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I'Anson, Chioke A. M. "Otherness and Blackness." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000207.
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Zago, Leandro. "Ekphrasis through otherness." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2015. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/131012.
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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente, Florianópolis, 2015.Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-18T21:08:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 332877.pdf: 802411 bytes, checksum: 282bf80c1479920de4d7706ad2591940 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015
Abstract : Opposing the contemporary literary reductionism of ekphrasis to a verbal representation of a painting, a sculpture, a drawing, or a photograph, this research views otherness as the object of contemplation. Through the present rereading of ekphrasis, the investigation will seek 1) to analyze how the ekphrastic characteristics of Walcott`s poetry in his latest work White Egrets promote more companionship than antagonistic views between poetry and painting, and; 2) to analyze how ekphrasis transforms the imagery of Derek Walcott`s créole identity into an aesthetic object of contemplation, depicting it in the similar way of a work of art. More specifically, the discussion analyses how the cultural relations/representations between the self and the other provide an ?ekphrastic situation? for Derek Walcott in the Caribbean?s complex colonial legacy. The poet`s ekphrastic act to render private and personal identity intimacies will lean on the nonfixity of the image, or its motion in stasis. The main theoretical concepts that sustain this investigation are drawn from the works of W.J.T. Mitchell (1980, 1986, 1994, 1996), Cheeke (2008), Loizeaux (2008), and Hall (1989, 1993, 1996, 1997).
Opondo-se ao reducionismo literário contemporâneo de que a écfrase seja somente uma representação verbal de uma pintura, uma escultura, um desenho ou uma fotografia, esta pesquisa vê a própria alteridade como objeto de contemplação. Através desta releitura da écfrase, a presente investigação visa 1) analisar como as características ecfrásticas da poesia de Derek Walcott em sua última coleção de poesias intitulada White Egrets (Garças Brancas) propiciam mais companheirismo que visões antagônicas entre poesia e pintura, e; 2) analisar como a écfrase transforma a imagem da identidade crioula de Derek Walcott em um objeto estético de contemplação, retratando-a de uma forma semelhante a uma obra de arte. Mais especificamente, a discussão analisa como as relações/representações culturais entre o eu-individual e o outro propiciam uma  situação ecfrástica para Derek Walcott no complexo legado colonial Caribenho. O ato ecfrástico do poeta ao relatar aspectos privados e pessoais de sua identidade revelar-se-á embasado na infixidez da imagem, ou seja, seu imobilismo em movimento. Os principais conceitos teóricos que sustentam esta investigação foram retirados das obras de W.J.T. Mitchell (1980, 1986, 1994, 1996), Cheeke (2008), Loizeaux (2008), e Hall (1989, 1993, 1996, 1997).
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Faloppa, Federico. "The Linquistic construction of otherness." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.521761.
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Buchweitz, Ricardo Moura. "Manifestations of otherness in performance." Florianópolis, SC, 2002. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/82838.
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Dissertação (mestrado) - 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 2012-10-19T18:46:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 195650.pdf: 3411027 bytes, checksum: e52b9a3befe5924b99d57af2380c8842 (MD5)
Uma produção brasileira de Otelo, de William Shakespeare, dirigida por Janssen Hugo Lage, foi analisada. Dados incluindo vídeo, fotografias, texto de origem, manual de palco, críticas e entrevistas com membros da compania e da platéia, foram investigados conforme a metodologia proposta por Jay Halio e sustentada por Maria Helena Serôdio e Susan Bennett. Dada a relevância do discurso racial de Otelo para o contexto brasileiro, a análise procurou investigar como o texto Shakespeareano foi realizado na produção de Lage em relação à caracterização da personagem principal como o Outro, motivo pelo qual os conceitos de Alteridade e Raça, conforme discutidos por Edward Said e Robert Miles, foram considerados. A análise mostrou que, apesar das preocupações da compania quanto à atualização dramática e o tema do racismo, a produção continuou concordando com os estereótipos racistas há muito atrelados à peça.
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Groves, Christopher. "Hegel and Deleuze : immanence and otherness." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1999. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2473/.
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The thesis critically analyses the dominant foundationalist tendency of modern philosophy, with special reference to the sophisticated antifoundationalist critiques of foundationalism formulated by G.W.F. Hegel and Gilles Deleuze. It begins by outlining a general methodological aspect of foundationalism, regarding the necessity of radical self-critique in philosophy, which directly connects contemporary thought with Cartesianism, via classical German philosophy. In the philosophies of Kant, Fichte and Schelling, this self-critical project is transformed: they undertake to show that reason can, by examining itself, give an account of experience that is systematic, or consistent with itself. However, each of these thinkers fails to accomplish this, and indeed, the commitment to a priori foundations is itself undermined in Schelling's work; where a philosophical crisis of meaning (a 'trauma of reason', philosophical nihilism) emerges. Deleuze and Hegel's contrasting critiques of foundationalism, and their positive reconstructions of the standpoint of philosophy, are then interpreted as non-foundationalist attempts to overcome this internal crisis of foundationalist thought as inadvertently exposed by Schelling. Both criticise certain subjective presuppositions common to foundationalist philosophies, which they consider constitute a dogmatic 'image' of philosophy, a kind of transcendental illusion that is the guiding force behind foundationalism. Both also aim to replace this with a genuinely philosophical image. The thesis provides an original historical contextualisation of Deleuze's thought in relation to German Idealism, and Schelling in particular, with whom, it is argued, Deleuze has much in common. Deleuze's conception of pure difference is treated in this regard as a kind of 'absolute knowledge'. This contextualisation also allows the sometimes crudely understood antipathy between Hegel and Deleuze to be addressed in a more penetrating fashion, which shows that they have more in common in terms of their critical orientation than is usually supposed. The thesis concludes with a critical comparison of these thinkers, which argues that, although both succeed in their own terms, in relation to a criterion of self-consistency, Hegel's philosophy offers a more satisfactory treatment of the ontological and historical conditions of philosophical activity.
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Ray, Nicholas. "Tragedy and otherness : Sophocles, Shakespeare, psychoanalysis." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2002. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3052/.
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The thesis is concerned with the relationship between psychoanalysis and tragedy, and the way in which psychoanalysis has structured its theory by reference to models from tragic drama - in particular, those of Sophocles and Shakespeare. It engages with some of the most recent thinking in contemporary French psychoanalysis, most notably the work of Jean Laplanche, so as to interrogate both Freudian metapsychology and the tragic texts in which it claims to identify its prototypes. Laplanche has ventured an ‘other-centred’ re-reading of the Freudian corpus which seeks to go beyond the tendency of Freud himself, and psychoanalysis more generally, to unify and centralise the human subject in a manner which strays from and occults some of the most radical elements of the psychoanalytic enterprise. The (occulted) specificity of the Freudian discovery, Laplanche proposes, lies in the irreducible otherness of the subject to himself and therefore of the messages by which subjects communicate their desires. I argue that Freud’s recourse to literary models is inextricably bound up with the ‘goings-astray’ in his thinking. Laplanche’s work, I suggest, offers an important perspective from which to consider not only the function which psychoanalysis cells upon them to perform, but also that within them for which Freud and psychoanalysis have remained unable to account. Taking three tragic dramas which, more or less explicitly, have borne a formative impact on Freud’s thought, and which have often been understood to articulate the emergence of ‘the subject’, I attempt to set alongside Freud’s own readings of them, the argument that each figures not the unifying or centralising but the radical decentring of its principal protagonists and their communicative acts. By close textual analyses of these three works, and by reference to their historical and cultural contexts, the crucial Freudian motif of parricide (real or symbolic) which structures and connects them is shown ultimately to be an inescapable and inescapably paradoxical gesture: one of liberty and autonomy at the cost of self-division, and of a dependence at the cost of a certain autonomy.
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Campbell, James. "Variable Otherness in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och samhälle, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-166051.
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This paper explores the Xenogenesis trilogy written by Octavia Bulter and how it presents Otherness as a concept. It provides several examples of otherness and additionally presents ideas of how it can be seen as something to be celebrated.
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Kvašňák, Daniel. "Reflection of "otherness" in international relations." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-264255.
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The current migration crisis has put significant strain on the European Union and its member states. Immigration has always been a contentious issue in societies, most often facing significant opposition. By drawing on postmodern theories of international relations and Discourse Theory, this paper analyses how immigration is being increasingly securitized by the European Union and its member states along with what makes securitization the hegemonic discourse. This is done primarily with reference to identity construction through the framing of the Other, in this case the migrant, as an unwanted and externalized element. Furthermore, the paper details how the framing of the migrant as a threat to the internal security of a country strenghtend identity politics across Europe. Finally, using the Brexit campaign in the UK, the paper analyzes how the rise in identity politics in turn raises the possibility of a successful fusion of the anti-immigration discourse with the anti-EU discourse through the exploiting of societal unease.
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Baek, Sungwoo. "Ontology, otherness and critical religious education." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2014. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/ontology-otherness-and-critical-religious-education(429b520d-4580-47b3-b486-e2c0b50d36c7).html.
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This thesis is a philosophical, theological and educational exploration of the theme of ontology and otherness. It is intended to provide a theoretical ground for the possibility of Christian religious education in Christian schools, with particularly reference to school religious education in South Korea. For this purpose it investigates a philosophical ground of education, particularly religious education, in terms of ontology and otherness. The recent ontological turn in both education and religious education shows that they take critical realism (CR henceforth) as the pivotal philosophical ground. In reception of this approach the thesis argues, after reading of the originator of CR, Roy Bhaskar, that there is a characteristic feature in the philosophy, viz. the agential centred form of explanation of reality which results in the production of a lacuna of the dimension of otherness in CR. In response to the problem, the thesis attempt to integrate the dimension of otherness into CR through the exploration of Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy of otherness which provides an account of the non-agential moment and ethical subjectivity as what that fills the lacuna and the point of the integration with CR, and incorporate Bhaskarian dialectical agent with ethical subjectivity. However, in doing so, it is revealed that there is a radical diverting point between Bhaskar’s notion of alethia and otherness which makes a prominent difference in accounting of ultimate reality as shown between Bhaskar ’s meta-Reality and Christian understanding of Trinitarian God. Drawing from the philosophical and theological account of ontology and otherness, the thesis finally attends Wright’s approach from the frame of otology and otherness, and argues for the use of Wright’s approach for the possibility of paving a way for Christian religious education in Christian schools.
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Maitland, Sarah. "Cultural translation and the anxieties of otherness." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.557955.
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Since the cultural 'turn' in translation studies, the concept of 'cultural translation' has received considerable attention. Conceptualised in a range of diverse ways, it has given rise to a proliferation of often conflicting accounts. Scholars have noted the limitations of such accounts and signalled the lack of significant analysis to provide a fuller understanding of cultural translation, its limits, assumptions and opportunities. This thesis responds to this need by providing a study of cultural translation in its diverse emanations and discerns four broad themes around which its myriad configurations coalesce: as an ethnographic 'encounter' with cultural difference; as a mobile practice that displays a 'migrant' doubleness of identity as a form of textual production that refuses to 'belong' securely in its place of reception; as a mode that constructs a 'hybrid' text that, in its refusal to be placed firmly within one 'side' or the other, occupies a space 'in-between' original and reproduction; and, in recognition of the appropriative forms of interpretation upon which translation is predicated, as a resistant practice that seeks ways to rectify translation's limited appraisal of cultural difference. The thesis examines these themes in order to test their theoretical possibilities within a practical context and argues for a view of cultural translation, above all, as a locus of intercultural encounter: between translator, original foreign text and all that the translator reads into it. Cultural translation thus emerges as an encounter between the cultural world of the foreign text and the subjective world of a translator, in which the relationship between translator and text is never dissociated from broader matters of power, imperialism, representation and positionality. In such a view, cultural translation insists that matters of inter lingual difference in translation are inseparable from the negotiations of cultural difference and 'anxieties' of otherness that take place behind it.
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Katsuragi, Camille. "Condition of Singularity Viewer, Temporality and Otherness." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.650321.
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Rief, Silvia. "Clubbing : otherness and the politics of experience." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404835.
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Budurlean, Alma. "Otherness in the novels of Patrick White." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2007. http://d-nb.info/994906943/04.
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Patston, Kirk Richard. "Job, Otherness and Christian Theology of Disability." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14293.
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This study is an interdisciplinary one that draws on disability studies, biblical studies and Christian theology. Specifically, it reads the book of Job as a study of otherness in order to arrive at ways that the book contributes to a Christian theology of disability. The book of Job explores the ways that human beings may be over, under, against and with each other and God. It raises riddles about these questions (Job 1–2), presents Job’s passionate wrestle with the questions (Job 3–26) and then his attempt to reduce divine otherness to a matter of piety and ethics, and to inscribe human otherness into the settled relationships of village patriarchy (Job 27–31). Elihu keeps the topic of otherness alive (Job 32–37), before Yahweh asserts the value of otherness in a breathtaking portrait of a world of variety in which Yahweh’s wisdom embraces justice, danger, beauty and freedom (Job 38:1–42:6). The epilogue presents Job as one who can live with an appreciation of the beauty of the other and a willingness to mediate, forgive, celebrate and share for no reason (Job 42:7–17). Thus the book offers a way of wisdom: one must live under, against and with God and with other human beings in relationships that include laughter, wonder, joy, protest, advocacy and mutuality. All of this is to be done with a gracious sense of actions for no reason. This theological and social vision provides a valuable way of approaching the human experience of disability and points to the way that disability studies can be enriched by close readings of biblical texts along with theological and religious perspectives.
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Parkman, Mikael. "Cultivating Otherness : Dormatory for 32 choir singers." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-160017.
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Davis, Claire. "Embracing alterity : rethinking female otherness in contemporary cinema." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/54684.
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The Other operates as a figure of inherent transgression: A manifestation of the repressions necessary for the sustenance of dominant ideology. As the Other lurches in from the sidelines to threaten and frighten before being neutralized through assimilation or death, dominant ideology is upheld and confirmed by being set against the abnormality and monstrosity of difference. In feminist film theory, otherness has been foundational as a means of describing women’s marginalization within patriarchal society. Where Man is constructed as subject, Woman is constructed as Other. As such, the female Other tells us far more about patriarchal constructions of Woman than it does about female subjects in the world. Feminist film theory demonstrates a pronounced investment in the need for spectatorial identification with female characters, conflating the roles occupied by character and person, and thus the female Other has traditionally been theorized as staunchly misogynistic—the embodiment of patriarchal and phallic fears of female monstrosity and lack.
Against this tradition, I propose that the female Other is not always and necessarily an anti-feminist figure. Iterations of the Other that foreground character opacity and thus disrupt empathetic and identificatory methods of spectatorship productively disturb processes of ideological comfort. By refusing to subject the Other to an epistemological narrative structure, one which poses the female Other as mystery to be demystified, and by denying a resolution that destroys the Other and thus the threat that they represent, the films analyzed in this thesis demand an alternative methodology to account for the radical alterity of the female Other. The two case studies offered in support of this thesis are the melancholic Other, with the example of Justine in Melancholia (von Trier 2011) and the posthuman Other, as exemplified in Under the Skin (Glazer 2013) and Ex Machina (Garland 2015). Rather than occupying the traditional role of the female Other as monster, these characters threaten the integrity of the human precisely because of their revelation of the human monstrosity that lies at the heart of patriarchal masculinity.Arts, Faculty of
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Benzaquen, Adriana Silvia. "Encounters with wild children, childhood, knowledge, and otherness." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0005/NQ43414.pdf.
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Holmsten, Elin. "The hermeneutics of otherness in Medbh McGuckian's poetry /." Uppsala : English Department, Uppsala University, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:diva-6760.
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Humble, Catherine. "Everyday otherness : the edited and unedited Raymond Carver." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2015. http://research.gold.ac.uk/12297/.
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This thesis is a reading of Raymond Carver’s edited and unedited writing with respect to unsymbolised mental spaces. Carver’s edited writing is characterized by clipped sentences and solid silences and is often defined as ‘minimalist’. His unedited writing is more garrulous and sprawling, which has led critics to label it ‘realist’. I consider how these different forms of language present different kinds of resistances to clear meaning. I read these resistances in terms of different mentally unsymbolised spaces – unconscious spaces that resist symbolisation. In doing so, I consider the psychoanalytic thought of Lacan, along with Laplanche and Green, as well as Blanchot and Attridge’s writing on literary otherness. In the curt sentences juxtaposed with hard silences of Carver’s edited, so- called minimalist writing, I consider how highly fixed meanings are split from radically unsymbolised spaces. Here I find a theoretical echo in my reading of Lacan’s originary linguistic castration – his account of the first traumatic linguistic cut that is inflicted on the young infant, splitting the infant between a pre-linguistic state and a state of meaning. I suggest that Carver’s edited, minimalist language stages this original cutting into being. His language performs the very way in which everyday language inflicts a certain cut and his writing takes this cut to an extreme. In the more sprawling so-called ‘realist’ language of the unedited Carver, the unsymbolised and meaning entwine rather than split. Bringing together Carver, Lacan, and Blanchot, in the unedited realist prose I conceive unsymbolised spaces as held, sheltered, even quietly hidden but not annulled by linguistic meaning. Carver’s unedited writing stages psychical otherness as quietly imbricated in the texture of language, fostering a more bodily expression of the unsymbolised.
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Kassianidou, Marina. "Between marks and surfaces : indiscernibility, subjectivity, and otherness." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2015. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/8935/.
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This practice-based research examines the notion of the in-between of mark and surface within visual art. Drawing on Bracha L. Ettinger’s Matrixial theory, I approach the in-between as a non-oppositional state that has the potential to redefine relationships between self and other in art practice. The questions I focus on are: How can the relationship between the artist’s marks and the surface move beyond an opposition or clear overlay such that an in-between state may be accessed? How can the relationship between work and space shift in a similar manner? How does accessing this in-between change the relationships between subject and object and self and other (understood, initially, in terms of mark and surface and artist and materials)? What are the implications for the artist when her marks become nearly indiscernible from the surface (as a result of approaching an in-between state)? Finally, what are some implications for the audience when they cannot immediately see or identify a work of art? The methodological framework, which emerged through the research, involves the interweaving of three spaces: my own practice, other artists’ practices, and theory. Through my practice, I looked for marks that approached each surface I worked with. This approaching occurred on several levels: visual, material, and conceptual. The marking methods I developed are juxtaposed with theoretical concepts, mainly from Bracha L. Ettinger, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, and C. S. Peirce, and with works by artists Susan Collis, Louise Hopkins, and Bracha L. Ettinger. Through these juxtapositions, I investigate the operations of the resulting marks, their relationships with the surface, and how those relationships tend towards an in-between. I argue that the destabilisation of a clear distinction between mark and surface and work and space may lead to visual and conceptual indiscernibility. This, in turn, leads to a rethinking of the relationship between subject and object and self and other on several levels. The contribution of the research lies in adding to the discussion surrounding the relationship between mark and surface by specifically focusing on the in-between and indiscernibility. This addition occurs through practice as well as through this text, which attempts to activate concepts that enable the conceptualisation of an in-between state/space.
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Staszel, John Paul. "Muscular Otherness: Performing the Muscular Freak and Monster." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1245266700.
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Choi, Inhwan. "Otherness and identity in eighteenth-century colonial discourses /." view abstract or download file of text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3072577.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 173-180). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Ranebo, Per. "John Gardner's Grendel and the Otherness of Nature." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-40345.
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Capobianco, Paul. "Migration and identity: Japan’s changing relationship with otherness." Diss., University of Iowa, 2019. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6713.
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Japan is currently facing a demographic shift that will alter the nation’s social, cultural, and economic institutions significantly in the years to come. Due to a declining and aging population, foreigners have steadily comprised a greater portion of Japan’s population and workforce for the past three decades. Although foreigners currently comprise only 2% of Japan’s population, some experts predict an increase to between 8% and 27% by 2050.
If even the most conservative of these estimates are true, this would raise serious questions about Japan’s future. Historically, Japan has relegated cultural and ethnic difference to the social margins, leaving little room for the integration of cultural Others. This has produced problematic relationships between Japan and its minority communities. Foreign and cultural Others have been denied rights and recognition within Japanese society and their presence has been largely overlooked. These recent demographic changes, however, are producing novel interactions between foreigners and Japanese in schools, restaurants, retail establishments, and other public spaces. Yet, the current research on Japan has not updated our knowledge of Japan with a critical look into the recent shift and its effects.
This dissertation examines the parameters of Japan’s diversification and explores its broader social impacts. Specifically, it uses the novel contexts through which Japanese and non-Japanese people are coming into contact as a backdrop for examining questions about how Japanese-foreigner relations, Japan’s identity (internally and externally), and the ways foreigners are being positioned within contemporary Japanese society. In doing so, this thesis explores topics such as the newfound ways that Japanese and non-Japanese workers are coming into contact with one another, the role of language in facilitating multicultural encounters, and how biracial people destabilize conventional idea about Japanese identity and compel critical reconsiderations of it. This research incorporates data from over thirty formal interviews, and many more informal interviews from diverse voices, to expound upon the conceptual and material ramifications of Japan’s demographic changes and pose implications for the trajectory of Japan in the near future.
In exploring these questions, this dissertation also draws upon theories of race, ethnicity, space, place, and communication to understand these demographic changes and their impacts. This work examines contemporary theories about the intersection of race and ethnicity, and how they relate to a non-Western and quickly changing sociocultural milieu. It also examines the ways that contemporary migration patterns destabilize and reconfigure notions of spatiality, which are closely linked to identity constructions. It further considers theories about intercultural communication and language learning to show how communicative and linguistic processes facilitate the novel encounters that are unfolding between Japanese and non-Japanese people.
The primary finding from this research is that Japan’s demographic changes are compelling new forms of sociality and interpersonal dynamics between Japanese and foreigners that heretofore have not been observed. The novel characteristics of these encounters are creating a new social milieu within in which Japanese and foreigners are crossing paths more frequently in everyday life. This is leading to more critical inquiries about Japan’s future and the role of non-Japanese people within that future. This work gives voice to the actors on the ground who are living out these changes firsthand and presents their experiences, ideas, and aspirations of future Japan.
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Previsic, Ivana. "Migrating “Otherness”: Serbian Ethnic Media amid Nationalism and Multiculturalism." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20235.
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The thesis explores the ways in which Serbian ethnic media in Canada represent their own group and “Others”, specifically Croats, Slovenians and Catholics, Bosniaks, Albanians and Muslims, Montenegrins and the West. The research investigates the convergence of these representations with Canadian multiculturalism. The thesis epistemologically feeds from Jean Jacques Rousseau’s 18th century theories of recognition and patriotism, Stuart Hall’s (1997) theory of representation and identity and Edward Said’s (1978) theory of Orientalism, and is further guided by the theoretical frameworks of Charles Taylor’s (1994) politics of recognition, Benedict Anderson’s (1992) long-distance nationalism and Maria Todorova’s (1994) Balkanism. Qualitative content analysis through purposive and sequential sampling of Serbian ethnic broadcasting is conducted to gauge the programs’ representations of the “Self” and “Others”. Ethnic media provide a method to promote a minority group’s heritage, but also to facilitate communication between various cultural, ethnic, religious and racial groups. In the age of an increased critique of multiculturalism, the role of ethnic media rises in importance. The findings of the thesis show that Serbian ethnic media employ Canadian multiculturalism to promote Serbian heritage, but also to stereotype other groups. Applying the theoretical juxtaposition of multiculturalism, nationalism and “Othering”, this research argues that through negative identification of “Others”, Serbian ethnic media deviate from Canadian multiculturalism that calls for a positive recognition of all Canadian groups.
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Walker, Richard Russell. "Freedom and otherness, Hegel and the ethics of recognition." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ49591.pdf.
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Wood, Jennifer Linhart. "Sounding Otherness in Early Modern Theater and Travel Writing." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3587221.
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My dissertation explores how sound informs the representation of cross-cultural interactions within early modern drama and travel writing. "Sounding" implies the process of producing music or noise, but it also suggests the attempt to make meaning of what one hears. "Otherness" in this study refers to a foreign presence outside of the listening body, as well as to an otherness that is already inherent within. Sounding otherness enacts a bi-directional exchange between a culturally different other and an embodied self; this exchange generates what I term the sonic uncanny, whereby the otherness interior to the self vibrates with sounds of otherness exterior to the body. The sonic uncanny describes how sounds that are perceived as foreign become familiar through the vibratory touch of the soundwave that attunes a body to its sonic environment or soundscape. Sounds of foreign Eastern and New World Indian otherness become part of English and European travelers; at the same time, these travelers sound their own otherness in Indian spaces. Sounding otherness occurs in the travel narratives of Jean de Lèry, Thomas Dallam, Thomas Coryate, and John Smith. Cultural otherness is also sounded by the English through their theatrical representations of New World and Oriental otherness in masques including The Masque of Flowers, and plays like Robert Greene's Alphonsus, respectively; Shakespeare's The Tempest combines elements of East and West into a new sound—"something rich and strange." These dramatic entertainments suggest that the theater, as much as a foreign land, can function as a sonic contact zone.
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Parachoniak, Bryan Lorin. "The otherness of I : narrative, pedagogical being and fulfillment." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=83136.
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This thesis proposes that Charles Taylor's notion of the 'dialogical human life'---or what I call 'dialogical being in the world'---can be expanded to include pedagogical and democratical aspects. Furthermore, given the collapse of foundational epistemologies, I propose that teacher fulfillment may be negotiated through 'hermeneutical understanding', which recognizes the participation of the knower ('I') in the known (the 'other'). Such hermeneutical understanding is achieved through acknowledging my 'dialogical, democratical and pedagogical being in the world' (my life) as an unfolding story, which connects present acts of understanding the 'other' (including the otherness of self) with the past and future vision of fulfillment.
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Mikelli, Eftychia. "Constructions of identity and otherness in Jack Kerouac's prose." Thesis, Durham University, 2009. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/29/.
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This thesis is inspired by the abiding academic and public interest in Kerouac’s work and aims to advance new readings of Kerouac’s prose in a contemporary literary and cultural context. It is particularly concerned with a deconstructive reading of Kerouac’s prose and engages with his negotiations of race, gender, spirituality and origins within the framework of post-war America’s accelerated culture. Kerouac’s indebtedness to modernist techniques notwithstanding, this thesis argues that in its historical and thematic preoccupations Kerouac’s prose is vividly conversant with postmodern strategies. Without losing perspective of the late forties and fifties background from which Kerouac’s works emerged, the thesis explores the ways in which his thematic, linguistic and structural concerns interact with contemporary theory. Tracing the Kerouacian narrator’s problematization of the search for meaning in an accelerating culture, it examines his prose in a post-war context of uncertainty and ambiguity. In active dialogue with his contemporary America, Kerouac addresses and often challenges the dominant cultural practices of his time. Foregrounding the conflicts of his era, he anticipates subsequent social developments and philosophical debates, gesturing towards and at times capturing a postmodern sensibility. The four chapters of the thesis analyse Kerouac’s approach to the concept of simulation, his position towards Western representations of Eastern spirituality, his negotiation of the image of the exotic other and his narrative constructions of ethnicity and identity. Using the work of theorists such as Baudrillard, Virilio and Derrida, and also drawing on postcolonial studies, I demonstrate how Kerouac produces a highly performative prose in his projections of identity and heterogeneity. It is this ability to converse with literary and cultural developments up to the present day that best illuminates the contemporary appeal of Kerouac’s deconstructive approach to the notions of identity and otherness and most vividly illustrates the continuing vitality of Kerouac’s writing.
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Sims, Chantelle. "Otherness matters: Beauvoir, Hegel and the ethics of recognition." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1948.
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Thesis (MPhil (Philosophy))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study critically explores the meaning of difference in continental philosophy. Concomitantly, it reflects on the norm, with regard to, firstly, the authorities within the philosophical community who take it upon themselves to distinguish, on a “corporate” and/or intellectual level, between the normal and that which is different from the norm; secondly, the apparatus of limitation employed to constitute, legitimate and reinforce this distinction, alongside distinctions between the conventional and the peculiar, the traditional and the marginal, the philosophical and the non-philosophical, the essential and the secondary or supplementary, as well as, the same (or subject) and the other. The focus on these distinctions is narrowed to the field of phenomenology, more particularly, how the anthropologistic readings of Phenomenology of Spirit by the exponents of early French phenomenology not only add force to the canonical reception of Hegel as a follower of a philosophical tradition governed by solipsism and individualism, but also perpetuate two traditional concepts; to wit, otherness as something threatening that must be overcome and self-other relationships as inexorably violent. A reinterpretation of the dialectic of recognition reveals not only Hegel’s appreciation of the degree to which subjectivity is indebted to otherness, but also his notion of friendship as the reciprocal preservation of the other’s otherness. This notion of friendship is appropriated by Simone de Beauvoir, whose engagement with Hegel constitutes a radical departure from French phenomenology; by implication, normal practice. Beauvoir, both personally and in her work, confronts the philosophical community with the short-sighted, often destructive, ways in which it delimits the canon, particularly with regard to its “othering” of women and its disregard for the specificity of difference. In keeping with the anthropological spirit of the respective readings of Hegel, the study itself takes the form of an autobiography. It traces the intellectual journey of a non-Western, non-white, non-male scholar, from her sense of not belonging in the world of continental philosophy, to her critical engagement with Hegel, mediated by Beauvoir. In the process it aims to show that otherness matters and how it matters. Furthermore, it calls for writing and reading differently so as to encourage non-hegemonic philosophy.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie is ‘n kritiese verkenning van die betekenis van differensie in die kontinentale filosofie. Gepaardgaande hiermee, word besin oor die norm, met betrekking tot, eerstens, diegene wat gesaghebbend binne die filosofiese gemeenskap, d.w.s. met ‘n self-opgelegde mandaat om te onderskei, op ‘n “korporatiewe” en/of intellektuele vlak, tussen die norm en dit wat afwyk van die norm; en tweedens, die begrensing bepaal, wat aangewend word om hierdie onderskeid, tesame met onderskeidings tussen die konvensionele en die eie, die tradisionele en die marginale, die filosofiese en die nie-filosofiese, die sentrale en die sekondêre of aanvullende, asook (die)selfde (of subjek) en die ander, te konstitueer, legitimeer en versterk. Hierdie onderskeidings word ondersoek binne die veld van die fenomenologie; in die besonder, hoe die antropologistiese vertolkings van Phenomenology of Spirit, deur die verteenwoordigers van die vroeë Franse fenomenologie, die kanonieke beeld van Hegel as aanhanger van ‘n filosofiese tradisie, wat deur solipsisme en individualisme aangedryf word, bekragtig en daarmee saam twee tradisionele konsepte bestendig, naamlik, andersheid as ‘n bedreiging wat oorkom moet word en self-ander verhoudings as noodwendig gewelddadig. ‘n Herinterpretasie van die dialektiek van herkenning openbaar nie net Hegel se waarneming van die mate waartoe subjektiwiteit afhang van andersheid nie, maar ook sy idee van vriendskap as die wedersydse behoud van die ander se andersheid. Hierdie nosie van vriendskap word toe-geëien deur Simone de Beauvoir, wie se inskakeling met Hegel radikaal afwyk van die Franse fenomenologie, dus ook van standaard praktyk. Beauvoir, beide in persoon en in haar werk, konfronteer die filosofiese gemeenskap met die kortsigtige, dikwels afbrekende, wyse waarop hul die kanon begrens, veral met betrekking tot hul “be-andering” van vroue en hul minagting van die spesifisiteit van differensie. In ooreenstemming met die antropologiese gees van die onderskeie vertolkings van Hegel, neem die studie self die vorm van ‘n outobiografie aan. Dit volg die intellektuele verkenning van ‘n nie-Westerse, nie-wit, nie-manlike student, aanvanklik vanuit haar gevoel van ontuiswees in die wêreld van die kontinentale filosofie, tot haar kritiese inskakeling met Hegel, bemiddel deur Beauvoir. Hiermee wil die studie wys dat andersheid saak maak en hoe dit saak maak. Voorts beroep dit op ‘n anderse skryf en lees om sodoende nie-hegemoniese filosofie aan te moedig.
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Ewart, Rebecca Elizabeth. "Translation, interpretation and otherness : Polynesia in French travel literature." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.680152.
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This thesis seeks to explore French travel literature on Polynesia as a form of translation. It analyses how travel writers interpret and textualize their experiences of the foreign culture in order to create a version of Polyneslan otherness. Following on from Lawrence Venuti's theory of foreignization and domestication, it is assumed that all translations necessarily manipulate the source culture into forms that are determined by the receiving culture, and that fidelity to an original is, therefore, impossible. Ethical potential is considered to lie in a translation that goes against the norms of translation present In the receiving culture in respect of Polynesia. The thesis identifies the emergence of over-determined narratives relating to Polynesia in late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth-century French travel literature. It shows how this body of work engaged with pre-existing narratives surrounding New-World cultures and dreams of a utopian south em continent, and considers the emergence of a dominant version of Polynesia closely linked to notions of an earthly paradise. In relation to the tradition of translation established in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the thesis studies the translation strategies employed by Pierre Loti in 'Le Mariage de Loti' (1880) and Victor Segalen in 'Les Immemoriaux' (1907). It demonstrates their seminal status as works that set trends for translating Polynesia, in terms of both reinforcing translation norms and subverting them. Finally, the thesis investigates the afterlives of Loti and Segalen's texts, as they appear in operatic adaptations ('Lakme' (1883) and 'L'ile du reve' (189B)), translations Into English, twentieth-century travel literature (Loti), and in indigenous Polynesian writing (Segalen).
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Nash, Bryan. "Topical preaching and otherness: a conversational topical preaching proposal." Universität Leipzig, 2017. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A15903.
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This article suggests that topical preaching can be revisited with integrity in postmodernity. The topical sermon in postmodernity should seek to place texts in conversation with one another in such a way that each text is valued and respected. Instead of allowing only one text to be heard at the exclusion of all others, appropriate topical preaching should model the embrace of otherness and conversation.
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Coetzee, Paulette June. "Performing whiteness; representing otherness : Hugh Tracey and African music." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016502.
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This thesis provides a critical study of texts associated with Hugh Tracey (1903–1977). Tracey is well-known for his work in African music studies, particularly for his major contribution to the recorded archive of musical sound in sub-Saharan Africa and his founding of the International Library of African Music (ILAM) in 1954. My reading of him is informed by a postcolonial perspective, whiteness studies and African scholarship on ways in which constructions of African identity and tradition have been shaped by the colonial archive. In my view, Tracey was part of a mid-twentieth century movement which sought to marshal positive representations of traditional African culture in the interest of maintaining and strengthening colonial rule. While his recording project may have fostered inclusion through creating spaces for indigenous musicians to be heard, it also functioned to promote racist exclusion in the manner of its production, distribution and claims to expertise. Moreover, his initial strategy for ILAM’s sustainability targeted colonial government and industry as primary clients, with the promise that promoting traditional music as a means of entertainment and self-expression for black subjects and workers would ease administration and reduce conflict. I believe that it is important to acknowledge and interrogate the problematic racial attitudes and practices associated with the history of Tracey’s archive – not to undermine its significance in any way but to allow it to be better understood and used more productively in the future.
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RIBEIRO, FARINHA GABRIELA SOFIA. "Encounters Do Matter: On Unveiling the Otherness in Oneself." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/489813.
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The analytical focus of this research aims to explore the potential disruptive effect of encounters over one’s inner normativities and how a “practice” of re-flexivity is enhanced by the interactional order in which the usual and uncon-scious flow of exchanged signs might be interrupted or broken, generating the emotional commentaries that becomes part of one’s inner talk.
A novel dimension in the analysis of gender inner structures is introduced through the description of the mechanism from which a subjectified subject could trigger the “politics of truth” and “operation of critique” of both his/hers external inner normativities. Through the observations and discourses that came from the encounters that occurred with sex workers, it was possible to disrupt the ontological aim of a hegemonic narrative that, not only establishes the exclusionary limits of discourse about sex workers but also the inclusion-ary limits of discourse about how women are.
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Heikkinen, M. (Maarit). "Estonianism in a Finnish organization:essays on culture, identity and otherness." Doctoral thesis, University of Oulu, 2009. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514292163.
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Within the globalization of business, international and cross-cultural management has acquired a greater meaning also among management and organization scholars. Consequently, the debate about the conceptualization and meaning of cultural differences has arisen. This thesis sees culture and cultural identity as inductive and discursive. This means that the traditional understanding of cultures and related identities as being rather fixed is questioned.
Cultural identity, culture and otherness are in this thesis looked through the lens offered by post-colonial theory. As the thesis investigates a Finnish organization operating in Estonia, the adaptation of post-colonial theory is believed to offer interesting insights to the identity construction inside the organization in question. Even though colonialization has never been actual, the relationship between the two countries displays the features of a colonial relationship. During its history, Finland has been taken a role as the “big brother” of Estonia and it has been argued that Estonia has been going through cultural “Finlandisation”. Today, however, the situation may have changed and therefore it is interesting to take a look at whether the post-colonial relations have had an effect on the identity construction and perception building between Estonians and Finns in an organizational context.
As the findings indicate, cultural identity of the Estonian employees is constructed in three discourses and in the same way the Finnish managers are constructing their ideas of the Estonians in various discourses. By treating cultural identity as fixed and objective, it would not be possible to reveal its diversity. In addition, when investigating Estonian identity construction and the construction of otherness by Finnish managers, utilization of post-colonial theory reveals that Estonians do not construct their identities based on the post-colonial array, whereas for Finnish managers it has a greater role. Furthermore, the power construction in the organization is also not a fixed, one-way process, but rather a mutual process affected by multiple identity constructions.
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Kaess, Kathleen. "Cultural and epistemological otherness in PISA : a translation studies perspective." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2017. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.727408.
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Fundamentally, this research is concerned with the discussion and analysis of concepts on which the PISA survey (Programme for International Student Assessment) and the workings of the OECD as an intergovernmental organisation currently appear to be predicated (according to the OECD’s own publications); it is therefore to be understood primarily as a theoretical contribution to the study of the role of translation in PISA and the OECD. Processes involved in the development of the assessment are discussed in order to highlight the structural as well as procedural shortcomings of PISA, which potentially contribute to the exclusion of cultural and epistemological otherness in the assessment: on the one hand, the development process established by the OECD will be analysed in the light of Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic power (1989), as it will be suggested that, in the context of PISA, the power imbalance between OECD and non-OECD member states impacts directly on the development process, and on the extent to which both cultural and epistemological otherness are recognised and represented in PISA testing material. On the other hand, the limitations of the processes and models involved in the translation of PISA will be discussed in order to further the contention that cultural and epistemological otherness are largely excluded from the assessment. The OECD depends on full and direct equivalence between all translated PISA language versions in order to ensure valid, cross-cultural comparability of data generated by the study; the translational model applied to the translation of PISA is therefore based on literal translation, which leaves cultural and epistemological otherness unaccounted for in order to create the illusion of equivalence between all translated test versions (Hambleton et al 2005). It will ultimately be suggested that the English source version of PISA is culturally and epistemologically flattened (and thus biased towards the OECD member states that are directly involved in the development of the study) and that the translation process perpetuates such flattening by disallowing cultural and epistemological complexity to enter the translation process. Lastly, this thesis will propose a reconceptualisation of the PISA development process - emerging from conceptual discussions of commensurabiiity, translatability, and intercultural translation - in an attempt to highlight the ethical responsibility the OECD has towards those countries and economies that are not part of the development process of PISA - and therefore ultimately towards cultural and epistemological otherness.
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Jakubiec, Patrycja. "Intersections of culture, gender and otherness : implications for counselling psychology." Thesis, City University London, 2011. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/1123/.
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This portfolio consists of four parts: an overview, a research study, a client study and a critical literature review. Overview: The first part presents the main themes of the portfolio and introduces the researcher. Research: The study explores the experiences of Polish people who migrated to the United Kingdom after May 2004. Twelve Poles were interviewed about their personal perspectives on the processes of acculturation they experienced. Data resulting from these interviews was analysed using the constructivist version of grounded theory (Charmaz, 2003) with particular focus on personal reflexivity. Following the transctription and analysis of interviews Negotiating Identity was chosen as the core category. Findings suggest that the core category was connected with processes related to experienced difficulties and coping, changes in family dynamics as a result of migration and interpersonal relationships with other Poles and ‘’Others’’ met in the UK. The study is of relevance to the Counselling Psychology and provides valuable insights into the lives of a relatively new, but increasingly significant and growing ethnic minority in Britain. Client study: The study explores my work with a bisexual mixed-race woman using a Cognitive Behaviour approach to address her low self-esteem and substance misuse problems. I reflect on both the therapeutic successes and challenges involved in my work with this client. The study is of relevance for the portfolio as it discusses the impact of not being able to ‘’fit in’’ within the established social norms regarding gender roles and sexuality and using the therapeutic relationship to facilitate the change and increase client’s self-acceptance. Critical Literature Review: The review focuses on intersections of gender and culture and reviews a number of relevant theories, including individualism and collectivism, help seeking behaviours and love styles across cultures. Different perspectives on interpreting findings are presented together with implications for the Counselling Psychology research and practice.
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Kazan, Patricia Anne. "The problematic of otherness in Lebanese fictional writing - 1975-2000." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.412473.
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The aim of this thesis is to explore the notion and experience of Otherness as embodied in Lebanese fictional texts by such authors as 'Ily5s Khaff, Hudd Barakdt,Rashida l- Da'If and Handna l-Shaykhd, uring and after the civil war in the Lebanon( 1975-1990). the study is divided into seven sections, beginning with a theoretical background It moves from the personal to the intrapersonal view of the Other in Lebanese writing, examining the varying reactions within the texts themselves towards the Otherness of their environment. Otherness stems from the tension and conflict between Self(ves)a nd Other(s).I n the Lebanon, the pre-warp olitical and geographical dialogueo f unity largely glossed over differences of gender, religion and class status - differences that were brutally accentuatebdy the outbreako f civil war. As a result,t he conceptiono f the Lebanona s the unified totality of a single society, despite its variety, broke down. The war brought contradictionin the form of opposingv iews of the Other,f rom which thep roblematico f Othernesds erives.T he prevailingd ilemmao f Othernessis not that it escapeds efinition, but that it continually redefines itself according to its context. This process of redefinition involves such multiplicity that it is, therefore, best dealt with in separate sections. Otherness is discussed here in terms of difference, articulated in theories of subjectivity by thinkers such as Levinas,L ukAcs Lacan and Goldmann: it appears to be based on the relationship of the Self to the Other, but is also perceived within the Self. The Other is therefore different, but - by its very definition - is related to the original (as,for instance,subject and object, East and West, male and female). This study focuses on the problematic of Otherness concerning the personal, sexual,cultural and social Self. Otherness is emphasised by the shattering and loss of the socialS elf during civil conflict. The displacement and change of lifestyle experiencebdy the individual seem to be inextricably linked to a new awarenesasn da nalysis of identity that is evidenti n thec ontemporar writing. The texts reveala background of fragmented reality - whether located in social, political or geographicatlr ansformation When the reality one knows and loves is dramatically destroyed - as witnessed, directly or indirectly, by the authorsd iscussedh ere- the Self is threateneda ndt urns inward ast he Othere ncroacheusp on its territory. Initially, the relationshipo f Self and Otherc learly seems ual, but on closer scrutiny it splinters into further perceptions of Otherness This is reflected in the fragmented style of writing, which is often multi-layered, scattered with synchronic flashbacks symbolic references surreail mages and imagined interludes.
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JATOBA, VINICIUS. "THE CRÔNICAS OF ANTÓNIO LOBO ANTUNES: LITERATURE, MEMORY AND OTHERNESS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2013. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=22161@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
Esta tese tem como objetivo reivindicar a qualidade da obra cronística do escritor português António Lobo Antunes, que se encontra marginalizada em relação aos seus romances. Após uma abordagem teórica e crítica ao gênero crônica, a tese foca no grupo de crônicas em que António Lobo Antunes encena uma escrita de natureza autobiográfica. A partir de levantamento teórico e trechos das crônicas, a tese analisa o papel da leitura e da escrita, os mecanismos de encenação da memória, a relação entre biografia e literatura, e temas caros ao universo do escritor português como sua infância em Benfica, a Guerra Colonial, particularmente em Angola; e também velhice e esquecimento, os processos mnemônicos por meio de heranças e fotografias, e o poder da literatura diante da morte e da banalidade.
This thesis aims to spotlight the quality of the crônicas ouvre of Portuguese writer António Lobo Antunes, which is overshadowed by his novels output, with the proposal of organizing it in three themes. After a close reading of the critic fortune on crônicas genre, the thesis focuses in the crônicas that António Lobo Antunes exercises an autobiographical writing. Following some theories and fragments from crônicas, the thesis analyses the mission of literature and writing, the mechanisms of memorialistic writing, the relation between biography and literature, and some regular themes of Lobo Antunes’ oeuvre as his childhood in Benfica, the Colonial War, specifically in Angola; and also oldness and oblivion, the mnemonics processes tha works from heritages and pictures, the power of literature facing death and banality.
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Jarrar, Sabri M. (Sabri Mohammad). "A memory syndrome : selfhood and otherness at the Wailing Wall." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67387.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1990.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-91).
Few groups in the world have as long-standing a claim to "peoplehood" as do Jews. Despite the longevity of that claim, however, the problem of instability inherent in objectifying a collective identity has not yet been resolved. The existence and salience of a collective self is assumed at the same time that statements and actions within the group suggest that individuals are not sure of either the group's boundaries or its cultural content. The relationship between "Israeli society" and "the Jewish people" in Israel is loaded with tension, though there is little question in Israel or elsewhere that it is the "fact" of the latter that is responsible for the "fact" of the former. What about the conceptualization of the collective self in terms of a conceptualization of the collective "other"? The Israeli-Arab conflict is not a typical struggle between oppressor and oppressed, but is rather a struggle between stereotypes. When someone tells us who we are and has the power to impose their version of who we are on us -- according us certain rights and duties and denying us others by virtue of their representation of us -- we readily see it as an act of manipulation of the "facts" and the exercise of political power whose relation to reality we may question, even challenge. This analytical work is an attempt at examining some of the controversies generated by the dynamics and politics of manipulation as they structure in Israeli media in general. Architecture will be examined as a special representational medium that deals with signals of high symbolic values. In this endeavor, a recent Israeli project will be employed as an indicator of how architecture can become a viable channel of communication, where opposing groups can talk to each other, using this representational arena as a testing ground for new tendencies.
by Sabri M. Jarrar.
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Sievers, Wiebke. "Otherness in translation : contemporary German prose in Britain and France." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/71208/.
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Drawing on contemporary approaches to otherness, this thesis aims to show that, despite the growing interest in so-called foreignizing translation strategies, the current theory and practice of translation in Western Europe is to a large extent still caught in nationalist self-confirmation. In the first part of my study I expose the nationalist agenda underlying the influential theories of translation developed by Antoine Berman and Lawrence Venuti by contrasting them with the ideas formulated by Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida. Basing their arguments on Friedrich Schleiermacher's essay on translation, both Berman and Venuti intend to undermine the nationalist stance of current translation practice by replacing it with the belief that translation primarily serves to further the understanding of the foreign other. However, this seemingly noble purpose ultimately veils the fact that the foreign other is a construct which is devised by and thus confirms the national community receiving the translation. Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, by contrast, whose ideas were anticipated by Friedrich Schlegel, believe that the aim of translation is to reveal the otherness of the translating self. Based on these theoretical premises, I examine the significance of otherness in the current practice of translation. This case study focuses on the multidimensional reduction of otherness, as it becomes apparent in the translation of contemporary German prose in Britain, in particular, and to some extent also in France in the two decades preceding and following German unification (1980-1999). In a general overview which compares the selection of texts chosen for translation, the strategies used for their publication as well as the reception of these texts in the press, I conclude that three factors are of particular importance for the rejection of and the ensuing delimitation from German otherness in British and French translations during this period: ideological, generic and linguistic otherness. These particular areas are then further explored in the detailed studies on Monika Maron, Edgar Hilsenrath and Anne Duden. My case study proves that the translators and/or publishers of these authors tend to reject or appropriate those elements of their texts which would highlight the otherness underlying the British and French selves. However, these strategies of dealing with otherness are not limited to interlingual translation. They are anticipated in the reception of the respective texts within Germany.
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Angelov, Dimitar. "Language, selfhood and otherness in the works of D.H. Lawrence." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2008. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/875/.
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The aim of this dissertation is to trace the development of Lawrence’s thought about the interdependence between language, selfhood and otherness in the period between the composition of Women in Love and the closing years of his literary career. Around the time of Women in Love’s inception, Lawrence saw the relationship between self and language in terms of the gap separating the speaker’s experience from his utterance. This gap, Lawrence believed, could be bridged through a type of verbal expression that was qualitatively different from the static language of representation on which Western rationalism was predicated. In “Foreword to Women in Love” this authentic mode of expression is referred to as “the new idea” arising out of the individual’s “struggle for verbal consciousness” (276). However, the complexity of linguistic signification, revealed on the dramatic plane of the novel itself, proves the one-to-one correspondence between expression and experience impossible to achieve. Lawrence’s exploration of the interdependence between selfhood and language continued with his essays on psychology, which followed chronologically Women in Love. In both Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious, Lawrence describes the ego as a rational construct analogous to the static language of representation. This structural homology allows the full verbal representability of the ego whilst rendering un-signifyable all those facets of subjectivity which transcend reason. The argument of Lawrence’s psychology essays can therefore be said to introduce an important twist in his earlier views on the interrelation between self and language. If the “Foreword to Women in Love” envisaged at least the possibility for an absolute coincidence between experience and verbal expression, the psychology essays reveal this at-oneness as virtually unattainable. With the hindsight of the late twentieth century developments in psychoanalytic thought, the argument put forth in Psychoanalysis and Fantasia can be said to foreshadow certain aspects of Jacques Lacan’s and Julia Kristeva’s views on subjectivity. The completion of the psychology essays left Lawrence undeterred in his quest for a new mode of signification able to reveal the entirety of the human self. Since all his attempts to elicit a solution from within Western ontology proved futile, he turned his attention to a variety of non-European civilisations, which the science of the time believed to share a mode of being different from the one engendered by rationalism. This essentially primitivist image of the non-European other had a profound impact on Lawrence who was fascinated to discover that societies so radically different from his own were predicated on the same state of at-oneness between experience and language which he himself hoped to achieve in the present. It was with these thoughts that Lawrence departed to the United States to familiarise himself with the traditional, non-European culture of the Native Americans and find inspiration therein. In other words, Lawrence’s impulse to travel to the New World was rooted in preconceived ideas which tend to transform the other into a projection issuing from the self. These ideas influenced in varying degrees Lawrence’s account of the indigenous people throughout his stay in North America, yet, in time, he began to develop a more authentic sense of their otherness which was reflected in his narrative technique. The Native American essays included in the collection Mornings in Mexico demonstrate how Lawrence began to, literally, write himself out of his own projections by creating what can be referred to as a self-conscious discourse on alterity. The specificity of this discourse lies in its capacity to foreground its very own cultural bias and thus bracket off, as it were, the truth that it ostensibly affirms. In this sense it prefigures the methodological adjustments that Jacques Derrida prescribed to late twentieth-century science of ethnology. The signifying logic of Lawrence’s discourse on alterity is applied further in some of his later works which examine cultural otherness in terms of a particular mode of expression epitomised by the symbol. The symbol, conceived of as a particular type of language, functions in accordance with the same logic of transcendence that we found in the discourse of the Native American essays in Mornings in Mexico, in the sense that it simultaneously affirms and subverts a particular meaning. However, if the essays’ narrative leaves an unbridgeable gap between the European observer and the indigenous people, the symbol creates a signifying space where self and other can genuinely interact. Thus the collection of Places elaborates a social model allowing culturally diverse communities to co-exist without infringing upon each other’s difference. Using Julia Kristeva’s theory of inter-subjective relations across a cultural divide, put forth in her work Strangers to Ourselves, I will try to demonstrate that the social model Lawrence develops in Sketches of Etruscan Places is based on a fundamental re-conceptualisation of the correspondence between selfhood and language, conceived as symbolic discourse. Since the symbol contains its own undoing in the dynamic flux of experience, its meaning is characterised with a semantic surplus, an otherness, that can never be fully explicated. Symbolic discourse can therefore signify the ever changing and ultimately unknowable dimension of the self, which Lawrence calls variously dynamic consciousness or the unconscious, and which the static language of representation is unable to express. In other words, the symbol can accommodate both the self-sameness of the ego and the otherness of the non-cerebral self. By positing in language the decentred human subject, never at one with itself, the symbol renders hollow the idea of a homogenous society based on individual selfsameness. Since the subject is always at variance with itself, social cohesion begins to appear possible only if predicated on difference, a difference that all the members of society share. This sameness in difference creates an open and inclusive social framework able to integrate people irrespective of their cultural background. In this sense, the essays included in Sketches of Etruscan Places create a new balance between the notions of language, selfhood and otherness that is both similar and different from the one we described in Part I of this thesis. The correspondence between self and language, i.e. the speaker and his utterance has been regenerated at the cost of a radical redefinition of the notion of language. This redefinition, in turn, has been made possible by Lawrence’s recourse to cultural otherness and has led to the development of a model of self-other interrelation whereby self and other can coexist in difference.
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Screech, Ben. "Reading otherness in British fiction for young people, 2001-2012." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2018. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/33604/.
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This thesis argues that novels depicting characters who exist outside of the social order have become integral to a twenty-first century corpus of British fiction for children and adolescents. This, in part, is as a result of a changing socio-political landscape in Britain post-2000 in which discussions of who does and does not ‘belong’ are becoming increasingly amplified. It will be shown that, against such a backdrop, fiction for young people written between 2001 and 2012 works to counter and challenge mainstream discourses prevalent in, for example; the media. With this in mind, this study’s primary texts are categorised as social-realism, often providing a commentary on the nature of this historical moment. Different strands of Otherness in relation to young people are examined in each chapter of this thesis. Chapter one explores Otherness with reference to language, its function in wider society, and its ability to act as a signifier of normativity. It introduces a trio of novels focusing on young people with communication impairments. Chapter two examines how authors depict communities as complicit in Othering practices affecting young people. Chapter three introduces texts in which the protagonists’ Otherness stems from their exclusion from important sites of identity formation, such as family, school and nation. Chapter four examines representations of the ‘foreign Other’; and considers the impact of ‘outsider perspectives’ on narrative. The fifth chapter revisits one text from each of the preceding chapters, and documents their exploration in a school setting. This is included because I believe consultation with the texts’ intended audience is necessary in a study focusing on literature for young people. This is due to their status as a demographic that I, as adult researcher, exist outside of. This study’s originality then, stems not only from the contemporary nature of its primary texts, but also from its amalgamation of literary analysis with qualitative research - a rare approach in English studies.
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Schwartz, Melissa Rachel. "The Language of Ethical Encounter: Levinas, Otherness, and Contemporary Poetry." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78359.
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According to philosopher, Emmanuel Levinas, alterity can exist only in its infinite and fluid nature in which the aspects of it that exceed the human ability to fully understand it remain unthematized in language. Levinas sees the encounter between self and other as the moment that instigates ethical responsibility, a moment so vital to avoiding mastering what is external to oneself that it should replace Western philosophy’s traditional emphasis on being as philosophy’s basis, or “First Philosophy.” Levinas’s conceptualization of language as a fluid, non-mastering saying, which one must continually re-enliven against a congealing and mastering said, is at the heart of his ethical project of relating to the other of alterity with ethical responsibility, or proximity. The imaginative poetic language that some contemporary poetry enacts, resonates with Levinas’s ethical motivations and methods for responding to alterity. The following project investigates facets of this question in relation to Levinas: how do the contemporary poets Peter Blue Cloud, Jorie Graham, Joy Harjo, and Robert Hass use poetic language uniquely to engage with alterity in an ethical way, thus allowing it to retain its mystery and infinite nature? I argue that by keeping language alive in a way similar to a Levinasian saying, which avoids mastering otherness by attending to its uniqueness and imaginatively engaging with it, they enact an ethical response to alterity. As a way of unpacking these ideas, this inquiry will investigate the compelling, if unsettled, convergence in the work of Levinas and that of Blue Cloud, Graham, Harjo, and Hass by unfolding a number of Levinasian-informed close readings of major poems by these writers as foregrounding various forms of Levinasian saying.Ph. D.
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Turek, Sheila Marie. "In the Margins representations of otherness in subtitled French films /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8199.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of French and Italian. 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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Wylie, Alex. "Self-reflexivity and otherness in T.S. Eliot and Geoffrey Hill." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.501583.
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Hansen, Paul S. "Hokkaido dairy farm : change, otherness and the search for security." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2010. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29279/.
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Hokkaido has been essential to Japan's modern nation-state building project. The region's importance was initially promoted through a polysemic quest for macro security; to secure, or fix, the northern island into the structure of modem Japan and in-so-doing to provide safety or security. Security was sought politically, militarily, and through linking economics and recourses, notably the extraction of coal and lumber and the production of food. Dairy farming became a key industry, central in defining the contemporary popular image of Hokkaido. Ironically, despite the importance of securing and security, the industry, and perhaps Hokkaido itself, remains 'Other' within the context of Japan; home to livelihoods and locations that cannot be reconciled with essentialist Japanese discourses, for example idealized images of regional cultural homogeneity, harmony, village or rural life. Today (2005-2010), Hokkaido's dairy industry is rapidly changing. Influenced by macro insecurities and uncertainties, dairy production based on pastoral mixed family farms is shifting to joint shared industrial mega and mono culture farms that require high overhead and technology, as well as workers from outside of the community. These shifts alter community, family, values, alongside relationships, both human and animal. Thus, the region has become a site of intense individual meso and micro security searching for locals, outsiders, and what I term "lo-siders" and "no-siders". All but locals can be seen as 'tourist' workers who come from across rural and urban Japan, and increasingly, from abroad. This thesis documents and examines these shifts historically. It provides a contemporary ethnographic example of one farm at the heart of change, otherness, and the search for security, where the author was employed as a dairy worker. It suggests that the triad of change, otherness, and security can be utilized as a comparative analytic frame for other 'frontier' areas - spatial and biological.
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DeWilde, Christine. "STRUCTURAL STRESS AND OTHERNESS: HOW DO THEY INFLUENCE PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS?" VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5384.
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Background: The Theory of Cultural Distress offers a framework for understanding the potential outcomes in patients who do not receive care that incorporates their cultural beliefs (DeWilde & Burton, 2017).This study represents initial steps in researching the theory byexploring the layering of stressors that place the patient at risk for Cultural Distress. Methods: Utilized aCross-sectional descriptive correlational analysis of intersecting identities (Structural Stressors), ethnicity-related stressors (Otherness) and ethnic-identity (Otherness) to develop understanding of the potential effects of these variables on psychological stress. Independent variables included intersecting identities, perceived ethnic discrimination, concern for stereotype confirmation, own group conformity pressure, and group membership. The dependent variable was perceived stress. Participants were also asked to define the word culture. Results: Stereotype confirmation concern, perceived ethnic discrimination, group membership, and own group conformity pressure were significantly associated with perceived stress. Intersectionality was not significantly associated with perceived stress but was significantly associated with perceived ethnic discrimination. Regression analysis revealed stereotype confirmation concern, own group conformity pressure, and group membership as significant predictors of perceived stress. Participant definitions of culture primarily fell under two themes, Collectiveness and Individualness, indicating that the way we live is highly influenced by our shared experiences, and also a product of individual choices. Discussion: Results indicated that structural stressors had no influence on psychological stress but were associated with perceptions of discrimination. The experience of otherness significantly influenced psychological stress. Additional research and tool development is needed to better understand how structural stressors may influence psychological stress.
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Lorca, Macchiavelli Cassandra. "Vita Havet : Whiteness and Otherness - Plaza De Mayo and Konstfack." Thesis, Konstfack, Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-7129.
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This text is written as a masterexam within an important Art institution in Stockholm as Konstfack, where the researcher has been studying interior and furniture design for the last five years. Therefore, it is the result of the knowledge accumulated during that period of time, in combination with the socio-cultural baggage that characterizes her identity and positioning towards the world. There are many ways of defining architecture and design. Also, within the concept of architecture, there are plenty of branches. This study is, as said before, a sum of the interpretation of how to use the education in order to socially contribute to a sustainable and more egalitarian world. As the writers' background profoundly influences her point of view, it seems essential to exhibit it for the reader. Her parents came to Sweden as political refugees from Chile and Argentina during the military dictatorships that had taken over the democratic governments in those countries during the '70s. They, as well as the researcher, are by definition, either Swedish or "white". Even as born in Sweden and having Swedish citizenship, the law does not define the writer as Swedish. This fact has featured the formation of her identity as "not white," and in that way excluded from the dominating "ethnicity". Initially, the aim of the study contextualises by the description of the experiences and knowledge that have guided the author through her education at Konstfack. As a result, there arise perspectives that criticize excluding power structures and how they reproduce through architecture and spatial design. Experiences, reflections, and knowledge that emerged through the described education at Konstfack led further into the exploration of the concepts inclusive-excluding design, activism, social and political architecture, postcolonial perspectives, and decolonizing processes. The study's theoretical part presents various practitioners that have inspired and empowered this project. Further, a more in-depth analysis of the institution responsible for the writer's education for the last five years results in unfolding problems and issues to give the reader an understanding of the chosen strategies to follow, starting with "manipulating manipulation". The fifth chapter consists of the study's method part, where the researcher describes the methods and strategies used. The results are presented based on spatial interventions, used as a tool to activate dialogues about shared spaces, here called common spaces. The reactions caused by the interventions are also a ground for analysis. Keywords: white supremacy, subversive interventions, disruptive aesthetics, activism, civil disobedience, architecture
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Schwieler, Elias. "Mutual implications: otherness in theory and John Berryman's poetry of loss." Doctoral thesis, Umeå University, Modern Languages, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-64.
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This thesis examines John Berryman’s poetry of loss together with four different theoretical perspectives. It is the purpose of the study to involve Berryman’s poetry and critical theory in a dialogue which attempts to break down the hierarchy that positions theory as the subject and literature or poetry as the object of study. Instead, by focusing on the otherness of each discourse, that is, what could be called the unconscious of Berryman’s poetry of loss and the language of theory, poetry and theory can be seen to presuppose and mutually imply each other. Those of Berryman’s poems mainly analyzed in the thesis, and which could be called his poetry of loss are “The Ball Poem,” Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, and The Dream Songs. The four theoretical perspectives consist of Martin Heidegger’s thinking concerning the word and concept departure, David S. Reynolds’s notion of the subversive in the American Renaissance, Nicolas Abraham’s psychoanalytical concept anasemia, and Maurice Blanchot’s theory of death and poetry in his book The Space of Literature. The theoretical base of the thesis is developed primarily from Shoshana Felman’s “To open the question,” an editorial introduction to a special issue of Yale French Studies entitled Literature and Psychoanalysis. The Question of Reading: Otherwise and Timothy Clark’s study Derrida, Heidegger, Blanchot.