações interpessoais, aprendizagem significativa, enquanto categorias a serem contempladas nos cursos estruturados na modalidade à distância. Nesta pesquisa, a abordagem qualitativa orienta tanto a coleta dos dados quanto à análise dos dados coletados, Assim, abstrai-se, enquanto hipótese, que o aluno que opta pela formação, na modalidade à distância, não possuiria a cultura do estudo autônomo. Com este recorte, este trabalho de pesquisa visa contribuir para uma melhor compreensão da condição discente na EaD. Esta condição se estabelece a partir da discussão contemporânea sobre a cultura do estudo autônomo, alterando a arquitetura curricular, a geografia educacional e a prática pedagógica do professor
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Cano-Viktorsson, Carlos. "Social Media and the Networked Self in Everyday Life." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-143415.
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Internet has become increasingly ubiquitous and with the introduction of Web 2.0 technologies and concepts it has almost become second nature for many Internet users. This study attempts to view the “social life” of this “new” online environment through its current manifestation in the form of the popular social networking site Facebook. It argues that Facebook has become a tool for the management of one's self both online and offline and that people's reflexive relation to their self-identity is made visible through their engagement with this social media. How such a new form of social media incorporates itself into everyday life but also how the media acts as an extension of the reflexive self has been the main focus of this study.
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Scott, Lemuel. "Making Sense at the Margins: Describing Narratives on Food Insecurity Through Hip-hop." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7930.
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Neoliberalism is the contemporary political and economic thought that promotes ideas of private property, individualism, and market logic as key to advancing humanity. Scholars generally link neoliberalism to poverty from a broad perspective, but few have explored how it specifically impacts food insecurity. Globally, many people impacted by poverty also experience food insecurity. Hip-hop is important to resistance and fostering my critical worldview. Existing literature primarily describes hip-hop as a critical tool giving expression to people living at the margins. However, there is a need for hip-hop to be used more often as resistance by artists doing research. First, this study aims to understand food insecurity from the perspectives of food insecure individuals. Second, using the dominant themes from our conversations, I co-construct a hip-hop album. After conducting semi-structured interviews with 8 guests at Trinity Cafe, the analysis reveals the guests make sense of food insecurity by questioning organizations, through understanding responsibility and response-ability, and by showing active optimism. The hip-hop EP entitled Margins also emerged. Their knowledge challenges the commodification of food, complicates ideas of resilience, and foregrounds the importance of the collective. The study also provides important considerations for nonprofits and policy-makers by suggesting collaborations, intersectional approaches, and context-specific solutions are crucial.
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Jaede, Marguerethe A. "Coaching in the Presence of Difference: Considerations, Roadblocks, and Possibilities." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1557125615648375.
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Parsons, Julie. "'Ourfoodstories@e-mail.com' : an auto/biographical study of relationships with food." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/2920.
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Popular discourses and current government policy focus on the need for individuals and families to make healthy food choices, without acknowledging the social and cultural milieu in which these are embedded. A neo-liberal focus on responsible individualism is part of a middle class habitus that ensures foodwork and foodplay are located within distinct heteronormative cultural fields. In my thesis I explore narratives from seventy-five mainly middle class respondents who engaged in a series of asynchronous online interviews over nine months beginning in November 2010. The themes that emerged aligned with public policy debates on the family, healthy eating, eating disorders, ‘fat’ bodies and elite foodways. Hence, feeding the family ‘healthy’ meals ‘prepared from scratch’ was considered a means of acquiring social, symbolic and cultural capital. ‘Fat’ talk and ‘lipoliteracy’ or learning to read the body were ways of performing femininity, whilst elite foodways were utilised as forms of hegemonic masculinities. Hence, in a challenge to the individualisation thesis my research demonstrates the complexity of food relationships beyond individual consumer choice. Throughout I adopt an auto/biographical approach that stresses the interconnectedness of biography and autobiography, focuses on researcher reflexivity and is sensitive to respondent subjectivities. Respondents used a common vocabulary of individuality, whilst simultaneously embedding themselves in family and kinship relations. Indeed, family, gender, and class, were the means of anchorage in a sea of remembering that engendered a sense of ontological security. Foodways are, thus, part of a habitus that is gendered, classed, temporal and historical. Women in the study conformed to cultural scripts of heteronormative femininity, whilst men resorted to hegemonic masculinities to distance themselves from feminised foodways and care work. These identities were not part of a negotiated family model, but located in cultural fields that reinforced and naturalised gendered divisions, they were bound by gender and class.
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Attencourt, Boris. "Les intellectuels à l’épreuve de la visibilité : faire carrière au-delà de l’université (1970-2015)." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021EHES0009.
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Cette thèse porte sur les circuits par lesquels une fraction des intellectuels deviennent visibles (presse de qualité, revues intellectuelles, cercles de réflexion, lieux de conférences, émissions culturelles de radio et de télévision, maisons d’édition, etc.). Mêlant référence à la culture légitime, accessibilité et action, de tels circuits se sont développés au sortir des années 1970 jusqu’à s’imposer comme l’espace de la valeur publique des idées et de leurs porteurs.La thèse s’est donc intéressée aux enjeux de la visibilité pour les intellectuels durant la période allant des années 1970 au milieu des années 2010 et montre que les carrières de la reconnaissance externe ne se font pas après ou en dehors de l’université mais bien en même temps. Afin de rendre raison de cette configuration de la notoriété intellectuelle, nous avons eu recours ici à une approche sociohistorique et multiniveaux des circuits de la visibilité où il s’est agi d’appréhender leurs institutions, producteurs et publics. Or, les lieux de conférences savantes à destination d'un large public parce qu’ils occupent une place cardinale au sein des circuits de la visibilité intellectuelle se sont avérés une entrée particulièrement efficace pour en reconstituer empiriquement les filières qui se sont tissées entre les marges de l’université, la haute administration et les médias. Une ethnographie multisite des conférences (N=15) ayant abouti à un vaste corpus d’observations (N=97) a ainsi ouvert la voie à tout un ensemble d’explorations de ces circuits aux échelles micro et macro. À travers des immersions de longue durée et une observation participante ayant permis de collecter un matériau empirique conséquent (observations, entretiens et archives), nous nous sommes attaché à restituer la genèse puis la trajectoire d’institutions exemplaires (Beaubourg, le Collège international de philosophie et l’Université de tous les savoirs). Nous avons mené des entretiens avec les producteurs (N=18) et, en lien avec cette catégorie d'enquêtés, les intermédiaires culturels et leur personnel de renfort (N=9). Dans le registre qualitatif, nous avons également procédé à des analyses de controverses (Billeter / Jullien et Badiou / Finkielkraut). En outre, de nombreux traitements quantitatifs parmi lesquels des analyses factorielles et de réseaux ont été réalisés à partir d’une prosopographie des producteurs répartis entre sciences de la nature (N=64) et sciences humaines et sociales (N=195) suivant un échantillonnage représentatif de conférenciers. Pour ce qui est de la réception, la focale a été placée sur les auditeurs des conférences en diversifiant les méthodes d’investigation : aux observations collectées auprès du public durant toutes les phases des conférences, se sont ajoutés des entretiens (N=27) et plusieurs enquêtes par questionnaire conduites par nos soins au sein du Collège international de philosophie (N=330) et de l’Université de tous les savoirs (N=285, 157 et 183).Sur la base de ces différentes enquêtes, la thèse rend compte du monopole exercé par ces circuits de célébration culturelle dans l’accès à la notoriété publique des intellectuels ayant conduit à la formation d’un espace hétéronome où le capital social prime sur les espèces autonomes du capital culturel. Dès lors, cet espace et l’élite de l’esprit qui s’y trouve consacrée participent du renouvellement des modes de domination de la classe dominante depuis les années 1980. Si ce travail est un apport à la sociologie des intellectuels et des sciences, à celle des élites et des médias, à celle du goût et de la consommation culturels et aux réflexions méthodologiques autour de l’articulation des niveaux, il voudrait aussi contribuer à l’analyse des formes idéologiques et académiques de doxa intellectuelleThis thesis focuses on the channels through which a fraction of intellectuals become visible (quality press, intellectual journals, think tanks, conference venues, cultural radio and television broadcasts, publishing houses, etc.). Combining reference to legitimate culture, accessibility and action, such circuits developed at the end of the 1970s until they established themselves as the space for the public value of ideas and their carriers.The thesis therefore focused on the issues of visibility for intellectuals during the period from the 1970s to the mid-2010s and shows that careers in external recognition do not take place after or outside the university but rather at the same time. In order to explain this configuration of intellectual notoriety, we have resorted here to a sociohistorical and multilevel approach of the circuits of visibility where it is a question of apprehending their institutions, producers and audiences. However, the places of scholarly conferences intended for a large public because they occupy a cardinal place within the circuits of intellectual visibility have proven to be a particularly effective entry point for empirically reconstituting the channels that have been woven between the margins. academia, senior administration and the media. A multisite ethnography of the conferences (N = 15) which resulted in a large body of observations (N = 97) thus paved the way for a whole set of explorations of these circuits at the micro and macro scales. Through long-term immersions and a participant observation which made it possible to collect substantial empirical material (observations, interviews and archives), we endeavored to reconstruct the genesis and then the trajectory of exemplary institutions (Beaubourg, the International College of Philosophy and the University of all knowledge). We conducted interviews with producers (N = 18) and, in connection with this category of interviewees, cultural intermediaries and their back-up staff (N = 9). In the qualitative register, we also carried out analyzes of controversies (Billeter / Jullien and Badiou / Finkielkraut). In addition, many quantitative treatments, including factorial and network analyzes, were carried out based on a prosopography of producers divided between natural sciences (N = 64) and human and social sciences (N = 195) following a sampling representative of speakers. With regard to reception, the focus was placed on conference listeners by diversifying the investigation methods: to the observations collected from the public during all phases of the conferences, interviews were added (N = 27) and several questionnaire surveys conducted by us within the International College of Philosophy (N = 330) and the University of All Knowledge (N = 285, 157 and 183).On the basis of these various surveys, the thesis takes account of the monopoly exercised by these circuits of cultural celebration in the access to public notoriety of intellectuals which led to the formation of a heteronomous space where social capital takes precedence over autonomous species. cultural capital. Consequently, this space and the elite of the spirit which is devoted to it participate in the renewal of the modes of domination of the dominant class since the 1980s. If this work is a contribution to the sociology of intellectuals and sciences, to that of the elites and the media, to that of cultural taste and consumption and to methodological reflections around the articulation of levels, he would also like to contribute to the analysis of ideological and academic forms of intellectual doxa
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Daiello, Vittoria S. "The “I” of the Text: A Psychoanalytic Theory Perspective on Students’ Television Criticism Writing, Subjectivity, and Critical Consciousness in Visual Culture Art Education." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1293716652.
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Nehls, Eddy. "Vägval : lastbilsförare i fjärrtrafik - perspektiv på yrkeskultur och genus." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-100375.
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This thesis is an ethnological study of the truck-driver profession and an examination of the prerequisites for sexual equality and diversity in the haulage branch. The aim is to: from a cultural perspective, with a special focus on gender and masculinity, study truck-drivers as an occupational group. A main question deals with male dominance within the haulage business. What supports this dominance and what possibilities exist for change? The cultural phenomena within the trucking business are analysed with a particular focus on class. The collective idea, that I found among truck-drivers and haulage firm owners, of a kind of self-imposed “underdog identity’* is important to my analyses. Within the group, however, disloyal competition is widespread. The employment process for drivers is built on responsibility. The driver must prove himself sufficiently reliable before the employer will hand over responsibility for truck, cargo and the assignment itself. Since those who lack the collectively accepted indicators of competence/responsibility have difficulty gaining employment, a kind of “catch 22” situation is created, which is reinforced by the truck-drivers’ “underdog identity”. Those who share the values and outer features with the majority receive considerable advantages in the employment process,which adds to what is already a widespread male dominance and strengthens the cultural homogeneity. The truck-drivers* relationship to freedom forms a “key symbol” in the analysis. The Swedish haulage branch is investigated using Yvonne Hirdman’s gender contract, which makes visible how perceptions of masculinity have been given normative status within the haulage business. Another theme in the analysis is the “masculine manuscript” — embodied by a wellbehaved and reliable, middle-aged, white (Swedish), heterosexual man with a working class upbringing. The manuscript functions as a kind of ideal with which drivers are compared. Those who fit the manuscript are afforded considerable advantages, above all in the recruitment process. In order to draw attention to different types of power within the haulage business, Robert W. Connels’ term hegemonic masculinity is used. With some reservations one can express the long-distance truck-driver as an ideal with hegemonic status within the context of haulage. This category of driver has considerable influence on the definition of how a “real” driver should be and on ideas of how transport work is best organised. This group of drivers is relatively small, but its symbolic influence is large. From a gender perspective, the aim is to “grapple” with the images of truck-drivers, both within and outside of the business. The attitude to the trucker myths is critical. The masculinity ideal of the trucker myth is about the right to seek personal freedom and to live exclusively in and for the truck. Possible explanations for the interest in truck-drivers are discussed with the help of the concept of “masculinity crisis” and George L. Mosses* figure of thought: “the male stereotype”.Diss. Umeå : Univ., 2003
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Jotham, Victoria Anne. "iSpace? : identity & space : a visual ethnography with young people and mobile phone technologies." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/ispace-identity-and-space--a-visual-ethnography-with-young-people-and-mobile-phone-technologies(ab192610-3778-487f-bd7f-9a741dbddf56).html.
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Mobile phone technologies are transforming how young people think, work, play and relate to each other. However, a central concern for the thesis is that education policy and practice far too often resembles an industrial model that is standardised, mechanistic and linear and that rarely reflects the informational, dynamic and creative lives of young people. In particular, the educational project fails to connect with the way young people use their mobile phone technologies to multi-task, connect, and create content at a precipitous rate. This thesis focuses on the ways in which mobile phone technology is now a significant influence in the way young people develop a sense of self, and a sense of identity and agency that permeates the way they engage with education. The specific research questions that follow from this are: how are young peoples’ identities shaping the meaning and use of mobile phones within (im)material culture? How is the relationship between identity and the creation and use of social space being defined through mobile phone technology? And, taken together how might these processes of identity development influence the way the educational project develops in the future? This thesis addressed these aims by conducting a visual ethnographic study over three years, using participation observation in a sixth-form college in the UK that included video interviews with seven college students. The research has produced a conceptual framework that documents a number of key findings that include: (a) the mobile phone has an immediate symbolic value to young people providing signals about the user’s identity, or presentation of the self; (b) the mobile phone also helps facilitate the performance of lived experiences and is actively part of assisting in various forms of agency. (c) The mobile phone enables a constant flow of (re)presentations of young people that reflects a fluidity of identity that characterises key aspects of contemporary social life. Finally, (d) the mobile phone also supports and enhances the maintenance of social space through the maintenance of social groups and also crucially, the feeling of being oneself. The main conclusion drawn from this research is that too often education systems overlook that fact that learning for young people is typically, and inevitably, personal and yet at the same time located in connected, information-driven environments that are predisposed to digital technologies. Therefore, this research argues for educational policy makers and practitioners to think creatively about how to develop education in ways that fundamentally support young people in their (re)construction of a personalised landscape for learning through their mobile phone technologies.
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Janssen, Jacqueline Jeannette Maria. "Becoming savvy : developing awareness of everyday politics." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/17116.
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This thesis explores the experiences of an educational project manager/team leader, and at some point job-seeker, mostly in foreign countries. The focus lies, in conclusion, on developing awareness of everyday politics, brought about mainly by a significant change in the understanding of three closely related concepts: culture, language and identity. The understanding of culture developed into a notion of culture of groups - part of complex networks of other groups - simultaneously formed by and forming interdependent people who are interrelating according to evolving/emerging, explicit/implicit customs, norms, values and ethics. The exploration of language revealed patterns of conversation, common to specific groups, allowing co-creation of significant symbols, of which appropriate use enabled communication, establishment and mutual recognition. Identity became recognised as a social construct - dynamically adapting to specific local circumstances (groups), to social acts, which it forms and is formed by at the same time. In researcher's management practice and career-coaching-trajectory rather abstract and idealised text and talk describing people and/in organisations was encountered frequently, seemingly aimed at reducing the inevitable uncertainty that results from the complexity of human relating. Attention is paid to ways in which people speak and write about them-selves and/at work and how this influences the experience of self and/at work, which revealed a relation between abstract and idealised conversational patterns and impacted sense of self. The career-coaching experience in particular exposed how these conversational patterns in/and the strategic construction of 'glossy' identities (of organisations and people) do not reflect everyday perception of self and/at work, as work is developed in social interaction, of which meaning is negotiated and evolves through people's differing intentions, expectations and emerging insights; through everyday politics. Becoming 'politically savvy', acquiring awareness of everyday politics, is necessary for our functioning in organisational life. The argument is that developing 'political savvy' - becoming self-conscious in complex organisational environments where strategically co-created idealised images of self, organisations and work are common practice - is increasingly taxing, as glossy identities 'airbrush' away the messiness of everyday work life. The challenge for managers is to endeavour to see beyond these images, explicit strategies and certain conversational patterns, and develop their ability to make sense - by reflecting and taking a reflexive stance - of what it is people are doing together. Taking seriously everyday experiences may provide choice, options to proceed, possibly to develop (trust in) 'political savvy', and may increase awareness of how people adapt, change and develop (in) social acts because of and despite this.
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Matthews, Blair. ""I wouldn't imagine having to go through all this, and still be the same person. No way" : structure and agency in the international student experience." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/26829.
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Research on the experience of international students often suffers from conflation, in that it uses culture (or nationality as a proxy for culture) as a categorising agent, thereby granting causal powers to cultural differences, and contributing to a deficit model of international students. In this research, I will argue that, while culture and structure both provide new sets of constraints and opportunities for international students, participants are active agents in shaping their own experiences, as they think, reflect and act in response to their situational context. Drawing on Archer’s concept of reflexivity, this thesis demonstrates that because international students are often not immediately able to exercise agency through conversation (thought and talk), they find a need to reflect on their experiences and develop a course of action based on greater autonomy (that is, they become more independent). However, while some students make the transition to independence relatively smoothly, for others, it is not so easy, and some participants may find it difficult to convert thoughts into effective action (or displaced reflexivity). Participants in the international student experience confront a situational context marked by four specific features: first, a lack of a sympathetic interlocutor (that is, they find themselves on their own); second, contextual incongruity (commonly conceptualised as culture shock); third, shared experiences, which leads to congruity; and fourth, troublesome events, which blocks agential action. This research provides empirical evidence of specific generative mechanisms which contribute to the shaping of agency in the international student experience.
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Wilkins, John D. "The Common, the Contradictory and the Idiosyncratic: Signposts from a Qualitative Exploration into the Structural Factors Influencing Scientific Work in Tsukuba, Japan [1997-2002]." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/25953.
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From the socio-economic turmoil of the 20th century, Japan has repeatedly revealed its resilience. During these trying times, scientific work has been an important element in Japan's economic development. However, the 1990s revealed weaknesses in this “economic miracle.” During this period, several socio-structural factors have contributed to this social landscape. Future successes in Japanese socio-economic spheres will partially depend on scientific work. In this study, it is suggested that identifying structural factors in the Japanese “system” that contribute to its scientific organizations is key to ascertaining a more coherent assessment of scientific work in Japan. This assessment can lead to more in depth analyses of the interconnections between science and society. The focus of this study is on scientific institutes and their organizational structure. The social networks that interconnect these institutes and couple their scientific work with other elements of Japanese culture are essential in the analysis of Japan's scientific enterprise.
In the present study, a qualitative case study methodology is used to explore socio-structural networks within the cultural field of scientific work in Tsukuba, Japan. The structure of scientific work in Japan is composed of several cultural and material elements which have been distilled into two themes for evaluative purposes. These themes include cultural factors and scientific production/economic affairs. Through a reflexive-thematic lens an analysis of scientific work is conducted. Central to the method used in this study is a series of structured and un-structured in-person interviews using a format of open-ended questions. Most informants in this study were chosen by administrators of the institutes involved. Although, I did participate in assuring diversity in the sample, there is possible bias inherent in management's choices of particular informants. These interviews were held during the month of October 2002 in five separate university and non-university institutes in Tsukuba, Japan.
The findings in this study reveal common, contradictory and idiosyncratic aspects that have important cultural and scientific/economic effects across organizational types. Common attributes include the observation of universal “top-down” organizational hierarchies with networks of labor being accumulated through elite scientists. Generally, informants perceived little to no effect from the national economy on their particular institute's funding of science. Scientists spent an extraordinary amount of time at work and conducted highly specialized work tasks. The publishing activity concentrated among elite scientists while utilization of foreign scientists and contingent workers were segregated. Also, the use of tacit knowledge as a principal training tool was universally observed across institutes.
Contradictory attributes include scientists' attitudes toward their work versus the city they live in, government policy versus actual laboratory work, and publishing versus conference presentations. The idiosyncratic attributes focus on levels of organizational formality across organizations. The organizational formality is related to the individual scientists' perceptions of what they enjoyed most about their work. Thus, scientists that enjoyed the â processes' of their work tended to be located in more formal organizations whereas those scientists who enjoyed “discovery” were situated in less formal organizations. It is likely that the different levels of organizational formality observed in this study are associated with other elements of laboratory culture. Also, the composition of foreigners and women varied remarkably across institutes. Yet, their use in laboratories is relatively similar.Ph. D.
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Faury, Mélodie. "Parcours de chercheurs. De la pratique de recherche à un discours sur la science : quel rapport identitaire et culturel aux sciences ?" Phd thesis, Ecole normale supérieure de lyon - ENS LYON, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00744210.
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Que signifie être scientifique ? Comment et quand le devient-on ? Dans quelle mesure peut-on parler d'un rapport identitaire et culturel aux sciences ? Comment l'épreuve de la pratique intervient-elle dans la construction ou dans la crise de ce rapport aux sciences ?Le rapport identitaire et culturel aux sciences tel que nous le définissons par ce travail s'exprime au moins à trois niveaux articulés. D'un premier point de vue, la construction d'un rapport identitaire et culturel aux sciences par l'expérience vécue se laisse appréhender par le recensement des pratiques de communication quotidiennement éprouvées, qui forgent un espace mental de la recherche, où s'associent représentation de la science et représentation de soi. A un deuxième niveau, l'espace de l'entretien rend possible la construction d'un discours à distance de cette expérience, où l'enquêté se positionne vis à vis de ce qu'il rapporte. Il mobilise notamment des normes et valeurs dans le discours qu'il tisse sur son parcours, sa pratique de recherche et sur lui-même. Celles-ci, en tant que ressources discursives, participent à l'expression et à l'actualisation, au moment-même de la situation d'entretien, d'un rapport identitaire et culturel aux sciences. Enfin, nous distinguons un troisième niveau de construction de ce rapport identitaire et culturel aux sciences, dans la situation de communication que constitue l'entretien. L'enquêté élabore un discours situé et contextualisé où parcours, pratique et (re)présentation de soi se mêlent et s'éprouvent dans un ajustement permanent entre l'enquêté et l'enquêteur. La réflexivité, tout à la fois objet d'étude, concept, ensemble de pratiques et d'actions, mais aussi en tant que critère de scientificité, est au centre de ce travail et au cœur de la démarche de chercheur que je cherche à mettre en œuvre.
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Vosloo, Niel Brink. "Hiding in plain sight : subjectivity, mimetic representation & the digital realm." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20213.
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Thesis (MA (VA))--Stellenbosch University, 2012.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study offers a critical exploration of the ways in which Jean Baudrillard’s theory of the simulacrum is ‘true’ or viable as a theory of representation in contemporary visual culture, with particular reference to digital imaging technologies. Using a selection of images and texts dating from the Renaissance to present day, I trace issues of subjectivity and self-reflexivity in modern image culture, questioning the extent to which digital imaging technology and information substantially departs from the early modern devotion to naturalistic representation (verisimilitude) as a reflection of knowledge and truth in the modern world. I offer a critique of the simulacrum theory that concerns two principle issues: firstly that simulacrum is a strictly self-reflexive operation and not an effect of digital imaging technology as Baudrillard claims; and secondly, that simulacrum necessitates an underlying dualist worldview in order to exist. With reference to the use of metaphor in magical realist texts and visual art, I draw the argument together with a discussion of my own art practice, particularly a body of work that takes Etienne van Heerden’s novel Toorberg (1986) as a starting point. The examples I refer to serve as visual evidence in support of my speculative philosophical argument against hyperreality; that is, how the simulacral nature of metaphor (as operating within a poststructuralist model of the sign) functions a critical aspect of a self-reflexive individual consciousness; and argues for subjectivity itself as inherently bound up in the operation of simulacrum.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie is ’n kritiese ondersoek na die wyse waarop Jean Baudrillard se teorie van die simulacrum ‘waar’ of grondig is as ’n teorie van representasie in visuele kultuur, met spesifieke verwysing na digitale beeldtegnologie. ‘n Verskeidenheid beelde en tekste (van die Renaissance tot die moderne era) word betrek ten einde kwessies rondom subjektiwiteit en selfrefleksiwiteit in moderne beeldkultuur te ondersoek. Die mate waarin digitale beeldtegnologie en inligting merkbaar afwyk van ‘n vroeë moderne toegewydheid aan naturalistiese representasie (verisimilitude) as ‘n refleksie van kennis en waarheid in die moderne wêreld, word vervolgens krities ondersoek. Baudrillard se simulacrum-teorie word krities beoordeel: in die eerste plek is die simulacrum ‘n streng selfrefleksiewe proses en nie ‘n effek van digitale beeldtegnologie, soos Baudrillard beweer nie; en tweedens veronderstel, of noodsaak die simulacrum ‘n onderliggende dualistiese wêreldbeeld ten einde geldig verklaar te kan word. Met verwysing na die gebruik van metafoor in magies realistiese tekste en visuele kuns, word die argument saamgevat deur ’n bespreking van my persoonlike kunsprojek, vernaam ’n versameling werk wat Etienne van Heerden se roman Toorberg (1986) as verwysingspunt gebruik. Die voorbeelde waarna ek verwys ondersteun my spekulatiewe filosofiese argument teen hiperrealiteit (hyperreality); hoe die simulakrale (simulacral) aard van metafoor (soos werksaam binne ’n poststrukturalistiese model van die ‘teken’) as ’n kritiese aspek van selfrefleksiewe individuele bewussyn funksioneer. Ek argumenteer vervolgens dat subjektiwiteit sigself inherent deel is van die werking van simulacrum.
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COLOMBO, CHIARA. "Adolescenti in migrazione: la rappresentazione visuale di identità e chances di vita." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/1248.
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Scopo del contributo è descrivere la costruzione e rappresentazione dell’identità nel corso della transizione adolescenziale. Ipotizzata circolarità e reciproca determinazione tra individui e società, lo studio tratta il tema dell’identità come frutto di riflessività e di chances di vita offerte dal contesto.
Il fuoco dell’attenzione è sugli adolescenti di origine straniera, scelti come oggetto di studio perché chiamati a vivere la transizione identitaria in maniera amplificata dall’esperienza migratoria ed esemplificativa di traiettorie di costruzione del Sé percorse anche dai pari italiani. L’analisi sottolinea dunque l’analogia generazionale tra adolescenti italiani e stranieri e la pluralità di definizioni identitarie, anche prescindendo dall’eventuale esperienza migratoria.
Lo studio ha seguito l’approccio della sociologia visuale, sia nei riferimenti teorici ed analitici, sia sul piano della ricerca empirica. Sono stati intervistati 12 adolescenti, italiani e stranieri, che hanno narrato di sé presentando immagini e video. A partire da ciò sono state individuate 3 tipologie di costruzione identitaria, quella dei relazionali, quella dei progettisti e quella dei sognatori, e si è confermata la reciproca connessione tra individui e società e la pluralità di traiettorie nella transizione alla vita adulta.The study’s aim is to describe the construction and representation of identity during the adolescent transition. Hypothesizing circularity and reciprocal determination between individuals and society, the study deals with the topic of identity as the result of reflexivity and lifetime chances which are offered by the context. Attention is focused on adolescents with foreign origins, chosen as the subject of study because they are called to experience identity transition in a way which is broadened due to their migratory experiences, and exemplified by paths involving Self-construction which their Italian peers also follow. The analysis thus underscores the generational analogy between Italian and foreign adolescents and the plurality of definitions of identity, also irrespective of any migratory experience. The study followed the visual sociology approach, both in theoretical and analytical terms as well as at the level of empirical research. The 12 Italian and foreign adolescents who were interviewed spoke about themselves through images and videos. 3 types of identity construction were identified thanks to these presentations: relational, planners and dreamers, and a reciprocal connection between individuals and society, and the plurality of paths in the transition to adult life were confirmed.
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MEZZETTI, GIULIA. "Religiosità e processi di auto-identificazione tra giovani musulmani in Italia." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/74758.
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La religiosità e i processi di auto-identificazione di giovani con background musulmano in Occidente soggiacciono a una doppia dinamica: da un lato, essi devono misurarsi con una narrazione negativa che dipinge l’Islam come “altro” e “diverso”; dall’altro, la loro religione subisce un processo di deculturazione (Roy 2004), ovvero lo scollegamento tra cultura e Islam in contesto di emigrazione. Sulla base di uno studio qualitativo, (60 interviste biografiche e osservazione partecipante) condotto in due città italiane (Milano e Torino), la tesi indaga come giovani con background musulmano articolino la loro appartenenza religiosa attraverso le loro pratiche quotidiane (Ammerman 2007), comparando in particolare giovani attivi nel mondo associativo religioso (impegnati in particolare come volontari o staff del ramo italiano dell’organizzazione umanitaria Islamic Relief) e giovani non interessati al coinvolgimento in organizzazioni religiose. La ricerca esamina così le pratiche religiose, nonché le risorse impiegate per la costruzione della propria identità, tra giovani musulmani “iper-visibili” (pubblicamente attivi e devoti - Jeldtoft 2013) e “non-visibili” (i cui sentimenti di appartenenza alla comunità di riferimento sono meno ovvi) sviluppando una tipologia di “riflessività religiosa” ed esplorando forme di visibilizzazione e invisibilizzazione della religiosità.In Western countries, the religiosity and self-identification of youths with a Muslim background is shaped by a double dynamic: on one hand, they face negative discourses that cast Islam as “Different” and “Other”; on the other, their religion undergoes a process of deculturation (Roy 2004) - that is, the disconnection between culture and Islam in contexts of emigration. On the basis of a qualitative study (60 in-depth interviews and participant observation) carried out in two Italian cities (Milan and Turin), this thesis investigates how Italian descendants of Muslim migrants articulate and live their religious belonging, by analysing the “everyday lived religion” (Ammerman 2007) of youths acting as volunteers or staff members in the Italian branch of Islamic Relief (the largest Sunni international humanitarian NGOs) and of youths who are not active or involved in any religious or ethnic/national organisation. Hence, the study examines how feelings of religiosity and resources mobilized for identity-building differ between “hyper-visible” young Muslims - i.e. publicly active, vocal and devout (Jeldtoft 2013) - and “non-visible” ones - who have less of an obvious group bound. The study develops a typology of different forms of “religious reflexivity” and explores forms of visible and invisible religiosity.
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Youcef, Fatima. "Bourdieu face à la littérature." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010LYO20007.
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Dans Les Règles de l'art, Bourdieu propose une science des œuvres. A l'aide des concepts de champ, d'habitus, d’espace des possibles, il tente de faire le lien entre la littéraire et le social. Son approche récuse toute tentation psychologisante et ferme la porte à toute explication du processus créatif en termes de génie, de sensibilité ou d’inspiration. La littérature est d’abord au carrefour des faits sociaux. Les textes sont des faits sociaux, comme apparition mais aussi comme expression. Ils ne sont ni à sacraliser ni à désacraliser. Bourdieu tente de rendre intelligible l’espace littéraire des auteurs. Il veut mettre en lumière ce qui rend l’œuvre d’art nécessaire, c’est-à-dire sa formule informatrice, son principe générateur, sa raison d’être. Il affirme qu'au fond l'écrivain, quelle que soit son orientation, n'a pas d'autres choix que d'être traversé par la sociologie de son époque. Il suggère même que tout effort de distanciation formelle, supposant que l'œuvre soit un ailleurs du réel, est signe de cette connaissance intuitive du réel lui-même. L’Education Sentimentale de Flaubert se prête particulièrement bien à ce paradigme analytique. En s’arrêtant sur la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle, Bourdieu décrit la genèse et le processus d’autonomisation de l’espace littéraire qui entérine le fonctionnement du champ. Il essaie alors de montrer comment les règles sont articulées par/dans une configuration sociale, politique, économique, culturelle et quelle place nouvelle occupe, dans cette modernité, l'artisteI have used Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological approach as a critical tool for the study of literary texts. As a sociologist, Bourdieu is not satisfied with the notion that the literary text would be isolated from the world and considers the writer as a product of economic, social, religious or political circumstances that may be recovered through analysis. According to Bourdieu, the development of literature as an independent field goes hand in hand with the expansion of a liberal politics, a connection critics refuse to recognize as they will believe in the myth of inspired creation. Bourdieu retraces to the nineteenth century the moment when literature became independent and describes how twentieth-century literature is but a perpetuation of nineteenth-century literary myths. I also look at the ways the specialists of Flaubert responded to the publication of Les Règles de l’art as the book provoked heated debates when it was issued. I have especially examined the arguments of critics hostile to Bourdieu in order to demonstrate how such an emblematic figure as Flaubert embodies what is at stake when one questions the notion of literature. How can Bourdieu fit in literary studies? One has to be careful interpreting the title of Bourdieu’s book. Les Règles de l’art is no prescriptive book : Bourdieu is not the one who sets the rule nor does he suggest that there were no rules before the advent of the modern age. He is simply trying to show how, from the start of this period, the literary world is determined by specific social, political, economic and cultural conditions and questions the particular role played by the artist in this new state of things
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MOSCATELLI, MATTEO. "La valutazione della qualità relazionale:come cambiano le organizzazioni che investono sulle relazioni. Il caso di un centro disabilità neuromotorie infantili." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/1511.
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Il lavoro di tesi ha come oggetto la valutazione della qualità relazionale dei servizi offerti dal Centro disabilità neuromotorie infantili della Fondazione Ariel e ha come obiettivi l’approfondimento teorico e metodologico dell’approccio relazionale riflessivo alla valutazione, con attenzione alle connessioni tra valutazione e dimensioni organizzative dei servizi alla persona e alla famiglia. Questo approccio multidimensionale e multivision della qualità fa riferimento ad alcune macro-dimensioni organizzative del benessere relazionale generato da un servizio sociale: l’efficienza, l’efficacia, la qualità integrativa, la qualità etica dei fini. Questa prospettiva riflessiva e partecipata di valutazione costituisce un’opportunità per cogliere, descrivere e giudicare il bene comune relazionale generato da un servizio alla persona e alla famiglia in un contesto di bisogni sociali in mutamento, dove strategiche sono personalizzazione e alla familiarizzazione dei servizi. Oltre al potenziale conoscitivo, la valutazione della qualità relazionale dedica particolare attenzione al potenziale trasformativo e morfogenetico della leva valutativa. Metodologicamente l’analisi condotta è stata di tipo quanto-qualitativo. Sono state realizzate interviste semi-strutturate con gli operatori del Centro e una dettagliata analisi della documentazione. Il lavoro partecipato ha condotto alla costruzione di questionario di 35 variabili che è stato esitato da 167 famiglie beneficiarie. Oltre ad un’analisi monovariata dei risultati del questionario sono stati costruiti alcuni indici sintetici su alcune dimensioni critiche della qualità relazionale.The work relates to evaluation of relational quality of the services offered by Foundation Ariel’s childhood neuromotor disabilities Center . The objectives are the methodological and theoretical study of the relational reflexive evaluation approach, with attention to the connections between evaluation and organizational dimensions services to individuals and families. This multidimensional and multi-vision quality model refers to some macro-organizational dimensions of relational well-being generated by social services: efficiency, effectiveness, quality integration, the quality of ethical purposes. This reflective and participatory evaluation perspective is an opportunity to capture, describe and assess the common good relationship generated by a service to individuals and families, which are strategic to the familiarization and customization in a context of changing social needs. In addition, relational quality evaluation pays particular attention to the transformative and morphogenetic potential of evaluation. Methodologically, the analysis was quanto-qualitative. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with operators of the Centre and a detailed analysis of the documentation was done. The work led to the construction of a questionnaire of 35 variables, which 167 beneficiary families have responded to. Besides monovariata analysis of the results of the questionnaire, some synthetic indexes of some critical dimensions of relational quality were constructed.
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Pereira, Sílvia Serrão de Moura Martins. "O Ensino Superior Artístico e o Valor da Escola numa perspectiva cultural: uma abordagem sociológica." Master's thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/1670.
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Existe um conjunto de problemas de origem estrutural e conjuntural na sociedade contemporânea portuguesa que de certa maneira explicam – retratam – a dificuldade na implementação de políticas públicas para a educação e para a cultura. Além disto, o fenómeno da Globalização tem vindo a afectar a Educação (sistema educativo) e o Campo Cultural (agentes e instituições), uma vez que é também ao nível das dinâmicas – culturais e educativas – que ele se faz sentir e de forma reflexiva. Para além disto, são múltiplos os problemas que actualmente contribuem para uma difícil gestão da educação (escola) e da cultura. Todos eles, de diversas maneiras e com intensidades diferentes, parecem interferir na elaboração de estratégias educativas e culturais capazes – nomeadamente ao nível do Ensino Superior Artístico – reproduzindo por isso mesmo, distintas atitudes e comportamentos diferentes face ao mesmo problema, acabando por interferir, num primeiro nível, nas dinâmicas dos agentes culturais e num segundo nível, na construção de públicos para a cultura.There is a set of structural and cyclical problems in contemporary Portuguese society that in some way explain—portray—the difficulty to implement public educational and cultural policies. Besides, the phenomenon of globalization has affected education (the educational system) and the cultural field (agents and institutions), given that it is also at the level of cultural and educational dynamics that it manifests itself, in a reflexive manner. Moreover, multiple problems currently contribute to a difficult management of education (school) and culture. All of them, in diverse ways and with differing intensity, seem to interfere in the elaboration of capable educational and cultural strategies—namely at the level of Superior Arts Education—reproducing for that same reason different attitudes and behaviours as a response to the same problem, ending up interfering, at a second level, in the construction of cultural audiences.
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"The Paracultural Imaginary: Cultural Appropriation, Heterophily and the Diffusion of Religious/Spiritual Traditions in Intercultural Communication." Doctoral diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.20806.
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abstract: Buddhism is thriving in US-America, attracting many converts with college and post-graduate degrees as well as selling all forms of popular culture. Yet little is known about the communication dynamics behind the diffusion of Buddhist religious/spiritual traditions into the United States. Religion is an underexplored area of intercultural communication studies (Nakayama & Halualani, 2010) and this study meets the lacuna in critical intercultural communication scholarship by investigating the communication practices of US-Americans adopting Asian Buddhist religious/spiritual traditions. Ethnographic observations were conducted at events where US-Americans gathered to learn about and practice Buddhist religious/spiritual traditions. In addition, interviews were conducted with US-Americans who were both learning and teaching Buddhism. The grounded theory method was used for data analysis. The findings of this study describe an emerging theory of the paracultural imaginary -- the space of imagining that one could be better than who one was today by taking on the cultural vestments of (an)Other. The embodied communication dynamics of intercultural exchange that take place when individuals adopt the rituals and philosophies of a foreign culture are described. In addition, a self-reflexive narrative of my struggle with the silence of witnessing the paracultural imaginary is weaved into the analysis. The findings from this study extend critical theorizing on cultural identity, performativity, and cultural appropriation in the diffusion of traditions between cultural groups. In addition, the study addresses the complexity of speaking out against the subtle prejudices in encountered in intercultural communication.Dissertation/Thesis
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Threadgold, Steven. "Youth and habitus at three Australian schools: perceptions of ambitions, risks and the future in reflexive modernity." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/39496.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosphy (PhD)This research applies Bourdieu’s theorising of habitus and cultural capital to understand how class mediates young people’s reflexivity and perceptions of risk. It engages with the theories of reflexive modernity, primarily with the work of Beck and Giddens, who both describe recent processes of individualization, detraditionalization and the increasing importance of the concept of risk. The study seeks to critically engage with Bourdieu’s project, reworking some of his key theoretical ideas such as the possibility of ‘reflexivity’ itself being a new form of embodied cultural capital. It also engages with works that see discourses of risk as central to neo-liberal governmentality. The research entails 380 surveys and nine focus groups at three distinct secondary schools in a large regional Australian city – a public high school in an outer suburb low socio-economic area of the city which offers a specialist sports program; an inner suburb academically-selective public high school where pupils gain an offer of enrolment only through rigorous academic testing; and an expensive private college in the middle of the central business district. Year Eleven and Twelve students (16-18 years) at the three schools were asked about their ambitions; the obstacles they think may stand in the way of achieving their ambitions; and about their perceptions and experiences of inequality and risk. The risks discussed include the problems involved in the day-to-day life of young people as well as their engagement with larger risk discourses about technology and the environment. The data highlights how inequality is experienced or denied by some, and analysed from a distance by others. Reflexivity is present regardless of class position, but is expressed in a variety of ways. There are clear and subtle distinctions in engagement with micro and macro level risks. Overall, the data highlights how class continues to shape practice, perceptions and emotions.
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Obeidová, Dina. "Vyjednávání "Západu" v každodennosti libanonské rodiny." Master's thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-312412.
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Thesis Negotiation of "the West" in everyday Life of a Lebanese Family is focusing on the ways of designing the image of "the West" at a chosen Lebanese family, especially those members who do not have any direct "West" experience and their images of it are based on the information obtained from those who live there or from media. Research was conducted in Qalamoun city in northern Lebanon by the method of participant observation and unstructured interview. One of the central moments of the research was reflexivity. The research is based on theories of transnationalism and the concept of social networks. One of the primary identification and classfication of man is in Qalamoun his religion. A person, who believes in nothing is a threat in the sense that he is unpredictible (he has no clear governing rules). Keywords: Lebanon, orientalism, reflexivity, "western" culture
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Murray-Hall, Méralie. "Verbaliser l’indicible : une étude de l’expérience de la «vibe» dans la scène underground-house de Montréal." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11132.
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Ce mémoire propose une analyse du discours et de l’expérience corporelle des adeptes de la scène musicale électronique underground-house de Montréal. Il cherche à contribuer au champ des études sur les formations culturelles expressives contemporaines sur deux axes. Sur le plan méthodologique, cette recherche illustre la portée de l’entretien d’explicitation lorsqu’il s’agit d’accompagner la mise en mots d’impressions sensorielles, d’émotions, de pensées ou d’actions. Combinée à une démarche immersive de longue haleine sur le terrain, cette méthode innovante développée par le chercheur Pierre Vermersch (1994) s’avère ici un outil rigoureux donnant accès à la mémoire incarnée des sujets, laquelle regorge d’informations d’une étonnante précision. Sur le plan ethnographique, cette étude s’intéresse aux nouveaux espaces de solidarité et d’expression balisant l’expérience des Québécois de parents haïtiens issus des classes moyenne et moyenne élevée. Les résultats de cette recherche démontrent, en premier lieu, que l’expérience de la « vibe », expression idiomatique largement utilisée par les acteurs, constitue la clé de voûte maintenant la cohésion entre les représentations, les croyances et les activités corporelles des participants. En deuxième lieu, la scène underground-house se présenterait comme l’expression d’une nouvelle contre-culture en établissant une distance critique avec, d’une part, la « culture hip hop » commerciale et sa représentation médiatique « ghettoïsée » et, d’autre part, l’espace culturel dominant en promouvant une expérience de corps et d’esprit subversive. Cet espace de transmission et de communion inédit propose des modèles de sociabilités nouveaux qui contribuent de manière inusuelle au dialogue interculturel urbain montréalais.This thesis examines the discourses and embodied experiences of participants from the underground electronic house music scene in Montreal. In this empirical study, I aim to provide a twofold contribution to the field of studies on contemporary expressive cultural formations. First, on the methodological standpoint, this research illustrates the scope of the « explicitation » interview—a method of retrospective introspection developed by French researcher Pierre Vermersch (1994)—in assisting informants in the process of putting sensory impressions, emotions, thoughts or actions into words. Combined with a long-term immersive approach in the field, I argue that this innovative method proved to be a rigorous tool, which allowed participants to access and verbalize embodied memories with unprecedented accuracy. Second, this ethnographic study sheds light on new social spaces of solidarity and expression created by middle and upper middle class Quebecers of Haitian origin. The results of this research show, firstly, that the "vibe"—an idiomatic expression widely used by the househeads to qualify their experience—is a conceptual cornerstone that maintains cohesion between the representations, beliefs and bodily practices of the participants. Secondly, the study demonstrates that this cultural formation stands as a new expression of counter-cultural space, which establishes a critical distance from both the commercialised "hip hop culture" as well as the dominant (mainstream) cultural space by promoting a subversive bodily and spiritual experience. This unique site of transmission and communion creates new models of sociability and contributes in an unusual way to the intercultural urban dialogue in Montreal.
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Tanaka, Michele Therese Duke. "Transforming perspectives: the immersion of student teachers in indigenous ways of knowing." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1664.
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In the increasingly diverse context of North American schools, cross-cultural understanding is of fundamental importance. Most teachers are mono-cultural – typically white, middle class women. To inform teaching practice, these educators draw primarily from personal cultural backgrounds often to the exclusion or detriment of other cultural ways of knowing brought to the classroom by students. Teacher education programs are challenged to interrupt the norms of their conventional practices in order to help dominant culture teachers become more sensitive and insightful towards issues of cross-cultural pedagogy. In particular, the needs of Canadian Aboriginal students require close attention. Indigenous ways of learning and teaching are rarely included in school curricula. This dissertation argues that not only is an indigenous pedagogy useful for Aboriginal students, it also serves to support learning for all students in a multicultural classroom.
This phenomenological narrative study looked at the experience of non-Aboriginal preservice teachers enrolled in a university course taught by instructors from several First Nations of Canada. The course took place on Lkwungen Coast Salish territory and provided direct access to indigenous knowledge as the participants worked with earth fibre textiles. The wisdom keepers created a place for the preservice teachers to participate extensively in a cultural approach to learning that was quite different from their previous educational experiences. While engaging in the indigenous handwork, the preservice teachers carefully observed both their own processes as learners and the ways in which the wisdom keepers in the course acted as teachers. The insight gained through this reflexive work troubled the participants’ deep-seated Eurocentric perspectives. Reflecting on personal shifts in attitudes, values and beliefs about the twinned processes of learning and teaching, the participants reported changes in their teaching practice with both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students.
Significant themes in the data revolve around issues of personal and social intent, reflective and reflexive practice, spirituality, the endogenous processes of the learner, learning in community, and teachers’ faith in the learner. The data suggest that implementing an eco/social/spiritual framework is useful in cross-cultural learning and teaching environments as well as in the context of educational research.
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Kirsten, André Passos. "A utilização de tecnologias da informação e comunicação e as transformações das práticas turísticas: um estudo sobre as experiências e os perfis de turistas em Lisboa." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/14933.
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No turismo as tecnologias da informação e comunicação ganham força e seu uso é cada vez mais
expressivo. Diversos estudos têm mostrado que estes elementos podem alterar a experiência turística,
de modo a potenciar a experiência do indivíduo ao suprir diversas necessidades por informação, de
forma imediata, no destino visitado. O que estes estudos acabam por revelar também é que as
tecnologias podem prejudicar a experiência, uma vez que colocam o individuo em contato com sua
realidade quotidiana e, portanto, quebram a barreira outrora existente entre o turismo e a realidade
rotineira. Esta divergência do uso, colocadas na ordem binária como práticas em prol do turismo e
práticas que reforçam a prática quotidiana, são base para o presente estudo que tem como objetivo
compreender como a presença dessas atividades (turísticas e quotidianas), que surgem a partir dos
usos das tecnologias, impactam a experiência do viajante. Para tal, a partir da observação participante
em um hostel de Lisboa e de entrevistas conduzidas junto aos seus hóspedes foi possível revelar que
tais práticas ocorrem de maneira fluída e são realizadas com base em uma decisão consciente do
próprio turista. Este comportamento acaba por reforçar a presença de um turista cada vez mais
reflexivo na contemporaneidade que escolhe qual é o tipo de experiência que terá e como as
tecnologias poderão auxilia-lo em seus objetivos. O estudo culmina na criação de uma nova tipologia
de turista, pautada no tipo de interação que os viajantes possuem com as tecnologias e revela como as
diversas práticas são realizadas por cada um dos quatro perfis encontradosInformation and communication technologies gain strength and their use is increasingly expressive in tourism. Several studies have shown that these elements can alter the tourist experience, in order to enhance the experience of the individual by supplying immediately several needs for information. What these studies also reveal is that technologies can undermine experience, as they put the individual in touch with their daily reality and thus break the barrier that once existed between tourism and everyday routine. This divergence of use between practices in favor of tourism and practices that reinforce daily practice, is the basis for the present study that aims to understand how the presence of these activities (tourist and every day) that arises from the uses of technologies, impact the traveler's experience. To do this, a participant observation was made in a hostel of Lisbon, Portugal, and from interviews conducted with its guests it was possible to reveal that such practices occur in a fluid way and are carried out based on a conscious decision of the tourist himself. This behavior reinforces the presence of an increasingly reflective tourist in the contemporary world who chooses what type of experience it will have and how technologies can help him in its objectives. The study culminates in the creation of a new tourist typology, based on the type of interaction travelers have with the technologies and reveals how the different practices are performed by each of the four profiles found.
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Leshota, Paul Lekholokoe. "A deconstruction of disability discourse amongst Christians in Lesotho." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4842.
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The present research study is a deconstructive collaborative project situated within a postmodern paradigm. The research is premised on a notion that disability has been constructed by societies to reflect their values and norms. Despite various ancient and contemporary worldviews stabilising this normative paradigm, disability has remained a shifting and fleeting concept. For the most part, it has cast the disabled identity in more negative and alienating ways than positive.
The Christian cultural context of Lesotho within which the study is situated has not done any better in terms of portraying people with disabilities. Instead, it has inherited the legacy of the ancient Mediterranean world and further re-read it in the light of the demands of contemporary society on the disabled identity. For instance, people with disabilities are still constructed as „sinners‟, „monsters‟, „add-ons‟, and pathological burdens who cannot by themselves survive the challenges of the contemporary world.
Using the ideas of Foucault and Derrida, the study examines ways in which such a notion of disability is not only linguistically unstable but also founded on the binary opposites. The participatory nature of the study brings the important voices of people with disabilities to further destabilise the notion of disability and to deconstruct the dominant disability story. The immersion of this study within the participatory ethics and consciousness of Kotzé and Heshusius respectively, has led to an ambitious proposing of the participatory model of disability. The latter has leanings towards metaphors of the church as communion founded on and nurtured by the theologies of embrace, interdependence, healing and botho. It also resonates with the metaphor of the church as expounded in I Corinthians 12. As members of the body of Christ, no member can suffer without the rest of the body feeling the same. If one member of the body is disabled all the body is disabled. Alienating and marginalising others has no place in such a metaphor of church as communion, since by its own definition, all belong to and participate within it.Practical Theology
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Legault-Verdier, Alicia. "« Je veux être Baye Fall » Islam, réflexivités et intersubjectivités à Montréal." Thèse, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/18406.
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Le Bayefallisme est une branche à l'intérieur de la voie soufie de Mouridiyya qui met de l'avant l'importance du travail pour les autres. Les disciples Baye Fall sont majoritairement sénégalais et renégocient leur rapport aux pratiques islamiques telles que la prière rituelle et le jeune. À l’instar de Pézeril (2008), l’enjeu de notre enquête ethnographique est de « comprendre » les Baye Fall. Notre recherche vise à mettre en lumière leurs expériences religieuses à l'aide d'une méthodologie d'observation participante qui tient compte de la présence du chercheur sur le terrain (Turner, 2000) et accorde donc une place importante à la réflexivité (Fabian, 2001). Nous avons remarqué que la majorité de nos informateurs ne déclaraient pas clairement : « Je suis Baye Fall », mais plutôt : « Je veux être Baye Fall ». Cette posture, que nous qualifierons de bayefallisante, nous a tout d’abord semblé problématique pour ensuite devenir notre porte d'entrée. La littérature sur les trajectoires religieuses a déjà démontré qu'elles ne sont pas linéaires, mais remplies d’ambivalences et de contradictions. Pour Schielke (2009) et de Koning (2013), ces contradictions sont induites par les ruptures inhérentes au quotidien en contexte de globalisation. Notre objectif est de démontrer que ces ambiguïtés peuvent également être créées par la qualité intersubjective et réflexive de l'expérience religieuse.Alors que les Baye Fall ont été ethnographiés surtout au Sénégal (Audrain, 2004; Pézeril, 2008; Morris, 2014), notre recherche a l'originalité de rendre compte d’un phénomène de bayefallisation des disciples mourides dans le contexte montréalais.Bayefallism is a sub-group of the Mouride brotherhood that emphasizes hard work and dedication. Baye Fall disciples are mostly Senegalese and they challenge well-known precepts of Islam such as those prescribing daily prayers and fasting. Like Pézeril (2008), I aim at a better “understanding” of the Baye Fall in this study. My research aims to shed light on their religious experience through a methodology of participant observation where the presence of the ethnographer (Turner, 2000) is taken into account and that gives an important place to reflexivity (Fabian, 2001). Most of my informants did not say “I am Baye Fall”; rather they said, “I would like be Baye Fall.” Initially, I saw this as a problem but it soon became the starting point of my research. The literature on religious trajectories has shown that such trajectories are not linear but charged with ambivalence and contradictions. For authors such as Schielke (2009) and de Koning (2013), these contradictions are engendered by certain ruptures that are part of daily life in a globalized context. In my study, I seek to demonstrate that these ambiguities can also be an integral part of of an intersubjective, reflexive religious experience. While ethnographies of Baye Fall have been mainly carried out in Senegal (Audrain, 2004; Pézeril, 2008; Morris, 2014), the originality of this research lies in the fact that it examines the phenomenon of Bayefallism in the context of Montreal.
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Bettany, Shona M. M., and H. Woodruffe-Burton. "Steps towards transformative consumer research practice: a taxonomy of possible reflexivities." 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4159.
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NoThe aim of ACR 2005 has been articulated by the organisers as the promotion and dissemination of consumer research `for¿ consumers. This call asks for transformative consumer research raising the issue that `Historically, the organization¿s research has been impelled by the theoretical and substantive interests of academics¿. It is on this point that this paper acts to transform arguing that a transformative ethic should be enacted though consumer research praxis. To achieve this it presents worked examples of the practice of reflexivity in consumer research developing a taxonomy of `possible reflexivities¿, and discusses their possibilities for transformation of the consumer research process.