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Lindström, Matilda. "Den mänskliga kameleonten : En studie av fotografisk självframställning i postmodern tid." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, KV, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-23482.
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I uppsatsen undersöks och analyseras fotografiska självframställningar, detta genom semiotisk bildanalys med syfte att visa på olika strategier, att i fotografiska självporträtt använda sig själv som motiv. Uppsatsen fokuserar därmed på tre bildserier skapade av tre till uttryck skilda konstnärer; Cindy Sherman med serien Untitled Film Stills, Hannah Wilke med bildserien Intra-Venus och Jan Saudek med bildserien Pornographer. Uppsatsens teoretiska grund bygger på identitet och identitetsproblematik, samt poststrukturalism och queerteori med vikt på att se en persons identitet som en sammanblandning av sociala och kulturella företeelser kring denne, samt genus som en konstruktion.
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¨Heinås, Helena. "Föräldratidningar somexpertsystem : En diskursanalys av normer runt identitet ochkonsumtion i föräldratidningar våren 2010." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-50330.
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I denna uppsats diskuteras föräldraskap och normer runt föräldraskap och hur dessa normer skapas.Uppsatsens syfte är, att med utgångspunkt i Anthony Giddens teori om expertsystem, analyseraföräldratidningar, med fokus på två olika teman gällande information och konsumtion och förklara hurdessa teman i tidningar skapar normer runt identiteten som förälder. Frågeställningarna handlar om hurföräldratidningar skapar identiteter kopplade till information och konsumtion samt hurföräldratidningar blir expertsystem för att forma identitet och normer. Det teoretiska avsnittet utgår frånAnthony Giddens expertsystem samt hur kultur och populärkultur definieras enligt Simon Lindgren ochDominic Strinati. Det teoretiska avsnittet avhandlar även hur postmodern populärkultur definieras ochhur identiteter formas i samhället relaterat till postmodern populärkultur. Den metod som har använts idenna uppsats är baserad på Norman Faircloughs kritiska diskursanalys samt Michel Foucaultsdiskursbegrepp. Resultaten visar att det finns diskurser kopplade till uppsatsens syfte genom atttidningarna blir en form av expertsystem då dessa tillhandahåller både handfasta råd ochrekommendationer till föräldrarna och dessa råd och rekommendationer bygger på information frånexperter. Det finns även finns diskurser kopplade till identitetsskapande och konsumtion och dessaåterkommer i samtliga tidningar. Resultaten kan emellertid diskuteras eftersom att diskursanalyshandlar om hur forskaren tolkat sitt material, men det finns dock ett flertal tydliga mönster somförekommer i tidningarna.
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Sander, Patrik. "Betydelsen av betydelse - Om identitet, mening och betydelse i det postmoderna samhället." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-30014.
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Syftet med detta arbete har varit att undersöka om berättelsen kan fungera som katalysator för elevernas reflektion över sig själva och deras situation i ett postmodernt samhälle. Väsentliga frågor i sammanhanget blev dels huruvida de själva kunde bli medvetna om och reflektera över sina egna och andras strategier i en sådan omfattande social omvandling. Ett sådant fenomen som kom i fokus var vårt behov av ytliga statussymboler.Det i grunden kvalitativa arbetet bygger på tre synvinklar och tillika källor. För det första, mig själv som oundvikligt subjektivt filter; för det andra eleverna och för det tredje, mediala källor som på olika sätt har kunnat användas i sammanhanget.Under arbetets lopp har jag kommit fram till att arbetets informativa, reflektiva och diskursiva processer i sig utgjorde ett lika intressant material som slutsatserna.The purpose of this work has been to examine the function of storytelling as an induct-ive way to develop self reflection and environmental awareness of the students. Key subjects have been if they could be attentive to the very reflective process itself and to the strategies we apply, when to cope with dynamic changes as those of the postmodern society. Also the possibility to find basic explanations, to specially one of these strategies – one that has been more and more frequently used – became a pursuit in this work. The phenomenon in mind is our seemingly growing demand for “superficial valuables”.This work is basically qualitative. Three perspectives – as well as sources of inform-ation – have been developed through the process of this work: firstly, the inevitably subjective experiences of my own; secondly, the students; and thirdly, different forms of applicable public media. Especially the contribution from the students can’t be overstated. Initially it was them who made me aware of the phenomenon, described above. Moreover they gave input, partly through the literature seminar and the related discussion, partly through a minor enquiry consisting of a few but fundamental questions connected to the matter of “wealth” and “ability”.Quite early during the progression of this work I came to an understanding that the informative, the introspective and the communicative processes of the work itself constituted a most interesting substance. Hence, I made a more careful attempt to describe this development and my thoughts connected to it, rather than giving too much focus on the aftermath. Retrospectively seen, it presents somewhat self-evident answers of the two initial questions above. Yes, storytelling might work as a complement to more radical experiences of the real life. It can be used as a key to existential reflection in an urban security-devoting postmodern society. Also obviously, there seem to be more profound explanations to our quest for superficial valuables – needs beyond the very appeal. They could be connected to the natural instinct of individual survival through real or “illusory” acceptance and irreplaceability within one or more collective social orders – in short, the importance of being important.
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Lock, Magdalena. "Holländares emigration till Sverige: "Vi kommer alltid att vara immigranter"." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Filosofiska fakulteten, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-103804.
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Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka kontinuitet och förändring i holländares identitet(er) när de flyttar till Sverige. Teorier kring identitet och förändring/förhandling appliceras på empiri som framkommer ur intervjuer med fyra holländska informanter som har emigrerat till Sverige. Resultatet visar att identitet är något som informanterna anser vara relativt konstant under livets gång vad gäller personlighet, karaktärsdrag och nationalitet. Dock är de överens om att identitetsförändringar sker beroende på ålder och nya livsroller som exempelvis när man blir företagare eller förälder. Holländare och svenskar tycks vara så lika vad gäller utseende att myndigheter tror att även sociala, ekonomiska och politiska system liknar de svenska systemen. Hos de holländska informanterna finns dock ett behov att särskilja sig från svenskarna samtidigt som de vill integrera med svenskarna. Integrationsprocessen innebär även att i vissa sammanhang identifierar de sig som holländare och i andra sammanhang identifierar de sig mer som svenskar.The purpose of the thesis is to investigate continuity and change in Dutch peoples´ identities as they immigrate to Sweden. Identity and change/negotiation theories will be applied to empirical material gained from interviews with four Dutch participants who have immigrated to Sweden. The result shows that identity is something that the immigrants view as relatively constant through their lives what concerns personality, character and nationality. They agree that changes in identity occur when factors such as age and new roles in life as for an example when one becomes a company owner or a parent. Dutch and Swedish people seem to be the same when it comes to appearance that one thinks that even social, economic and political systems are the same as the Swedish systems. Because of this the Dutch participants seem to separate themselves from the Swedes and at the same time they want to integrate with the Swedes. The integration process contains that in some contexts the Dutch immigrant identify him-/herself as a Dutch person and in other contexts they identify more as a Swedish person.
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Mendez, Katerin. "DEN NYA TIDENS KVINNLIGA MISSBRUK OCH BEROENDEKLIENTENS UPPLEVELSER AV MÖTET MED VÅRDEN." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-25963.
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Detta examensarbete är en fallstudie i hur kvinnliga klienter som söker vård för substansmissbruk upplever mötet med vården och socialtjänsten. Den utgår från djupintervjuer med fyra kvinnor som har haft missbruk och beroendeproblem. Vad som särskiljer dessa kvinnor är att de faller utanför ramarna av den traditionella bilden av den kvinnliga missbrukaren. Det finns ingen social utsatthet i form av våld, bostadslöshet, arbetslöshet eller prostitution som annars brukar vara närvarande. Samtliga av mina informanter är välanpassade och högst kompetenta samhällsmedborgare med arbete, akademisk utbildning, egna företag och bostad. Samtliga har vidare hamnat i kläm mellan olika hjälpinstanser då socialtjänsten i första hand är utformad för att tillhandahålla hjälp som syftar till att återanpassa och återinföra individer som av en eller annan anledning hamnat utanför samhället. Missbruksvården i sin tur kräver att man uppvisar flerårig dokumentation på sitt missbruk innan man blir aktuell för substitutionsvård, för detta krävs bl.a. att man ska vara aktuell hos socialtjänsten.This is a case study on how female clients seeking treatment for substance abuse are experiencing the treatment that the get in their dealings with the medical and social care services. It is based on interviews with four women who have had addiction and dependency problems. What distinguishes these women is that they fall outside the range of the traditional image of the female drug abuser. There is no social vulnerability in the form of violence, homelessness, unemployment, prostitution that otherwise tend to be present. All of my informants are well adjusted and highly competent members of society. They work, have academic education, private businesses and housing. My aim has been to shed light on these women's experiences of the treatment they have met in their dealings with the medical and social scare services.
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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 interaction with factors such as gender, age, ethnicity and location – is the basis for my study. I have tried to understand how these factors affect refugee youth identity construction. In order to answer my questions and get an idea of whether the refugee youth identity constructions constitute a transition to better opportunities or creating identification problems, I have conducted an ethnographic study in a multicultural school in a suburb in Stockholm. The selected group of study consisted of six refugee young people between 14 and 19 years of age who attend a so-called preparatory class. All of them live with their families and they all have been living in Sweden for less than one year. I have focused on six thematic categories: background, gender, and ethnicity, social network, future and positioning. My choice of perspective on identity constructions is based on the premise that people are constantly looking for social recognition. When meeting other persons they are positioning themselves in different ways, by testing limits and facing the consequences, thereby constructing their identities. Exercise of power and powerlessness are expressed in different ways in their daily lives in which they are seeking their positions in a restricted social network. The result of my study shows that the informants are located in a field of tension between the quest for liberation and identification problems in the paradoxical context that they are in. The dilemma, on the one hand their wish to maintain their ethnic identity and on the other hand to question it, is expressed in their relation to “Swedishness” and the Swedish language. The informants are also using different strategies when they try to construct and maintain their gender identities. Their life chances vary depending on the options available. My informants did actually create an immigrant identity that stands as an antithesis of being Swedish. They all agree that they are striving for self-realization and a brighter future, a future that not least could render them some symbolic capital. But the path towards such goals does not seem to be an easy task.Ute i världen drabbas många människor av krig, förföljelse, uppror, svält m.m. och tvingas därför att flytta och starta ett nytt liv någon annanstans under nya villkor. Kampen för överlevnad är en av de faktorer som tvingar barn till flykt. Att tvingas till utvandring och invandring sätter spår i människors liv och påverkar hur deras identiteter konstrueras. Min studie tar sin utgångspunkt i hur flyktingungdomar konstruerar sina identiteter i den komplexa kontext som de befinner sig i. Det intersektionella perspektivet – som går ut på att maktrelationer skapas och omskapas i samspelet med faktorer såsom kön, ålder, etnicitet och plats – ligger till grund för min studie. Jag har försökt förstå hur dessa faktorer påverkar flyktingungdomarnas identitetskonstruktioner. För att besvara mina frågeställningar och få en uppfattning om huruvida flyktingungdomars identitetskonstruktioner utgör en övergång till bättre möjligheter eller skapar identifikationsproblem har jag genomfört en etnografisk studie i en mångkulturell skola i en av Stockholms förorter. Urvalsgruppen bestod av sex flyktingungdomar mellan 14 och 19 år som går i en så kallad förberedelseklass. Alla bor med sina familjer och alla har vistats i Sverige i mindre än ett år. Jag har utgått från sex tematiska kategorier: bakgrund, kön, etnicitet, nätverk, framtid och positionering. I mitt val av perspektiv på identitetskonstruktioner är utgångspunkten att människor ständigt söker socialt erkännande. I mötet med de andra positionerar de sig på olika sätt genom att testa gränser och möta konsekvenser, därigenom konstruerar de sina identiteter. Maktutövning och maktlöshet uttrycks på olika sätt i deras vardag där de söker sina platser i ett begränsat nätverk. Resultatet visar att informanterna befinner sig i ett spänningsfält mellan å ena sidan strävan efter bättre möjligheter och å andra sidan identifikationsproblem i den paradoxala kontext som de befinner sig i. Dilemmat med att å ena sidan vilja vidmakthålla sin etniska identitet och å andra sidan ifrågasätta den uttrycks i förhållandet till svenskhet och till det svenska språket. Informanterna använder sig också av olika strategier för att iscensätta och upprätthålla sina könsidentiteter. Deras livschanser varierar beroende på vilka möjligheter som erbjuds. Ungdomarna har konstruerat en invandraridentitet som står som motpol till svenskhet. De var alla eniga om att de strävar efter självförverkligande och en ljusare framtid, en framtid som inte minst kan skänka dem symboliskt kapital, men vägen dit tycks inte enkel.
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Castillo, Cocom Juan. "Vulnerable identities: Maya Yucatec identities in a postmodern world." FIU Digital Commons, 2000. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2080.
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In numerous anthropological works there have been preoccupations about the relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. Whatever social researchers have concluded, one thing is consistent: the tendency to interpret ethnographic "data" in terms of binary oppositions. This dissertation reviews the works which have been centered upon binary oppositions, as for instance, in the case of Yucatan, between the Maya and the Dzul-the Yucatec Maya term for white males-and highlights the fact that such works have failed to recognize that within and between each "pole," or social group there are individuals that have multiple identities, and that do not recognize themselves as belonging to a homogenized "pole." Instead, these individuals, recognize themselves as belonging to different groups and, therefore, being aware that they have not a single identity but multiple ones.
Analogical anthropology is highly criticized because of its emphasis on binary oppositions, its authoritarianism, and the notion of the "Other." In contrast, dialogical anthropology places great importance on the relationship between the individuals and the anthropologist. A relation in which both, the anthropologist and the subject, are immersed in a dialogue, because of the identification between the writer and the story that is being written.
However, anthropologists seem to be more interested in "dialoguing" among themselves rather than with the people that they write about. Indigenous people are relegated, they are voiceless, and, therefore, we keep treating them as "objects," and not as individuals. This is ironic, precisely because it undermines the aim of the dialogical discourse.
In this context, awareness of self-identity or self-identities and the various ways in which Francisco, a good friend and the main character of this dissertation, assumes them, and the way I assume them, within multicultural contexts, leads us along the road to establish and reestablish communication. The methodology is based on four considerations: positioning, fieldwork conversations, self reflexivity and vulnerability. Hence, this dissertation constitutes an attempt to break with authoritarian models of ethnography, it is a dialogue between Francisco and me, a conversation among ourselves. A dialogue that expresses the desire of hearing our voices being echoed by each other.
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Byrne, Debra J. "Feminine identities and the structuring of postmodern portraiture /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3164493.
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Anand, Anju. "The recycling of identity in a postmodern age." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ34445.pdf.
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Winczewski, Marianna Jadwiga. "Consumption, pastiche and identity in postmodern visual culture." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23499.
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In this mini-dissertation the ongoing battle between the self and late-capitalist society is explored as a theoretical response to the notion of the fragmented subject in relation to postmodernism. Frederic Jameson links the schizophrenic subject and postmodern culture explicitly to societal changes in Western economies: this author's tradition outlines a main part of my theoretical stance within this mini-dissertation. Jameson, decisive in his criticism of current popular culture that has formed as a result of postmodernism, conveys a key dystopic viewpoint in his association of schizophrenia with postmodernism and late-capitalism. This sentiment is echoed in this mini-dissertation, as it is my belief that capitalist consumption habits and pastiche are interrelated in current popular visual culture, simulating a schizoid experience which consumers in turn mirror when formulating a sense of self. An essentially fragmented (postmodern) viewpoint with regard to postmodern visual culture is argued, and is aligned with Jameson's perspective on how subjects form identities within late capitalism, with pastiche and consumption labelled as the main causes of the contemporary societal problem of fragmentation. The main contention of the study is thus that contemporary consumption practices, through the stylistic acceptance of pastiche, are the current causes of fragmentation within the self. This naturalisation of postmodern montage and pastiche, in my opinion, effectively disorientates consumers, as similar techniques that are adopted in consumer culture are applied to identity formation, thus contributing to a sense of egolessness, a key characteristic of schizophrenia. Focus is placed on visual examples that highlight postmodern techniques of nostalgic image recycling, aligned to similar postmodern identity models, with parallels drawn between the fragmenting individual and the consuming individual. As exceedingly discontinuous processes of change occur through capitalist consumption habits that are emblematic characteristics of the postmodern condition, it is thus my belief that current postmodern visual culture contributes to an overall fragmented experience of the individual, where consumer practices are negatively affecting identity construction, and thus spurring on further cultural fragmentation and social disintegration. CopyrightDissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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Denby, Michelle. "The feminist postmodern fantastic : sexed, gendered, and sexual identities." Thesis, University of Northampton, 2001. http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/2967/.
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The thesis investigates a diverse range of feminist postmodern philosophy, distinguished by its varying rearticulation of the relationship between modernism and postmodernism and feminism’s own position vis-à-vis that debate. Drawing on postmodernism’s primary tenet that substantive, binary identity categories comprise discursive, performative constructs, feminist postmodernism theorises a range of strategies for their subversive re-performance. This is realised in the mobilisation of parodic, “failed” repetitions and identities embodied, for instance, by transsexual, transgender, and transvestite personae. Hence the reformulation of postmodern versions of agency, resistance, and choice. In the second instance, the thesis examines the combination of feminist postmodern philosophy with the narrative techniques of postmodernism and its sister genre, the fantastic mode. As a heterogeneous, open-ended, self-reflexive form, the “postmodern fantastic” challenges conventional realism and its correlative sovereign subject. The postmodern fantastic is redeployed by feminist practitioners, whose inscription of both textual and topographical re-performance, such as is manifest in the cyborg and the grotesque, represent the literary counterparts of feminist postmodern agency. The above provide critical contexts for a reading of four late-twentieth-century women writers, focusing in particular on their intervention in the modernism/postmodemism debate and their deployment of the feminist postmodern fantastic as a means of destabilising sexed, gendered, and sexual identity. The selected authors Hélène Cixous, Monique Wittig, Jeanette Winterson, and Angela Carter represent distinct and diverse, culturally specific, literary and feminist traditions, reformulating the relationship between modernism and postmodernism in different ways and with varying degrees of success. They coalesce, however, in their contribution to the feminist postmodern fantastic. It is the general purpose of the thesis to demonstrate how this particular mode embodies one of feminist postmodernism’s most powerful means of literary and ideological critique
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Bückmann, Esther. "Dem Fremden auf der Spur : postmoderne Identität zwischen Eigenem und Fremdem /." Marburg : Tectum-Verl, 2007. http://d-nb.info/986459917/04.
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Hjalmarson, Vertovec Isabella. "Den postmoderna identiteten : en kvalitativ studie om episodiskhet." Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Technology and Society, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-3716.
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Studiens huvudsyfte är att förstå hur sex studenter i mellansverige som lever i ettsamhälle av postmodern karaktär upplever sina identiteter samt på vilket sättsamhällstillståndet påverkar dem. Studien syftar även till att avgöra huruvida det gåratt finna empiriska belägg för Zygmunt Baumans (2002) teori kring att individen i detpostmoderna bryter upp livet i episoder för att lättare hantera skeenden i sitt liv.Studien bygger på kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer med totalt sexrespondenter. Samtliga är studenter vid en högskola eller ett universitet imellansverige. Respondenterna är mellan 20 och 25 år gamla. Studiens huvudsakligaslutsats är att identiteten i det postmoderna uppfattas som en social symbol somanvänds för att kommunicera individens Själv (Mead, 1977). Respondenterna istudien påverkas av samhällstillståndet, vilket kan komma att uppfattas som ennegativ konsekvens för dem om de inte klarar av att balansera sitt Själv medidentiteten gentemot samhällets krav på den enskilde individen.
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Borchers, Tyler. "Communicating Contradictory Selves: A Critical Postmodern Perspective on Identity Formation." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1400122385.
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Ferret, Fortuny Jordi. "L'efecte hipnòtic en el cinema postmodern." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7274.
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L'efecte hipnòtic en el cinema postmodern desenvolupa una aproximació al discurs postmodern a través de la categoria estètica d'allò sinistre (das unheimliche), com el camí que senyala l'ombra i el fantasma, el desplaçament del subjecte i la representació de l'inconscient, el real del desig, per mitjà de la metàfora de la hipnosi aplicada al cinema.Hypnotic effect in postmodern cinema develops an approach to postmoden theories throught the sinister aesthetic category (das unheimliche), understood as the way that shows the shadow and the ghost, the subject displacement and the unconsciousness representation, the real of the desire, by the metaphor of hypnosis applied to cinema.
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Choi, Jung Min. "Assimilation, postmodern identity, and unraveling the theoretical roots of racism." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0016/NQ27285.pdf.
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Slack, Justin. "After Jameson : Scottish fiction and the ambiguities of postmodern identity." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26256.
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Harden, Jane. "Becoming a nurse : cultural identity and self-representation for mature women." Thesis, Northumbria University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367410.
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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 Frow and Jean Baudrillard. Despite differing in significant ways, these critics all explore the idea of multiple identities. The lack of fixity this multiplicity fosters ensures that masculinity as an intrinsic given becomes disputed. 'The dialogues this creates reveal a category that is insecure, mobile and fluctuating, regardless of attempts to present it as otherwise. 'The first novel looked at is 'Thomas Pynchon's Vineland. This narrative encourages the questioning of the 'standard' masculinity adopted in patriarchal society by displaying men vulnerable to Post Traumatic Stress disorder, hysteria and madness, due to the war in Vietnam and governmental law enforcement. Masculinity is portrayed as tentative, provisional and impossible to maintain to society's exacting requirements. Psychotherapy is shown to confusingly both offer a fixed and stable 'self, whilst also promoting the encouragement of potential multiple other' selves' . Don DeLillo's White Noise continues the search for these 'selves'. Jack Gladney's debilitating fear of death compromises his mental and physical health. His strivings to deal with this, whilst also fulfilling various strands of the desired male stereotype, are explored through life-threatening disasters, usually pre-empted by rapidly developing technology. Jack's career in academia raises questions about the circulation of knowledge and information. Like Vineland, White Noise also examines the role of the family unit as an inherent part of the enforcement of standardised identities. 'The Family', both in its domestic format and via its more violent reincarnation as The Mafia, plays a vital role in all of these texts. Within DeLillo's Underworld (Section Three), the protagonist's therapy brings him away from the influence of The Mob, transforming him from murderer to upstanding citizen. His career in Waste Management provides a metaphor for the text's exploration of the manner in which abject matter is expulsed as part of a bid to conform to societal requirements. I draw upon Julia Kristeva's work on abjection in this section. The ritualistic nature of what is discarded and what revered is further explored in the fourth novel, Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho. This text offers an extreme picture of the potential results of stereotypical containment, with a protagonist who is determined to hyper-conform. Patrick Bateman not only espouses the thorough commodification of society, he also strives to exceed every stipulation pertaining to consummate masculinity. Bret Easton Ellis's Glamorama, provides the material for the final chapter, it offers a chilling portrayal of surface-obsessed society. Mediated images of celebrities provide role models for the characters' identity formation. Postmodernity's purported lack of depth is explored in the light of Baudrillard's theories. The potentialities of the cybernetic post-human are raised and discussed via the theorisation of Lyotard and Donna Haroway. The texts were selected for their usefulness in demonstrating a developing notion that rather than forming a new or extended sense of masculinity, men are acknowledging a growing awareness of the self-conscious, performative, indeed 'hyper', nature of any masculine identity. Contemporary films and television programmes are examined alongside the novels.
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Signell, Andreas. "The Postmodern self in Thomas Pynchon's the Crying of Lot 49 : Dismantling the unified self by a combination of postmodern philosophy and close reading." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-21255.
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Abstract This essay is about identity and the self in Thomas Pynchon's critically acclaimed masterpiece The Crying of Lot 49. Through a combination of postmodern philosophy and close reading, it examines instances of postmodernist representations of identity in the novel. The essay argues that Pynchon is dismantling the idea of a unified self and instead argues for and presents a postmodern take on identity in its place. Questions asked by the essay are: in what ways does Pynchon criticize the idea of a unified self? What alternatives to this notion does Pynchon present? The essay is split into six chapters, an introductory section followed by a background on Thomas Pynchon and the novel. This is followed by an in-depth look into postmodernism, and Ludwig Wittgenstein's importance for it, as well as the basic concepts of his philosophy. This is followed by the main analysis in which a myriad of segments and quotations from the novel are looked at. Lastly, this is followed by a summarizing conclusion. The essay assumes a postmodernist approach of not being a definitive answer; rather it is one voice among many in the community of Pynchon interpreters. The conclusion shows that the examples given in the analysis present a range of answers as to how Pynchon dismantles the self, and what alternatives he presents in its wake. Pynchon explores the Cartesian ego, Lacanian other, Freudian ego and postmodernist alternatives in the novel, and presents in postmodern fashion, a multitude of answers as to how he dismantles the idea of a unified self in the novel.
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Gadley, Shawn A. "Hip-hop’s Tanning of a Postmodern America: a Longitudinal Content Analysis of Paradoxical Juxtapositions of Oppositional Identities Within Us Rap Song Lyrics, 1980-2013." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500206/.
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A longitudinal content analysis of top-chart hip-hop songs’ lyrics produced between 1980 and 2013 was conducted to investigate the degree and progression of the paradoxical juxtaposition, or postmodern hybridity, of oppositional modernist identities in terms of race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, sexuality, and economic lifestyle, in addition to the longitudinal diversification of artist’s race and gender demographics. Demographically, the percentage of non-African-American artists increased as the percentage of African-American artists decreased. Additionally, the percentage of songs featuring either all male or all female artists decreased, while the percentage of collaboration between male and female artists increased over time. Although hybrid oppositional identities related to race/ethnicity and gender did not increase over time, those of sexual orientation, sexuality, and economic lifestyle increased over time. In addition, materialist identities were related to the hybridity of sexual orientation and sexuality, but not to that of gender and race/ethnicity. Overall, the research found increasing postmodern hybridity within the sexualization of hip-hop songs along with intensified materialism.
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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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Underwood, Edith. "Molting identities, the discourse of difference in the flux of postmodern worlds." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0016/MQ56820.pdf.
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Eldridge, Jr Reginald. "Shifting Blackness: How the Arts Revolutionize Black Identity in the Postmodern West." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3087.
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The contemporary experiences of racially marginalized people in the West are affected deeply by the hegemonic capitalist Orthodox cultural codes, or episteme, in which blackness operates as the symbol of Chaos. As it relates to people of African descent, these affects are marked by a denial of the black person's full status as an unproblematic subject, by ontological voids arising from the practice of enslavement over the past centuries, and by problems of representation within the West, where examples and points of reference for black identity are always tied up with conflicting interests.
Utilizing Sylvia Wynter's model of the Ceremony as one means of describing the ways in which blacks in the West maneuver the extant psychological and philosophical perils of race in the Western world, I argue that the history of black responses to the West's ontological violence is alive and well, particularly in art forms like spoken word, where the power to define/name oneself is of paramount importance. Focusing on how art shaped black responses to ontologically debilitating circumstances, I argue that there has always existed a model for liberation within African American culture and tradition.
This work takes an approach that is philosophical and theoretical in nature in order to address the wide breadth of the black experience that lies beyond the realm of statistics. The goal of this approach is to continue the work of unraveling hidden or under-discussed aspects of the black experience in order to more clearly find possibilities for addressing problems in the construction of race and marginalized people within the Western episteme. This work attempts to redefine the struggle for a healthier ontology within the framework of a process of liberation that transcends Orthodox limitations on the marginalized subject.
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Doherty, Kathy H. "Going it alone : a discursive psychological analysis of identity and enterprise culture." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324437.
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Lu, Dandan. "Design graphique à l'ère de la Chine postmoderne." Phd thesis, Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00756477.
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Comparé à l'art contemporain chinois qui ne cesse de caracoler en tête du marché de l'art, le design graphique est un objet artistique, industriel et populaire, modeste dans ses ambitions culturelles. Toutefois ses enjeux présentent un important intérêt scientifique dès lors que toutes les productions spécifiques du design s'adressent davantage au peuple chinois qu'aux étrangers. Soumis à des commanditaires économiques et politiques, le design graphique en tant qu'objet de recherche témoigne non seulement des luttes existant à l'intérieur du champ du design chinois mais également de celles qui se livrent en pleine Chine postmoderne. Dans le cadre théorique des Etudes Culturelles, cette thèse considère que le design graphique recèle une fonction sociale et politique significative en Chine, dont les enjeux excèdent ceux que l'on pense être susceptibles de répondre à une simple fonction de communication commerciale. A partir d'analyse de quelques productions graphiques emblématiques historiques, cette recherche s'interroge sur la réactualisation de l'identité culturelle chinoise, en crise aujourd'hui. Au cours des périodes moderne, maoïste et postmoderne, le design graphique n'a cessé de participer à l'esprit du temps dominant. En tant que dispositif actif, socio-formant l'esprit et relevant de la culture, le design graphique intervient dans les processus de construction identitaire individuelle et collective. Cette recherche, après avoir rendu compte des rapports parfois ambigus ou incertains, exercés par les modèles graphiques hégémoniques et concurrentiels, s'attache à décrypter les actuelles tensions révélatrices de valeurs et visions du monde contradictoires.
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Hedström, Emelie, and Emma Karlsson. "Allt annat än kroppslös på Internet : - Pro-anorektiska strategier för identitetsskapande i det postmoderna samhället." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-295330.
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Individualiseringen som det postmoderna samhället resulterat i, har försatt individer i en otrygghet där dessa tvingats anamma strategier för att hantera det ökade ansvar som individualiseringen inneburit. Dessa strategier ämnar att ge mening genom att vara verktyg i människors identitetsskapande som därigenom minskar otryggheten. Strategierna förekommer i olika kulturer som föreskriver meningsskapande förhållningssätt. Medlemskapet av gemenskaper är individens egna aktiva val. Identitetsskapandets kärna sker i samvaron med andra individer. Denna samvaro har för många unga förflyttats till Internet där nya former av identitetsskapande möjliggörs. Dessa är lika verkliga som den fysiska världens identitetskonstruktioner. Unga personer söker sig till Internet för att finna strategier till att lindra otryggheten som det postmoderna samhället och dess utseendekultur skapat. Syftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka om den internetbaserade subkulturen kring ätstörningar var en form av ungdomars och unga vuxnas identitetsskapande. Uppsatsen belyser även skolkuratorers roll i arbetet med ätstörningsproblematik inom skolan. Uppsatsen har utgått från en abduktiv ansats där en innehållsanalys av 15 svenska bloggar skrivna av ungdomar och unga vuxna genomförts. 18 skolkuratorer har även responderat i en enkätundersökning med fokus på ämnet utifrån den professionella rollen. De teoretiska perspektiv som uppsatsen utgått från var socialkonstruktivism och Zygmunt Baumans teori om identitetsskapande. Uppsatsens studier visade att subkulturen var ett instrument för identitetsskapande hos svenska ungdomar och unga vuxna. Den pro-anorektiska identiteten sammanföll inte med den fysiska världens normer och gav inga trygga kontakter vilket försatte individerna i en ambivalens där otryggheten åter uppstod. Majoriteten av skolkuratorerna hade kännedom om subkulturen kring ätstörningar, men få uppgav konkreta arbetsrutiner med hanterandet av ätstörningsproblematik i skolan. Detta betraktas som ett viktigt förändringsarbete inom socialt arbete då professionen arbetar med unga individer som riskerar att utveckla ett ohälsosamt beteende med grund i subkulturens ideal.
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Gustavsson, Helen, and Annelie Johansson. "Relationer, avvikelse och media: en studie om att vet vem man är : en kvalitativ socialpsykologisk studie om ungdomars identitetsskapande." Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Technology and Society, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-4240.
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Studiens syfte var att förstå för ungdomar, mellan 17-19 år, upplevelser av hur de påverkas i sitt identitetsskapande. Två frågeställningar i studien var att undersöka om ungdomar upplever att de kan använda positiv avvikelse för att uttrycka sin identitet och hur ett postmodernt samhälle påverkar dem i sitt identitetsskapande. Studien bygger på kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer med tolv respondenter. Samtliga respondenter arbetar tillsammans i ett projektarbete och går på samma gymnasieskola. Bakgrunden till studien var ett intresse för ungdomars identitetsskapande och att det har blivit ett ökat fokus på ungdomars välmående. Den teoretiska ramen för studien är symbolisk interaktionism med ett avvikelseperspektiv och utgår ifrån ett postmodernt samhälle. Resultatet visade att ungdomar upplever att det är svårt att veta vad identitet är och hur den används men de är överens om att det är mycket som påverkar dem bl.a. media, vänner och familj. Resultatet visade även att ungdomar upplever positiv avvikelse genom att beundra individer som vågar avvika och upplever att dessa har funnit sin identitet. Slutsatser som kunde dras var att ungdomarna påverkas främst att familj, vänner och media i sitt identitetskapande och att det fanns mycket att leva upp till.
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Hickey, Andrew. "Public pedagogies, place and identity: an ethnographic study of an emerging postmodern community." University of Southern Queensland, Faculty of Education, 2008. http://eprints.usq.edu.au/archive/00004958/.
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[Abstract]:Community is one of those ‘slippery terms’, something that is ‘nice to have’ as Zygmunt Baumann (2001) notes, but something that we don’t often stop to think about- it is just there. The significance of community can’t be overstated however, and the ways that human interactions and connections to space are mediated have much to do with how we understand and interact with our communities. The project that underpinned this dissertation sought toexplore how ideas of community were constructed, represented and consumed by residents of a new ‘edge city’ located in south- east Queensland, Australia. Applying a cultural studies approach and drawing on Anthony Cohen’s (2004) ideas of the boundary of community, thisdissertation suggests that mediations of community in the late-capitalist, postmodern world have taken on new meanings resulting in a shift in the way that individuals experience each other and the places they inhabit. In particular, the operation of public pedagogies deployedin consumer oriented mass communication artefacts including billboards, sales brochures and magazines, carry significant influence in determining how community is expressed and lived. Following an exploration of how various image and text-rich public pedagogical artefactsdeploy ideas of community and a survey of discussions with residents of this new urban space, ideas on what community means in the current era are proffered.
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Daynard, Kimberly L. "Nationalism, ethnicity, and identity in postmodern Canada, a cinema responds to shifting perspectives." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq22849.pdf.
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Domingues, Maria Izabel Velazquez. "Alasdair Gray's Lanark in the scottish contemporary scene : a matter of postmodern identity." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/134290.
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Esta é uma leitura crítica de Lanark: a Life in Four Books do escritor escocês Alasdair Gray (1934), cujos talento e estilo se constituem exemplo da literatura contemporânea da Escócia. Esta investigação tem por objetivo determinar o papel exercido pela produção do autor nas esferas literária, cultural e sociopolítica da Escócia de hoje. Ao transitar entre ficção e meta-ficção, arte e autobiografia, Gray encara os paradoxos envolvidos ao tentar revitalizar traços da identidade nacional. O trabalho de Gray não pode ser considerado sem o reconhecimento de que a sua literatura é, simultaneamente, local e universal. Ela pertence ao cosmos escocês o qual é destacado por lutas culturais assim como é também dominante por ser escrita em Inglês e, com isso, alcançar leitores de todas as partes do mundo dentro das fronteiras transpostas pela Língua Inglesa. Essa é uma das razões pelas quais esta pesquisa busca lançar luz sobre a cena literária contemporânea escocesa, empenhando-se em preencher uma lacuna existente no currículo acadêmico brasileiro de nossos cursos de graduação e pós-graduação no que tange o tratamento e a abordagem das outras Literaturas produzidas em Língua Inglesa. Para tanto, a tese está dividida em três partes. A primeira considera a literatura escocesa em relação à formação, ratificação e reavaliação do significado de senso de identidade nacional, como observado diacronicamente através do período entre 1940 e 1970. A segunda parte focaliza os novos olhares no cenário cultural da Escócia por um grupo de escritores repleto de estilo, história e visão, os New Scottish Writers. As estratégias de Gray para lidar com ficção e biografia em Lanark assim como sua reflexão sobre a natureza do mundo são de grande importância para este trabalho. Com embasamento teórico no entendimento de Linda Hutcheon sobre meta-ficção historiográfica, intertextualidade, parodia e ironia no pós- modernismo, eu tento enquadrar, no Capitulo Três, as manobra literárias desempenhadas pelo autor ao usar tais recursos textuais no romance. Espero que o resultado desta tese de doutorado possa ser útil como reflexão sobre o presente estado de discussões sobre a literatura Escocesa pós-moderna e, ao mesmo tempo, como um meio de tornar os leitores acadêmicos brasileiros mais familiarizados com a obra de Alasdair Gray.This is a critical reading of Lanark: a Life in Four Books, a novel by the Scottish writer Alasdair Gray (b. 1934), whose talent and style provide a fitting example of Scotland’s contemporary literature. The aim of this investigation is to determine the role played by Gray’s production in the literary, cultural and sociopolitical spheres of present-day Scottish life. In his blending of fiction and metafiction, of art and autobiography, the author faces the paradoxes involved in the attempt to stress the marks of a national identity. Gray’s work cannot be considered without recognizing that his literature is both local and universal. It belongs to the Scottish cosmos which is highlighted by cultural struggles as well as it is dominant, once it is carried out in English reaching readers all over the world from within the limits and format determined by the English Language. That is one of the reasons why this research aims to shed light on the current Scottish literary scene, attempting to fill an existing gap in the Brazilian academic curriculum respecting the treatment and approach of Literatures produced in English in our undergraduate and graduate courses. The dissertation is divided into three parts. The first contextualizes Gray in Scotland’s literature in its relation to the formation, ratification and revaluation of the concept of a sense of national identity as observed diachronically, throughout the period between 1940s and 1970s. The second section focuses on the new looks at Scotland’s cultural scenario by a distinguished group of writers burst with style, history and post-devolution vision, the New Scottish Writers. Gray’s strategies to deal with a fictional and biographical context in Lanark and his reflection upon world’s nature and worth are of great importance for this work. By the reading of Linda Hutcheon’s understanding on historiographic metafiction, intertextuality, parody and irony in postmodernism, I attempt to frame in Chapter Three the literary maneuvers Gray makes in using such textual resources in his novel. I hope that the result of this doctoral thesis may be useful both as a reflection upon the present state of the discussion about Scotland’s postmodern literature, and as a means of making the Brazilian academic readers more familiar with the work of Alasdair Gray.
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Smith, Simon Gareth. "Buddhism and the postmodern : the nature of identity and tradition in contemporary society." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1997. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/556/.
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By and large, modem societies have understood themselves to be increasingly without religion. This is reflected in religion's marginalised position within academic disciplines such as sociology and philosophy and, in turn, their isolation from developments in religious studies. The discipline of religious studies itself has sometimes colluded in this process of marginalisation and isolation by a reluctance to engage with the intellectual dynamism of similarly eclectic disciplines such as cultural studies, as well as with current developments in sociology and philosophy. This is now beginning to change, and the purpose of this thesis is to contribute to this transformation by drawing upon debates surrounding the notion of 'postmodemity', and to suggest that forms of religious tradition not only persist in contemporary Western societies, but can exhibit a dynamic and challenging engagement with the cultural conditions which shape them. Concentrating on notions of self-hood and identity, I argue that the encounter between Buddhism and Western society provides an opportunity to examine a role for the religious in the context of a modernity which appears to exhibit increasingly ephemeral aspects, culminating with the postmodern. By initially drawing on examples in colonial and post-colonial South East Asia, I argue that Western and Buddhist cultural forms interacted in a manner which presaged the formation of the complex cultural hybridities that occur in contemporary Western society. Here, through the use of what I shall call 'quasi-knowledge' and 'quasi-memory', individuals are exposed to a multiplicity of cultural phenomena in attempting to establish coherent biographies for themselves, such exposure being reflected in the ephemeral nature of self-perception which is instrumental in the formation of the postmodern self. I suggest that both Buddhism and the postmodern operate in milieux which function on several levels of reality. These, to some extent, equate to certain dichotomies which may be found in modernity, and provide a context in which to establish a continued and significant role for religion at all of these levels. This can be reflected in my notion of a 'de-universalised' society which can encompass both secular and religious narratives - being a product of the tensions found between the two. As a consequence of this, I argue that it is possible to regard religion as a significant factor in understanding contemporary self-hood; as something which is both at the root of its development, and central to its continued evolution.
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Deny, Martina. "Lost in the postmodern metropolis Studien zu (Des-)Orientierung und Identitätskonstruktion im zeitgenössischen Londonroman." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2008. http://d-nb.info/994906153/04.
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Lindvall, Rebecca. "Vem är företaget? : En studie om identitetsprocesser i en postmodern tid." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-172534.
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Vår tid präglas av valmöjligheter, kunskap och reflexivitet där människans identitetsprocess tyck relatera till livsstilsplanering. Syftet för denna studie är att undersöka hur utvalda företag genom sina hemsidor uttrycker och presenterar en identitet kopplad till företaget. För att söka synliggöra min problemställning är teoretiska utgångspunkter för denna studie Giddens (2002) teori om människans reflexiva identitetsskapande samt Goffmans (2009) teori om presentation och idealisering. Det som studeras i denna studie är fyra olika företag som utgörs av Manpower, Poolia, Billabong samt Louis Vuitton och deras tillhörande hemsidor. De två förstnämnda företagen representerar tjänsteföretag och de två sistnämnda varuföretag. Studien är vidare kvalitativ och metoden är en observerande bild - och textanalys. Resultat för studien pekar på att de undersökta företagen via sina hemsidor kommunicerar ut tydliga reflexiva beslut kring exempelvis miljö och etikfrågor som inte på ett direkt vis anknyter till företagets tjänster eller produkter utan visar mer på en anknytning till samhälle och omvärld. Varuföretagen visar tydligare upp detta beteende än tjänsteföretagen genom att visa text och bild på sina hemsidor som relaterar till hur förbättringar och satsningar kan ske kring exempelvis miljön. Som resultat visar vidare de undersökta företagens hemsidor på att det de väljer att kommunicera ut på hemsidorna ligger till grund för en viss bestämd identitet. Detta tycks vara en av de vägar en företagsidentitet blir skapad på. Den identitet som uppsatsen beskriver relaterar även till begreppet livsstil och det blir tydligt hur dessa två begrepp bygger upp varandra.
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Alcina, Michelle. "Tattoos as Personal Narrative." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2009. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/993.
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This study explores the history of tattoos in the United States along with the role and significance of tattos today. The study's primary research question seeks to discover whether tattoos anchor an individual's personal narrative and help to solidify an individual's sense of self. The study considers both modernist and postmodernist concepts of identity, but ultimately supports a perspective which argues that identity is the result of an individual's ability to keep a consistent narrative going over time. This exploratory study uses a qualitatative approach to discern the meanings behind individuals' tattoos through their own words and conceptions. Eight individuals ranging in age, race and gender were interviewed in order to collect data for the study. The findings suggest that individuals frame the importance of their tattoos in a variety of ways from tattoos that commemorate aspects of one's past to tattoos that are highly symbolic of an individual's sense of self.
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Wohler, Ulrike. "Weiblicher Exhibitionismus das postmoderne Frauenbild in Kunst und Alltagskultur." Bielefeld Transcript, 2008. http://d-nb.info/996920633/04.
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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 individual’s social identity is formed through fashion brands and in- and out-groups. The topic is discussed while uncovering brand symbolism and relationships. Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) was used as a theoretical framework in this research. Focus group studies were chosen as a research method and total of three focus group discussions with participants aged between 19 to 32 years were held in Helsinki, Finland. The consumption of fashion brands was found to have a relevant role in the construction of an adult’s identity. Consumption of particular fashion brands was used to communicate personalities and identities, and relationships with fashion brands were found to become especially important in social situations. Fashion brands also stand central in the formation of in- and out-groups and friends were found to have the biggest influence over consumption choices. In-groups were found to form between people with interests towards the same fashion brands and unfavourable fashion brands were associated with members of out-groups. Adults were found to categorise people into groups based on the brands they wear and prevailing stereotypical mental images. Individual self-expression through fashion brands was found high, although given the concept of a salient identity, individuals were often found to conform to the expectations of the in-group. Most importantly, individuals and in-groups stated differentiation from out-groups to be a priority.Program: Master programme in Fashion Management
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Warren, Alison Margaret. "Negotiations of personal professional identities by newly qualified early childhood teachers through facilitated self-study." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Maori, Social and Cultural Studies in Education, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7016.
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Early childhood teachers spend their professional lives in social interactions with children, families and colleagues. Social interactions shape how people understand themselves and each other through discourses. Teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand negotiate their subjectivities, or self-understandings, within initial teacher education (ITE), professional expectations, education and society. They are shaped by historical and contemporary discourses of early childhood teaching professionalism as they gain status as qualified and registered teachers. Early childhood teachers’ understandings of their personal professional identities influence self-understandings of everyone they encounter professionally, especially young children.
This poststructural qualitative collective case study investigates five newly-qualified early childhood teachers’ negotiations of their personal professional identities. My research study is based in postmodern understandings of identities as multiple, complex and dynamic, and subjectivities as self-understandings formed within discourses. In contrast, institutionally-directed reflective writing in early childhood ITE can reflect modernist perspectives that assume essentialist, knowable identities. Tensions exist between my postmodern theoretical framework and my data collection strategy of facilitated self-study, an approach that is usually based on the modernist assumption that there is a self to investigate and know. My participants explored their subjectivities through focus group discussions, individual interviews, and reflective writing, including institutionally-directed reflective writing.
Three dominant discourses of early childhood education emerged from data analysis that drew on Foucault’s theoretical ideas: the authority discourse, the relational professionalism discourse and the identity work discourse. Positioned in these discourses, all participants regarded themselves as qualified and knowledgeable, skilled at professional relationships and as reflective practitioners. They actively negotiated tensions between professional expectations and understandings of their multiple, complex and changing identities. I concluded that these participants negotiated understandings of their personal professional identities within three dominant discourses through discursive practices of discipline and governmentality, seeking pleasurable subject positions, and agentic negotiation of tensions and contradictions between available subjectivities.
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Cesare, Nina Lyn. "Wearing Your Life as a Sleeve: Examining tattooing as a form of postmodern identity expression." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1308253420.
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Hughes, Camryn E. "Postmodern Blackness: Writing Melanin Against a White Backdrop." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1619188755992646.
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Moser, Marlene Cecilia. "Postmodern feminist readings of identity in selected works of Judith Thompson, Margaret Hollingsworth and Patricia Gruben." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0010/NQ35260.pdf.
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Gemignani, Marco. "Narratives of identity, home, and return of Kosovarian refugees steps toward a postmodern sense of agency /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0011646.
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Zschocke, Martina. "Mobilität in der Postmoderne psychische Komponenten von Reisen und Leben im Ausland." Würzburg Königshausen und Neumann, 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2669180&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Öhrn, Jan. "Transparent and Fluid : Is a liquid loyalty the answer? Nurses and loyalty in a postmodern context." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-252098.
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Steffel, Wolfgang. "Identität im Glauben : eine systematisch-theologische Reflexion auf die Subjektkonstitution von Jugendlichen in der Postmoderne /." Stuttgart : Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk, 2002. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=009934759&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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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 analysis with specific reference to comparative analysis further aided this study. A total of 18 episodes (six episodes for each programme) were collected and thoroughly analyzed where the ‘cut and paste identity’ of ordinary people as ‘celebrities’ constituted the hermeneutical key of the study. The episodes and programs have been scrutinized and have been systematically classified to enable an analysis of the observations. This study attempted to not only describe, but also to foster change in the representation of the identity of the participants of the above mentioned reality TV programmes. The study found that reality television plays a role in shaping the postmodern identity of ordinary people as celebrities. The study also found that the participants involved in the above mentioned programmes found it easy to make someone else’s identity their own. It appeared that the postmodern mind is easily influenced and willing to adopt an identity especially that of a celebrity. The participants involved in these programs claimed this identity as their own and then believed that the new identity was in fact who they ‘really are’ but in actual fact it is a beginning of a new sameness with somebody else. Hence the participants possessed a ‘cut and paste identity.’
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Barrer, Peter. "Consumerism, Simulation and the Post-Soviet Russian Identity in the Works of Viktor Pelevin." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Russian, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1007.
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This thesis examines the applicability of the postmodern theories of consumerism and simulacra to the post-Soviet Russian context by undertaking a case study of Viktor Pelevin's novel Generation "Π". In today's environment of economic globalisation and its accompanying global culture, Western theories concerning the postmodern condition have attempted to explain social dynamics in regions outside of their native context. This thesis seeks to contribute to the debate regarding the global applicability of the postmodem theoretical models by applying the perspectives of Fredric Jameson and Jean Baudrillard to post-Soviet Russian cultural material. Such an analysis will help offer an indication as to whether Russia is merely a regional variant of a larger Western-oriented social paradigm, or a society and culture seeking to follow its own distinctive path of development. Generation "Π" portrays Russia in terms of its post-Soviet experiences of globalisation and media simulation. This novel engages the theories of the postmodern and their application into the post-Soviet Russian context and offers an effective depiction of Russian culture in terms of its similarities and differences to the West. In addition, Pelevin's disenchantment with the cultural dominants within post-Soviet Russia and global culture in general are strongly expressed. This thesis argues that while Pelevin's engagement with, the totality of post-Soviet consumerism and media simulation supports the applicability of many of the discussed theoretical concepts to the post-Soviet context, his work also highlights the distinctiveness of the postmodern cultural condition in Russia. This distinctiveness is not only a result of Russia's transition to the market economy but also stems from Russia's literary quest for an organic culture.
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Snyman, Adalet. "Complex urban identities : an investigation into the everyday lived realities of cities as reflected in selected postmodern texts." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4144.
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Thesis (MA (English))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The concept of the city has evolved over time with generations of city dwellers. The rapid advance of technology has promoted globalisation, which has brought about increased familiarity with diverse cultures, but has also exposed issues of marginalisation among communities in cities. In order to approach a more comprehensive understanding of the complexity of the “open” postmodern view of the city it is essential to consider the relevant literature that grapples with issues of human identity and appropriation in the city. This dissertation examines narrative perspectives in the literary works of four postmodern writers: Jonathan Safran Foer, Neil Gaiman, China Miéville, and Lauren Beukes. References to underlying philosophical viewpoints, various perceptions, both “real” and fictional, were incorporated in the discussion. Close attention is paid to the correlation between the novel and the city, and to what extent the city itself can be viewed as a narrative – since, within a postmodern approach, fictional narratives may form discourses that represent, and in a fashion constitute, the city, while subjects at the same time form themselves in terms of their environment. Fiction becomes an invaluable tool for exploring the cityscape and commenting on contemporary issues. In conclusion, the urbanised human subject may be said to play a vital role in establishing the concept of the city, both in “real” culture and in fictional narrative. The representation of the contemporary South African urban milieu in the discussed literature serves to confirm the relevance of local as well as global influences. To justify multiple perspectives on the city consequently means to grant each individual viewpoint validity.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die konsep van die stad het deur die jare ontwikkel saam met geslagte van stadsbewoners. Die vinnige vooruitgang van tegnologie het globalisasie bevorder, wat op sy beurt weer bewustheid van diverse kulture bevorder het, maar ook kwessies blootgelê het rondom marginalisasie in stadsgemeenskappe. Ten einde ‘n meer omvattende begrip van die kompleksiteit van die “oop” postmoderne perspektief op die stad daar te stel, is dit belangrik om te kyk na die relevante literatuur wat bemoeienis maak met kwessies van menslike identiteit en eienaarskap in die stad. Hierdie dissertasie het gekyk na vertellerperspektiewe in die literêre werke van vier postmoderne skrywers: Jonathan Safran Foer, Neil Gaiman, China Miéville, en Lauren Beukes. Met verwysing na onderliggende filosofiese gesigspunte is verskeie persepsies, gegrond op die werklikheid sowel as fiktief, in die bespreking ingesluit. Daar is aandag gegee aan die verband tussen die roman en die stad, en in watter mate die stad self as ‘n teks beskou kan word, aangesien die teks volgens ‘n postmoderne aanslag die stad kan “representeer” en “laat ontstaan”, terwyl menslike subjekte hulself terselfdertyd vorm in terme van hul omgewing. Fiksie word dus ‘n waardevolle werktuig vir waarneming van en kommentaar lewer op komtemporêre sake. Ten slotte kan gesê word dat die verstedelikte menslike subjek ‘n belangrike rol speel in die bevestiging van die stad as konsep, beide in reële kultuur en in fiktiewe vertelling. Die verteenwoordiging van die kontemporêre Suid-Afrikaanse stedelike milieu in die bespreekte tekste bevestig die relevansie van lokale sowel as internasionale invloede. Om veelvuldige perspektiewe op die stad gelyk te beregtig beteken gevolglik dat elke individuele gesigspunt geldig is.
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Hegarty, Emma Jane. "Assembling a postmodern identity : subjectivity and agency in a selection of fiction by Jeanette Winterson and Paul Auster." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.485069.
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This thesis investigates how two contemporary postmodem novelists, in addition to a number ofpostmodem theorists, challenge the debilitating poststructuralist approach to identity without reverting to an essentialist, Enlightenment depiction of individual autonomy and absolutes. Through distinctive, alternative approaches, both Jeanette Winterson and Paul Auster depict an understanding of an enabled subjective agent who engages in a continuing process ofself-creation through the renewal ofabandoned imagery, forms and narrative structures. Such undertakings require a degree ofselfdetermination while recognising dependency upon the 'other' and the fragmented condition of lmowledge. Their respective examinations oftextual composition elucidate the processes ofassembling a postmodem identity undertaken by characters, while indicating, through the exposure of literary frames, that such practices must also be adopted by the reader and author. By engaging with these authors in the context of subjectivity and agency, previously undervalued novels gain the recognition they deserve, while early works, which have been categorised accordiDg to reductive readings, may be reinterpreted. The fIrst four chapters offer close readings of Winterson's Written on the Body and Art & Lies and Auster's Moon Palace and Leviathan. These localised debates draw upon the material ofpostmodem theorists including Charles Altieri, Judith Butler, Simon Critchley, David Harvey and Richard Rorty, in addition to the critical collections of Winterson and Auster. However, the fIfth and [mal chapter assembles the implications of the textual analyses in a more detailed examination of theories of postmodem agency and subjectivity.
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Hood, Robert L. (Robert Leroy). "Discursive Horizons of Human Identity and Wilderness in Postmodern Environmental Ethics: A Case Study of the Guadalupe Mountains of Texas." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500395/.
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Using a genealogy of the narratives of the Guadalupes, I explore three moral identities. The Mescalero Apache exist as caretakers of sacred space. Spanish and Anglo settlers exist as conquerors of a hostile land. The park service exists as captives, imprisoned in the belief that economic justifications can protect the intrinsic value of wilderness. The narrative shift from oral to abstract text-based culture entails a shift from intrinsic to instrumental valuation. I conclude that interpretation of narratives, such as those of the Guadalupes, is not by itself a sufficient condition for change. Interpretation is, however, a necessary condition for expanding the cultural conversation beyond merely instrumental justifications to include caring for wilderness's intrinsic values.