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Kinsella, Melissa Ann. "Graduate Tutors/Instructors: Navigating Shifting Identity Roles." OpenSIUC, 2021. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1910.
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AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OFMelissa Kinsella, for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Rhetoric and Composition, presented on February 26, 2021, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: GRADUATE TUTORS/INSTRUCTORS: NAVIGATING SHIFTING IDENTITY ROLESMAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Lisa J. McClure Writing centers directors at many universities staff graduate student as tutors; these graduate students receive support for their graduate education while also fulfilling important role in the university. These graduate tutors can hold dual roles as both tutors and instructors - Graduate tutors/instructors (GTIs) as I have called them. GTIs have complex identities that include graduate, student, instructor, and tutor components. GTIs navigate between shifting roles as both classroom instructors and writing center peer collaborative tutors. There is a preexisting writing peer collaborative pedagogy and ethos that GTIs are expected to uphold when becoming writing center tutors. This phenomenological qualitative research study utilizes a survey and follow-up interview to specifically explore how GTIs view and experience their peer tutoring relationships, collaborative tutoring techniques, and their navigation and shift from instructor to tutor. GTIs are studied within the context of SIUC’s writing center. The results of this research offer initial insight into the GTI experience and provide a starting point for exploring the GTI experience on a larger and deeper scale. Writing center pedagogy emphasizes a peer tutoring dynamic; results find that GTIs feel differing degrees of peer frequencies dependent on both the GTIs’ and tutees’ demographic. Further, collaborative techniques are offered within writing center scholarship to enact peer tutoring exchanges; results identify a tendency to collaborate with all tutee demographics with frequency differences reflecting the stage of the writing process and tutee need. The peer and collaborative results present scenarios in which peer and collaborative tutoring doesn’t necessarily go hand-in-hand, while also suggesting that collaborative techniques could be used in spite of a peer relationship; collaboration could also be utilized to enact a peer exchange, even when a peer relationship isn’t present. Moreover, there are ways that shifting from instructor to tutor impacts the tutoring exchange in terms of tutor authority, knowledge, evaluation, and technique. Writing center directors and researchers should acknowledge the complexity of the GTI experience in order to support and understand the GTI exchange and navigation. Keywords: peer tutor, graduate tutor, writing center collaboration, instructor to tutor navigation
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Akyurek, Engin Ahmet. "Changing Conceptions Of European Identity And Shifting Boundaries." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12604993/index.pdf.
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In the end of the 1980s and in the beginning of the 1990s Europe and the world witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the mid-1990s the member states of the European Union decided to enlarge the Union towards the Eastern Europe. Thus European integration entered into an unprecedented phase. Integration of the Eastern Europeans with the Western Europe contributed to the debates on the notions of European identity and the idea of Europe. Adherence of the East Europeans to the ideals of the Western European civilization brought up some questions about the changing identities and shifting boundaries of Europe. Various theories deal with the problems of identity in general and European identity in particular. However to a great extent they are limited within a rigid description of self-other relationship. They do not intend to investigate the real motives or purposes behind these transformations of the prevailing identities and shifting of the boundaries of Europe. So, it will be argued that, in order to understand construction/reconstruction process of the new European identity, one should also take into consideration the more dynamic effects on changing European identity and shifting borders of Europe.
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Bean, Kevin. "Community and identity : shifting discourses of Provisional Irish Republicanism." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.416104.
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Roberts, Lorna. "Shifting identities : the researcher's and trainee/novice teacher's evolving professional identity." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.400948.
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Vincent, Michael F. "Shifting Sands of Identity: Salome and Select Early Twentieth-Century Interpretations." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1292720996.
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Liu, Sung-Ta. "Representing national identity within urban landscapes : Chinese settler rule, shifting Taiwanese identity, and post-settler Taipei City." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2009. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/442/.
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Academic literature has examined how the transformation of a nation’s state power can give rise to shifts in national identity, and how such shifting identity can be represented in the form of the nation’s changing urban landscape. This thesis investigates that topic in the case of Taiwan, a de facto independent country with almost one hundred years’ experience of ‘colonial’ and then ‘settler’ rule. Both colonial rule and settler rule constitute an outside regime. However, the settler rulers in Taiwan regarded the settled land as their homeland. To secure their supremacy, the settler rulers had to strongly control the political, cultural, and economic interests of the ‘native’ population. Democratisation can be a key factor undermining settler rule. Such a political transition can enable the home population to reclaim state power, symbolising that the nation has entered the post-settler era. This thesis explores how the transition from Japanese colonial rule to Chinese settler rule and then to democratisation gave rise to changes in Taiwanese national identity, and to its reflection in the urban landscape of the capital city, Taipei. The thesis reveals the irony of a transition in which the collapse of settler rule has been unable to drive significant further change in the city’s urban landscape. In other words, the urban landscape of post-settler Taipei City is ‘stuck in transition’. The condition reflects the ambivalence in Taiwanese national identity caused by the unforgettable, yet not really glorious memory of settler rule.
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Morris, John. "Continuing "assimilation"? : a shifting identity for the Tiwi 1919 to the present." University of Ballarat, 2003. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/14639.
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The Tiwi are the indigenous people of the Tiwi Islands, located off the Northern Territory mainland. In 1919, as a unique and distinct people they appeared to be in a position to maintain their identity, to resist absorption into western culture and to avoid some of the serious social problems that came to affect some other Indigenous communities. While aspects of the Tiwi culture and lifestyle were gradually modified or abandoned through contact with outside societies between 1919 and 2000, other traits remained strong or were strengthened. These included their relationship with the land, the local language, dancing and singing, and adoption customs. Forms of visual art, some introduced, brought fame to the Tiwi. Government policies on Indigenous matters changed dramatically over the twentieth century. The earlier ones, including assimilation programmes were discriminatory and restrictive. Later approaches to Aboriginal and Islander welfare, including land rights, had significant consequences for the Islanders, some beneficial, others detrimental in nature. From the 1970s, the departure of resident missionaries and government officers from the islands led to an influx of private European employees. The exposure to these people added to that which the Tiwi experienced as they travelled far beyond their islands. After 1972, the policies of self-determination and, then, self-management placed enormous strains on the Tiwi as they strove to meet the requirements of government, private enterprise and the wider society. New forms of land and local government controls replaced the law of the elders. A younger, western-educated generation now spoke on behalf of the people. Ultimately, under the influence of outside pressures, degrees of socio-cultural absorption occurred in the islands even though the official policy of assimilation had been abandoned. Fortunately, the strong identity of the Tiwi ensured a level of social cohesion capable of combating full assimilation into a wholly western lifestyle.Doctor of Philosophy
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Eldridge, Jr Reginald. "Shifting Blackness: How the Arts Revolutionize Black Identity in the Postmodern West." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3087.
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The contemporary experiences of racially marginalized people in the West are affected deeply by the hegemonic capitalist Orthodox cultural codes, or episteme, in which blackness operates as the symbol of Chaos. As it relates to people of African descent, these affects are marked by a denial of the black person's full status as an unproblematic subject, by ontological voids arising from the practice of enslavement over the past centuries, and by problems of representation within the West, where examples and points of reference for black identity are always tied up with conflicting interests.
Utilizing Sylvia Wynter's model of the Ceremony as one means of describing the ways in which blacks in the West maneuver the extant psychological and philosophical perils of race in the Western world, I argue that the history of black responses to the West's ontological violence is alive and well, particularly in art forms like spoken word, where the power to define/name oneself is of paramount importance. Focusing on how art shaped black responses to ontologically debilitating circumstances, I argue that there has always existed a model for liberation within African American culture and tradition.
This work takes an approach that is philosophical and theoretical in nature in order to address the wide breadth of the black experience that lies beyond the realm of statistics. The goal of this approach is to continue the work of unraveling hidden or under-discussed aspects of the black experience in order to more clearly find possibilities for addressing problems in the construction of race and marginalized people within the Western episteme. This work attempts to redefine the struggle for a healthier ontology within the framework of a process of liberation that transcends Orthodox limitations on the marginalized subject.
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Daynard, Kimberly L. "Nationalism, ethnicity, and identity in postmodern Canada, a cinema responds to shifting perspectives." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq22849.pdf.
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Raj, Dhooleka Sarhadi. "Shifting culture in the global terrain : cultural identity constructions amongst British Punjabi Hindus." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273054.
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Taylor, Aimee N. "Fat Cyborgs: Body Positive Activism, Shifting Rhetorics and Identity Politics in the Fatosphere." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1479311506093833.
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Craig, Linda Anne. "Identity and belonging, 1850-1945 : shifting perceptions of community in the Whaley Bridge district." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269610.
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Neuburger, Mary Catherine. "Shifting Balkan borders : Muslim minorities and the mapping of national identity in modern Bulgaria /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10374.
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Waggoner, Eliza K. "America Singing Loud: Shifting Representations of American National Identity in Allen Ginsberg and Walt Whitman." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1336052921.
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Black, Ashley Leane. "From San Juan to Saigon : shifting conceptions of Puerto Rican identity during the Vietnam War." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42499.
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Between 1964 and 1973, the United States sent over 48,000 Puerto Rican soldiers to fight the war in Vietnam. While many enlisted voluntarily, many others were sent as draftees, subject to conscription as citizens of the United States. This is the starting point of this thesis, which looks at the intersection between citizenship, nationality and military service in relation to Puerto Rican identity at the time of the Vietnam War.
This project focuses on the experiences of three distinct groups. First, it uses newspaper and archival research to explore opposition to the draft by Puerto Rican nationalists on the island, who used conscription as a tool to challenge the meaning of their citizenship. They questioned how a state that denied them the right to vote could require them to give the ultimate sacrifice and challenged both the moral and legal dimensions of conscription as it applied to the island. Next, it moves to the Puerto Rican barrios of New York to look at second-generation Puerto Ricans who came of age during the era of civil rights and the Vietnam War. Through the lens of popular culture, it looks at the early development of Puerto Rican stereotypes in Hollywood films and the way that these were challenged by a new generation of writers and activists by the close of the sixties. Finally, it turns to interviews and memoirs of Puerto Rican veterans to present a personal account of what it meant to be Puerto Rican in the U.S. armed forces at the time, and questions the success of the military’s effort to construct soldiers who would remain loyal American citizens after the war. Taken separately, each of these chapters provides a small glimpse of the Puerto Rican experience during the Vietnam War era, but taken together they contribute to our understanding of the ways in which the war, and the environment it created, played a role in the efforts of Puerto Ricans to reclaim and reconstruct their collective identity during this period.
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Gardner, Andrew Michael. "Good old boys in crisis: Truck drivers and shifting occupational identity in the Louisiana oilpatch." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278741.
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While federal deregulation of the trucking industry had little impact upon the truck drivers serving the Acadian oilpatch, recent legislation deregulating intrastate transportation yielded vast changes in the structure of the occupation. In the past, success as a trucker in the oilpatch depended upon an individual's entrepreneurial drive, as well as the social and familial networks upon which that individual could rely. Intrastate deregulation allowed several truck companies to dominate the industry; these companies grew via a complex series of alliances between transportation companies, service companies, and large oil concerns. These alliances disrupted the process by which individuals transformed social capital into economic capital. The foremost impact of these changes is a rapid drop in trucker's income---many now exist on the brink of insolvency. At the same time, the period of crisis has opened the sector to previously inconceivable options, including forays toward unionization, as well as the entry of women, blacks, and outsiders into the labor pool.
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Batal, Mohamad. "Shifting Priorities? Civic Identity in the Jewish State and the Changing Landscape of Israeli Constitutionalism." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1826.
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This thesis begins with an explanation of Israel’s foundational constitutional tension—namely, that its identity as a Jewish State often conflicts with liberal-democratic principles to which it is also committed. From here, I attempt to sketch the evolution of the state’s constitutional principles, pointing to Chief Justice Barak’s “constitutional revolution” as a critical juncture where the aforementioned theoretical tension manifested in practice, resulting in what I call illiberal or undemocratic “moments.” More profoundly, by introducing Israel’s constitutional tension into the public sphere, the Barak Court’s jurisprudence forced all of the Israeli polity to confront it. My next chapter utilizes the framework of a bill currently making its way through the Knesset—Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People—in order to draw out the past and future of Israeli civic identity. From a positivist perspective, much of my thesis points to why and how Israel often falls short of liberal-democratic principles. My final chapters demonstrate that neither the Supreme Court nor any other part of the Israeli polity appears particularly well-suited to stopping what I see as the beginning of a transformational shift in theory and in practice. In my view, this shift is making, and will continue to make, the state’s ethno-religious character the preeminent factor in Israeli Constitutionalism and civic identity.
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LaValley, Matty. "From Transnormativity to Self-Authenticity: Shifting Away From a Dysphoria-Centered Approach to Transgender Identity." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin162513493136327.
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Gibson, N. Jade. "Making art to make identity : shifting perceptions of self amongst historically disadvantaged South African artists." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10508.
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Bibliography: p. 159-177.This study examines how historically disadvantaged artists shift self-identities through artmaking beyond previously racialised, hierarchised and essentialist constructs in a transforming New South Africa. Fieldwork research involved direct observation, working with artists on art projects, and interviews with visual artists and other arts practitioners in Cape Town, 1998-2001. Artworks are examined as events incorporating social change, and thus as a focal point between unconscious praxis and the cognitive coming-to-awareness of self within-the-world. Using a non-essentialist approach to identity construction, I argue for an understanding of, and approach to, studying individual identity that incorporates complexity, multiplicity, materiality and change as integral to identity formation. The reworking of memory materially within artworks is demonstrated through examining how artists re-presented autobiographical and historical referents of identity to affirm and re-present new narratives of self in South Africa's present. How artists respond to, and negotiate, tensions and contradiction between concepts of 'freedom' and externally-derived categories of value within socio-economic limitations in a transforming South African art world is also explored. I also show how artworks act as sites of transcultural encounter for artists, within their awareness of different gazes and contexts of interpretation, to position identities simultaneously both within the local and beyond the local, through different images, styles, techniques and technologies in their work. Finally, I demonstrate how different collaborative art projects, through artistic praxis, enable mutual processes of social and artistic collective identification between artists of different socio-cultural backgrounds, in relation to processes of nation-building and reconciliation for South Africa in the future. The study not only provides insight into art-making in South Africa and material processes of cognitive identity construction, but also how individuals act as agents in shifting self-identities within processes of collective socio-political transformation.
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Sturdivant, Manasia Gabrielle. "Development and Initial Validation of the African American Workplace Authenticity Scale." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/104016.
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Workplace authenticity for African Americans has received much attention in recent years, both in various research domains and in popular media. However, empirical research is scarce regarding what drives Blacks' decisions around whether to outwardly express their inner racial identity at work and what impact (in)authenticity has on workplace outcomes. The lack of empirical research is likely due, in part, to the fact that there are few existing measures designed to assess Blacks' workplace authenticity. Thus, the purpose of the current research was to develop and provide initial validation evidence for a situational judgment test (SJT), called the African American Workplace Authenticity Scale (AAWAS), aimed at measuring Blacks' propensity to use various identity negotiation strategies related to authenticity. Those identity negotiation strategies included identity shifting, referred to as code-switching by laypeople, avoidance, and authentic self-expression.
The first phase of the research included item generation and refinement of the item pool using a web-based sample of Black working adults (n=207). For this phase, 38 items were created. Each item included one scenario and three response options each; each response option corresponded to one of the three aforementioned identity negotiation strategies, and each identity negotiation strategy is considered its own subscale. Furthermore, each scenario involved a situation wherein a Black individual was presented with pressure to conform to their White counterparts at work. An exploratory factor analysis was conducted to determine which items to retain, which resulted in a three-factor solution and the retention of 13 items.
The second phase of the research involved gathering initial validation evidence for the 13-item scale, again using a web-based sample of Black working adults (n=252). For this phase, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and analysis of measurement invariance between genders was completed to determine whether the three-factor solution fit on a new sample and whether the scale can be used to make meaningful comparisons between males and females. Additionally, the relationships between the AAWAS and existing scales related to authenticity and response bias were explored using correlations. The CFA generally supported the three-factor solution, and metric invariance was found between males and females. Evidence for convergent and discriminant validity from the correlational analyses is presented. Moreover, the subscales of the AAWAS demonstrated good reliability according to rules of thumb for Cronbach's alpha (Identity Shifting Cronbach's α = 0.79, Avoiding Cronbach's α = 0.85, and Authentic Self-Expression Cronbach's α = 0.85). Overall, the AAWAS demonstrated promising psychometric properties thus far and has the potential to facilitate causal modeling in the area of workplace authenticity for Blacks with further validity evidence.Doctor of Philosophy
Workplace authenticity for African Americans has received much attention in recent years, both in various research domains and in popular media. However, empirical research is scarce regarding what drives Blacks' decisions around whether to outwardly express their inner racial identity at work and what impact (in)authenticity has on workplace outcomes. The lack of empirical research is likely due, in part, to the fact that there are few existing measures designed to assess Blacks' workplace authenticity. The current research is focused on developing and providing initial validation evidence for a situational judgment test (SJT), called the African American Workplace Authenticity Scale (AAWAS), aimed at measuring Blacks' propensity to use various identity negotiation strategies related to authenticity.
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Dafydd, Fflur. ""[A] shifting/identity never your own" : the uncanny and unhomely in the poetry of R.S. Thomas." Thesis, Bangor University, 2004. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-shiftingidentity-never-your-own--the-uncanny-and-unhomely-in-the-poetry-of-rs-thomas(cdfa3f2c-c8d2-4e83-83a7-ecdc7bd38ca1).html.
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The main aim of this thesis is to consider R.S. Thomas's struggle with identity during the early years of his career, primarily from birth up until his move to the parish of Aberdaron in 1967. It is an analysis both of the poet's personal life and his public, national role as a poet, examining the tensions present between his numerous, conflicting identities. The discussion is separated into three main chapters. The introductory passage takes into consideration the various ways R.S. Thomas is constructed by his critics and by the media, concentrating in particular on the varying responses to his death in 2000. Chapter 1 then moves on to discuss notions of the uncanny, as proposed by Sigmund Freud and the critic Nicholas Royle, as a means of exploring Thomas's feelings of alienation and displacement throughout childhood and early adult life. Chapter 2 is a comparative study of R.S. Thomas and the Scots vernacular poet Hugh MacDiarmid, which looks at how MacDiarmid provides for Thomas a model of Celtic regeneration, enabling Thomas to relocate himself in a cultural context, and also to explore the cultural and linguistic tensions he feels within Wales, as an English-language poet. Chapter 3 then attempts to relate the uncanny to issues of post-colonial theory, using the work of Homi K. Bhabha and David Punter as a means of providing a more theoretical basis in the form of the unhomely, and to show how Thomas's political poetry presents Wales as a terrifying, and often unreal territory within which the poet evidently felt both disorientated and displaced. This study concludes by considering various notions of personal, cultural and spiritual unity as they are presented in Thomas's work, and how ultimately, Thomas struggled to counteract the alienating forces of the uncanny and the unhomely, and to strive for a spiritual unity within himself.
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Young, Morag Briony Eileen. "Shifting selves : identity quests and innovation in the novels of Marguerite Duras, Patrick Modiano, and Marie Darrieussecq." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.444299.
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This thesis examines the prevalence of the identity quest in contemporary French fiction through detailed analysis of the novels of Marguerite Duras, Patrick Modiano and Marie Darrieussecq. I establish how, for these three writers from successive generations, the preoccupation with selfhood entails a retreat to the margins, where the shifting nature of identity can be better explored. By considering topics such as national, gender and family identity, I uncover both marked similarities and significant differences in their depiction of seithood, thus illustrating how the central themes of the literary identity quest lend themselves to innovative permutation. I then turn to the subject of genre and narrative form, demonstrating how each author's overriding concern with identity leads both to formal experimentation and to genre mixing involving the crossing of traditional boundaries and the rejection of convention. The thesis goes on to explore the effect of the centrality of the identity quest on narrative structure, showing how the frequent recourse to memory by the three writers affects the chronology of their novels as linearity is replaced by new narrative shapes. Finally I move to the linguistic sphere, tracing the connection between the authors' use of personal pronouns and narrative tenses and the imperatives of the identity quest. While Duras's novels and Modiano's earlier works have been extensively studied, Modiano's later writing and the totality of Darrieussecq's literary output have not yet received much critical attention. Additionally, literary critics have failed to address more than cursorily the linguistic topics which I explore. By demonstrating that the central theme of identity affects the form, structure and language of the novels of Duras, Modiano and Darrieussecq, I reveal common threads linking these very different articulations of selfhood, which suggest a measue of continuity in the French literary identity quest of the last seventy years.
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Shen, Xiaoyi. "Encounter Border Creatures in Human Fabrications : The becoming of human on a corona para-site." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för design (DE), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-96917.
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This project seeks opportunities to dissolve identity boundaries between the human and nonhuman by speculating into alternative scenarios of a ‘Border Creature’s life in a human-fabricated world. I took advantage of my newly acquired nonhuman identity, the Novel Coronavirus (SARS-COV2-19), which is known for causing a global pandemic (Covid-19) in the year 2020, and ‘transferred’ myself into a Border Creature. Via designed tangible facial devices and speculative scenarios built by photography and ‘dairy’ writing, the project is to highlight the shared identity a human has with Coronavirus in Växjö city, Sweden, and to confront the inhuman status Border Creature is undertaking due to social stigmatization in order to raise questions and reflections around our prefigured definition of what is human.
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Nghiulikwa, Romie Vonkie. "Re-situating and shifting cultural identity in contemporary Namibia: The experience of rural-urban migrants in Katutura (Windhoek)." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2008. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_9977_1275426103.
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This thesis explores the shifting cultural identities of young Owambo migrants living in Babilon, an informal settlement on the outskirts of Windhoek, Namibia. Through an investigation of their social, cultural and economic lives, I show how these young people invoke their Owambo-ness, but how they also transcend their ethnic identifications through engaging in an emerging Namibian youth culture, which cuts across rural-urban, ethnic, and socio-economic divides. I argue that young migrants from Ovamboland, who intend to escape their poverty stricken rural homes and arrive on packed busses, bringing with them few possessions and great expectations, constantly shift and resituate their cultural identities while trying to make a living in the city. These young people are eager to engage fully in a better life and hope to find employment in the urban economy. For many, however, this remains just that &ndash
hope. In their daily lives, the young migrants replicate, reproduce and represent rural Owambo within the urban space. Using the examples of &lsquo
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food and small-scale urban agriculture, I explore how their ideas of Owambo-ness are imagined, enforced and lived in Babilon. I argue that although migrants identify themselves in many ways with their rural homes, and retain rural values and practices to a large extent, this does not mean that they would remain &ldquo
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Wilson and Mafeje 1963). They also appropriate &ldquo
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and practices of the emerging Namibian youth culture, especially popular local music and cell phones. My study thus shows that the migrants develop multiple, fluid identities (with reference to Bank 2002)
they identify concurrently with the urban and the rural and develop a synthesis of both. The thesis is based on ethnographic research, which was conducted between February and May 2008. During the fieldwork, I engaged daily in informal discussions with many residents of Babilon, and carried out life history interviews, focus group discussions, and in-depth interviews with key research participants.
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Rickett, Michelle. "Locating the past in a shifting present : spaces of memory, identity and change around District Six, Cape Town." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.498798.
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This thesis explores contemporary spaces and processes for remembering District Six in Cape Town, placing this within the context of the 'return' of former residents to District Six and processes of institutional growth and professionalisation within the District Six Museum, the most high profile site of public memory. This involves reflecting on 'return' and 'change' from a variety of perspectives. Research was conducted at the District Six Museum and with former residents of District Six: it also involved engaging with District Six itself as physical and symbolic space.
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Villagomeza, Liwliwa Reyes. "Shifting Paradigms: The Development of Nursing Identity in Foreign-Educated Physicians Retrained as Nurses Practicing in the United States." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0003201.
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Thompson, Sive. "Turkey: the shifting horizon of Regional Turkey’s geopolitics and identity in light of european energy needs - emboldened geopolitical player." Master's thesis, [s.n.], 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10284/3257.
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Dissertação apresentada à Universidade Fernando Pessoa, como parte dos requisitos para a obtenção do grau de Mestre em Relações Internacionais com o Mundo Árabe e IslâmicoThe objective of this thesis is to examine whether Turkey has managed to become an emboldened geopolitical player in recent times. Since the end of the Cold War the global geopolitical situation experienced a reshuffling of priorities, directions and regions of interest. The energy question rapidly moved up the list. Energy is crucially important to the western developed world and is of ever increasing importance to the developing world. The European Union, along with other western powers, is aware of the need to secure energy supply for the future. The strategic location of Turkey combined with its relationship with Europe has made it the central player in this game. Yet, this is not the only facet to the question. Turkey holds in its hand the key to the energy gateway of Central Asia and the Middle East. To what extent is Turkey pushing its geopolitical limits in order to form bonds, improve relations and foster cooperation to make itself into an emboldened geopolitical power on the world stage? O objectivo desta tese é o de avaliar se a Turquia se terá conseguido tornar um player geopolítico fortalecido nos tempos mais recentes. Desde o fim da Guerra Fria, a situação geopolítica experienciou uma reestruturação na ordem de prioridades. Assim, a questão energética rapidamente ascendeu naquela lista. A energia é essencial para o mundo ocidental e desenvolvido, sendo de uma crescente importância para o mundo em desenvolvimento. A União Europeia, tal como outras potências ocidentais, está consciente da necessidade de assegurar, para o futuro, o fornecimento de energia. A localização da Turquia, combinada com o seu relacionamento com a Europa, tornam-na num jogador central neste jogo. Contudo, esta não é a única faceta nesta questão. A Turquia detém a chave da porta de entrada da energia da Ásia Central e do Médio Oriente. Até que ponto estará a Turquia a forçar os seus limites geopolíticos de forma a criar laços, melhorar relações e promover cooperação de maneira a tornar-se uma potência geopolítica fortalecida no palco mundial?
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Simpson, David. "Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory and the Historical Progression of Discourse: The Shifting of Social and Institutional Identity in Post-World War II America." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28878.
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The purpose of this study is to present an alternative way of analyzing the behavior of our leading social and governmental institutions through the employment of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, specifically Lacan's theory of discourse. Lacan used the term discourse to show that a society's primary social link is founded on language, reflected back through society in the form of discursive practices. According to Lacanian discourse theory, a subject's movement into language and the social bond that is created between people as a result of this movement are at the center of our current cultural condition. More mainstream approaches to organizational behavior have traditionally focused on observed human action to explain human behavior and the correlation of this behavior with possible remedial actions. Lacanian discourse theory, with its foundation in psychoanalytic theory, enables the formulation of a model of institutional behavior that goes beyond more mainstream approaches by focusing on behavior at the unconscious level.
The central premise of this dissertation is that there has been a cultural shift in the United States from the dominant form of discourse of the modern era to a new form of discourse. This new discourse has led to serious disconnections between our current social bond and true human desire. By employing Lacanian discourse theory, changes in the deeper, structural level of how a society relates to and communicates with each other will be revealed, thus providing greater insight into the current social condition of the United States and how this condition affects the behavior of its leading public institutions.Ph. D.
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Wise, Amanda Yvonne. "No longer in exile? : shifting experiences of home, homeland and identity for the East Timorese refugee diaspora in Australia in light of East Timor's independence /." View thesis, 2002. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20031117.142448/index.html.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Western Sydney, 2002.A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, October 2002, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 281-291).
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Lyon, Lela R. "SHIFTING PERSONAS: A CASE STUDY OF TAYLOR SWIFT." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/ltt_etds/33.
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This thesis analyzes how Taylor Swift has changed the way she expresses her Southern identity, specifically her dialectal features, over the course of her career and through her switch from country music to pop music. There were two processes to assess the change in Swift’s speech: the production of /ai/ tokens in interviewed speech and the perception of dialectal change by fans in the comment sections of the interviews on YouTube. Seven interviews on YouTube and their comment sections were used as the data source for this study. Production of /ai/ was measured through an auditory analysis to determine whether tokens were monophthongal, diphthongal, or somewhere in the middle. Perception was evaluated by scraping the comments from the YouTube videos and running key word searches related to accent. The results of the production portion of the study confirm that there has been a decrease in monophthongal tokens of /ai/ from 2007-2019 in Swift’s speech. The results from the perception part of the study show that fans do notice a change in “sounding Southern” and try to explain that change through either labeling Swift as “fake” or by positing other theories related to Swift’s individual life experiences (such as moving around the country). The implications of this study point to how dialectal features are linked with identity performance, and also how non-linguists justify changing dialectal features.
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Fish, Theresa R. "Investigating the Archaeology of Shifting Community Values at Chrisholm Farmstead." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1573576021260609.
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Karim, Haryati Abdul. "Globalisation, 'in-between' identities and shifting values : young multiethnic Malaysians and media consumption." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2010. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/8841.
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The aim of this research is to examine the identities of youth from different cultural background in Malaysia that has been formed through consumption of media. The forces of globalisation reportedly have de-centred the self from the core, leading to multiple, fluid and contradictory identities. Individuals have been displaced from their backgrounds, and have emerged as individuals, in contrast to past collective identities. People are self-reflexive in constructing their sense of self, with the media playing a role in nurturing one s quest for self-identity (Thompson, 1995). This issue is of particular relevance to young Malaysians. Within this locality, young people s lives are deeply embedded in the collectivities of ethnicity, religion and national identity. At the same time, Malaysia has adopted an open economic market. The de-regulation of Malaysia s broadcasting services enables a mass penetration of the global media to influence young Malaysians. This study is interested in examining how these conditions have affected young Malaysians identities through media consumption. While other studies have explored identity through the consumption of the global media by local audiences, such studies have focused on hybridised cultural practices. This study takes into account de-centred identities by examining shifts in values among different ethnicities, as reflected in consumption of global and local television programmes, differentiating this from previous research works. This study draws on Giddens (1990) concept of reflexivity in examining this issue. This study found that the global media plays a significant role in young Malaysians questioning tradition against modernity. They admire life outside Malaysia, and view it as more modern and liberating, compared to the perceived closed life of Malaysian culture. Yet, this does not conclusively show that young Malaysians have completely abandoned local cultures and values. Rather, it shows they can fully adopt values they admire into their lives while continuing to live within the bounds of their parents and community. Young Malaysians have appropriated the various forms of global cultures derived from media consumption as a means of forging their sense of self, which articulates a need to project an individual self rather than emerging from their collectivity. Although religion and ethnicity remain important in their lives, these young people do not see themselves solely restricted by these identity markers alone. Their cultural identity contains characteristics of other global cultures as well. It is an intersection of various forms of identities, negotiated between religion and ethnicity within global youth cultures, diaspora, gender, lifestyles and taste. Young Malaysians can best be described as having in-between identities - global - local subjects borne out of the hybridisation of values from both sources. Ethnic minority Malaysians display two identities, due to their consumption of international programmes. First, overseas Chinese and Tamil television programmes enable youth to hybridise their youth identity into Western-Asian popular youth cultures instead of drawing solely from one or the other. Second, this type of exposure leads young Malaysian-Chinese to have feelings of cultural superiority over the local Malay films and drama.
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Vdovichenko, Susan E. C. "The Beholder’s Eye: How Self-Identification and Linguistic Ideology Affect Shifting Language Attitudes and Language Maintenance in Ukraine." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1305582855.
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Campbell, Ashley. "Be/longing to Places: The Pedagogical Possibilities and His/Her/Stories of Shifting Cultural Identities." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39707.
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Looking to the places we live to inform our understandings of identity and belonging, this métissage of place-based stories draws on personal narratives and intergenerational stories to re/create meaning in new spaces and contexts. Through the interweaving of personal and academic stories, this research provides a space for critical engagement, creative scholarship and learning. The pedagogical possibilities of places and understanding of curriculum as both the lived experiences and knowledge/s that shape and in/form our identities and understandings. As newcomers, settlers, and treaty members, living on Turtle Island/North America, perhaps we must begin by looking at the places where we live and dwell, to better understand our responsibilities to both the land and peoples. Unsettling narratives that disrupt textbooks histories, and the re/telling of new/old stories. Using bricolage to gather up the fragments and/or pieces left behind – artefacts, memories and stories, I begin to re/trace the footsteps of my grandmothers - the re/learning his/her/stories, stories of shifting cultural identities and landscapes - and be/longing to places, while also examining how notions of be/longing are transformed through intergenerational stories and our connections to places. Stories that may help to move and guide us forward in a good way. From wasteland to reconciliation, this work examines the meaning of places to our lives and learning, as well as our responsibilities to land and peoples – those who came before, and the generations before us.
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Itoi, Emi. "PRE-SERVICE EFL TEACHERS' POSSIBLE SELVES: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF THE SHIFTING DEVELOPMENT OF PROFESSIONAL IDENTITIES." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/302585.
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Teaching & LearningEd.D.
The purpose of this interpretive qualitative case study was to explore how possible selves of four pre-service EFL teachers changed during their last 10 months at university and what factors were involved in developing and changing their possible selves. The concept of possible selves is a future-oriented self-concept that involves one's motivation to move toward one's ideal future selves and move away from one's feared selves. Ought-to selves are also believed to work as motivators. The main data sources included two written possible selves stories from each participant, four sets of semi-structured interviews, short e-mail messages with emoticons, and official practicum reports. Through a narrative analysis of these data, I found that participants' rather general possible teacher selves changed to more realistic, elaborated ones after they had experienced practicums. These revised possible selves were not always in the direction of more positive, more ideal selves, but also toward feared and ought-to teacher selves. The data analysis also revealed that the participants found a large gap between their actual L2 selves and ought-to L2 selves, and consequently they developed feared L2 selves who would likely get embarrassed in front of others because of their poor English speaking ability. However, they took no action to prevent their feared L2 selves because becoming fluent in English was possibly seen as a temporally distant unreachable goal that did not merit an investment of time and energy. The study also found that interpersonal relationships with parents, teachers in the past, cooperating teachers during practicum, students at school, and peers were important factors contributing to participants' developing and changing possible selves. I end with suggestions that policy makers, universities, teacher educators, and supervising teachers of student teachers seriously consider issues that will help improve English education in Japan as well as lead to better teacher education programs to prepare EFL pre-service teachers for the rather harsh conditions in the teaching profession in Japan.
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McComas, Sue Ellen. "Resisting and Reconciling a Virtual Age: Performing Identities and Negotiating Literacies in Shifting Mid-life Workspaces and Immersive Online Environments." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1276897944.
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Azanu, Benedine. "Transnational Media Articulations of Ghanaian Women: Mapping Shifting Returnee Identities in an Online Web Series." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1490962935074027.
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Kaya, Ilhan Lieb Jonathan I. "Shifting Turkish American identity formationsin the United States." Diss., 2003. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses//etd-11082003-214735/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2003.Advisor: Dr. Jonathan I. Leib, Florida State University, College of Social Science, Dept. of Geography. Title and description from dissertation home page (Feb. 23, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.
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Hart, Susan Elizabeth. "Sculpting a Canadian hero : shifting concepts of national identity in Ottawa's core area commemorations." Thesis, 2008. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/975222/1/NR45661.pdf.
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The topic of collective memory or identity, as manifested in public commemorative monuments, offers rich possibilities for theoretical and analytical study. This thesis investigates the ongoing construction of national identity through a selection of major public monuments in what is referred to by the National Capital Commission as the "core area" of Canada's capital, an area defined by Confederation Boulevard. The figurative monuments studied include, but are not limited to, those located on Parliament Hill as well as monuments along Confederation Boulevard such as The Response (National War Memorial), Reconciliation (Peacekeeping Monument), the National Aboriginal Veterans Monument , and Terry Fox . Beginning with the first monument erected on Parliament Hill in 1885, and ending with the most recent additions in the new millennium, the thesis chronologically traces the identity-building process at work in the monuments through the overall theme of heroes, with specific themes of ethnicity and gender interwoven throughout the chapters. Using the monuments as primary sources, and drawing on insights from a number of deconstructive approaches, among them psychoanalytic and gender theory, I question and analyze the national identity-building process in order to assess how conceptions of "Canadianness" may have shifted over time. I conclude that although there appears to be a shift toward a more inclusive or diverse representation of Canadian identity in recent years, the underlying ideology has not changed significantly.
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TSAI, CHENG-YI, and 蔡政宜. "From Wild Lily to Sunflower: Shifting Identity of Student Activists in Taiwan's Democratic Transition." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/deg9pb.
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Student movements and the ways in which participating students represent themselves are an interesting subject that plays important roles in the histories and cultures of countries all over the world in general and Taiwan in particular. This study seeks to understand how the ways in which student understand and present themselves changed between different periods across the Taiwanese democratization process through the analysis of two student movements from 1990 and 2014. Under two different regimes – one authoritarian and one democratic – it would be expected that the two student movements differ in significant degrees. The study found that in comparison students in 2014 are more inclined to consider themselves part of the citizen body rather than being separate elites and consider activism to be part of the educational process. At the same time, they also demand more direct democratic participation in addition to social justice policies as well as presenting existing institutions in a more positive light. In conclusion, there has been observable change in student ideologies in Taiwan, although causal mechanisms concerning such changes remain to be ascertained.
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Schouls, Timothy A. "Shifting boundaries : aboriginal identity, pluralist theory, and the politics of self-government in Canada." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/13235.
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While Canada is often called a pluralist state, there are no sustained studies by political
scientists in which aboriginal self-government is discussed specifically in terms of the
analytical tradition of pluralist thought. Aboriginal self-government is usually discussed as an
issue of cultural preservation or national self-determination. Aboriginal identity is framed in
terms of cultural and national traits that are unique to an aboriginal community and selfgovernment
is taken to represent the aboriginal communal desire to protect and preserve those
traits. Is such an understanding of what motivates aboriginal self-government accurate, or
does it yield an incomplete understanding of the complex phenomenon that aboriginal selfgovernment
in Canada represents?
The political tradition of pluralism allows for analysis of aboriginal self-government
that addresses questions left unattended by the cultural and nationalist frameworks. Pluralism
is often viewed as a public arrangement in which distinct groups are given room to live side by
side, characterized by mutual recognition and affirmation. At the same time, there are
different faces of pluralist theory and each addresses questions about the recognition and
affirmation of aboriginal self-government in different ways. Those three contemporary faces
can be distinguished by the labels communitarian, individualist, and relational.
The major hypothesis advanced is that aboriginal self-government is better understood
if an "identification" perspective on aboriginal identity is adopted as opposed to a "cultural" or
"national" one and if that perspective is linked to a relational theory of pluralism as opposed to
a communitarian or individualist one. The identification approach examines aboriginal identity
not in terms of cultural and political traits, but in terms of identification with, and political
commitment to, an aboriginal community. Relational pluralism in turn, examines the challenge
of aboriginal self-government in terms of power differences within aboriginal communities and
between aboriginal and Canadian governments.
Applying these approaches to aboriginal politics in Canada confirms their suitability.
Contrary to what previous scholarship has assumed, aboriginal self-government should not be
seen primarily as a tool to preserve cultural and national differences as goods in and of
themselves. The politics of aboriginal self-government should be seen as involving demands
to equalize current imbalances in power so that aboriginal communities and the individuals
within them can construct aboriginal identities according to their own design.
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Fernandez, Anita Larraine. "Museum culture and identity ownership : the shifting role of museums and their exhibitions in the 21st century." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2009-12-685.
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This project examines, critiques and develops the role museums play in shaping and maintaining consciousness and identity within US and Mexican society. Key to this investigation are the ideals of what traditionally constitutes a museum and who determines what messages are conveyed and who has the opportunity to experience and receive the messages. Ultimately museums have an incredible impact on and responsibility towards the communities they serve and their role as communicators of social and cultural messages cannot be ignored. Museums are the spaces in which communal consciousness is not only created but also preserved. The museum should educate, engage and enlighten as well as connect communities. The development of a new progressive museum model is necessary to achieve and uphold these tenants. This project conducts a comparative analysis of Museos Comunitarios (Community Museums) in Oaxaca, Mexico and the Museo Alameda in the United States, focusing on the mission and founding principals as well as exhibition choice and institutional operating mechanisms. This analysis will forecast how these institutions and exhibitions impact the trajectory of the communities they encounter and outline the new role of the museum in the 21st century.text
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"Shifting idea of gong: transformation of public space of Ningbo and changing collective identity, 1840-1940." 2010. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5894337.
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Liu, Kit Ying.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 131-138).
Abstracts in English and Chinese; some text in Chinese.
Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 1.1 --- Background of Ningbo --- p.3
Chapter 1.1.1 --- Trading and Development --- p.5
Chapter 1.1.2 --- "Characters as ""semi-treaty port""" --- p.6
Chapter 1.1.3 --- Shifting Idea of Public of Ningbo --- p.9
Chapter 1.2 --- Literature Review --- p.11
Chapter 1.2.1 --- Study of physical public space in Chinese cities --- p.11
Chapter 1.2.2 --- Ningbo --- p.13
Chapter 1.5 --- Framework of the study --- p.21
Chapter 2 --- The Idea of Gong --- p.23
Chapter 2.1 --- The idea of gong and collective identity --- p.24
Chapter 2.1.1 --- Social structure of Chinese society --- p.25
Chapter 2.2 --- The Case of Ling Bridge --- p.28
Chapter 2.2.1 --- Patronage and management --- p.30
Chapter 2.3 --- The idea of gong in Ningbo --- p.33
Chapter 3 --- Perception of City --- p.37
Chapter 3.1 --- Imperial City --- p.38
Chapter 3.1.1 --- Social structure --- p.38
Chapter 3.1.2 --- Environment integrity and landmarks --- p.44
Chapter 3.2 --- City in 1910s-20s --- p.47
Chapter 3.2.1 --- Communal Associations --- p.48
Chapter 3.2.2 --- Municipal Concept- public health --- p.53
Chapter 3.2.3 --- Municipal Concept- Infrastructure construction --- p.54
Chapter 3.3 --- The KMT city --- p.61
Chapter 3.3.1 --- Practical city --- p.64
Chapter 3.3.2 --- Ideology of good city form --- p.71
Chapter 3.4 --- Summary --- p.81
Chapter 4 --- Physical Space --- p.84
Chapter 4.1 --- City Layout --- p.85
Chapter 4.1.1 --- Imperial city --- p.85
Chapter 4.1.2 --- After 1910s --- p.93
Chapter 4.2 --- Public buildings and constructions --- p.98
Chapter 4.2.1 --- Gongshu in Qing --- p.99
Chapter 4.2.2 --- Public constructions in KMT period --- p.101
Chapter 4.2.3 --- Communal temples and communal associations --- p.105
Chapter 4.2.4 --- Charities and communal services --- p.107
Chapter 4.3 --- Regulated Street and Neighborhood --- p.109
Chapter 4.3.1 --- Ceremonies and festivals --- p.109
Chapter 4.3.2 --- Street as public facilities --- p.113
Chapter 4.3.3 --- Changing neighborhood --- p.126
Chapter 4.4 --- Summary --- p.126
Chapter 5 --- Conclusion --- p.128
Bibliography --- p.131
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Mabalane, Valencia Tshinompheni. "The vulnerability of teachers during new educational policy reform implementation : an ethnographic account of shifting identity." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/12466.
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Ph.D. (Education and Curriculum Studies)This study is about teachers’ identity shifts during the first waves of educational reform in South Africa in the post-apartheid renewal and restructuring of the education system. I studied the everyday life of four teachers in a “township” school in Gauteng Province, the industrial heartland of the country. I set out to find, over a three of years, how teachers saw themselves as professionals in this changing landscape, which included a three of new policies, including a new curriculum policy and a school governance policy. The study started with the knowledge claim that the researcher would find a shift in teacher identity, working from theories of self, specifically symbolic interactionism. I argued that in the establishment of a “post 1994” identity, as citizens and as educational practitioners, teachers have been the object of multiple social interventions. The least of these is not their adapted teaching modes and their performance as “OBE practitioners”, but as educators who took on the identity of the curriculum and its ideological intent. This was to shift teachers’ focus to learning outcomes more than content input and to see themselves as “guides by the side”, facilitators of learning, creating learning conditions that would optimise the potential of children and youth. For many teachers, the move away from being the giver or instructor to being the guide may be disturbing, I argued at the outset. I was interested to see how they engaged with a new life in a new system, or rather, a system “under repair” and one which may ask of them not only to adopt the “seven new roles of educators” as per the first policy change, but with that, also their sense of who they were, their sense of self as practitioners ...
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Atkins-Sayre, Wendy. "Identity shifting People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the erosion of the animal/human divide /." 2005. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/atkins-sayre%5Fwendy%5F%5F200512%5Fphd.
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Hissong, Angela N. "Learning self nurturance and unlearning patriarchy a feminist poststructural narrative inquiry of rural mothers' constantly shifting identity /." 2005. http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/ETD-839/index.html.
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Yarmarkov, Hanna. "The invisible power of the invisibles: A study of the efficacy of Narradrama method in assisting South African domestic workers in shifting their self-identity." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/20799.
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Research report submitted to the Wits School of Arts
University of the Witwatersrand,
Faculty of Humanities
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
Degree of Master of Arts in the field of Drama therapy
April 2016The aim of this research was to evaluate Narradrama as a drama therapy method in assisting South African domestic workers to shift their identity towards a more positive one, so they will be able to better deal with their current socially oppressive issues. I postulated, based on research done by sociologists and anthropologists, that domestic workers still feel oppressed marginalised and differentiated even to date, twenty years after the apartheid era; the racial discrimination that was perpetuated by the doctrine of the apartheid regime and cemented the master-servant relationship as the only possible relationship between domestic worker and employer was normalised within the harsh realities of minimum wages, long working hours and appalling living conditions; oppression of women by women, sexism and racism. Moreover, the domestic workers legal rights that were established after 1994 in the Bill of Rights have not changed their lives and working conditions. These working conditions continue to affect them and are a risk to their physical and mental health. (Mohutsioa-Makhudud, 1989; Williams, 2008; Ally, 2009). The risk that is inherent in chronic perceived discrimination to one’s mental health (Mohutsioa- Makhudu ,1989:40) and the risk of developing a negative identity and self hatred by internalising the negative views of a dominant society(Phinney, 1989:34) has influenced the decision to do this research. The method of Narradrama chosen for this study was researched by Dunne (as cited in Leveton 2010) and found to be effective in working with marginalised groups but has not yet been researched with a marginalised stratum within the South African context. Narradrama, became the preferred method as it is centred on story (Dunne and Rand, 2013:7) which led to the thought it would be effective when working with a group of African women who are considered to be story tellers in the African culture. (Scheub, 1970: 119-120). Thematic data analysis was used in analysing the results. Identity shift was measured by comparing the change between the initial negative themed stories, that substantiated the hypothesis that participants do feel oppressed and marginalised, with the new, positive themes that appeared later in the research processes The Narradrama processes were analysed through the theoretical lens of Landy’s role theory, who proposes that for a person to have a healthier identity he needs to take on a variety on new roles, and to be able to play them proficiently. The playing of new roles assists participants to enlarge their perspectives, discover new identity descriptions and experience what it would feel like to move forward in life in preferred ways towards a more manageable, hopeful future. (Landy, 1994:93-97) This parallels the Narradrama notion which claims that by re-storying a client’s narrative, the client opens up to new preferred choices; a new landscape of identity and action (Johnson and Emunah, 2009:182). The research results show the start of a shift, in the participants’ re-authored stories and their assumed choices of new roles- these changes signify that the group has benefited from processes. As the researcher, I therefore recommend that these processes be resumed in order to allow these identity shifts inclusive of the suggested roles to become more substantial, and more integrated in the participants’ identity within their current living and working context. However, though Narradrama proved to be a method that can assist this group, the results of this research cannot be generalised, and further research with different groups of domestic workers will need to be done in order to be able to generalise to the wider context of the stratum of South African domestic workers.
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Kalua, Fetson Anderson. "The collapse of certainty: contextualizing liminality in Botswana fiction and reportage." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1886.
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This thesis deploys Homi Bhabha's perspective of postcolonial literary theory as a critical procedure to examine particular instances of fiction, as well as reportage on Botswana. Its unifying interest is to pinpoint the shifting nature or reality of Botswana and, by extension, of African identities. To that end, I use Bhabha's concept of liminality to inform the work of writers such as Unity Dow, Alexander McCall Smith, and instances of reportage (by Rupert Isaacson and Caitlin Davies), from the 1990s to date. The aims of the thesis are, among other things, to establish the extent to which Homi Bhabha's appropriation of the term liminality (which derives from Victor Turner's notion of limen for inbetweenness), and its application in the postcolonial context inflects the reading of the above works whose main motifs include the following: a contestation of any views which privilege one culture above another, challenging a jingoistic rootedness in one culture, and promoting an awareness of the existence of several, interlocking or even clashing realities which finally produce multiple meanings, values and identities. In short, it is proposed that identity is not a given but rather a product of a lived reality and therefore a social construct, something always in process.
The thesis begins by theorizing liminality in Chapter 1 within the context of Homi Bhabha's understanding and interrogation of the colonial discourse. This is followed by the contextualization of liminality through the reading of, firstly, the fiction of Unity Dow in Chapters 2 and 3, and then the "detective" fiction of Alexander McCall Smith in Chapters 4 and 5. In the discussion of these works, I also touch on instances of reportage which relate to the lives of the authors. In the case of Smith's "detective" fiction, for example, reportage refers to his incorporation of actual historical events and personages whose impact, I argue, suggests the liminality of culture. In Chapter 6, the idea of reportage varies slightly to denote works of fiction in which there is a great deal of historical fact. Thus Rupert Isaacson's The Healing Land: A Kalahari Journey and Caitlin Davies' Place of Reeds are treated as works of reportage in line with Truman Capote's application of that term. What comes out most evidently in this study is the shifting idea of (Botswana/African) identity. It should be noted that rather than present an all-embracing account of the fiction on Botswana, the study only looks at the selected examples of writing and reportage.University of South Africa National Research Foundation
English Studies
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Wagaman, Jill Marie. "The experience of shifting standards for women athletes." 2009. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2009/wagaman/WagamanJ0509.pdf.
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Park, Yoon Jung. "Shifting Chinese South African identities in Apartheid and Post-Apartheid South Africa." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/1672.
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Faculty of Humanities
School of Social Sciences
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Yoon@tiscali.co.zaThe focus of this PhD thesis is the shifting identities of the approximately 12,000-strong community of South African-born Chinese South Africans during the apartheid and post-apartheid periods. This thesis begins with the assumption that social identities are constructed. It also assumes that identities are contested amongst the various social actors; that identities shift over time and across individual life spans; and that individuals have multiple, often overlapping identities. The three strands of identity that form the core of this thesis are racial, ethnic, and national identities; at any given time, due to specific historic circumstances, one or another of these identities has been more or less salient. This thesis used a combination of methodologies the address the key research questions. The primary research method was qualitative. In-depth interviews were supplemented by a survey, archival research, and participant observation. The principal social actors dominating the construction of Chinese South African identities were the Chinese South Africans, themselves, and the South African and Chinese states. Chinese history, myths about China, and Chinese culture were the primary building materials used in the construction of Chinese South African identities; however, these ‘materials’ could only be utilised within the constraints established by the apartheid system. From the 1960s, Chinese South Africans were singled from amongst the ‘non-whites’ to receive concessions and privileges; over time they came to occupy the nebulous, interstitial spaces of apartheid as unofficial ‘honorary whites’. South African state attempts to legally redefine the Chinese as ‘white’ failed because the Chinese South Africans were unwilling to give up their unique ethnic identity. Concessions and greater interaction with white South Africans had led many Chinese to conclude that their Chineseness had been ‘diminished’ and ‘lost’. What we witnessed, rather, was the selective incorporation of chosen aspects of Chinese culture and values into new Chinese South African identities. Because of the diminishing impact of apartheid legislation on Chinese South Africans, we were able to identify three distinct identity cohorts during the apartheid era: the shopkeepers, the fence-sitters, and the bananas. In the post-apartheid era, affirmative action policies, new immigration from China and Taiwan, and globalisation have influenced more recent constructions of Chinese South African identities. Keywords: Chinese, Chineseness, South African, apartheid, post-apartheid, identity, construction, ethnicity, ‘honorary white’, race.