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DI, PLACIDO MATTEO. "Pedagogies of Salvation: Discipline, Practice, and the Shaping of the Self." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/306458.
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Sia la diffusione che lo studio accademico dello yoga moderno sono in continua ascesa. Da una parte, lo yoga ha un ruolo sempre più importante nell’articolazione interna di campi sociali differenti come l’industria del benessere e del fitness e il groviglio delle spiritualità contemporanee. La sua ubiquità e la sua natura malleabile contribuiscono alla proliferazione di diverse interpretazioni circa la natura e lo scopo di quello che viene rispettivamente considerato di volta in volta il “vero” yoga. Dall’altra parte, gli studiosi hanno iniziato ad esaminare la storia, gli sviluppi transnazionali e la popolarizzazione dello yoga moderno, sottolineando le sue affinità con i valori e gli stili di vita delle classi medie e gli imperativi neliberali di cura di sé, crescita personale e responsabilità individuale. Ad ogni modo, alla letteratura corrente sfugge, in gran parte, uno studio dettagliato dei processi pedagogici e di apprendimento attraverso i quali i praticanti arrivano ad incorporare e riprodurre a loro volta, attraverso la pratica di yoga, il carattere dei loro gruppi di appartenenza e del più ampio ordine neoliberale inteso come vero e proprio “principio di civilizzazione” (McGuigan 2014). Questa tesi afferma che le forme di yoga moderno sono prima di tutto delle discipline e delle pratiche abitate da specifici discorsi (e.g., sulla salute, l’auto-realizzazione, la verità, la morale e così via), a prescindere dalla loro applicazione per scopi terapeutici, di esercizio fisico, spirituali o persino religiosi. Seguendo questo approccio, il primo oggetto di analisi di questa tesi è l’organizzazione sociale delle forme di yoga moderno, con una particolare attenzione alle pedagogie della salvezza e ai processi di apprendimento di due gruppi di yoga moderno: Odaka Yoga e gli insegnamenti di Mooji e il suo ashram Portoghese, Monte Sahaja. Il primo, fondato in Italia a metà anni novanta, è uno stile di yoga posturale innovativo e ibridato con elementi provenienti dalle arti marziali. Il substrato filosofico e il repertorio di pratiche di Odaka Yoga sono costituiti da un insieme di risorse culturali “esotiche” come il Bushido, lo zen, lo yoga, ed un rimando costante alle onde dell’oceano e alla biomeccanica. Il secondo, è un gruppo neo-Advaita formatosi intorno a Mooji, guru di origine Jamaicana e di fama internazionale, il cui insegnamento primario è che il “vero sé” (atman) del praticante è in continuità ontologica con la realtà ultima (brhaman), e di consequenza lo scopo dell’esistenza è la realizzarsi del proprio “sé-divino” (brahmajñāna, literalmente “realizzazione del dio”). Un altro elemento di analsi esplorato in questa tesi è il campo di studi noto come modern yoga research, o yoga studies, teorizzato come una “formazione discorsiva” (Foucault 1972 [1971]), ovvero un insieme di testi che costituiscono – o constribuiscono alla costituzione – di uno specifico oggetto di analisi. Più in particolare, la tesi si concentra sui processi di costruzione discorsiva dell’espressione “yoga moderno” in quanto categoria analitica e sulla nascita e sviluppo del campo di studi “modern yoga research” come un area disciplinare autonoma. L’apparato teorico di questa tesi unisce la sociologia prasseologica e disposizionale di Bourdieu con la metodologia storica e discorsiva di Foucault, cercando di enfatizzare le relazioni circolari e di influenza reciproca che intercorrono tra pratiche e discorsi nel loro naturale dispiegarsi all’interno di specifici contesti pedagogici e relazioni di apprendistato. L’apparato metodologico della tesi si basa su un approccio etnografico multi-sensiorale, carnale e partecipato, interviste biografiche ad insegnanti yoga e all’analisi discorsiva di un insieme di fonti come i siti internet dei gruppi studiati, riviste specialistiche, e altro materiale promozionale.Both the popularisation and the academic scrutiny of modern forms of yoga are on the rise. On the one hand, yoga is increasingly pivotal to the internal articulation of fields as varied as the wellness and fitness industry and the nebula of disparate contemporary spiritualities. Its ubiquitous role and malleable nature foster the proliferation of different interpretations about the nature and purposes of what counts as “true” yoga. On the other hand, scholars have begun to competently examine the history, transnational developments, and popularisation of modern yoga, underlining its alignment with middle-class values and lifestyles and the neoliberal imperatives of self-care, self-growth and self-responsibility. However, what is largely missing from this contemporary scholarship is a detailed scrutiny of the pedagogical and apprenticeship processes through which yoga practitioners come to embody and socially reproduce the ethos of their groups and of the broader neoliberal order understood as a “principle of civilisation” (McGuigan 2014). This thesis postulates that modern forms of yoga are first and foremost disciplines and practices shaped by specific discourses (e.g., on health, self-realisation, truth, morality and so on), regardless of their deployment for therapeutic, leisure, spiritual or even religious purposes. Following this framework, the primary object of analysis is the social organisation of modern forms of yoga, focusing specifically on the pedagogies of salvation and the apprenticeship processes of two modern yoga groups: Odaka Yoga and Mooji’s teachings and his Portuguese ashram, Monte Sahaja. The former, founded in Italy in the mid-nineties, is an innovative style of postural yoga blended with martial arts elements. Its philosophical backdrops and practical repertoire are composed of a mixture of “exotic” resources such as Bushido, zen, yoga, and a constant reference to the ocean waves and biomechanics. The latter, is a neo-Advaita group organised around the internationally renowned, Jamaican born guru Mooji, whose core teaching postulates that a practitioner’s “true self” (atman) is the same as ultimate reality (brahman) and that the purpose of existence is to realise one’s own “god-self” (brahmajñāna, literally “god-realisation”). These teachings are chiefly transmitted through satsangs, Hindu-inspired congregational meetings where the teacher shares his message of salvation. Another element that this thesis addresses is the field of modern yoga research, or yoga studies, as a “discursive formation” (Foucault 1972 [1971]), that is, a collection of texts that constitutes – or contributes to the constitution – of a specific object of analysis. More specifically, the thesis focuses on the processes of discursive construction of “modern yoga” as an analytical category and the birth and development of “modern yoga research” as an autonomous field of study, thus conducting an archaeology of modern yoga research. Theoretically, this thesis merges Bourdieu’s praxeological and dispositional sociology with Foucault’s historical and discursive methodology, attempting to emphasise the mutually reinforcing and circular relationships occurring between practices and discourses as they unfold within specific pedagogical environments and relationships of apprenticeship. Methodologically, the empirical research relies on a multi-sensorial, carnal, and participatory approach to ethnography, including biographical interviews with yoga teachers, and discourse analysis of a variety of data sources such as schools’ websites, yoga magazines, and other promotional materials
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De, Michelis Elizabeth. "Modern Yoga : transmission of theory and practice." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272335.
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Herashchenko, Irina Alekseevna. "Modern forms of production organization." Thesis, Національний технічний університет "Харківський політехнічний інститут", 2017. http://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/handle/KhPI-Press/44531.
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Morgan, Adam. "Sahaja yoga : an ancient path to modern mental health?" Thesis, University of Plymouth, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1969.
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The present study looks to evaluate the effectiveness of the meditative practice of Sahaja Yoga as a treatment for the symptoms of anxiety and depression. Whilst there is a small research literature that has investigated the efficacy of meditation (usually based upon the Buddhist Vipassana tradition) for the treatment of such symptoms, and a smaller literature looking at the effectiveness of Sahaja Yoga in the treatment of a number of physical health problems, no published studies have looked at the effectiveness of Sahaja Yoga as a treatment for mental health problems. The present study therefore compared three independent groups, these being a 'waiting list' control group, a cognitive-behavioural (CBT) based stress management group and a Sahaja Yoga meditation group. Both treatment groups consisted of six, two hourly sessions, once per week, with symptom severity being measured at pre- and post-treatment using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (HADs) and the 12 item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12). Data were analysed using MANOV A and repeated measures AN OVA tests. The results show that, compared to controls, the participants in the Sahaja Yoga group reported significant reductions on all measures of symptomology, however, surprisingly, the CBT based group showed no such reductions. Limitations of the study, barriers to the use of Sahaja Yoga in clinical practice and the need for future research, particularly regarding process, are considered.
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Ning, Cui. "Forms and techniques of modern painting." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002214.
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O'Hare, Kathleen. "Modern Yoga Practice and Human Rights as Reflexive, Embodied Experience." Thesis, Curtin University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/68410.
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This is qualitative research that explores the recent, observable intersection of yoga and activism in Australia and the US. I utilise case studies of yoga practitioners and activists to understand the way in which modern yoga, has intersected with contemporary human rights to become an observable example of engaged yoga. The findings establish that engaged yoga is comprised of a number of components which are categorised into two main areas: self-responsibility and meaningful actions.
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Abu, Rous Dina Salim. "Modern colonial forms in accounting and accountancy." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/384727.
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Amb l’interès d’evitar reproduir la classificació del món entre els Estats Units, el Regne Unit i “els altres” (Nobes i Stadler, 2013), aquest treball analitza algunes qüestions que probablement interessen a gran part del món però que, tanmateix, no han estat objecte de prou atenció fins ara. Les arrels dels fenòmens socials contemporanis s’han configurat, al llarg de molts segles, amb ideologies que han penetrat els diversos àmbits de la vida social (p. ex., Acemoglu et al., 2001; Annisette, 2000; Aschroft, 2001; Errington, 2001; Gallhofer et al., 2011; Massad, 2001; Poullaos i Uche, 2012).
Concretament, ens proposem explicar de quina manera les característiques de la colonització europea moderna han influït en les percepcions i en les pràctiques comptables actuals. Mostrem com les ideologies colonials, basades en gran part en les escoles missioneres privades, les credencials occidentals i la llengua anglesa, han contribuït a determinar les relacions de poder en aquest camp i les oportunitats que ofereix. També estudiem la influència potencial dels mecanismes i les estratègies colonials sobre els resultats comptables, mostrant que l’herència colonial institucionalitzada és important a l’hora d’explicar la qualitat de la comptabilitat a tots aquests països.
A l’hora de fer les nostres diferents anàlisis, ens hem basat en múltiples conceptes teòrics, extrets dels camps de la sociologia i de l’economia institucional, tan rellevants per al colonialisme, la professió i el poder, per tal de desentranyar la complexitat social, utilitzant mètodes d’anàlisi inductius i deductius.
Aquesta tesi fa moltes contribucions a la recerca comptable. En primer lloc, tracta de l’herència colonial com un element central per entendre l’organització de l’àmbit comptable i les seves pràctiques en molts països. Si bé no és el primer treball de recerca sobre la professionalització en el camp de l’auditoria, probablement és el primer que examina l’evolució de les pràctiques organitzatives en l’esfera de la comptabilitat corporativa, i conceptualitza aquesta transformació com una professionalització, alhora que fa esment de la institució missionera en referir-se a la reproducció de les condicions colonials. En segon lloc, la tesi amplia el treball de Bourdieu sobre el llenguatge i el seu poder simbòlic (1991) aplicat a un context postcolonial. L’anàlisi mostra de quina manera les auditories i les Normes Internacionals d’Informació Financera (IFRS), entre altres mecanismes, contribueixen a internacionalitzar l’anglès, idioma que ha estat considerat superior en la jerarquia lingüística a Jordània des de la colonització britànica. Aquest és, probablement, el primer treball que analitza amb profunditat el rol de l’idioma en la comptabilitat, que comporta canvis estructurals socials en aquest camp. A l’hora de fer aquesta anàlisi, la nostra recerca es complementa amb la visió de la pràctica diària dels comptables en entorns que la recerca comptable ha estudiat poc (Hopwood, 2007). Finalment, aquest treball mostra que l’experiència colonial és rellevant a l’hora d’explicar les institucions contemporànies i, en conseqüència, la qualitat comptable d’un gran subconjunt de països, i aporta nous instruments per minimitzar el caràcter endogen dels poders institucionals en la recerca comptable.Con el interés de evitar reproducir la clasificación del mundo entre Estados Unidos, el Reino Unido y “los demás” (Nobes y Stadler, 2013), este trabajo aborda algunas cuestiones que es probable que interesen a gran parte del mundo pero que, sin embargo, no han sido objeto de suficiente atención. Las raíces de los fenómenos sociales contemporáneos se han configurado a lo largo de muchos siglos con ideologías que han penetrado los distintos ámbitos de la vida social (p. ej., Acemoglu et al., 2001; Annisette, 2000; Aschroft, 2001; Errington, 2001; Gallhofer et al., 2011; Massad, 2001; Poullaos y Uche, 2012). En concreto, nos proponemos explicar de qué modo las características de la colonización europea moderna han influido en las actuales percepciones y prácticas de contabilidad. Mostramos cómo las ideologías coloniales, basadas en gran parte en las escuelas misioneras privadas, las credenciales occidentales y el idioma inglés, han contribuido a determinar las relaciones de poder en este campo y las oportunidades dentro de él. También estudiamos la influencia potencial de los mecanismos y las estrategias coloniales en los resultados contables, mostrando que el legado colonial institucionalizado es importante a la hora de explicar la calidad de la contabilidad en todos estos países. A la hora de realizar nuestros distintos análisis, nos hemos basado en múltiples conceptos teóricos, extraídos de los campos de la sociología y de la economía institucional, tan relevantes para el colonialismo, la profesión y el poder, para desentrañar la complejidad social, utilizando métodos de análisis inductivos y deductivos. Esta tesis realiza múltiples contribuciones a la investigación contable. En primer lugar, trata el legado colonial como un elemento central para entender la organización del ámbito contable y sus prácticas en muchos países. Si bien no es el primer trabajo de investigación sobre la profesionalización en el campo de la auditoría, probablemente es el primero que examina la evolución de las prácticas organizativas dentro de la esfera de la contabilidad corporativa, y conceptualiza esta transformación como una profesionalización, al tiempo que menciona la institución misionera al referirse a la reproducción de las condiciones coloniales. En segundo lugar, la tesis amplía el trabajo de Bourdieu sobre el lenguaje y su poder simbólico (1991) aplicado a un contexto poscolonial. El análisis muestra de qué modo las auditorías y las Normas Internacionales de Información Financiera (IFRS), entre otros mecanismos, contribuyen a la internacionalización del inglés, el idioma que ha sido considerado superior en la jerarquía lingüística en Jordania desde la colonización británica. Este es probablemente el primer trabajo que analiza en profundidad el rol del idioma en la contabilidad, que conlleva cambios estructurales sociales en este campo. A la hora de llevar a cabo este análisis, nuestra investigación se enriquece con la visión de la práctica diaria de los contables en entornos que la investigación contable ha estudiado poco (Hopwood, 2007). Finalmente, este trabajo muestra que la experiencia colonial es relevante a la hora de explicar las instituciones contemporáneas y, en consecuencia, la calidad contable de un gran subconjunto de países, y aporta nuevos instrumentos para minimizar el carácter endógeno de los poderes institucionales en la investigación contable.
In the interest of avoiding the reproduction of classification of the world as US, UK, and ‘other’ (Nobes and Stadler 2013) this work addresses questions that likely matter to much of the world, but not awarded enough attention. The roots of contemporary social phenomena have been shaping for centuries with ideologies infiltrating the various domains of social life (e.g. Acemoglu et al. 2001; Annisette 2000; Aschroft 2001; Errington 2001; Gallhofer et al. 2011; Massad 2001; Poullaos and Uche 2012). Thus, I undertake an explanation of how features of modern European colonization contribute to current perceptions and practices in accounting. I show how colonial ideologies, largely sustained in missionary private schools, Western credentials and the English language, contribute to the power relations within the field and opportunities within it. I further examine the potential influence of colonial strategies and mechanisms in accounting outcomes showing that the colonial legacy institutionalized, matters in explaining accounting quality across countries. In conducting the various analyses I build on multiple theoretical concepts from the fields of sociology and institutional economics, as relevant to colonialism, profession, and power in unraveling the social complexity, using both inductive and deductive analytical methods. This thesis makes multiple contributions to accounting research. First, it treats the colonial legacy as central to understanding the organization of the accounting field and its practices in many countries. While this is not the first such work in research on professionalization in audit it is likely the first to examine the evolving organizational practices within the corporate accounting occupation, and conceptualize this transformation as professionalization while also naming the missionary institution in the reproduction of colonial conditions. Second, the thesis extends Bourdieu’s work on language and symbolic power (1991) to a post-colonial context. The analysis shows how audit and IFRS, among other mechanisms, contribute to the internalization of English, the language that has been perceived higher in the linguistic hierarchy in Jordan since the British colonization. This is likely the first paper that analyzes in depth the role of language within accountancy and ensuing social structural changes in the field. In conducting this analysis research is enriched with insights into the day-to-day practices of accountants in settings of which accounting research has developed little understanding (Hopwood 2007). Finally, this work shows that the colonial experience is relevant to explaining contemporary institutions and consequently accounting quality in a large subset of countries while providing new instruments to minimize the endogeneity of institutional proxies in accounting research.
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DOURADO, ROSIANE DE JESUS. "THE MODERN FORMS OF BRAZILIAN WOMAN - 1920-1939." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2005. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=8649@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOREste estudo se desdobra sobre o tema da imagem e representação da mulher brasileira. Investigamos como a noção de mulher moderna, corrente nas décadas de 1920 e 1930, foi configurada na mídia impressa ilustrada, em imagens fotográficas, charges, ilustrações e caricaturas. Esta noção compartilhou de características estéticas que envolveram a compreensão sobre a modernidade. O levantamento de características básicas recorrentes às noções de modernidade partiu da concepção de Baudelaire, seguindo pelas observações de T. J. Clark e se juntou ao estudo de Marshall Berman. O efêmero e a ambigüidade foram características configuradas em imagens que representavam a mulher moderna. Muitos dos discursos escritos e visuais associaram o feminino à modernidade, e, em especial, à modernização da cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Mas, a nova mulher foi também associada a um outro aspecto que caracterizou o novo tempo - o consumo, representado pelas propagandas da época. A construção imaginária e simbólica da mulher moderna foi multifacetada e identificou-se por três principais dimensões que integraram a identidade feminina: a efêmera, a aparente e a imaginada. Os discursos sobre a beleza e a moda relacionaram-se com essas três dimensões e evidenciaram o caráter ambíguo e efêmero da nova mulher. A análise morfológica da representação do feminino observou ainda modelos imaginários e simbólicos, dentre os quais, destacou-se, por excelência, a melindrosa como a forma feminina da modernidade. Por fim, o modelo esguio da mulher de cabelos curtos foi representado com aspectos de androginia e apresentou, em alguns casos, características maneiristas, resultantes tanto das novas estéticas, quanto da percepção do tempo e da mulher que se faziam novos.
This study presents the theme of the image and the representation of the Brazilian woman. It was investigated how the notion of modern woman, present in the 20s and 30s, was designed on the printed media illustrated in photographic images, charges, illustrations and caricatures. This notion shared aesthetic characteristics that involved the comprehension of modernity. The survey of recurrent basic characteristics on the notions of modernity started with Baudelaire`s conception following T.J. Clark observations and joined Marshall Berman`s study. The ephemeral and the ambiguity were characteristics shaped in images that represented the modern woman. Many of the written and visual discourses associated the feminine to modernity, and in special, to the modernization of the Rio de Janeiro city. But, the new woman was also associated to another aspect that characterized the new time- the consumption, represented by the advertisings of the time. The symbolic and imaginary construction of the modern woman was multifaceted and identified by three main dimensions that integrated the feminine identity: the ephemeral, the apparent and the imagined. The discourses about beauty and fashion were associated with these three dimensions and made clear the ambiguous and ephemeral character of the new woman. The morphologic analysis of the feminine representation observed imaginary and symbolic models, where the melindrosa was accentuated as the feminine form of modernity. The slim model of the short haired woman was represented with aspects of androgyny and represented, in some cases, mannerist characteristics, resulted form the new aesthetics, and the new perceptions of the time and the woman.
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Hadders, Helen. "Yoga i skolan : En empirisk undersökning om hur och i vilket syfte yoga praktiseras i en sekulär kontext." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-47793.
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The purpose of this study is to document and analyze the presence of yoga in school in the city of Värmland region, Sweden. To this day, there is a lack of emperic studies of yoga in schools and therefore, it is interesting to find out how yoga will be usefull in schools. The chosen method for this study was to observe and find out how students and teachers practice yoga in a secular contexts during school lessons. The critical part of using yoga in schools is about the background from yoga, and how yoga can be connected with religious and Hinduism spirituality. The results from this study show that yoga in school is more like an activity with a series of movements with focus on wellness and with the possibility to refresh the body and brain during a school lesson, and this without any connections of religious contexts at all.
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Singleton, Mark Henry. "The body at the centre : contexts of postural yoga in the modern age." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612523.
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Jackson, Patrick Earl. "This side of despair : forms of hopelessness in modern poetry /." view abstract or download file of text, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1421604231&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2007.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 333-340). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Mensah, Albert Kobby. "Political brand management : forms and strategies in modern party politics." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2276/.
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The concept of branding is known within the commercial world as the marketing tool that enables customers to make product and service choices using functional and emotional attributes which they find satisfactory. These functional and emotional attributes are what is conceptualized by producers as brands. Hence, the traditional notion of the brand as an identifier and differentiator is passed on to the political market, according to the literature on political branding. However, many years into the inquest of political branding as an essential part of our electoral processes, agreement on political brand development is still proving elusive. In the literature, there are different views on how the political brand is developed. Some argue for political brand identity management based on policy attributes, whereas others regard candidate attributes as the essential source. This research argues for the amalgamation of all the three political elements: the party, the policy, and the candidate as a comprehensive source of building a political brand that is responsive to prevailing political market conditions. Using a case study of a political party in Ghana, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the research aims to demonstrate how party values are considered to be an integral part to policy and candidate attributes in building a comprehensive political brand identity. Here, the study does not imply that the NPP deliberately used branding as a set of principles in managing its campaign. However, it proposes that the strategies and the tactics with which the party executed its electioneering campaign parallels the brand architecture concept in marketing, given the way it identified roles for the three political elements (the party, the candidate, and the policy) and occasionally rearranged them to reflect the broader party goals. The research therefore borrows from brand management literature the brand architecture‘ concept to guide its analysis and the eventual development of a parallel model, the political brand architecture (PBA)‘ approach for political brand management.
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Walcher, Davidson Prisca Rossella Mina. "Yoga and master Thich Nhat Hanh's teachings: the practice of self-reflexive projects among forty individuals inlate modern Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50533952.
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As we move further into the 21st century, social observers are increasingly aware of the individual yet collective forms of spiritual practices emerging globally. In this study, I focus on two specific practices, yoga and Buddhism, as framed in the teachings of Master Thich Nhat Hanh, which have significant impacts on individuals in the late modern city of Hong Kong. This research investigates the implications these practices pose for self-identity in late modernity. Using semi-structured, face-to-face, in-depth interviews of forty individuals who have been engaging in these practices in Hong Kong during 2008-2009, I investigate the self-identity of these individuals using Anthony Giddens’ theoretical framework of selfhood. I propose the following questions: (1) How do these individuals respond to the conditions of late modernity in Hong Kong? (2) How do these individuals experience Giddens’ four dilemmas of late modernity (unification versus fragmentation, powerlessness versus appropriation, authority versus uncertainty, personalization versus fragmentation) and in what ways do they cope with these dilemmas?
(3) How do these individuals engagement with these practices interact with their life trajectories and manifest the main features of Giddens’ reflexive project (lifestyles and life plans, the pure relationship, the body and self-actualization)?
Several findings have emerged from the data that empirically affirm Giddens’ self-reflexivity framework: (1) the self-identity of individuals engaging in yoga and/or Master Thick Nhat Hanh’s teachings is reflexively understood in terms of their personal biographies; (2) from each distinctive biography, individuals use these practices to find a balance of the four dilemmas outlined in Giddens’ theoretical framework, namely, unification versus fragmentation, powerlessness versus appropriation, authority versus uncertainty and personalization versus commoditication; (3) three trajectories emerge from the data: the “healing self”; the “health/exercise self”; and the “lifestyle/re-emerging self.” These patterns show how individuals manage threats to selfhood in a late modern society while finding ways to achieve personal development and increased self-awareness.
By empirically testing the applicability of Giddens’ theory through the study of these two mind/body practices in Hong Kong, this research has contributed to the field of modern sociology by: (1) offering an in-depth and systematic qualitative inquiry into practices of spirituality that are undertaken on both the individual and global level, (2) addressing the prevailing research gap by empirically supporting and expanding the utility of Giddens’ self-reflexive project and (3) presenting an accessible analysis of the concepts informing the idea of self-identity and how conditions of late modernity influence this process.published_or_final_version
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Bond, Kellie Anne. "All things counter : the argument of forms in modern American poetry /." view abstract or download file of text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3061932.
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Richardson, C. Scott. "Taking the repeats: Modern American poetry in imitation of eighteenth-century musical forms." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9311.
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This dissertation surveys the various efforts by modern American poets to imitate the repetitive structures of eighteenth-century instrumental music, setting in a wider historical context some of the central achievements of the twentieth-century long poem, as well as offering readings of some lesser-known but interesting works that draw on musical structures and processes as their formal models. The introduction examines why such disparate poets have wished to organize their work through some analogue to musical form. Taking their cues from western instrumental composition, writers have let the shapes of their poems be determined not by the demands of narrative for succession or the demands of discursive argument for progressive development but instead by music's repetitive imperative. In musical structures such as the variation set, the fugue, and the sonata, poets found constructive techniques congenial to the twentieth-century mind. Eighteenth-century musical genres can be seen as anticipating in a remarkable manner modern ideas concerning the circular patterns of thought and experience. The first chapter examines poetry modeled on the variation set, surveying works by Randall Jarrell, Wallace Stevens, Harry Mathews, Charles Olson, and Frank O'Hara. The second chapter deals with poetic fugues, including works by May Sarton, William Bronk, Weldon Kees, Delmore Schwartz, and Sylvia Plath. It also examines the validity of fugal analogies at both the macro- and micro-level of analysis in two key modern long poems, Ezra Pound's Cantos and Louis Zukofsky's "A". The final chapter examines poetic versions of sonata forms, including the sonata-based genres of symphony and quartet. It deals with works by Donald Justice, Conrad Aiken, John Gould Fletcher, Stevens, W. C. Williams, and John Ashbery. T. S. Eliot is central to the discussion: the chapter reexamines the validity of musical analogy in relation to Four Quartets and places Eliot's achievement in historical context, as a culmination of earlier currents and as a dominant presence in later musically-patterned poetry.
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Corigliano, Stephanie Heather. "Towards a Hermeneutic of Yoga in Modern Times: A Comparative Study of Practice and Detachment in Hinduism and Christianity." Thesis, Boston College, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104875.
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Thesis advisor: Catherine CornilleThis dissertation contributes to a scholarly understanding of Yoga in modern times by considering the dialectical tension between life-affirming goals in Yoga (health, balance, well-being) and the world-renouncing asceticism of the classical text, Patañjali’s Yogasūtras. In particular, I focus on the teaching tradition of the 19th century guru Tirumalai Krishnamacharya and the prominent teachers who learned from him, K. Pattabhi Jois, BKS Iyengar, and TKV Desikachar. Through a study of the classical text, historical commentators, recent scholarship, and modern teachers, I advance an understanding of the structure and general rubric of the Yogasūtras as a text that emphasizes process, the attainment of accomplishment/power, and ultimately the need for detachment from power. I further contend that this rubric may provide an insightful means for interpreting the Yogasūtras as an authoritative and informative text for Yoga in modern times. The teaching tradition of Krishnamacharya is notable for its effort to revive Yoga and the Yogasūtras within India and for an international audience. However, the core concept of detachment, while prominent throughout the Yogasūtras, appears to be at odds with the modern tradition, which emphasizes attachment oriented goals like health and well-being. Thus, I introduce a comparative study of detachment in the work of the 18th century Jesuit, Jean Pierre de Caussade, in order to further consider the dialectic between detachment, action, and love. The practice of Comparative Theology is perhaps most effective at creating a new light with which the individual can freshly examine her own tradition. The comparison between Caussade, Krishnamacharya, and the Yogasūtras highlights the role of devotion in relation to detachment and offers particular challenges and points for further consideration for the on-going tradition of Yoga in modern times
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2015
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Theology
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Henrichsen-Schrembs, Sabine [Verfasser], Johannes [Akademischer Betreuer] Huinink, and Walter R. [Akademischer Betreuer] Heinz. "Pathways to Yoga - Yoga Pathways : Modern Life Courses and the Search for Meaning in Germany / Sabine Henrichsen-Schrembs. Gutachter: Johannes Huinink ; Walter R. Heinz. Betreuer: Johannes Huinink." Bremen : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, 2008. http://d-nb.info/1072746298/34.
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McKnight, Justine. "Redefining The Art Experience : From Static To Temporal Art Forms." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1998. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1450.
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This research examines an approach to art making and viewing that questions the acceptance of the autonomous object in favour of a transient experience. It focuses specifically on work and writing from the 1960s by the American artist Robert Morris that attempted to alter the then predominant Formalist understanding of the art object as autonomous and self-referential. This investigation follows the formal and conceptual development of Morris' work (and that of associated artists Richard Serra and Rafael Ferrer) with particular focus on the shift from static objects to time-based and transient an-forms including film/video and installation. I address the influence that the shift from static to temporal forms has had on the experience of art such as opening artwork to deeper levels of metaphysical association and visceral response. This discussion also examines parallel issues that have emerged within my own work's conceptual and formal development. In relation to the investigation of these developments I shall contextualise and locate my recent arts practice.
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Richardson, Scott. "Taking the repeats: Modern American poetry in imitation of eighteenth-century musical forms." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20986.
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Sadler, Erika. "The kinetic quest of Ashtanga yoga through the lens of Pilgrimage: making sense of post-modern questing." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11143/6904.
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Leledaki, Aspasia. "Inner and Outer Journeys: A Qualitative Life History of Modern Yoga and Meditation as Body-Self-Transforming Pedagogies." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.486877.
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The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the dynamic transformations of the bodyself- society relationship as storied by 'Western' practitioners in Modem Yoga and Meditation. The study drew upon three philosophical approaches that belong to the interpretive paradigm: the social phenomenological, the hermeneutical and the social constructionist approaches. The use of life history and ethnographic research strategies allowed for the performance of a combination of purposive, opportunistic, snowball and discrepant case sampling that led to conducting in-depth, semi-structured interviews with ten long-term (studying and practising regularly for more than two years) Yoga and Meditation practitioners/teachers. The practi~es included a variety of traditions like Vipassana Meditation, Zen, Neo-Advaita, Asthanga Yoga, Iyengar Yoga and others. The study used categorical-content and categorical-form analyses to 'bracket' the whats and the hows of the informants' stories respectively. The findings are represented through . . predominantly modified realist tales, which are accompanied by confessional tales and a five-part creative fiction. The fmdings highlight important issues regarding the participants' beginnings with their practices, which are marked by a desire for some form of transformation that broadly alluded to an increased sense of self-reflexivity and resisting feelings of anomie. Also, they illustrate Modem Meditation and Yoga practices as invented traditions, and thus a complex and dynamic socio-cultural fusion of Asian and Western philosophies and pedagogies that transforms in historical time. Furthermore, long-term engagement with Yoga and Meditation practice is suggestive to involve cultivation of an ethical lifestyle and a somaesthetic, kinaesthetic inner bodymind (high degree ofbodymind unity). This set of somatic pedagogies potentially transforms the practitioners' existential feelings, thus moving their body-selves from a restrictive emotional habitus to it more productive one and altering their sense of self, time, space and relationality (body-selfother). The findings also highlighted how the informants tap into an AsianlWestern fusion of embodied metaphorical narrative resourses, and how they (re)create these narratives in the process of constructing narrative coherence. Finally, the implications of this study's findings suggest that al} the above mundializations in the phenomenal, subjective, social and narrative worlds of the informants culminate in three key mundializations of their socialities (spiritual hierarchies, charisma and achievement) and two key mundializations of their body-selves (disciplined liberal body-selves and samadhic body-selves).
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Jingblad, Jessica, and Helena Johansson. ""Man har alltid tid till att andas" : En kvalitativ undersökning om lärares och skolpersonals egna upplevelser av yoga som ett hälsoterapeutiskt verktyg för stresshantering." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-33603.
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Studien ämnar till att undersöka anledningarna till samt resultatet av att yoga har blivit så populärt i Sverige, sett till sekulariseringsprocessen i Sverige idag, att det som ett resultat bidragit till att det erbjuds som en hälsofrämjande träningsform till skolpersonal på en gymnasieskola i Sverige. Vi har därför undersökt lärares och skolpersonals upplevelser av personalyoga, främst kundaliniyoga, som ett verktyg för stresshantering och tittat på yogans religiösa bakgrund. Sex kvalitativa intervjuer, där både lärare, skolpersonal och yogainstruktör blivit intervjuade har genomförts, transkriberats och analyserats. Resultatet visade att samtliga respondenter ansåg att yoga fungerar stressreducerande men endast en av de sex respondenterna ansåg att yoga var religiös utövning. Nästan alla respondenter var dock medvetna om att yoga har religiösa rötter i hinduism och buddhism, men samtidigt ansåg samtliga respondenter att målet med personalyogan endast var avkoppling i hälsofrämjande syfte. Utifrån resultatet har vi dragit slutsatsen att respondenterna är påverkade av sekulariseringsprocessen i Sverige samt att synen på yoga har gått från en mer religiös handling till en allt mer filosofisk väg och förhållningssätt i västvärlden.
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Tym, Linda Dawn. "Forms of memory in late twentieth and twenty-first century Scottish fiction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5551.
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According to Pierre Nora, “[m]emory and history, far from being synonymous, appear now to be in fundamental opposition”. Drawing on theories of memory and psychoanalysis, my thesis examines the role of memory as a narrative of the past in late twentieth-century and twenty-first-century Scottish literature. I challenge Nora’s supposition that memory and history are fundamentally opposed and I argue that modern Scottish literature uses a variety of forms of memory to interrogate traditional forms of history. In my Introduction, I set the paradigms for my investigation of memory. I examine the perceived paradox in Scottish literature between memory and history as appropriate ways to depict the past. Tracing the origins of this debate to the work of Walter Scott, I argue that he sets the precedent for writers of modernity, where the concerns are amplified in late twentieth and twenty-first century literature and criticism. While literary criticism, such as the work of Cairns Craig and Eleanor Bell, studies the trope of history, Scottish fiction, such as the writing of Alasdair Gray, James Robertson, and John Burnside, asserts the position of memory as a useful way of studying the past. Chapter One examines the transmission of memory. Using George Mackay Brown’s Greenvoe, I consider the implications of three methods of transferring memory. Mrs McKee’s refusal to disclose her experience indicates a refusal to mourn loss and to transmit memory. Skarf’s revision of historical narratives indicates a desire to share experience. The Mystery of the Ancient Horsemen demonstrates the use of ritual in the preservation and the communication of the past for future generations. Chapter Two studies the Gothic fiction of Emma Tennant and Elspeth Barker. I examine sensory experience as indicative of the interior and non-linear structure of memory. I argue that the refusal to accept personal and familial loss reveals problematic forms of memory. Chapter Three traces unacknowledged memory in Alice Thompson’s Pharos. I use Nicolas Abraham’s theory of the transgenerational phantom to consider the effects of this undisclosed memory. I argue that the past and its deliberate suppression haunt future generations. Chapter Four considers the use of nostalgia as a form of memory. I investigate the perceptions and definitions of nostalgia, particularly its use as a representation of the Scottish national past. Using Neil Gunn’s Highland River, I identify nostalgia’s diverse functions. I examine nostalgia as a way in which, through the Scottish diaspora, memory is transferred and exhibited beyond national boundaries. Chapter Five builds on the previous chapter and extends the analysis of the ways nostalgia functions. I study nostalgia’s manifestations in the diasporic Scottish-Canadian literature of Sara Jeanette Duncan, John Buchan, Eric McCormack, and Alastair MacLeod.
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Young, Miriam. "The influence of early modern emblem books and related forms upon eighteenth-century French literature." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274115.
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Murakami, Shuichi. "Research on Ambiguity in Forms of Modern Landscape Design in the United States of America." Kyoto University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/150803.
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Law, G. "Mystery and uncertainty in modern fiction : A comparative parallel case study of the relations between popular mystery forms and modern non-classical fiction." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371196.
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Kato, Akiko. "Interlanguage variation in pitch and forms of English negatives: The case of Japanese speakers of English." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289766.
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This study investigates systematic L2 variation in the level of prosody through analysis on six Japanese advanced ESL speakers' variable use of pitch prominence/non-prominence on and the contraction forms of not negatives (e.g., it isn't, it's not, it is not). Variable use of pitch and the forms of negatives was analyzed in terms of sociolinguistic strategies that fluent English L2 speakers should use to differentiate emphasis on negatives according to social contexts. The study examined the effects of 16 linguistic and sociolinguistic variables/factors on the L2 negative variation, and compared the results with equivalent data shown by L1 American-English speakers (Deckert & Yaeger-Dror, 1999; Yaeger-Dror, 1985, 1996, 1997), and by L1 Japanese speakers (Takano, 2001). Each ESL participant had interview conversations with four L1 American-English speakers who were varied by sex and status. The participants also read aloud passages from two American novels. These speech samples (approximately 27-hour speech) were audio-taped and transcribed to extract not negative tokens. In all, 1,329 negative tokens were used for analysis. Pitch was analyzed using a speech analysis computer program, and coded tokens were processed by the VARBRUL program for the variable rule analysis. The results showed that the L2 negative variation was constrained by immediate linguistic environments but not by sociolinguistic variables except for the reading versus conversation variable. This finding exhibited a sharp contrast with the variation patterns of both L1 English and L1 Japanese, where social contexts such as the interactive uses (pragmatic meanings) of negatives, interactional situations, and social identities of speakers and interlocutors clearly constrain the negative variation. The results also suggested that the L2 speakers' negative variation patterns were influenced by language developmental processes rather than by language or cultural transfer. The study concludes that it is important to have L2 English speakers notice sociolinguistic strategies in negative use through instruction, since development of competence in this feature will not otherwise be acquired.
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Taylor, Alex J. "Forms of persuasion : art and business in the 1960s." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:7dc16529-27d9-4b3c-97f8-814dffb0019e.
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In the 1960s, art and business engaged in a sweeping but now largely forgotten romance. Corporations rushed to install art in their foyers and on their urban plazas. Many bought or commissioned works of art to display inside their factories and offices. They reproduced art in their advertisements and annual reports, and profiled it in press stunts and photo ops. They developed promotional art exhibitions that toured across the country and around the world. This dissertation considers how such artworks supported – but also sometimes disrupted – the marketing, public relations, lobbying and personnel strategies of large-scale corporate enterprise. By reconstructing this diverse field, this dissertation contends that art was a key tool for the burgeoning ‘persuasion industry’ of the sixties. Both in the United States and further afield, artists and businesses worked together to make artworks function as ‘forms of persuasion’, instruments by which the consensus of the corporation’s constituents – workers, consumers and regulators – could be secured. The case studies focus on range of companies active in this field, exploring the phenomenon in three thematic chapters, covering the use of pop art by the packaged goods business, the role of abstract painting in the workplace and the value of metal sculpture for the steel industry. It is argued that the practices described through these examples represent a defining cultural phenomena of sixties art, one that challenges the conventional art historical alignment of its avant-garde with the decade’s famed radical politics, protest and counterculture.
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Endut, Esmawee Haji. "Traditional Malaysian built forms : a study of the origins, main building types, development of building forms, design principles and the application of traditional concepts in modern buildings." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1994. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14839/.
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Obi, A. "Modern slavery and worst forms of child labour in South Africa: case of the former homeland areas." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1016119.
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Despite a progressive constitution lauded as one of the best and most forward-looking in the world, with an advanced Bill of Rights, instances of human rights violations have been detected at all levels of the South African society. The most disturbing revelations have been associated with situations in many farming communities in South Africa. On the basis of a comprehensive nationwide study initiated in June 2001 and documented in 2003, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) confirmed widespread human rights violations on South African farms. Through the efforts of the South African Human Rights Commission, many of these violations have been brought to the attention of the authorities and there are already numerous actions being taken to contain and possibly eliminate them. Among these is the Child Labour Programme of Action which was adopted in 2003 by the large number of government departments that constitute the stakeholders, particularly those that have responsibility for labour, education, provincial and local government, water services, justice, policing, prosecution, and social development. However, the SAHRC study had limited coverage due to constraints of time and funding and did not pay adequate attention to the former independent homelands. In addition to this significant shortcoming, recent international experience reveals other forms of violations that may not be immediately obvious and therefore go undetected for a very long time. Among these, the International Labour Organization (ILO), together with various non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and other bodies have drawn attention to existence of what are termed “worst forms of child labour”. The latter involves a wide range of abuses to which under-age individuals are subjected against their will and often exposed to hazards that may leave them permanently excluded from formal educational and economic opportunities. The fact that national definitions differ complicates the situation. As a result, systematic investigation is needed to see to what extent local practices compare with international norms and standards. Similarly, the fact that the former independent homelands were not adequately covered in such an important study that aimed to inform policy on the optimal direction of the transformation process also raises serious questions that must be addressed. This mini-dissertation documents evidence based on a rapid appraisal of farm and non-farm environments in two polar regions of the province, namely the Port St John’s Municipality in the Oliver Tambo District Municipality of the former Transkei homeland and Alice in the Nkonkobe Municipality of the former Ciskei homeland. Descriptive and content analysis methodologies were employed to analyze the data obtained from interviews of employers of labour, the labourers themselves, as well as community members and “bystanders” who had opinions about the insertion of children into the labour market. Correlational analysis and logistic regression were performed to draw inferences about the determinants of child labour in the farming system. The indication is that child labour is an established phenomenon whose discussion is however quite sensitive and elicits a wide range of emotions. The role of socioeconomic factors in influencing the decision to engage child labour seems to be quite extensive. For instance, monthly income of household has important practical implications for national and global policy on the use of child labour are foreseen and form the basis for the recommendations put forward to address the associated concerns.
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Albehairi, Musaed. "Using the traditional textile Sadu as an element of the Kuwait traditions and representing it as a monumental modern art form." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2010. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/using-the-traditional-textile-sadu-as-an-element-of-the-kuwait-traditions-and-representing-it-as-a-monumental-modern-art-form(ffc18e5a-787d-4097-a951-33a69a733dca).html.
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This is a practice based research, based on a representation of motifs related to Kuwait's traditions and heritage through Sadu textile; the research starts with determining the factors needed by Sadu in order to move to the monumental modern art form. One of these factors is the analysis presented by the artists of the first generation in Kuwait concerning Sadu and what was presented by Sami Mohammed in his "Sadu Project" in the Eighties. From another side, to present what affected Sadu through the globalisation concept and to benefit from the same in order to show Kuwait visual culture, analyse and develop the colour philosophy in order to reach a colour group that represents Sadu modern art. This aspect of the research is bibliographic, along with other aspects, including a critical reflection on practice. The research begins by using Jacques Derrida's "Deconstruction" as a process to dismantle Sadu motifs as ornaments, symbols, colours and subject matter. It is original research as it is based on an interview with Sami Mohammed's, which revealed that, in the Sixties, he was one of the pioneer artists who used modern art as a different area in their art careers, while also building national abstraction in Kuwaiti art. The other interview is with Yahya Swailem, an art teacher and critic in Kuwait since the Sixties, who provided the research with an overview of the history of art in Kuwait. The research aims at attracting the current and young generations to the heritages and traditions of their country by transforming the Sadu textile to a Sadu modern art form in paintings and increasing the art appreciation and their cultural awareness. The research title is also the research aim and the selection of it was based on the existence of words that contributed in refining the twentieth century art as modern art and monumental and Kuwait for determining the research location that is considered the base of the research and linking them with the word "representing" that also shows something new presented by this research. Sadu was selected for this research since it is a major and essential part of the heritage and traditions of Kuwait and since it is a textile, it may be on a two dimension form and for what it witnessed through the art in Kuwait through the first generation artists. Sami Mohammed considered it a start to success in changing its form and making it more modern. The paintings produced in the research display Sadu motifs with a colour philosophy that is different from previous presentations, with a focus on large-scale paintings to gain a new meaning through monumental Sadu art.
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Statzer, Mary Kathryn. ""Photography into Sculpture": Peter Bunnell, Robert Heinecken and Experimental Forms of Photography Circa 1970." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556851.
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Despite present day attitudes and practices in which combinations of photography and other mediums of art are readily accepted, this was rarely the case during the 1960s and 1970s. The pioneering 1970 Museum of Modern Art exhibition Photography into Sculpture, which is the focus of this dissertation, is a compelling exception. Organized by Peter Bunnell, the exhibition highlighted work by twenty-three artists that mixed photographic imagery with three-dimensional forms. The resulting objects often dislocated "straight" photography’s reliance on the image and optical description as its primary source of meaning, characteristics presumed to be fundamental and fixed by many at the time. Bunnell argued that the physicality of the works in Photography into Sculpture made the medium visible and available for critique. This dissertation establishes the archival record and an oral history for the exhibition. It also finds that Bunnell prepared this unorthodox exhibition with John Szarkowski’s endorsement, therefore contradicting enduring views that Szarkowski’s photography program at the Modern promoted a monolithic ideology that did not include experimental modes. Peter Bunnell and Robert Heinecken are the principal figures in Photography into Sculpture. Bunnell, as curator and historian, and Heinecken, as artist and professor of photography at University of California, Los Angeles, were both committed to the idea that the photograph was not only an image but also an object. In public statements they argued that the attention placed on straight photography by many critics and educators discouraged experimentation and excluded an emerging generation of photographers eager to challenge lingering modernist traditions that emphasized the integrity of the image and conventions of display. Both men and their contemporary Nathan Lyons worked from within photography’s established institutions and organizations–including the Museum of Modern Art, George Eastman House, and The Society for Photographic Education–to advocate for alternatives. This dissertation demonstrates that the revolutionary ideas of Bunnell and Heinecken were part of a long rebellion against photographic modernism.
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Shaw, Charlotte. "Buying a balance : the 'individual-collective' and the commercial new age practices of yoga and Sufi dance." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a1fc05ce-7df5-4229-862a-132bbed153de.
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The individual's experience of inner authority takes centre stage in the majority of scholarship on New Ageism, with many writers highlighting this theme as a defnitive characteristic of the spiritual culture. The aim of this thesis is to explore this topic and to ascertain the place of the individual and the collective within two commercial New Age feld sites in London. The qualitative data which lead this investigation were collected from a yoga centre called Shanti and a Suf dance organisation called the Suf Order. From this data, the thesis identifes an individual-collective dialectic, one which manifests in particular forms and with divergent orientations; the result is a multiplicity of types of individualisms which include collective forces. The study makes the case for this argument by focusing on four modes in which, at both sites, the individual and the collective co-produce each other. One, the (collective) class culture of the practitioners informs and is informed by the (individual) ideologies of self that the informants assert. Two, the (collective) capitalist context of the organisations infuence and are perpetuated by the ways the (individual) representatives of those organisations express themselves. Three, (collective) shared principles regarding 'positivity' and 'energy' enforce and are sustained by the (individual) feelings of the student. Four, the (collective) communities of practitioners depend on and contribute to the (individual) set apart status of the teacher. These four manifestations of the individual-collective dynamic appear with different orientations in each feld context; in all versions and in both settings, individual and collective are both present and mutually- constituting forces, but at Shanti the dialectics lean more towards the personal and at the Suf Order, the 'same' dialectics lean more towards the social. Each organisation refects and adds to the intersections, both in their forms and their orientations. In so doing, the two New Age centres present divergent balances of the individual-collective dynamic that correlate with the personal and social dispositions of their respective student bodies.
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Florek, Paul J. "Modern Forms of an Ancient Art: A Selection of Contemporary Fanfares for Multiple Trumpets Demonstrating Evolutionary Processes in the Fanfare Form." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799545/.
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The pieces discussed throughout this dissertation provide evidence of the evolution of the fanfare and the ability of the fanfare, as a form, to accept modern compositional techniques. While Britten’s Fanfare for St. Edmundsbury maintains the harmonic series, it does so by choice rather than by the necessity in earlier music played by the baroque trumpet. Stravinsky’s Fanfare from Agon applies set theory, modal harmonies, and open chords to blend modern techniques with medieval sounds. Satie’s Sonnerie makes use of counterpoint and a rather unusual, new characteristic for fanfares, soft dynamics. Ginastera’s Fanfare for Four Trumpets in C utilizes atonality and jazz harmonies while Stravinsky’s Fanfare for a New Theatre strictly coheres to twelve-tone serialism. McTee’s Fanfare for Trumpets applies half-step dissonance and ostinato patterns while Tower’s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman demonstrates a multi-section work with chromaticism and tritones. By applying modern compositional techniques to an older, abstract form, composers have maintained the original aesthetic while allowing for fanfares to be used as concert music. This document adds to the limited body of scholarly writing on modern fanfares.
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Арцишевський, Р. А., and Т. Я. Шоломицька. "Необхідність і можливості вироблення сучасної картини світу." Thesis, Українська академія банківської справи Національного банку України, 2004. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/61142.
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Аналізуються причини актуалізації і можливі шляхи вироблення сучасної картини світу, розглядається питання про взаємодію різних форм соціального досвіду в процесі її створення.The essay is devoted to the ways of actualization and forming of the contemporary word pattern. The question under consideration concerns the interaction of different forms of social experience in the process of its creations.
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Kubíková, Kateřina. "Tradiční versus moderní formy životního pojištění." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-3958.
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The graduation theses is engaged in theoretical and practical analysis of particular sorts of life insurance on Czech market. The theoretical analysis describes traditional and modern forms of life insurance. In the practical analysis are interpreted statistical data from The Czech association of insurance companies.
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Seward, Julia E. "An Intersectional Approach to Environmental Political Theory: A Case Study on Modern Andean Bolivian Indigenous Forms of Resistance and Communal Democracy in Relation to Water Rights." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/509.
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Considers Bolivian Andean indigenous forms of democracy and resistance to neoliberal water privatization in Cochabamba. Incorporates environmental identity into the intersectional theoretical framework with principles rooted in Indigenous grass roots theory, Marxist critiques on capitalism, Latin American Neomarxist scholars, and Environmental Justice. Focuses on intersections of ethnicity, gender and class identities with environmental identity to understand the extent to which environmental injustices cannot be addressed in isolation from other sources of inequality.
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Geisse, Elisabeth. "On Being: The Fictional Yamas and Niyamas." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1481124015984363.
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Soare, Oana. "Les antimodernes de la littérature roumaine." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040114/document.
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Notre travail se propose d’examiner la littérature roumaine dans l’esprit de la théorie de l’antimodernité énoncée par Antoine Compagnon dans son ouvrage Les antimodernes. De Joseph de Maistre à Roland Barthes (Gallimard, 2005). Après une partie consacrée à la théorie des formes sans fond, qui est le principal repère, dans le champ culturel roumain moderne, du débat modernité/antimodernité, notre étude dresse le portrait de quelques écrivains de première importance engagés dans cette polémique : Titu Maiorescu, Vasile Alecsandri, Ion Luca Caragiale, Beniamin Fundoianu (Benjamin Fondane), Mircea Eliade, Emil Cioran. Un chapitre à part est consacré à la façon dont fut accueilli dans la littérature roumaine Baudelaire, et aux disputes engagées à cette occasion autour de l’idée de modernité entre les partisans de celle-ci et ses adversaires.Je tiens à exprimer ma gratitude aux deux directeurs de cette thèse et à les remercier pour leur appui et leur disponibilité pendant les quatre années de son élaborationThe purpose of this thesis is to apply to Romanian literature Antoine Compagnon’s theory upon antimodernity, as it is formulated in his study Les antimodernes. De Joseph de Maistre à Roland Barthes (Gallimard, 2005). We analyze the theory of „forms without substance”, the main illustration of the modernity-antimodernity debate in the Romanian culture, as well as different profiles of Romanian authors, such as Titu Maiorescu, Vasile Alecsandri, Ion Luca Caragiale, Beniamin Fundoianu (Benjamin Fondane), Mircea Eliade, Emil Cioran. The thesis also deals with the perception of Charles Baudelaire in Romanian literature, which further reflects the issues of modernity and its denial.I would like to thank both coordinators of my thesis for the support and kindness shown during our colaboration in the last four years
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Baird, Emily Lynne. "A Qualitative Investigation of What "Body Awareness" Means to Dancers at a Public Midwestern University." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1587991748223295.
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Birch, Jason Eric George. "The Amanaska : king of all yogas : a critical edition and annotated translation with a monographic introduction." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4edd5abe-0aa6-4c52-96d2-c4acfce1ad60.
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This thesis contains a critical edition, translation and study of the Amanaska, which is a medieval Sanskrit yoga text of one hundred and ninety-eight verses in two chapters (adhyāya). Seventy-five manuscripts have been consulted for this edition and thirty-two were selected for the full collation on the basis of stemmatic analysis on a sample collation of all the manuscripts. The critical apparatus contains references to parallel verses in other works and the notes to the translation provide further information on the content, terminology and obscure passages of the text by citing other Sanskrit works, in particular, earlier Tantras and medieval yoga texts, as well as a Nepalese commentary on the Amanaska. The first part of the Introduction contains a summary of the text and an examination of the colophons of all the available manuscripts in order to establish the proper titles of the text and each of the chapters. Unlike previous editors, I have adopted the title Amanaska because it is found in the great majority of manuscript colophons. The title of previous printed editions, Amanaskayoga, appears to derive from nineteenth-century manuscript catalogues. The authorship of the text has been discussed in light of the claim made in recent Indian scholarship that it was written by Gorakṣanātha, the pupil of Matysendranātha. I conclude that the author is unknown. Discrepancies between the chapters, in particular, various incongruities in content and differences in the limits of dating, strongly suggest that both chapters were originally composed as separate works. Unlike previous editions, this one is based on the north-Indian recension. There is evidence that the north-Indian recension has preserved a more coherent version of the first chapter. The additional verses of the south-Indian recension have been edited and included separately in appendix A. The first part of the Introduction also includes fourteen sections on the content of the Amanaska. The first six of these sections are on absorption (laya), the practice of eliminating reality levels (tattva) and Layayoga, and the following sections cover yogic powers (siddhi), Śāmbhavī Mudrā, the term amanaska and the Amanaska's known sources for verses on the no-mind state. The final section called, 'Amanaska: the Effortless Leap to Liberation' examines the salient teachings of the Amanaska in light of previous ascetic, yogic and tantric traditions, in an attempt to answer questions about whom its intended audience may have been and its place within India's history of yoga. The first part of the Introduction concludes with a discussion of yoga texts which have been either directly or indirectly influenced by the Amanaska. Seeing that many of these texts have not been critically edited or translated, I have discussed their date of composition and their content in addition to the material that derives from the Amanaska. The second part of the Introduction provides essential details on the seventy-four manuscripts consulted for this edition, brief comments on the shortcomings of the previous printed editions and an explanation of the editing methodology. The recensions of the text are discussed in this section as well as my editorial policy. The critical edition and translation of the Amanaska are presented together. Each Sanskrit verse is followed by the translation and its critical apparatus is at the bottom of the page. The endnotes to each verse are located at the end of its respective chapter. Appendices B-E include four stemmatic diagrams along with brief descriptions of each hyparchetype, a list of symbols and abbreviations and an outline of the conventions used in the critical apparatus.
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Sundberg, Markus. "I skuggan av stormaktens sista krig : Inre förhållanden i den svenska militärstatens Jämtland under stora nordiska kriget." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-36318.
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This paper is focused on the consequences of the drawn-out conflict, known as ”the great northern war”, which lasted from the start of the 18th century up to 1721. More precisely the focus is at the economic situation facing the agrarian lower classes during these years, as well the nature in which their discontent presented itself. The study is restricted to one particular region of early-modern Sweden, Jämtland. The subjects that are examined are: - The amount of tax that were not paid or delivered to the proper authorities in time. - Contemporary depictions of the situation for the agrarian lower classes in Jämtland. - Taxes from earlier years yet to be paid.- Abandoned farms during the period. - Crop failures and their connection to the economic situation. - The so called ”everyday forms of resistance” in Jämtland as an expression of the people’s discontent towards the ruling figures in Stockholm – manifested against their local representatives.Betygsdatum 2019-06-13
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Vernon, Allie Harrison. "Does Money Indeed Buy Happiness? “The Forms of Capital” in Fitzgerald’s Gatsby and Watts’ No One is Coming to Save Us." Chapman University Digital Commons, 2019. https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/english_theses/7.
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Looking primarily at two critically acclaimed texts that concern themselves with American citizenship—F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Stephanie Powell Watts’ No One is Coming to Save Us—I analyze the claims made about citizenship identities, rights, and consequential access to said rights. I ask, how do these narratives about citizenship sustain, create, or re-envision American myth? Similarly, how do the narratives interact with the dominant culture at large? Do any of these texts achieve oppositional value, and/or modify the complex hegemonic structure? I use Pierre Bourdieu’s “The Forms of Capital” to investigate the ways in which economic, cultural, and social capital are distributed amongst identity groups of citizens, focusing on its favorable distribution to white upper-class men. Interesting, too, is the way in which these texts relate with one another and evolve over time. As Fitzgerald reaffirms boundary rights to white upper-class social capital to longstanding wealthy white males, Watts celebrates the survival of black individuals through the hard-earned persistence of human connection. Ultimately, as Gatsby fails to repeat the past, Watts succeeds in rewriting it.
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Petránková, Hana. "Nové způsoby aplikace marketingu ve stravovacích službách." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-114032.
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For the gastronomy facilities it's very difficult to keep their position in the gastronomy market. If the restaurant wants to be successful it must reflect need and expecations of its customers. The most important factors are: environment of restaurants, excellent cuisine, professional service and good marketing. The facility can use a lot of marketing tools, which are constantly changing due to rapid development of information and communication technologies. The aim of this thesis is interpretation of discount sites as a new marketing tool for gastronomy facilities. Theoretical part deals with general marketing issues in gastronomy and it describe the principle of discount sites. The aim of the practical part is to gain practical knowledge and experiance how the model of discount servers it works in the gastronomy sector. The issue is analyzed from two points of view. The first is from gastronomy facility (how gastronomy facilities use discount servers and what positives bring to them). The second point of view is the angle from customer, whether the client is satisfied with the offer of discount servers. Materials for this section were obtained on the basis of interviews with some of discount sites, with co-owner of the restaurant "Mimoměsto" who used 3 times the offer discount servers in the past and on fieldwork based on research in 15 selected gastronomy facilities which participated on discount servers. Discount sites are very young dynamic industry, which began flourish in the CR. Czech customers are getting used to them and like them. In the future is expected growth in turnover of discount sites, but a reduction of their number to keep only reliable ones on the market.
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Soud, William David. "Toward a divinised poetics : God, self, and poeisis in W.B. Yeats, David Jones, and T.S. Eliot." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:331a692d-a40c-4d30-a05b-f0d224eb0055.
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This thesis examines the traces of theological and broader religious discourses in selected works of three major twentieth-century poets. Each of the texts examined in this thesis encodes within its poetics a distinct, theologically derived conception of the ontological status of the self in relation to the Absolute. Yeats primarily envisions the relation as one of essential identity, Jones regards it as defined by alterity, and Eliot depicts it as dialectical and paradoxical. Critics have underestimated the impact on Yeats’s late work of his final and most sustained engagement with Indic traditions, which issued from his friendship and collaboration with Shri Purohit Swami. Though Yeats projected Theosophical notions on the Indic texts and traditions he studied with Purohit, he successfully incorporated principles of Classical Yoga and Tantra into his later poetry. Much of Yeats’s late poetics reflects his struggle to situate the individuated self ontologically in light of traditions that devalue that self in favor of an impersonal, cosmic subjectivity. David Jones’s The Anathemata encodes a religious position opposed to that of Yeats. For Jones, a devout Roman Catholic committed to the bodily, God is Wholly Other. The self is fallen and circumscribed, and must connect with the divine chiefly through the mediation of the sacraments. In The Anathemata, the poet functions as a kind of lay priest attempting sacramentally to recuperate sacred signs. Because, according to Jones’s exoteric theology, the self must love God through fellow creatures, The Anathemata is not only circular, forming a verbal templum around the Cross; it is also built of massive, rich elaborations of creaturely detail, including highly embroidered and historicized voices and discourses. Critics have long noted the influence of Christian mystical texts on Eliot’s Four Quartets, but some have also detected a countercurrent within the later three Quartets, one that resists the timeless even as the poem valorizes transcending time. This tension, central to Four Quartets, reflects Eliot’s engagement with the dialectical theology of Karl Barth. Eliot’s deployment of paradox and negation does not merely echo the apophatic theology of the mystical texts that figure in the poem; it also reflects the discursive strategies of Barth’s theology. The self in Four Quartets is dialectical and paradoxical: suspended between time and eternity, it can transcend its own finitude only by embracing it.
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Antonson, Hans. "Landskap och ödesbölen : Jämtland före, under och efter den medeltida agrarkrisen." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-117.
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This study examines landscape change in the Province of Jämtland during c. 1000–1750 AD. Settlement and arable cultivation are two of the most important sources in this study. They are therefore treated in depth, particularly farmsteads that were deserted during the late medieval agrarian crisis, so-called ödesbölen, and their fossil field-traces. The dissertation contains four major investigations. In the first investigation 610 possible ödesbölen were identified. The desertion was estimated at 50 per cent. The second investigation had its focus on the geographic location, and the conclusion was that the ödesbölen may have been deserted when the climate turned colder in the 14th century. The third investigation concerned medieval agriculture. Using historical maps and detailed mapping of fossil field traces it was established that the annually cultivated acreage decreased from the High Middle Ages until early modern times. This probably means that the agrarian crisis caused a change in the agrarian regime, from predominant arable farming to predominant stock-raising. The fourth investigation was whether the ownership or the use of the ödesbölen created obstacles to recolonization when the crisis subsided. This turned out not to be so in the case of ownership, but may have been so with regard to communal forest grazing. According to historical maps the ödesbölen in Jämtland were finally recolonized about 200 years later than for example in southern Sweden. The reasons probably were wars and a worse climate. The dissertation is capped off with both a model and a description of landscape change in Jämtland. Characteristic for the development of the landscape has been fluctuations in settlement. The ödesbölen are part of a pattern in which they are colonized, deserted, recolonized and again deserted in a cyclical course of events. The openness of the landscape is not part of this course of events.
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Hýl, Petr. "Slovinské národní divadlo v Lublani." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-215582.
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Dorman, Eric. "Varieties of embodied yoga practice: a typological exploration of modern yoga." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27372.
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As a distinct category of yoga practice, “modern yoga” evades simple definition. Researchers study modern yoga within a variety of disciplines, adding to the ambiguity of the category. These diffuse approaches can harden the disciplinary boundaries that surround certain expressions of the category. Consider that although yoga originated within South Asian religious traditions, some current expressions of yoga practice, such as those found in fitness or biomedical contexts, can appear to have little to do with Religious Studies. However, I suggest that bracketing off such expressions of modern yoga practice—although necessary for specialized analysis—can hinder the fruitful investigation of “yoga” as a more complex category and limit the potential reach of Religious Studies inquiries.
In this dissertation, I draw on methods from intellectual history, phenomenology, and comparative analysis to explore the category of modern yoga by developing a typology built around three organizing principles: legitimacy, embodiment, and American identity. Legitimacy represents the various ways that types of modern yoga practice are considered authentic. Embodiment represents the common theme among the various expressions of modern yoga practice that each is an embodied form of practice. I develop embodiment further to analyze the concept of connectedness, which includes connection with oneself, others, and one's environment. Finally, American identity represents how the varieties of modern yoga practice dynamically respond to their cultural contexts.
The typology proposes that modern yoga comprises five sub-categories: religious yoga, spiritual yoga, fitness yoga, wellness yoga, and biomedical yoga. Like the unique colors on a palette, these categories are themselves distinct. Yet, also like colors on a palette, each represents just one shade among a nearly infinite number of real-world expressions. I argue that this classificatory system is useful to Religious Studies, because comparative analysis of the subcategories illustrates how even the most apparently secularized forms of yoga practice are relevant for Religious Studies inquiries. By constructing the categories of this typology, while simultaneously blurring their internal boundaries, I provide an expanded conceptual vocabulary with which to discuss the expansive expressions of modern yoga and to support future interdisciplinary work.
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Salvatore, Vanessa. "The Mobility and Embodiment of Modern Yoga." Thesis, 2013. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/977884/1/Salvatore_MA_F2013.pdf.
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This thesis examines a yoga collective of primarily students and teachers in Montreal with attention to the circuits of mobility as well as broader interconnections and disjunctures created by global cultural flows. Varying forms of mobility within yoga are identified and studied such as, spatial, bodily, cognitive and conceptual mobility. Within these patterns of mobility the joining of ideas and practices as well as the contradictions that emerge from them are explored, for example between commercialism and the intended spirituality of yoga practice. This research project focuses on common modern postural and meditational yoga practices of today, and briefly looks at the teaching methods and learning practices within the kinesthetic culture of yoga. Further, the ways in which practitioners embody yoga is investigated.
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Bird, Lauren. "Ancient Wisdom, Modern Bodies: Hybrid Authenticity in the Space of Modern Yoga." Thesis, 2014. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/978469/1/Bird_MA_S2014.pdf.
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This thesis investigates transcultural exchange expressed in architectural and conceptual spaces as well as visual and material culture through the case study of HappyTree Yoga, a popular downtown Montreal studio. Through images and objects within these spaces, I explore how the modern postural yoga studio is designed as an escape from, or antidote to, the stresses of modern Western lifestyle through the integration of spirituality from an imagined, ahistorical Orient with Western socio-cultural norms of health, gender and bodily
regulation. The studio interior and the objects housed therein are considered from the perspective of material culture in order to understand how the practice of yoga is constructed and authenticated through ‘exotic’ objects such as images of gurus and small shrines and how practitioners encounter and experience the agency of these objects. I discuss the hybridity of modern yoga’s performance as both openly progressive and Western but aware of a need for legitimacy and authorization through the presence of Hindu imagery, ultimately creating new meanings for both these artifacts and those who participate in the highly ritualistic and performative use of these interiors.