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Farrell, Michael David Jr. "Under construction: viewing manipulated space." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1242.

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North America, the United States in particular, has established an unique and distinct connection to the the wildspaces outside of urban environments. The two spaces, urban and wilderness, are placed in opposition to one another in a sliding valuation scale that is based on the degradation experienced in these urban areas, due to industrialized capitalist means of production, by the inhabitants. These effects are the source of both literary and visual art protests that originate in the 19th century in both generations of the Hudson River School painters, American pastoral writing, philosophy,

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Helyer, Ruth. "Hyper-masculinity : the construction of gender in the postmodern novel." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1835.

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This thesis takes as its subject the superficial nature of the normative masculine gender role. To investigate the creation of this role I have attempted to bring some understanding of recent theorisation of the postmodern, and of gendered identity, to readings of selected contemporary fiction. I have chosen to focus on several contemporary American texts. In a bid to avoid essentialising masculinity ever further I attempt to embrace the self-reflexive way in which these novels are written in conjunction with the various postmodernisms posited by Fredric Jameson, Jean-Francois Lyotard, John Fr

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Gadban, Hanna. "Identity construction of refugee children : An ethnographic study from an intersectional perspective." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-87365.

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Around the world many people are affected by war, persecution, rebellion, famine, etc. and are therefore forced to move and start a new life elsewhere under new conditions. The struggle for survival is one of the factors that force children to escape. Being forced into emigration and immigration is evident in people's lives and affect how their identities are constructed. My study is focused on how refugee young people are constructing their identities in the complex context in which they live. The intersectional perspective – maintaining that power relations are created and recreated in inter

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鄺美娟 and Mei-kuen Elas Kwong. "Postmodern streetscapes: a case study of HongKong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31980181.

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Lauer, Claire. "Thirdspaces, Tactics and Bricolage: A Postmodern Identity Construction in the Composition Classroom." Diss., Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona, 2006. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu%5Fetd%5F1667%5F1%5Fm.pdf&type=application/pdf.

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Hansson, Heidi. "Romance revived : postmodern romances and the tradition." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Umeå university, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40245742q.

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Du, Toit Gerhard. "The significance of postmodern theories of interpretation for contractual interpretation : a critical analysis." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1245.

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Thesis (LLD (Mercantile Law))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006.<br>The objective of this study is to examine the significance of postmodern insights regarding interpretation (especially the rejection of intentionalism) and subjectivity for contractual interpretation theory. In Part One (consisting of chapters 2-5), the leading postmodern insights on interpretation, individual autonomy, texts and intentionalism are discussed. This is done by analysing the present interpretive practice in four chapters: 1) Different theories of interpretation ranging from objectivism and natural law theories t

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HOKKANEN, SILJA. "Fashion brands and consumption in postmodern consumer culture. The construction of self and social identities." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Textilhögskolan, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-18045.

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Today’s postmodern consumer culture is embedded with consumption and products are now used for their symbolic properties. Possessions have become so important for us that they have become a part of our extended selves and forms of differentiation between individuals and groups of people. The purpose of this research was to gain a better understanding of the role of fashion brands in the identity construction of adults. The objectives of the research focused on how an individual’s identity of self is constructed with the help of fashion brands, especially in social environments, and how an indi

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Johnson, Jeffrey R. "Transmittance device : a study and construction of an architectural installation." Virtual Press, 1992. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/845989.

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The Transmittance Device was an architectural installation, constructed as an imposition upon a public evergreen hedge row. The premise behind this exploration was to exploit architecture as a sequence of dynamic human experiences, creating an event or incident. The intention was to initiate a human transfer or violation from one side of a presumed boundary or barrier, to the opposite side. The boundary or barrier metaphorically represented the inherent characteristics human's possess, concerning abidement and conformity, within their normalities of regulated habit.The evolution process includ

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Crowley, Michelle. "Does This Broomstick Make Me Look Wicked? An Analysis of the Modern and Postmodern Villain." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337265127.

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Bava, Saliha. "Transforming Performances: An Intern-Reseacher's Hypertextual Journey in a Postmodern Community." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/25951.

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I present the dissertation web as a montage of a postmodern inquiry of my doctoral internship and research experiences—concerns and jubilation—positioned within the discourses of <a href="site_map2.htm#2">postmodern</a>, dissertation, academia, experimentalism and cyberspace innovations among others. I create a <a href="site_map2.htm#3">social constructionistic</a> interactive interplay, using <a href="site_map2.htm#5">hypertext</a>, among my various voices of an intern, a researcher and a person. In the dissertation web—my inquiry—I practice the characterization of postmodernism on numerous

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Garfield, Diana. "Neo-Platonic dualism to postmodern fragmentation? : a narrative inquiry into construction and expression of self-identity in lay Christians in a contemporary secular workplace." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2011. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/306164/.

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This research is concerned with the construction and expression of selfidentity in a sample of lay Christians working in a contemporary workplace. It seeks to understand how these believers construct and sustain, in and through autobiographical narrative, a faith-full self-identity at work. It is inspired by my own experience as a Christian believer in a secular workplace. The results of the study contribute to the discipline of practical theology in the specific area of understanding autobiographical construction of Christian self-identity. Although the study takes an overt Christian theologi

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Le, Roux Janell. "A cut and paste identity : an investigation of reality TV's role in postmodern identity construction with special reference to ordinary people as celebrities." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1462.

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This study aimed to examine the construction of the identity of the participants within the reality TV programmes (Style Her Famous, My Celebrity Home and How Do I Look) as well as examined the representation of that identity as reflected in the change in participants from the beginning to the end of the program. Drawing on literature from fields such as postmodernism and its influence on culture, identity constructions and ordinary people as celebrities, an analysis of the three American reality TV shows Style Her Famous, My Celebrity Home and How Do I Look was conducted. An indepth content a

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Du, Preez Elizabeth. "The social construction of counsellor identity in a South African context." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08182005-154110.

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Iskra, Jeffry B. "Re-constructing biblical worship for postmodern times." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Wilson, Melissa Beth. "Constructions of Childhood Found in Award-winning Children's Literature." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195174.

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This study explores the connections between childhood and children's literature. In this connection there is an inherent tension between writing and reading "real" childhood, as it is being lived by children now, and interacting with an adult-normative, adult-reconstructed childhood that may or may not have existed in the past. The purpose of this study was to address this tension by analyzing fifteen recently published award-winning children's novels, from the United States, The United Kingdom, and Australia, in order to ferret out how present-day childhood is constructed within this text set

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Shardlow, Teri. "Problematising Conceptualisations of Gender in Feminist Studies : The Place of Age and Children in the Concept of Gender." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Genus, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-154807.

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Using a feminist poststructuralist approach as a guide, I begin this thesis with the workinghypothesis that gender may be an adult-centred concept in feminist studies. This leads me toask: If the concept of gender in feminist studies is adult-centred, how is this centring formedand maintained? To answer this question, I begin by splitting my analysis into three analyticalsections: age, children, and gender. Although I include age, children, and gender into eachsectional analysis, my main priority in the first two sections is to look at how feminist scholarsdiscuss and use the terms age and chi

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Binneman, Antonie Johannes. "Identiteit en homoseksualiteit : die soeke na aanvaarding binne 'n Christelike geloofsgemeenskap (Afrikaans)." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24825.

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AFRIKAANS: Die navorsing is gedoen vanuit 'n postfundamentalistiese narratiewe prakties- teologiese benadering. Die fokus van die studie was tweeledig. Die eerste was om na die stories van 'n groep meisies, wat hulself as homoseksueel gesien het en daarom gemarginaliseer is, te luister. Die tweede deel was dat deur die proses daar intervensie sou wees wat aan die meisies die kennis en die mag sou gee om hulle verhale op so 'n manier oor te vertel dat hulle die hoofrolle van hulle eie lewensdramas sal word en nie net karakters of ekstras op die verhoog van die lewe sou wees nie. Verhale van noo

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Grant, Penelope Anne. "Constructing discourses : a postmodern interpretation of a rural public library system /." Townsville, Qld. : James Cook University, 2003. http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/1206/1/01front.pdf.

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Aim. Most of the literature related to the study of library and information science tends to spring from a modern, positivist paradigm. Only a small number of theorists, working in what some describe as “the periphery” of library and information science (Trosow 2001), explore the ways that postmodern thought can be applied to the study of libraries. This thesis looks at issues related to a particular public library through both modern and postmodern perspectives. The insights evoked raise questions about many of the basic tenets of public librarianship. Scope. The subject of this study is th

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Drevdahl, Denise J. "Constructing the meaning of community in a community-based clinic : a postmodern feminist analysis /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7369.

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Turkeli, Sureyya. "What is anarchism? : a reflection on the canon and the constructive potential of its destruction." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2012. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/10266.

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Contemporary debates in anarchism, particularly the conceptual debates sparked by the development of post-anarchism and those surrounding the emergence of the anti-globalization movement, have brought an old question back to the table: what is anarchism? This study analyzes the canonical representations of anarchism as a political movement and political philosophy in order to reflect on the ways in which that critical question, 'what is anarchism?' has been answered in mainstream literature. It examines the way that the story of anarchism has been told and through a critical review, it discuss

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Vidal, Portés Eduard. "Un modelo de construcción de la identidad postmoderna desde la perspectiva del consumo simbólico. El creativo publicitario junior como caso de estudio." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/384235.

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En la sociedad postmoderna, la búsqueda de la identidad se ha convertido en uno de los puntos clave (Elliott, 1998) y el consumo es un instrumento vital para construirla, al estar más vinculado al intercambio de significados que a la satisfacción de necesidades fisiológicas. El consumo es un mecanismo simbólico que aporta significados coherentes y útiles para reflejar una identidad, permite a uno diferenciarse de los demás, actúa como marcador de género y status social, genera sentimiento de pertenencia a una comunidad y comunica cómo es uno a los demás (Belk, 1988; Cova & Cova, 2002; Douglas

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Vaught, Brian Geoffrey. "Into the viscera : a multi-media, autoethnographic journey into Cronenberg's construction of a postmodern flesh." 2002. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/vaught%5Fbrian%5Fg%5F200205%5Fma.

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Chu, I.-Hsien, and 朱衣仙. "Identity Construction in Postmodern “Chinese Garden” Texts: Chen Yinke and Liu Rushi and Califia as Examples." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/72006777457209164560.

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博士<br>輔仁大學<br>比較文學研究所<br>97<br>This dissertation studies how postmodern texts respond to the issue of identity crisis and give suggestions for constructing networked identity in the postmodern society. The features of spatilization in postmodern and globalizing cultures－plurality, decentralization, heterogeneity, and fragmentation, as well as their “space of flows,” have induced identity crisis of different kinds in postmodern society. Therefore, the possible methods by which to construct identity within postmodern context becomes a subject worthy of investigation. This thesis explores th

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Munday, Jessica Leigh. "A discourse analysis of the construction of menopause in South African newspapers." Diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30163.

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The researcher aimed to explore the construction of menopause through and by available discourses within South Africa. A postmodern paradigm and social constructionist framework informed the choice of discourse analysis as methodology. South African newspapers containing texts related to menopause were utilised. English articles that are available on a publically accessible library database were selected. The basic guideline for selection of 37 texts was the keyword menopause. The researcher identified and explored eight dominant discourses and two supplementary discourses. The researcher conc

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Timm, Victoria Margaret. "Behaviour problems in primary schools in Mamelodi : an ecological construction." Diss., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29620.

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The focus of this dissertation is to explore contextually relevant ideas through conversation around behaviour problems, specifically bullying, experienced in primary schools situated in the township of Mamelodi. The study explores the relationship around bullying between the members of the school staff involved with the children, the children identified as manifesting bullying behaviour, their families and any relevant community system or individuals as identified by the research participants themselves through conversation. It focuses on providing a description of experiences around bullying

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Tseng, Ching-fang, and 曾靜芳. "Resistance, Re/Signation, and Re/Construction: The Postmodern Practice of female Self-Representation in Margaret Atwood's Cat' s Eye." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01409651833656468141.

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碩士<br>國立臺灣師範大學<br>英語學系<br>84<br>In Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye, we observe the contradictory presentation ofboth a historic narration of a woman's miserable past and a postmodern attemptto deconstruct mimesis and generic boundaries. In terms of feminism, thenovel also provides us with a successful example as at once a politically sig-nificant performance of female representation and an anti- essentialist enter-prise to deconstruct gender. This thesis, based upon the theoretical fr

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Crous, Sandra. "Possibility and limits of life design counselling with an abandoned adolescent." Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30469.

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The number of children being abandoned in South Africa is rising steeply. With already existing challenges in the current South African labour market, one must consider the expectations of abandoned adolescents in terms of future careers. It is unreasonable to expect an abandoned adolescent to be guided towards making career decisions using modern career counselling methods, as these were developed for use with individuals from traditional, nuclear families. Most abandoned adolescents are taken in by extended family; grow up in children’s homes or on the streets. One can expect these circumsta

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Zimmerman, Lisa. "Parents' constructions of the role of the helping professional in learning support." Diss., 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25828.

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Within the helping professions there are contrasting epistemological views regarding the role of the helping professional, which have direct influences on learning support practices. Despite these views, it remains unclear what parents expect when seeking learning support for their children. This qualitative study explored parents’ constructions of the role of the helping professional in learning support. It specifically addressed parents’ expectations of the helping professional, what they value in their interactions with helping professionals as well as their understandings of their own role

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Hlaváčová, Kateřina. "Konspirační teorie jako kvasináboženství." Master's thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-404809.

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Conspiracy theories are an old-new phenomenon which has gained its importance and specific character over the last three centuries. Unofficially, they have become an alternative tradition of the interpretation of historical events connected with an alternative form of spirituality, known as conspirituality. This manner of the interpretation usually holds the power when the consensually accepted worldview loses its plausibility for the concrete person or group. Conspiracy theories are the verbalization of a certain way of thinking and action which depends on it. Most often, they are manifested

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Scott, Dana Yvette. "Physical landscape as a narrative of identity construction : the development of an animation design project entitled “My time, my place”." Diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29173.

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This study and the accompanying design project explore postmodern identity construction as a nomadic state of being in relation to the shared experience of space. The potential of the relationship between postmodern identity and physical space is explored both theoretically and through practical application. The main theory explored is ‘third space’, with specific reference to the concept of ‘thirdness’ as articulated by American psychoanalyst Jessica Benjamin (in Frosh&Baraitser 2009). This study examines how shared spaces can, through narrative reframed by ontology (Somers 1994), be seen as

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Leshota, Paul Lekholokoe. "A deconstruction of disability discourse amongst Christians in Lesotho." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4842.

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The present research study is a deconstructive collaborative project situated within a postmodern paradigm. The research is premised on a notion that disability has been constructed by societies to reflect their values and norms. Despite various ancient and contemporary worldviews stabilising this normative paradigm, disability has remained a shifting and fleeting concept. For the most part, it has cast the disabled identity in more negative and alienating ways than positive. The Christian cultural context of Lesotho within which the study is situated has not done any better in terms of portr

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Christodoulou, Esther. "Narrative reflections on charismatic discursive practices." Diss., 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/991.

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The purpose for this research journey was twofold: (1) to discover the power of certain discourses in the charismatic church context and (2) to challenge disrespectful discursive practices in order to co-operate respectful, ethical and caring ways of being. Seven leaders in charismatic churches committed themselves to this qualitative research project. The research process resulted in a confirmation by the participants that some charismatic discursive practices can be abusive and also to the acknowledgement that they too have at times fulfilled the role of abuser, even in unknowingly. This

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Swart, Chene. "Participatory pastoral care and the transformation of society." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2439.

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A number of previous studies have examined lay counsellor training within a modernist paradigm. By contrast, this study collaboratively presents ways of training pastoral caregivers using a participatory approach to practical theology and pastoral care in the postmodern time in which we live. The research journey starts from the premise that postmodernity calls for the mediation of a new approach to practising theology, pastoral care and giving authority to ordinary members of the church through training in pastoral work. This work therefore describes Participatory Pastoral Care (PPC) training

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林冠君. "The constructions of multiple civilizations:the creation in watercolor is according to the syntheses of the computer drawings and the postmodern thoughts." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50939870099659254567.

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碩士<br>國立臺灣師範大學<br>美術系在職進修碩士學位班<br>92<br>Abstract Sociologists of arts think that arts can reflect social phenomena.Postmoderns have jumped over the history thought of modern progressivism,and through their creations displaying social and cultural concerns which are “from privacy to social life”.In postmodern,the originality of art has been questioned by “appropriation”which traditional and existent images are used anew. “Pastiches” are artifactitious methods of artworks.The returns of concrete forms are hidden“allegories” of contemporaneous life.Because the thougths of pluralism

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Truter, Cornelius Johannes. "Narratief-pastorale terapie met hartpasiënte." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/917.

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Text in Afrikaans<br>Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a life-threatening disease. When heart patients in the treatment of their disease, due to certain subjugating discourses practised by the biomedical model or biomedicine, are treated in a way that contributes to their anxiety and they feel themselves marginalised by society, then CAD becomes even more threatening. The narrative-pastoral approach of this study aims to treat heart patients in a way that has a calming effect on them that could assist them to deal with their heart disease more efficiently. This study shows how a heart patient's

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Joubert, Maryna. ""Wanneer hoop groei in 'n waaghalsige verbeelding": 'n pastorale blik op kuns in 'n konteks van gestremdheid." Diss., 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1604.

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Afrikaans text, with Afrikaans and English summaries<br>Despite legislation to the effect intended to ensure the position of the disabled in society, disabled persons still find themselves largely marginalized in the South African context. During this research a group of about twenty participants, of whom about one-half are disabled, were involved in an inclusive process of art-making. The aim of the research was to challenge the dominant discourse which holds that making art is only for the select, talented few. This research was undertaken according to the scientific guidelines of pr

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Martin, James Henry Iain. "Carrying the torch of hope: survivors' narratives of trauma and spirituality." Diss., 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1311.

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This research journey examines the process of co-creating, along with my co-travellers (research participants), a more holistic approach to trauma debriefing. Whilst incorporating elements of Mitchell's (1983) Critical Incidence Stress Debriefing model (C.I.S.D.), our point of difference has been to adopt a narrative pastoral approach. This was achieved by introducing spirituality and narrative therapy practices. Our research pathway has been further shaped by adopting a qualitative research approach within a postmodern, social construction discourse. My research curiosity was invited by b

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Botha, Carolina Stephanusina. "Reconstructing rainbows in a remarried family : narratives of a diverse group of female adolescents 'doing family' after divorce." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/986.

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This research journey investigated the ways in which (1) the lives of adolescents have been influenced by parental divorce and subsequent remarriage, (2) exploring the relationships participants have with biological, nonresidential fathers and (3) to collaboratively present ways of doing family in alternative. Four adolescent girls took part in group conversations where they could were empowered to have their voices heard in a society where they are usually marginalized and silenced. As a result of these conversations a family game, FunFam, was developed that aimed to assist families in ex

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Swart, Chené. "Caring with women married to Dutch Reformed clergymen: narratives of pain, survival and hope." Diss., 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1214.

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The purpose of this research journey was twofold: (1) to investigate the ways in which the lives of women married to clergymen have been influenced by their position in the Dutch Reformed Church and (2) to collaboratively present ways of caring and supporting these women living within this reality. Discourse analysis explored the taken-for-granted truths and power relationships that inform these women's daily lives. Fifteen women embarked on this feminist narrative participatory action research journey, not only to tell their stories but also to negotiate for change in current practices as wel

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Eksteen, Susan. "When mobility difficulties do not dominate: a narrative-pastoral approach." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1725.

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This qualitative study was interested in what needed to be heard from people who have difficulty in putting one foot in front of the other. The research aimed to expose some of the dominant discourses around mobility difficulties through exploring the relationship discourse has with power and to look for less talked about ways of resisting some of the harmful effects of dominant discourses. It also explored how participants used their spiritual beliefs to establish meaning in their mobility difficulty experiences. The exploring was done by employing discourse analysis as analysing tool to s

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