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Steinberg, Abby D. "Personal narratives : collective grief, the echoes of a disaster." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=112612.
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The purpose of this thesis is to locate the experience of individuals in the shared experience of a cultural community, to reveal a collective experience. Further, this thesis aspires to demonstrate that the experience of trauma is transmitted, often silently, intergenerationally. This is an attempt to define a community of distant survivors, and to locate the echoes of the voice of trauma hidden in the narratives of its members. The study explores the events of the December 2004 Southeast Asian tsunami. At the moment of the tsunami disaster all the participants in this study, Indonesian International Students, were studying in Montreal Canada. The impetus behind this qualitative inquiry into the essential experience of trauma is the desire to bring the experience of distant survivors to the foreground; to recognize vicarious victims by listening for echoes in their narratives. The aim of this thesis is to (1) locate personal narratives in the context of collective grief, (2) detect the re-creation of that grief in subsequent generations. This project has been undertaken with the hope of determining ever more effective social work practices for today's survivors, and of sparking interest in trauma research for tomorrow's victims.
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Carusi, Dawn L. "Narratives of Orphaned Adults: Journey to Restoration." Ohio : Ohio University, 2006. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1157635067.
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Christensen, Marsha A. "Women losing women narratives of grief over same-sex partner death /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1597613711&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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De, Vries Chrissie. "Narratives of a family living with HIV/AIDS and a researcher's alternative story /." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1798.
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Kirkpatrick, D. "Grief and loss : living with the presence of absence : a practice based study of personal grief narratives and participatory projects." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2017. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/29973/.
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The thesis develops work started on the MA in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking. It addresses the question - Can personal grief narratives explored through contemporary arts practice,auto-ethnographic writing, and the participatory performative act of making and being in specific places result in access into, the potentially, restorative space of mourning; moving between what continues to exist and what is missing in the physical world? This troubles at the Western societal idea of getting over grief and presents an alternative model of walking with and alongside loss as well as providing opportunities for conversations and ‘metalogues’, following Bateson (1972). An investigation follows, through a phenonmenological methodology of repetition, into the functions of articulating loss and absence through stories in exploring personal grief narratives, through contemporary arts practice and the participatory creative enacting of rituals in specific places which involve the interweaving of people, objects, place and story, so as to externalize emotion through creative activity to match the void of absence. Testing Foucault’s (1989: 208) notion that “a work of art opens a void,” an opportunity to question without always providing reconciliation or answers. Through an interwoven exploration of theory and practice utilising Law’s (2004) ‘method assemblage’ of presence, manifest absence and Otherness, the practice element creates both the representational and allegorical; objects and gifted objects (forms of presence), documentation of performance/ritual, some orientated around specific external sites thus allowing an examination of loss of place as well as loss of people, (forms of manifest absence) and one’s response to and ongoing relationship with the presence of absence as ways of exploring grief and loss (what is hidden or Other,). The participatory projects and interviews with 7 artists (across artistic disciplines) enable conversations and sharing of understandings of loss. They provide multiple perspectives,viewpoints, and voices for the thesis. New knowledge is formed in the methodological and iterative dance between practice,reading and writing. The presence of absence becomes, to borrow a musical term, an ostinato through the repetition, variation and development of practice. Meaning is re-interpreted and transformed through evocation and noticing, allowing an examination of the pain ofgrief and loss. These combinations model new possibilities for enabling others by offering ideas and choices of how we might live with the presence of absence. The thesis shows the power of metaphor and story to alter the self, give back a sense of choice and control and find equivalence to the intensity of grief. Through creating objects and rituals, writing and sexual encounter, through the examples of other artists’ practice and the sharing of extended conversations multiple layers of meaning are revealed, how they work in relation to what continues to exist and what is missing in the physical world.
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Anderson, Catherine Mary. "Balm for the Wound? Narratives and Spiritual Practice from L'Arche." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2016. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/b8248016262d8851c2f301e759d450a13396d187ac2b93917dfbb7353c63a450/2516583/ANDERSON_2016_THESIS.pdf.
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Building on previous research on people living with an intellectual disability, this study mainly focuses on practices employed in L’Arche communities. In particular, it investigates the manner in which the community provides a ‘balm’ for the metaphorical ‘wound’ experienced by persons living with intellectual disability. The study employs a practical-narrative theological methodology in which pastoral theology, pastoral care and spirituality are considered central components. Together with this, Lee’s appropriation of Aristotle’s three ways of knowing is essential parts of the methodology: praxis represents an important aspect of L’Arche. Further, the author introduces an expression of praxis, technē as artwork, for this thesis.
Theology of disability is part of the methodology. However this is not of primary concern. Rather than concentrate on, for example, a history of disability, this author considers life experience and how persons living with a disability contribute to and enrich the lives of other persons. The Christian theme of death and new life flows through the thesis. This is a hallmark of L’Arche yet the author justifies how this crosses the boundaries of religions and cultures in L’Arche. A focal point considers the profound grief of a woman living with an intellectual disability and her journey from an institution to L’Arche Daybreak (Toronto).
Further, the reader is introduced to a seven-step Christopraxis welcome response by Daybreak L’Arche community to this grieving woman. A second major study in the thesis is the attention to the artwork of persons living with an intellectual disability, which thematically is in sharp contrast to the study of grief.
The research findings are: Christopraxis is a way of knowing or understanding the identity of L’Arche Daybreak. The artwork of persons living with an intellectual disability represents a way of knowing or understanding differently. This articulates with the ‘viewer’ of this art, who knows/understands differently through contemplating this art.
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Paley, Nicole. "Partners in grief : couples' narratives of the transition from pediatric paliative care into bereavement." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/894.
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A deep interest in how relationships, specifically romantic partnerships, cope with
and survive tragedies, guides this research. My research question was: What are the
narratives of intact bereaved couples whose children have died after receiving palliative care
for a life-limiting illness? Five couples were interviewed who had lost their children ranging
in age from 1-14 years of age. This loss occurred between 2 to 9 years previous to this study.
The purpose of this narrative research study was to better understand the ways in
which intact marital partners/couples coped together with the stress and grief involved in
having a child with a life-limiting condition and then having that child die after receiving
palliative care. A secondary aim was to bring forth their voices through their narratives as a
means to address the stigmatization and isolation often experienced by those who are
bereaved, especially those who have lost a child. This project informs professionals who are
working with couples undergoing the struggle of a child's critical illness or who are working
with bereaved couples.
Each couple's narrative account was written in story format. In addition to the rich
information gained from reading the holistic stories, 5 themes emerged through a categorical
content analysis which were: 1) the last thing you worry about are issues about us, 2)
accommodating one another's coping, 3) recognizing sources of support and limitations, 4)
two souls against the world, and 5) we have a common bond : lessons and legacy of the child.
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McDonald-Kenworthy, Nancy Ann. "How To Be A Widow: Performing Identity in Grief Narratives of an Online Community." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1325091105.
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Welch, Kate. "Expressions of grief on the early modern stage." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bc057f32-cb0a-4e30-8575-44947e3a4c12.
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This thesis investigates the ways mourning was performed on the early modern stage. "Expressions of Grief on the Early Modern Stage" re-evaluates widely accepted accounts of theatrical and literary mourning, intervening in two major debates. The first is the extent to which theatrical mourning is an expression of mourning for a Catholic past, a familiar account that is complicated by asking what happens when mourning is future-oriented, rehearsing for a death still to come. The second intervention disrupts the notion of a linear progression from stoical, anti-grief attitudes to increasing sympathy for mourners by revealing a variety of responses to staged mourning across this time period. I identified seventy-eight plays from 1580-1642 that feature extended or notable scenes of mourning, and created a database to track accompanying gestures, associated playing companies, playhouses, and playwrights, and dates of composition and performance (when known). The thesis focuses on four aspects of the dramaturgy of mourning that emerged from this research: mourning as preemptive or strategic; mourning displaced by revenge; mourning performed as explicitly false; and, throughout, the way mourning deploys the vertical axis of the stage structure and the actor's body. The following chapters examine mourning through the specific gestures of prostration and kneeling, through motion (the rising and falling in the history plays as revenge takes the place of mourning), and the metadramatic bracketing of mourning in fake funerals. Examining specific gestures and the use of the stage space, reveals the way mourning was performed both "out of joint" - that is, out of the expected time sequence - and "out of place", using verticality in unexpected ways, lowering the body to take control of the gaze and the dramatic moment; framing 'above' as strategically advantageous while the confined theatrical space forces the actors to descend. Analysing prostration scenes in George Peele's David and Bethsabe and in Titus Andronicus reveals additional substantiation for Peele's role as a collaborator with Shakespeare. Looking at the three parts of Henry VI through the thematic lens of mourning contributes to the debate over the order of composition, offering tentative support for the 1-2-3 sequence. Tracking fake funerals over this time period revealed a sharp increase in this device after 1603, which the final chapter suggests is related to anxieties over public performances of mourning after Elizabeth I's death and one of the worst plague years on record. Performances of theatrical mourning thus occur displaced in time, preemptive requests for a death not to happen rather than the belated wish to bring the dead back to life. Mourning in the theatre occurs out of place: testing classbased mourning scripts; moving up and down the vertical axis of the stage; performing a transitory state of emotion through transitory gestures; deploying submissive poses that turn out to hold surprising theatrical and strategic power.
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Árnason, Arnar. "'Feel the pain' : death, grief and bereavement counselling in the North East of England." Thesis, Durham University, 1998. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1110/.
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This thesis is about death, grief and bereavement counselling in the North East of England. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out over a period of three years. I have three main objectives in this thesis. Arguing that the anthropology of death has neglected grief, I seek to describe and explain how people in the North East of England experience grief; how they make sense of the death of their loved ones, and their own reactions to those deaths. Working with interviews with bereaved people and drawing upon work in narrative analysis about the importance of stories in how we think, interact and relate to other people, I focus especially on the stories that bereaved people tell in their grief. I seek to illuminate, too, how grief is managed in the North East. In particular, I focus on bereavement counselling which has, I suggest, assumed something of an authority over how people should grieve. Seeking inspiration from the anthropolo gy of emotion and the Foucauldian notions of discourse and 'technologies of the self', I examine how grief is constituted in bereavement counselling both in training and practice. Finally, I compare how bereaved people experience grief with the construction of grief in bereavement counselling. In bereavement counselling the focus is upon the emotions the bereaved is experiencing in the present; grief is understood as an emotion that has its origin and location inside the individual mourner now. For bereaved people, grief is a part of their ongoing relationships and interactions with their loved ones, and other people around them, and as such it is a feature of the history of those relationships and interactions. The difference between the experiences of the bereaved and the workings of bereavement counselling IS explained by placing the latter in the context of modem govemmentality.
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Merrill, Mark Reed. "Where We Belong: A Memoir." PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/393.
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Where We Belong is more than a memoir. It is a love story about the untimely death of the oldest of five daughters born to a prominent New Haven, Connecticut family. It is also a tale of hubris, rage and frustration, a Greek tragedy about a man's life as re-examined through the lens of the two weeks his wife spent dying, a tale in which chronic illness and good intentions ensure the death of a loving wife, artist and mother. The journey on which her husband takes the reader explores a health care system oblivious to her plight, her family's unwitting complicity and a 12-step mythology that unfolds while he, her six weeping children and her aging mother helplessly look on. The author endures an agony that dwarfs incentives to lie, learning that people lie out of fear, and genuine grief supplants fear with the stark reality of what we fear most: death. Where We Belong gives voice to the internal dialogue the author encounters when reexamining not just memories, but the accoutrements of memory, as well. It is a voice that addresses his own grandiosity, sentimentalism and self-pity in the face of his wife's death, in addition to those details, circumstances and impressions that speak to the arrogance he brought to the task of being all he thought she and her six children needed him to be. He concludes the task was well beyond him, a realization evoked by the gut wrenching decision to literally "pull the plug" on this heartbreaking tale of reconstituted hope and great promise reduced to rubble by chronic illness, alcoholism, drug addiction and death. Born is the lesson that when we grieve, we are free to be ourselves. When we are free to be ourselves, we are free to love again.
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Lake, Crystal B. Looser Devoney. "Ruin nation antiquarian objects and political narratives in the long eighteenth century /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6694.
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Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on Feb 25, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Dissertation advisor: Dr. Devoney Looser. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Kozlova, Ekaterina E. "'Whoever lost children lost her heart' : valourised maternal grief in the Hebrew Bible." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:eb33c1be-0f1b-45e3-bb38-6ec147250b9b.
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Recent studies on ancient Israel's mortuary culture have shown that mourning rites were not restricted to the occasions of death, burial and subsequent grief but were, in fact, implemented in diverse contexts. In this thesis I am looking at biblical traditions in which these solemn practices contributed, or sought to contribute to various forms of social restoration. More specifically, I explore the stories of biblical grieving mothers who are placed at key junctures in Israel's history to renegotiate the destinies not only of their own children, dead or lost, but also those of larger communities, i.e. family lines, ethnic groups, or entire nations. Since 'the social and ritual dimensions of mourning are intertwined and inseparable ... [and] rites in general are a context for the creation and transformation of social order', these women use the circumstance of their 'interrupted' motherhood as a platform for a kind of grief-driven socio-political activism. Since maternal bereavement is generally understood as the most intense of all types of loss and was seen as archetypal of all mourning in ancient Near Eastern cultures, Israelite communities in crisis deemed sorrowing motherhood as a potent agent in bringing about their own survival and resurgence back to normalcy. I begin my discussion on mourning rites as tools of social preservation and restoration in biblical traditions with (1) a list of modern examples that attest to a phenomenon of social, political, and religious engagement among women that stems from the circumstance of child loss; (2) a survey of recent grief and death studies that identify maternal grief as the most intense and the most enduring among other types of bereavement; (3) an overview of ancient Near Eastern cultures (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Hatti, Syro-Palestine) that not only viewed maternal grief as paradigmatic of all mourning but also utilised ritual actions performed by mothers in contexts of large scale catastrophes as mechanisms for dealing with a collective trauma. Against this background my project then turns to discuss four biblical mothers: Hagar (Gen. 21:14-21), Rizpah (2 Sam. 21:1-14), the woman of Tekoa (2 Sam. 14:1-20) and Rachel (Jer. 31:15-22), all of whom perform rites for their dying or dead children and exhibit a form of advocacy for society at large.
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Winkler, Emily Anne. "Royal responsibility in post-conquest invasion narratives." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:128435f6-4192-4265-af1a-75ac6855a590.
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Much has been written about twelfth-century chroniclers in England, but satisfactory reasons for their approaches to historical explanation have not yet been advanced. This thesis investigates how and why historians in England retold accounts of England's eleventh-century invasions: the Danish Conquest of 1016 and the Norman Conquest of 1066. The object is to illuminate the consistent historical agendas of three historians: William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon and John of Worcester. I argue that they share a view of royal responsibility independent both of their sources (primarily the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle) and of any political agenda that placed English and Norman allegiances in opposition. Although the accounts diverge widely in the interpretation of character, all three are concerned more with the effectiveness of England's kings than with their origins. Part One outlines trends in early insular narratives and examines each of the three historians' background, prose style and view of English history to provide the necessary context for understanding how and why they rewrote narratives of kings and conquest. Part Two analyzes narratives of defending kings Æthelred and Harold; Part Three conducts a parallel analysis of conquering kings Cnut and William. These sections argue that all three writers add a significant and new degree of causal and moral responsibility to English kings in their invasion narratives. Part Four discusses the implications and significance of the thesis's findings. It argues that the historians' invasion narratives follow consistent patterns in service of their projects of redeeming the English past. It contends that modern understanding of the eleventh-century conquests of England continues to be shaped by what historians wrote years later, in the twelfth. In departing from prior modes of explanation by collective sin, the three historians' invasion narratives reflect a renaissance of ancient ideas about rule.
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Hanlon, Aaron Raymond. "Quixotic exceptionalism : British and US co-narratives, 1713-1823." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:58ff8e41-b064-4daf-bedf-3a3d7aab1a69.
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Scholars have long since identified a quixotic mode in fiction, acknowledging the widespread influence of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote (1605-15) on subsequent texts. In most cases, “quixotic” signifies a preponderance of allusions to Don Quixote in a given text, such that most studies of “quixotic fictions” or “quixotic influence” are primarily taxonomic in purpose and in outcome: they name and catalogue a text or group of texts as “quixotic,” then argue that, by virtue of the vast and protean influence of Don Quixote, the quixotic mode in fiction is always divided, lacking any semblance of ideological consistency. I argue, however, that the very characteristics of Don Quixote that make him such an attractive literary model for such a broad range of narratives—his bookish idealism, his fixation on the upper-classed grandiosity of the lives of noble knights—also form the consistent, ideological groundwork of quixotism: the exceptionalist substitution of fictive idealism for material reality. By tracing the ways in which quixotes become mouthpieces for various exceptionalist arguments in eighteenth-century British and American texts, like Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews (1742), Tobias Smollett's Launcelot Greaves (1760), Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote (1752), Hugh Henry Brackenridge's Modern Chivalry (1792-1815), and Royall Tyler's The Algerine Captive (1797), among others, I demonstrate the link between quixotism and exceptionalism, or between fictive idealism and the belief that one (or one's worldview) is an exception to the scrutiny of the surrounding world.
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Cojocaru, Daniel. "Violence and dystopia : mimesis and sacrifice in contemporary Western dystopian narratives." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f3f2848d-d349-4dcd-8bff-810010a2e8e3.
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Violence and Dystopia is a critical examination of imitative desire, scapegoating and sacrifice in selected contemporary Western dystopian narratives through the lens of René Girard’s mimetic theory. The first chapter offers an overview of the history of Western utopia/dystopia with a special emphasis on the problem of conflictive mimesis and scapegoating violence, and a critical introduction to Girard’s theory. The second chapter is devoted to J.G. Ballard’s seminal novel Crash (1973). It is argued that the car crash functions as a metaphor for conflictive mimetic desire and leads to a quasi-sacrificial crisis as defined by Girard for archaic religion. The attempt of the medieval propheta-figure to resolve the crisis through violence fails and leads to potential violence without end. The third chapter focuses on the psychogeographical writings of Iain Sinclair. Walking the streets of London he represents the excluded underside of the world of Ballardian speed. The walking subject is portrayed in terms of the expelled victim of Girardian theory. The fourth chapter considers violent crowds as portrayed by Ballard’s late fiction, the writings of Stewart Home and David Peace’s GB84 (2004). In accordance with Girard’s hypothesis, the discussed narratives reveal the failure of scapegoat expulsion to restore peace to the potentially self-destructive violent crowds. The fifth chapter examines the post-apocalyptic environments resulting from failed scapegoat expulsion and mimetic conflict out of control, as portrayed in Sinclair’s Radon Daughters (1994), Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and Oryx and Crake (2003) and Will Self’s The Book of Dave (2006). In conclusion it will become evident that Girard’s theory forms an indispensable analytical tool uncovering the pivotal themes of imitation and scapegoating in the discussed narratives: themes largely ignored in current scholarship on dystopia and secondary literature on the focussed authors.
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Al, Khalifa Muneera. "Narratives of a nation : excluded episodes in Bahrain's contemporary history." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2899dc33-d211-4f32-8771-6db94b79a71c.
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In this research, I aim to present a narrative of the process of nation building in Bahrain - to further analyze it, interrogate it, and capture an aspect of its complexity. By focusing on the years following Bahrain's independence from Britain in 1971, I examine the period in which a constitution was introduced and a short-lived parliament was dissolved after two years of operation. The hypothesis underlying this thesis project is that the dominant historical account, which is provided and sponsored by the government, does not mirror the historical narratives of the various Bahraini communities. The central argument is advanced by examining the state sponsored public articulations of identity, which portray a continuum of exclusions by omitting significant historical episodes. By consulting archival material, oral narratives, and secondary sources, I aim to question the official historical narrative and show the polarized versions of history that can occur when such exclusions take place.
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Cooley, Susan R. "In their own words : an analysis of personal narratives from fathers' perspectives on the death of a child /." Diss., This resource online, 1996. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-160724/.
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Froneman, Nadine. "Obsessive collecting : curiosity of lost objects and unknown narratives, an archive of carte de visites." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13254.
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Includes bibliographical references.This project is an investigation of a community of cartes de visite. Cartes de visiteare 10,5cm high by 6,5cm wide cards, which have extremely detailed portraits of individuals, captured in an intimate moment to document who they were. It is an excavation of the carte de visiteas object and its materiality, as a collection, as a fragment which captures the sentimentality of people who have outlived their portraits. The carte de visite is a piece of photo history, an autobiographical trace, a social phenomenon of the past and present. This body of work is a result of a personal process and psychoanalytical challenge to overcome loss.
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Stewart, Kirsty. "Nature and narratives : landscapes, plants and animals in Palaiologan vernacular literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2c1ad3f2-6ca1-4a5b-b682-fbb0bfc58fd2.
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This thesis identifies the role of nature within Palaiologan entertainment literature. The texts on which this thesis focuses include a selection of the Palaiologan novels, namely the Achilleid, Velthandros and Chrysandza, Kallimachos and Chrysorroi and Livistros and Rodamni, as well as two other, more satirical works, The Synaxarion of the Honourable Donkey, and An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds. These texts seem to be different from earlier works in which nature is prominent, utilising such material in an innovative way. The study of these texts provides us with information both on the Byzantine view of the natural world and on the use of literature during a particularly troubled period of Byzantine history. My main questions therefore are how nature is portrayed in these texts and what can this tell us about the society that produced them. The study of these vernacular texts indicates that the natural world is given a prominent place in the literature of the period, using landscapes, plants and animals in diverse ways to express assorted ideas, or to stress particular aspects of the stories. The animals and landscapes provide hints of the plot to the audience, which the authors sometimes then subvert. The authors draw on earlier Greek material, but parallels with literature from other cultures show similarities which imply a shared medieval perspective on nature with local differences.
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Mee, Simon. "Monetary mythology : the West German central bank and historical narratives, 1948-78." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0712a31a-00e4-48ca-8b9a-a1c6768f5e7b.
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This thesis examines the emergence, and then development, of what I call 'monetary mythology', a historical narrative, or version of history, concerning the inter-war period of Germany. Following the Second World War, it was left to West German elites to establish a new federal central bank, the Deutsche Bundesbank. A three-way power struggle emerged between the existing West German central bank - the Bank deutscher Länder - the federal government and the various state governments, all vying to influence the institutions and structure of this new monetary authority. In justifying their arguments, West German elites used various lessons derived from the turbulent experiences of the inter-war era. Monetary mythology, for its part, emphasised the lessons of Germany's two inflations; and the Bank deutscher Länder, and its allies, explicitly tied these lessons to the need for an independent central bank. And though it was once challenged by other competing historical narratives in the period 1949-51, monetary mythology emerged by 1956 triumphant in the public sphere in terms of framing the parameters through which West Germans viewed their monetary history. The doctoral project at hand approaches economic history from a cultural angle. In doing so, it offers an alternative history of the Bundesbank, as well as an alternative explanation for the cultural preoccupation surrounding inflation in West Germany. The thesis explains this cultural preoccupation in institutional terms. In providing for a central bank that was independent of political instruction, the Bundesbank Law of 1957 allowed for conflicts between the federal government and central bank to emerge. These conflicts often became 'dramatised' in the public sphere, creating controversies surrounding the Bundesbank's independence, and, in turn, giving rise to circumstances in which the lessons of the two inflations continued to remain relevant, geared in support of central bank independence.
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Cockfield, James Martin. "Land, settlement and narratives of history in northern Bushbuckridge, c. 1890-1970." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:537f1b6d-dc99-4a58-b64a-75b95a66b978.
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This thesis examines the history of African settlement in northern Bushbuckridge, South Africa. It reveals the ways in which the sprawling low-density villages around Acornhoek were made between 1890 and 1970. Drawing on extensive archival evidence, published secondary sources and over 100 oral history interviews, it makes original contributions to two distinct but related bodies of literature. Firstly, and primarily, it contributes to histories of rural South Africa by providing a detailed local history of African rent tenant communities settled on private white-owned (and to a lesser extent government owned) farms in a region at the margins of state control, and on the fringes of southern Africaâs major historical kingdoms. This account of the slow dispossession of communities in a liminal space, predominantly settled under conditions of rent tenure and outside the control of large chieftaincies, modifies an existing historiography that has often focussed on sharecropping regions or areas that have been historically under the control of large chieftaincies. Furthermore, this is the first study to examine the impact of the 1913 Natives Land Act and the 1936 Native Trust and Land Act in considerable detail at the local level, and in doing so I shed new light on the operations of two landmark legislative measures in the history of rural South Africa. Secondly, I make an important contribution to the increasing scholarship on land reform and historical narrative, much of which lacks detailed historical analysis. In analysing contemporary narratives of history, which are dominated by first-comer claims to land, I set up a dialogue between the past and the present and demonstrate how the history of settlement and removal in an ethnically heterogeneous region informs contemporary narratives of history.
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Rohde-Liebenau, Judith. "Raising European citizens? : European narratives, European schools and students' identification with Europe." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:24615518-fef0-44e0-be23-0ec24ca301eb.
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Fostering identification with Europe among citizens could legitimise European integration. Whether such an identity exists, however, remains an on-going debate among scholars. This research returns to the foundations of how a European identity is constructed, transmitted and transformed. It explores narratives of European identity in a carefully chosen context - European Schools for children of EU officials - where identification with Europe should mirror official EU visions. A qualitative content analysis explores narrations of 101 students collected during interviews and focus groups across three schools, and analyses documents and interviews with EU officials, school directors and teachers. This analysis reveals a descriptive puzzle: official EU and European School propositions of (multi-) national narratives differ markedly from teachers' and students' conceptions of cosmopolitan and transnational identities. The EU constructs an out-group of its own nationalist past and non-EU citizens. On the other hand, students construct an explicitly European in-group, but differentiate themselves from more national and less mobile lifestyles. This disparity, in turn, reveals a causal puzzle about how differences in narratives emerge. I use process tracing to elucidate the relationship between European schooling and students' identification with Europe. The results show a distorted transmission where broader EU goals are elaborated and transformed by teachers and further fuelled by interactions amongst students with similarly mobile and multilingual backgrounds. I develop a dual mechanism to understand how the varieties of identification with Europe develop: the concept of "doing Europe" explains how students nourish a transnational social network; "telling Europe", on the other hand, considers students' exposure to European symbols and stories in school and both national and anti-nationalist narratives provided by teachers and peers. Together, this leads to a transformed but ultimately European in-group understanding. Overall, this project underlines the complexity of identity construction, given that top-down transmission gets altered even in this favourable case. Specifically, it informs future research on European identity by detailing peculiar narratives and offering a causal approach to how these narratives emerge.
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Bender, Jennifer R. "Widow Narratives on Film and in Memoirs: Exploring Formula Stories of Grief and Loss of Older Women After the Death of a Spouse." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7744.
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This dissertation analyzes narratives (written and mediated) about widows’ post-loss experiences—specifically the ways in which these women embody and adjust/adhere to their post-loss widow identities—and whether or not the canonical/formula stories about widows reflect current experiences of widowhood. I look at older widowed women—both those in well-read widow memoirs and also in media portrayals of widows on film. The canonical view of widows as not attractive, not useful, and not interesting needs to be reexamined in light of changing ideas about gender roles and increased longevity. Surely older women have experiences, desires, and goals that encompass more than being socially invisible and caring for grandchildren. Given that 80% of women outlive their husbands (Mastekaasa, 1994; Peters & Liefbroer, 1997) and are an understudied and often overlooked population (Lopata, 1996), this heartfelt research is important.
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Flett, Edward Charles. "Virtual frontiers and the technological state : contemporary American narratives in a global context." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:608353cc-62d8-496c-b8df-d79de028f03e.
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This thesis analyses a series of threshold states located within contemporary culture. It investigates the effects of technology on spatial relations and human conditions in recent centuries, with a specific interest in the rise of virtual phenomena and the ongoing process of virtualisation. Key to the discussion is measuring the extent to which America and its narratives have influenced the virtual layer attached to contemporary global technological culture. Prevalent within this framework is the idea of the frontier as an idealised outpost, a lingering threshold state that is scrutinised in terms of its metaphoric power and socio-historical relevance. The research examines the points of interaction between the frontier, the virtual, and recent technology, as well as the areas in which technology has been produced, distributed, and consumed, as a means of building on ‘virtual frontiers’ and the ‘technological state’ as original critical concepts. Chapter one, from a socio-cultural and historical perspective, develops the idea of California as the location where the frontier spirit dispersed, transferring to an extent from land to body. Rich in posthuman ambience, the state functions as a hub from which to negotiate the position of the body in relation to the frontier: to look at the body as a frontier in itself, its virtualisation, and the now perennial dialectic between the positive and negative effects of technology on human/non-human interactivity. From the ashes of the 1960s, pockets of urban youth living in America’s inner cities gave birth to a subculture that is now globally recognised as Hip Hop. Despite Hip Hop always being a potent reflective surface, chapter two assesses its development and continuing capacity as a virtual and technological form of expression. In the decades between Malcolm X’s assassination and the election of President Obama, how has Hip Hop changed as a virtual arena and mode of resistance, as it has simultaneously been incorporated into the American mainstream? Indeed, as a cultural object and virtual space with the potential to carry evocative messages across thresholds, did Hip Hop even survive this transition? And what were the ramifications of its transformation? The third chapter examines the shadows emanating from the terrorist attacks on the US in 2001. The narratives from 9/11 are considered while investigating a diverse selection of transnational texts that touch on the subject, including works from Don DeLillo, Amy Waldman, Martin Amis, and Frédéric Beigbeder. Also considered is the day’s social and historical significance, and its power as a virtual event. More specifically, the impact on time, perception, and narrative structure is observed, each element appearing in the shadows that stretch out from the decades before and beyond the events of that clear blue September morning. Through characters in recent fiction by William Gibson and Hari Kunzru, the final chapter scans American consumption and the representations projected out from its brands and advertising. Within technological states now transmitted globally, the chapter reflects on the consequences of consumer culture as we venture further into the virtual and its realities, drawn through what Jean Baudrillard calls an irreconcilable conflict between ‘total integration’ and the ‘dual form’.
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Manda, Charles Bester. "Re-Authroing narratives of trauma survivors in kwazulu-natal spiritual perspective." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40211.
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In his thesis, Re-authoring life narratives of trauma survivors in KwaZulu-Natal: Spiritual perspective, the researcher investigates a holistic understanding of the effects of trauma on surviving individuals and communities historically affected by political violence in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Traditionally, the exploration of the impact of trauma on survivors in South Africa has been focused mainly on the bio-psycho-social aspects. The Bio-psycho-social approach recognises that trauma affects people on several dimensions- biological, social and psychological. However, Nevid (et al 2006:19) and Kaminer (et al 2012) acknowledge that these bio-psychosocial factors are incomplete for us to understand the effects of trauma on the individual and call for consideration of all possible pathways and account for multiple factors, influences, and interactions.
Using qualitative and narrative approach, personal life narratives were listened to with the aim of looking in depth at the effects of traumatic experiences on the research participants, and specifically investigate whether, and how trauma affected their spirituality. The findings show that the research participants sustained psychological, moral and spiritual injuries during and after traumatic experiences. The results concur with Buckenham’s (1999:7-8) argument that trauma wreaks its toll in the life of a person emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, in our relationships with ourselves, others and with God. The study also established that regardless of religious affiliation, research participants turned to spiritual resources for answers, healing and recovery in traumatic situations.
Therefore, the study recommends the integration of the spiritual perspective to reach a holistic model of understanding and treating traumatized individuals and communities. Although the study is localised in the South African context, the results have a much wider relevance in understanding the role of ‘posttraumatic spirituality’ in the re-authoring of life narratives shattered by trauma.Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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Ben-Ze'ev, Efrat. "Narratives of exile : Palestinian refugee reflections on three villages, Tirat Haifa, 'Ein Hawd and Ijzim." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:66344f8f-5b2f-4824-9719-37b642325bc2.
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Quartermain, Thomas Nile Dawbeny Eubanks. "Socio-political identity in Chosŏn Korea during the Japanese and Manchu invasions 1567-1637 : barbarians at the gates." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b42e15e6-7cee-4c89-b391-1cd21a2490eb.
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This thesis explores social and political identities in Choson Korea between the years 1567 and 1637, particularly during the Imjin War (1592-1598) and the Manchu Invasions (1627 and 1636-1637). During the Imjin War, the Japanese caused widespread destruction over the entire Korean peninsula and the Ming army entered the country. The Later Jin briefly invaded in 1627 and launched a large scale invasion in 1636. The Manchus overran Choson's feeble defenses and forced Choson to become a vassal state of the Qing Empire. Scholars are at odds over the form of socio-political identity during this period of foreign invasion. Some claim these wars created the 'Korean nation' for the first time, while others contend that no such socio-political concepts could have existed before the twentieth century. However, researchers often use the same philosophical approaches and merely select aspects of certain theorists' frameworks that best support their arguments. Both the theories and historian's methodologies are limited in their explanation of socio-political identity of the premodern Korean past and even more so for the time of the Imjin and Manchu Invasions. My research attempts to solve these theoretical problems by creating a 'fusion of horizons' between past and modern concepts of socio-political identity in order to explore the political and cultural environments of the Choson people before and during the wars (bildung). This is achieved firstly by relying on official government histories and individually written diaries that, together, create a more complete picture of former socio-political identity. Secondly, I propose understanding Choson by looking at the definitions of the king, state, people, culture, history, and foreign world using their own definitions from their own times.
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Staton, Cecil Pope. "And Yahweh appeared : a study of the motifs of seeing God and of God's appearing in Old Testament narratives." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:867809b0-939b-4f26-9b8c-d66656c82c6d.
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This thesis examines the use of the motifs of "seeing God" and of "God's appearing" in Old Testament narratives. The frequency, distribution, and form of such references are presented in Chapter One which examines the semantic field of words for "see" in the Old Testament with special reference to "seeing with reference to God." An examination of works on Old Testament theophany suggests that these motifs have not been fully appreciated. They are generally considered only as they might be related to earlier forms of texts, e. g. cultic etiology; or divine appearing is equated with divine speaking. The significance they have for the narratives in which they are found is thus ignored. In Chapter Two the ancient Near Eastern backgrounds of these motifs are considered. An examination of the see vocabularies of extant Ugaritic and Akkadian literature reveals that, although rare, the motif of "seeing God" is found. However, the motif of God's appearing is not found. The significance of these motifs for Old Testament narratives is then examined in Chapters Three to Five which are devoted to: 1) the Patriarchal Traditions of Genesis; 2) the Moses, Sinai, and Wilderness Traditions of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers; and 3) the Historical Writing of the Old Testament. Where possible attention is given to the use of these motifs at two levels: the level of the story as inherited material; and the level of the larger narratives in which the stories are found. Previous scholarly work on these texts is also discussed where relevant. Each chapter concludes with a summary of the variety of usages to which the motifs were put. Chapter Six presents a summary and conclusion and suggests areas where further research may prove fruitful.
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Majumdar, Anamika. "South Asian womens narratives of intimacy and marriage in the UK: Making sense of experience through cultural scripts, space and objects." Thesis, London South Bank University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.558421.
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This thesis examines the concept of intimacy through exploring experiences of closeness in relationships and how such experiences are understood in the lives of South Asian married women living in the UK. In the context of a lack of empirical exploration of South Asian women’s experiences of intimacy in marriage, the main aim of the research was to consider how participants made sense of their experiences of intimacy/closeness and how such experiences were culturally mediated. The theoretical perspectives of narrative psychology and socio-cultural psychology were combined to explore the relationship between intimacy and culture in the experience of marriage. A narrative psycho-social approach was utilised along with visual research methods to focus on not only the stories told about relationships but also the physical settings in which relationships occurred. As such, the overall focus of the two empirical studies was the identification of experiences of feeling close or not feeling close in personal relationships, and how this was made sense of through narrative and photographs. Nineteen South Asian married women living in the UK were interviewed in total. The first study used life-history interviewing with participants’ own pre-existing photographs, to aid participants in talking about the places they had lived and the close relationships they had in these places, over the course of their lives. In the second study, participants produced a set of photographs of objects and spaces relevant to their everyday married lives, and constructed narratives around them, together with the researcher at interview. The accounts produced were analysed using a combination of narrative analytical approaches, paying attention to broad relationship storylines and particular spatially located episodes. By exploring understandings of intimacy/closeness in South Asian women’s lives over time, and in relation to social, material and spatial contexts, essentialised notions of South Asian women and marriages are problematised. Closeness had various meanings for each participant. While scripts of companionate marriage and disclosing intimacy were often upheld as ideals, ambivalent feelings were resolved by modifying such scripts to include more traditional values of commitment, gendered roles, and essentialised notions of South Asian womanhood. Everyday marital practices within the home, which were mediated by spaces and objects, were also associated with feelings of closeness, indicating participants’ understandings of intimacy beyond self-disclosure and sexuality. In this context, extended family dynamics were problematised as an obstacle to the creation of symbolic and literal iv spaces for marital intimacy. In relation to the lack of empirical literature on the experience of intimacy in South Asian women’s marriages in the UK, this thesis highlights the plurality of experiences and understandings of both intimacy and culture in South Asian women’s lives.
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McLoughlin, Catherine Mary. "Martha Gellhorn : the war writer in the field and in the text." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f1c1a333-9ece-4a14-b95f-b2a2c623c012.
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How war is depicted matters vitally to all of us. In the vast literature on war representation, little attention is paid to the fact that where the war recorder1stands crucially affects the portrayal. Should the writer be present on the battle-field, and, if so, where exactly? Should the recording figure be present in the text, and, if so, in what guise? 'Standing' differs from person to person, conflict to conflict, and between genders. Therefore, this thesis focuses on one particular war recorder in one particular war: the American journalist and fiction-writer, Martha Gellhorn (1908-98), in the European Theatre of Operations during World War Two. The fact that Gellhorn was a woman affected how she could and did place herself in relation to battle - but gender, though important, was not the only factor. Her course in and around war was dazzling: hitching rides, stowing away, travelling on dynamite-laden ships through mined waters, flying in ancient planes and deadly fighter jets, driving from battle-field to battle-field, mucking in, standing out. Her trajectory within her prose is equally versatile: she zooms in and out like a camera lens from impassiveness to intense involvement to withdrawal. The thesis is organised along the same spectrum. The first two chapters plot the co- ordinates forming the zero point on the graph of Gellhorn's Second World War writings (earlier American war correspondence, the 1930s' New Reportage, Gellhorn's upbringing and journalistic apprenticeship). Chapter Three then shows her in the guise of self-effacing, emotionally absent recorder. Moving from absence to presence, Chapter Four considers Martha Gellhorn in the field and Chapter Five 'Martha Gellhorn' in the text. Chapter Six describes the shift from presence to participation, before reaching the end of the parabola in Gellhorn's disillusionment in the power of writing to reform and her concerns about women's presence in the war zone. Given that positioning is the central concern, it is important to note the placement of Martha Gellhorn within the thesis itself. She stands as the central, pivotal example of the war recorder, illuminated by various contexts and comparisons with other writers (notably Ernest Hemingway, to whom she was married from 1940 to 1945). As a result of this approach, there are necessarily stretches of the text from which she is absent, as the survey turns to theoretical and comparative discussion. The hope is that this methodology reveals why Gellhorn, in the field and in the text, went where she did.
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Lima, Clêidna Aparecida de. "OBJETOS BIOGRÁFICOS E NARRADORES DE HIDROLÂNDIA-GO: RESSONÂNCIAS PATRIMONIAIS." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2009. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/2288.
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Previous issue date: 2009-08-10This research aimed to investigate how social memory and biographical objects are present in the formation of cultural references and identity of the person narrator. It had its justification was based on the need to intensify the reflections on the reading and rereading of biographical objects, relics of the family, and stories that bring these objects as a remembrance. Had the main field of the Elderly Living Center (JRC), in the context of the Group of spinner and weavers of Hidrolândia-GO, community representative of the cultural references of the region studied. The ethnographic field is composed of open interviews with the focus and target biographical objects and oral narratives. Use of anthropological perspective and makes use of theoretical references of the ethnographic method to understand a type of social function with the culture and identity attached to objects in the context of biographical narrated life stories. Trying to understand these stories and interpret them in the construction of cultural references and identity from theoretical benchmarks proposed for: Halbwachs (1990) in his concept of collective memory; Bosi (1994) and the social frameworks of memory of old; Bachelard ( 1988) in their space-time concept as regards the idea of duration, Geertz (1989, 1997) and interpretation in symbolic anthropology. I present four narratives of life and their biographical objects. Analyze and interpret the memories narrated around the social categories: children, family, work / knowledge and crafts; Farm / land and inheritance / honor. Explore also the presence of these objects and memories in ethnographic and literary works that promote the reading and dialogue with the "cultural references" for each person - as producer of cultural - and their connection with the collective identities. I recognize the oral narratives of life stories as intangible assets, an exchange between intersubjective - worlds.
Esta pesquisa teve por objetivo investigar como a memória social e os objetos biográficos se fazem presentes na constituição das referências culturais e identitárias do sujeito narrador. Teve sua justificativa baseada na necessidade de intensificar as reflexões sobre a leitura e releitura de objetos biográficos, relíquias de família, e as histórias que estes objetos trazem em forma de lembrança. Teve como principal campo o Centro de Convivência dos Idosos (CCI), no contexto do Grupo de Fiandeiras e Tecedeiras de Hidrolândia-GO, comunidade representativa das referências culturais da região estudada. O campo etnográfico é composto por entrevistas abertas e orientadas tendo como foco os objetos biográficos e as narrativas orais. Recorro à perspectiva Antropológica e lanço mão de referenciais teóricos do método etnográfico para compreender um tipo de função social com aspectos culturais e identitários inerentes aos objetos biográficos narrados no contexto de histórias de vida. Busco compreender essas narrativas e interpretá-las no processo de construção de referências culturais e identitárias, partindo de referenciais teóricos propostos por: Halbwachs (1990) em seu conceito de memória coletiva; Bosi (1994) e os quadros sociais da memória dos velhos; Bachelard (1988) em sua noção espaço-temporal no que se refere à ideia de duração; Geertz (1989, 1997) e a interpretação na antropologia simbólica. Apresento quatro narrativas de vida e os respectivos objetos biográficos. Analiso e interpreto as memórias narradas em torno das categorias sociais: infância; família; trabalho/ saberes e ofícios; fazenda/terra e herança. Exploro ainda a presença destes objetos e memórias em obras etnográficas e literárias que favoreçam esta releitura e o diálogo com as referências culturais de cada pessoa como produtora de bens culturais e sua conexão com as identidades coletivas. Reconheço as narrativas orais de histórias de vida como patrimônio imaterial, instrumento de intercâmbio intersubjetivo entre - mundos.
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Forsberg, Anette. "Sorgens avtryck : Erfarenheter av medverkan som sörjande i journalistik om brott och olyckor." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-119104.
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The aim of the thesis is to investigate the experiences of mourners of participating in news reports about grief in connection with crime and accidents. There are two overarching research questions. How do the bereaved experience their encounters with, and treatment by, journalists - what do they think of journalists’ motives, strategies, methods and ethics? How do the bereaved use journalism, i.e. what are their motives and strategies for participation, and how do they perceive their relations with journalists and the consequences of having been interviewed? The theoretical underpinnings are provided by scholarship on source relations, (encounters with and negotiations between journalists and news sources), news constructions (narrative components and patterns in grief journalism) and journalistic ethics, with a particular focus on an ethics of proximity, i.e. the ethical dimensions of people’s relations and encounters. The empirical material is comprised of qualitative interviews with 22 respondents who featured, in their capacity as mourners, in Swedish news reports of deaths connected with crime and accidents. A strategic sample was made with the aim of attaining as much variation as possible among respondents above all in their relationship to the deceased and cause of death, but also in terms of the attention given to the event in the media, the number of contacts with journalists, and how contact was made. The perception of the respondents is that journalists wanted to talk to them because the event had news value and was of general interest. In dramatic cases, the victim’s next of kin, in particular, felt that journalists also had commercial motives. As the respondents see it, the strategies used by journalists can involve trying to persuade the bereaved to participate, and steering them so that the news interview and text can be shaped in accordance with established narratives of grief journalism. Some respondents said journalists had shown them respect, while others felt they had been treated with a lack of consideration. The findings are ambivalent in that journalists’ methods were experienced positively by some respondents and negatively by others. Involvement in news reporting can offer redress, giving respondents a chance to pay tribute to the deceased. It can also provide comfort, as it can be incorporated into the mourning process and make it possible to share one’s grief both with people one knows and with strangers. The study also found that respondents have strategies of their own. In their dealings with journalists, they can negotiate for control by insisting on reading the text before publication or favouring journalists they perceive as more sympathetic and resisting those they dislike. Respondents’ relations with and perceptions of journalists can be conflictual or consensual, and characterized by a passive or active attitude. Journalists can be seen as allies and potential assets, or as enemies and a source of insecurity. If the death was dramatic and attracted considerable media attention, relations become more conflictual, with respondents who feel cornered liable to ‘attack’ journalists. This can be triggered by shock. However, shock can also numb close relatives emotionally, making them indifferent and their attitude one of passive acceptance.
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Rosario, Deborah Hope. "Milton and material culture." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:45542c8d-0049-49cf-8d19-6d206195d9a7.
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In contradistinction to critical trends which have rendered Milton’s thought disembodied, this thesis studies how seventeenth-century material culture informed Milton’s poetry and prose at the epistemic level and by suggesting a palette of forms for literary play. The first chapter explores the early modern culture of fruit. At the epistemic level, practices of fruit cultivation and consumption inform Milton’s imagination and his vocabulary, thereby connecting their historic-material lives with their symbolic ones. Milton further turns commonplace gestures of fruit consumption into narrative devices that frame discussions of agency, aspiration, sinful and right practice. The second chapter examines two floral catalogues to discover how they find shape through the epistemologies of flowers, ceremony, and decorative arts. Here material culture shapes literary convention, as one catalogue is found to secret ceremonial consolation in its natural ingenuousness, while the other’s delight in human physicality upsets the distinctions between inner virtue and outer ornament, faith and rite. In the third chapter, urban epistemologies of light, darkness, movement, and space are examined through urban phenomena: skyline, suburbs, highways, theft, and waterways. By interpellating contemporary debates, these categories anatomise fallen character, intent, action, and their consequences. Milton’s instinctive distaste for urban nuisances is interesting in this Republican figure and is subversive of some ideologies of the text. Discursive and material aspects meet again in the fourth chapter in a discussion of his graphic presentations of geography on the page. Usually prone to analyses of textual knowledge, they are also informed by the embodiment of knowledge as material object. Milton’s search for a fitting cartographic aesthetic for the Biblical narrative and for the rhetoric of his characters leads him to an increasing consciousness of the ideologies energising these material forms. The fifth chapter explores Milton’s engagement with forms of armour and weapons. Military preferences for speed and mobility over armour help Milton explore the difference between unfallen and fallen being. Milton also uses his inescapably proleptic knowledge of arms and armour as a field of imaginative play for representations that are both anachronistic and typological. These lead to a discussion of imitation in the mythic imagination. In each of these studies, we witness Milton’s consciousness of his temporal and proleptic location, and his attempts to marry the temporal and the pan- or atemporal. In the conclusion I suggest that Milton’s simultaneous courting of the atemporal while he is drawn to or draws on temporal material culture imply an incarnational aesthetic.
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Ferreira, Tatiana Amaral Sanches. "Basá busá: riqueza, cultura e política no alto rio Negro." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2014. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/236.
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This work presents ethnographic research concerning recent initiatives of cultural revitalization in the Alto Rio Negro region, particularly those initiatives that have been taken by tukano speaking groups in the Uaupés river basin. Therefore, this study is a combination of short-term field work and bibliographic research. The case under analysis is that of the recent repatriation of a set of ceremonial ornaments (basá basá), which had been kept for decades at the Museu do Índio in the city of Manaus. Considering the impossibility of defining the communities to which these pieces had originally belonged, it was decided that the repatriated ornaments would become the collective property of the indigenous peoples of the Uaupés river basin, in custody of an indigenous organization pertaining to the multiethnic group of Iauaretê. This research showed that the ornaments are considered to be people with agency, in such a way that concerns relating to the appropriate uses and circulation of these objects arouse anxiety as to the misfortunes that such objects could bring about to those who used or manipulated them. However, some people from Iauarete affirmed that the ornaments could not only be tamed and revitalized, but also transmit important knowledge to those who used them.
O presente trabalho teve por objetivo realizar uma pesquisa de caráter etnográfico sobre as recentes iniciativas de revitalização cultural na região do alto rio Negro, em particular aquelas que vêm sendo desenvolvidas pelos grupos de língua tukano da bacia do rio Uaupés. Assim, este estudo é fruto de uma combinação de trabalho de campo de curta duração e revisão bibliográfica. O caso privilegiado foi a repatriação recente de um conjunto de ornamentos cerimoniais (basá busá) que estava guardado há décadas no Museu do Índio de Manaus. Na impossibilidade de definir as comunidades de origem das peças, estabeleceu-se que os adornos repatriados constituiriam propriedade coletiva dos povos indígenas da bacia do rio Uaupés, ficando sob a guarda de uma organização indígena do povoado multiétnico de Iauaretê. A pesquisa revelou que os enfeites são considerados pessoas dotadas de agência, de tal forma que preocupações relativas ao modo apropriado de uso e circulação desses "objetos" suscitou receios quanto aos infortúnios que poderiam ser causados a seus usuários. Entretanto, algumas pessoas de Iauaretê apontaram que tais ornamentos não só poderiam ser amansados e revitalizados, como poderiam transmitir importantes conhecimentos para seus portadores.
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Nifoci, Renata Ercília Mendes. "Conhecimentos revelados por professores em um curso de formação continuada para a utilização de objetos de aprendizagem." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2013. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/10970.
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The use of information technology is present in many environments, including the educational environment. This background, this research aims to an analysis of the knowledge revealed by mathematics teachers in a continuing education course to use learning objects available in the repository M3 Multimedia Mathematics as a technology for teaching geometry. Through the methodology of Narratives, the teachers were able to report their concerns and expectations the teaching of geometry, continuing education, learning objects and use of technologies. As a theoretical contribution, this research is based on the ideas of Shulman on Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) and the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), Mishra and Koehler revealed by teachers over the meetings of the studying group. In the analysis of the narratives of teachers it was found that pedagogical knowledge combined with the knowledge of the curriculum was important in the choice of learning objects, as when selecting such resources were needed such knowledge as well as aspects of pedagogical and technological knowledge so that they could infer and justify their choices. The results of this study indicate the need to invest in teacher education for the use of technological resources in the school, once the teacher recognizes the importance of these resources in the learning process, but does not know or does not know how to conduct on the technologies. Another aspect highlighted is the fact of teachers being receptive regarding courses to complement their initial education
O uso das tecnologias da informação está presente em diversos ambientes, entre os quais o ambiente educacional, afetando alunos e professores. Diante deste cenário, esta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar os conhecimentos revelados por professores de Matemática em um curso de formação continuada ao utilizarem Objetos de Aprendizagem, disponíveis no repositório M3 Matemática Multimídia como recurso tecnológico para o ensino de Geometria. Por meio da metodologia das Narrativas, os professores puderam relatar seus anseios e expectativas frente ao ensino de geometria, formação continuada, objetos de aprendizagem e uso das tecnologias. Como aporte teórico, esta pesquisa está embasada nas ideias de Shulman sobre o Conhecimento Pedagógico do Conteúdo (PCK) e o Conhecimento do Conteúdo Pedagógico e Tecnológico (TPCK), de Mishra e Koehler, revelados pelos professores ao longo dos encontros do grupo de estudo. Na análise das narrativas dos professores verificou-se que o conhecimento pedagógico aliado ao conhecimento do currículo foi importante na escolha dos Objetos de Aprendizagem, pois ao selecionar tais recursos, eram necessários tais conhecimentos assim como aspectos do conhecimento pedagógico e tecnológico para que pudessem inferir e justificar suas escolhas. Os resultados desta pesquisa apontam a necessidade de se investir na formação do professor frente à utilização de recursos tecnológicos na escola, uma vez que o professor reconhece a importância destes recursos no processo de aprendizagem, mas não o faz por desconhecer ou não saber proceder diante das tecnologias. Outro aspecto evidenciado é a questão dos professores se mostrarem receptivos quanto a cursos para complementar sua formação inicial
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Billingham, John. "Divine authority and covenant community in contemporary culture." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3d96890d-8111-4922-9809-30c51d75e5b6.
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The question I address is: how might a theology of authority be conceived in the light of questions raised by what is termed 'post-modernity'? Is it possible to articulate a theology of authority coming to the church community 'from God' that avoids an oppressive and alienating heteronomy? The thesis explores the question of authority as of vital importance in the sociological dimension of religion, calling for legitimisation (in light of claims made for itself) and as obligatory in the theological sphere. For this reason the project involves two methodologies (theological and sociological/ethnographic). While this investigation is relevant to all sections of the Christian church, particular attention is paid to Baptist churches in the UK, since they hold a concept in their tradition that I suggest is valuable in answering the question of the thesis, namely that of covenant. Within the Christian tradition there is an inner 'problematic' relating the personal authority of Christ to the forms of institution (church) and text (scripture). I explore this with a brief survey of theological authority as found in the fourfold foundation of scripture, tradition, reason and experience. From this is developed a brief theological and Christological reflection on divine authority and covenant theology as found in Karl Barth and his response to the 'inner problematic'. Within contemporary culture I view authority through the lens of so-called 'postmodernism', identifying four challenges to the notion of 'external authority' (all of which exemplify a move from the external to internal, and objective to subjective approaches to authority). This is further explored by means of qualitative research with one-to-one interviews conducted in a Baptist church in York. This data is reflected upon by means of ethnography and 'judicious narratives', especially in dialogue with material from Guest ('congregational study'), Heelas and Woodhead ('subjectivised-self') and Healy ('theodramatic horizon' and 'practical-prophetic ecclesiology'), providing an intersection between the language of theology and sociology. The concept of church as covenant community is explored in Baptist and (more briefly) Anglican traditions, leading to a constructive proposal that both the inner-church 'problematic' and the 'postmodern' challenge to authority might begin to be resolved with the notion of covenant. It is within this context of relationship, human and divine, that the authoritative and revelatory Word of God, the story that is Christ, is found in community and praxis. Here is a 'triangulating' relationship between authority, story and covenant revealing divine authority in a non-coercive way and relevant to contemporary culture.
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Poletto, Claudia Wanessa Rocha. "Brasil de sári : indianidades nos fluxos turísticos entre Brasil e Índia." Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, 2012. http://ri.ufmt.br/handle/1/562.
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As relações entre o Brasil e a Índia são conhecidas há séculos ao mencionarmos as rotas mercantis entre Europa, Américas e Ásia em tempos coloniais. Este trabalho busca analisar indianidades nos fluxos turísticos entre Brasil e Índia na contemporaneidade.Os fluxos provocam mobilidades e circulação de pessoas, artefatos, ideias e informações. Esboçamos nesta pesquisa, a noção de indianidades que pode ser compreendida como uma gama de repertórios que tenta fixar e disseminar predicativos inerentes à Índia apropriada pela indústria do turismo. Ressaltamos que indianidades também está associada a uma abordagem política de movimentos identitários dentro e fora da Índia. Este trabalho explora a pertinência temática por meio de quatro dimensões: 1) propagandas de pacotes turísticos comercializados por agências de viagens brasileiras; 2) relatos de viagens à Índia por turistas viajantes brasileiros; 3) narrativas ficcionais que abordam incidentes de viagens à Índia e aos Estados Unidos, país que acolhe uma expressiva diáspora indiana; 4) objetos de viagens trazidos como souvenirs ou mercadorias. Sinalizamos que a yoga atravessa toda a dissertação de forma fluida, tanto como um repositório de informações sobre a Índia, como uma prática que vem sendo transnacionalizada, impulsionando turistas de todo o mundo em busca do berço da yoga.
The relationship between Brazil and India is known for centuries when mentioned as mercantile rote among Europe, Americas and Asia in the colonial times.This resource seeks to analyse indianess in touristic capabilities between Brazil and India. The flow provoke motion and circulation of people, craft creation, ideas and information. We may added to this source the consistency of indianess which can be comprehended as one gram of repertoires that try to fix up as well as exterminate some values ineherent in India through the tourism industry.It’s important to say that indianness also is associated into a politic discussion related to an indentity circulation movements inside and outside of India. This resource explore the relevance thematic through four dimenssion point of view: 1) advertising of comercial turistic packages by brazilian travel agencies; 2) reports by brazilian tourists people who travel to India; 3) Fiction narrative related to incidents that happen in India and United States, which country embrace a significant Indian population; 4) Travel objects brought as souvinirs or markets. It’s blatant that yoga cross this statement in some way smoothly, as a reserve of information about India, as well as a kind of pratice that has becoming a transnationalized attracting a large number of tourists from all over the world those who are looking for the headquarters of the yoga.
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Coull, Kim. "The womb artist – a novel: Translating late discovery adoptee pre-verbal trauma into narrative." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2014. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1583.
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‘The Womb Artist’ and accompanying exegesis, are a creative, autoethnographical, and performative exposition of the pre-verbal and embodied trauma of Late Discovery Adoptees (LDAs), a little-researched subset of the closed record adoption system in Australia. Using the work of Brodzinsky (1987, 1990, 2005), Lifton (1977, 1992, 1994, 2002) and Verrier (1993, 1997, 2003) on adoption trauma, the recent research by Kenny, Higgins, Soloff & Sweid, (2012) into Australian past adoption experiences, and the seminal work of Helen Riley (2008, 2012, 2013) and Catherine Lynch (2007) into LDAs, this thesis gives a visceral account, together with a critical examination, of the psychosocial consequences of Late Discovery across the life span (pre and post disclosure).
This research, as an example of the interface between trauma and narrative (Caruth, 1995, 1996; Felman and Daub, 1992; Herman, 1992), evokes the embodiment of and provides translation for the LDA experience allowing an investigation of the pre-verbal/pre-disclosure body as an interactive and fluid body of knowledges (Bordo, 1997; Grosz, 1994, 1995). Based on the author’s own life, the novel depicts the protagonist’s relinquishment at birth, her manufactured ‘death’, and her subsequent adoption into the closed record system. Although her adoption status is not revealed until middle age, her pre-verbal body knowledges, incarcerated beneath consciousness in the cellular, muscle/marrow of traumatic memory (Howard & Crandall, 2007; Lipton, 2005; Pert, 1987), communicate through unaddressed adoption psychopathologies such as PTSD (van der Kolk, 1988, 1994, 2002), agoraphobia, depression, dissociation, anxiety, and psychosomatic symptom (Brodzinsky, 2005; Verrier, 1993). The novel translates this body signage and becomes, as “shadow of the object” (Bollas, 1977, 1987), a performance and articulation of the relinquishment wound. The psychopathology, the clairvoyant pre-disclosure paintings, the post-coital glossolalia, the poetry, the journal entries, the long form prose of the novel, are the map to, and the evolution of, a reclaimed, reconstituted, and re-textualised self.
This research uses the techniques and sensibilities of écriture féminine (Cixous, Irigaray, Kristeva) in a heavily poetic, metaphoric, choric, and amniotic style that mimics and translates the abyssal and traumatic pre-verbal experience of relinquishment into a reparative prose and provides compelling evidence of the organic, embodied, and ever present and insistent verbosities of the body (Braidotti, 2009; Grosz, 1994, 1995). The novel’s thinly veiled fiction, with its artistic and necessarily protective intent, highlights the schism and slip between fiction and reality as it relates to the relinquishment/adoption experience (Homans, 2006, 2007; Lifton 1977, 1992) and is discussed with reference to the fictionalised autobiographies of Jeanette Winterson (1985), Janet Frame (1957), and Sylvia Plath (1963). In archaeological exploration, creative execution, and theoretical framing, out of the silence of the LDA relinquishment/adoption experience, this thesis illuminates the trauma associated with adoption secrecy and reproductive practices, and makes a strong case in support of the theories of embodiment and the cultural and scholarly value of autoethnographical writing (Bochner, 2000; Grierson, 2009; Pelias, 2004, 2013) but also provides further information and impetus toward developing compassionate and considered approaches within the growing 21st century reproductive psycho-socio-economic industries.
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Zerman, Ece. "Nouvelles pratiques de représentation de soi de la fin de l’Empire ottoman à la république de Turquie : écrits du for privé, photographies, intérieurs." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEH166.
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Cette thèse vise à étudier des egodocuments dans une période de transformations politiques et sociales qui s’étend des années 1890 aux années 1930. Notre réflexion se base sur des études de cas : un journal intime, des agendas, des lettres, des carnets de famille, des albums de photographies, des photographies d’intérieurs ainsi qu’une corpus de sources publiées. A partir de la fin du XIXe siècle de nouvelles formes de représentation de soi se développaient dans l’Empire ottoman, souvent reliées aux discours politiques émergents. La diffusion de la photographie et des nouvelles techniques de reproduction des textes et des images a certainement contribué au développement de ces nouvelles formes de représentation. Notre objectif est d’analyser dans une démarche englobante des moyens écrits et visuels de représentation de soi qui s’entremêlaient dans la plupart des cas. L’étude de cette documentation permet d’analyser à l’échelle individuelle la façon dont les sujets de cette étude ont fait l’expérience d’un monde en transformation, comment ils/elles ont construit et gardé leurs souvenirs, comment ils/elles se sont projetés au futur dans une époque de bouleversements politiques et sociaux. Cela nous permet aussi de suivre la circulation transnationale des objets et des pratiques, ainsi que les manières avec lesquelles ils sont adaptés et réappropriés par une « nouvelle base sociale ». Nos sources sont l’objet-même de notre étude. L’intérêt est aussi bien porté sur la matérialité et les usages de ces documents que sur ce qu’ils nous apprennent sur l’expérience, les émotions, les sens, la mise-en-scène ou la performance de soi que mettent en œuvre chacun.e.s de nos auteursThis thesis aims to study egodocuments in a period of political and social transformations, from the 1890s to the 1930s. Our study is based on case studies: A diary, almanacs, letters, photo albums, interior photographies as well as a series of published sources. From the end of the 19th century, new forms of self-representation developed in the Ottoman Empire, often related to emergent political discourses. The diffusion of photography and the new techniques of reproduction of texts and images contributed to the development of these new forms of self-representation. Our aim is to analyze written and visual tools of self-representation, that are most of the time intermingled, in an all-encompassing approach. The study of this documentation enables us to analyze, at the individual level, the ways in which the subjects of this study made experience of a world in transformation, constructed and preserved their memories, imagined their future. This also allows us to follow the transnational circulation of objects and practices, as well as their adaption and reappropriation by a “new social base”. Our sources are also the objects of our study. We are also interested in the materialities and uses of these documents as well as in what they tell us on the experiences, emotions, senses and the mise-en-scène or the performance of the self
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Arguile, Katherine Tamiko. "Melancholic things." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/101812.
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Vol. 1 The Things She Owned : Major Work -- v. 2 Objects as Markers for Identity Transformation in Fictional Grief Narratives : Exegesis“The Things She Owned” is a work of literary fiction in the genre of the grief narrative. The interwoven stories of Michiko and Eriko, a mother and daughter, follow Michiko’s life from her wartime childhood in Tokyo to early adulthood, and Erika’s, after her mother’s death, in contemporary London. Erika has not dealt with an urn containing some of Michiko’s bones, nor with other things once owned by her mother, all of which sit untouched and hidden in a dusty cabinet. The arrival of her Japanese cousin Kei forces Erika to confront the difficult feelings stirred up by the sight of these objects. Each section of the narrative from Erika’s life is prefaced by an ekphrastic description of objects that once belonged to Michiko; the things appear within the body of the narrative, each playing a different role in reflecting Erika’s sense of identity in relation to the death of her mother. Some are relics, some represent fossilised grief; others are catalysts for Erika’s transforming identity. A military academy ring found in a secret cabinet drawer prompts Erika to travel to Okinawa to find the man she discovers is her real father. There, she has an accident climbing to a waterfall and her rapidly changing internal world becomes apparent. The exegetical component of this thesis examines the role played by objects in fictional grief narratives and how they illustrate identity reconstruction of a protagonist that has suffered traumatic loss. Acknowledging that traumatic loss shatters the world view of the bereaved, requiring a re-ordering and reconstruction of a new identity to help find new meaning in a forever-changed world, this exegesis seeks to fill a gap in research, exploring the way objects can be used as markers to reflect the different stages through which the bereaved progress through a process of identity reconstruction. The exegesis suggests a new schema for the analysis of objects and their changing roles in grief narratives by combining findings from the research of Margaret Gibson — into the way the bereaved relate to the objects of the dead — with thing theory, bereavement theory and psychoanalytical research, particularly incorporating ideas on the transitional or cathexic object. For the purposes of this thesis, Siri Hustvedt’s novel, What I Loved, is read closely alongside “The Things She Owned” to demonstrate the application of the suggested schema. The exegesis will also examine how using the real in fiction — real objects, in the case of “The Things She Owned” — helped to mitigate difficult feelings that arose during the writing process. It also addresses a perceived yearning for authenticity, epitomized by a surge in the popularity of grief narratives, in an age of rapidly-consumed multimedia and shallow sensationalism.
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2016.
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Marshall, Brenda J. "Silent Grief: Narratives of Bereaved Adult Siblings." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/19153.
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This qualitative research project is a narrative inquiry into the lives of four bereaved siblings; one is myself. The purpose of the project was to explore our mutual experiences of loss, look for patterns, and create a forum for continuing our stories in a new way. Identified as a disenfranchised loss (Wray, 2003) adult siblings are often seen as the least impacted family member when a sibling dies. After such a death, the concern is first directed toward the grieving spouse and children and then the deceased’s parents. Adult siblings are often expected to be a source of strength and support for others.
Through in-depth interviews and story telling, three participants shared their reflections of, first, living with and, then, living without beloved siblings. Their stories of loss and love are captured both with words and visually through photographs. My stories are woven throughout the text as I reflect upon my grief journey and ongoing search for meaning.
Findings of this research offer a glimpse into the profound depth of this loss and some of the unique challenges faced by bereaved adult siblings. All participants experienced strained dynamics within families of origin as members grieved the loss differently. Elderly parents, in particular, were hesitant to speak of their deceased child, setting a tone of silence within the family. To help “protect” parents from further grief, participants gradually stopped talking about deceased siblings in their presence. Relationships with surviving siblings were also strained as roles were reformed. For the three women participants, passing years did not lessen the emptiness of the loss. The pain was rekindled with each passing family milestone.
All of us were changed by this experience. Sharing stories with an interested listener created another avenue for meaning making and a new way to honour and memorialize our lost siblings. Each of us moved to new understandings about ourselves and our relationships with our deceased siblings, naming the experience as transformative on many levels. Hopefully this study will serve as support for other grieving adult siblings and contribute to furthering research in grief and bereavement.
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Thakrar, Sulaye. "Men’s narratives and counter-narratives of burn injury healing." 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4892.
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Due to medical advances, there has been an increased number of burn survivors, thus creating a dire need for research on burn recovery. As 70% of burn-injured patients are male, it is especially important to examine how men understand healing from a burn injury. One way to explore this is by investigating men’s stories of healing because it is through and by the experiential space of narrative that individuals are provided with the tools to reflect on and find meaning from their experiences of burn injuries. This thesis examined narratives men constructed about healing from a burn injury. Adult men with 0.5 – 30% total body surface area burned were recruited for an in-depth semi-structured interview, two to fifty-two weeks post-injury. Narrative analysis of the transcripts revealed that men principally constructed a dominant narrative that involved wanting to return to a life that was “normal” as soon as possible. I argue that these stories are indicative of a restitution storyline, that is, they follow a plotline in which the men view themselves as being temporarily injured but soon recovered. I then explore how agency, or more specifically, how agentic behaviours facilitate these narratives about men returning to their pre-injury selves. Men also constructed narratives about boredom, grief and regrets at the same time as the restitution narratives. These narratives indicated distress because they were counter to the stories that the men wanted to construct. The discussion contextualizes the men’s restitution narratives in terms of masculine socialization, and considers the role of agency in informing narrative plotlines. Lastly, recommendations to health care providers who treat men that have survived a burn injury are provided.
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Amirfarhad, Negar. "The Search for Meaning: What Do the Narratives of Grieving Individuals Reveal?" Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/65458.
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This qualitative research project is a narrative inquiry into the loss experiences of four bereaved individuals who have lost an immediate family member; one of them is myself. In particular, the meanings assigned to the losses and how those meanings impacted the grieving process were explored by listening to in-depth narratives of the participants’ experiences of loss and grief. A narrative methodology was used, based on a constructivist epistemology that describes a human tendency to put events in narrative forms in order to give them a sense of continuity and meaning. Four narratives, along with their respective analysis, were presented in separate chapters, with my own narrative presented as the last narrative chapter.
Of the four of us, two are males: one from Jewish-American and the other from German-Romanian descent, and two are females: both from Persian descent. The four participants ranged from 39 to 71 years of age at the time of the interviews, with the losses occurring 3 to 25 years before the interviews.
Findings of this research reveal the unique and complex grieving processes of the participants. A variety of meanings were assigned to the losses with each meaning having its own possible impact on the course of bereavement. Each participant expressed her/his own personal assumptions about the nature of life, love, suffering, human vulnerabilities, and death stemming from their life experiences and culture. We all expressed in our own unique way that the loss of a special person, a loving bond, and a significant relationship will always remain painful, but their memories, legacies, and love will continue beyond their deaths, which can help us in finding meaningful, productive, and hopeful paths. Hopefully this research project will provide some validation and inspiration for other grieving individuals and contribute to the current understanding of bereavement and grief.
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Fitzpatrick, Sally Annette. "The most beautiful place in the world." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/927608.
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Masters Research - Masters of Philosophy (MPhil)A memoir written after the death of the author's daughter, involving a journey to China to retrace her footsteps. The memoir is accompanied by an exegesis which studies similar grief narratives, investigating how grief writers represent the self in relation death and to others and how place becomes a repository for grief.
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Jennifer and 陳信英. "Grief and Resilience Experiences from Teenagers of Single-Parent Family: Narratives of Life Stories." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/04615320036123794647.
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Abstract The purpose of this study was to explore grief and resilience experiences of teenagers of single-parent. By the way of teenagers’ narratives of life stories, we can understand the grief experiences of teenagers when they were during pre-divorce, divorce, and post-divorce periods, and we can also explore their resilience processes . The participants of this study were Iwa, Jean, John, and Jay, and their parents were legally divorced for one to two years. Based on participants and their parents’ informed consents, participants provided their grief and resilience narratives by intensive interviews conducted separately by this researcher. The narratives of life stories from teenagers of divorce let us understand their inner worlds about their parents’ divorce . Every narrative from teenager of divorce was presented in holistic-content analysis, and the researcher employed categorical-content interpretation to interpret the individual life story. In order to explore the inner worlds of the teenagers of divorce, this researcher adopted Bowlby’s attachment theory to interpret texts. Research results obtained through text interpretation were as follows: 1. The reaction of grief from teenagers of divorce was a continuing process. 2. Attachments between teenagers of divorce and their parents decided the degree of reactions of grief. 3. In the process of resilience, classmates played important roles in teenagers’lives. 4. In the single-parent family, good relationships between single parent and child brought good life adjustment for teenagers of divorce. Moreover, reflections, suggestions, and discussions of research results were given further to provide useful information and directions for further research. Key words: teenager, single-parent experience, resilience, narrative of life story
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Lu, Jingyi, and 呂靜宜. "A Study of Narratives of Breakup Experiences in the Grief Healing Garden as a Metaphor." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47596561393706406587.
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In this study, persons who had experienced a breakup participated in the metaphor activities, using the constructs of the grief healing garden to narrate the metaphor of their breakup experience, to understand how the connotation of the metaphor was used to interpret the breakup experience or significance of the life story, and to convey the inner feelings. Narrative inquiry was adopted as the research method, and male and female participants between the ages of 18 and 35 who had experienced the end of a love relationship were selected. The data collected included metaphor activities of interview records, contents of metaphor activities and dialogue verbatim, observation records of activities in the first half of the structure of metaphor activities, and interview records and researcher logs in the second half. Crossley’s (2000) analytical blueprint was used to start from the “whole.” Information analysis was conducted, and the findings were written. Multiple validation, participants’ verification, and peer checking were done to ensure faithfulness of the research. Based on the metaphorical breakup experience of the participants and the researcher’s analysis, the researcher presented three metaphorical stories, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” “The Return Journey of a Small Seed to Its Root,” and “Multi-Colored Bird’s Return to the Crow’s Nest.” In addition, the types of metaphors formed by the participants from the garden field material can be divided into four categories: natural materials, facilities or scenes, interaction or action of people with the garden, as well as other non-garden situation metaphors. The metaphor features co-constructed by the breakup experience and grief healing garden include the sensory stimulation of the grief healing garden, the figurative connotation of the metaphor, and the deepening of the experience through reproduction. The flowing spring waterway links the overall lost journey of a breakup. Accompanying the pattern of “The Lost Bubble,” the reactions of loss and grief and the way of response were echoed. Participants created the “action” ceremony, to characterize the individual’s unique significance. The time in the grief healing garden brings security and trust and links to the story of loss. The influences that the metaphor may bring up include being an open receiver of sensory signals, to repeat the experience; becoming the director of the story as well as the audience watching the story unfold; metaphor retention; and fermentation and extension of new perspectives.
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Dias, Angelo Ridge. "Minds, objects, and persons – narratives of perpetrators of violent crime." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24597.
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Submitted in accordance with the partial requirements for the degree of Masters in Community Based Counselling Psychology in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Witwatersrand, 2017Although research on violence has gained momentum over the last 3 decades, very little work on situational factors involved in violent enactments has been undertaken in South Africa. As a means to address this limitation, the aim of this project was to better understand the phenomenology of violence. Embedded in a psychosocial approach, the study subjected data collected through three staggered semi-structured interviews with nineteen incarcerated perpetrators of violent crime to a twostage secondary data analysis using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. The first phase, aimed to provide a broad general phenomenological reading of these fifty-seven interviews. Thereafter, a more strategic and theory driven analysis was performed, building on the broader reports of the phenomenology of violence and the perceived situational factors. The evidence suggests that neoliberal policies and ideology may have a significant role in production of violent crime in the South African context, informing not only the behavioural repertoire of its constituency, but, also coming to shape the way in which perpetrators make meaning of their lifeworld and perpetration of violent crime. The analysis also found that impairments in mentalization appeared to play a role as a situational determinant in violent enactments, and interestingly it appeared to be influenced by a number of other relevant situational factors (e.g. the presence and use of illicit substances, peer and social presence and pressure, indicators of a possible threat to their wellbeing, the presence of gangsters, the presence of indicators of conspicuous consumption, as well as, indicators of the presence of moral disengagement). As such, this study provides strong support for further research aimed at understanding the ways in which violence comes to be produced by the structural processes of neoliberalism, it’s influence on the subjectivity of individuals in neoliberalized contexts, and its arguably corrosive effect on marginalized communities by way of its divestment, as well as, its arguably negative sociocultural impact. The project’s overall contribution to psychosocial approaches to violence lies in its demonstration of the value of bridging theories that span work on moral disengagement, conspicuous consumption, neoliberalism, mentalization theory, phenomenology, and violence.
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Appel, Denise Lillian. "Narratives on death and bereavement from three South African cultures." Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/5688.
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This Social Constructionist study originated from the researcher’s exposure to a significant loss and her unanswered questions about other cultures’ experience of grief. Literature is scarce from a social constructionist framework that focuses on the cultural experiences on death and bereavement from a South African perspective.
The researcher’s aim was to provide three culturally diverse South African women constructed as ‘bereaved’ the opportunity to tell their stories of the death of a loved one and their bereavement thereof. The three diverse cultures were Tswana, Islamic Muslim and Afrikaans. A qualitative research method was employed. Unstructured, in-depth interviews were conducted with each of the three participants and the method used to analyze the collected data was thematic content analysis.
The study allowed rich and valuable information about death and bereavement from three culturally diverse women to emerge. The themes of ‘mourning procedures and practices’, ‘bereavement behaviour’ ‘socio-political context’ and ‘private and public display of grief’ were identified as valuable areas for clinical practice and future research. Lay people, schools and the work environment too, will gain a better understanding of cultural differences on death and bereavement.Psychology
M.A. (Psychology)