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Oliveira, Francisco Zmekhol Nascimento de. "Tonalidade e seus desvios: reconhecimento e elaboração composicional de relações funcionais em meio a procedimentos harmônicos não funcionais." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27158/tde-27022019-153133/.
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O amplo abandono da tonalidade funcional no início do séc. XX possibilitou, por um lado, a emergência de uma enorme diversidade de procedimentos e abordagens à composição musical, mas implicou, por outro, na abdicação de possibilidades de estruturação formal propiciadas pela tonalidade, tais como as relações funcionais entre seções formais, a representação de regiões tonais por acordes ou notas, ou a ressignificação harmônica de acordes e notas mediante a modulação. O presente trabalho tem por objetivo propor meios pelos quais se possa conciliar tais possibilidades de estruturação formal a procedimentos e abordagens à composição que, ao menos a princípio, independam da tonalidade funcional. Considerando-se que os resultados composicionais de abordagens alternativas à tonalidade tendam a não manifestar os caracteres morfológicos (tais como a base triádica dos acordes, ou a base diatônica das regiões tonais) tradicionalmente atrelados às possibilidades de estruturação formal em que estamos interessados, colocamo-nos duas principais questões que orientam este trabalho. Primeiramente, investigamos quais seriam os princípios em que estariam fundadas as relações funcionais e, nos históricos fundamentos morfológicos da tonalidade, quais seriam seus aspectos cruciais para a manutenção de tais princípios. Assim, visamos verificar como e em que medida tais fundamentos morfológicos seriam passíveis de flexibilização, ou supridos já por fundamentos mais elementares. Em segundo lugar, amparados sobretudo por Schoenberg e por uma concepção estendida de sua noção de \'emancipação da dissonância\', investigamos o desenvolvimento histórico da tonalidade, visando verificar como uma tonalidade expandida poderia dar subsídio para que agregados harmônicos não concebidos funcionalmente pudessem vir a ser a posteriori reportados aos fundamentos da tonalidade funcional. Em meio a esse exame histórico da tonalidade, para além de constatarmos a ampla possibilidade de uma identificação de relações funcionais a posteriori, verificamos ainda: (1) como uma série de procedimentos composicionais a princípio independentes da tonalidade não apenas emergiram ainda em repertório da tradição tonal, como, por vezes, parecem assumir primazia na elaboração de certos acordes e passagens e; (2) como há, em repertório (exemplificamos com Schubert e Strauss), casos em que acordes ou passagens patentemente concebidos por procedimentos alternativos à tonalidade funcional vêm a assumir funcionalidade e a participar, em termos funcionais, da estruturação formal das obras em que se inserem. Na última parte de nosso trabalho, após argumentarmos que funcionalidades assumidas a posteriori tendam a ser ambíguas e dispersas entre si, propomos os meios técnicos pelos quais entendemos: (a) que se possa reconhecer traços de possíveis funcionalidades mesmo em acordes e passagens não concebidos funcionalmente e; (b) como se possa eleger e ressaltar aspectos específicos de tais funcionalidades e elaborá-los composicionalmente, a fim de conceder-lhes participação na estruturação formal das obras em que se insiram. Por fim realizamos relatos composicionais de três peças de minha autoria - duas das quais escritas sobre obras, respectivamente, de Schoenberg e Silvio Ferraz - que exemplifiquem singularmente o tipo de conciliação a que nos propuséramos em nosso objetivo.The vast abandonment of functional tonality within the first decade of the 20th century has favored the emergence of various new approaches to musical composition. On the other hand, it has also implied in abdicating some possibilities of formal structuring propitiated by tonality itself, such as relating functionally different parts of a piece, representing tonal regions through single chords, or changing the harmonic meaning of chords and notes through modulation. The aim of this work is to offer means of conciliating such possibilities of formal structuring with compositional procedures which would be independent of functional tonality. Taking into consideration that the compositional results of alternative approaches to tonality such as the above mentioned tend to suppress morphological fundamentals (such as the triadic basis of chords, or the diatonic basis of tonal regions) which are traditionally linked to the possibilities of formal structuring that interests us in this thesis, we have set two primary questions which guide this research. Firstly, we have investigated upon which principles functional relations would be founded and, within the historical, morphological fundamentals of tonality, which are the key aspects for the preservation of such principles. Therefore, this research pursues to verify how and to what extent such morphological fundamentals might be susceptible to flexibilization, or even suppressed due to being founded upon more elementary fundamentals. Secondly, supported mostly by Schoenberg and by an extended concept of \"emancipation of the dissonance\", we have investigated the historical development of tonality, aiming to verify by what means a tonality extended to the point it was when abandoned could give subsidy for harmonic aggregates which had not been conceived functionally to become a posteriori reported to the fundamentals of functional tonality. Amidst this historical examination of tonality, beyond concluding that it would be vastly feasible to recognize functional relations a posteriori, we have verified: (1) how a series of compositional procedures initially independent of tonality did not only emerge within tonal-functional repertoire, but also, at times, seem to take precedence over the elaboration of certain chords and passages and; (2) that there would be instances in repertoire (exemplified within this thesis with Schubert and Strauss) in which chords or passages which seem to have been conceived with procedures alternative to functional tonality are not only imbued with more specific functionalities, but also get to participate, in functional terms, in the formal structuring of the work they are inserted in. In the final part of this thesis, after arguing that functionalities only to be recognized a posteriori tend to be ambiguous and divergent from one another, we propose technical means to enable: (a) to recognize, a posteriori, features of possible functionalities even within chords and passages which had not been conceived functionally and; (b) to elect and accentuate specific aspects of such functionalities a posteriori in order to compositionally develop them and to confer to them participation in the formal structuring of the works in which they are to be inserted. Finally, we have reported the compositional process of three pieces I have written during this research - two of which written upon works by Schoenberg and Silvio Ferraz, respectively - which are meant to exemplify the type of conciliation we have proposed as the main objective of this thesis.
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Rodrigue, Shelly L. "Chords of Dissonance." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2637.
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In the preface, I discuss my poetry and poetics such as the free verse form and the narrative mode. I also discuss my influences such as Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, and Sheri L. Wright. The poems in this manuscript attempt to explore the role of trauma, feminism, and memory in poetry.
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Granger-Brown, Alison. "Hope| One prisoner's emancipation." Thesis, Fielding Graduate University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3637593.
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I would like to think that I chose this study to add to the literature on human development in the prison system. However, I would have to say that the study chose me. It became a deep discovery of what is required for human beings to grow within the context of a prison setting and afterwards in the community. The study explored the life history of an Aboriginal woman once considered to be a volatile, violent, and unmanageable female prisoner by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC). Changing her life she became a valued volunteer within that prison system.
Human growth and development must be considered with attention to the exogenous influences of all the systems people have to negotiate. I walked with Lora for 14 years: 7 while in custody and 7 afterwards until her death in 2013. During that time she became a mother, a volunteer, peer researcher, cancer patient, and always a teacher.
Since the 1970s there has been a pervasive decline in recognizing rehabilitation potential in people with lives plagued by addictions and the crimes supporting them. I observed the opposite: hundreds of lives changed for the better. There are interventions that kindle the flame and support a fire in people to build a healthy, productive life. Society has a responsibility to fan that fire, rather than feeding the despondency and hopelessness so prevalent in our prisons.
Information was gathered from interviews with Lora, video and audio recordings, her journals and poetry. Interviews were also conducted with family to gain clarity of her childhood and complex trauma history and with people who walked with her after prison to elucidate her change process.
The study encompassed literature from modern, post-modern, and Aboriginal epistemology, integrating theory from multiple disciplines. What emerged was how powerful the deleterious influences of complex childhood trauma are, in all domains, over the life span. Counteracting this damage most significantly are the mechanisms of hope and the inspiration of believing in the possibility for successful and lasting change: This is the key-stone to the archway through which people re-enter the community from prison.
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Mandic, D. "Copyright and technology : hearing the dissonance." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2014. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/96824/copyright-and-technology-hearing-the-dissonance.
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This thesis concerns copyright and technology. It investigates their ever-growing dissonance, currently intensified by the processes of digitisation taking place in society at large. If there is a pressing need to reassess/modify copyright law against the backdrop of digital technology, the thesis argues that a prerequisite of this is that it divorces itself from the limitations in the existing copyright paradigm and, accordingly, recognise technology as a quality and condition for both its emergence and subsistence. In contrast to the prevailing tradition of viewing technology as an extrinsic condition affecting copyright, here its intrinsic quality is traced and emphasised. This is accomplished by means of circumventing copyright’s fundamental orienting principle of property and drawing instead on the notion of communication, which in turn enables us to recognise and reconstitute the ever-present intertwinement of copyright and technology. While communication as an approach is not foreign to the copyright discourse, it has rarely been deployed in investigating the relation between copyright and technology. The thesis advances from an understanding of communication focused on the end points and recognises the middle as a prerequisite and an essential element of communication. This shift in view does not only allow recognition of noise as an intrinsic feature of communication but also becomes a methodological tool through which the dissonance of copyright and technology can be ‘heard’ and comprehended. In doing so, the thesis draws on information theory, the work of the French philosopher Michel Serres, media and sound studies. By traversing different fields of study, in the end, the thesis immerses itself into a soundscape, and thus ‘aurality’ becomes a sensible manner for answering the guiding research question of what is the actual dissonance between copyright and technology. Ultimately, it argues that this manner of displacement provides new passages of investigation that go beyond the limitations of copyright’s normativity, and sets a conceptual basis for addressing the issues and re-articulating the relation between copyright and technology.
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Raymondo, Valérie. "Soumission, dissonance et rationalisation en acte." Aix-Marseille 1, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997AIX10022.
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Selon le theorie de la dissonance cognitive de festinger (1957), lorsque les sujets realisent un comportement qui va a l'encontre de leurs convictions ou de leurs motivations, ils ressentent un etat de tension appele dissonance. Pour reduire cette dissonance, les sujets peuvent modifier leurs opinions pour qu'elles s'accordent mieux a leur comportement. Sur les bases de la conception radicale de la theorie de la dissonance cognitive (beauvois, et joule, 1981, 1996), joule (1986b) envisage une nouvelle modalite de reduction de la dissonance : la rationalisation en acte. Selon lui, un comportement contre-attitudinel peut etre rationalise, par la realisation d'un nouveau comportement consistant avec le premier. L'objectif de cette these est d'etudier le processus de rationalisation en acte et de prouver que l'acceptation du second comportement permet bien de reduire la dissonance. Dans le premier chapitre, nous presentons la theorie de la dissonance cognitive de festinger (1957), et les proprietes motivationelles de la dissonance. Nous passons en revue les differents modes de reduction de la dissonance, et analysons s'ils sont utilises de facon complementaire ou alternative. Le second chapitre est consacre a une presentation de la conception radicale de la theorie de la dissonance cognitive et au processus de rationalisation en acte. Notre troisieme chapitre est experimental. Dans nos experiences, nous amenons les sujets a realiser un comportement contre-attitudinel. Immediatement apres, nous leur proposons un second comportement. Nous mesurons le taux d'acceptation du second comportement ainsi que ses effets sur le niveau de dissonance (changement d'attitude). Notre hypothese principale est, que si les sujets rationalisent en acte, ils ne devraient plus eprouver le besoin de rationaliser cognitivement (changement d'attitude). Cette hypothese n'est pas confirmee. Nous n'observons pas difference entre les sujets qui realisent un comportement, et ceux qui en realisent deux. Dans chaque conditions, les sujets eprouvent de la dissonance et modifient leur attitude dans les sens des comportements acceptes. Nous ne pouvons donc pas conclure que l'acceptation du second comportement a permis de reduire la dissonance eveillee par le premier. Nos resultats sont interpretes en terme de consistance comportementale, et d'escalade d'engagement
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O'Flynne, Teresa. "Spiritual Cognitive Dissonance in LGBTQQ People." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7712.
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Cognitive dissonance between learned spirituality and opposing behaviors is called spiritual cognitive dissonance (SCD). SCD has been successfully proven in former research; however, to date, it has yet to offer descriptions of specific incidents of SCD and/or how it effects the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQQ) individual. A qualitative phenomenological study in which eight participants were interviewed was employed to collect data. The study revealed how SCD manifested in their lives, specifically those who were raised within conservative, heteronormative spiritual homes. All participants were LGBTQQ and believed they had experienced SCD. The data collected during each interview were meticulously analyzed to find similarities with other participant answers and then codified for similar ideas expressed. Each individual experienced SCD in different ways. Most of the participants experienced fear, guilt and/or shame when they began to live authentically as LGBTQQ. Many revealed they had experienced suicidal ideations. Because of the danger of suicide associated with this disorder, it is important that intervention programs be developed to properly recognize and treat this illness. Places of worship should spearhead educational opportunities specifically targeting SCD in the LGBTQQ community. Secular offerings should include education at both the secondary and collegiate levels. Additionally, since SCD is not limited to the LGBTQQ community, this data may also assist therapists who aid heterosexual individuals in coping with spiritual cognitive dissonance.
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Smith, Jayson. "Metric Dissonance in Non-Isochronous Meters." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1248499/.
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Although music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries makes frequent use of non-isochronous meter (meters involving beats of different length, such as 5/4 and 7/8), most studies on meter and metric dissonance focus on isochronous meters (meters involving beats of the same length, such as 4/4 and 9/8). This dissertation bridges this gap by developing two methodologies to account for metric dissonance involving non-isochronous pulses: modified ski-hill graphs and the composite beat attack point system. Modified ski-hill graphs, adapted from Richard Cohn's ski-hill graphs, illustrate metric states involving non-isochronous pulses and reveal degrees of dissonance in musical passages that share time spans, as in 5/4 grouped 3+2 vs. 5/4 grouped 2+3. The composite beat attack point system uses rhythmic notation to illustrate metric states involving any pulse duration or time span, revealing specific points of dissonance and consonance, relative strength of dissonance and consonance, and patterns of dissonance and consonance. The methodology is used to closely examine the treatment of metric dissonance in Holst's "Mars," from The Planets, Ligeti's Hungarian Rock (Chaconne), and Ligeti's Désordre. The analyses focus on passages where the metric dissonance becomes ever more pronounced and ends up obliterating any sense of meter.
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Harris, Mary Margaret. "Unpacking Emotional Dissonance: Examining the Effects of Event-Level Emotional Dissonance on Well-Being Using Polynomial Regression." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1401281006.
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Rathod, Ashish. "A messaging system to handle semantic dissonance /." Online version of thesis, 2006. https://ritdml.rit.edu/dspace/handle/1850/3335.
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Zhang, Yang Sunny. "Professional wushu athletes| Potential athletic/personal dissonance." Thesis, San Jose State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1568016.
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The success of Chinese professional athletes is attributable to the government-run elite sport system; it is seen as one of the most effective and successful systems at nurturing high-skilled athletes. However, within the Chinese professional sport system, tensions between athletes' athletic skills and overall personal development have been widely documented. Among all studies, very few have employed in-depth interviews with professional wushu athletes. In this study, the researcher utilized in-depth semi-structured interviews with professional wushu athletes from three of the 25 professional wushu teams in mainland China. The study was conducted in order to understand the potential conflicts between athletes' athletic skills development and overall personal development. Findings revealed that athletes bear the training at great cost to their future potential as self-sufficient members of Chinese society. Their academic, social, and vocational skills are subject to deep neglect that negatively impacts their post-competition careers. The system considers investment in preparation for the post-competitive lives of the athletes to be a distraction from, or even an impediment to, their success in competition. It is suggested that the Chinese sport system undertake a review and reformation of its approach to wushu training to provide athletes with the skills needed to successfully navigate a life outside of athletics.
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Ávila, Eliana de Souza. "A poet(h)ics of intercultural dissonance." Florianópolis, SC, 2002. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/82531.
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Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente.Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-19T15:54:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 197661.pdf: 24376555 bytes, checksum: d64a0778d8a12b5e9970b8d70188540b (MD5)
Análise da poética intercultural de Elizabeth Bishop, elaborando uma percepção expansiva de dissonância ou choque cultural, que problematiza os próprios termos através dos quais o pensamento antitético reduz a realidade experiencial. Demonstra inter-relações entre os textos teórico-críticos de Bishop, que engajam sua crise com a concepção linear do tempo narrativo, e a concepção de 'dissonância emancipatória' ou atonal elaborada por Arnold Schöenberg. Demonstra que os mapeamentos de dissonância cultural feitos por Bishop no Brasil desafiam seus próprios modelos esteticistas e solucionistas (lineares, teleológicas) de representação (especificamente, os modelos de transculturalismo e autenticismo), ao se recusarem a resolver a alteridade (do outro e do eu) na uniformidade (consonância), ou mesmo a dissolver seus conflitos, fixando a alteridade num 'passado atemporal' (sic), primitivizado. Examina a crise (a crítica) textual de consciência social e de gênero no corpus brasileiro de Bishop, argumentando que ele se torna valioso justamente porque a autora fracassa, e de modo perturbador, em realizar seu projeto de produzir resolução sobre suas percepções dissonantes da realidade. Engaja uma política irredutível ou ética de leitura que recusa reduzir o texto intercultural de Bishop a seus discursos solipsistas, pelos quais até mesmo atos aparentemente democráticos convergem dissimuladamente com dinâmicas totalitárias.
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Haarhoff, Emil Ernst. "Embodied shiftings to bridge actor-character dissonance." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78618.
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When a script stipulates actions, gestural routines and mental models for a character that
clash with the personal values of the actor, it creates dissonance between what the actor (as
person) believes, represents or feels, and that which the character (as fictional construct) is
interpreted to represent. This dissonance may negatively impact on the believability of the
actor inhabiting the ‘as if’ world of the character, or stifle actor engagement with the fictional
world. This study proposes a theoretical approach to navigating this potentially performance-
restricting dissonance through a cross-disciplinary approach that draws on various disciplines,
theories and models. It includes, but is not limited to embodiment, Neuro-Linguistic
Programming, Multi-Level Neuro Processing and exposure strategies.
Habitual patterning, personal restrictions, behaviours, values, socio-cultural and politico-
historical paradigms, socialisation, cognitive dissonance, impulse avoidances and others are
subjectively sculpted and embodied in and through lived experiences. In articulating this
approach, the study places emphasis on practical guiding and enabling of the actor to manage
these embodied and lived experiences, personal values and subjective restrictions in relation
to performance material that the actor perceives to be challenging and uncomfortable.
This study aims to facilitate ways to navigate actor-character dissonance, whilst remaining
sensitive to actors and their respective processes in engaging with, and depicting, a character
in a competent and believable manner. Instead of forcing actors to work through restrictions
or preventing talented actors from auditioning or participating in a production due to their
seemingly unmanageable dissonances and bodyminded non-consent, this study argues for
possible solutions to manage contradictory values and stances respectfully, through a
multilayered and multidisciplined process.
This empirical study was located in a qualitative research paradigm, using qualitative
methodologies. The intervention design was based on existing scholarship, as reflected in
chapters two to five. To limit the scope of the study, the focus was on nudity and the intimacy surrounding nudity in performance. The study used action research to strategise, implement
and reflect on the practical intervention strategy. Data collection took place through practice-
based experiences and observations. The research process was realised in three phases
ranging from private to semi-public, to explore the hypothetical strategy with a selection of
trained male actors. The research phases are discussed in chapters one and six. Phase one
consisted of three one-on-one conversation-based coaching sessions calibrating and
unpacking the participants’ thinking, perspectives, perceived consequences and limiting
beliefs regarding performance-based nudity. Phase two was an optional phase and
participants volunteered to engage in this phase after completing phase one. This phase
consisted of a three-day workshop, implementing and embodying the tailored research
techniques and strategies to alleviate discomforts regarding performance-based nudity.
Phase three was another optional phase. Here, the intervention strategy was applied to text.
A new play was written specifically for these purposes, entitled Love, and how? This play
offered an array of actions which challenged the actors’ subjective and unique discomforts.
The purpose of this challenge was to assess the hypothetical facilitation strategy in a real-life
simulation of a professional rehearsal process, culminating in two closed performances.
The qualitative findings of this study conclude that the integration of these multidisciplinary
processes aid the actors in alleviating tension and approaching dissonance in performance
with increased control and nuanced acting. In addition, they introduced mid-performance
coping mechanisms, derived from these processes, thus enabling the actor to continue to
perform safely.Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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Nunes, João. "Rethinking emancipation in critical security studies." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/177aca5b-1155-4b95-8766-35bd37250899.
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Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a comprehensive challenge to dominant conceptions in Security Studies. Security has been approached as a political phenomenon, resulting from political assumptions and having political effects. The politicization of security has been pursued by a number of so-called ‘critical approaches,’ including ‘security as emancipation.’ The latter argues that security consists in removing or alleviating constraints upon the lives of individuals and groups – such as poverty, ill health, or lack of education. This thesis asks two questions: firstly, can the ‘security as emancipation’ approach, in its current formulation, deliver on its claims and promises, in the context of the effort of politicization in Security Studies? And secondly, if it is shown that there are weaknesses, in what ways can the analytical and normative outlook of security as emancipation be strengthened through an engagement with other resources in the literature? Chapters 1 and 2 establish the context in which the merits of security as emancipation must be judged. They conclude that an engagement with this approach must focus on the way it conceives the multiple connections between security and politics. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 pursue this insight, by focusing on the notions of reality, threat and power respectively. In each of these themes, the argument identifies gaps in security as emancipation and suggests theoretical reconsiderations based on an engagement with approaches and ideas – in the critical security literature and in social and political theory – that so far have been neglected or not examined sufficiently by this approach. This thesis aims to re-establish security as emancipation as a valid interlocutor within critical debates about security. It also aims to show that the dialogue between critical approaches is, not only possible, but beneficial to understanding the politicization of security.
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Spies, Van Zyl. "Emancipation Through Participation: A Case Study." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21294.
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Over the past few decades there has been a concerted effort in southern Africa forcommunity based natural resource management (CBNRM) programs. The generalpremise behind CBNRM allows local communities to be empowered to utilize theirsurrounding natural resources to facilitate socio-economic growth. This is seen as aneffective rural development tool which often takes on the form of eco-tourism inSouth Africa. It creates a link between nature conservation and socio-economicdevelopment needs and is normally built on existing conservation areas such asnational parks (Ezeuduji et al. 2017: 225).“Protected area outreach” is a form ofCBNRM (Chevallier 2016: 6), and this degree project examines how stakeholderparticipation was incorporated into the formulation of Kruger National Park’s (KNP)ten-year management plan. Using KNP’s stakeholder engagement process as anaturalistic case study, the aim is to discover the extent of participation and whethertrue empowerment is facilitated. This was done via document analysis of the 2018KNP Stakeholder Participation Report using the emancipatory approach. Thisapproach is influenced by critical, post-colonial and intersectional theory andemphasizes the attainment of social justice through the unveiling and dismantling ofinvisible oppressive power structures (Wesp et al. 2018: 319). The analysis showsthat KNP uses a systems approach to their stakeholder engagement as opposed toan empowerment one; that participation is limited to consultation and is thereforemerely a form of tokenism; that weaker marginalized stakeholder groups suffer fromsystemic exclusion and underrepresentation; and that there is little to no attentiongiven to empowerment nor structural reform to drive social change.
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Bromberg, Svenja. "Thinking 'emancipation' after Marx : a conceptual analysis of emancipation between citizenship and revolution in Marx and Balibar." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2017. http://research.gold.ac.uk/20170/.
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In light of an increasing embrace of the notion of ‘emancipation’ by various theoretical and political perspectives in recent years, this thesis aims to scrutinise the philosophical connotations of the concept itself. It therefore returns to Karl Marx’s distinction between political and human emancipation, developed in his text ‘On the Jewish Question’, with the aim of excavating its theoretical stakes. The core argument of the first part is that Marx draws a line of demarcation between citizenship as the modern form of political, bourgeois emancipation realised by the American and French Revolutions, and human emancipation as necessitating a different kind of revolution that would allow for the constitution of a new type of social bond between the individual and the social. Marx’s formulation of the need for human emancipation is grounded in his critique of political emancipation, which he regards as failing to recognise the dialectical constitution of its social bond by both political and economic relations. The bourgeois social bond moreover makes ‘man’ exist as an individualised being who can only relate to his or her political existence and dependency on others in a mediated and abstract way. The second part turns to the post-Marxist critiques of ‘On the Jewish Question’, starting in the late 1970s with Claude Lefort, which coincide with a broader re-evaluation of the revolutionary legacy in France. It specifically interrogates Étienne Balibar’s alternative understanding of the form of emancipation achieved by the French Revolution under the name of ‘equaliberty’, with which he defends the struggle for citizenship as the unsurpassable horizon of a contemporary politics of emancipation. The aim is here to develop a deeper understanding of Balibar’s criticism of Marx’s dividing line, which allows the French thinker's contribution to 'thinking emancipation after Marx' to be disentangled from his decision to distance himself from the Marxian approach.
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Hallin, Nathalie. "Cognitive Dissonance : Neural Correlates and New Theoretical Approaches." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för kommunikation och information, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-7173.
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Cognitive dissonance has traditionally been defined as the negative affective state which accompanies inconsistent cognitions and motivates one to make the cognitions consistent. This thesis critically evaluates two theories about cognitive dissonance. The action-based model of dissonance argues that inconsistent cognitions have the potential to interfere with effective and unconflicted action. The new look model of dissonance, contradicting the traditional definition of dissonance, argues that it is aversive consequences rather than inconsistent cognitions that cause dissonance. Recent studies investigating the neural correlates of dissonance show that parts of anterior cingulate cortex and prefrontal cortex seem to be involved in the dissonance process. One of the major predictions of the new look model of dissonance has been undermined by recent evidence. In contrast, the action-based model of dissonance is supported by recent studies.
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Wingfield, John H. "A goal systemic analysis of cognitive dissonance phenomena." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2859.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.Thesis research directed by: Psychology. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Hallier, Jeremy Peter. "Cognitive dissonance and attitude change in unemployed men." Thesis, University of East London, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.303239.
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Elinder, Mikael. "Essays on Economic Voting, Cognitive Dissonance, and Trust." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-9364.
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Song, Lixia 1972. "Modeling, analyzing, and mitigating dissonance between alerting systems." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/84362.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2002.Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-164).
Alerting systems are becoming pervasive in process operations, which may result in the potential for dissonance or conflict in information from different alerting systems that suggests different threat levels and/or actions to resolve hazards. Little is currently available to help in predicting or solving the dissonance problem. This thesis presents a methodology to model and analyze dissonance between alerting systems, providing both a theoretical foundation for understanding dissonance and a practical basis from which specific problems can be addressed. A state-space representation of multiple alerting system operation is generalized that can be tailored across a variety of applications. Based on the representation, two major causes of dissonance are identified: logic differences and sensor error. Additionally, several possible types of dissonance are identified. A mathematical analysis method is developed to identify the conditions for dissonance originating from logic differences. A probabilistic analysis methodology is developed to estimate the probability of dissonance originating from sensor error, and to compare the relative contribution to dissonance of sensor error against the contribution from logic differences. A hybrid model, which describes the dynamic behavior of the process with multiple alerting systems, is developed to identify dangerous dissonance space, from which the process can lead to disaster. Methodologies to avoid or mitigate dissonance are outlined. Two examples are used to demonstrate the application of the methodology. First, a
(cont.) conceptual In-Trail Spacing example is presented. The methodology is applied to identify the conditions for possible dissonance, to identify relative contribution of logic difference and sensor error, and to identify dangerous dissonance space. Several proposed mitigation methods are demonstrated in this example. In the second example, the methodology is applied to address the dissonance problem between two air traffic alert and avoidance systems: the existing Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) vs. the proposed Airborne Conflict Management system (ACM). Conditions on ACM resolution maneuvers are identified to avoid dynamic dissonance between TCAS and ACM.
by Lixia Song.
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Toro-Tóbon, Carlos I. "Fundamental dissonance: concertino for alto saxophone and sinfonietta." Diss., University of Iowa, 2019. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6868.
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Fundamental Dissonance, an original composition scored for alto saxophone and sinfonietta, explores the concept of dissonance not only in the traditional musical sense related to tonality, but as a general principle indispensable for variety and creation. The particular perspective of this concept that can be found in the early work of the Hungarian philosopher, aesthetician, and literary historian Georg Lukács has given a specific direction to my creative process.
In one of his first writings, The Theory of the Novel (1914), Lukács presents the idea of dissonance in the following terms: “Every form is the resolution of a fundamental dissonance of existence.” Here Lukács refers to a general conception of form, which includes the artistic context. A couple of texts about Lukács contribute to a thorough understanding of this idea and help to give shape to my interpretation of this sentence. Resolution is the key term in the sentence and mediates between form, what will be created, and dissonance, what needs to be resolved. In this way dissonance is presented as a problem, a question, or what others have also called a knot. It is fundamental because of its previous condition to existence. Without unrest, unity keeps things in a state of equilibrium, inhibiting movement or variety. Instead, disunity, or dissonance, permits change and creation, hence existence. There is a strong link between creation and dissonance.
These ideas, and the multiple interpretations of dissonance in the musical context, influenced the original concepts used in Fundamental Dissonance and guided the compositional process. The first, and perhaps more evident manifestation of dissonance is the use of specific intervals as foundations of the musical language in the piece. Uses of the set class (012); with variants (013), (023), or (024) obtained by the expansion of (01); appear not only in the melodic and harmonic aspects but also at the structural level. Some scattered uses of microtonality are also part of this approach. In opposition, and as a reference to its genesis, the “equilibrium before its existence” is represented with unisons, adding contrast and variety to the previous intervals. Contrast is the second element I used to represent Lukács’s idea of dissonance. I have included references to contrasting styles and genres, short passages in tonal chords or short melodic cells with tonal character. These traditionally consonant elements play a contrasting –i.e., dissonant- role because of the general dissonant language in which they have been placed.
Other compositional aspects that serve as contrast have to do with the opposition of densities and textures; the highly marked differences between the two main themes; and the use of the alto saxophone, an instrument traditionally not belonging to the sinfonietta, as the soloist.
Extramusical elements have been used as general principles in the creative process. The saxophone adopts a role of leadership from the very beginning of the piece, presenting its ideas in a monologue style. Some instruments follow the soloist while others oppose, creating a clash of forces that ultimately generates more dissonance.
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Hattingh, Johannes Joost. "Cut\fill : architecture as mitigating mediator in dissonance." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60180.
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Recent social and political movements
beginning with #RhodesMustFall and
the following numerous #MustFall
campaigns have shone the light on deeplying
sentiments. It is believed that these
sentiments have been covered by the
multi-coloured paint of the rainbow-nation
discourse and yet old tensions seem to
flare up. The tensions range from historic
privilege to disinheritance from current
discourse, to racial discrimination and a
perceived threat to identity.
So it is clear that the reconciliation and
the nation-building process that started
in 1994 is far from finished and thus a
renewed look at our approach to heritage
is warranted.
The vehicle of this study will be the Pretoria
Magistrate's Court, which was constructed
in 1941 and in 2010 suffered heavy
damage during a fire. This dissertation
investigation is specifically focused on
the inherent dissonance in the heritage of
the court, which is identified firstly in the
classical nature of the building, but also
the creation and functioning of judicial
spaces. These heritage elements are
identified and engaged with according to
dissonant heritage principles (Tunbridge &
Ashworth 1997).
Furthermore, this study investigated
current heritage engagement strategies and
how those engagements can be redefined.
This was not only done in order to mitigate
the negative effects of dissonant heritage elements, but also to instil contemporary
significance.
Finally, this study applies the heritage and
adaptive reuse principles identified and
formulated, to engage the existing building
in removing built fabric, redefining spaces
and adding new spaces. This will be done
in order to re-establish the existing function
of a civil magistrate's court. Through this
engagement, dissonant heritage elements
are extracted or mitigated, while new
contemporary value and meaning is
instilled in order to re-establish significance
for future generations.Onlangse sosiale en politiese bewegings, wat begin het met #RhodesMustFall, en die opvolgende verskeie #MustFall veldtogte, het onderliggende gevoelens na tevore gebring. Dit was geglo dat hierdie onderliggende sentimente suksesvol gedek is met die veelkleurige verf van die re?nboognasie en tog bly ou spanning opvlam. Die spanning strek van historiese bevoorregting en onterfenis van die huidige diskoers tot rassediskriminasie en die gevoel van bedreiging van identiteite. Dit is duidelik dat versoening en die nasiebouproses wat in 1994 begin is, v?r van klaar is, en dus hersiening op ons erfenisbenaderinge vereis. Die middel vir hierdie studie is die Pretoria Landroshof wat gebou is en 1941 en sleg beskadig is deur 'n brand in 2010. Die ondersoek van hierdie verhandeling fokus op die inherente dissonante in die erfenis van die hof, wat eerstens ge?dentifiseer is in die klassieke aard van die gebou, maar ook in die skepping en werking van regsruimtes. Hierdie erfeniselemente word ge?dentifiseer en benader volgens die Dissonante Erfenis beginsels (Tunbridge & Ashworth 1997). Verder ondersoek hierdie studie die huidige erfenisbenaderingsstrategie? en hoe daardie benaderinge herdefinieer kan word. Dit word nie net gedoen om dissonansie in erfenis te versag nie, maar ook om eietydse betekenis by te voeg. Laastens pas hierdie studie erfenis en aanpassende hergebruik beginsels, wat ge?dentifiseer en geformuleer is, toe om boumateriaal van die bestaande gebou te verwyder, ruimtes te herdefinieer en nuwe ruimtes by te voeg. Dit word gedoen met die doel om die bestaande funksie van die siviele landdroshof weer te vestig. Met hierdie benadering word dissonante erfeniselemente ontgin of versag, terwyl nuwe eietydse waardes en betekenis bygevoeg word. Sodoende word nuwe waardes vir toekomstige generasies geskep.
Mini Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2016.
Architecture
MArch (Prof)
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Diamond, Laurie K. "Antecedents and consequences of emotional dissonance understanding the relationships among personality, emotional dissonance, job satisfaction, intention to quit and job performance /." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001044.
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Cox, Peter. "Gandhi and post-development : re-enchanting emancipation." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.577191.
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Historically, emancipation has been interpreted as inseparable from modernity. Emancipation has been configured in terms of an increase in reason and a commensurate 'disenchantment' and a banishment of the sacred. The emergence of post-development as a recognisable discourse within the field of development studies and practice has raised important questions regarding understandings of social progress. Notable in the literature and practice of post-development is an increased reference to the human spirit and 'spirituality' as an integral part of the process of social liberation. According to Marxist theory, such reference undermines its emancipatory potential. This thesis provides an alternative way of interpreting this return of the sacred by arguing that post-development is more fruitfully interpreted as a reinvention of Gandhian praxis. Moreover, the conjunction of Gandhian categories with post-colonial and post-developmental analyses provide an alternative lens through which to frame a model of emancipation more appropriate to the context of post-modernity. This process foregrounds issues of agency and identity in social change locating discussion of the spiritual in activist narrative as central to the structural processes of social change. The framework produced by these discussions is subsequently employed in order to examine the verity of environmentalist claims to emancipation. The argument is informed by ongoing post-development activism in North India and a range of new social movement activity. Fundamental to the approach is the need to focus on the ongoing processes involved in social transformation as a means to emancipation, rather than to any pre-determined aims. In conclusion, I show how the conjunction of Gandhian thought and post-development. is providing a framework for re-enchanted understandings of emancipatory action. Contingent upon their location, such emancipations are applicable to the 'North' as well as the 'South'.
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Mocklin, Kathleen Elizabeth. "Afro-Barbadian Healthcare during the Emancipation Era." W&M ScholarWorks, 2009. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539624385.
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BRITO, FRANCLIM JORGE SOBRAL DE. "SOCIALENVIRONMENTAL EMANCIPATION: FOR A CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL THEORY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2016. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=32400@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROESCOLA SUPERIOR DOM HELDER CAMARA
Emancipação socioambiental: por uma Teoria Crítica Ambiental busca discutir hermeneuticamente os contrastes da emancipação social oriunda da tradição marxista da Escola de Frankfurt em suas duas versões, sistematizadas por Theodor Adorno e Max Horkheimer - a primeira radicada no materialismo interdisciplinar e a segunda balizada pelo contexto da razão instrumental - e dos teóricos-críticos contemporâneos, como Boaventura Souza Santos. A começar pela análise analítico-descritiva, desenvolve-se o tema apresentando o status quo da emancipação social desde a conceituação da racionalidade instrumental como efetivo paradigma do sistema capitalista. Em seguida, estudam-se as influências dessa modalidade racional a partir dos pressupostos ético-políticos que a consubstanciam, a saber, os Direitos Humanos, a dignidade da pessoa humana e os modelos democráticos hegemônicos, a fim de se constatar os limites da emancipação social no enredo desenvolvimentista-liberal. Uma vez estruturado o contexto crítico da emancipação social pelas contingências teóricas e críticas, desvela-se a crise ambiental proveniente do modo de produção capitalista, fundamentado na instrumentalidade técnico-científica, a fim de se descobrir o socioambientalismo como novo interlocutor da ação política no que se refere à emancipação socioambiental. Para tanto, o texto projeta-se dialeticamente nas perspectivas emancipatórias presentes na racionalidade socioambiental, em oposição à racionalidade instrumental, e se serve da análise descritiva das ferramentas de cooptação economicista ambiental para justificar que a crise ecológica hodierna, parametrizada pela cientificidade capitalista e seus derivados - sobretudo a desigualdade dos atores sociais, o aumento da pobreza e a degradação ambiental -, tem consistentes pontos convergentes e demanda politicamente novos saberes. O modelo de ação política em que se situa o texto está referenciado pelo ecossocialismo, posicionando a ecologia política como precursora de uma nova cultura social e ambiental lastreada pelo conceito coletivista do modo de existir com os outros - humanos e não-humanos. À guisa de conclusão, tem-se a atualização do pressuposto da Teoria Crítica no que se refere à sua dimensão principiológica: a emancipação socioambiental como possibilidade de se compreender as complexidades do tempo presente e de ser capaz de reinterpretar e resignificar, a partir de matrizes políticas, sociais e ambientais, a racionalidade socioambiental como pressuposto de uma configuração da relação homem-natureza.
Social-Environmental Emancipation: for a Critical Environmental Theory tries to hermeneutically discuss the contrasts of social emancipation from the Marxist tradition of the Frankfurt School in its two versions, systematized by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer - the first one taking root in the interdisciplinary materialism and the second one marked by the context of the instrumental reason -, and of the contemporary theoretical-critical ones such as Boaventura Souza Santos. Starting from the analytical-descriptive assessment, the subject is developed by presenting the status quo of social emancipation from the conceptualization of instrumental rationality as an effective paradigm of the capitalist system. Then, the influences of this rational modality are studied from the ethical-political assumptions that substantiate it, that is, Human Rights, the dignity of the human being and the hegemonic democratic models, in order to define the limits of social emancipation in the developmental-liberal scenario. Once the critical context of social emancipation through theoretical and critical contingencies has been structured, the environmental crisis from the capitalist production mode, based on the technical-scientific instrumentality, is unveiled so that the social environmentalism is discovered as a new interlocutor of the political action in what regards the social-environmental emancipation. On that purpose, the text dialectically projects itself in the emancipatory perspectives found in the social-environmental rationality, as opposed to the instrumental rationality, and uses the descriptive analysis of the environmental economicsbased co-optation tools to justify the fact that the current ecological crisis, parameterized by the capitalist scientificity and its derivatives – especially the inequality of the social actors, increasing poverty and environmental degradation - has consistent convergent points and politically demands new knowledge. The political action model in which the text is located is referred by ecosocialism, positioning political ecology as precursor of a new social and environmental culture based on the collectivist concept of the way of existing with the others - human and non-human.To conclude, the Critical Theory assumption is updated in what regards its principiologic dimension: the social-environmental emancipation as a possibility to understand the complexities of the present times and to be able to reinterpret and give a new meaning, from political, social and environmental matrixes, to the social-environmental rationality as an assumption for a configuration of the man-nature relationship.
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Tate, Rachel. "The Maputo Development Corridor : emancipation for whom?" Thesis, University of Leicester, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/42666.
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This thesis offers a nuanced analysis and evaluation of the Maputo Development Corridor (MDC) the first cross-border corridor project in Africa. It considers the core debate that exalts this flagship cross-border development corridor as a model for growth and development in Africa, while simultaneously questioning why key academics remain critical of the model’s ability to deliver. The thesis critiques numerous one dimensional interpretations of the project that condemn the MDC as little more than a neo-liberal experiment. It suggests that the context is correct, but the outcomes are overly narrow. It draws together an impressive collection of data that encompasses South Africa and Mozambique. The resulting analysis offers a unique insight into this development corridor and its ability to deliver in this micro-region. It provides insight into the projects ability to deliver on its economic and social objectives, the latter of which has remained unexamined until this time. This is achieved through both qualitative and quantitative evaluation. It acknowledges the weaknesses in the MDC. Nevertheless, the positive results found here can be assimilated into a ‘corridor methodology’ which could then enhance develop mentalism in other micro-regions throughout Africa.
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Noronha, Feio Carlos. "Practices of everyday emancipation : an artists' toolkit." Thesis, Royal College of Art, 2017. http://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/2841/.
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Through practice-based research, I propose to reflect critically on my practicethrough a dialogue with the work of other artists and theorists that include Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze, Theaster Gates, Marine Hugonnier, and Claire Fontaine. I explore the possibility of self and collective emancipation from sedimented socio-historical and political violence. The forms of violence that concern me are those produced by legacies of war,colonialism, economic ideologies and religious practices. As an integral part of the methodology, I have selected examples of modern and contemporary artworks considered as being engaged with art's social significance. Through a dialogue with these artworks, I draw out significant pressures and develop a toolkit of concepts: dispositif-of-dissent,able-agent, and universim. The selected examples of artworks suggest potentially disseminable strategies of social, political, critical and ethical value. Socially engaged art has been a constant presence for over a century, the Wanderers in Russia, William Morris in the UK, and Oswald de Andrade in Brazil are great examples of its span. My thesis selects an aspect of current socially engaged practice that argues for a particular conceptual strength and socio-political agency. I assert the idea that small strategic gestures are of far greater critical significance than grand reactionary actions. I also focus on the idea that empowerment and emancipation can only come from an engagement with the structures of power already at play — and the social, political and economic conditions that these have produced. My approach foregrounds the construction of the aforementioned toolkit aiming to contribute to the widening of a field of inquiry, born of already existing practices. These practices produce encounters with others and suggest ways of discovering agency in everyday life and experience in ways that are potentially collective and social in orientation. The artists of interest to my research forge modes of production open to experimentation, and offer critical expressions of being and relating to others. This toolkit, its terms of use and the artworks I create in relation to it, aims to reflect and animate the development of this field of practice. Throughout this thesis I ask: how individuals become socially engaged, and how the strategies employed by these individuals inform the construction of tools of everyday emancipation? I address these questions through the creation of exploratory artworks, the developement of a toolkit of terms and an exposition of practices that pervade this field of production.
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Girandola, Fabien. "Le paradigme de la double soumission induite : un nouveau regard sur l'experience de Festinger et Carlsmith (1959)." Aix-Marseille 1, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994AIX10030.
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L'interet de cetravail est de proposer une nouvelle lecture de l'experience de festinger et carlsmith (1959). Nous avons donne a cette experience, initialement concue en simple soumission induite, un nouveau cadre paradigmatique : la double soumission induite. Dans cette experience, les sujets emettaient deux comportements. Ils reazlisaient une serie de taches fastidieuses (premier comportement) puis devaient la presenter a l'etudiante suivante (deuxieme comportement). Pour ces auteurs, seule la realisation du second comportement (presentation de taches positivement) etait cruciale car c'etait a partir d'elle que le taux de dissonance (d d+c) etait etabli. Selon nous, la cognition relative a la realisation d'une serie de taches doit etre prise en consideratioin dans l'etablissement du taux de dissonance. En effet, les resultats observes dans nos experimentations 1,2,3 et 4 montrent que le premier comportement est susceptible d'affecter le taux de dissonance. Les quatre experimentations realisees sont conformes a la version radicale de la theorie de la dissonance cognitive (beauvois & joule, 1982) : - le taux de dissonance se pose a partir d'une cognition generatrice relative a un comportement du sujet et non a partir de l'attitude privee de celui-ci. - le processus de reduction de la dissonance n'est pas oriente vers la coherence cognitive mais vers la rationalisation du comportement. Sa fonction est de restaurer la valeur du comportement problematique extorqueThe aim of this thesis is to propose a new look on festinger and carlsmith's (1959) induced compliance experiment. It was given consideration to this experiment in a new paradigm : thedouble induced compliance paradigm. In this experiment, subjects realized two behaviors. Subjects first performed two dull tasks (first behavior) and presented them positively to a student (second behavior). For the authors, only the second behavior was due to produce dissonance. According to us, the cognition relative to the tasks performing must be also taken into consideration in the dissonance ratio. Effectively, results showed that the first behavior can affect the dissonance ratio. The four experiments conducted are strictly in accord with radical cognitive dissonance theory (beauvois & joule, 1982) : 1)- the dissonance ratio is established from a behavioral cognition relative to subject's behavior and not from its private attitude. 2)- the process of dissonance reduction is not oriented towards cognitive consistency but rather towards rationalization of behavior. The main function of rationalization is to restore the value of behavior
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Fointiat, Valérie. "Fausse attribution de l'éveil de la dissonance cognitive dans une situation de soumission librement consentie : recherche expérimentale sur la rationalisation en acte." Aix-Marseille 1, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994AIX10021.
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Parmi les plus recentes revisions de la theorie de la dissonance cognitive (festinger, 1957), la version radicale (beauvois et joule, 1981 ; joule, 1986) fait de celle-ci une theorie de la rationalisation des conduites. Le processus de reduction de la dissonance (rationalisation) permet de restaurer a posteriori la valeur du comportement ayant induit la dissonance. En outre, sur la base de la propriete motivationnelle de la dissonance, on envisage ce processus de rationalisation comme un processus a deux voies alternatives ; une voie cognitive, la rationalisation cognitive et une voie comportementale, la rationalisation en acte, l emploi de l une de ces modalites reduisant la probabilite que l individu ait recours a l autre. Nous avons travaille sur ce caractere alternatif du processus de rationalisation (experience 1), dans le paradigme de la fausse attribution de l eveil de la dissonance cognitive (experience 2) ainsi que dans le paradigme du detecteur de mensonges (experience 3). Nos resultats montrent que l individu dans une situation de fausse attribution ne peut plus rationaliser cognitivement le comportement de soumission (effet classique de fausse attribution). Il peut en revanche emprunter la voie comportementale de rationalisation, pour peu qu on lui en offre la possibiliteAmong the most recent revisions of the cognitive dissonance theory (festinger, 1957), the radical version (beauvois et joule, 1981 ; joule, 1986) is a theory of the rationalization of behavior. The process of dissonance reduction (rationalization) permits restoring a posteriori the value of the behavior which induced dissonance. In addition, on the basis of the motivational properties of dissonance, we consider this process of rationalization as a process with two alternative strategies: a cognitive one, cognitive rationalization and a behavioral one, act rationalization. The use of one of thelm reduces the probability that the individual will use the other one. We worked on this alternative character of the rationalization process, generally in the experiment 1, and using the misattribution of cognitive dissonance arousal in experiment 2. Finaly, in experiment 3, we used the bogus pipeline paradigme. Our results show that the individual in a misattribution situation can no longer rationalize cognitively the behavior of compliance (classical misattribution effect). He could rationalize it, however, using the beahvioral strategy, if he had the possibility
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Martinie, Marie Amélie. "La réduction de la dissonance cognitive en situation de fausse attribution : changement d'attitude, trivialisation, rationalisation en act." Aix-Marseille 1, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000AIX10019.
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Ii s'agit de montrer que dans la situation de fausse attribution, dans laquelle le changement d'attitude est absent, la reduction de la dissonance peut s'operer par la voie de la trivialisation. Nos resultats mettent clairement en evidence que, dans cette situation, la voie de la trivialisation peut etre empruntee en lieu et place de celle du changement d'attitude. Ils montrent egalement le caractere alternatif des differentes voies de reduction de la dissonance (changement d'attitude, rationalisation en acte, trivialisation) en situation de fausse attribution. Les 7 experimentations realisees confirment globalement les hypotheses mises a l'epreuve. Il en ressort que dans la situation de fausse attribution la dissonance est mise en sommeil. Des lors que le sujet est recentre sur sa conduite de soumission, la dissonance resurgit.
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Azdia, Touati. "Changement d'attitude et engagement dans les situations de double soumission." Aix-Marseille 1, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000AIX10027.
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La presente these se situe dans le champ de la psychologie sociale et a pour cadre la theorie de la dissonance cognitive (festinger, 1957) et plus precisement sa version radicale (beauvois et joule, 1981 ; joule, 1987 ; joule et beauvois, 1998). Notre objectif est d'etudier les effets cognitifs de l'engagement (le changement d'attitude) dans un nouveau paradigme de la theorie de la dissonance : le paradigme de la double soumission forcee. Dans ce paradigme, les sujets realisent successivement deux comportements, et non un seul. En effet, les resultats de certains travaux sur la double soumission peuvent paraitre contradictoires. Dans certaines recherches, lorsque les sujets realisent deux comportements contrattitudinels, le changement d'attitude, dans le sens de la rationalisation du comportement contrattitudinel, est plus fort (joule, 1991a), alors que dans d'autres recherches le changement d'attitude est moindre (joule, 1991b ; joule et girandola, 1994). Tout se passe donc comme si, dans un cas, le second comportement augmentait la dissonance cognitive generee par le premier, dans l'autre cas, il la diminuait. Nous nous proposons de depasser, ici, cette contradiction, a la lumiere de la theorie de l'engagement de kiesler (1971). Quatre experiences ont ete realisees : dans les deux premieres, les deux comportements sont contrattitudinels, dans les deux suivantes, un seul comportement est contrattitudinel. Ces experiences demarquent la theorie de festinger des theories de la consistance et des theories rivales de la theorie de la dissonance cognitive : la theorie de l'auto-perception (bem, 1967 ; 1972) et celle du management des impressions (tedeschi, 1981) notamment.
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Kapsner, Peter Braun. "Catholic initiation in a Minneapolis context : dissonance and evolution." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5460.
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In the history of Catholic initiation, there have been moments of dissonance between what the institution expects to happen in the sacraments of baptism, confirmation, and Eucharist, and what actually occurs when they are practiced at the local level. Such dissonance often then leads to an evolution in the understanding and/or practice of these sacraments such as when Augustine‟s theology of imputed sin created an emphasis on infant baptism or when the drunkenness of early Christians at the Eucharist table led to shifting communion from an evening meal to a morning liturgy. In light of this historical pattern, this dissertation looks at a current form of dissonance and evolution in the specific context of the western suburbs of Minneapolis. Here, the dissonance relates to high rates of initiate attrition immediately following the ritual process despite institutional expectations that initiates be incorporated into the community as actively participating members. This dissonance is documented through two years of qualitative, interview-based research in multiple Catholic parishes as well as several Protestant churches on a comparative basis. Based on these reports, the dissonance, seen among Catholics and Protestants alike, seems to arise from the fact many initiates in this part of Minneapolis live as highly-empowered individuals who regularly negotiate a variety of disconnected social and relational networks – each of which vies for their attention. In this competition of social spheres, initiates commonly leave the church to participate in contexts that they perceive to “meet their needs” such as schoolwork, athletics, jobs, and other extra-curricular activities. As a result, the church appears to be in the early stages of an evolution in which initiation sacraments focus less on community incorporation and more on how they meet needs in an individual‟s faith journey.
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Annis, Shannon M. "Kandinsky's dissonance and a Schoenbergian view of Composition VI." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002543.
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Murray, Ashley Anne. "The effects of psychopathy and Machiavellianism on cognitive dissonance." To access this resource online via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ UTEP, 2009. http://0-proquest.umi.com.lib.utep.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU0YmImSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=2515.
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Chowning, Elizabeth Jane. "Harmony and Dissonance: Mennonite Visions of Community and Identity." W&M ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625796.
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Combs, Dawn Michelle. "Cartesian Duality and Dissonance in the American Dying Experience." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148044851093872.
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Baker, Amanda R. Baker. "Epistemic Profiles, Dissonance Negotiation, and Postsecondary Service-Learning Outcomes." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1499792402490622.
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Erdal, Sule. "The Emancipation Of Women In Stalinist Central Asia." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613097/index.pdf.
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This thesis mainly deals with the issue that if the policies of women's emancipation implemented in Stalinist Central Asia were constructed on the basis of Marxist ideology. For this purpose, after how the issue of women
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Pitt, Rebecca Elizabeth. "Jean-Paul Sartre and the question of emancipation." Thesis, University of Essex, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.574460.
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This thesis examines the concept of emancipation inrelation to the writings of Jean- Paul Sartre. I interpret emancipation as a series of what I call transjormative moments. These moments reveal a conceptual continuity of Sartre's engagement with this theme which unites his early and late philosophy whilst also challenging common readings of his oeuvre. I begin the investigation by exploring the implications of Being and Nothingness as an example of what Sartre claims is an unconuerted ontology. Explicating the unique way in which Sartre presents the concepts of the "individual" and "social" I provide evidence for the varied ways in which Sartre's early writings display an awareness of power structures and social/political critique. The emancipatory devices I call transformative moments are play, and two types of Apocalypse (the festival and the group-in-fusion). I proceed with a senes of close textual readings which focus on the importance of play. Play acts as a foundation for the final two transformative moments. In both types of moments my interpretation reveals underacknowledged, recurrent motifs (appropriation and the problem of the "Self') throughout Sartre's work. Considering Sartre's controversial statement regarding the revolutionary as serious, I argue against commentators who interpret this passage as an example of political naivety. I contend that Sartre's critique of the revolutionary is a unique example of political analysis in his early writing.
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Olivius, Elisabeth. "Governing Refugees through Gender Equality : Care, Control, Emancipation." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-96379.
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In recent decades, international feminist activism and research has had significant success in pushing gender issues onto the international agenda and into global governance institutions and processes. The goal of gender equality is now widely accepted and codified in international legal instruments. While this appears to be a remarkable global success for feminism, widespread gender inequalities persist around the globe. This paradox has led scholars to question the extent to which feminist concepts and goals can retain their transformative potential when they are institutionalized in global governance institutions and processes. This thesis examines the institutionalization of feminist ideas in global governance through an analysis of how, and with what effects, gender equality norms are constructed, interpreted and applied in the global governance of refugees: a field that has thus far received little attention in the growing literature on feminism, gender and global governance. This aim is pursued through a case study of humanitarian aid practices in refugee camps in Bangladesh and Thailand. The study is based on interviews with humanitarian workers in these two contexts, and its theoretical framework is informed by postcolonial feminist theory and Foucauldian thought on power and governing. These analytical perspectives allows the thesis to capture how gender equality norms operate as governing tools, and situate the politics of gender equality in refugee camps in the context of global relations of power and marginalization. The findings of this thesis show that in the global governance of refugees, gender equality is rarely treated as a goal in its own right. The construction, interpretation and application of gender equality norms is mediated and shaped by the dominant governing projects in this field. Gender equality norms are either advocated on the basis of their usefulness as means for the efficient management of refugee situations, or as necessary components of a process of modernization and development of the regions from which refugees originate. These governing projects significantly limit the forms of social change and the forms of agency that are enabled. Nevertheless, gender equality norms do contribute to opening up new opportunities for refugee women and destabilizing local gendered relations of power, and they are appropriated and used by refugees in ways that challenge and go beyond humanitarian agendas.
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Hegenbarth, Carly Louise. "Catholic emancipation and British print cultures, 1821-9." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6857/.
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During the course of the Parliamentary debates about Catholic emancipation in 1829, around 120 original, single sheet prints were published in London on the topic of Catholic Relief, at which point it was almost the sole subject of visual satire. This was the first time in living memory that a debate around toleration and the relationship between temporal and spiritual authority had been conducted on such a wide reaching scale. On 3 February 1829 the King, George IV, the head of the Anglican Church, had introduced Roman Catholic Relief in his speech for the opening of the 1829 Parliamentary session. By 13 April 1829 an Act to grant Roman Catholics civil liberty was given Royal Assent, revoking laws that prevented non-Anglicans from holding public office. This had followed four failed attempts to introduce Catholic Relief in the 1820s which had also prompted satirical image making, but never on the same scale. This thesis analyses for the first time the extensive body of prints produced in 1821-9 that relate to debates around Relief and addresses the questions: why were images produced, why were they predominately single sheet etchings, and who was so interested in Catholic emancipation as to be buying them in such quantities?
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Mihok, Lorena Diane. "Cognitive dissonance in early Colonial pictorial manuscripts from Central Mexico." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001352.
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Kane, Mike. "A consideration of modes of dissonance in 20th-century music." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ59180.pdf.
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Parish, Christina M. "Gender dissonance and the bourgeois woman in the Victorian novel." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU0NWQmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=3739.
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Hafer, Joseph. "The role of self-schema status in moderating cognitive dissonance." Click here for download, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1850719471&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Guo, Jiaqi. "Investor behaviour : an examination of investor sentiment and cognitive dissonance." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/18857/.
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This thesis seeks to examine the roles of investor sentiment and cognitive dissonance on investor behaviour. The objectives of this thesis are: first, to investigate the impact of the interaction of investor sentiment with culture on momentum and post-earnings-announcement-drift by way of cognitive dissonance in international markets; second, using investor sentiment and analyst recommendations to examine how cognitive dissonance affects institutional herding in the U.S. financial market. The effect of investor sentiment, culture as well as cognitive dissonance is examined for the two anomalies, momentum and post-earnings-announcement-drift. The investigation is carried out both across a wide range of countries and in two distinct culture groups. We investigate these issues by building on a specific behavioural model and by bringing together arguments from psychology and the cross-culture literature in relation to investor sentiment, culture and the notion of cognitive dissonance. We propose that cognitive dissonance will be evident when private or public news contradicts investors’ sentiment. This will cause a slow diffusion of such news being incorporated into stock prices, resulting in return continuation and people in different cultures experiencing different degrees of cognitive dissonance and in different situations. The empirical findings suggest that cognitive dissonance is a key driver in explaining these two anomalies across countries and in the two distinct cultures. The interaction of investor sentiment and analyst recommendations on institutional herding is investigated by using two commonly used herding measures in the micro-level in the U.S. It suggests that cognitive dissonance is an important driver for institutional herding by taking account of the interaction between the two factors. Cognitive dissonance will be evident when analyst recommendation revisions conflict with sentiment, causing institutions to herd differently in the current and subsequent periods. The two herding measures allow us to capture different aspects of herding in the two periods and to gain better insights into spurious and intentional herding.
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Grimes, Larry G. "Teaching Evolution: A Heuristic Study of Personal and Cultural Dissonance." Scholarly Commons, 2012. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/23.
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Darwinian evolution is a robustly supported scientific theory. Yet creationists continue to challenge its teaching in American public schools. Biology teachers in all 50 states are responsible for teaching science content standards that include evolution. As products of their backgrounds and affiliations teachers bring personal attitudes and beliefs to their teaching. The purpose of this study was to explore how biology teachers perceive, describe, and value their teaching of evolution. This research question was explored through a heuristic qualitative methodology. Eight veteran California high school biology teachers were queried as to their beliefs, perceptions, experiences and practices of teaching evolution. Both personal and professional documents were collected. Data was presented in the form of biographical essays that highlight teachers' backgrounds, experiences, perspectives and practices of teaching evolution. Of special interest was how they describe pressure over teaching evolution during a decade of standards and No Child Left Behind high-stakes testing mandates. Five common themes emerged. Standards have increased the overall amount of evolution that is taught. High-stakes testing has decreased the depth at which evolution is taught. Teacher belief systems strongly influence how evolution is taught. Fear of creationist challenges effect evolution teaching strategies. And lastly, concern over the potential effects of teaching evolution on student worldviews was mixed. Three categories of teacher concern over the potential impact of evolution on student worldviews were identified: Concerned, Strategist, and Carefree. In the final analysis teacher beliefs and attitudes still appeared to he the most important factor influencing how evolution is taught.
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Sauder, Robert. "Continuity and dissonance: Institutional relations of a South African NGO." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6220.
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This thesis is a case study investigation of the institutional relations of a South African educational NGO. The literature on NGOs indicates that as institutions they can be problematic. They face three key issues, accountability, partnership and empowerment, which provide them with both institutional coherence as well as institutional contradiction. Most of the existing analysis of NGOs is descriptive and little of it attempts to place an analysis of these key issues within a larger institutional environment. This thesis attempts to do so using the framework of institutional theory. Institutional theory, as articulated by Scott and others, is used to analyze an NGO in order to understand them both from an internal perspective (based on the social constructions of the institutional participants) and an external perspective (based on the environment in which the NGO was situated). According to this theory, institutions are comprised of three inter-penetrated dimensions, the regulative, normative, and cognitive. The analysis of these dimensions was accomplished using the concepts of continuity and dissonance. The findings of the study are that while there was relatively high continuity in this institution, related to a large extent to a project of social transformation in South Africa, there was also significant dissonance. The NGO faced contested accountability, tensions around partnership, and contradictions in terms of empowerment. The implications of these conclusions for South African education and NGOs in sub-Saharan Africa are explored as are the contributions of the study to institutional theory.
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Aksu, Duygu Selin. "Eskilstuna Fruntimmersförening : En studie av Eskilstunas första kvinnoförening mellan åren 1876-1896." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Historiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-225811.
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Throughout the course of the 19th century mankind experienced a lot of changes to the way they were used to live life, mostly due to the expansion of the industrial revolution. But the biggest change was perhaps the change in the conditions for women all over the world. Women no longer wanted to live their lives behind closed doors looking out from the window and thinking of all the things that they could have done with their lives. They wanted to be a part of society and they, sometimes literally, fought for change. In Sweden women got the right to vote in 1921. The way there was long and difficult with a lot of obstacles and prejudice to overcome. But not all of the associations had voting rights for women on their agenda. Some of them were strictly philanthropic. After reading Eva Österberg’s book “Rummet vidgas”, where she discusses her theory about 19th century women in Sweden and the “closed room” that used to be their arena of movement and its expansion during the 19th century, I decided to do a research in my hometown and therefor took a closer look at the first association started by women in 1854 in the little town of Eskilstuna, 90 km from Stockholm. The association was started by a few leading women and their goal was to help the less fortunate children of the community with clothes and shoes so they could attend school and later on be useful members of the society. In doing so the women themselves took their rightful place in the public society. The women were very successful, they achieved well more than they had set out for and the association managed to exist for over a hundred years helping thousands of children.