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Odoom, Hyiamang Safo Mr. "ETHNIC MARKETS IN THE AMERICAN RETAIL LANDSCAPE: AFRICAN MARKETS IN COLUMBUS, CLEVELAND, CINCINNATI, AND AKRON, OHIO." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1343052487.
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Widhyastuti, Ichsanna Samba Rukmie, and samba widhyastuti@gmail com. "Ethniehubs: A Case Study of Sydney, Australia." Faculty of Architecture, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3957.
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Doctor of PhilosophyAbstract There has been a significant change in Australian consumer behaviour with an increase in time and money spent, in suburban ethnic business districts (named in this study as ethniehubs). But little attention has been paid to the role of ethnically owned stores in generating income within ethniehubs. In fact, there is still a lack of research conducted by architects and planners about the way in which the physical environment of ethnic stores in ethniehubs attract consumers, and the way in which the physical environment affect consumers’ behaviour. Therefore, the study is important in filling the current gap in literature. For this Sydney-based study, two separate ethniehubs are used for data collection - Leichhardt with a strong Italian character, and Cabramatta with identifiably Vietnamese attributes. The goal of this study is to find out how the ethniehubs have developed and how consumers behave in ethniehubs. The present study derived from architecture and planning, also addresses the effect of the physical environment of ethnic stores on consumers behaviour at both store and ethniehub level. The research has several questions to answer. How have Sydney’s ethniehubs developed? How do ethniehubs influence consumer behaviour? More specifically: What attracts consumers to ethniehubs? Who are these consumers? What do they purchase? Does the ethnic background of consumers influence their behaviour in ethniehubs? The data are collected through observation, survey and focus group discussions of consumers at both Leichhardt and Cabramatta. The findings of this research have a number of implications for urban planning, i.e tourism, place branding and place marketing. By understanding the importance of the physical environment of ethnic stores, more considered architectural design and interior decoration will ensure that their most highly valued aspects are reinforced. This study also contributes to the knowledge of urban planning of ethniehub shopping precincts and ethnic stores decorations each of which has important social and economic consequences.
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Grantham, Minna. "THE MAINTENANCE OF ETHNIC CULTURE AND MANIFESTATIONS OF ETHNIC IDENTITY IN THE LIFE STORIES OF FINNISH IMMIGRANTS." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3800.
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This study examined whether Finnish immigrants show evidence of assimilation or if they have maintained their ethnic culture in the United States. More specifically, the purpose was to examine how the ethnic culture has been maintained and the ways that ethnic identity manifests itself in their life stories. Ten qualitative, semi-structured interviews were conducted with Finnish immigrants and children of Finnish immigrants, and emerging themes were identified in the data. The results indicate a strong ethnic identity among Finnish immigrants, yet it appears to be a very much taken for granted experience for them. The immigrants' lives were influenced by their ethnicity in that they lived in predominantly Finnish areas, preferred Finnish as their daily language, participated in Finnish activities, especially the Lutheran church, followed customs, and kept regular contact with friends and family in Finland. One of the major differences between the immigrants and children of immigrants was their language use. The norms and policies have been that ethnic groups will assimilate; yet this cohort of Finnish immigrants demonstrates a high level of maintenance of their ancestral culture, thus providing support for Cultural Pluralism. Future studies should address the specific organizations, mainly the Lutheran church, and its influence on the maintenance of Finnish culture, and future studies should address the meaning of language in more detail.M.A.
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Arts and Sciences
Applied Sociology
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Lamboley, Lydia. "Are stories just stories? : An analysis of the effect of intergenerational narratives about communism on ethnic identity." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-105179.
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Post-dictatorship reconstruction is a recurrent research topic in peace and development. Memories and the remembrance of the past, at the collective or family level can impact populations years after the beginning of their democratisation processes. The purpose of this study is to understand the impact of intergenerational transmission of memories about communism within the family on the ethnic identity of younger generations born after it. It focuses on the generation of Hungarians living in Transylvania, born after the fall of communism in 1989, which parents grew up in the same region and experienced Ceausescu’s communist dictatorship. This paper relies on the concepts of intergenerational narratives, symbolic ethnic boundaries, and psychology theories about their effect on identity, and data from qualitative interviews and focus groups. Through a thematic analysis and a narrative discourse analysis from discursive psychology, the results show that to a certain extent, memories can be used to strengthen the ethnic identity and ethnic boundaries of the younger generations. It has also concluded that it could amplify their segregation in the future, although discriminations based on the proficiency in the Romanian language seem to be its main driver.
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Lee, Peace Bakwon. "Contested Stories: Constructing Chaoxianzu Identity." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1316229935.
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Buckingham, Will. "Naïve phenomenology : thinking ethics through stories." Thesis, Staffordshire University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.443296.
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Kavlie, Justin. "Stories of Hope and Ethnic Identification: A Look at Organ Donation Communication." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/28658.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of ethnic identification and ethnic portrayals in organ donation stories on the attitudes towards organ donation, the intent to register to become an organ donor, and the intent to discuss organ donation with friends and family. An online experiment was conducted where 202 undergraduate participants viewed one of three randomly selected ethnic portrayal conditions: African-American, Caucasian, and Hispanic. Following data collection, the participants were split along the median into high and low ethnic identification for the analysis. There were no significant interaction effects found between ethnic identification and the different ethnic portrayal in the message or significant effects of the ethnic portrayal on the dependent variables. There was a significant effect found on the impact of ethnic identification on attitudes towards organ donation.
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Seiler, Tamara Palmer. "Stories from the margin, insider fictions of immigrant and ethnic experience in Canada." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0011/NQ34830.pdf.
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Perera, Menerapitiya Vidanalage Sammani Kaushalya. "Surging Sea and Other Stories." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1470353751.
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Braswell, Michael, Joycelyn M. Pollock, and Scott Braswell. "Morality Stories: Dilemmas in Ethics, Crime & Justice." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. http://a.co/cDdF8Ob.
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pt. 1. Stories and moral dilemmas : an introduction--pt. 2. Loyalty and personal relationships--Black and blue--Amnesia of the heart--Sarah Salvation--Rosy--A different justice--Stray dogs--A harmless little romance--The end is near--pt. 3. Duties to self and others--Rasheed's ticket--Invisible boy--Short-cut--The big picture--Special of the week--It's too bad about Tommy--Ballad of the Wafflehouse queen--Truth teller--pt. 4. Justice and redemption--The open door--Prison lullabies--Tin spoke parade--Thunder for Mally--Best intentions--The cracker jack gospel--The mercy seat--As is.https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1103/thumbnail.jpg
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Braswell, Michael, Joycelyn M. Pollock, and Scott Braswell. "Morality Stories: Dilemmas in Ethics, Crime & Justice." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://amzn.com/1594603073.
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pt. 1. Stories and moral dilemmas : an introduction--pt. 2. Loyalty and personal relationships--1. Black and blue--2. Amnesia of the heart--3. Sarah Salvation--4. Rosy--5. A different justice--6. Stray dogs--pt. 3. Duties to self and others--7. Rasheed's ticket--8. Invisible boy--9. The big picture--10. Special of the week--11. It's too bad about Tommy--12. Truth teller--pt. 4. Justice and redemption--13. The open door--14. Prison lullabies--15. Tin spoke parade--16. Thunder for Mally--17. The mercy seat--18. As is.https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1102/thumbnail.jpg
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Chawdhury, Valentina. "HEALTH DISPARITIES AMONG SOUTH ASIANS: IS FOOD INSECURITY THE MISSING LINK?" CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/900.
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Objective: Food insecurity among South Asians in the US is a public health issue. Food insecure adults face a plethora of adverse outcomes and research shows that individuals with ancestral origins from South Asia have a higher susceptibility rate for cardiovascular disease after migrating to urban environments. As such, the goal of this study was to research possible barriers South Asians face when creating cultural dishes in the US.
Methods: This was a convergent parallel mixed-methods analysis to understand how South Asians feel about food insecurity. Pricing and availability of cultural food items were obtained from South Asian and Western grocery stores. Focus groups were conducted among twelve participants who identified as South Asian immigrants where participants discussed their experiences obtaining cultural food items. After the interviews, the discussions were transcribed, and patterns were identified and analyzed.
Results: The results of the study demonstrate that South Asians find barriers such as availability, price, and quality when shopping for cultural food items. Participants reported cooking cultural foods at a lower frequency than what they would prefer because while many of the food items commonly used in cultural dishes were available at both Western and South Asian grocery stores, South Asian stores were more expensive. Furthermore, participants reported that some culturally specific ingredients were not available at South Asian stores thus further limiting their ability to cook healthy items.
Conclusion: The results of the study highlight the need for more public health initiative to address food insecurity among South Asians in the US.
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Garza, Kimberly Rose. ""The Last Karankawas": Stories." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1505288/.
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Garza, Kimberly Rose. "The Last Karankawas: Stories." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1505288/.
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Williamson, Kathleen G. "Gathering places: Stories of a twentieth-century Irish American woman." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284137.
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This dissertation is a narrative ethnobiography based on anthropological fieldwork I conducted with my mother, Mae, who was both collaborator and subject. Between 1995 and 1998, I researched Mae's life history and cultural worlds by traveling with her to visit the places and people of her past in Ireland and New York. As such, this project contributes to the literature on life stories by employing conversations within a community rather than the single uncontested voice of an interview. This work provides the first-hand accounts of a group neglected in research, that of 20th-century Irish female immigrants, and examines the impact of patriarchal economic and domestic constraints on this group. The theoretical concerns of this work include discussions about the nature of place, memory, and constructions of individual and cultural self. I argue beyond academic and popular functionalist "sense of place" discourses, a constructive phenomenon I call "the Brigadoon Syndrome," to illuminate the "senses of displace" felt within Irish and Irish American cultures. The sense of Ireland as a transatlantic place in a liminal state between traditionalism and global modernity is also emergent in the narratives. Although centered in dialogical anthropology, my methodological and theoretical approach shifts in focus from an anthropology of culture to an "anthropology of place." This shift occurs along the lines of recent phenomenological philosophy concerned with place, anthropological innovations concerned with the multiplicity, interconnectedness, cultural meaning of place, and cultural studies in transnational and global modernity. In order to understand Irish and Irish American culture, the analysis herein is attentive to social dialogical constructions of place, memory, gender, migration, local and nationalistic identities, religion, death, and family.
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Mullins, Emily Ann. "Reactions to American Food Culture: Stories from Immigrants in Athens, Ohio." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1556212579404894.
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Lopez, Maria A. "Stories from the heart: Youth narratives on alternative schooling experiences." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290118.
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If you had a choice to be in an environment that ignored you and made you feel insecure and inferior, or one that affirmed your individuality, your identity, and made you feel welcome, which one would you choose? This study is about such decisions. "Stories from the Heart: Youth Narratives on Alternative Schooling Experiences" seeks to understand the social and educational conditions that lead growing numbers of "minoritized" youth to enter alternative education settings. The term minoritized refers to youth who have been disenfranchised educationally by the systemic interactions of socio-economic, socio-political, and linguistic forces that structure their everyday experiences; however, they are not necessarily minority in a numerical sense. It is my premise that these structures of feeling frame how these youth experience living in a modern world with competing interests and how they negotiate multiple subjectivities and identities. Increasing concerns about standards, safety, and accountability in American public education have given rise to a growing number of alternative school settings. Students arrive at these schools largely due to culminating negative experiences. The reasons range from school failure due to academic and/or behavior problems, poor home-school communication, excessive truancy, social alienation and juvenile delinquency to those motivated students who are working full-time to accomplish life goals in the fastest way possible. At many of these alternative schools, Hispanic/Latino and other minoritized students comprise a majority of the student body. As a teacher in the alternative-charter school where this research took place, the qualitative methods utilized revealed some surprising results. Although the data confirmed some prior findings in research on alternative schools, the results of this study bring forth new understandings of and possibilities for the education of disengaged youth. This study confirms that minoritized students enrolling in alternative education settings have a historical and enduring dissatisfaction with traditional public schools. And yet, provided with a more positive schooling experience, minoritized youth express genuine excitement for learning and even came to view school as a congenial environment. They profess learning more "than in any other school" in both academic lessons and the moral education of enhanced life skills. Grounded in Critical Theory and understanding of a caring approach to schooling, this study espouses the need for "love" in schooling as a pathway for positive educational change and revolutionary social transformation.
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Litster, Carol Ann. "Stories of Success: Three Latino Students Talk About School." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3514.
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Latino students in the United States face significant challenges including very high student dropout rates and difficulties finding support for student academic success. This research focuses on Latino students who are successful despite these many challenges and explores how these successful students describe their experiences in school. Three successful Latino high school students describe their pathways toward academic achievement in this ethnography, which takes a narrative approach. The student stories illustrate the influence of families, peers, schools, and the interplay between ethnic and academic identity as relevant to how students achieve success. Although these students articulate very different experiences, supports and challenges, all of the students are successful in school, which encourages a reexamination of the ways schools and communities can support minority student success.
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Driver, Cory Thomas. "Personal Experience (Hi)Stories from Moroccan Mixed Ethno-Religious Communities." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1312991523.
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Sauer, Philip. "“I'm Always from Elsewhere”: A Narrative Inquiry into Two Ethnic German Life Courses Shaped by the Second World War." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1313426428.
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Minto, Robert Michael David. "In Defense of Evil Stories: A Study in the Ethics of Audition." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107973.
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Thesis advisor: Jorge L.A. GarciaWhen Odysseus sets sail from Circe’s island, she advises him to stop up his ears and eyes when he passes the Sirens or he will suffer terrible consequences. He makes his crew do it, but keeps his own senses clear, asking only to be tied to the mast so he cannot act on any bewitchments. This story could almost be an allegory about the moral danger of art. In this dissertation, I defend a small part of what I take to be the Odyssean thesis: that art is worth the danger it represents, and, specifically, that what I call "evil stories" are worth the danger they represent. The phrase "evil stories" is a shorthand, for me, for the longer phrase "stories which require us, in order to understand them, to imaginatively simulate the point of view of characters who commit acts of great harm for sadistic, malicious, or defiant reasons." I argue that auditing “evil stories” is not, for most people, and as part of a balanced imaginative diet, so morally dangerous that they ought to be avoided; moreover, I argue that it can be morally opportune to audit them and, in some special cases, morally obligatory. My strategy to defend this thesis is two part. First, I formulate and respond to what I take to be the most serious reasons to suspect that auditing evil stories is too morally dangerous. Those reasons include: the idea that auditing evil stories is itself an immoral action (chapter 3); the idea that it is a virtue to be unable to perform the mental operations involved in adequately auditing evil stories (chapter 4); the idea that understanding evil actions or characters is tantamount to condoning them (chapter 5); and the idea that being fascinated by evil undercuts one's standing to condemn it (chapter 6). Second, I venture several tentative arguments in support of the idea that evil stories can actually provide opportunities for moral growth and education: the idea that evil stories provoke unique and valuable kinds of moral reflection and that we can sometimes be obligated to audit them (chapter 7); and the idea that auditing evil stories is uniquely revelatory of some kind of moral truth (chapter 8). In the course of all this rebutting and reason giving, I propose a way of thinking about the ethics of audition in general which I call "role-centered response moralism," which develops obliquely across the subsections of various chapters
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2018
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Philosophy
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Asri, Samineh. "The Stories Need to be Told : The politics of visibility/invisibility: Museum representations and participation of migrants, refugees, and ethnic minorities." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, REMESO - Institutet för forskning om migration, etnicitet och samhälle, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-161700.
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International migration and the refugee crisis have sparked a number of debates within the public policy circle. This issue also has profound social and cultural implications, even in the museum sector. Despite the efforts of ethnographic museums to set aside skin colour or ethnicities as a means of distinction, and to be open to new perspectives, the representation of migrants, refugees and ethnic minorities still evokes the purported continuity of white supremacy as the persistent legacy of colonialism. In this thesis, my attempt is to examine the extent to which there is a probability of exercising invisible power in participatory and exhibition spaces. I look at how the Tensta Art Centre, as a small and local institute, tackles the production of different knowledges and attempts to become a space of appearance for migrants and ethnic minorities. I also compare its efforts with those of big-scale institutes such as the World Culture Museum, which is a Swedish ethnographic museum. This study investigates the possibility of producing a place of embodied institutional critique within exhibition spaces in an active and meaningful way. This has been explored through the concept of visibility/invisibility in the complexes of visuality, as evident in the observations made in my study cases. In addition, I have adopted a critical analysis approach to examine the possibility of having multiple and assemblage forms of knowledge productions in participatory spaces. Finally, through my study, I understood that despite the effort to make the new space without hierarchy, there is still the risk and possibility of hegemonic discourses and thinking that lead to complicities.
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Danish, Farhan. "FOOD INSECURITY AMONG SOUTH ASIAN IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN THE INLAND EMPIRE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/891.
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Background: Food insecurity amongst South Asian Americans is a major public health issue. The South Asian American (SAA) community is the third largest Asian community in the United States. Despite this fact, very few specific studies have been conducted to investigate the food needs and barriers that exist within the SAA community so as to successfully help them improve dietary habits.
Methods: This study utilized a mixed methods convergent parallel design, where both qualitative and quantitative methods were conducted and analyzed separately and compared and contrasted at the end.
Results: The results of this study demonstrate that ethnic grocery stores were limited and scattered for the population to access them. Also, some ingredients used by the population were not available in general grocery stores and the pricing was considerably higher. Results of the focus group show that what was considered healthy in their home country would be expensive in the United States and thus switching to cheaper options in the new country was norm. Furthermore, cultural/religious appropriate food items were limited due to cost and often impacted participants’ dietary behavior. In addition to expense, the availability of ethnic-specific food ingredients was limited and/or would require significant travel to obtain them, and thus further contributed to change their dietary habits.
Conclusion: The results of the study highlight the need for more interventions focusing on the food habits of the SAA population, in terms of availability of ingredients and accessibility to the ethnic grocery stores in the Inland Empire of Southern California.
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Spencer, Patricia Elizabeth Lambiase Jacqueline. "Ethical decision making in the Indian mediascape reporters and their stories /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-10981.
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Hoeyer, Klaus. "Biobanks and informed consent : An anthropological contribution to medical ethics." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för folkhälsa och klinisk medicin, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-358.
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Background: 1985 saw the beginnings of a population-based biobank in Västerbotten County, Sweden. In 1999, a start-up genomics company, UmanGenomics, obtained ‘all commercial rights’ to the biobank. The company introduced an ethics policy, which was well received in prestigious journals, focusing on public oversight and informed consent. Aims: To explore how social anthropology can aid understanding of the challenges posed by the new role of the biobank in Västerbotten, and thus complement more established traditions in the field of medical ethics. An anthropological study of the ethics policy was executed. Theoretical perspective: Inspired by the anthropology of policy and social science perspectives on ethics and morality, the policy was studied at three analytical levels: policymakers (who formulate the policy), policy workers (who implement the policy, primarily nurses who obtain informed consent) and target group (for whom and on whom the policy is supposed to work: the potential donors to the biobank). Methods: Policymakers, nurses, and potential donors were interviewed, donations observed, and official documents analysed to mirror the moral problematizations made at the three levels in each other and to study the practical implications of the policy. To extend the reliability of the findings two surveys were executed: one among the general population, one among donors. Results: The qualitative studies show that policymakers distinguish between blood and data differently to potential donors. Informed consent seems more important to policymakers than potential donors, who are more concerned about political implications at a societal level. Among the respondents from the survey in the general public, a majority (66.8%) accepted surrogate decisions by Research Ethics Committees; a minority (4 %) stated informed consent as a principal concern; and genetic research based on biobank material was generally accepted (71%). Among the respondents to the survey in donors, 65% knew they had consented to donate a blood sample, and 32% knew they could withdraw their consent; 6% were dissatisfied with the information they had received; and 85% accepted surrogate decisions by Research Ethics Committees. Discussion: The ethics policy constitutes a particular naming and framing of moral problems in biobank-based research which overemphasises the need for informed consent, and underemphasises other concerns of potential donors. This embodies a political transformation where access to stored blood and medical information is negotiated in ethical terms, while it also has unacknowledged political implications. In particular, the relations between authorities and citizens in the Swedish welfare state are apparently transforming: from mutual obligation to individual contracts. Conclusion: Anthropology contributes to medical ethics with increased awareness of the practical implications of particular research ethical initiatives. This awareness promotes appreciation of the political implications of ethics policies and raises new issues for further consideration.
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Dyson, Henry. "Prolēpsis and koinē ennoia in the early Stoa." [S.l. : s.n.], 2004. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/174205439.html.
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Kitchen, Rebecca Jane. "How do ethnic minority students represent geographical knowledge? : exploring the stories that relate to representations and link with post-14 subject choices." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267923.
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Students who identify as being from an ethnic minority are under-represented within school geography in England at Key Stage 4 (ages 14 – 16) and Key Stage 5 (ages 16 – 18). At these stages geography is an optional subject and how students view geographical knowledge may influence their GCSE and A level subject choices. This study uses an intersectional theoretical lens to explore representations of geographical knowledge by students of different ethnicities, the stories that relate to these representations and how the students accounted for the GCSE and A level subject choices that they made. The first part of the study reveals a lack of empirical and contemporary research into ethnic minority students’ views of geographical knowledge and subject choices. This is followed by a two-strand exploratory case study at one girls’ grammar school in England. The practitioner-researcher strand was two phase; in the first phase, 314 sixth form students (aged 16 – 18) completed a questionnaire to gauge initial views of geographical knowledge. During the second phase, eight of these students represented their views of geographical knowledge through collages, critical incident charts and semi-structured interviews that explored their stories in depth. In parallel, a group of Year 10 (aged 14 – 15) students as researchers used questionnaires to investigate the influence of parents and other factors contributing to students’ subject choices at GCSE level. In the study, geographical knowledge was represented in different ways given different methods. It was found to be diverse and individual, although it was possible for specific themes to be identified. The representations reflected the characteristics and concepts from students’ recent formal experiences of geography. Informal experiences also featured but these were not always explicit or straightforwardly definable. Unless students could see the intrinsic usefulness of their view of geographical knowledge then they were unlikely to choose the subject past GCSE level. This study expands theoretical conceptualisations of how students represent geographical knowledge and the factors affecting subject choice, engages students as researchers in a methodologically innovative way and provides a rich and detailed account of post-14 subject choice by ethnic minority students which otherwise does not exist in an English context.
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Spencer, Patricia Elizabeth. "Ethical Decision Making in the Indian Mediascape: Reporters and Their Stories." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc10981/.
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Hundreds of reporters gather and interpret news for four English-language newspapers in India's second-largest urban area Kolkata, West Bengal's state capital, which is home to over 4 million people. Journalists from The Statesman, The Telegraph-Kolkata, The Hindustan Times and The Times of India discuss how they collect their stories in Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, and many other languages and write them in English targeting a small but emerging middle-class audience. Whether these articles focus on people-centric urban planning, armed vigilantes in community disputes, dowry death cases, or celebrity culture, all of the reporting involves cultural and ethical challenges. Using semi-structured interviewing and qualitative theme analysis, this study explores how gender, class, and religion affect the decision-making practices of 21 journalists working in Kolkata.
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Bridle, Lisa. "Stories of choice : mothers of children with Down syndrome and the ethics of prenatal diagnosis /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18304.pdf.
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Dalla, Libera Marchiori Giorgia, and Juho Liimatainen. "Desperate times call for responsible measures : Understanding responsibility through the stories of academic activists." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-447343.
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In recent years, activism movements have shaken public consciousness, waking us up to the fact that there is no time to waste in light of the Social and Environmental Crises humanity is facing. Since the pivotal role of science and technology has in both creating and trying to solve those Crises, scientists’ political engagement has been the topic of an increasing number of publications. A number of authors call for academics to engage in activism, reasoning it with the responsibility academics have towards society as professionals and human beings. However, what this responsibility itself means in the context of academic activism has been largely overlooked. We identified Hans Jonas’ ethics of responsibility as the most apt theory to analyze the phenomenon. In fact, according to Jonas, science has unleashed the uncontrolled power of technology by only seeing the benefits of technological innovations, while forgetting to consider its costs. Therefore, ethical reflections should be brought back into science to move from a retroactive towards a future- oriented responsibility that focus of preserving the existence of future generations on Earth. Through semi-structured interviews with academics who are engaged in academic activism, we investigate the concept of responsibility in relation to their engagement. Our findings indicate that academic activism is a manifestation of individual future-oriented responsibility, sparked by the fear for a doomed future. Unfortunately, the attempt by academic activists to bring ethical reflections into the wider institutional context is faced with resistance by the prevailing neoliberal system, which prevents academia from taking collective responsibility and re-establishing its social mandate.
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Jordan, Cheryl D. "Stories of Resistance: Black Women Corporate Executives Opposing Gendered (Everyday) Racism." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1312461227.
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George, David Brian. "The stoic poet Lucan : Lucan's Bellum Civile and stoic ethical theory /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487260531954394.
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Mirza, Avesta. "A Woman's Truth : Four Women's Personal Stories of Being Victims of Honor-Related Violence." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-29937.
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Honor related violence has become a recognized abuse all over the world and violence against women carried out by the men in their families is and has always been a resurfacing problem in all societies. This paper will focus on the problems which relate to cultures where honor related violence is a more common practice and will depart from societies where men can take violent actions against women in the name of family honor and hide behind cultural exemptions. This paper is written to create a deeper insight to the needs and wants of subjected women and to understand their own perception of this type of violence and its underlying causes. This paper takes on the view solely of the subjected women and is a direct presentation of their stories and their lives. Instead of using outside observers this paper goes directly to the women living in these types of situations and represents the women based on their own wants and needs from society and authority. The methodological framework for this paper is through an inductive process of writing and is through observations and unstructured interviews trying to build a systematic description revolving around the victims of honor related violence. The interviews, biographic narratives, will ask the participants to tell a story about their lives, a biographic narrative where they will freely speak and this will be facilitated during eight in-depth interviews with four different women who during many years lived under abuse carried out in the name of honor by two husband, a father, and several uncles. The results of these interviews lead to the conclusions that women often are ignored and forgotten by outside forces such as police and organizations until a crime is committed.
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Bailon, Angelica M. "Stories of Persistence: Filipina/o American Undergraduate Students in a Private, Catholic, and Predominantly White University." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2012. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/235.
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At more than three million, Filipina/o Americans are one of the largest ethnic minority groups in the United States. Yet, few studies have focused on the experiences of Filipina/o Americans in institutions of U.S. higher education. Given the increasing disparity in degree achievement between first and second generation Filipina/o Americans, this qualitative study investigated the challenges to persistence that Filipina/o American undergraduates have faced in college and identified resources and strategies that have facilitated their survival in higher education. Through individual interviews and a focus group, participants shared their experiences in a private, Catholic, and predominantly White institution. This study found that challenges to persistence included feelings of cultural dissonance between Filipina/o Americans and a predominantly White and affluent student body, feelings of invisibility and marginality due to lack of representation in the institution’s academic and social spheres, and personal academic challenges. Their stories also elucidated that despite these struggles, students were able to persist. Campus subcultures such as ethnic and cultural organizations, an Asian-interest sorority, and service organizations were primary factors in persistence. Additionally, the support of family was key in fostering participants’ educational aspirations. Institutional characteristics such as size, religious affiliation and mission, and available resources were also cited as important factors in building their commitment to persist. The stories shared in this study are a testament to the need to destabilize dominant narrative of persistence in higher education to include Filipina/o American students who are often overlooked as a result of the model minority myth.
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Hamilton, Evelyn McCall. "Going to a place called home to which you've never been critical life stories from Sankofa for Kids, a New Orleans-based African diasporic youth organization /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3380083.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, School of Education, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 13, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4602. Advisers: Dionne A. Danns; Barry L. Bull.
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McQuaid, Katie. "'Another war' : stories of violence, humanitarianism and human rights amongst Congolese refugees in Uganda." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/54026/.
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Cosner, Justin David. "Make-believe: uncertainty, alterity, and faith in nineteenth-century supernatural short stories." Diss., University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5738.
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This thesis, “Make-Believe: Uncertainty, Alterity, and Faith in Nineteenth-Century Supernatural Short Stories,” illustrates the confluence in nineteenth century America of a philosophical investment in uncertainty and the emergence of a genre suited to its expression. I argue that supernatural short story collections, characterized by stories with explicit fantastical elements or which leave open that possibility, helped voice and explore uncertainty as a critique of prevailing master narratives of both Enlightenment rationalism and religious orthodoxy. My study examines Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Mosses from an Old Manse (1846), Herman Melville’s The Piazza Tales (1856), Charles Chesnutt’s The Conjure Woman, and Other Conjure Tales (1899), and Mary Wilkins Freeman’s The Wind in the Rose-Bush (1903), whose fantastic elements question the confident subjectivity shored up by rationalism and the sense of totality it projects. The genre’s insistent uncertainty conditions a reader into an alternative posture of openness to possibilities—an openness which, at its most ethically effective, describes a means to approach alterity without the totalizing certainty which so often reduces the other. The terms of faith are crucial here, as a means to lend numinous or transcendent meaning to the world beyond the reach of, and therefore setting limits on, rational materialism. But faith also functions on an ethical and interpersonal level, in the act of believing the testimony of an other despite the assumptions of the self. As the century progresses, this genre was taken up by authors with identities more vulnerable to society’s master narratives and the power structures they uphold. My final two chapters demonstrate how the supernatural uncertainty in these collections provided not just a theoretical model for approaching otherness but a specific articulation of the oppressions which certainty enables and the openness which the supernatural helps to found.
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Robins, Camille. "The Stories of Environmental Ethicists in Word and Image." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/179.
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The Stories of Environmental Ethicists in Word and Image captures the spirit of three local people: John B. Cobb, Jr., Rosemary Radford Ruether, and Dean Freudenberger. As teachers, writers, activists, and members of the progressive retirement community Pilgrim Place, they’ve had a significant influence on the global environmental movement. The photographs and small essays in this project highlight who they are and what they’ve done, and how they continue to shape contemporary intellectual discourse. An analysis of how portrait photographers use images to tell stories and how they incorporate text in their photographic collections to create fuller, more robust pictures of their subjects provides context.
An epilogue explains a mixed-media artwork I created that evolved out of my conversations with Cobb, Ruether, and Freudenberger. A three-dimensional rendering of transformations currently happening in California’s landscape, it visualizes rural and urban spheres converging within the state. It shows how boundaries separating what we’ve traditionally categorized as “country” and “city” are eroding, and how the landscape is becoming simultaneously rural and urban. New spatial forms are springing up and integrating in ways we’ve never seen before. As green areas get grayer, gray areas get greener.
The mixed-media installation attempts to bring people’s attention to various environmental shifts happening now in California and all over the world, and to ask us to question the implications of such changes.
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Leibovich, Mira. "Racial Inequality, Agriculture, and the Food System: Stories of Oppression, Resilience, and Food Sovereignty Among Black Agriculturalists." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1619017128236329.
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Kinnane, Joanne H. "Everyday encounters of everyday midwives : tribulation and triumph for ethical practitioners." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16700/.
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Midwifery is a dynamic, ever changing, specialised field of nursing involving the care of women and childbearing families. Clients are central to the practice of midwifery and thus their well-being is the main focus of midwives. So, it is not surprising that much of the relatively small body of midwifery research is client focused. As a result, client perspectives have been studied in a number of ways, regarding several aspects of midwifery care. This research, however, aimed to consider midwifery from the midwives' perspective by exploring the everyday encounters of everyday midwives who are working in institutional settings, and identifying the ethical aspects of those encounters. From the researcher's standpoint, it is clear that midwives' everyday encounters are ethical encounters and have potential to be either beneficent or harmful. There was, however, uncertainty that midwives recognized this "everydayness" of ethics. This research sought to clarify the place of ethics within midwives' everyday activities. A further purpose was to ascertain how the ethics that entered into the encounters and activities midwives participated in on a daily basis had affected their practise, their profession and/ or themselves. In doing this, the intent was to broaden the understandings of the ethical dimension of the practice. A particular ethical approach was adopted for this project. It is a view of ethics where persons have regard for, and responsibility toward, each other (Isaacs, 1998). The fact that midwifery is a social practice was expected to be significant in both the everyday encounters that midwives experienced and the ethical responses to those encounters. Members of social practices share an overall purpose and have a moral obligation or desire to practise ethically. As they share a culture and a covenantal commitment to care for those the profession seeks to serve - in a context of gift, fidelity and trust (Isaacs, 1993; Langford, 1978), it was anticipated that midwives would, generally, work in an ethically laden "world". Narrative research offered an appropriate framework for investigating these dimensions of midwifery practice. Many authors have noted the value of story-telling for making sense, and illuminating the ethical features, of our lives. It is, Kearney says, "an open-ended invitation to ethical ... responsiveness" (2000, p. 156). By enabling the participants to tell their stories, rich, contextual narrative material was obtained. The researcher was able to engage with both the participants and the stories as audience. An introduction to the study is provided in Chapter One, while Chapter Two explains both why narrative inquiry was chosen for this research project and the framework that was utilised. The insights from the study are presented in Chapters Three through Six. Each chapter considers the issues and concepts arising from stories that involve midwives' relationships and interactions with a different group of people: midwives, institutions and administration ("them"), doctors and families. In Chapter Three different types of interactions between midwives and their colleagues are explored. Some of the issues that arise are the importance of understanding one's own values and the place of ethics in practice, as well as the need to "do ethics-on-the-run". Many ethical concepts are evident including autonomy, integrity and professional identity. Participants had many negative experiences, and some conveyed feeling a lack of support, threatened or overwhelmed. Conversely, some stories share very positive images of mutual understanding where midwives worked together empathetically. Chapter Four looks at how managers' interactions with midwives impacted upon them and their practice. Unfortunately, this seems to be mostly negative. The midwives convey a sense of feeling undervalued both professionally and personally. Doctors have their turn to interact with the midwives in Chapter Five. In this chapter it becomes evident that doctors and midwives view birth from different perspectives. The participants' stories tell of challenging situations that alert us to the fact that normal, in the context of birth, is not as simple and common place as one might think when doctors and midwives have to work together. Wonderful, positive stories of midwives and doctors working together told of the symbiotic relationship that these two groups of professionals can have when the client is the focus. The last of the insights chapters, Chapter Six, focuses on the relationships midwives have with families. Interestingly, these are the people they spoke of least, even though they are the people for whom the profession exists. Here the concept of midwife as friend is discussed. Then, through their stories some of the participants help us to learn how midwives work together with their clients, care about them, not just for them, and how their past experience has had a lasting impact on their practice. Professionalism (or a lack of it) was implicated as a possible cause of some of the participants' concerns, as was the improper use of power. Both of these concepts arose many times throughout the project. Chapter 7 discusses these issues in some depth. The final chapter provides an overview of midwives situated within their practice. An account is offered of how the participants see the future of their practice and it is questioned if midwifery is, in fact, a social practice with common goals. The thesis draws attention to the embeddedness of ethics in the everyday practice of midwives, and to the vital role that relationships play in midwifery practice. This suggests the need for a relational, contextual ethics approach if the practice is to flourish.
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De, Pietro Matheus Clemente 1984. "Faces da "harmonia" nas Epistulae Morales de Seneca." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269084.
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Orientador: Isabella Tardin CardosoDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Ao percorrer as Epistulae morales de Sêneca (4 a.C.- 65 d.C), notamos que uma parte considerável de seus ensinamentos se fundamenta em um conceito pouco trabalhado academicamente: a ¿harmonia¿. O filósofo, ao exortar Lucílio à busca da sabedoria, utiliza diversas imagens e exemplos, e neles observamos a presença, ora de modo evidente, ora sutil, de referências à harmonia entre o discurso e as ações, entre a vida e o discurso, entre o estilo e o caráter, entre as ações e a natureza, entre a vontade e o destino, entre a corpo e a alma, entre as ações e elas mesmas, e assim por diante. Em estudo anterior, verificamos que tal harmonia não costuma ser expressa por um único termo, mas é designada por vocábulos com sentidos semelhantes: partindo do estudo do conceito de conuenientia, que é a tradução direta do termo técnico homología (o qual, no estoicismo de Zenão designava a harmonia enquanto objetivo da prática filosófica), constatamos que Sêneca também emprega outros vocábulos mais comuns na língua latina, em especial: concordia, consonans, consentire, constare e congruere. Como objetivo central da nossa pesquisa, foram traduzidos para o português e comentados trechos das cartas em que tais vocabulos se mostram relevantes ao estudo da ¿harmonia¿ nas cartas filosóficas de Sêneca. O estudo introdutório discorre acerca do modo específico com que o filósofo, no corpus por nós selecionado, concebe e apresenta conceito tão importante ao estoicismo em geral. A consideração da polissemia e das imagens no texto senequeano se mostra fundamental para a compreensão da noção filosófica investigada
Abstract: By reading through Seneca¿s Epistulae morales one notes that a considerable part of his doctrine is based on harmony, a concept that has not received the deserved attention in Senecan researches. While urging Lucilius in the search for wisdom, Seneca uses a great variety of images and examples that refers explicitly or implicitly to many kinds of harmony, e.g.: harmony between speech and deeds, life and speech, style and character, actions and nature, will and fate, body and soul, between actions among themselves. It was verified that such a ¿harmony¿ usually is not named by a single term or expression, but is indicated by words with similar acceptances. The study of the idea of conuenientia ¿ the straight Latin translation of the technical term homología (¿harmony¿ in Zeno¿s Stoicism) ¿ confirmed that Seneca also makes use of other words, that are more familiar to the current Latin language, among which there are concordia, consonans, consentire, constare and congruere. Excerpts of Seneca's philosophical letters that have been proved to hold valuable arguments to the study of the ¿harmony¿ were translated into Portuguese and annotated. The introductory study concerns about the particular way by which Seneca presents such an important Stoic concept in the selected corpus. The polissemy and images in the investigated texts play a central role in the understanding of the philosophical notion here considered.
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Estola, E. (Eila). "In the language of the mother — re-storying the relational moral in teachers' stories." Doctoral thesis, University of Oulu, 2003. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9514269713.
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Abstract This is an overview of five substudies, which are based on autobiographical stories of teachers working in early childhood education and general education. By the concept of 'relational moral', I refer to human relationships between teachers and children or adolescents. I approached the main question 'How is the storied relational moral of teachers constructed in a re-storying process?' through two subquestions: 1. What is relational moral like as a moral horizon in teachers' narrative identity? and 2. What is relational moral like as a storied educational practice? Teachers' relational moral was considered to find its expression in the language of the mother. This view has its roots in feminist research, which has pointed out that identities are gendered, and that the historical and cultural roots of relational moral in the Western culture lie in the practices of mothers. This view also emphasizes that gender constitutes an important distinction in language use. Since the voices of women do not have the same power as the voices of men, the voices of relational moral are not heard. Basing on the applications of the narrative-biographical approach I analysed the stories as representative of the language of practice, i.e. as moral, multivoiced and dialogical. In the process of re-storying, I interpreted the moral words denoting vocation, hope, love, change and body as Other-oriented concepts implying the need to listen to children and a future orientation. Teachers construct their narrative embodied identities under the cross-pressure of different and contradictory voices. The loudest contradictory voices come from the administration, social and educational policies, and the media. The relational moral was storied as an embodied practice, as physical work in which many silent voices become audible through touching, gentleness and closeness. The concept of body position was developed as a tool to understand the concrete working bodies that carry moral meanings. Teachers' stories involve many body positions, of which the positions of relational moral are not always officially appreciatedTiivistelmä Tutkimus pohjautuu viiteen osatutkimukseen, joissa on analysoitu lastentarhanopettajien ja yleissivistävän koulutuksen opettajien omaelämäkerrallisia kertomuksia. Ihmissuhteisiin perustuvan moraalin käsitteellä viittaan suhteisiin opettajien ja lasten / nuorten välillä. Tutkimuskysymystäni, millaiseksi opettajien ihmissuhteisiin perustuva moraali rakentuu uudelleenkerrottuna, tarkastelin kahden alakysymyksen kautta. Ensin kuvasin, millaiseksi moraaliseksi horisontiksi rakentuu ihmissuhteisiin perustuva moraali opettajien narratiivisessa identiteetissä. Toiseksi tarkastelin sitä, millaiseksi ihmissuhteisiin perustuva moraali rakentuu kerrotuissa kasvatuskäytännöissä. Osatutkimusten pohjalta muotoutui uudelleen kertomista ohjaavaksi lähtökohdaksi opettajien ihmissuhteisiin perustuva moraali eräänlaisena äidin kielenä. Feministinen tutkimus on osoittanut, että identiteetit ovat sukupuolittuneita, ja että ihmissuhteisiin perustuvan moraalin historialliset ja kulttuuriset juuret nousevat länsimaissa äitiyden käytännöistä. Myös kieli on sukupuolittunutta. Tätä tutkimusta on innoittanut pyrkimys kuunnella äidin kielen hiljaisia ääniä, jotka jäävät helposti miehisen isän kielen korkeamman yhteiskunnallisen statuksen alle ja kuulumattomiin. Osatutkimuksissa sovellettiin narratiivis-biografista lähestymistapaa. Kertomukset valittiin laajemmasta aineistosta harkinnanvaraisesti ja niitä tarkasteltiin käytännön kielenä, moraalisina, moniäänisinä ja dialogisina. Analyyseissä pyrittiin kertomusten empaattiseen ja responsiiviseen lukemiseen, ja niissä käytettiin erilaisia temaattisia ja narratiivisia menetelmiä. Osatutkimusten uudelleenkerronnassa tulkitsin opettajien narratiivista identiteettiä kutsumuksen, rakkauden, toivon, muutoksen ja ruumiillisuuden käsitteiden avulla. Moraalisessa horisontissa ne ilmenevät Toiseen suuntautumisena, jolloin korostuu lasten kuuleminen ja tulevaisuuteen kurottautuminen. Opettajat kertovat identiteettinsä ruumiillisuutensa kautta: erilaiset moraaliset kielet luovat erilaisia odotuksia ja rajoituksia opettajan toiminnalle. Ristiriitojen keskellä muotoutuva moraalinen horisontti rakentuu ristiriitaiseksi ja epäyhtenäiseksi. Opettaja joutuu valitsemaan, millaisia moraalisia ääniä hän voi ja haluaa kuunnella ja millaista moraalista kieltä käyttää. Kuuluvimmat äänet, jotka kertomuksissa uhkasivat ihmissuhteisiin perustuvaa moraalia tulivat hallinnosta, sosiaali- ja koulutuspolitiikasta ja mediasta. Ihmissuhteisiin perustuva moraali konkretisoituu kertomuksissa ruumiillisena työnä, jossa monet hiljaiset äänet, kuten koskettaminen, hellyys ja läheisyys tulevat kuultaviksi. Ruumiinasennon käsitteen avulla kuvasin opettajien ruumiillisuuden moniäänisyyttä ja sitä, miten Toiseen suuntautuvia, ihmissuhteisiin perustuvan moraalin ruumiinasentoja voidaan helposti pitää ei-suotavina tai vähäarvoisina
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Vining, Peggy A. "A comparison of moral transformation in Paul and Lucius Annaeus Seneca." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Shashok, Alan. "A Midlife Educator’s Story Of Change: How Learning To Live For Compassion, Meaning And Leadership Transformed Me." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2019. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/1038.
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What are a person’s core beliefs? What do they hold dear and to be true? How does one go about examining their ideals and challenging them risking discovering there is a different way of living, thinking, or showing up? These questions and more are what drove me to enroll in the University of Vermont Graduate College and the Interdisciplinary Studies (IDS) program. I probably could have attended a few self-help seminars, paid a life coach or seen some type of counselor to help me explore these issues. Doing the exploring via higher education and the IDS program seemed much more meaningful, especially as the program progressed.
Through Scholarly Personal Narrative (SPN) I have been able to closely examine myself, my life stories, with a different lens, even different then using the advantage of hindsight, in hopes of finding a path toward different self-realization. Important to note I said different, not better, as each person’s experience is valid, something you will see as you read the thesis. In so doing, you will be exposed to three basic explorations, my personal stories, my professional stories, and my political stories. All intertwine and relate to each other, but each have their own narrative to contribute to this journey. By the end, you, as the reader and consumer of these stories, may find similar paths to search for yourself in whatever place you currently find your life.
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Martínez, Ángel Luis. "Young, Gifted, and Brown: Ricanstructing Through Autoethnopoetic Stories for Critical Diasporic Puerto Rican Pedagogy." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1445429195.
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Sviatko, Courtney. "“Rampant Signs and Symbols”: Artifacts of Language in J.D. Salinger’s “For Esmé—With Love and Squalor” and Glass Family Stories." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3487.
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This thesis explores the use of language in J.D. Salinger’s “For Esmé—With Love and Squalor,” “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” and Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters. It establishes a narrative pattern in which sensitive individuals such as Seymour Glass and Sergeant X are isolated by the insensitivity of the superficial modern world, attempt to communicate their concerns to others through an exchange of language in material forms, and ultimately find relief in silence. By analyzing various examples of linguistic artifacts and the impact they have on both sender and receiver, this thesis identifies criteria for successful communication as well as reasons for the failure of language which may be useful for the study of these and other works by Salinger. This thesis also considers the intersection of binaries such as silence and noise, and the ways Salinger presents them both thematically and formally.
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Smith, Genesis Garcia-Corales Guillermo. "La búsqueda de los valores perdidos en el cuento latinoamericano contemporáneo." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5192.
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Embrey, Monica. "A Place Like This: An Environmental Justice History of the Owens Valley - Water in Indigenous, Colonial, and Manzanar Stories." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2009. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/72.
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This text provides an environmental justice analysis of the stories of the people who lived in the Owens Valley, who watered its land and cultivated its crops—pine trees, apple trees, and kabocha alike. Telling the personal stories of challenge and resistance that manifested alongside the oppressive forces of military and state domination provides the opportunity to align forcibly relocated, exploited and incarcerated people’s struggles throughout time. This text starts with The Nü’ma Peoples who were the first humans to live in the Owens Valley and continues with the struggle for empire between rival colonial empires of agriculture and distant urban cities. Its final chapters end with an in-depth and personal exploration of the unconstitutional incarceration of 117,000 people of Japanese ancestry in the United States during World War II. All the while it weaves in poetry, art and grassroots stories of resistance. It is a call to action for Environmental Studies and Ethnic Studies Departments to link the critical analysis within their disciplines to tell more accurate histories.
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Fanchini, Mahaut. "Empêcher, susciter, disqualifier : des mécanismes organisationnels qui façonnent le lanceur d'alerte : le cas de l'industrie des services financiers." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLED024.
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Cette recherche vise à interroger la façon dont des dispositifs organisationnels (formels et informels) façonnent la démarche d’alerte, lancée par un employé qui souhaite témoigner d’une fraude ou d’un manquement à l’éthique organisationnel.Inscrite dans un paradigme interprétativiste, notre design de recherche repose sur des entretiens qualitatifs ainsi que sur des récits de vie conduits avec des lanceurs d’alerte. Nos résultats permettent de montrer l’inopérance des dispositifs formels (outils de recueil de l’alerte) mis en place par l’organisation pour recueillir la parole de l’employé, qui manquent de traiter correctement l’alerte qui leur est signalée ; d’autre part, nous caractérisons l’idée selon laquelle d’autres dispositifs, plus informels, placent eux-mêmes, par leur non-réponse ou réponses ambiguës, l’employé en situation de lancer l’alerte, en dehors des dispositifs qui avaient été mis en place par l’organisation. Enfin, nous interrogeons la possibilité qui est laissée à un employé d’exprimer un doute lorsque celui-ci concerne le bien-fondé éthique de certaines pratiques organisationnellesThis research aims to examine the way in which organizational mechanisms (both formal and informal) shape the whistleblowing process initiated by employees wanting to expose a fraud or a breach of organizational ethics.Our research design adopts an interpretivist paradigm and is based on qualitative and life-story interviews conducted with whistleblowers. Our results show the ineffectiveness of the formal mechanisms implemented by organizations to collectemployee testimonies (tools for gathering employee warnings), which fail to correctly address the whistleblowing that is signaled to them. We also describe the suggestion that other, more informal, mechanisms, by failing to respond or byproviding ambiguous responses, place employees in a situation where they feel compelled to blow the whistle, outside the mechanisms implemented by the organization. Finally, we examine the possibilities available to employees to express doubts concerning the ethical soundness of certain organizational practices
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Sganzerlla, Evelin Sibele Ramalho. "A influência da arte-educação, nas histórias de vida, dos alunos de escolas públicas, do ensino fundamental II e médio, na região metropolitana de Salvador." Faculdades EST, 2012. http://tede.est.edu.br/tede/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=378.
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Este trabalho consiste em uma análise da influência de projetos extracurriculares de arte-educação (Rádio Escolar JUBA e Hip-Hop) nas histórias de vida e, consequentemente, na formação cidadã de adolescentes de escolas públicas na região metropolitana de Salvador. O primeiro capítulo faz uma retrospectiva histórica da Arte no mundo. Além disso, é exposto um panorama da arte-educação no Brasil a partir do seu surgimento até os dias atuais. O segundo capítulo aborda o conceito de arte-educação e de que forma ela vem sendo trabalhada na contemporaneidade, uma vez que se trata de um instrumento que transporta os indivíduos, no caso os adolescentes, da dimensão onírica à realidade, preparando-os para o exercício da reflexão crítico-criativa dos valores éticos e culturais arquitetados pela humanidade. O terceiro capítulo retrata a história das histórias de vida que serão apresentadas posteriormente; tais histórias ocorrem na Ilha de Itaparica, localizada na região metropolitana de Salvador. O quarto e último capítulo mostra, através de perguntas apresentadas a alunos, alunas e professores, a influência, ou não, dos projetos de arte-educação em seus percursos de humanização. A resposta é buscada levando em conta as individualidades de cada um dos adolescentes e professores entrevistados, bem como o contexto histórico de tais projetos, e de como foram e estão sendo no caso do hip-hop realizados. O trabalho sugere, num aspecto mais amplo, um estudo biográfico da própria pesquisadora, uma vez que ela fez e faz parte da vida destas pessoas e vice-versa. Finalmente, concluiu-se que as vidas das pessoas estão interligadas como uma enorme teia e, por isso, qualquer que seja a mudança de atitude, haverá uma interferência positiva na sociedade como um todo, desde que orientada nos ideais dos diretos humanos, da ética e da consciência terrena. Tais objetivos, tanto nos aspectos conceituais, atitudinais ou procedimentais são urgentes para garantir a sobrevivência da espécie humana em nosso planeta.This dissertation consists of an analysis of the influence of non-regular school curriculum projects of art education (Rádio Juba and Hip-Hop) over life stories, and hence the civic education of adolescents from public schools in the Metropolitan Region of Salvador. The first chapter gives a historical overview of art in the world. Moreover, it exposed a panorama of art education in Brazil from its early years to the present day. The second chapter discusses the concept of art education and how it has been used today. This concept is an instrument that carries individuals, more specifically teenagers, from the dream dimension to reality and preparing them to use critical-creative reflection of the ethical and cultural values devised by mankind. The third chapter tells life stories that will be shown later, these stories take place on the island of Itaparica, located in the Metropolitan Region of Salvador. The fourth and last chapter shows from students and teachers answers - the influence of the projects of art education along with their humanization path. The answers are analized considering the individuality of each of the teenagers and teachers interviewed, as well as the historical context of these projects. The answers are also analized considering how they were and have being performed in the case of hip-hop. The dissertation suggests, in a broader aspect, a biographical study of the researcher - she was and still is part of these people lives and vice versa. Finally, it was concluded that people's lives are connected like a huge web. And, so, whatever changes in attitude, there will be a positive interference in society as a whole, since it focused on the ideals of human rights, ethics and consciousness. These objectives, both in conceptual, attitudinal or procedural are urgently needed to ensure the survival of mankind on our planet.