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Lejbro, Max, and Kristoffer Andersson. "Home Sweet Home." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Business and Engineering (SET), 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-3032.
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Research Question: What is it that determines if large companies in the same country and industry use their Country of Origin or not when they want to attract new customers abroad?
Purpose: Our purpose with this Minor Field Study is to find out if companies within the Brazilian textile industry are using their COO and identify which factors that determine why they use it or not. By analyzing these factors, if and why they are important or not, we can develop a model with the purpose to give companies an idea of how close they are from to being able to use their COO.
Method: We have worked with a qualitative research method where we interviewed two Brazilian companies, CI Hering and Karsten, which is working within the Brazilian textile industry.
Theoretical framework: Our theories are mainly concerning the subjects of branding, nation brands, COO and competitive identity. We have also studied the so called Nation Brands Index and its hexagon. We will use theories of nation branding and COO to illustrate their importance to a country’s international companies.
Empirical framework: This part will show the outcome of our interviews with Hering and Karsten but also present some data on the nation brand of Brazil and activities linked to it.
Conclusion: We have found that there are six factors that mainly determine if a company will use its COO when trying to attract new customers abroad, and how appropriate this will be. The six factors are: Strong identity/image, brand awareness, knowledge, consistent and strong nation brand, research and willingness. Our final conclusions are that international companies that want to manage their reputation can benefit from relating their identity to some of the aspects in the national identity of their country. Associating to your COO is a way of doing this that aligns your company´s image to the image of your home country.
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Fisher, Lydia Indira. "Domesticating the nation : American narratives of home culture /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9325.
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Arrowsmith, Aidan. "Writing 'home' : nation, identity and Irish emigration to England." Thesis, Staffordshire University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285305.
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Malinowski, Michelle M. "Scotland - a nation once again : a historical analysis of Scottish nationalism : road to devolution /." View abstract, 2000. http://library.ctstateu.edu/ccsu%5Ftheses/1604.html.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Central Connecticut State University, 2000.Thesis advisor: Louise Williams. " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts [in History]." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-104).
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Purcell, Jennifer Jill. "Beyond home : housewives and the nation, private and public identities 1939-1949." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.487574.
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The experience of total war and reconstruction in 1940s Britain brought the idea of the nation to the forefront of public consciousness. At the same time, the day-to-day, often mundane, routines of life continued as people negotiated their lives and relationships, experiencing personal struggles, triumphs and tragedies. This thesis explores tve broad social and cultural experiences of the national endeavours of the 1940s, as well as everyday lives and identities, through the life writing of seven women. I argue that the broad forces of history and identity, in particular ideas of nation and gender, impacted people's lives; but individuals equally interpreted and shaped these forces for themselves as they attempted to make sense of their own lives and experiences. Therefore in this thesis, I consider both the cultural discourses of nation and domesticity and the private experiences of the same, balancing the two against each other. . This thesis argues that while societal discourses and expectations of domesticity during this period were powerfully salient for women, they were not always captive to this ideology. Instead, while some felt enslaved in a cage of domesticity, some found empowering spaces within domesticity, others manipulated it for their own benefits and still others rejected it entirely. Additionally, domesticity did not wholly circumscribe women's lives or identities. During the war and immediate postwar period, the nation was also powerfully evident in their everyday lives and identities, and in fact, with the elevation of domesticity to national importance at this time, domesticity as national service could further bolster a feeling of empowerment in some women. As a result housewives' lives did not revolve entirely on their private,experiences ofhome and family, but also on broader communal, national, and international forces which were equally crucial in the shaping of their experiences and identities.
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Harvey, M. E. "Conversing with the nation : consultations and referendums in Scotland and Wales under devolution." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21808.
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The creation of devolved institutions in Scotland and Wales in 1999 provided nationalist parties in both the opportunity to act within an institution solely within their nation’s territorial boundaries. In 2007, they entered government for the first time. In so doing, the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru embarked upon public engagement strategies in office which were designed to build support for their constitutional ambitions – namely, independence for Scotland and (in the short-term) full legislative powers for the National Assembly for Wales, as outlined in the Government of Wales Act 2006. This thesis explores the public engagement strategy of both parties, focusing on the respective consultations of the parties in government – A National Conversation and the All Wales Convention¬ – and the following campaign for (in Scotland) and at (in Wales) a referendum intended to deliver their preferred outcome. The aim of this thesis is to consider why public engagement strategies were considered the best vehicle to take forward the respective parties’ constitutional goals and to evaluate the success each party achieved in relation to these objectives. This thesis argues that, while both the SNP and Plaid Cymru have achieved some success with regard to their constitutional objectives, this success can be measured differently depending whether short-term or long-term goals are the defining standard. In Wales, Plaid Cymru’s constitutional consultation found limited engagement with the wider Welsh population, and though the referendum succeeded in securing legislative powers for the National Assembly for Wales, public engagement with the constitutional debate in Wales continues to lack enthusiasm. By contrast, the SNP’s National Conversation saw more enthusiastic engagement, but without a referendum at the end of the process, a clear lack of a tangible short-term outcome. However, the SNP in government did succeed in moving the constitutional debate firmly onto the political agenda, and engagement in this debate is now widespread in Scottish society, particularly in the wake of an agreement to hold an independence referendum in autumn 2014.
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Simpson, Audra. "To the reserve and back again : Kahnawake Mohawk narratives of self, home and nation." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=84681.
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This dissertation investigates the social and cultural contours of citizenship and nationhood of Kahnawake Mohawks. The central question that I seek to answer is "What other narratives of nationhood and citizenship are there than those of membership in the American or Canadian states?" Mohawks and other Iroquois nations have long asserted their ideological, and in the case of some, economic independence from the governments of Canada and the United States. My multi-sited research illustrates that this historical assertion is more than rhetoric; it is also a practice or " praxis," as Mohawks configure citizenship across the imposed borders that separate their reserves from cities and states from states. This dissertation engages contemporary theories of nationhood, historical and contemporary ethnographic literature on the Iroquois, as well as contemporary literature in political theory and policy to examine the gendered and sometimes racialized contours of Indigenous nationhood and citizenship across borders. Kahnawake Mohawk narratives and the choices that they entail have implications for the way that all "post-colonial" nationals attempt to imagine and construct their place and their membership within and beyond the boundaries of their communities and that of the state.
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Bastien, Elizabeth M. "Our home, y(our) title: matrimonial real property on First Nation reserves in Canada /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2006. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2721.
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Brock, Stephen James Thomas, and brock stephen@saugov sa gov au. "A Travelling Colonial Architecture: Home and Nation in Selected Works by Patrick White, Peter Carey, Xavier Herbert and James Bardon." Flinders University. Australian Studies, 2003. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20070424.101150.
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This thesis is a study of constructions of home and nation in selected works by Patrick White, Peter Carey, Xavier Herbert and James Bardon. Drawing on the work of postcolonial theorists, it examines ways in which the selected texts engage with national mythologies in the imagining of the Australian nation. It notes the deployment of racial discourses informing constructions of national identity that work to marginalise Indigenous Australians and other cultural minority groups.
The texts are arranged in thematic rather than chronological order. Whites treatment of the overland journey, and his representations of Aboriginality, discussed in Chapter One, are contrasted with Careys revisiting of the overland journey motif in Oscar and Lucinda in Chapter Two. Whereas Whites representations of Indigenous culture in Voss are static and essentialised, as is the case in Riders in the Chariot and A Fringe of Leaves, Careys representation of Australias contact history is characterised by a cultural hybridity. In Whites texts, Indigenous culture is depicted as an anachronism in the contemporary Australian nation, while in Careys, the words of the coloniser are appropriated and employed to subvert the ideological colonial paradigm.
Careys use of heteroglossia is examined further in the analysis of Illywhacker in Chapter Three. Whereas Carey treats Australian types ironically in Illywhackers pet emporium, the protagonist of Xavier Herberts Poor Fellow My Country, Jeremy Delacy, is depicted as an expert on Australian types. The intertextuality between Herberts novel and the work of social Darwinist anthropologists in the 1930s and 1940s is discussed in Chapter Four, providing a historical context to appreciate a shift from modernist to postmodernist narrative strategies in Careys fiction.
James Bardons fictional treatment of the Papunya Tula painting movement in Revolution by Night is seen to continue to frame Indigenous culture in a modernist grammar of representation through its portrayal of the work of Papunya Tula artists in the terms of the fourth dimension. Bardons novel is nevertheless a fascinating postcolonial engagement with Sturts architectural construction of landscape in his maps and journals, a discussion of which leads to Tony Birchs analysis of the politics of name reclamation in contemporary tourism discourses.
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Ikebuchi, Shelly Dee. "At the hearth of the nation : the Woman’s Missionary Society and Victoria’s Chinese Rescue Home 1886-1923." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43361.
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The Chinese Rescue Home was an important feature of Victoria's (British Columbia, Canada) moral and racial landscape. It was envisioned by Methodist missionaries and later the Women's Methodist Missionary Society (WMS) to be a sanctuary for Chinese and Japanese women who were thought to be prostitutes or slave girls or who were believed to be at risk of falling into these roles. Despite its significance to British Columbian and Canadian history, there has yet to be a sustained and systematic study of the Home. Using a range of archival sources including WMS reports, newspapers, and legal cases, this dissertation offers an in-depth and empirical case study of the Chinese Rescue Home. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach and drawing from theoretical and methodological developments in sociology, history, and geography, I use the concept of domesticity to examine the complex, contradictory, and contentious relationships between gender, race, and religion. While white women derived their own inclusion in the nation by policing the boundaries of race and reimagining the places of Chinese and Japanese women, they did so by including these women as part of the 'Christian family.' Therefore, this dissertation contributes to the Canadian literatures on Chinese and Japanese immigration by foregrounding the ways in which racial power operated through both inclusion and exclusion. Domesticity, here, was central to the shaping of not only the types of relationships that were permitted, but also the spaces in which they took place.
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Pearson, Wendy G. "Calling home queer responses to discourses of nation and citizenship in contemporary Canadian literary and visual culture /." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20060123.143327/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wollongong, 2004.Title from PDF title page (viewed on Mar. 6, 2006). Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-323). Also issued as a print manuscript. Print manuscript includes ill. omitted from online version.
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Pearson, Wendy Gay. "Calling home queer responses to discourses of nation and citizenship in contemporary Canadian literary and visual culture /." Access electronically, 2004. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20060123.143327/index.html.
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Martin, Jeannie M. "Islanded in the protected enclaves of family and nation, home and homeland in Jamaica Kincaid and Edna O'Brien." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq24487.pdf.
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Maxey, Ruth. "The South Asian Atlantic : Home, Nation and Identity in British Asian and South Asian American Writing From 1970-2004." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.498896.
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Brock, Stephen. "A travelling colonial architecture Home and nation in selected works by Patrick White, Peter Carey, Xavier Herbert and James Bardon /." Click here for electronic access: http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au/local/adt/public/adt-SFU20070424.101150, 2003. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au/local/adt/public/adt-SFU20070424.101150.
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A thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy - Flinders University of South Australia, Faculty of Education Humanities, Law and Theology, June 2003.Title from electronic thesis (viewed 27/7/10)
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Faine, Miriam. "At home in Australia: identity, nation and the teaching of English as a second language to adult immigrants in Australia." Monash University. Faculty of Education, 2009. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/68741.
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This is an autoethnographic study (e.g. Brodkey, 1994) based on ‘stories’ from my own personal and professional journey as an adult ESL teacher which I use to narrate some aspects of adult ESL teaching. With migration one of the most dramatically contested spheres of modern political life world wide (Hall, 1998), adult English as a Second Language (ESL) teaching is increasingly a matter of social concern and political policy, as we see in the current political debates in Australia concerning immigration, citizenship and language. In Australia as an imagined community (Anderson, 1991), the song goes ‘we are, you are Australian and in one voice we sing’. In this study I argue that this voice of normative ‘Australianess’ is discursively aligned with White Australians as native speakers (an essential, biological formulation). Stretching Pennycook’s (1994a) argument that ELT (English Language Teaching) as a discourse aligns with colonialism, I suggest that the field of adult ESL produces, classifies and measures the conditions of sameness and difference to this normative ‘Australian’. The second language speaker is discursively constructed as always a deficient communicator compared with the native speaker. The binary between an imagined homogeneous Australia and the ‘migrant’ as essentially other, works against the inclusion of the learner into the dominant groups represented by their teachers, so that the intentions of adult ESL pedagogy and provision are mitigated by this imagining, problematizing and containing of the learners as other. The role of ESL teachers is to supervise (Hage, 1998) the incorporation of this other. Important policy interventions (e.g. Department of Immigration and Citizenship, 2006; ALLP, 1991a) are based on understanding the English language as a universalist framework of language competences inherent in the native speaker; on understanding language as consisting of fixed structures which are external to the learner and their social contexts; and on a perception that language as generic, transferable cognitive skills can be taught universally with suitable curricula and sufficient funding. Conversely in this study I recognise language as linguistic systems that define groups and regulate social relations, forming ‘a will to community’ (Pennycook, op. cit.) or ‘communities of practice’ (Lave & Wenger, 1991). Language as complex local and communal practices emerges from specific contexts. Language is embedded in acts of identity (e.g. Bakhtin, 1981) developing through dialogue, involving the emotions as well as the intellect, so that ‘voice’ is internal to desires and thoughts and hence part of identity. Following Norton (2000) who links the practices of adult ESL learners as users of English within the social relations of their every day lives, with their identities as “migrants”, I suggest that the stabilisation of language by language learners known as interlanguage reflects diaspora as a hybrid life world. More effective ESL policies, programs and pedagogies that assist immigrant learners feel ‘at home’ within Australia as a community of practice (Wenger, 1998) rest on understanding immigrant life worlds as diasporic (Gilroy, 1997). The research recommends an adult ESL pedagogy that responds to the understanding of language as socially constituted practices that are situated in social, local, everyday workplace and community events and spaces. Practices of identity and their representation through language can be re-negotiated through engagement in collective activities in ESL classes that form third spaces (Soja, 1999). The possibilities for language development that emerge are in accord with the learners’ affective investment in the new language community, but occur as improvements in making effective meanings, rather than conformity to the formal linguistic system (Pavlenko & Lantolf, 2000).
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Naylor-Ojurongbe, Celia E. "'More at home with the Indians' : African-American slaves and freedpeople in the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, 1838-1907 (Oklahoma)." Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?res_dat=xri:ssbe&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_dat=xri:ssbe:ft:keyresource:Kra_Diss_03.
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Bunjun, Benita. "The (un)making of home, entitlement, and nation : an intersectional organizational study of power relations in Vancouver Status of Women, 1971-2008." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/38254.
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Women's organizing and organizations in North America emerge at historical moments within the larger women's movement across geographies, political climates, and nation formations. Within all movements, the workings of power relations are active, demanding constant negotiations and contestations. This is a case study of one feminist organization, Vancouver Status of Women (VSW). I illustrate the ways VSW challenged, contested, reproduced and reinforced power relations and specifically nation-building discourses. Drawing on both extensive historical archival data and in-depth expert interviews, I engaged in a qualitative case study of VSW's workings of power relations from its inception in 1971 to 2008. I interviewed thirty-one women who worked in some capacity as staff or board members. Archival research involved locating primary documents such as organizational meeting minutes, policies, annual reports, bylaws, newsletters, publications, organizational correspondence, and other relevant documentation. By engaging in an intersectional critical race feminist discourse analysis, I explicate the construction of VSW as home, and demonstrate how nation-building discourses of belonging and entitlement are embedded within this organizational site. Organizational processes and policies indicate the historical trajectory of how, when and who challenged, responded, and reproduced power relations. This study provides several theoretical, methodological, and substantive implications. My research challenges dominant organizational theory's notion that organizations are neutral sites. I argue that organizations are constituted as sites of colonial encounters by demonstrating how power as relational and archival are invoked and deployed in VSW, and some of its effects. I illustrate how VSW is embedded in the colonial archive of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women which reproduced nation-building discourses of essentialism, racialization, and exclusion. The research also offers a conceptualization of power present in organizations while applying Foucault's understanding of power as a network of relations and discourses that circulates as productive. I also present a theoretical framework of the modalities of entitlement embedded in national belonging and accumulated national capital across multiple sites producing the exalted feminist of the nation. Lastly, I propose a more nuanced ethical Affirmative Action Policy based on participants' lessons learnt that shifts beyond tokenism and representation.
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Madhuri, Snigdha. "Women’s bodies as sites of signification and contestation : an analysis of Deepa Mehta’s critique of narratives of home, nation and belonging in the elemental trilogy." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42579.
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This thesis examines Deepa Mehta’s trilogy—Water, Earth, Fire—and the trilogy’s
exploration and contestation of colonial, anti-colonial nationalist, and religious ideologies as
intersecting with patriarchal norms to enact symbolic and actual violence on the bodies of
women. I argue that Mehta’s trilogy foregrounds the ways in which patriarchal nationalism
legitimizes violence against women’s bodies and sexualities through different social and cultural
practices and discourses which are interconnected. To explain the historical and contemporary
contexts of Indian women’s domination and the ways they resist this domination, Mehta’s films
unveil the underlying power relations among social forces such as colonialism, anti-colonial
reform movements, post-colonial nationalism, religious and patriarchal heteronormative
discourses which make women’s domination an acceptable cultural norm. Through an analysis
of the experiences of women portrayed in Mehta’s films, I posit that the constructions of the
Indian nation, in terms of national culture, tradition and identity, are gendered in specific ways
that construct the Indian woman, both symbolically and physically, as a site where nationalist
ideology provokes their political liberation, self-representation and agency. Mehta’s films disrupt
these historical and contemporary practices, discourses and norms through the depictions of
women’s multiple identities, experiences and sexualities. Her works demonstrate the ways in
which women constantly resist, contest and negotiate with this domination and violence through
their daily activities and narratives.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Constructions of home and nation in the literature of the Indian diaspora, with particular reference to selected works of Bharati Mukherjee, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh and Rohinton Mistry." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1999. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/794/.
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This thesis is an attempt to grapple with the meaning of home and belonging, nation and identity, from the perspective of diaspora narratives. Recent theories of diaspora have produced profound epistemological shifts in the theoretical frameworks and modes of analysis informing intellectual and cultural production. It is within the context of these rearticulated notions of diaspora that I locate my own theoretical perspective in this thesis. My particular objective is to foreground the productive tensions of diaspora which can challenge the reductive processes of homogenization at work in the formation and consolidation of national and cultural identities. What lends particular urgency to my project is the frequency, and violence, with which 'Third World' ideologies of authenticity and cultural hegemony are now being articulated through the rhetoric of nationalism. To this end, I will examine and analyse representations of national and cultural identity in a selection of literary texts by writers of the Indian diaspora. Positioned at the 'in-between' spaces of nations and identities, the product of several interconnecting histories and cultures, writers in diaspora, such as Bharati Mukherjee, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh and Rohinton Mistry reject all appeals to an originary narrative of cultural identity in their attempt to dismantle and reconfigure the dominant narrative of the nation/state. In these texts, home and nation are renarrated, not in terms of a monolithic space, but as a historically constituted terrain, changing and contested, and cultural and national identity as a narrative-in- struggle, and therefore also always 'in process'. For all four novelists under study, diaspora exposes deep fissures in the imagined unity of the nation.
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Arami, Sara. "Cartographies : rewriting the body and the nation in Contemporary Middle Eastern American women’s diasporic fiction." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020STRAC004.
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Cette thèse analyse les œuvres de fiction des femmes moyen orientales américaines contemporaines du point de vu de la cartographie littéraire. Les œuvres étudiées sont The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf de Mohja Kahf, Once in a Promised Land et West of Jordan de Laila Halaby, The Inheritance of Exile de Susan Muaddi Darraj, The Night Counter d’Alia Yunis et Crescent de Diana Abu Jaber. Les œuvres de fiction sélectionnées et étudiées dans cette thèse contribuent toutes à la remise en question des discours dominants qui dépeignent la diaspora arabo-américaine et suscitent le scepticisme des lecteurs en leur présentant des contre-histoires ou des versions alternatives aux histoires et aux identités qu'ils pensent connaître déjà. Nous pourrons retracer l'évolution des tentatives de réappropriation du mythe américain pour y inclure l'identité arabe, un mélange des deux (mythes occidental et arabes), et la réécriture des histoires arabes en fonction du contexte américain à travers les romans étudiés dans les différentes partiesThis thesis analyzes the works of fiction written by contemporary Middle Eastern American women from the point of view of literary cartography. The works studied are Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land and West of Jordan, Susan Muaddi Darraj’s The Inheritance of Exile, Alia Yunis’ The Night Counter and Diana Abu Jaber’s Crescent. The selected works of fiction all contribute to the questioning of the dominant discourses surrounding the Arab-American diaspora. The skepticism of the readers is aroused through presenting counter-histories or alternative versions to the stories and identities that they think they already know. Through a close reading of these works of fiction, the various chapters of the thesis trace an evolution of attempts to reappropriate the American myth to include Arab identity, to a mixture of the two (Western and Arab myths), and the rewriting of Arab stories in line with the American context
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Thomas, Alexander. "Home in Hardship : Exploring how United Nations professionals negotiate constructions of home in and between hardship settings." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-43683.
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There is a general recognition within the social sciences that extensive mobility challenges how we perceive the notion of home. With this idea as its starting point, this thesis explores how situations of hardship impact the ways in which mobile professionals negotiate and construct their homes. The actor-network theory (ANT) has been used as the means to explore the interactions between the people who inform this study and the multidimensional characteristics of the hardship setting. Through individual, open-ended interviews, the research draws upon the experiences of five international civil servants from the United Nations (UN) system of organizations who are assigned to hardship duty stations. Applying ANT to the empirical material drew the attention to the identification of five principal entities (or actors) that come into play in the negotiation of home construction, namely the civil servant, [in]security, mobility, ownership and social relations. The influence of the various nonhuman actors on home construction varied according to the individual and their transnational ties and professional status – those with family nuclei tended to situate their homes in terms of territoriality, whereas for others, factors such as privacy, materiality and social interaction weighed more heavily in the act of creating home.
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Morales, Teresa F. "The Last Stone is Just the Beginning: A Rhetorical Biography of Washington National Cathedral." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2013. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_diss/42.
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Washington National Cathedral sits atop Mt. St. Alban’s hill in Washington, D.C. declaring itself the nation’s cathedral and spiritual home for the nation. The idea of a national church serving national purposes was first envisioned by L’Enfant in the District’s original plan. Left aside in the times of nation building, the idea of a national church slumbered until 1893 when a group of Episcopalians petitioned and received a Congressional charter to begin a church and school in Washington, D.C. The first bishop of Washington, Henry Y. Satterlee, began his bishopric with the understanding that this cathedral being built by the Protestant Episcopal Church Foundation was to be a house of prayer for all people. Using Jasinksi’s constructivist orientation to reveal the one hundred year rhetorical history defining what constitutes a “national cathedral” within the narrative paradigm first established by Walter Fisher, this work utilizes a rhetorical biographical approach to uncover the various discourses of those speaking of and about the Cathedral. This biographical approach claims that Washington National Cathedral possesses an ethos that differentiates the national cathedral from the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul even though the two names refer to the same building. The WNC ethos is one that allows a constant “becoming” of a national cathedral, and this ability to “become” allows for a rhetorical voice of the entity we call Washington National Cathedral. Four loci of rhetorical construction weave through this dissertation in the guiding question of how the Cathedral rhetorically created and how it sustains itself as Washington National Cathedral: rhetoric about the Cathedral, the Cathedral as rhetoric, the Cathedral as context, and Cathedral Dean Francis Sayre, Jr. as synecdoche with the Cathedral. This dissertation is divided into eight rhetorical moments of change that take the idea of a national church from L’Enfant’s 1791 plan of the City through the January 2013 announcement allowing same-sex weddings at the Cathedral and Obama’s second inaugural prayer service. The result of this rhetorical exploration is a more nuanced understanding of the place and how it functions in an otherwise secular society for which there is no precedent for the establishment of a national cathedral completely separated from the national government. The narrative strains that wind through Cathedral discourse create a braid of text, context, and moral imperative that ultimately allows for the unique construction of Washington National Cathedral, a construction of what defines “national” created entirely by the Cathedral.
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Smith, Bryan. "The Making of Our Home and Native Land: Textbooks, Racialized Deictic Nationalism and the Creation of the National We." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32334.
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This thesis project explores the ways that we/us/our, they/them, you/your and other grammars/pronouns position readers in relation to a nationalizing we. Building on the work of Michael Billig and his articulation of a theory of banal nationalism, I argue that curricular materials, authorized grade eight Ontario textbooks specifically, reflect and represent a national we that gets racialized—essentialized, arbitrarily defined and divided and continually reproduced—through the use of a grammar that permeates the representations of geography, language arts, science and mathematics discussions in curricular textbooks. Using a theory of racialized deictic nationalism, one that points to the representation of a racialized us that reproduces and reflects seemingly natural nationalized populations, I argue that the texts both actively operate to contain the imagined spaces of the nation and describe it as our space exclusive of a them through the subtlety of grammar. As a means of contesting the ease with which a racialized deictic nationalizing grammar is used, I analyze a Wikipedia article as an exploration of a potential space for re/writing notions of the racialized deictic national we. While the analysis of the Wikipedia article and the “behind the scenes” discussion highlights the difficulties of escaping the trappings of a racialized deictic national us, the analysis serves to show that individuals do hold differential conceptions about who we are and how seemingly static notions of us don’t accurately reflect us. I conclude with a discussion of the pedagogical implications of this project.
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Gibson, Virginia Valerie. "Negotiated spaces : work, home and relationships in the Dene diamond economy." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/800.
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This thesis examines Dene engagement with the diamond mining economy in Canada’s Northwest Territories. While historic treaties, policy and regulation create situations of powerlessness, the space for the negotiation of a bilateral relationship between Treaty mining companies and communities exists, formalized as Impact and Benefit Agreements. An initial emphasis on socio-cultural impacts and vulnerability of the communities in relation to the mines illuminated variable outcomes. This led to a central focus on how outcomes are negotiated, with the outcomes strongly related to forms of community and cultural resilience.
Surprisingly, the ability to bounce back, or be resilient (not vulnerable), as defined by the Tåîchô and Yellowknives Dene communities is central to community response and well being in this new economy. The possibility of self determination and the potential to be in relationships of reciprocity are found to be fundamental drivers of community health and thus resilience. Study of the Tåîchô Cosmology surfaces the centrality of reciprocity to cultural resilience wherein the quality and nature of the relationships as inscribed in past and present agreements themselves are of defining importance.
New relationships with mining companies are entered with the expectation of reciprocity by communities, so that the exchanges are economic, social, cultural, spiritual and symbolic. This thesis outlines this process as it plays out in the mining economy and as it is manifest in spaces of negotiation, each of which invokes social capital and reciprocity. These include negotiations between: diamond mining companies and the communities; government and communities; diamond mining companies and the workers, and miners and their families and communities.
Each of these negotiations is vital in creating the possibility of employment and business. However, relationships with the settler government and with Treaty mining companies are constrained. Many of the limitations identified relate to the assumption by settler society of the universality of their particular values, practices and culture. The thesis argues that Treaty mining companies can shift approaches, both in the orientation to relationship and in the implementation of agreements through the lifecycle of the mine.
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Schneider, Helen M. "Keeping the nation's house : domesticity and home economics education in Republican China /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10412.
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Veach, June Painter. "Preparation for entrepreneurship in Home Economics education : a national perspective /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487330761216894.
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Lastowka, Carol Anne Chase 1968. "At home and industriously employed: The Women's National Indian Association." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278412.
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The Women's National Indian Association (WNIA) organized in 1879 to advocate fair treatment of Native Americans. By manipulating the Victorian ideology of domesticity, the organization was able to send women missionaries to the reservations. Because women could only work "at home," the WNIA redefined the Indian reservation as the missionaries' home. This redefinition ideologically enabled women missionaries to engage in non-traditional work. Conversely, the WNIA believed Indians would only become "civilized" if they moved from traditional dwellings into frame houses. In addition, native houses could only become "homes" if Indian women became ardent housekeepers and converted to Christianity. Accordingly, the WNIA provided financial support to Indians who wished to build houses, and taught the domestic arts to native women and children. In so doing, and by supporting the government's allotment policy, the WNIA participated in the subjugation of Native Americans and in the westward expansion of the United States.
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Cooke, Martin James. "On leaving home, return and circular migration between First Nations and Prairie cities." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0006/MQ42058.pdf.
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Goll, J. June Wilson. "Contemporary navajo weaving : a native craft industry in transition /." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487322984313733.
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Sande, Jack Allan. "An analysis of the 1988-89 platform against home schooling by the National Association of Elementary School Principals." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
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Runions, Erin. "Reading gender, nation and future vision in Micah : reconfiguring the reader as subject." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=37828.
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This dissertation looks at the way in which the shifting configurations of nation, gender and future in Micah might affect readers' positioning as subjects---that is their positioning as agents of speech and action---in a way that might engender resistance to oppression. It is suggested that if readers of Micah identify with the ambiguous and shifting national and gendered identities, within the context of the book's visions for the future, they are urged to recognize contradictions within their own subjectivity. This has the possible effect of shifting the reader's pre-formed subject position, or at least interrogating it, a process which may allow for resistance to oppression. The theoretical problematic for this approach originates within recent discussions of textual determinacy in biblical and literary criticism: "is it the text or the reader that controls meaning?" The work of theorist Homi K. Bhabha on the negotiation of cultural difference in colonial and post-colonial contexts is used to engage the position---common to much contemporary literary and cultural criticism---that the reader comes to the text already formed as a subject within ideology, and that this will necessarily affect or control the way she reads the text. Zizek's reading of Althusser through Lacan is taken as a starting point for an understanding of "subject formation" thus conceived. This position, which tends toward the fixity of the subject, can be seen as analogous to Bhabha's discussion of the role of "pedagogical objects and discourses" (cultural icons, stereotypes, formative events) within the construction of national identity. By way of contrast, Bhabha's key concepts---hybridity, third space, outside the sentence, liminal identification, time-lag, agency in indeterminacy; in short performative practice---envision an identification with difference in a way that allows for the subject to be repositioned and for meaning to be reinscribed. Bhabha's notions of pedagogical object and
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Koch, Brigitte C. M. "National crime prevention policy in England and Wales 1979-1995." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343300.
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Dawn, Karalee. "Searching for home the establishment of the National Theatre of Scotland /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7807.
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Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Theatre. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Sizemore, P., and Mary R. Langenbrunner. "Native Americans: Fostering a Goodness of Fit Between Home and School." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1996. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3464.
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Hawkins, Nicole. "A National Survey of Training Practices of Agencies Employing Home Visitors." DigitalCommons@USU, 1996. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/6085.
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This study reports the characteristics of home visitor training based on the results of a national survey of nominated best practice home visiting programs that service children with disabilities and their families. Two hundred thirty-six programs were nominated by their state's director of Maternal-Child Health and/or their state's Part H Coordinator as community-based programs that have had success integrating home visiting services into their community's overall system of care for children eligible for Part H services and/or special health care needs. The return rate of the survey was 85%, and these 193 programs serve as the basis for this study. Results include information on topic areas on which home visitors received preservice and inservice training (i.e., atypical child development, community-based services, cultural competence), the amount of training home visitors received (i.e., hours of preservice and inservice training), and how training practices compare to what experts in the field view as recommended practices. The results indicate that the majority of program directors provided their home visitors with preservice and inservice training. The results also suggest that agencies that only employed professional home visitors tended to provide more training than those agencies employing only paraprofessionals. The results of this study indicate that a program's model of service delivery did not predict the amount or type of training home visitors received. The discussion includes recommendations that are offered to directors of home visiting programs.
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Nascimento, Pablo Carvalho de Sousa. "AnÃlise fatorial confirmatÃria do construto homo zappiens." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2017. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=20217.
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à fato inegÃvel que se vive uma nova era com a introduÃÃo do computador no quotidiano das pessoas e das instituiÃÃes. Num primeiro momento, sua influÃncia se limitou a tarefas mais simples, como envio de mensagens. Pouco a pouco, à medida que novos programas foram surgindo, ampliou-se a presenÃa das tecnologias da informaÃÃo atà alcanÃar a escola. Inicialmente, sob a forma lÃdica que os jogos proporcionam, mas, ao longo do tempo, essa presenÃa ampliou-se. Os programas ficaram mais complexos e capazes de responder a demandas educacionais antes restritas à presenÃa de um professor. O volume de informaÃÃes produzido foi um desses fatores. A integraÃÃo das vÃrias formas de comunicaÃÃo foi outro componente importante. Novas habilidades surgiram nesseprocesso. Nesse passo, surgiu a metÃfora do Homo Zappiens, ou seja, um novo conceito nÃo testado empiricamente. Esta proposta de estudo tem como objetivo testar um novo conceitodenominado Homo Zappiens. Para tanto, serà utilizada a modelagem de equaÃÃes estruturais que à o procedimento aceito pela comunidade acadÃmica que trabalha com modelos quantitativos. As equaÃÃes foram obtidas a partir da anÃlise das respostas dadas ao instrumento. Sendo assim, num primeiro momento empregou-se a anÃlise fatorial exploratÃria (AFE) para identificar as variÃveis latentes que explicam a variÃvel sob estudo. No segundo momento, utilizou-se a anÃlise fatorial confirmatÃria (AFC) para confirmar os fatores detectados na anÃlise exploratÃria.ApÃs realizados todas os procedimentos e analisados os resultados aplicados ao modelo dos trÃs fatores os indicadores apontaram para a existÃncia do modelo hipotetizado.
Observou-se tambÃm, de acordo com a literatura consultada, a existÃncia de diferenÃas significativas na escala de avaliaÃÃo entre os sexos, masculino e feminino.à fato inegÃvel que se vive uma nova era com a introduÃÃo do computador no quotidiano das pessoas e das instituiÃÃes. Num primeiro momento, sua influÃncia se limitou a tarefas mais simples, como envio de mensagens. Pouco a pouco, à medida que novos programas foram surgindo, ampliou-se a presenÃa das tecnologias da informaÃÃo atà alcanÃar a escola. Inicialmente, sob a forma lÃdica que os jogos proporcionam, mas, ao longo do tempo, essa presenÃa ampliou-se. Os programas ficaram mais complexos e capazes de responder a demandas educacionais antes restritas à presenÃa de um professor. O volume de informaÃÃes produzido foi um desses fatores. A integraÃÃo das vÃrias formas de comunicaÃÃo foi outro componente importante. Novas habilidades surgiram nesseprocesso. Nesse passo, surgiu a metÃfora do Homo Zappiens, ou seja, um novo conceito nÃo testado empiricamente. Esta proposta de estudo tem como objetivo testar um novo conceitodenominado Homo Zappiens. Para tanto, serà utilizada a modelagem de equaÃÃes estruturais que à o procedimento aceito pela comunidade acadÃmica que trabalha com modelos quantitativos. As equaÃÃes foram obtidas a partir da anÃlise das respostas dadas ao instrumento. Sendo assim, num primeiro momento empregou-se a anÃlise fatorial exploratÃria (AFE) para identificar as variÃveis latentes que explicam a variÃvel sob estudo. No segundo momento, utilizou-se a anÃlise fatorial confirmatÃria (AFC) para confirmar os fatores detectados na anÃlise exploratÃria.ApÃs realizados todas os procedimentos e analisados os resultados aplicados ao modelo dos trÃs fatores os indicadores apontaram para a existÃncia do modelo hipotetizado. Observou-se tambÃm, de acordo com a literatura consultada, a existÃncia de diferenÃas significativas na escala de avaliaÃÃo entre os sexos, masculino e feminino.
It is an undeniable fact that we are experiencing a new era with theintroduction of the computer in the daily lives of people and institutions. At first, his influence was limited to simpler tasks such as sending messages. Little by little, as new programs emerged, the presence of information technology has expanded to reach school. Initially, in the ludic form that the games provide, but over time, this presence has increased. The programs became more complex and capable of responding to educational demands previously restricted to the presence of a teacher. The volume of information produced was one such factor. The integration of the various forms of communication was another important component. New skills emerged in this process. In this step, the Homo Zappiens metaphor emerged, that is, a new concept not tested empirically. This study proposal aims to test a new concept called Homo Zappiens. For that, the structural equations modelling will be used, which is the procedure accepted by the academic community that works with quantitative models. The analysis of the answers given to the instrumentproduced the equations. Therefore, the exploratory factorial analysis (AFE) performed first to identify the latent variables that explain the variable under study. In the second moment, was used the confirmatory factorial analysis (AFC) to confirm the factors detected in the exploratory analysis. After all procedures applied,the results applied in the tree factor model the indicators show the existence of the hypothesis model suggested. Furthermore, it is possible observe that there are differences between the men and women concerning the use of the technologies.
It is an undeniable fact that we are experiencing a new era with theintroduction of the computer in the daily lives of people and institutions. At first, his influence was limited to simpler tasks such as sending messages. Little by little, as new programs emerged, the presence of information technology has expanded to reach school. Initially, in the ludic form that the games provide, but over time, this presence has increased. The programs became more complex and capable of responding to educational demands previously restricted to the presence of a teacher. The volume of information produced was one such factor. The integration of the various forms of communication was another important component. New skills emerged in this process. In this step, the Homo Zappiens metaphor emerged, that is, a new concept not tested empirically. This study proposal aims to test a new concept called Homo Zappiens. For that, the structural equations modelling will be used, which is the procedure accepted by the academic community that works with quantitative models. The analysis of the answers given to the instrumentproduced the equations. Therefore, the exploratory factorial analysis (AFE) performed first to identify the latent variables that explain the variable under study. In the second moment, was used the confirmatory factorial analysis (AFC) to confirm the factors detected in the exploratory analysis. After all procedures applied,the results applied in the tree factor model the indicators show the existence of the hypothesis model suggested. Furthermore, it is possible observe that there are differences between the men and women concerning the use of the technologies.
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Rettie, Kathleen. "At home in national parks : a study of power, knowledge and discourse in Banff National Park and Cairngorms National Park." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2819.
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National Parks bear greater implications than simply preserving or conserving pockets of landscape. They evoke values of conservation versus development, livelihood economics, environmental stewardship and personal enrichment; they fulfil positions in relation to the national and the international stage. Social characteristics are revealed though this comparative study of Banff National Park and the Cairngorms National Park. Perceptions of space, place and boundaries crucially imply different meanings to the people living inside the national park boundaries and those living outside the boundaries. 'Insiders' are long-term permanent residents for whom being in the park is a practical activity; 'outsiders' include scientists, conservationists, bureaucrats, and tourists, who take various ideological positions regarding the park's purpose. Both sides take a serious interest in the park and how it is managed and regard it as a place where they are 'at home'. Groups within these spaces considers their values and rights superior to others and conflict often arises. Non-violent means of gaining power as theorized by Foucault and Bourdieu, employing knowledge and discourse, are highly suggestive in the study of national parks. Discourse of nature is strategically significant as it influences purpose and policy that drive government's decisions on how the park will be managed - in this way discourse shapes the culture of how we use nature. Knowledge, as symbolic capital and as the basis for truth, sparks divisiveness - in particular scientific knowledge versus experiential knowledge. Changes to the exclusive North American model, such as those instituted in the Caimgorms, mark the increased social utility and inclusive nature of national parks. The challenge remains for park managers to reconcile values connected with nationalism and environmental ethics with values connected with local livelihoods.
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Valentino, Alfredo, Jan Schmitt, Benno Koch, and Phillip C. Nell. "Leaving home: An institutional perspective on intermediary HQ relocations." Elsevier, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2018.08.004.
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We investigate the effect of changing national institutions on relocations of intermediary HQs. Using a dataset of 154 cross-border relocations between the period from 2000 to 2015, we draw on the intermediary HQ's middle position within the MNC and investigate how a decrease in institutional quality in the HQ's host country and a change in institutional distance between different MNC units affect the relocation decision. Our findings advance the emergent literature on HQ relocations as well as our knowledge of intermediary HQs and the effect of changing institutions on organizational location choices. Beyond our theoretical contributions, we offer policy and managerial implications.
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Ruda, Petr. "What Do You Want to Eat? A Descriptive Study of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders' Home Food Environment." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5813.
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Objectives: Home food environments are created when families stock their kitchens with food, which contributes to their dietary patterns and weight management. Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NPHIs) have a high prevalence of overweight and obesity. A description of their home food environment can help nurses understand NHPIs' dietary patterns. Our purpose was to describe NHPIs' home food environments by analyzing grocery store and restaurant receipts. Design and Sample: This descriptive study used analyzed qualitative and quantitative data from eight NHPI families, collected over an 8-week period. Measures: Grocery store and restaurant receipts were analyzed with descriptive statistics. Families' dietary patterns were studied with open-ended questions and compared to receipt data. Results: Food groups with the highest percent expenditures included combination foods (20%), protein foods (19%), and empty calorie food and drinks (11%). The lowest percent expenditures included fruits (8%), grains (7%), vegetables (7%), and dairy (6%). Families visited restaurants zero to 10 times (M = 2) per week. Conclusions: Results can help nurses address NHPIs' home food environment challenges by increasing their awareness of typical food purchases and helping NHPIs assess their own grocery and restaurant purchases and improve their own home food environments.
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Alberti, Louis. "Ô Canada: un hymne national, deux nations vingt-cinq traductions et lectures d’un chant identitaire canadien-français." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38189.
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Cette thèse analyse dans une perspective historique quelques aspects d’une vingtaine de traductions de l’hymne national canadien « Ô Canada », publiées entre 1906 et 1931. Ce chant a été composé à l’occasion d’un important rassemblement à Québec des Sociétés Saint-Jean-Baptiste en 1880. Les paroles françaises originales du Chant national furent écrites par Adolphe Basile Routhier, sur une musique de Calixa Lavallée. Jusqu’à ce jour, le texte français est demeuré intact. Vers 1901, cette chanson patriotique canadienne-française fut introduite au Canada anglais et divers auteurs anglophones ont entrepris de la traduire ou l’adapter.
Cette thèse examine particulièrement les conditions de cette appropriation à travers la traduction de 1900 à 1931. Cette période fut, particulièrement en effet, un point d’orgue dans l’évolution de la société canadienne : tensions entre certains sujets attachés à l’Empire britannique et ceux revendiquant une plus grande affirmation nationale; participation du Canada à la Guerre des Boers et à la Première Guerre mondiale; en 1919, signature comme Dominion britannique du Traité de Versailles, ce qui contribua à la montée du nationalisme canadien; reconnaissance en 1931 par le Traité de Westminster de la souveraineté des pays membres de l’Empire britannique — dont le Canada.
Les traductions de ce Chant national réalisées au cours de cette période sont presque indissociables des lectures que les traducteurs canadiens-anglais ou britanniques font des changements sociaux, culturels et politiques de leur époque qui se produisent au Canada et ailleurs dans le monde. Plus qu’un texte original, ces traductions expriment les différents avatars de ces lectures identitaires.
Cette approche lectorielle forme le socle de notre analyse théorique. Charles Le Blanc le résumait ainsi dans son ouvrage, Le complexe d’Hermès : « Le traducteur est tout à la fois lecteur du texte original et auteur du texte traduit. […] L’original naît de l’écriture — avec tout ce que la culture de l’écrit comporte de libertés — alors que la seconde vient de la lecture – avec tout ce que l’acte de lire présume de culture, de dispositions sentimentales, de mémoire, de réciprocité aussi ». Comme Le Blanc disait de sa traduction de Bruni : « Il s’agit bien plus de comprendre un texte pour le traduire : il faut aussi comprendre une époque et une conscience ». « La fin du travail du traducteur […] n’est pas simplement celle de livrer une version acceptable d’un grand texte. Il faut assurer également que le texte traduit puisse jouer un rôle dans le développement des idées et le progrès de la culture [de son époque] ». Bien que cette thèse ne porte pas sur l’ensemble des traductions réalisées entre les années 1900 et 1980, l’étude illustre, entre autres, que la version-traduction-adaptation-réécriture de l’hymne national canadien actuel promulgué le 1er juillet 1980 — quelques mois après l’échec référendaire du Québec — résulte elle-même d’une lecture idéologique, à tout le moins politique par nos parlementaires fédéraux soucieux de doter le Canada d’un symbole identitaire national comme fondement à cette unité nationale tant recherchée par les fédéralistes des années Trudeau- père. Cette appropriation graduelle d’un symbole patriotique canadien-français résulte du cheminement dans l’imaginaire du Canada anglais des lectures du pays rattachées aux premières traductions du Chant national. Celles apparues entre 1906 et 1931 ont déclenché et concouru à cette mainmise.
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Weber, Robert W. "Hogans on the home front| The making of Navajo self-determination from 1917-1945." Thesis, University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10248470.
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During the early twentieth century, Navajo lands were extensive and isolated. Traditional Navajo leadership was much more local, and it varied from clan to clan. The discovery of natural resources on Navajo lands in the 1920s led to the creation of the Navajo Tribal Council to negotiate leases with the federal government. Through the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), the federal government dominated the council. However, the reforms of the Indian New Deal and the urgency of World War II brought immense changes as many non-Navajo leaders left the BIA for important wartime positions within the federal government, and the Navajo Tribal Council became more independent. During this period the relationship between the council and federal government changed as the council was given greater autonomy in governing the tribe. This thesis examines the history of the council leading up to and during World War II. By comparing the home front of World War I to the home front of World War II, it argues that the council achieved greater self-determination during this period, something often downplayed by historians, and created a unique system of government distinctive only to Navajos. The leadership of the council in providing for the common defense, defining and protecting property rights, and assisting with the federal government in the creation of human service programs established solid reasons for continued autonomy after World War II.
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Hadebe, Rutendo. "Home and national belonging : narratives of Zimbabwean middle class women in Cape Town." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13317.
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Includes bibliographical references.This research is an analysis of narratives collected from Zimbabwean black middle class women residing in the South Africa’s coastal city of Cape Town. The narratives construct and locate participants in the main South Africa xenophobia immigration discourse. The research attempts to answer the question: How do mainstream discourses of migration shape Zimbabwean Black middle class migrant women’s narratives of home and belonging in Cape Town? The women participants in this research self-identify as middle class and have lived in Cape Town for years ranging from three to 22. The women produced subjective knowledges around key themes of otherness, representations of belonging, identity formation and gender roles in new spaces, all which aim at aligning and enriching the main dominant discourses around Zimbabwean women immigrants and their experiences of exclusion and belonging. The women’s narratives provide an opportunity for a more nuanced understanding and analysis of the migration phenomenon. The research simultaneously engages in power analysis along key inequality contours of gender, race, ethnicity and class and ascertains their transformation or reinforcement within the discourses. The findings of this research resonate with post-modern notions of knowledge which frame it as fragmented, locked in individuality and discursive, while being oppositional to knowledge anchored in objective positivism. This research therefore celebrates alternative ways of framing which are accommodative and willing to give voice to fragmented, gendered, subjective and emotive agency of women. The women participants are viewed as active participants in migration processes and in this particular case, as provider of new insights into counter grand migration and xenophobia discourses.
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Lincoln, Leslie Jeanne. "Paddle to Seattle : a native Washington movement to "Bring them canoes back home"." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42022.
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This thesis documents the 1989 Washington Centennial Commissions'
Native Canoe Project. Seventeen Western Washington
tribes participated in a canoe-oriented cultural heritage
renewal movement. The ethnographic setting establishes Native
dugouts in their historic social context and presents the
classic hull forms of representative canoe types. After a
hiatus of several generations of canoe use, many tribes began
to reconstruct their disappearing canoeing ways. Through the
process of carving and using their dugouts, they have addressed
current issues. Canoe racing and voyaging has proven to be
effective, culturally relevant alternative to drug and alcohol
abuse. Native people reaffirmed access to landing beaches and
forest resources and created community carving centers. Case
studies of the Lummi, Suquamish, Tulalip, Port Gamble Klallam
and Quileute tribes reveal continuity, schisms and the reinvention
of Native dugout traditions. The culminating "Paddle
to Seattle" voyage illuminates the vital role of these canoes
to unite communities and legitimize Indian values. Abundant use
of Native commentary from collected oral histories substantiate
my interpretations and offer authority to Native perspectives.
Ethnopoetic transcriptions express an understanding of these
cedar canoes in the enduring Native thoughtworld.Arts, Faculty of
Anthropology, Department of
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McGuire, John Andrew. "Femtosecond nonlinear spectroscopy at surfaces Second-harmonic probing of hole burning at the Si(111)7x7 surface and fourier-transform sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy." Berkeley, Calif. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ; distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2004. http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/836810-xRj01W/native/.
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Thesis (Ph.D.); Submitted to the University of California, Berkeley, CA (US); 24 Nov 2004.Published through the Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information. "LBNL--56751" McGuire, John Andrew. USDOE Director. Office of Science. Office of Basic Energy Sciences. Materials Science and Engineering Division (US) 11/24/2004. Report is also available in paper and microfiche from NTIS.
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Luecke, Heather Marie. "Post-secondary decisions of public school and homeschool graduates in Jackson County, Wisconsin, as compared to national post-secondary decision statistics." Online version, 2001. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2001/2001lueckeh.pdf.
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Hama, Ayumi. "Between Hope and Despair: The UN Observer Missions of ONUCA and MINURSO." Ohio : Ohio University, 2009. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1244498516.
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Lindgren, Helena. "Hemförlossningar i Sverige 1992-2005. : Förlossningsutfall och kvinnors erfarenheter." Doctoral thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Medicinsk vetenskap, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-4502.
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Hemförlossningar i Sverige 1992-2005. Förlossningsutfall och kvinnors erfarenheter.Detta är den första nationella undersökningen av planerade hemförlossningar i Sverige. Istudierna har vi avsett att studera kvinnor som fött eller planerat att föda barn hemma underperioden 1/1 1992 till och med 30/6 2005.Kvinnor som födde barn hemma skiljde sig från kvinnor som födde barn på sjukhus i vissaavseenden (Studie I). Data från det svenska medicinska födelseregistret för perioden 1992 till2001, för 352 kvinnor som fött utanför sjukhus jämfördes med data från 1760 kvinnor som föttpå sjukhus. Kvinnorna som fött utanför sjukhus födde fler barn, hade högre utbildningsnivåmen en lägre sammanlagd familjeinkomst och de yrkesarbetade i mindre omfattning jämförtmed kvinnor som födde barn på sjukhus. Kvinnorna som fött barn utanför sjukhus var oftarefödda i ett annat europeiskt land än Sverige men mer sällan utanför Europa. Förekomsten avhemförlossningar i Sverige baserat på registerkod ”född utanför sjukhus” var 0.38 per tusenfödslar.Genom barnmorskor som bistår hemförlossningar, annonsering och via en intresseförening fördem som vill föda hemma, identifierades 757 kvinnor med sammanlagt 1045 planeradehemförlossningar under perioden 1/1 1992 till 30/6 2005. Av de tillfrågade kvinnorna svarade99 procent att de ville delta i studien. Data insamlades genom frågeformulär. Totalt 100 av detillfrågade kvinnorna med sammanlagt 141 planerade hemförlossningar återfanns inte i detmedicinska födelseregistret. Förekomsten av planerade hemförlossningar baserat på data förkvinnor som identifierats via hemförlossningsbarnmorskor och annonsering, var 0.95 per tusenfödslar. Förekomsten av planerade hemförlossningar baserat på registerdata för dessa kvinnorvar 0.85 per tusen födslar. Överföring till sjukhus under eller direkt efter förlossningen skeddevid 12.5 procent av de planerade hemförlossningarna (studie II). De vanligaste orsakerna tillöverföringen var långsam progress (46%) samt att barnmorskan inte kunde komma närförlossningen hade startat (14%). Var fjärde förstföderska avslutade sin planeradehemförlossning på sjukhus och den vanligaste orsaken för överföring bland förstföderskor varatt en annan barnmorska än den kvinnan besökt för vård under graviditeten kom för att biståförlossningen. Faktorer som påverkade överföring hos omföderskor var att tidigare hagenomgått kejsarsnitt och för både förstföderskor och omföderskor att graviditeten varöverburen.Data från det svenska medicinska födelseregistret jämfördes för 897 förlossningar identifieradegenom datainsamlingen till studie II och 11 341 sjukhusförlossningar (kontrollgrupp). Kriterietför urval av kontrollgruppen var enkelbörd i graviditetsvecka 37 - 42 samt att förlossningenstartat spontant. Kvinnor som planerat att föda hemma födde oftare spontant vaginalt och hademer sällan allvarliga bristningar i underlivet efter förlossningen (studie III). Risker i sambandmed valet av förlossningsplats hade övervägts av tre fjärdedelar av kvinnorna (studie IV).Genom egen förberedelse, samtal främst med sin partner och hemförlossningsbarnmorskan,hanterade kvinnorna tankar om att de själva eller deras barn skulle kunna skadas eller dö vidförlossningen. Kvinnorna undvek att diskutera risker med personal inom den konventionellavården.Konklusioner: I Sverige, under åren 1992 – 2005, planerade omkring 100 kvinnor att föda barni hemmet varje år. En fjärdedel av förstföderskorna avslutade sin planerade hemförlossning påsjukhus och den totala förekomsten av överföringar var 12,5 procent. Kvinnorna hade övervägtrisker med en hemförlossning men undvek att diskutera dem med personal inom sjukvården.Den neonatala mortaliteten bland nyfödda vid planerad hemförlossning var 2,2 per tusen inomfyra veckor efter förlossningen jämfört med 0,6 per tusen i sjukhusgruppen. Kvinnor somplanerade en hemförlossning hade oftare en spontan vaginal förlossning med färre allvarligabristningar i underlivet efter förlossningen jämfört med kvinnor som födde på sjukhus.
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Tucker, Amanda. "At Home in the World: Globalism in Modern Irish Writing." Scholarly Repository, 2008. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/44.
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Because the first part of the twentieth century in Ireland was marked with nationalist milestones like the Easter Rising and the Anglo-Irish War, most accounts of modern Irish literature and culture are nation-centered. This dissertation offers a new understanding of modern Irish writing by placing national identity in conversation with global consciousness, a burgeoning concept in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, this project explores three aspects of globalism: the attachments to foreign countries that Irish writers form; the ways in which these attachments affect their relationships with Ireland; and their subsequent articulation of global consciousness based on these transnational experiences. The introduction provides a critical and historical context for the project by negotiating between the established discipline of Irish Studies and the emerging field of Irish Diaspora Studies. Each chapter then investigates an Irish writer whose work indicates a relationship between global and national consciousness. The Irish-Argentine writer William Bulfin and the evolution of his relationship with gauchos, as it is suggested in his Tales of the Pampas, forms the subject of the next chapter. The second chapter juxtaposes Helen Waddell's The Princess Splendour and Other Stories, which retells fairytales from the Middle and Far East as well as from Ireland, with Lady Gregory's and Douglas Hyde's nationalistic collections of Irish folklore. The third chapter investigates the connection between the feminist underpinnings of Kate O'Brien's novels with the transnational movements that frequently accompany them. The fourth chapter examines the cosmopolitan imperative of Brian Moore's Irish-American novels. Finally, in the epilogue I briefly suggest the ways in which contemporary Irish writing extends the projects begun by these earlier figures.
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Turabian, Michael. "Echoes of Home: The Diasporic Performer and the Quest for "Armenianness"." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20497.
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Current scholarship recognizes that music is a powerful channel that can manifest individual identity. But such research takes for granted music as a symbol of collective cultural identity, and, therefore, neglects examining how music in general, but musical performance in particular, functions to produce and reproduce a society at large. Indeed, what is missing is a rigorous understanding of not only how the act of performing forms collective identity, but also how it acts as an agency, indeed, perhaps the only agency that enables this process. As Thomas Turino suggests, externalized musical practice can facilitate the creation of emergent cultural identities, and help in forming life in new cultural surroundings. The present thesis examines the dynamics between cultural identity and music from the perspective of the performing musician. By examining musical situations in the context of the Armenian – Canadian diaspora, I will show how performers themselves both evoke feelings of nostalgia for the homeland and maintain the traditions of their culture through the performance event, while simultaneously serving as cultural ambassadors for the Armenian – Canadian community. My thesis outlines four key themes that are crucial in understanding the roles of musicians in Armenian culture. They are tradition bearer, educator, cultural ambassador, and artisan. As boundaries between peoples and nations progressively blur, I conclude that performance proves a vital medium where a search for national identity can occur, frequently resulting in the realization of one’s ethnic identity. Ultimately, without the labors of the performing musician, music would be unable to do the social work that is necessary in forming cultural, social, or even personal identities.