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Henderson, Jared Zachary. "Persistence and Narrative Identity." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1366647734.
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Ethell, Linda. "Narrative identity and personal responsibility /." Connect to thesis, 2003. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000790.
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Karlsson, Axel, and Alexander Kores. "Forging a narrative : Political narratives in Swedish parties." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avd för juridik, ekonomi, statistik och politik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-9704.
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The following thesis is an analysis of the self-narratives of the parties in the Swedish Riksdag and how these are used to construct the identities of the parties. For this purpose, we studied narrative theory and theories about identity in order to build a framework which would allow us to investigate the narratives of these parties. To identify the core narratives of the parties, we chose to focus on their respective party programs. Based on the results of our quantitative investigation, we chose four parties (Socialdemokraterna, Liberalerna, Miljöpartiet, and Sverigedemokraterna) to study in a more in-depth manner. Having selected these four parties, we utilized theories about narrative and identity in order to identify the constituent parts of the various parties' narratives contained in their party programs. The parties were found to adhere to our theoretical assumptions about how parties ought to construct narratives, albeit in different ways from party to party.
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Walsh, Tony. "Irish Protestant identity : a narrative exploration." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.665150.
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The dissertation constitutes a narrative study on the complex experience of being Irish and Protestant and the author initially draws on a number of his own formative life experiences to introduce the investigation. The study uses the research genre of narrative inquiry, commenting on its relevance to the discipline of education, to explore the experience and identity of the tiny, but socially significant Protestant minority, in a country where religious identity is still highly significant. Stories, conversations arid autoethnography, which make up the core of the disseJ1ation, are drawn from the author's life experience and more particularly from a year-long period of field work. Presented in both traditional ethnographic and in non-traditional forms, using both direct and sometimes re-constructed or re-imagined voices from the fieldwork, they describe concrete lived experience of research participants. Each chapter constitutes an experiment in layered meaning making with a number of clear components. These include: i) A brief presentation of the chapter's purpose; a description of the particular methodology used including its definition, limitations and the ethical issues entailed; comment on the specific purposes involved in its use at this juncture and a description of what the method reveals which others may not ii) The presentation of data as story, discussion or re-constructed conversation which allows the emergence of a range of particular issues in an evocative way iii) A commentary on the emerging issues and a theoretical analysis using one of a range of lenses drawn from the conceptual repertoire of poststructuralism. Concluding sections of each chapter comment on what has emerged and form links with what is to follow in ensuing sections of the study. Each chapter thus represents a further step in elaborating a variety of emerging perspectives on the complexity of Irish Protestant experience. Not every theme embodied in the stories and conversations at the core of dissertation is the subject of explicit analysis or comment; instead they go to create a backdrop which expands the consciousness of readers concerning the context and experiences of Irish Protestantism. The titles of the work's five chapters (and in "general the second quotation at their outset) are all extracts from fieldwork conversations. C Responses from fieldwork suggest a community which has responded variously to Ireland's dramatic changes since Independence. Initially Protestants, as visible remnants of colonial occupation, were catapulted from a position of former security and influence to one of extreme marginality and fragility. Initial violence, murder and persecution modified over time to a less potent marginality (coupled at times with remarkable generosity) where the minority were generally defined as aliens and outsiders in what was to become an increasingly hegemonic Catholic Gaelic state. In order to survive (particularly against the draconian application of the Ne Temere papal decree) and to preserve a distinctive ethos, the minority withdrew into a hermetically sealed range of interconnected communities which simultaneously catered for virtually all their religious, educational, medical and social needs, as well as constituting a clearly recognizable alternative to the all-prevailing meta-culture. Despite these measures, continued emigration and the depredations of intermarriage (and the implied enforced signing over of children and consequently property) to the majority Catholicism led to a situation where slow extinction appeared inevitable. In this constrained context Protestants rarely spoke out publicly against oppressive policies or practices. Stories collected from the fieldwork also suggest that silence increasingly came to be employed within the community to minimize a recognition of the prevailing unpleasant realities with which the religious minority lived. Views expressed by participants suggest that this silencing resulted in a diminished ability for reflexivity and agency within the community and limited contribution to public debate and policy formation from what was, for many years, the largest minority voice in the country. Recent economic shifts, cosmopolitanism and crises in Catholicism have contributed to an era in which Protestantism finds itself an acceptable other, its schools and churches thronged with disillusioned erstwhile Catholics. In this unexpected space stories of transformation and opportunity appear to compete with old tales of discrimination, extinction and depression in defining its identity.
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Hopkins, Amanda. "Identity in the narrative Breton lay." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297886.
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Cornelissen, Laurenz Aldu. "Identity positioning for trust : a narrative analysis on consultant identity construction." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/80067.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis uses narrative analysis to explore the ways by which consultants seek to improve their perceived trustworthiness in initial client-consultant interactions. It is argued that consultants rely on identity-based trust perceptions by the clients and that this basis for trust can be favourably presented, within certain constraints, through narrative positioning. This narrative positioning, in the service of identity construction, is called identity positioning in the thesis. The thesis is situated in the literature on management consulting aimed at micro-level high-contact client-consultant interactions. These kinds of interactions trade on trust and identity. The various bases for trust are described, namely identity, structural, and dispositional based trust. Amongst these three bases, identity trust is highlighted as the most dominant in the context of clientconsultant interactions, especially in initial interactions where the consultant is unknown to the participants. It is to be expected in initial interactions that there will be a lot of scope for identity construction. A framework is then developed to relate identity construction and trust, which can be used as the basis for narrative positioning analysis. The framework consists of two dimensions along which identities can be positioned: social obligations and relational positioning latitude. It is argued that dispositional trust relates to relational positioning latitude, whereas structural bases of trust relates to social obligations. Identity based trust therefore indicates where the consultant fits within the structural or dispositional bases of trust. It is then shown how context moderates which of the trust bases will be dominant, and how this might manifest in the narrative of the consultant. It provides three general contexts, each leading to the emergence of a particular dominant basis for trustworthiness perceptions by the clients. The particular case analysed in this thesis correlates to a specific contexts within the framework. This context is where the consultant is unknown. The last part of the thesis illustrates the use of the framework and context as it guides the analysis of a particular consultant’s personal narrative during an initial interaction with clients. The analysis is then repeated for the consultant's software product narrative. The structures of the two narratives are then compared to show how the consultant also attempted to extend the identity-based trust to his software product.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis maak gebruik van narratiewe analise om die maniere te verken waarop konsultante die persepsies van hul betroubaarheid probeer verbeter in die aanvang fase van kliënt-konsultant interaksies. Daar word aangevoer dat konsultante staatmaak op identiteit-gebaseerde vertroue persepsies deur die kliënte en dat dié basis van vertroue gunstig aangebied kan word, binne sekere beperkings, deur middel van narratiewe posisionering. Hierdie narratiewe plasing, wat in die diens van die konstruksie van identiteit is, word identiteit posisionering genoem in die tesis. Die tesis is geleë in die literatuur oor bestuurs konsultering met die oogmerk op mikrovlak hoëkontak kliënt-konsultant interaksies. Hierdie soort interaksies handel in vertroue en identiteit. Die verskillende basisse vir vertroue word beskryf, naamlik identiteit, strukturele, en disposisionele gebaseerde vertroue. Onder hierdie drie basisse, word identiteit gebaseerde vertroue as die mees dominante in die konteks van die kliënt-konsultant interaksies uitgelig, veral in die eerste interaksies waar die konsultant onbekend is aan die deelnemers. Dit is verwag, in die aanvangs fase van sulke interaksies, dat daar baie ruimte vir die konstruksie van identiteit is. 'n Raamwerk word dan ontwikkel om die konstruksie van identiteit en vertroue in verband te bring, wat dan kan gebruik word as die basis vir die analise van narratiewe posisionering. Die raamwerk bestaan uit twee dimensies waarlangs identiteite kan geplaas word: sosiale verpligtinge en relasionele posisionering omvang. Daar word aangevoer dat disposisionele vertroue betrekking het tot relasionele posisionering omvang, terwyl die strukturele basis van vertroue verband hou met sosiale verpligtinge. Identiteit gebaseerde vertroue dui dus waar die konsultant pas binne die strukturele of disposisionele basisse van die trust. Daar word dan getoon hoe konteks modereer welke van die vertroue basisse oorheersend sal wees, en hoe hierdie kan manifesteer in die narratief van die konsultant. Dit bied drie algemene kontekste, wat elk lei tot die opkoms van 'n bepaalde dominante basis vir betroubaarheid persepsies deur die kliënte. Die besondere geval geanaliseer in die tesis korreleer met 'n spesifieke kontekste binne die raamwerk. Hierdie konteks is waar die konsultant onbekend is aan die kliënte. Die laaste deel van die tesis illustreer die gebruik van die raamwerk en konteks waar dit die ontleding van 'n spesifieke konsultant se persoonlike narratief tydens 'n aanvanklike interaksie met kliënte lei. Die analise word dan vir die konsultant se sagteware produk narratief herhaal. Die strukture van die twee verhale word dan vergelyk om te wys hoe die konsultant ook probeer het om die identiteit-gebaseerde vertroue uit te brei na sy sagteware produk.
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Barter, Catherine. "Narrative and identity in Sherman Alexie's fiction." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.539354.
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Okan, Olgaokan. "Narrative constructions of female identity after suicide." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7419/.
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This thesis weaves together two central themes in the analysis of literary suicide: writing and gender. In particular, it looks at different interpretations of the suicides of Eleanor Marx, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Sarah Kane. Apart from being writers who committed suicide, these women share a common interest in suicide as a subject matter in their writings. Especially in the cases of Woolf and Plath, their iconic status as literary suicides has often blurred the distinction between fact and fiction in the studies of their life and work. Furthermore, they have become case studies in the fields of psychology/psychiatry which discuss creativity in relation to mental illness. In this thesis, I take into account the connotations of literary suicide in different fields of study and synthesize an interdisciplinary approach with a focus on gender. Drawing on Judith Butler’s theory of performativity and Katrina Jaworski’s adaptation of it to suicide, I explore suicide as a social and historical construct. The thesis traces the subject formation of suicide through textual analysis of primary sources (including fiction, biographies and print media) and considers suicide notes, newspaper reports, obituaries and letters as the first narrative constructions of suicidal identity. Initial reactions to these suicides show a highly gendered understanding. However, the multiple narratives that follow reflect changes in the discourse of suicide. The thesis analyses the narratives of suicide written by the authors in relation to dominant discourses of suicide, the self and gender. The examination of the writers’ own work demonstrates that Marx, Woolf, Plath and Kane were in most cases writing against the dominant discourses of suicide.
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Winter, Leslie J. "Body, Identity, and Narrative in Titian's Paintings." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1399284506.
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Kearney, Christopher. "The monkey's mask : identity, memory, narrative, voice." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366096.
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Levenson, Chloe M. Festa Lindsay Rosenblum Rena S. "A narrative approach to bicultural identity development." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/3590.
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Mills, Marie Annette. "Narrative identity and dementia : narrative and emotion in older people with dementia." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.261749.
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Rosenblum, Rena S. Festa Lindsay Levenson Chloe M. "Narratives of bicultural Individuals a narrative approach to the development of bicultural identity integration /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/3600.
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Desrochers, Rose. "Voice : a single case narrative study." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30538.
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A single case narrative approach is utilized to investigate the life-time experience of voice. This study arises out of research in psychology, where the concept of voice has emerged as a metaphor by which women view and experience themselves, the world, and their place in it; a metaphor central to intellectual, ethical, identity development and self-worth. This research focuses on identifying in the metaphor of voice, the constituent components of that experience throughout a life-time. It examines voice within contexts, roles, relationships and socialization processes in which it occurs in order to document complex and interrelated components of that experience including social and psychic elements, problem areas, coping responses, strategies and attributes of voice.
The choice of a co-researcher in this study, a singer/songwriter -- for whom an awareness of voice is heightened -- allows this study to serve as a revelatory case. Data included taped and transcribed accounts of interviews as well as songs written by the co-researcher.
The co-researcher's story revealed danger areas for voice, in a loss of voice from age 12-24, including adolescence, marriage, motherhood, mother/daughter and father/daughter relationships. It illuminated adaptive and self-empowering strategies and highlighted elements of the metaphor including interaction/release, support, recognition, experimenting/stretching beyond confining ideals, being taken seriously, something to offer, and appreciation/being heard.Education, Faculty of
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Haynes, Robin. "I am I said : narrative identity and ageing /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18898.pdf.
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LeMoine, Amy. "Communication in Women's Weblogs: Narrative, Connection, and Identity." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2006. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/LeMoineAX2006.pdf.
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Zhao, Kang. "Identity, lifelong learning and narrative : a theoretical investigation." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/39781.
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In post-traditional societies, identity has been pervasively understood as a ‘thing’ one needs to and can endeavour to achieve or create. Many studies about identity in the humanities and social sciences have increasingly been approached in both reified and impersonal ways. These trends in understanding identity have made a significant impact on research into education and identity. This thesis aims to demonstrate the complexity of personal identity on a theoretical level and endeavours to rethink the theoretical understanding of personal identity in relation to the notion of learning. Based on Paul Ricoeur and Charles Taylor’s theories of personal identity, this thesis argues that personal identity needs to be understood both as sameness and as selfhood at a conceptual level. Ontologically, the former belongs to the category of ‘thing’, ‘substance’ in terms of permanence in time. The latter belongs the category of ‘being’ in terms of permanence in time. This thesis will argue that this conceptual understanding of personal identity suggests that identity is largely ‘shaped’ by social, cultural, traditional, moral and ethical dimensions in the human world over time, rather than merely being a result of personal endeavour as an individual creation or/and an adaptation to constant social changes. The moral and ethical dimensions of personal identity also suggest that the need for and ‘meaning’ of personal identity to a person in his/her life cannot be simply approached in an objective manner through impersonal terms. Rather, personal identity constitutively depends on self-interpretation, which highlights the role of narrative in understanding personal identity. This thesis further argues that a new understanding about reflexive learning relevant to personal identity can be drawn from this theoretical understanding of personal identity and narrative. This new understanding is based on a person’s reflexivity not only in the dialectical frameworks between sameness, self and others, but also in different moral frameworks. What this presents us with is a different view of lifelong learning as an alternative to lifelong learning implied in the notion of a ‘reflexive project of the self’.
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LIMA, ELIZABETH BARROSO. "NARRATIVE AND IDENTITY: A PORTUGUESE IMMIGRANT IN BRAZIL." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2003. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=4021@1.
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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICOEsta dissertação tem por objetivo analisar a construção de identidade de uma imigrante portuguesa no Brasil, com base em seu relato, feito em situação de entrevista. A partir da abordagem sócio- interacional do discurso, investigo como ela constrói sua identidade, com foco na sua trajetória profissional, que é organizada em uma seqüência de momentos positivos e negativos. Nesse relato, a narradora se coloca sob uma luz favorável, construindo a imagem de uma pessoa trabalhadora, lutadora e vencedora. Observo também em que medida a cultura portuguesa e, mais especificamente, a cultura do imigrante português no Brasil informam sua construção identitária.
This study aims to analyse the construction of identity of a Portuguese immigrant in Brazil, during a research interview. Using the Interactional Sociolinguistics approach to discourse analysis, I investigate how she constructs her identity, focusing her professional career, that is organized in a sequence of positive and negative events. In her speech, the narrator constructs an image of a hard worker, and a brave person. I also observe how the Portuguese culture, specially the Portuguese culture of an immigrant in Brazil, informs her construction of identity.
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Wilson, Ross J. "Archaeology on the Western Front : memory, narrative, identity." Thesis, University of York, 2007. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/11074/.
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Roper, Sandra Lyn. "Stepmothering and identity : a synthestic narrative-discursive analysis." Thesis, Open University, 2017. http://oro.open.ac.uk/50384/.
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In Britain in the twenty-first century stepfamilies are numerically common but difficult to define since they may cross household boundaries. This has meant that stepmother families, who are often non-residential, are rarely included in research and there is a very limited literature which considers the perspectives of stepmothers themselves. However, there have been research findings suggesting greater stress for stepmothers than stepfathers. In a neoliberal climate there are increasing demands on parents, including fathers who do not live with the biological mother of their children, and this may contribute to particular stresses for stepmother families. This research used a synthetic narrative-discursive methodological approach, underpinned by feminist theory, to explore the identity work undertaken by stepmothers. In order to maximise the diversity of participants, data were drawn from a web forum for stepmothers and interviews with stepmothers of adult stepchildren. The analysis considers the discursive resources drawn upon as stepmothers negotiate potentially troubled identities. The empirical work is presented in three chapters: the first considers stepmothers talk about their (male) partners in which the men were often constructed as hapless, helpless or hopeless. The second looks at talk of home both as a physical and a relational space. In this stepmothers frequently demonstrated their own feelings of both invasion and exclusion, often not feeling ‘at home’. The third explores stepmothers’ talk in which the biological mothers of their stepchildren are often constructed as mad, bad and sometimes dangerous. The concluding chapter summarises the particular troubles with which stepmothers must contend highlighting the discursive resources that are drawn on and the constraints that these impose. Theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions are discussed including suggestions for policy. There are also discussions of future possibilities for extensions to this research exploring the experiences of the growing number of families with adult stepchildren.
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Deramo, Michele C. "Performing Bantu: Narrative Constructions of Identity in Diaspora." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/76736.
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This research asks the question of how three young adults construct identity while living in diaspora. The subjects of the research came to the United States as a part of the Somali Bantu resettlement in 2004. The study begins with a trajectory analysis of the people now known as Somali Bantu, beginning with their forced migration to Somalia and the various factors shaping their status in the country. The analysis continues through the period of displacement, flight, and human warehousing in the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps of Kenya and includes an examination of how bureaucratic labeling as refugees, and the public rhetoric of mainstream media further shaped the story of the Somali Bantu. Each of these moments through the refugee trajectory are foundational to the self-representations emerging in diaspora. Using autoethnographic and portraiture methodologies, the author analyzes the subjects' discursive practices associated with cultural sustainability, as well as deployment of social media in rejecting and resisting social and cultural influences that threaten the integrity of Somali Bantu identity in the United States. The dissertation also situates the subjects within the broader Somali Bantu diaspora in the United States and Europe as they create home through a Somali Bantu aesthetic, form community through mutual assistance associations, construct mediascapes that circulates information globally, and build a transnational movement that aims to end the suffering of Wagosha people in Somalia. Overall, the research demonstrates the discursivity of identity, showing how a particular group reconstitutes itself through engagements with multiple and often disparate cultures, traditions, languages, and histories.Ph. D.
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Moritani, Kohei. "Time, Narrative, and Identity in Advanced Capitalist Society." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1125686051.
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Morgan, James Robert. "Thus Am I| A Narrative Inquiry into Identity." Thesis, The University of Alabama, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10250994.
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This study sought to understand how students who were enrolled in postsecondary education and received support through special education services understand their identity. It was influenced by developmental theories of identity development and the professional interests of this researcher. It utilized narrative theory as conceived by Dan McAdams (1985, 1993, 2001) as both the methodology and a way of conceiving identity. Data was collected through a series of individual interviews. Participants were found to relate their identity as a series of stories. Their conception of self-identity views special education status as a trait, but not one central to their identity. Their families were viewed as central to how they understand their identities. Individuals outside of their families also had a strong impact on how they viewed themselves. Participants view differences as common both inside and outside of the special education population. Participants indicated a desire to help others heightened by their own struggles. Goals were well-articulated and used for self-motivation during times of academic difficulties. All shared negative school experiences unrelated to identity without prompts about the quality of their educations.
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Gilroy, Andrea. "Origin Stories: Narrative, Identity, and the Comics Form." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19280.
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My dissertation argues that comics’ unique formal properties are particularly suited toward exploring and representing the complex nature of identity. Just as the comics form is broadly defined by a peculiar tension between word and image, so identity can be conceived as a constant negotiation between abstract (“unrepresentable”) concepts that define identity and an individual’s attempts to represent that identity. Due to its formal negotiation of word and image, the comics form is thus uniquely suited to address the problems of identity and its representation.
I begin this project by examining the relationship between word and image in comics. Some comics scholars have argued verbal and visual signification are hybridized, while others go so far as to claim the distinction between word and image is unsustainable. Still others reject these claims, arguing comics’ hybridity necessitates a strict separation of word from image. I argue that words and images in comics function on a spectrum in which the line between word and image must be able to be hybridized and distinct at the same time. This definition of the word/image relationship can describe the most straightforward, illustrative comics as well as the most experimental comics texts; it also provides the methodological framework for my project.
In this dissertation, I examine the representation of gendered identity in Gilbert Hernandez's Love and Rockets stories and Junot Díaz's novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, arguing both authors’ injunction that the reader look at the mothers in their works is evidence of their demand that we understand the women as whole, ambivalent subjects. I explore the way the Gene Yang and Sonny Liew’s graphic novel The Shadow Hero addresses the repressive and racist history of superhero comics. In doing so, Yang and Liew’s text reveals the ways superhero texts constantly negotiate the genre’s conservative instinct to protect the status quo and its revolutionary vision for a better world. Finally, I contend Greg Rucka and J. H. Williams III's Batwoman: Elegy reveals at least one intrinsically progressive theme in superhero genre: its performative and inherently queer conception of identity.
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Brown, Chloe Jo. "On Being Trans: Narrative, Identity, Performance, and Community." TopSCHOLAR®, 2018. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2303.
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This thesis focuses on various topics related to transgender identity and culture. Through a combination of ethnographic and secondary research, I studied transgender coming out narratives, trans media representation, transgender performance and identity, and conceptualizations of group and chosen family in a community of trans students, the WKU Transgender and Non-Binary Student Group.
The three chapters of my thesis address some of the traditional milestones of a trans person’s acculturation: coming out, constructing one’s newly discovered trans identity, and finding community. Chapter 1 explores coming out as transgender, and the way in in which coming out is valued and discussed within trans communities. Chapter 2 discusses transgender representation, and how gender presentation is contested and complicated by transfolk. Chapter 2 also addresses trans media representation, and the way in which transfolk create their own media representation in the absence of adequate and accurate trans representation in popular culture. Chapter 3 provides an in-depth analysis of the WKU Transgender and Non-Binary Student Group, discusses how the group functions as a chosen family, and explores the way in which group membership helps group members mitigate stigma and deal with trauma.
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Pihl, Lina. "IDENTITY : In search of identity construction through the narrative of the pearl necklace." Thesis, Konstfack, Ädellab/Metallformgivning, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-3431.
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IDENTITY In search of identity construction through the narrative of the pearl necklace Lina Pihl Can one reach an understanding of identity through the narrative of the pearl necklace? The pearl necklace plays the role of the main character as well as the attribute in portraying identity in this dissertation. By looking at the pearl necklace as an object through its social context, it is possible to open it up for an understanding of its relation and impact on the individual. The world is not constructed of entities, but on relations. Thus it makes no sense to try to understand it through the notion of a predefined entity. Through the investigation of the pearl necklace as a signified, and myth in the modern Western society, its relation to and affect on the subject when worn and the creation of a new context within the performance – a system for how we can see and look upon identity takes form, in which they both, myth and signified, play a part in the construction of identities. The myth of the pearl necklace makes it into a strong, signified that is used to manifest social belonging: by wearing the pearl necklace one becomes a part of the myth and its signified, which creates a new form, where the subject-object is the signified in action, a performance that makes the myth present and an active, living part of a society. This proves that by taking an everyday object such as the pearl necklace and understanding it in a social context and in relation to the body and individuals, we can reach a deep and complex understanding of what identity is, how it is constructed and what potentials it possesses.
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Ishige, Yumi. "Identity and differences : the role of memory, narrative, and history in personal identity." Thesis, Durham University, 2005. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1282/.
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The main issue of this thesis is to analyse what kind of concept we have of 'personal identity.' The concept of personal identity is basically examined in relation to memory in this thesis. , Recalling memory is supposed to make an intelligible account between experiences. It gives meaning to what is remembered in accordance with the context of that person's life. This work is compared to a narrative understanding of memory. Ile unity of a person over time, which relates to the unity of personal identity, assumed to be formed through making this narrative account (Chapter one and the first half of Chapter two). However, there arises the question of whether all of our experiences can be managed by the narrative account. Two issues are examined at this point: The insufficiency of that narrative approach (die latter half of Chapter two) and the historical transformation of tile concept of personal identity (Chapter three). The transformation is specifically studied with influences of the media through time. The particularities of tile modem period of time are specifically considered as the age from which the study of personal identity has developed. Today, however, the credibility of the modem concept of personal identity seems to be in doubt. This doubt is summarised in the term 'postmodem'. The characteristics of and the discontinuity between the modem and the postmodern are described in Chapter four. Finally Chapter five investigates the particularities of the concept of identity in the postmodern age I conclude that the modem concept of personal identity has been effective in organising society, but it has arrived during a time at which its boundary needs to be reconsidered. Differences of a person, which are not identified within the narrative consistency of a life, are a key-term in this thought.
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Alcina, Michelle. "Tattoos as Personal Narrative." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2009. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/993.
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This study explores the history of tattoos in the United States along with the role and significance of tattos today. The study's primary research question seeks to discover whether tattoos anchor an individual's personal narrative and help to solidify an individual's sense of self. The study considers both modernist and postmodernist concepts of identity, but ultimately supports a perspective which argues that identity is the result of an individual's ability to keep a consistent narrative going over time. This exploratory study uses a qualitatative approach to discern the meanings behind individuals' tattoos through their own words and conceptions. Eight individuals ranging in age, race and gender were interviewed in order to collect data for the study. The findings suggest that individuals frame the importance of their tattoos in a variety of ways from tattoos that commemorate aspects of one's past to tattoos that are highly symbolic of an individual's sense of self.
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Pinheiro, Joceny de Deus. "Artes de Contar, ExercÃcio de Rememorar: HistÃria, MemÃria e Narrativa dos Ãndios Pitaguary." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2002. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=4911.
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CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel SuperiorArte de Contar, ExercÃcio de Rememorar: HistÃria, MemÃria e Narrativas dos Ãndios Pitaguary à um trabalho de investigaÃÃo antropolÃgica sobre o papel desempenhado pela memÃria num contexto em que processos de identificaÃÃo indÃgena comeÃam a se multiplicar. O estudo assim se debruÃa sobre as narrativas de lideranÃas e contadores de histÃrias residentes na Ãrea que hoje se conhece por TI â Terra IndÃgena Pitaguary. No primeiro capÃtulo, exponho o que aqui denominei de "ir e vir da pesquisa", uma espÃcie de contextualizaÃÃo e relato do trabalho de campo, deixando entrever o modo pelo qual iniciei a pesquisa e o perÃodo no qual desenvolvi cada uma de suas etapas. à tambÃm neste primeiro capÃtulo que apresento os narradores e as situaÃÃes de narraÃÃo, descrevendo alguns dos acontecimentos que julguei importantes durante a pesquisa. No segundo capÃtulo, exponho, ainda que de maneira breve, o quadro em que se construiu o objeto "Ãndios do nordeste" e as vÃrias visÃes que persistem acerca da existÃncia dos mesmos - representaÃÃes, em geral, negativas. AlÃm disso, à tambÃm aà que introduzo uma discussÃo sobre os critÃrios de identificaÃÃo dos grupos Ãtnicos e sua natureza. Em seguida, o capÃtulo se subdivide em dois: parte sobre a regiÃo Nordeste, o Estado do Cearà e, por fim, parte sobre a localidade de Santo AntÃnio dos Pitaguary. A idÃia que norteia tal ordenaÃÃo à a de que se torna necessÃrio, para o entendimento da realidade que se dà na localidade em que vivem os Pitaguary, a compreensÃo daquilo que se passa num cenÃrio mais amplo que à o Estado, o qual, por sua vez, està inserido num contexto ainda maior que à o da RegiÃo Nordeste. Para tanto, faÃo referÃncia aos estudos jà realizados acerca de grupos indÃgenas presentes no Cearà bem como em outros estados da regiÃo nordestina. Ainda no final do segundo capÃtulo, trago para o texto alguns dos documentos existentes sobre o grupo Pitaguary, transcrevendo parte de alguns daqueles que fazem menÃÃo aos nomes das localidades em que habitam (ou habitavam no perÃodo correspondente), aos acidentes geogrÃficos (como rios, serrotes etc.) e atà mesmo a geraÃÃes anteriores que tÃm seus nomes citados por extenso em um dos documentos de registro de terra. ApÃs a tentativa de contextualizar histÃrica e geograficamente o grupo, o terceiro capÃtulo se destina totalmente ao tema das narrativas Pitaguary, explorando seus principais assuntos, interesses e possÃveis sentidos. Assim à que aparecem as narrativas sobre o "tempo da escravidÃo", sobre a "mangueira sagrada", a "natureza", a "caipora", o "TorÃ". Entre a exposiÃÃo de uma e outra narraÃÃo, apresento as idÃias de carÃter teÃrico que orientam a pesquisa a respeito do que vem a ser a memÃria de um grupo ou do seu funcionamento. No quarto capÃtulo, a discussÃo sobre as narrativas ganha continuidade, agora se centrando sobre a passagem do tempo â do passado ao presente. Por essa razÃo, o texto està subdividido em dois pontos: 1) o passado: tempo de negaÃÃo da identidade e 2) o presente: tempo de afirmaÃÃo. Nesses dois tempos que se diferenciam em vÃrios outros, estÃo contidas, primeiramente, as histÃrias que versam sobre o "cativeiro", o aprisionamento dos mais velhos para trabalhar nas construÃÃes do aÃude e da igreja, os conflitos com os inÃmeros senhores fazendeiros e outras. Em segundo lugar, aparecem as narrativas que dizem respeito ao tempo de afirmaÃÃo do grupo. Em geral, sÃo histÃrias voltadas para o relato daquilo que se costumou chamar de "luta" bem como para o evidenciamento do que consideram sinais de distinÃÃo, como o saber do pajÃ, a medicina "da mata" e o auto-aprendizado indÃgena. No quinto e Ãltimo capÃtulo, exponho conceitos importantes para o esclarecimento da relaÃÃo existente entre a memÃria, as narrativas e a identidade do grupo Pitaguary, pensando, ainda, na relaÃÃo que essa memÃria tem com a mobilizaÃÃo polÃtica do mesmo. As referÃncias que me orientam na compreensÃo do conceito de memÃria aparecem neste capÃtulo mais claramente, o qual se ensaia como uma espÃcie de conclusÃo do trabalho, feita logo em seguida
Art of Telling, Exercise of Recollecting: History, Memory and Narratives of Indian Pitaguary is a work of anthropological research on the role of memory in a context where indigenous identification processes begin to multiply. The study thus focuses on the stories of leaders and storytellers residents in the area that today is known as TI - Indigenous Land Pitaguary. In the first chapter, I explain what is here termed the "coming and going of research," a kind of background and reporting of field work, leaving a glimpse of the way we started the research and development period in which each of its steps. It is also this first chapter I present the narrators and situations of narration, describing some of the events I considered important during the search. In the second chapter, I explain, albeit briefly, the framework in which we built the object "Indians of the Northeast" and the various visions that persist about the existence of them - representations in general negative. Moreover, there is also that I introduce a discussion of the criteria for identifying ethnic groups and their nature. Then the chapter is divided into two: part of the Northeast, the state of Ceara, and finally, part of the town of St. Anthony of Pitaguary. The idea that guides this sorting is that it is necessary for the understanding of reality that takes place in the town they live in the Pitaguary, understanding what is happening in the bigger picture is that the state, which in its turn, is housed in a context that is even greater in the Northeast Region. For this, I refer to previous studies about indigenous groups present in Ceara and other states in the Northeast. Even late in the second chapter, I bring to the text some of the existing documents on the group Pitaguary, quoting from some of those who mention the names of the localities in which they live (or lived in the corresponding period), the geographical features (rivers, saws, etc..) and even previous generations who have their names cited in full in a document of Land Registry. After attempting to contextualize the historical and geographical group, the third chapter is intended to fully Pitaguary the narratives, exploring its key issues, interests and possible directions. So it appears that the narratives about the "time of slavery" on the "holy hose," "nature", the "unlucky", the "TorÃ. Between exposure and over narration, presenting the theoretical ideas that guide the research about what happens to be the memory of a group or its operation. In the fourth chapter, the discussion of narrative continuity wins, now focusing on the passage of time - from past to present. For this reason, the text is divided into two sections: 1) the past: the time of the denial of identity and 2) the present-time assertion. In these two stages that differ in several others, are contained, first, the stories that deal with the "captivity", the trapping of the older buildings to work on the dam and the church, conflicts with the many farmers and other lords. Secondly, there are the narratives that concern the time of affirmation of the group. In general, stories are focused on the story of what is called the "struggle" as well as for the evidencing of what they consider signs of distinction, as knowledge of the shaman, medicine "forest" indigenous and self-learning. In the fifth and final chapter, I explain important concepts for clarifying the relationship between memory, narrative and identity of the group Pitaguary, thinking, even in relation to that memory has the political mobilization of the same. The references that guide me in understanding the concept of memory more clearly appear in this chapter, which is tested as a kind of completion of work, made shortly after
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Del, Castillo Darren M. "Male Psychotherapists' Masculinities: A Narrative Inquiry into the Intersection Between Gender and Professional Identities." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1276807956.
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Armstrong, Luanne. "The ecology of identity: memoir and the construction of narrative." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62.
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My dissertation is an inquiry into issues of life-writing, narrative, and, in particular, into the genre of memoir, and into the theory, complexities and strategies of memoir as a particular space within the larger genre of autobiographical writing. Writing a personal narrative and then examining the process of that writing raises questions and challenges about such issues as ethics, identity, experience, memory, subjectivity, storytelling, and the interpretation, meaning and place of stories within our current culture. This dissertation is a discursive, dialogic conversation between my process and my understanding as an active, practicing literary writer, and as a researcher inquiring into that process and into the knowledge and new awareness that can be generated by the process of inquiry into life writing, autobiography and memoir. It is also an autoethnographic and experiential inquiry in which I explore my own experience from the multiple positions of rural working class woman, single parent mother, political activist, writer and researcher. However, the pronoun “I” is also a position from which I can articulate some of the experiential, collaborative, and collusive positionality that has shaped my personal notion of selfhood. My research and writing is about (re)cognition, about memoir in particular, and narrative and storytelling as the construction and reconstruction of various texts and the various interpretations that can result from such an analytic and critical study of this process. Within this narrative, autobiographical and theoretical inquiry, my dissertation intends to add to new knowledge of autobiographical writing and its theoretical and ethical dimensions.
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Perkins, Zalika. "Embracing Identity And Narrative In Art For Self-empowerment." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2013. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/138.
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This arts-based thesis will explore ethnic identity and narrative in symbolic self-portraiture as themes for a body of work. This paper will discuss how identity and narrative play an important role in the empowerment of the artist and viewer. It will also show how this can be incorporated into an art classroom engaged in multicultural learning and the study of visual culture to empower students and give them opportunities to narrate their life stories.
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Willett, Joanie Mary Anne. "Why is Cornwall so poor? : narrative, perception and identity." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/104835.
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Cornwall is a peripheral rural location in the South West of the UK, and has experienced almost continual socio-economic decline for more than a century. It has a nationalist heritage and is a popular tourist resort. It is also one of the poorest parts of the UK. Academic work has addressed poverty in Cornwall, but has failed to adequately answer why various development programmes have not improved the economy. Part of the reason for this may be that traditional approaches to regional development utilise identity politics as a development tool, and yet lack sufficient attention to the lived experience of local residents. This work takes the opposite approach, seeking to address this omission by using narratives of identity to understand why Cornwall is still so poor. Supporting data uses a qualitative, grounded methodology, using interviews to explore how decision makers and members of the public construct Cornwall. The research finds that policy is based on a perception of the region which lacks a foundation in lived reality for local residents, and which carries a number of implications. The area and its inhabitants are constructed as being a lifestyle choice, impacting on economic activity and the kinds of investment attracted, which has a negative impact on long term economic growth. The solution proposed is that successful development needs to use a politics of identity that incorporates the realities of life in Cornwall, rather than emphasising an idealised perception. This can be done through adopting a more ‘evolutionary’ method, encouraging economic development to come to accept and work with what already exists, rather than trying to create anew.
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Eastwood, Carol Ann. "Endometriosis : Medical delegitimation and the reconstruction of narrative identity." Thesis, Teesside University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517536.
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Cardew, Philip Westbury. "Genre, history and national identity in Icelandic saga narrative." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.516720.
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Storm, Stefanie. "At Home: Representations of Identity through Portraiture and Narrative." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/809.
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Partington, Elizabeth Jane. "Athletic identity, injury and sporting culture : a narrative study." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341156.
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Saxey, Esther. "Homoplot : the coming out story as sexual identity narrative." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398757.
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Murray, Alison Elaine. "The emergence of women's creative identity through narrative construction." Thesis, Boston University, 2002. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/33529.
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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston UniversityPLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
This dissertation investigated whether women's traditional work, that is, the work of nurturing others, could rightly be classified as a form of creative expression. This was achieved through a theoretical analysis of the concept of creativity and a qualitative study of Virginia Woolf's creative identity as articulated in her female character, Clarissa Dalloway, in her novel, Mrs. Dalloway (1925/1993) and coeval diary entries (1978, 1980). Five historical epochs were identified in the history of the concept of creativity, which were thematically determined, including, 1) ancient philosophies, 2) philosophies of the 4th to 15th centuries, 3) philosophies of the 16th to 18th centuries, 4) philosophies of the 19th century, and, finally, 5) philosophies of the 20th century. Whereas men's evolving conceptualizations of creativity were largely categorical, and appeared to value rationalism, individualism, control, mastery, and even superiority, women's generated systems of thought were more characteristically integrative, systemic, practical, and intent on the interpersonal. The study of Virginia Woolf's narrative revealed the same. In the process of writing her novel, Mrs. Dalloway (1925/1993), Woolf and her character, Clarissa Dalloway, were simultaneously recreated. Both of these women's creative identities, in fact, were inherently relational, as opposed to individualistic and isolated-a creative identity that is consistent with traditional models of men's development. Findings revealed from both the theoretical study of the concept of creativity and Virginia Woolfs creativity identity were used to construct a more universal theory of creativity that acknowledged the developmental strengths of both men and women. Additionally, findings were discussed relative to optimism, the narrative construction of a woman's creative identity, and education.
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Yousafzai, Ayesha Latif. "Identity Performance Among Muslim International Women: A Narrative Inquiry." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/89101.
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The purpose of this research was to study identity performance among undergraduate Muslim international women on college campuses in the U.S. Identity performance was defined as the way in which these women acted, engaged, interacted, behaved, and situated themselves in their various environments (Goffman, 1959). The conceptual framework for the study was Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory (1979) that identifies five environmental systems in which an individual interacts (microsystems, mesosystems, ecosystems, macrosystems, and chronosystems). This study focused on identity performance in microsystems.
Narrative inquiry, a qualitative methodological approach, was utilized to pursue two research questions: (1) how do undergraduate Muslim international women describe their experiences of identity performance inside college environments; and (2) how do undergraduate Muslim international women describe their experiences of identity performance outside college environments? Two in-person interviews were conducted with eight participants representing six countries (Kuwait, Malaysia, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia). Interviews were transcribed verbatim, and data were analyzed with four iterations of coding (narrative coding, refining narrative coding, pattern coding, theming the data) (Saldaña, 2015). Five themes emerged: Muslim identity performance in home country, Muslim identity performance and family, Muslim international identity consciousness, religious engagement on campus, and understandings of new Muslim international identity.
The stories shared revealed that identity performance was a complex process; it was ever changing and evolving as Muslim international women navigated their way from a religiously homogeneous environment in the home country to a heterogeneous environment within the U.S. Their microsystems and interactions with various environments influenced their performances of their various identities. These influences were also related to contextual conformity, psychological awareness, agency, resilience, persistence, positivity and appreciation of their experiences in the ever-changing environments. The study has implications for faculty and university administrators who are seeking to create inclusive and encouraging academic and social environments. Findings also have implications for future research on identity performance, contextual conformity, and experiences of Muslim international students.Doctor of Philosophy
The population in the United States of America is rapidly becoming more diverse in terms of ethnicities, religions, and resident demographics. As a result of this shifting pattern towards heterogeneity, colleges and universities are also becoming more diverse (Seidman, 2005). International students and Muslim students are two such populations that have contributed to the increased diversity of the student body. Among these populations, international Muslim women reside at a unique intersection of gender, religion, culture, ethnicity, and national identities. Literature reveals that Muslim international women are often stereotyped and they experience Islamophobia in gendered ways (Cole & Ahmadi, 2003). The purpose of my research was to study identity performance of Muslim international women on two college campuses in the U.S. Identity performance was the ways in which these women acted, engaged, interacted, behaved and situated themselves in their various environments (Goffman, 1959). I used Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory (1979) as the conceptual framework for this study. This theory identifies five environmental systems in which individuals interact (microsystems, mesosystems, ecosystems, macrosystems, and chronosystems). This study focused on identity performance in microsystems, which were their immediate environments. I used narrative inquiry, a qualitative methodological approach, to pursue two research questions: (1) how do undergraduate Muslim international women describe their experiences of identity performance inside college environments; and (2) how do undergraduate Muslim international women describe their experiences of identity performance outside college environments? I conducted two interviews each with eight participants to collect their stories of identity performance. The stories shared revealed that identity performance was a complex process. Contextual conformity, psychological awareness, agency, resilience, persistence, positivity and appreciation of their experiences influenced their identity performances. This study has implications for faculty and university administrators who are seeking to create inclusive, convenient and encouraging academic and social environments for all students. Findings also have implications for future research on identity performance, contextual conformity, and experiences of Muslim international students.
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Wentworth, Raezeen. "Utopia in performance: re-imagining a coloured identity narrative." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30520.
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In this study I explore how coloured identity has been historically produced as a monolithic racial category, focussing on how performance offers critically generative ways of addressing and contesting the politics and meanings of
colouredness in post-apartheid South Africa. This study explores the politics of naming in so far as its impact both from an intrinsic and extrinsic perspective in relation to a personal identity narrative. It is the interest of this study is to disrupt normative ideological and cultural constraints and investigate the performance of coloured identity through the use of individual and collective memory construed from the established theatrical canon. The desired outcome is to unearth a series of practical reference points towards the performance of a progressive coloured identity narrative within the current socio-cultural and political landscape. The theoretical body though which this practice is located is framed though a critical definition of 'Utopia’, in an attempt to mobilise how the narrative of coloured identity could be explored in the realm of theatrical performance. I propose that it is within a utopian performative space; one that is reflexive of the past and that is non-coercive; that a re-imagining of a coloured identity narrative is made accessible.
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Fogell, Melanie. "Broken promises and refigured selves : narrative and Jewish identity /." Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/preview/NQ87034.
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Kahimbaara, Musinguzi John Akiiki. "Aspects of memory identity and narrative in Native Nostalgia." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60368.
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I am a black South African in my late twenties; had I been slightly younger, I would have been a "born-free". I was raised on the master narrative that South African history in the twentieth century was a struggle against apartheid. Memories of the struggle had been mediated to me via the school curriculum, national holidays, public commemorations, public spaces, popular literature and television. This social memory of South Africa's black people having overcome the hardship, humiliation and trauma of apartheid makes little provision for the years prior to 1994 being remembered with fondness. And yet, this is exactly what Jacob Dlamini, almost twenty years my senior, dares to write about in his debut book, Native Nostalgia (2009). Having no effective personal recollection of apartheid myself, Dlamini's text poses me with the challenge of making sense of the marked discrepancy between the master narrative of the struggle against apartheid and Dlamini's individual sense of loss when reminiscing about his apartheid childhood. In this study, I investigate whether Dlamini's nostalgia is merely a sophisticated veil acting as social amnesia in an attempt to conveniently rewrite the past, or whether nostalgia of a particular kind may be a useful tool especially for black South Africans to negotiate their identity between master narratives about nationhood and personal memories about the everyday and the ordinary. Does Dlamini present black South Africans with useful means for post-apartheid identity construction, and, as such, hold out the possibility for continuity in the tradition of postcolonial resistance?Mini Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2016.
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Linde, Linnea, and Emily Persson. "Jag måste få vara båda : En narrativ intervjustudie om multikulturell identitet." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för sociala och psykologiska studier (from 2013), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-78934.
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Världen blir på många sätt allt mer globaliserad och multikulturella möten har blivit ett vanligt inslag i många människors liv. Att forma den kulturella identiteten handlar om att bestämma vilken kultur som individen vill tillhöra, en uppgift som blir mer komplex i och med ökad kulturell exponering. Att ha en multikulturell identitet innebär att knyta an till och känna samhörighet med flera kulturer, något som i studier visats sig ha både positiva och negativa effekter för individen. Identitet kan ses som en internaliserad livsberättelse, ett narrativ, med funktion att ge en känsla av mening och koherens till livet. Narrativet kan avslöja hur en individ konstruerat mening av sitt liv genom valet av tillagda händelser. Vår studie syftar till att undersöka vad individer med multikulturell identitet lyfter som betydelsefullt för sin identitetsutveckling. Sex deltagare intervjuades och resultatet sammanställdes med en narrativ analysmetod för att försöka förstå hur identiteten tar sig uttryck och skapas genom berättandet. Resultatet presenterades genom enskilt sammanställda narrativ och tillhörande analyser. Språket visade sig ha en stor betydelse för deltagarnas möjlighet att knyta an och känna tillhörighet till kulturer. Resultatet visade också att deltagarna uppmärksammar skillnader och likheter mellan sig själv och andra i sitt skapande av identitet, vilket går i linje med forskning om identitet som kollektiv tillhörighet. Ingen identitetsteori kunde däremot ensamt förklara kulturers påverkan på identitetsutvecklingen. Resultatet visar på identitetens komplexitet och därmed även behovet av vidare forskning för att förstå den unika upplevelsen av identitet.The world is more globalized than ever and more people are being exposed to multiple cultures on a daily basis. The formation of the cultural identity requires that the individual decides what culture to belong to, a task that becomes more complex with increased cultural exposure. A multicultural identity requires attachment and a feeling of belonging with multiple cultures. Which in studies has shown both positive and negative effects for the individual. Identity can be seen as an internalized life story, a narrative, which functions is to give life a sense of meaning and coherence. The narrative can reveal how an individual construct meaning in life by the choice of added stories. This study aims to examine what individuals with multicultural identity emphasizes as meaningful for their identity development. Six participants were interviewed, and a narrative analysis method was used to try to understand how identity is formed and performed through storytelling. The result was presented in separate narratives along with their analysis. Language shown to be important for the individuals feeling of cultural attachment and belonging. The results also show that the participants notice differences and similarities between themselves and others as part of their identity development, which aligns with research showing identity as a sense of collective belonging. No identity theory could single handedly explain cultural impact on identity formation. The result shows the complexity of identity and the need for further research to fully understand the unique experience of identity.
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Amini, Negar. "Exploring identity-as-narrative in the school narratives of Iranian university students in British Columbia, Canada." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/63663.
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Based upon semi-structured interviews with 11 university students from Iran between 18 to 24 years of age at universities in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, this research addressed a gap in the literature by documenting the narratives of participants’ school experiences in Iran and Canada. In addition, this research explored the construction of identities as the narratives we tell other people and confirmed by what others tell about us (Sfard & Prusak, 2005). Two main research questions guided this study: What narratives do participants tell of their school experiences? What narratives do participants tell of their actual and designated identities?
The data was analyzed and interpreted following Braun and Clarke’s (2006) thematic analysis and informed by sociocultural theory (Wertsch, 1985). Five themes were identified: Ritual practices in establishing the school context and constructing identities; English language as a cultural tool in mediating identities; social relationships in shaping identities; and actual and designated identities. This study contributes to the literature by examining the educational experiences of Iranian immigrants to Canada. Implications for schools, along with limitations and suggestions for future research, are addressed in the conclusion.Education, Faculty of
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Winther, Olsson Tine. "Livets berättelser : En reflekterande undersökning om berättelsens roll i coachens praktiska kunskapsutövande." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-28430.
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I denna vetenskapliga essä har jag låtit mina tankar kring livsberättelser, möta författare,filosofer, psykologer och litteraturvetares, tankar om berättelsens makt i individens liv ochskapandet av identitet. Vilka berättelser väljer jag att berätta för andra och hur påverkar deberättelserna synen på mig själv? I denna essä, finns ett smakprov på hur jag i arbetet medindivider, använder mig av traditionella berättelser, som sagor, myter och legender, för attskapa en begriplig ram i en annars oordnad tillvaro. Jag uppmärksammar det faktum att flerasöker lösningar utanför sig själv, på det som tidigare sågs som ett ifrågasättande av livet. Jaghar tagit hjälp av forskning som har studerat förutsättningarna för mitt yrke och sett på mitteget lyssnade i samtal med hjälpsökande i en verksamhet där jag är starkt påverkad avmålstyrning. Hur påverkas mitt förhållningssätt till individen av de inre och yttre faktorerna imitt yrke som coach? Genom att bland annat utgå ifrån ett samtal med en ung kvinna har jagundersökt mitt förhållningssätt till det hon berättar för mig.In this scientific essay I have let my thoughts on life stories, meet writers, philosophers, psychologists and literary scholars, on the story of power in the life of the individual and thecreation of identity. What stories do I tell others, and how do they affect the stories view ofmyself? In this essay, I give an example of my work with individuals, using traditional stories, as fairy tales, myths and legends, to create a meaningful framework in an otherwise disordered existence. I pay attention to the fact that many are seeking solutions outside themselves, on what previously was seen as a questioning of life. With the assistance of research which have studied the conditions of my own profession and seen from my ownlistening of conversations with individuals seeking aid in situations where I am strongly influenced by performance management. How is my approach to the subject of the internal and external factors in my profession as a coach? By including assumed a conversation with a young woman, I have examined my attitude to what she tells me.
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Marshall, Bowen Tyler. "Bringing Ourselves to Work: A Narrative Inquiry of LGBTQ Professionals." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1501499555486363.
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Miller, Alanna Rachel. "Negotiating Religious Identity and Mass Media: Examining the Relationship Among Lived Religion, Mass Media, and Narrative Identity." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/340862.
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The purpose of this dissertation is to further clarify the role of mass media for evangelicals in negotiating religious identity. This project uses lived religion, cultural studies, and narrative identity as a framework. Over the course of seven months, I conducted participant observation in an American Baptist congregation, where I observed both their religious and media practices. Additionally, I conducted qualitative interviews with selected key congregants to get a fuller picture of both their media use and their narrative religious identity. I found that narratives about media and media use led participants to certain strategies of distancing and/or integrating media with their religious identity. Various narrative tools, such as maps, symbolic inventories, tropes, and spiritual anchors, were used by participants to juxtapose media with their religious practice. By using these tools, participants sought to gain more moral and religious certainty by using media as both a proxy for self and as a proxy for Others. As moral and religious uncertainty is a characteristic of modernity, I conclude that there may be ramifications for larger media use and moral thought.
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Smith, Spencer J. "Male Narrative Identity in Young Adult Literature: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Narrative Psychology and Literary Analysis." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1366989257.
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Silva, Ana Paula Soares da. "Continuidades e descontinuidades de si na narrativa de homens que tiveram envolvimento com o crime\"." Universidade de São Paulo, 2003. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59137/tde-09062009-154727/.
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Os estudos sobre desenvolvimento e criminalidade produziram um discurso que toma o comportamento infracional como um acontecimento investido de um alto padrão de repetição e estabilidade. Ao mesmo tempo em que refletem as concepções sociais, esses estudos orientam o interesse de investigação para a continuidade, negligenciando a existência de múltiplas trajetórias desenvolvimentais e legitimando o próprio conhecimento e discurso produzidos. Do ponto de vista empírico, verifica-se a predominância da identificação dos fatores envolvidos na manifestação da delinqüência e no seu curso de desenvolvimento e, nesse sentido, as produções resultantes são discursos que falam sobre os infratores e não a partir de ou com eles. Nesse trabalho, defende-se a idéia de que para compreender os processos de desenvolvimento em contextos criminais, faz-se necessário considerar as significações atribuídas a esse fenômeno, principalmente por parte de quem o vivenciou. Desloca assim a discussão e a investigação sobre continuidade e descontinuidade para o âmbito da construção de identidades pessoais e sociais. Compartilhando uma concepção de pessoa humana múltipla, situada em contextos interacionais, que negocia posições a cada momento, defende-se que continuidade e descontinuidade de si só podem ser entendidas dentro do jogo complexo de relações entre as posições assumidas pelas e atribuídas às pessoas que, mais do que obedecer a uma lógica linear, atuam numa multiplicidade dialógica. A partir da utilização de conceitos advindos das perspectivas da identidade narrativa, Dialogical Self e Rede de Significações, defende-se que continuidades e descontinuidades acontecem num movimento de figura e fundo de posicionamentos mediados por relações sociais e culturais, permitindo a existência de \"novas\" e \"velhas\" posições, oriundas do tempo histórico, do tempo vivido e do aqui e agora. Partindo desses pressupostos, o objetivo do trabalho é investigar como a relação entre continuidade e descontinuidade de si se articula na narrativa dos participantes e como, numa situação de entrevista autobiográfica, eles se posicionam e são posicionados ao significar os eventos vividos, no nível do evento narrado e no nível do evento narrativo. O corpus da investigação foi construído através de entrevistas realizadas com dois homens que tiveram envolvimento com o crime em algum momento de suas vidas. Considerando a narrativa como um recurso privilegiado de descrição e construção de si, a partir de uma concepção dialógica, ela é tratada de modo a compreender tanto os posicionamentos assumidos pelos participantes nos diferentes momentos de vida narrados como posicionamentos emergentes na interação pesquisador-pesquisado e nas marcas de linguagem, como mistura de tempos verbais, pausas, sentenças inconclusas. A análise aponta para existência de um movimento onde continuidade e descontinuidade de si se dão numa negociação de posições mais do que num simples deslocamento ou substituição; negociações carregadas de conflitos e permeadas por questões de gênero, classe e poder.The studies of development and criminal activities yielded a discourse that considers the criminal behavior as an event pervaded of a high pattern of repetition and stability. These studies reflect the social conceptions about offenders at the same time they guide the inquiry for continuity, neglecting the existence of multiple pathways and legitimizing their own acknowledgment. From the empirical point of view, it prevails the search of factors involved in the displaying of the delinquency and in its development in the life course. In this sense, the resultant productions are discourses on criminals, not from or with them. This work defends the idea that to understand the development processes in criminal contexts it is necessary considering the meanings conferred to this phenomenon, mainly by who lived it. Therefore, the discussion and investigation of the continuity and discontinuity for the scope of construction of the personal and social identities is dislocated. Sharing the conception of multiple human being, which is situated in interactional contexts, that negotiates positions at each moment, it is defended that the self continuity and discontinuity only can be understood in a complex game of relations among positions assumed by and attributed to people. More than liner logic, these relations take place in a multiple dialogic. Using concepts from the perspective of the narrative identity, Dialogical Self and Network of Meanings, it is defended that the continuities and discontinuities occur in a back and figure movement of positions, mediated by social and cultural relations. It allows the existence of \"new\" and \"old\" positions, from the historical time, the lived time and from here and now. Starting from this assumption, the work aims to investigate how the relation between self continuity and discontinuity are articulated in the narrative of the participants. It is intended to investigate how in a situation of autobiography interview, they position themselves and are positioned, in the level of the narrated event and in the level of the narrative event. The corpus of the investigation was constructed through interviews performed with two men that were involved with crime in some time of their lives. Considering the narrative as a privileged resource of self description and construction, from a dialogical conception, it is treated to understand positioning assumed by the participants in their different moments of life narrated as well as emergent positions in the interaction researcher-researched and in the language marks, as a mixture of verbal times, pauses, unconcluded sentences. The analyses point out to the existence of a movement where self continuities and discontinuities combine themselves in a negotiation of positions more than in a simple displacement, negotiations full of conflicts and permeated by questions of gender, class and power.