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Baey, Grace H. Y. "Borders and the exclusion of migrant bodies in Singapore's global city-state." Thesis, Kingston, Ont. : [s.n.], 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/5671.
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Kosstrin, Hannah Joy. "Honest Bodies: Jewishness, Radicalism, and Modernism in Anna Sokolow's Choreography from 1927-1961." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1300761075.
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Duarte, Mikaël. "Des corps en enfer. Une histoire des corps dans la région stéphanoise de la fin du XVIIIe à 1949." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSES014/document.
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A la fin du XVIIIe siècle, la population de la région stéphanoise est caractérisée par sa maîtrise des processus industriels, une culture spécifique du corps, influencée par les rituels carnavalesques, le mouvement convulsionnaire janséniste, puis le magnétisme animal. L'industrie dépend alors des corps des ouvriers, des Sublimes. Les critiques des élites face à un système industriel passent des discours à une lente immixtion dans la chair des ouvriers qu'il faut enfermer, contrôler et rationaliser. La disqualification des corps ouvriers commence par un déclassement esthétique, qui débouche sur une racialisation, confortée par les théories de la dégénérescence. La rationalisation, la morale hygiéniste et l'éducation physique participent de cette prise de contrôle de la chair. Les nombreuses résistances des ouvriers face à une industrialisation rationalisée et mécanisée aliénante se caractérisent par une contre-culture ouvrière tenace, le maintien de la petite industrie qui maintient des espaces de liberté, et des violences, qui passe par l'anarchisme violent la grève, fracassée par une répression d'EtatAt the end of the eighteenth century, the population of the Stephan region was characterized by its mastery of industrial processes, a specific culture of the body, influenced by carnival rituals, the Jansenist convulsion movement, and then animal magnetism. lndustry then depends on the bodies of the workers, the Sublimes. The criticisms of the elites in the face of an industrial system pass !rom speeches to a slow interference in the workers' flesh, which must be locked up, controlled and rationalized. The disqualification of the workers' bodies begins with an aesthetic downgrading, which leads to racialization, reinforced by theories of degeneration. Rationalization, hygienic morality and physical education are part of this takeover of the flesh. The many resistance of the workers to an alienating mechanized and rationalized industrialization are characterized by a tenacious working-class counter-culture, the maintenance of small industry which maintains areas of freedom and violence, which passes through anarchism violate the strike, Shattered by a state repression
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Mabaso, Thandeka Grace. "Leveraging knowledge management as the basis to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage in KwaZulu-Natal legislature." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50391.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2005.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This paper was written with the intention of investigating how Knowledge Management (KM) influences an organization's competitive advantage. The objective of the research questions was to determine KM's role in a competitive advantage. Knowledge is the critical asset of any organization whether profit or nonprofit. This paper will discuss the meaning of the competitive advantage focusing attention in a non-profit organization, which will serve as a framework for subsequent argument and the remainder of the study. Research into KM's relation with business issues such as leadership, IT for KM, organizational structure was conducted. The objective was to determine the readiness of the institution in implementing Knowledge Management as a basis for its competitive advantage and also to determine the role of the leadership for KM and IT for KM and to propose a new agenda for the Chief Knowledge Officer. This paper is organized around six chapters. It begins with introduction and background chapters where the research question, research setting and KM's competitive advantage are discussed. An in-depth literature review follows in chapter two. Chapter three deals with the detailed description of the methodology followed to compile this paper. A data report and analysis in chapters four and five followed by recommendations for rolling out of KM initiative are considered. Research concludes in chapter six.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studiestuk is geskryf met die bedoeling om die wyse waarop Kennisbestuur (KB) 'n organisasie se mededingende voordeel beïnvloed, te ondersoek. Die oogmerk van die navorsingsvrae was om KB se rol met betrekking tot mededingende voordeel te bepaal. Kennis is 'n belangrike bate vir enige organisasie met of sonder winsbejag. In hierdie stuk word die betekenis van mededingende voordeel bespreek met die klem op 'n organisasie sonder winsbejag wat as raamwerk sal dien vir daaropvolgende argumente en die res van die studie. Navorsing is oor die verband tussen KB en sake-aangeleenthede soos leierskap, inligtingstegnologie (IT) en organisatoriese struktuur gedoen. Die oogmerk was om die gereedheid van die instelling te bepaal vir die implementering van KB as 'n grondslag vir sy mededingende voordeel en ook om die rol van leierskap vir KB en IT vir KB vas te stel en om 'n nuwe agenda vir die Hoof Kennisbeampte voor te stel. Hierdie stuk bestaan uit ses hoofstukke. Dit begin met 'n inleiding en 'n hoofstuk met agtergrondinligting waar die navorsingsvrae, navorsingsomgewing en KB se mededingende voordeel bespreek word. 'n Deeglike literatuur-oorsig volg in hoofstuk twee. Hoofstuk drie handel oor 'n gedetailleerde beskrywing van die metodologie wat gevolg is om hierdie stuk te lewer. 'n Dataverslag en -ontleding word in hoofstukke vier en vyf oorweeg, gevolg deur aanbevelings vir die uitrol van 'n KB inisiatief. Die navorsingsgevolgtrekking is in hoofstuk ses vervat.
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Lange, Shara K. "What Do We Do with our Bodies." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3659.
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Pollard, Matthew. "The bodies of Kleist : aspects of corporeality in his dramatic works." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35047.
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This dissertation examines the representations of the body in the completed dramatic works of Heinrich von Kleist (1777--1811). While taking into account the psychoanalytical and philosophical approaches to Kleist, this project has Heiner Miller's words as its point of departure: that the theater represents the collision of ideas with the body. The forces of power, gender and authority leave their traces of this collision on the bodies of his characters, whose metaphorical and literal falls, wounds and recoveries speak their own gestural language.This study is organized on the principle of Kleist's use of genre designation, the approximate chronological order of his plays, and the representation of the body. Chapter one focuses on Die Familie Schroffenstein, Der zerbrochne Krug, and Amphitryon and the notion of bodily authenticity and integrity; chapter two, on Die Hermannsschlacht and Penthesilea, looks at the spectacle of violence and its effect on the body mobilized by emotional extremity; the third chapter, on Kleist's most celebrated works, Prinz Friedrich von Homburg and Das Kathchen von Heilbronn, examines aspects of gender and vulnerability. The conclusion views his essay "Uber das Marionettentheater" not as a key to understanding his works, but rather as a culmination of them, and investigates Kleist's writing on the wounded body and its connection to grace.
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Pollard, Matthew. "The bodies of Kleist, aspects of corporeality in his dramatic works." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0018/NQ44555.pdf.
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Crawford, James E. Jr. "Seeing the Sausage Made: How Compromise Works in Large Groups and Representative Bodies." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3584.
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Inspired by the lack of Congressional compromise during the 2013 federal shutdown, I explore how compromise works in large groups and representative bodies. An on-line survey, personal interviews, and a discourse analysis of the Congressional Record yield a diverse collection of data, including personal and public stories of compromise. I examine the stories and other data through an eclectic mix of contemporary scholarship, borrowing literary theory from the Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin, socio-linguistic concepts from American linguist James Paul Gee, and moral philosophy from Israeli thinker Avishai Margalit. I also incorporate the work of political scientists Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson, as well as the political campaign coverage of writer and essayist Joan Didion.
My examination shows that differences in Discourse, Gee’s expansive model of the discourse community, underpin the uncompromising mindset that dominated the 2013 shutdown. I show that public and personal compromise have obvious differences in terms of scope and complexity, but that all successful compromises, of any size, rest on a bedrock of trust. My research uncovered more effective ways of brokering legislative compromise in the future. I also learned that public opinion polls do not influence legislative decisions. Instead, regular, personal contact, whether by phone, fax, or e-mail, is the best way to engage and influence legislators. Finally, I consider the challenges and limitations of my research, including the difficulty of collecting a large, diverse survey sample, and scheduling personal interviews with public officials.
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Tuft, Bryna. "This Is Not a Woman: Literary Bodies and Private Selves in the Works of the Chinese Avant-Garde Women Writers." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12934.
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During the period of economic expansion and openness to personal expression and individuality following Deng Xiaoping's reforms, the Chinese avant-garde women writers engaged in a project of resistance to the traditionally appropriated use of the female body, image, and voice. This resistance can be seen in the ways they consciously construct a private space in their fiction. In this dissertation, I argue that this space is created by presenting alternative forms of female sexuality, in contrast to the heterosexual wife and mother, and by adding details of their own personal histories in their writing. Key to this argument is the Chinese concept of si (privacy) and how the female avant-garde writers turn its traditionally negative associations into a positive tool for writing the self. While male appropriations of images of the female body for political or state-authored purposes are not new to the contemporary period or even the twentieth century, the female avant-garde writers are particularly conscious of the ways in which their bodies are not their own. Moreover, contemporary criticism that labels the works of the female avant-garde writers as self-exposing, titillating, and trite overlooks the difference between authorial intent and commercial or political appropriation, which has led to a profound misunderstanding of these works. In addition, it has also led to a conflation of the female avant-garde writers' works with those of the later body writers. Therefore the purpose of this dissertation is to provide a closer look at the concept of si-privacy and how it intersects with various forms of self-writing, as well as how it is used as a narrative strategy by three contemporary female authors, Xu Kun, Lin Bai, and Hai Nan. Specifically, I consider the similarities and differences in the ways that these authors create and orient themselves in both their memoirs and their self-referential fiction.
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Bernard, Julia M. "Learning by Doing: Working with Those Who Are Differently Abled." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5806.
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Ogawa, Kimiyo. "Eighteenth-century medical discourse and sensible bodies : sensibility and selfhood in the works of William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2004. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3944/.
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In Eighteenth-Century Medical Discourse and Sensible Bodies: Sensibility and Selfhood in the Works of William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, I examine how medical, philosophical and theological discourses on sensibility and on selfhood mutually informed one another in the historical moment of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in England. The key to unravelling the complex notion of sensibility principally lies in the medical discourse that investigated the source of motion, knowledge, and moral feelings. I focus on the medical tracts which can be seen as discursive responses to Locke’s epistemology. In addition, I read eighteenth-century philosophical texts and analysed some of the political debates on the French Revolution. The theory of associationism which is predicted on the study of nerves and sense-impressions throws some light on a particular aspect of sensibility which explores epistemological issues and character formation. I show how the nerve theory operated in gender specific ways, so exposing the gender bias of supposedly objective medical science. The specific writers I discuss, Godwin, Wollstonecraft and Shelley, all address the associations theory directly. A close examination of their appropriation of medical language reveals that the image of the sensible body was a constant source of inspiration, and that their literary production was a continual process of re-figuring such a medicalised body. My project attempts to make sense of the equivocal position of Godwin and Wollstonecraft, who, while upholding rationalism, avow sensibility in their literary and non-literary works. The underlying contradictions between the associationism and the authority of the individual’s mind run deep. Rather than illustrating feminine reticence in Shelley’s Frankenstein as a cultural reflection of a “proper lady,” I argue that her characterisation of the monster and of female characters must be read as complex articulations of her sentiments about the discourses on sensibility and the problem of human agency.
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Gonzalez, Jill. "Resisting bodies: margins as a site of political transgression in the works of Diamela Elitit, Guadalupe Santa Cruz and Pedro Lemebel." Thesis, Boston University, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12765.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Boston University
PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.This dissertation examines how the margins of society functioned as a site of political resistance during the Chilean dictatorship and transition to democracy. The three chapters center on Par la patria (1983) by Diamela Eltit, Cita capital (1992) by Guadalupe Santa Cruz, and La esquina es mi coraz6n (1995) and Loco afcin: cr6nicas del sidario (1996) by Pedro Lemebel. The characters in these works have suffered the violence and economic inequality of the military regime and struggled to address questions of justice and historical memory under the discourse of consensus. The characters disrupt binary oppositions and question univocal truths through their cultural identity, gender and sexuality. The first chapter examines how the main character Coya and the female prisoners use their gender, sexuality and cultural identity to pervert the maternal role assigned to women by Pinochet and rewrite his "official" version of history. The second chapter explores how Sandra's corporeal reading of Santiago and its past challenges the patriarchal structures which inform Octavia's vision. The third chapter examines the figure of the loca in Lemebel's chronicles. The term loca refers to homosexuals and transvestites, and encompasses differences of race and class. The locas ' sexuality and constructed identity undermine the patriarchal values that inform state institutions and national identity and surpass the rigid limits imposed by theTransition. The writers recognize that political transformation must begin on the linguistic and symbolic level. The narrative imposed by the military regime did not correspond to the violence and oppression that the citizens were experiencing. These authors argue that the transitional government whitewashed the past and diminished the voices of Pinochet's victims in order to close that violent chapter of Chile's past. These discourses caused a rupture between language and its ability to represent experience. Using fragmentation, neologisms and experimental syntax, the writers contest discourses of power and discover alternative modes of representation. The textual composition of these narratives mirrors the realities that the writers seek to portray. The structures that the writers dismantle through experimental language are those that their characters subve1i using their gender and sexuality.
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Bilke, Christy Ann. "The Ghost of Domesticity| A Haunting of the Minds and Bodies of Women in the Works of Flannery O'Connor and Shirley Jackson." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10827027.
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This thesis examines the representation of domesticity in the psychological and physical lives of women in literature. The interpretive question of the argument asks, how does the haunting of domesticity affect and create meaning in the lives of female characters? Domesticity is an idea that has been used to as a means of submission by a domineering other. The idea of domesticity is a catalyst that is used to help Hulga Hopewell from Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People” and Eleanor Vance from Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House to break away from oppressive influences; by examining these feminist narratives we will see how two women attempt to survive the physical and mental hauntings of domesticity and its effects on their minds and bodies as they try to preserve the self. Hulga and Eleanor are women who are not following the expectations of family nor society, as they choose to take different paths in life, they face judgment and criticism for not following societal norms. These women will struggle against the domesticity that has been passed down for generations through their mothers. Hulga is forced to move back home, where she tries everything to avoid her mother’s brand of domesticity, and Eleanor runs away trying to escape the bonds of domesticity. Both women come face to face with their deepest fears when they confront this haunting; and ultimately will be physically and mentally traumatized.
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Spoel, Philippa M. "Disciplinary and bodily decorum in eighteenth-century British elocution, a rhetorical study of works by Thomas Sheridan, John Walker, and Gilbert Austin." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq22240.pdf.
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Dupin, Coralie. "Les fusions transfrontalières de sociétés de capitaux dans l'Union européenne : aspects de droit social." Thesis, Paris 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA020006.
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Les fusions transfrontalières de sociétés de capitaux n’intéressent pas uniquement le droit des sociétés mais revêtent aussi d’importants aspects de droit social. Si la directive du 26 octobre 2005 facilite ces opérations, le renvoi aux législations nationales opéré soulève de nombreuses difficultés en l’absence de traitement harmonisé de leurs conséquences sociales. Les interrogations suscitées par la mise en oeuvre de la participation des travailleurs aux organes de gestion de la société issue de l’opération n’en sont qu’une illustration. D’autres questions relatives notamment au devenir des instances de représentation du personnel existant au sein des sociétés parties à la fusion, aux normes collectives ou aux contrats de travail, restent en suspens. A celles-ci et à d’autres, cette étude tente d’apporter des réponses. Les enjeux dont les fusions transfrontalières sont porteuses l’exigentCross-border mergers of incorporated companies do not only interest Company Law but also comprise important aspects of Labour & Employment Law. If the European Directive dated 26 October 2005 facilitates these transactions, the reference made to national legislation raises many difficulties in the absence of harmonized treatment of the social consequences of transactions. The questions raised by the implementation of workers' participation in management bodies of the company resulting from the transaction are an illustration. Other issues include the fate of employees’ representative bodies of existing staff within the merging companies, collective norms and employment contracts, remain unresolved. To these and others, this study attempts to provide answers. The consequences of the cross-border transactions require that answers be given to the unresolved issues
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Mahapa, Raisibe Matlhako. "Sex workers gendered subjectivities: bodies, sexuality, love, and desire among sex workers in Hillbrow." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/15832.
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Master of Arts (Coursework and Research) in Development Studies.This paper aims to provide an in-depth insight into sex workers’ perceptions of their bodies, and their experiences and constructions of gender, sexuality, love, and desire within the sex work industry that is risk prone and criminalized. Gendered subjectivities are more complicated than the dominant research on sex work exposes especially when we consider Butler’s conceptualization of the precarious ‘nature’ of life and the vulnerability of bodies. This paper argues that there is something valuable and ‘touching’ when exploring the complex ways in which the women in this study claimed autonomy over their selves and their bodies; and how they constructed and attached pride to their identities in a context where society ‘denies’ them dignity and objectifies them because of the ‘deviant’ work that they do. This is done by focusing on narratives from sex workers, who worked in Hillbrow, regarding their bodily experiences and the way that they perceive various roles that they play in their lives, particularly motherhood.
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Henderson, Charlotte. "Reconceptualizing bodies and pleasure: considerations by and for sex-positive service workers." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/7202.
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Human sexuality has been overrun with narratives that limit the possibilities of pleasure. Sex-positive workers have the potential to challenge the ways in which these limitations become embodied. In this research I explore narratives of sex education and youth, pleasure as prevention, and the medicalization of sexuality. I engage in collective biography as a way to identify how these narratives shape the way bodies and pleasure get taken up in specific places. Drawing from poststructural feminist theory I propose three ways of reconceptualizing bodies and pleasure as emergent sites of change and potential. Through an analysis of the experiences of sex-positive service workers in Canada, I consider what else, and for whom, bodies, pleasure, and sex education might look like.Graduate
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Van, Vugt Sarah. "Beauty on the job: visual representation, bodies, and Canada's women war workers, 1939-1945." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/7547.
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This dissertation analyzes visual representations of Canadian women war workers
during the Second World War, examining the intersections of labour, gender, beauty
culture, bodies, media, consumer culture, advertising, class, whiteness, and sexuality
featured in these images. It argues that without considering each of these themes, it is
impossible to fully understand wartime representations of women workers. In examining
these intersections, the dissertation highlights the power of visual representations and
demonstrates the key roles of beauty culture and heterosexuality in munitions plants. By
comparing images of women war workers in nationally-circulated magazines and
advertisements, locally-produced newsletters from three southern Ontario war plants,
archival photos, and newspaper coverage of the Miss War Worker beauty contest, this
study shows that the beautiful woman war worker was a visual icon who symbolized the
tensions, worries, and hopes around labour, beauty, and femininity, in wartime as well as
in the postwar period, when war workers’ presumed next step into white motherhood was
of particular importance to the national project. Women workers were constantly
encouraged and pressured to engage with beauty culture and participate in self-fashioning.
Probing the relationship between how war workers were depicted and what they experienced points to the power of images as well as the opportunities women had to
exercise agency by pushing back against visual ideals as well as by emulating them.Graduate
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Thompson, Rosalea. "When Borders Cross People: Bill C-31 and the Securitization of Boundaries Across Bodies and History." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/42651.
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Bill C-31 represents an important piece of policy in the history of Canadian citizenship. It takes its place in a dialog of policy and resistance about who ‘gets in’ and who is excluded from Canadian citizenship. By critically reading the text of Bill C-31 through other policy texts, academic arguments and research, and activist texts, this analysis elucidates historical connections between relations of capital, immigration, labour, and the criminal justice system. It works from a materialist feminist framework, critical of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation as systems that work through one another in dialectical and historically specific ways. The analysis argues that Bill C-31 is a continuation of relations of capital and that a dialectical conceptualization can yield strategies for a revolutionary praxis that offers hope for the transformation of existing social relations towards new and more humane ways of relating to one another.
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Ricardo, Andres Garza Wicker. "Manufacturing bodies : a (re)description of the undocumented sweatshop worker in the US." Thesis, 2005. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/8499/1/MR10172.pdf.
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This thesis analyzes the discursive construction of the undocumented sweatshop worker in the mainstream US media. It is centered on the media coverage of a raid by US authorities on a sweatshop in El Monte, California in August, 1995, in which 72 undocumented workers were found under captivity and extreme working conditions. Based on a social-constructivist epistemology, this study (re)describes how the undocumented sweatshop worker is constituted, through language, as a subject and it analyzes the implications of such a construction in its social and political context. A selection of US newspaper articles---from the New York Times and the Washington Post---and the exhibition Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820-Present, organized by the National Museum of American History, are qualitatively approached through Critical Discourse Analysis. Through such an analysis, this thesis problematizes the mainstream US media by (re)describing the dangers of portraying the immigrant sweatshop worker as an absent, alien and criminal subject; as a passive victim and a redeemed resident, and by not emphasizing the interconnectedness of the sweatshop phenomenon to the structural dynamics of global capitalism.
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Su, Hui-chun, and 蘇慧纯. "The researching for mico-vision of bodies----Hui-chun Su's creating works and exposition." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87067842735680175036.
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碩士國立臺灣藝術大學
造形藝術研究所
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Within the framework of Merleau-Ponty’s approach in the posthumous Le Visible et l’invisible, I intend to explore a specific concern in contemporary art: the insides and boundaries of the human body, or the medical-anatomical body and its significance in culture and knowledge formation. Body beyond-the-scene, at the outskirts of the visible, merging interior and exterior, provides the viewer ultimately with these disparate viewing experiences at the same time: the aesthetic gaze, the clinical gaze, a mode of perception and understanding which is quintessentially beyond logic and words. With my works, I would like to formulate and dip into some fundamental questions and hypotheses about the issue of art and bio-medical science, bringing otherwise difficult medical research to the public through artistic visualisation. The other is purely aesthetic: to show and present the aesthetic quality of (bio)medical images. The organization of my thesis as follows. First, special attention will be given on the issue of the gene clone and the replication of the fine art works to explore the dimension of flesh body such as the eternal status of the classical portrait models. Second, I will inquire aesthetically mediated body by exploring the use of medical visualization techniques, such as X-ray, ultrasound, and endoscopy, in contemporary art. It will compare the artistic articulation of experiences of embodiment and subjectivity through medical imagery with general reflections on the body and aesthetics as developed recently. In the third chapter, I illustrate the points mentioned above with my original works: 〈Cells〉, 〈A Journal through the Human Body〉and allude to philosophical questions, such as those concerning the boundaries between subject and object, self and other, organism and technology, vision and the other senses.
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Chen, Chiu-hua, and 陳秋華. "Toxic Bodies, Homes, and Nature: An Ecofeminist Reading of Helena María Viramontes’s Three Works." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/e62m5y.
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博士淡江大學
英文學系博士班
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Ecofeminists are concerned about interconnected social and environmental issues intent on breaking down oppression, deconstructing dualisms, and building up both egalitarian institutions and individual perceptions of the world. This dissertation discusses contributions of ecofeminism and material feminism proposed by theorists such as Val Plumwood and Stacy Alaimo. Plumwood identifies ecofeminism as an anti-dualistic theory. Furthermore, Alaimo’s influential theory of “trans-corporeality” examines how both visible and invisible materials move around and affect various forms of body images: human beings, non-human beings, place, and nature. The alienated Chicana/os perform different forms of body images while experiencing displacement of homes and isolation of exploitation. I examine Helena María Viramontes’s three texts to understand the interwoven connections of material feminism: The Moths and Other Stories (1985), Under the Feet of Jesus (1995), and Their Dogs Came with Them (2007). The chosen texts illuminate Viramontes’s different forms of toxicity respectively The Moths and Other Stories concerns about crossing borders and losing agency works as a form of toxin. Under the Feet of Jesus cares about the dangerous influence of pesticides on the farms of California. And Their Dogs Came with Them discusses about the development of freeways as a form of pollution and the imagined rabies can be used to control Chicana/o communities. This dissertation is divided into five chapters. Chapter One introduces methodologies of ecofeminism, namely, how the harmful dualisms affect Chicana/os of different generations. Chapter Two explicates Gloria Anzaldúa’s theory of borders and the interrelationship among body, borders, and agency. Chapter Three explores historical background of farmworkers in Los Angeles. Environmental justice demonstrates how toxicity permeates cultural, social, and environmental systems in applying Stacy Alaimo’s trans-corporeality. As Chapter Four analyzes the subverting power fights against the colonial domination and the imagined disease. Through the research, it is shown that multiple perspectives of perceiving Viramontes’s literary work and to whom Viramontes tends to speak. This dissertation concludes that Viramontes urges readers to perceive entangled implications of materials and bodies.
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Norman, Douglas Everett. "Performing that-which-will-become posthuman and queer bodies in the works of Heinrich von Kleist and Oscar Wilde." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/2325.
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Hsin-JuKuo and 郭欣茹. "Resisting Bodies in Diaspora: The Negotiation of Female Agency in the Works of Meena Alexander, Jhumpa Lahiri, Bharati Mukherjee and Monica Ali." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/40698643556883769855.
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博士國立成功大學
外國語文學系碩博士班
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This dissertation traces the contemporary immigrant narratives of the South Asian female writers Meena Alexander, Jhumpa Lahiri, Bharati Mukherjee, and Monica Ali, examining the ways in which the main female characters Sandhya Rosenblum, Jasmine, Mrs. Sen, Ashima Ganguli and Nazneen act as the epitome of the various ways in which immigrant identities of South Asian women are narratively resisted, performed, negotiated, and transgressed. The female protagonists display a revision of the tradition of immigrant literature by showing a fragmentary concept of identity. Neither persuaded by the assimilation models of cultural identity reformation nor adopting a complete rejection of foreign culture by adhering to a nostalgic melancholy, they advance a heteroglossic, dialogical concept of self and open up a spectrum-like space between the two extremes of immigrant narratives. Marked as dislocated and marginalized, the immigrant woman’s body signifies emergent diasporic subjectivities and identities, revealing the importance of the lived body as a vital facet of the migratory experience. This dissertation not only explores the ways in which immigrant female bodies serve as sites for the articulation of the traumatic displacement, but also attempts to study the transgressive ways in which the female bodies become the loci for resistance and ultimately for the construction of negotiable agency. I draw my academic inspiration from a wide range of theories as well as border studies in approaching these selected works. I read these immigrant women’s rebuttals to varied coercive ideologies, such as Indian patriarchy, nationalism and westernized assimilation, as situated in the intersecting space crisscrossed by postcolonialism, ethnic studies and transnational feminism, and have selectively referred to theoretical concepts drawn from each of these backgrounds. Such an interdisciplinary inquiry attempts to further problematize and amplify the complexity and heterogeneity of immigrant women’s predicaments in re-fashioning a subjectivity as well as agency. The first analytical chapter elaborates Mena Alexander’s powerful narratives to articulate how the marginalization as an ethnic Other proves to be overpowering for the diasporic woman Sandhya Rosenblum. In analyzing Manhattan Music, I explore the ways the female body is in relation to memory and migration. The second analytical chapter on Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Mrs. Sen’s” and The Namesake delves into the indivisible correlations between immigrant women’s gendered bodies and foodways, elucidating how the culinary praxis as ritualized everyday activities elaborate the lives of subjugated and marginalized female subjects in diasporic contexts. The third chapter on Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine aims to explore the duality of Jasmine’s bodily submissiveness and subversiveness which coexist within Jasmine’s mobility out of necessity and ineluctability. That is to say, in defining her mobility, Jasmine’s body serves as a contested site exposing others’ predominance over it in both racial and gender terms, while also performing a kind of subversive resistance from within this power hierarchy. In the fourth analytical chapter on Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, I explore the relations between migrant women’s bodies and gendered notions of home and nationalism, highlighting the relationship between immigrant women’s formation of agency and their roles as economic migrants. To use the concept of a spectrum as a metaphor for South Asian immigrant women’s aesthetics of existence, the female protagonists, Sandhya, Mrs. Sen, Ashima, Jasmine and Nazneen, who appear in the dissertation, represent a gradual development towards self-assertion.
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KUAN, YU-HO, and 官語荷. "Solitude・Transgression and Bodily activities-A narrative on creative works by Kuan Yu Ho." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46012830656813211610.
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碩士國立臺北教育大學
藝術與造形設計學系碩士班
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People nowadays live busy and formulated lives. Through brief contacts people bond and part. Everything seemed unreal as a layer of foam as I calmly watch the changes around me. Through examining the linkage between one individual and the outside world, the only thing that seemed real is our innate feeling. By gaining a grasp and understanding of my own feeling gave me a comfortable angle in viewing this world. If one can only control a small fragment of the external world, I choose to retreat into my solitary world, carrying on my own monologue, keeping a safe distance from the world outside. It is my way interacting with the world. Instead of drifting along with the mass majority, I place my focus on the innate thinking and response in accordance to the changes around. The essay topic “Solitude, Transgression and bodily activities” is a concentration on the core concept derived from series of my creative works. It is about my works, the occurrence of solitude during the creation of my works, the blind spins during absence d’ceuvre, and the bodily activities and sense as presented from my works and myself as a creator.
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CHEN, HUAN-SEN, and 陳煥森. "The Research on the Institutions of Xi Jinping's Consolidation of Military Authority： Analysis of PLA's Inspection, Anti-Corruption, Leading Bodies Reform and Security Works." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28s93q.
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博士國防大學政治作戰學院
政治研究所
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After the Communist Party of China （CPC） has held “The Eighteenth National Congress” in mid-November 2012. Xi Jinping took over the position of General Secretary of the Central Committee, the Chairman of the Military Commission and the President of the National Committee successively from Hu Jintao became the highest leader, also set the party, government and military powers in one leader, then formmation of a comprehensive situation in power. However in the early days of Xi’s administration, in view of the past, Jiang Zemin’s old subordinates Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou, their long-term abuse of power and corruption in People’s Liberation Army（PLA） and leading to the Discipline Inspection Organ’s dysfunctions of original General Political Department. The internal power of the PLA lack of effective control on the power and supervision mechanism, this resulted the corrupt atmosphere of trading official position has been spread in the PLA. That is not only a serious impact on military morale and force strength, but also a direct threat to the traditional political system of “party leads the army” and “the party commands the gun”. Xi Jinping in order to revive the fundamental system and political thinking of the party’s absolute leadership over the armed forces, put forward the guidance and requirements of “Dream of Strong Military” and “Dream of Strong China”, then homeopathic forces in the army to promote inspection, anti-corruption, leading bodies reform, enhance the security work and other military power plan. Its purpose is to combat corruption in the army and improve the past political departments problem on the supervision of misconduct and abuse of power. Xi through the construction and reform of the army, then use of a series of leadership system construction and supervision system arrangements to further re-shaping and improve the CPC traditional political system of “the party command the gun”, take this to revive the party and the Chairman of the Central Military Commission for the military absolute leadership and command to ensure that the individual’s ruling prestige and the consolidation of military power. Thus Xi due to the policy of consolidated military power was promoted in recent years, its not only gradually improved the power of the past about PLA General Political Department was too large caused the power uncontrollable under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee and the Chairman of the Central Military Commission. At the same time, improve the atmosphere of corruption through the military reform continued deep in the grassroots level to development, and re-layout of the military personnel to promote their own troops to ensure the stability of military power. Analysis of the thesis is from the comprehensive institutionalization of the new army’s leadership system and supervisory system to research the recent years Xi powerfully use the old political principles of “party leads the army” on PLA’s full institutionalization new leadership system and supervise the army system to fight against corruption forces, than re-shaping the army leading command system, so that the military power in the system of mutual checks and balances, therefore institutionalized focus on the control of the Party Central Committee and the Chairman of the Central Military Commission, also further reached the goal of consolidating his military power to ensure the government stability of the CPC.
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Vaughan, Crystal A. "Language, Translation, and the Inscription of the Female Body in the Works of Margaret Atwood." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10222/13025.
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In The Handmaid’s Tale, Bodily Harm, and Alias Grace, Atwood demonstrates that the connection between language, translation, and the female body is evident in the ways in which language is used to control the female body. Atwood posits that language systems assume the female body is fixed; however, language is inherently unstable. Consequently, if the female body is inscribed by language, the female body is not fixed just as a text is not fixed. Atwood writes the female body as a translation of masculinist text in order to resist the tradition of constructing the female body reductively through masculinist language. Through the attempts of her female characters to represent themselves (rather than being represented) in her work, Atwood illustrates that ?authentic? linguistic representation of the female body is impossible because language is a patriarchal construction which defines limitations on female voice and articulates the female body in masculinist terms.
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Spring and 吳春慧. "Dialetic of the Labor and Knowledge: The Bodily Practices and Body Writing in Syman Rapongan and Ahronglong Sakinu's Literary Works." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26168490183380265235.
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Fancy, Nahyan A. G. "Pulmonary transit and bodily resurrection the interaction of medicine, philosophy and religion in the works of Ibn al-Nafīs (d. 1288) /." 2006. http://etd.nd.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-11292006-152615/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2006.Thesis directed by Phillip R. Sloan and Ahmad Dallal for the Graduate Program in the History and Philosophy of Science. "December 2006." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 259-278).