Dissertations / Theses: 'Opera responsive to change'

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Simonetti, Angela Marie. "A Feasibility Model for Organizations Contemplating a Change of Venue." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1209134757.

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Giesa, Aaron. "SATOR / AREPO / TENET / OPERA / ROTAS." PDXScholar, 2016. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3035.

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This collection represents work produced between September of 2014 and April of 2016. These are poems about structure. Or about difference. Or about love. Or they are an attempt to decipher what it can feel like in 2016, in the lonelinesses and in the solidarities that emerge in the apparent collapse of utopian possibility, in the efforts at its reconstruction, and in the search for the next rupture.

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Oakland, Jane. "'Giving voice' : exploring enforced occupational change in opera choristers." Thesis, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.555681.

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Within the performing arts, the understanding of 'who we are' and 'what we do' appears less straightforward than in many professions. Performance becomes more than a means of earning a living; it becomes a way of living. This thesis presents a qualitative investigation into enforced occupational change for individual opera choristers and highlights aspects of career disruption that are unique to singers, in that they make their living using a biologically embedded instrument. The consequences of such change are considerable but until now, musical career transition has only been explored within the context of natural development such as the transition from music student to professional musician. This thesis spans three major academic disciplines: Music Psychology, Occupational Psychology and Developmental Psychology in order to present a rich, holistic account of the participants' experiences of unexpected and premature career transition. The thesis comprises two distinct but related empirical studies. Study One investigates the effects of redundancy on seven opera choristers. Study Two is a case study of one singer (Joe) who has been forced to abandon an operatic career due to undiagnosed physical disabilities. The personal aspects of life-changing events are not always addressed by traditional research methodologies. Motivated by these concerns, both studies adopt an idiographic approach and the method used is Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. IPA is concerned with the subjective meanings people ascribe to their experiences, but also recognises the active role of the researcher in gaining access to that window of experience. In Study One, three super-ordinate themes are discussed. 'All about me' examines identity construction for the participants. 'Who's in Control?' examines the participants' attitudes to and expectations of the power structures within the operatic profession. 'Re-defining Me' explores the process of adapting to a changed working environment, whereby three of the singers were able to experience positive growth out of career disruption. In Study Two, three further super-ordinate themes encapsulate the experiences of career transition for Joe. 'Music is Master' deals with the complex relationship between music and performer. 'I love Music, but I don't like to Sing', deepens the understanding of vocal embodiment and what singing means to Joe in the context of his disabled body. 'Staging a Life' examines how Joe moves between stage and real-life to make sense of his experiences. Despite the differing contexts of the investigation, it was seen that the singers from both studies engaged with their life world primarily through interactions between voice, music and the stage which contributed to an established sense of self. Conflicts of power were a major source of disruption to the singers' perception of self. The participants of Study One felt powerless against the control that managements had over their work and personal identity. In Study Two, Joe experienced an internal power conflict between his perception of music as a powerful force to be served and the empowerment he expected as a musical performer. Common to both studies is the question of what it means to be a singer when professional work can longer validate a vocal identity. The participants' individual abilities to re-align established professional values determined their experience of career transition. The thesis concludes that a flexible approach to what it means to be a singer is a key issue in adapting to career transition as well as to the current changes in the contemporary music profession. Recommendations are made for there to be more awareness of the special needs of musicians when faced with career transition and for training institutions to equip students for the demands of the changing music industry.

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Dragasvic, Dolja. "Meyerhold, Director of Opera : cultural change and artistic genres." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2005. http://research.gold.ac.uk/10907/.

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This dissertation on Meyerhold situates his theatre practice, and, notably, his work on opera in the context of the changing political and cultural climate in Russia during the period 1905 - 1939 and its impact on developing artistic genres. It studies the way different genres in his theatre interlocked with, anticipated or captured cultural changes in relation to the aesthetics of the World of Art group, Imperial Theatres and the Soviet Policy on the arts and theatre. Meyerhold's work encapsulated the main tendencies and problems of the Russian avant-garde at the time, and the educational role of the arts in relation to the goal of social progress. The newly developing relationship between art and Soviet society was complex, where artists learned from everyday life at the same time as the public learned from art. In this context, concepts such as proletarian culture and artistic synthesis, in respect of the role of the arts are of vital importance to the argument of the thesis. Scholarly research on Meycrhold has predominantly focused on the director's work in dramatic theatre, not on his work on opera, a field that is one of the most important aspects of his practice as a whole. Meyerhold wanted to bridge the gap between the spectator and the performer, to create a unified theatrical experience by utilising all the arts as epitomised in operatic performance. Despite each genre presenting its own problems, which resulted in treatments of staging relevant to it, Meyerhold sought to bring theatre and opera together into an integrated performance -a spectacle set to music. The cross pollination between the arts in the theatre established new ways of perceiving and creating performances. His rewriting of the score and libretto for dramatic purposes significantly opened up new possibilities for staging opera. Mcycrhold established new theatrical techniques drawn directly from musical terminology and structures. The director became an author of a production creating tightly constructed musical, theatrical and visual compositions on the stage, which sought to capture and commemorate the spirit of the age. This interdisciplinary research analyses the aesthetic principles of music, art and drama, which have usually been separated in academic study. The methodology applied consists of an empirical and analytic study.

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Liptapallop, Wuthi. "Using responsive evaluation to change Thai tourist police volunteer programs." Thesis, Full-text, 2008. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/1971/.

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This study focused on a developing volunteer training program provided by the Royal Thai Police, using a responsive evaluation to improve its effectiveness. The research was set in the context of significant changes being made in the training of tourist police volunteers in Phuket, one of the main tourist locations in Thailand. The study was based on considering phases of the training program’s development, using the Responsive Evaluation approach of Stake (1967, 2004) within an Interactive Form of Evaluation as categorized by Owen with Rogers (1999) and Owen (2006). The research considered Stake’s three phases or ‘countenances of evaluation’: antecedents, transactions and outcomes. Antecedents were concerned with the preparation step before the training programs were launched. Transactions were concerned with the program delivery which involved the processes and problems identified when the programs were in operation. Outcomes involved the results of the training programs which provided a measure of how effective the training programs had been. The three phases of the evaluation, in which standards were established and judgements made in order to identify the effectiveness of three specific programs, involved both qualitative and quantitative research methods. The antecedents included questionnaires, a focus group interview and a document analysis. The transactions included various types of data provided by the stakeholders – namely, the program staff, volunteers, trainers and tourists – and the inquiry involved document analysis, a focus group interview, semi-structured interviews, a course feedback survey (volunteers), a simple street survey (tourists), logs and journals (trainers), personal reflections (program staff) and three case studies. The outcomes included a course feedback survey of the volunteers, a simple street survey of tourists in Phuket, and observations made by the program staff. The findings of the study were validated by means of triangulation of the outcomes in each phase. The research had small but significant outcomes. These included the development of a policy for creating more effective volunteer training programs provided by the Thai Tourist Police, demonstrating the effectiveness of Responsive Evaluation in assisting in the development of a training program policy, and highlighting key elements that are required to improve the organisation of volunteer training in Thailand. Overall, the outcomes drawn from the volunteers, trainers and tourists suggest that the volunteer training programs had, indeed, proved to be effective.

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Liptapallop, Wuthi. "Using responsive evaluation to change Thai tourist police volunteer programs." Full-text, 2008. http://eprints.vu.edu.au/1971/1/Wuthi's_Final__Copy.pdf.

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This study focused on a developing volunteer training program provided by the Royal Thai Police, using a responsive evaluation to improve its effectiveness. The research was set in the context of significant changes being made in the training of tourist police volunteers in Phuket, one of the main tourist locations in Thailand. The study was based on considering phases of the training program’s development, using the Responsive Evaluation approach of Stake (1967, 2004) within an Interactive Form of Evaluation as categorized by Owen with Rogers (1999) and Owen (2006). The research considered Stake’s three phases or ‘countenances of evaluation’: antecedents, transactions and outcomes. Antecedents were concerned with the preparation step before the training programs were launched. Transactions were concerned with the program delivery which involved the processes and problems identified when the programs were in operation. Outcomes involved the results of the training programs which provided a measure of how effective the training programs had been. The three phases of the evaluation, in which standards were established and judgements made in order to identify the effectiveness of three specific programs, involved both qualitative and quantitative research methods. The antecedents included questionnaires, a focus group interview and a document analysis. The transactions included various types of data provided by the stakeholders – namely, the program staff, volunteers, trainers and tourists – and the inquiry involved document analysis, a focus group interview, semi-structured interviews, a course feedback survey (volunteers), a simple street survey (tourists), logs and journals (trainers), personal reflections (program staff) and three case studies. The outcomes included a course feedback survey of the volunteers, a simple street survey of tourists in Phuket, and observations made by the program staff. The findings of the study were validated by means of triangulation of the outcomes in each phase. The research had small but significant outcomes. These included the development of a policy for creating more effective volunteer training programs provided by the Thai Tourist Police, demonstrating the effectiveness of Responsive Evaluation in assisting in the development of a training program policy, and highlighting key elements that are required to improve the organisation of volunteer training in Thailand. Overall, the outcomes drawn from the volunteers, trainers and tourists suggest that the volunteer training programs had, indeed, proved to be effective.

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Ong, Min Yen. "Kunqu in 21st century China : musical change and amateur practices." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.649379.

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Iles, Karen Marie. "Making sense of change in NGO programs : a complex responsive processes perspective." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.689597.

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This dissertation focuses on making sense of social change and poverty reduction in international development, specifically through the work of NGOs. Social change is highly uncertain and ambiguous, taking place in a dynamic and rapidly changing context. The dominant discourse rests on the notion that poverty reduction and social change may be brought about through instrumental rationality. Key approaches are the Logical Framework Approach and Theory of Change approach with complexity sciences. These are underpinned by systems theories and the aid effectiveness agenda, focused on achieving change through the economically efficient use of resources. The dominant discourse is increasingly contested in the literature and by NGOs and other stakeholders based on their actual experiences. I draw on the work of Ralph Stacey and complex responsive processes theory to explore these contested claims. My dissertation is theoretical and practical. In the theoretical part I conclude that the dominant discourse cannot explain human social change on the basis of its own theoretical assumptions. These assumptions include predictability, control and determinism, which negates human agency and runs counter to peoples' experiences of uncertainty. I further conclude that complex responsive processes theory does offer an explanation for human social change that is congruent with peoples' experiences of uncertainty. Complex responsive processes theory is based on insights from the complexity sciences interpreted primarily through the thinking of Hegel, Elias and Mead. Human social phenomena are defined as emergent thematic patterns of interaction. The practical part of my dissertation involves situated research with an NGO. I demonstrate that complex responsive processes theory is extremely useful in making sense of program work. It offers practical ways for people to explore and participate more effectively in social change. This has critically important implications for the allocation of resources, time and effort aimed at improving the lives of people affected by poverty.

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Azadegan, Farshid. "Change and continuity through mergers & acquisitions." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/10311.

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I have lived through nineteen mergers and acquisitions and without moving companies, have signed eight employment contracts, all following M&As. Only two of the eight companies still trade, the others went bankrupt or shut down. My roles have been in engineering, sales, middle management and more recently a contributor at meetings where M&As were discussed and advisors attended. Despite professional advice, these M&As rarely turned out as planned including the envisaged growth and improvements. Often matters got worse, even for top executives. Yet, in both the literature and the way that people talk, businesses and individuals are portrayed as separate entities, M&As are aimed at changing only the businesses and are routinely associated with growth and improvements. My experience of M&As includes confusion about power and powerlessness, a sense of loss of valued relationships, identity issues and idealization of merged businesses. Using a narrative methodology and taking my experience seriously (Stacey and Griffin, 2005), I explore change and continuity through M&As and the experiencing of organizational upheavals. I also explore change in the idea of M&As and how we think of them. Drawing on complex responsive processes theory, I argue that we can enhance our understanding of change and continuity through M&As by exploring our experience of local interaction. Combined organizations as patterns of local interactions between people where these patterns emerge and evolve in the interplay of intentions, plans, actions and choices of all involved includes those between members of the merged organizations and between them and advisors, mediators, shareholders, competitors, customers, regulators and the media. To say that combined businesses emerge in this interplay is to understand change and continuity in terms of these evolving patterns of local interaction. These patterns include interpretations and conversations reflecting our ideologies, power relations, identities, idealizations and expectations about M&As. My expectations and reflections were influenced by and influence the discourse about M&As which I argue as social object evolves through our complex responsive processes of relating. Idealization of merged businesses, professional advice, the mainstream view of M&As as growth and improvement which amounts to ‘putting thought before action’ (Griffin, 2002: 25), all emerge and evolve through local interaction validating reflexive exploration of experience to enhance our understanding of change and continuity through M&As.

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Poole, Joanna. "Making sense of change in primary health care : a complex responsive processes perspective." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/14347.

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This research arose from my curiosity about change, and my dissatisfaction with models and tools which do not explain my real life, messy, and sometimes disappointing, experiences of trying to instigate change. My aim, therefore, has been to explore what is it like to experience and make sense of change as it is happening in my working life as a Nurse Practitioner and Primary Care Trust Board member, in primary health care in the National Health Service. Essentially I argue that the dominant way of thinking about change assumes it is a "thing" to be planned and then applied. I believe the error is in thinking we can produce change as if we are in control of a system. An alternative way of thinking about change arising from my experiences is that it can only express our intention for the future but is not controllable in the way often implied. I also suggest change is experienced as movement in the present where, often with hindsight, we experience a shift in patterns of how we speak about or experience something. Early on, my search was for a way of explaining my experience of change by initially drawing on the theories of complexity, which point to emergent pattern which arises spontaneously from local interaction, without any external blueprint or plan. I then turn to the theory of complex responsive processes of human relating (Stacey et al, 2000) which views human interaction as itself inherently pattern forming and therefore ordinary everyday interaction as the source of change. I take the theory of complex responsive processes as the foundational theory for my research by asking "What is it like to experience change in primary health care from a complex responsive processes perspective? " My methodology, which is consistent with this perspective, focuses on my own experiences, as emergent exploration of experience (Stacey and Griffin, 2005). In other words I am reflexively exploring my own experience by using narratives, stories and analysis intertwined, to reflect as closely as possible the messy reality of the way we are continuously making sense of experience and change. My experience seeing patients in primary health care; managing a nursing team; and sitting on the Board of a Primary Care Trust highlights the emotional, fantasy laden aspects of experience which are often disregarded or viewed as common knowledge. Similarly, there are feelings of anxiety surrounding any change where my identity feels threatened and there are changes in power relating between people (Elias, 1939). I argue that tools, models and labels serve to relieve feelings of anxiety, by providing an illusion of control, but may in themselves also increase anxiety and block the potential for change. During the research, my own practice has changed by becoming more reflexive as I focus on my own participation, whilst adding further dimensions to the theory. Firstly, I argue that focusing attention in this way implies a heightened awareness of responsibility and potential for one's own actions. I cannot know the result of my actions but know that they may have some effect, large or small. Secondly, I argue that the dominant discourse may perpetuate the way change is viewed as a "thing" external to every day experience. Rather than focusing on control, process thinking conveys a different reality of continuous sensemaking. Lastly, I argue that focusing attention on feelings, emotions and the environment as simultaneous rather than separate aspects of experience becomes important when experiencing and making sense of change from this perspective. I argue, therefore, that a complex responsive processes perspective challenges the dominant perspective on change by providing a way of understanding which resonates with my experiences, has significant implications for my own practice, and validates paying attention to ordinary everyday experience in which change is continually emerging.

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Feola, Frank J. "Culturally Responsive Professional Development through Conceptual Change: A Case Study of Substitute Teachers in Urban School Districts." Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1247838651.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cleveland State University, 2009.
Abstract. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on July 29, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 376-390). Available online via the OhioLINK ETD Center and also available in print.

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Hamasaeed, Nazakat Hussain. "The impact of commercial global television on cultural change and identity formation : a study of Kurdish women and the Turkish soap opera 'Noor'." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5431.

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This thesis aimed to report on the qualitative research conducted which identified the role played by international television soap operas in identity formation and cultural change in relation to Kurdish women. Currently, Kurdish women live in a cultural context where traditional values often conflict with modern values when it comes to behaviour deemed appropriate for their gender. Through the impact of international television soap operas, Kurdish women come to identify themselves as being 'traditional' while at the same time they attempt to integrate non-traditional beliefs into their value system. This study looked at the relationship between Kurdish women's exposure to international television, soap operas and consumerism, as well as the problems which they create in terms of non-Western women's identity formation. This thesis has documented the lives and experiences of 21 female Kurdish participants, aged between 18 and 40, through in-depth interviews and observations. The thesis assumes that the views recorded are representative of the general viewpoint of viewers of the international soaps. Open-ended, in-depth interviews about women were used to explore viewing habits and preferences for various soaps. This thesis incorporates and expresses the ideas which were recorded with regards to the accepted 'typical' characteristics of men and 4 women - it is these characteristics which play an important role in selfformation. It became evident that these women had incorporated values from the traditional Kurdish culture and the modern way of life. The Kurdish women cannot be said to have a 'modernist' outlook on gender-appropriate behaviour, as they are still endemically entrenched in traditional Kurdistan worldviews. The qualitative research analysed the level in which the soap operas act as a kind of medium between the values of modernity and those of tradition. This study, in addition, demonstrates the appeal that soap operas can have on the norms, and other aspects, in the Kurdistan Region, and therefore illustrates that the soaps have an active role as a mechanism of change in Kurdistan. Thus, the research demonstrates the power of the soap operas and their effects on the Kurdish people in this region. Furthermore, this research explored the current media environment in the Kurdistan Region by reviewing the dependency of Kurdish viewers, and the Kurdish television channels, on foreign and imported television programmes into the region.

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Sarpong, Eunice Adwoa. "Gender and Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in Agriculture: Lessons from Farming Communities in Ejisu Municipality, Ghana." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-93720.

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Climate change poses a threat to agriculture. Ghana’s agriculture is mainly dependent on rainfall, this makes subsistence farmers majority of whom are women more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. That said, the impacts of climate change are felt differently by men and women due to their social assigned roles and responsibilities. This study examined the dimensions along which gender matters in adaptation strategies.The study used a case study approach, the Ejisu municipality in Ghana was selected for the study. To understand the gender narratives and how this affects adaptation strategies 10 farmers, and 2 agriculture extension officers were sampled. An inductive approach was used to analyze the core themes that emerged from the data.The findings of the study show that smallholder farmers in Ejisu municipality are changing their agricultural practices due to the changes in climatic conditions. Female farmers were seen to be less adaptive due to gender norms and challenges with access to productive resources. The common adaptative measures used by both male and female farmers are crop rotation, mixed farming, use of agrochemicals, organic fertilizers, leaving land fallow, delayed planting, and conservative agriculture.The study findings further show there are complexities in gender dimensions in the agricultural process and this affects adaptation strategies. The study recommends raising public awareness on climate change by providing adequate support to train farmers on sustainable adaptation, strengthening institutional capacity to ensure gender-responsive initiatives in agriculture, and create equitable access to resources to enhance adaptive capacities.

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Weiss, Julie. "The Interaction of Post-Partum Depression and Maternal Knowledge of Infant Development on Change in Sensitive and Responsive Parenting during Early Infancy." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1774.

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Sensitive and responsive parenting during early infancy is highly understudied, particularly in families with a low socioeconomic status. Longitudinal data from 41 mothers and their 4 to 16 week old infants found that accurate maternal knowledge of infant development positively affected parenting contemporaneously and over time while depression did not affect parenting in this sample. Implications for intervention and research are discussed.

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Burger, Martinus Charl. "The social character of organizational change : strategizing as emergent practice." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/5016.

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Increasingly, researchers on strategy are turning away from the highly abstracted and de-humanized components that seem to typify the macro approach to strategy. This movement is at least partially brought about by a philosophical recognition that the emergent and unpredictable nature of organizational life is fast exposing the constraints of an approach to strategy that is based on the values of rationality, predictability and control. In this thesis I argue that organizational change in general and the act of strategizing in particular can be thought of as a social, transformative and emergent process as opposed to the overly orderly, rational, formative and/or humanistic views on strategy presented by systemically oriented theorists. I draw on the theory of complex responsive processes of relating as espoused by Stacey, Griffin and Shaw (2000) and specifically on Stacey’s (2003, 2007) substantial contribution to the field of strategic management. By utilizing a reflexive research methodology I describe the arduous social and emergent process of transformation in my practice and identity (observable in subtle changes in disposition, language and assumptions) as I begin to act into the understanding of strategizing as an ongoing, incomplete, social process. In doing this, I am suggesting that the narrated accounts of our shifts in practice due to us knowing differently are important contributions in the process of transforming our theories on and beliefs around strategy. These accounts should not be seen as premature attempts at methodological frameworks, but rather as explorative participation in the emergent transformation of a radical, social approach to strategizing. I engage critically with the notion of strategy-as-practice and suggest a review of the fundamentally rational and formative assumptions still prevalent in the work of researchers like Johnson, Melin and Whittington (2003) and Samra- Fredericks (2003). Whilst acknowledging the role of culturally mediated dispositions in the ongoing transformation of organizations advocated by Chia and Holt (2006) and Chia and MacKay (2007), I argue for the paradoxical and therefore simultaneous occurrence of habitual and mindful actions by people strategizing as opposed to the authors’ suggestion of a predominantly mindless experience of organizational change. Finally, I turn to Stacey’s (2007) question as to why people continue to make long-term forecasts if their usefulness is so obviously limited. Whilst understanding his frustration, I argue that there is value nevertheless in engaging in strategy making albeit not for the rationalist reasons usually stated. In my view the real value of strategising is to be found in two areas: first in the social activity that goes into creating these documents, and second: the documents not only serve as markers in an ongoing process of strategising; they also give us a way of ‘going on’ and taking the next step.

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Visser, Mathilde. "A reappraisal of the involvement of an internal consultant in processes of culture change in a public transport organisation." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/8967.

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In the dominant management discourse, managers and consultants are credited with the ability to move their organisation in a planned, controlled way towards an idealised future. The assumptions underpinning this discourse include the following: organisations are thought of as systems that can be designed and steered in an intended direction; culture is seen as a control system to align employees’ conduct in support of the organisation’s strategy; consultants are viewed as experts in designing and implementing effective and efficient interventions, being on top of the process. These assumptions are grounded in the natural sciences of certainty, in which rational, formative and linear causality are presumed. I argue in this thesis, through a reflexive enquiry of my own practice, that these assumptions do not sufficiently resonate with my experience as an internal consultant on leadership and culture change. I am offering a critique of the dominant way of understanding organisations, culture and control, with the implication of coming to reappraise the involvement of a consultant in processes of culture change. In understanding organisations to be self-organising patterns of human interaction, culture is a social phenomenon, as it continually emerges as social control in the day-to-day local interactions of people making sense of experience. Using webs of significance, present in one’s personal history and in society, people interpret and give order to their life as they negotiate and evaluate their engagements together. In their engagement, participants will negotiate how to functionalise general values in particular situations that involve differences and can cause anxiety or even conflict. In this process of negotiation and evaluation, they are forming and being formed by each other. In this interaction no one is in control, determining in a predictable way what will happen. The participants have an influence that impacts on potential next steps in their interaction. An internal consultant’s involvement is in facilitating these processes of local interaction, enabling participants to have the conversations they tend not to have themselves, perhaps due to the anxiety of the interaction being unpredictable and predictable at the same time while no one is in control of the process or the outcome. A consultant is, as fellow participant, involved in the interaction while forming and being formed by it. He is at the same time detached: by inviting participants to work with and reflect on their experience of engaging, he enables reflexive awareness of what they are involved in together. The internal consultant, through temporary leadership, facilitates the conversation by focusing on the present, and working with differences, allowing the potential for novelty and change to occur. This temporary leadership is not a designated role or the authority of being the expert, but emerges in social interaction, through recognition and acceptance of participants acknowledging the consultant as leader in having a stronger influence than others. I propose that this alternative perspective does not offer a set of techniques, a causal framework to improve organisations in an intended and controlled way, as supposed in the dominant discourse. Rather, the perspective of complex responsive processes of relating enables a better understanding of human interaction processes; of culture emerging as social control and consulting as a social process, within the paradoxes of predictability and unpredictability, of being and not being in control, and of stability and change at the same time. It requires an internal consultant to assume a form of temporary leadership by enabling participants, through reflexive understanding of their experience, to be responsible in a critically aware manner of the ways in which they influence the next steps of engaging.

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Rauch, Sebastian, Klaus-Jochen Eichhorn, Ulrich Oertel, Manfred Stamm, Dirk Kuckling, and Petra Uhlmann. "Temperature responsive polymer brushes with clicked rhodamine B: synthesis, characterization and swelling dynamics studied by spectroscopic ellipsometry." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-139314.

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Here, we report on a new temperature responsive polymer brush system with a terminal “click” functionality. Bifunctionalized poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNiPAAm) with distinct functional end groups was synthesized by atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) and grafted to a modified silicon substrate. The presence of the active terminal alkyne functionality is validated using an azide-modified rhodamine B (N3-RhB) via copper(I) catalyzed alkyne–azide cycloaddition (CuAAC). The optical properties and swelling dynamics of an N3-RhB modified PNiPAAm brush are analyzed in dry state and in situ by VIS-spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE). The best-fit results are obtained using a Gaussian oscillator model and are confirmed by UV/VIS-spectroscopy. We observed evidence of interactions between the aromatic residues of the dye and the PNiPAAm amide groups, which significantly affect the swelling behavior of the modified polymer brush
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Rauch, Sebastian, Klaus-Jochen Eichhorn, Ulrich Oertel, Manfred Stamm, Dirk Kuckling, and Petra Uhlmann. "Temperature responsive polymer brushes with clicked rhodamine B: synthesis, characterization and swelling dynamics studied by spectroscopic ellipsometry." Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A27823.

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Here, we report on a new temperature responsive polymer brush system with a terminal “click” functionality. Bifunctionalized poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNiPAAm) with distinct functional end groups was synthesized by atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) and grafted to a modified silicon substrate. The presence of the active terminal alkyne functionality is validated using an azide-modified rhodamine B (N3-RhB) via copper(I) catalyzed alkyne–azide cycloaddition (CuAAC). The optical properties and swelling dynamics of an N3-RhB modified PNiPAAm brush are analyzed in dry state and in situ by VIS-spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE). The best-fit results are obtained using a Gaussian oscillator model and are confirmed by UV/VIS-spectroscopy. We observed evidence of interactions between the aromatic residues of the dye and the PNiPAAm amide groups, which significantly affect the swelling behavior of the modified polymer brush.
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Mukubvu, Luke. "Reflecting on a period of change in a governmental development agency : understanding management as the patterning of interaction and politics." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/8968.

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Management was once described as the art of getting things done through the efforts of oneself and other people (Follett, 1941) and is functionalised through acts of planning, organising, leading and controlling tasks and people for pre-defined objectives. These four cardinal pillars of management are translated into various models, tools and techniques of best practice of how to manage. While acknowledging that the substance of the current management models, tools and techniques have for years broadly contributed to how organisations are run, my research sheds more light on the shortcomings underlying some of the assumptions and ways of thinking behind these models and tools. My research findings based on my experience in working for the Department for International Development suggests that management practice and organisational change occur in the context of human power relationships in which people constrain and enable each other on the basis of human attributes such as identities, attitudes, values, perceptions, emotions, fears, expectations, motives and interests. I argue that these human attributes, human power relations and the totality of human emotions arise in the social, and understanding the ways in which these attributes shape local interaction and daily human relating is critical in making sense of the reality of organisational change and management. I suggest that management practice occurs in the context of everyday politics of human relating. It is that type of politics that takes place within families, groups of people, organisations, communities, and indeed throughout all units of society around the distribution of power, wealth, resources, thoughts and ideas. This way of thinking has enormous implications for the way we conceptualise management theory and practice. I am suggesting that managers do not solely determine, nor do employees freely choose their identities, attitudes, values, perceptions, emotions, fears, expectations and motives. These human dimensions arise from social relationships and personal experiences. As such, it is simply not for a manager to decide or force other employees on which of these human attributes to influence their behaviour. I am arguing that the social nature of management practice and role of human agents is inherently complex and cannot, in the scientific sense, be adequately reduced to discrete, systematic, complete and predictive models, tools and techniques without losing some meaning of what we do in management.

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Brahm, Mikkel. "Seeking to control enterprise with architecture : the limits and value of an engineering approach from the perspective of an enterprise architect." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/17596.

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In this thesis, I challenge assumptions underlying my discipline of enterprise architecture that led to two choices facing practitioners: either to work with tools and techniques which predict and control changes towards predetermined ends or to accept informal processes that are unpredictable and wasteful. Orthodox enterprise architecture defines an enterprise as an organisation, which is a system, and prescribes methods that seek to provide control over the transformation of an organisation into a desired state of affairs by achieving complete knowledge of the system before initiating the desired transformation. Drawing on complexity sciences, I offer a different perspective on organisation and claim that organising what we do is an aspect of doing what we do. Organising is process. I furthermore claim that the people who are organising what we do can act spontaneously and surprise both themselves and others, but often they act habitually. Habitual ways of acting allow us to anticipate to some extent how others are likely to respond to us and, as we grow up, we learn how to behave ourselves, that is, how to adjust our behaviour to what we judge socially acceptable to increase the likelihood of being able to garner support and collaboration. I posit that social control is exercised in this way as mutual self-adjustment that forms what is normal and valued conduct. In other words, our shared social norms and values thus paradoxically and simultaneously form individuals and their conduct and are formed by individuals and their conduct. I claim that in this way we have partial, but never full, knowledge of how others generally respond to certain behaviour of ours. We can ever have only partial knowledge of that which is - in the words of Mannheim - in the process of becoming. I therefore reject the central assumptions upon which orthodox enterprise architecture is based. In organisations, we engineer and exploit mechanical mechanisms that can conduct certain action more effectively and efficiently than people can. Materiality, objects in the world, can resist attempts to shape them to suit our needs but do so without intentionality or spontaneity. Accommodating material resistance is thus repeatable. Enterprise architecture as a discipline grew out of engineering of physical mechanisms and assumes a similar repeatability and predictability when working with the social, which I find to be an unwarranted assumption. I argue against the claim of orthodox enterprise architecture that we can bring about a pre-determined state in a controlled fashion and against the claim that without such control we have informal processes that are inevitably unpredictable and wasteful. I posit that what emerges is paradoxically stable instabilities of socially enabled and constrained recognisable patterns of behaviour. When devising a mechanism in a physical object, such as a software programme, a repertoire of scripted action is transcribed into it which remains constant until transcription is renewed. Transcription has a tendency to render action less fluid. Some members of an organisation may judge particular scripted action to be awkward or detrimental while others may judge the same scripted action to be efficient and beneficial. Thus, determining which scripted action to transcribe into mechanisms is a highly political decision which attracts the attention of skilful political players. Enterprise architects can have a valuable role to play, since we have a better than average partial knowledge about technology, and since technology is increasingly important for many enterprises. I posit that becoming more aware of power and power plays, developing a feel for the game, and becoming more detached about our involvement will allow us to play into what is emerging socially with more political awareness and expertise.

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Lefvenhjelm, Elina. ""This is our Dynasty." : Hur rollkaraktärerna i såpoperan Dynastin har förändrats över tid med fokus på kön, genus, sexualitet, etnicitet och makt." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-100813.

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When the Soap Opera Dynasty first appeared in the 80´s it was not so popular as Dallas or Falcon Crest. But the aim of Dynasty was to do things more provocative. Thus, one character was homosexual, one was a “bitch”, and there was more focus on the females. The characters lived a luxury life with much drama, love, and expectations. After one season it became increasingly popular and was awarded several times. In 1989 Dynasty ended after nine seasons, and in 2016 news about a reboot was appeared on the CW and Netflix. The producers of the reboot chosed to take the best pieces of the originals and make a modern twist on the new version; there were new actors with the same characters, except that they now chosed to change certain characters regarding sex, ethnicity and sexuality. The aim of this study is to compare the original with the reboot and se how the characters have changed over time with focus on sex, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and power; and also, to relate these alterations to societal change. To undertake this study, I use the theory of social constructionism, gender studies, media analyses, and role and identity. The methods are content analysis.

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Chemoul, Isabelle. "Identité du personnage au théâtre et à l’opéra : jeu, « je » et voix." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040191.

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L’identité du personnage théâtral ou opératique se révèle difficilement. Cette figure fictive est d’abord une créature de mots et/ou de notes : l’auteur ou le librettiste parsèment sa partition textuelle ou musicale d’indices qui permettent de dessiner ses contours. Cette thèse vise à découvrir la silhouette de papier du personnage ainsi décomposé. Pour exister, ce personnage doit également être porteur d’une vie scénique, c’est-à-dire jouer ; ce jeu, moteur de l’action et révélateur des désirs des protagonistes de l’intrigue, permet de dévoiler son « Je ».Pour assouvir son désir, le personnage, l’« Un », se trouve alors confronté au cours du jeu à l’« Autre », opposant ou adjuvant ; il doit imposer son désir, sa voix et faire entendre sa « contre-voix » face à la masse ou à la horde. Le personnage est celui qui se distingue au point de devenir pour l’Autre une créature étrange qui détonne, un étranger, et parfois même un animal ou un monstre, celui dont on se méfie, objet d’incompréhension, de fascination, de répulsion ou d’attraction.Enfin, nous envisageons le personnage, comme objet scénique malléable, transformable, morcelable, sujet à toutes les métamorphoses : l’auteur et l’acteur ou le chanteur s’unissent et conjuguent leurs efforts pour donner souffle et vie à ce personnage-objet. Sur scène, cette marionnette de l’interprète est soumise à évolution, transformation, déplacement, interprétation, et appropriation
The stage character's identity is not clearly defined. The author, or librettist, sprinkles his textual or musical score with clues that allow us to shape this note and word-made creature. My goal here is to discover the paper outline of this split up character. In order to exist, the character must also act; this acting enables us to see the subtle wills and deep desires of other protagonists on stage, in other words: to bring out the "I" in each character.During the play, the character in itself, the "one", will be confronted to the "other", be it an adjuvant or opponent. He must impose his wills, his voice to the "other", but he must also be heard and understood by the crowd. For the others, a stage character has this specificity to become another: a strange creature who sounds different like a foreigner, and sometimes like an animal or a monster. Between misunderstanding and fascination, the audience can be repelled or attracted by it.At last, we consider a stage character as a malleable and dividable object, capable of many changes. The author and the actor or singer need to gather and combine their talents to bring this "object-character" to life. On stage, the performer, that is to say the interpreter's puppet, is subjected to evolution, constant changes, movement, different interpretations, and appropriation

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Thorup, Pernille. "Strategy-making in a senior leadership team in the public sector in Denmark : taking experience seriously as co-creation, conflict and paradox." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/17226.

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Much current literature on management and strategy still describes strategy work as a linear, top-down, management-based, rational, logical, structured and planned change activity with clear and predictable goals. It is described as an activity in which individual managers are addressing key questions and implementing an important, management-based plan. By using the right tools and techniques, skilled managers can transform plans into reality through good leadership and systematic rollout. This way of thinking about leadership is based on an understanding of leaders as rather powerful, knowing, heroic individuals who can stand outside of their organization to plan an ideal future, and who are equipped to make employees follow their instructions in order to reach desired goals. In this thesis I research into my experiences of what is happening in an organization, taking seriously the experience of developing a new strategy. It is an organization working in the public sector in Denmark which is right now trying to find a strategy and its way through a series of 'wicked problems' not easily handled. Through the use of autobiographical narrative-based inquiry and a focus on everyday local interactions between people working together, I research into what is 'really' going on in strategy work. Drawing on the theory of complex responsive processes of relating and reflexivity, I describe and analyse the interactions in our leadership team's efforts to change the organization's strategy. In doing so themes of power, power games and power differentials, politicking and some of the paradoxes in management - such as inclusion/exclusion, local interaction and global patterning, unpredictable predictability, and conflict and cooperation - are investigated. The complex responsive process perspective views organizations as patterns of interaction and conversations between people working together. By analogy from complex adaptive systems models, sociology, psychology and philosophy, it argues that generalizable population-wide patterns emerge in unpredictable ways through exactly these local complex interaction and interplays of people's intentions, thoughts and actions. This leads me to propose generalizable new contributions to knowledge about strategy work. Examining my own experience, I problematize the 'heroic', individualistic, view of what leaders do when working with strategy, preferring to see strategy as a co-created activity that emerges in complex and paradoxical interactions between people in the organization, in the leadership team, in daily cooperation with employees, and through the interface with customers. The understanding of co-creation here being that together we co-create our social life and our social life is co-creating us, our selves, our personalities at the same time. This inseparable paradox of the individual and the group, of the one and the many is investigated. Finally, I suggest that strategy work is inseparable from the everyday messy conflictual power games of organizational life, and that leaders - through actively engaging in ongoing conversations and co-creating meaning - participate in developing new understandings of identity and culture. In talking with one another about what it is we are doing, in influencing and being influenced, and reflecting on this, we are already changing what is going on; this itself is strategy work. The narratives show that to work with strategy effectively, we need to negotiate our intentions in convincing ways through forming strong power alliances. Taking experience seriously also demonstrates a close connection between power, ethics and action, and that it is impossible to decide the 'good' thing to do before acting. Developing reflexivity, both as an individual and in collaborative work, is a prerequisite for working in an ethical way, aware of our mutual interdependence. Finally, the thesis describes some of the consequences of taking experience seriously as a strategy. It has changed the way our staff understand what they are doing, and is beginning to change the kind of assignments we take on, and how we deal with them. One spin-off has been producing two books (with more to come). We also have new and more reflexive contacts in business and knowledge-creating environments, such as universities and business schools. The thesis shows a number of results from working with strategy in this way. This indicates that the act of taking your experience seriously in itself implies a kind of transforming causality, and hereby a strategy of change.

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Masood, Tariq. "Enhanced integrated modelling approach to reconfiguring manufacturing enterprises." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2009. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/6371.

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Yung, Fiona Yuet-Ching. "A middle manager's response to strategic directives on integrated care in an NHS organisation : developing a different way of thinking about prejudice." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/11563.

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This thesis examines a middle manager’s response to strategic directives on integrated care in a National Health Service (NHS) organisation and the development of an awareness of prejudice that acknowledges its relationship to the process of understanding. The research focuses on an integration of two community NHS trusts and an NHS hospital trust into one integrated care organisation (ICO). A change programme was initiated and promulgated on an assumption that integrating the three organisations would facilitate integrated care. However, despite the use of organisational change approaches (such as communication plans and systematic approaches to staff engagement), implementing the strategy directives in practice remained problematic. What emerged during the integration process was resistance to change and a clear division in the different ways of working in the community NHS trusts versus the community and hospital trusts – differences that became apparent from the prejudices of individuals and staff groups. The proposition is that prejudice is an important aspect of relationships whose significance in processes of change is often overlooked. I argue that prejudice is a phenomenon that emerges in the processes of particularisation, which I describe as an ongoing exploration and negotiation in our day-to-day activities of relating to one another. Our pejorative understanding of the term ‘prejudice’ has overshadowed more subtle connotations, which I propose are unhelpful in understanding change in organisations. However, I suggest a different way of thinking about prejudice – namely as a process that should be acknowledged as a characteristic of human beings relating to one another, which has the potential to generate and enhance understanding. The research is a narrative-based inquiry and describes critical incidents during the integration process of the three organisations and focusing on interactions between key staff members within the organisation. In paying attention to our ongoing relationships, there has been a growing awareness of disconnection from traditional management practices, which advocate systematic approaches and staff engagement techniques that are designed to encourage cooperation and reduce resistance to proposed change. This thesis challenges assumptions surrounding prejudice and how middle managers traditionally manage organisational change in practice in their attempts to apply deterministic approaches (which assume a linear causality) to control and influence human behaviour. I have taken into consideration a hermeneutic perspective on prejudice, drawing on the work of Hans Georg Gadamer, and have argued from the viewpoint of the theory of complex responsive processes. This offers an alternative way of thinking about management as social processes that are emergent in our daily interactions with one another, that are not based on linear causality, or on locating leadership and management with individuals. It provides a way of taking seriously the relationships between individuals by paying attention to what emerges from the interplay of our expectations and intentions. This leads to a different way of thinking about the relationship between prejudice and strategic directives, which I argue are not fixed instructions but unpredictable articulations of our gestures and responses that emanate from social interaction and continually iterate our thinking over time. This paradoxically influences how we make generalisations and particularise them in reflecting on and revising our expectation of meaning I suggest that it is not possible to predetermine a strategic outcome; and that traditional management practice, which locates change with individuals – and reduces aspects of organisational life, such as resistance, into a problem to be fixed – obscures our capacity to understand the processes of organisational change in the context of a much wider social phenomenon. I therefore conclude that my original and significant contribution to the theory of complex responsive processes and to practice is encouraging a different way of thinking about prejudice – as a process that can be productive and generate understanding, when considered as encompassing our expectations of meaning, linked to our own self-interests. This then opens up possibilities for transforming ourselves in relation to others – and, through this process, to transform the organisations in which we work.

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Tremblay, Johanne. "Aux pieds du grand escalier : ce que donne à voir l’attribution par le ministère de la Culture et de la Communication d’un label de «qualité» sur les opéras (nationaux) de région en France." Thesis, Avignon, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011AVIG1101/document.

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Cette thèse concerne la labellisation de cinq opéras de région, en France, entre 1996 et 2006 : l’Opéra National de Lorraine, l’Opéra National de Montpellier, l’Opéra National de Lyon, l’Opéra National de Bordeaux, et l’Opéra National du Rhin. L’étude porte sur une forme qui englobe obligatoirement d’autres formes artistiques quasi autonomes et professionnalisées (orchestre, ballet, choeur) et sur les changements en cours dans l’économie de ces organisations traditionnellement sous tutelle municipale repositionnées au coeur d’une gouvernance multiscalaire et mises au défi de faire croître leur visibilité et celle de leur activité. Nous nous intéressons dans ce cadre à ce sur quoi reposent les stratégies de renouvellement développées par ces organisations culturelles, sédimentées et conventionnelles, prises entre le politique et le marché, dans un cadre particulier à la France où l'État se reconnaît comme garant de la qualité. Pour conduire l’étude, nous utilisons la labellisation comme marqueur de ces changements et comme dispositif participant à l’instrumentation de ces opéras dans un marché restreint. Ce qui se voit, c'est une ouverture organisée, selon un mode de fonctionnement par projets et selon un mode de diversification réfléchie de leur activité à un niveau de complexité jamais égalé, sous la pression de l'envahissement de la sphère culturelle par les logiques marchandes et médiatiques. Cette instrumentation est réalisée par le déploiement de dispositifs de jugement dans une économie des singularités dans laquelle le théâtre d’opéra est amené à chercher lui-même à asseoir sa continuité. Sont discutées les stratégies développées quant à l’incertitude inhérente à la création artistique et à la dépendance financière et les effets du dispositif opéra national qui donne lieu à un « remplissement » stratégique perpétuel (Michel Foucault), du fait de la remobilisation du dispositif dans la gestion des effets secondaires qu’il a lui-même induit, et dans la dynamique duquel le pouvoir, la visibilité et la légitimité occupent une place centrale. Notre démarche inductive et pluridisciplinaire et la posture critique adoptée conduisent à l’élaboration d’une étude donnant une grande place à l’indétermination des rapports et des humains, dans une ontologie constructiviste modérée. Le sujet singulier qu’est l’organisation d’un théâtre d’opéra en France, les raisons de ces choix et la méthodologie appliquée sont présentés pour éclairer le lecteur dans sa rencontre avec un milieu d’ordinaire fermé. Enfin, la conclusion retrace certains liens et pointe des aspects à creuser dans une recherche ultérieure afin de comprendre ce que donne à voir, sur le présent et l'avenir des Opéras de région en France, l'attribution par le ministère de la Culture et de la Communication d'un label de « qualité »
Our thesis discusses the process and consequences of the attribution, by the State, of a national label to five regional opera houses in France between 1996 and 2006. Through this event, we look closely at the current changes in the opera house as an organization which has traditionally been under municipal governance and is with this label repositioned under a governing body which includes the Region and the central State and its demands for greater visibility. Our objective is to understand the strategic renewal of opera houses outside Paris in a centralized political system where the State is said to guaranty cultural access and artistic quality. We do so by using the attribution of the national label as a marker and as a device that participates in the instrumentation of opera houses in a restricted market and a changing normative frame within which opera houses are brought to secure their own continuity. With a brief overlook at how opera houses have been transformed into a venue meant to entertain citizens and magnify cities, we give the reader an understanding of opera houses as conventional and regimented organizations forever bond to politics and the market. The particular organization of an opera house in France, the reasons behind the choices made and the applied methodology are then presented. Our inductive and multidisciplinary approach, supported by the critical posture adopted, leads us to the elaboration of a study where undetermined connections and human beings evolve within moderate constructivist ontology. We then suggest that the label, which gives rise to a perpetual strategic “remplissement” (Foucault), is inevitably remobilized to manage the side effects brought by its very existence. Power and legitimacy occupy in this dynamic a central place that we exemplify and discuss thoroughly. Our research presents an original way to understand the recent transformation of the French regional operas houses as expressed, and apprehended, by the attribution by the ministry of Culture and Communication of a “quality” label that enables them to gradually enter the growing mediated spheres already endorsed by cultural industries

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Babin, Armelle. "Ecrire un opéra au XXIe siècle : la démarche sensitive de George Benjamin." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019AIXM0108.

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En considérant que la perception de la musique est pluri sensorielle, nous nous interrogeons sur l’espace qui se crée entre l’œuvre musicale et l’auditeur, défini comme une sorte de membrane ou de peau qui réagit de manière sensible. Nous pensons avoir décelé cet espace dans la rencontre particulière entre musique, texte et mise en scène à l’opéra, rencontre qui interpelle nos sens et agit aussi sur notre mémoire. Après avoir défini dans un premier temps ce que peut être le sens-sensible de l’art et de la musique, nous montrerons ensuite comment la démarche sensitive ou sensible est au cœur de la création lyrique contemporaine, à travers les opéras de Philippe Boesmans, Peter Eötvös, Kajia Saariaho et Ana Sokolović, et plus particulièrement dans Written on Skin de George Benjamin.Créé en 2012, cet opéra s’inspire de la légende médiévale du Cœur mangé. Martin Crimp, l’auteur du texte de Written on Skin, imagine trois anges contemporains ramenant à la vie un riche propriétaire et son épouse Agnès. L’un des anges devient enlumineur : il s’installe chez le propriétaire pour lui confectionner un livre, écrit sur la peau. Agnès s’y intéresse… Texte et musique mettent en jeu un véritable système organique et vivant qui interfère avec les sens et mobilise la mémoire. Comme dans toute histoire relationnelle, il y est question du désir, celui qui s’inscrit sur notre peau
Our perception of music being multi-sensory, we wonder about the space arising between the musical work and the listener, which can be defined as a kind of responsive membrane or skin. We may have detected that space in the peculiar way music, text and staging interact in opera, thus both addressing our senses and acting upon our memory.We will first define the sensitive sense of art and music, then demonstrate how such a sensitive or responsive approach is at the core of contemporary lyrical creations such as Philippe Boesmans’, Peter Eötvös’, Kajia Saariaho’s and Ana Sokolović’s operas, and most notably in George Benjamin’s Written on Skin.Created in 2012, this opera was inspired by the medieval legend of the Eaten Heart. Martin Crimp, author of the text of Written on Skin, imagines three contemporary angels bringing back to life a wealthy landlord and his wife Agnès. One of the angels becomes an illuminator: he gets himself settled at the landlord’s to work on a book which will be written on the skin. Agnès is interested in it ... Text and music bring into play a real living organic system that interferes with the senses and mobilizes one’s memory. As in any relational history, it is about desire, the one that gets written on our skin

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Sisk, Christopher Andrew. "In Media Res." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5444.

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We are inundated by a constant feed of media that responds and adapts in real time to the impulses of our psyches and the dimensions of our devices. Beneath the surface, this stream of information is directed by hidden, automated controls and steered by political agendas. The transmission of information has evolved into a spiral of entropy, and the boundaries between author, content, platform, and receiver have blurred. This reductive space of responsive media is a catalyst for immense political and cultural change, causing us to question our notions of authority, truth, and reality.

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Achieng-Evensen, Charlotte. "Young, Urban, Professional, and Kenyan?: Conversations Surrounding Tribal Identity and Nationhood." Chapman University Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/ces_dissertations/9.

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By asking the question “How do young, urban, professional Kenyans make connections between tribal identity, colonialism, and the lived experience of nationhood?,” the researcher engages with eight participants in exploring their relationships with their tribal groups. From this juncture the researcher, through a co-constructed process with participants, interrogates the idea of nationhood by querying their interpretations of the concepts of power and resistance within their multi-ethnic societies. The utility of KuPiga Hadithi as a cultural responsive methodology for data collection along with poetic analysis as part of the qualitative tools of examination allowed the researcher to identify five emergent and iterative themes: (1) colonial wounds, (2) power inequities, (3) tensions, (4) intersection, and (5) hope. Participant discussion of these themes suggests an impenetrable link between tribal identity and nationhood. Schooling, as first a colonial and then national construct, works to mediate that link. Therefore, there is the need for a re-conceptualization of the term ‘nation’ in the post-Independence era.

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Causarano, R. M., and P. Gregory. "Sviluppi del pensiero sistemico nell'architettura contemporanea. Il principio di organizzazione/autorganizzazione nel progetto architettonico." Doctoral thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11583/2617160.

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Relatore della tesi di dottorato di R. M. Causarano "Sviluppi del pensiero sistemico nell'architettura contemporanea. Il principio di organizzazione/autorganizzazione nel progetto architettonico", XXV ciclo del Dottorato di Ricerca in "Architettura. Teorie e progetto", Facoltà di Architettura, Sapienza Università di Roma, discussa nel Dicembre 2013. La dissertazione di Roberta Maria Causarano, incentrata su alcune delle ricerche architettoniche contemporanee legate alla “rivoluzione informatica”, affronta il difficile tema del “processo progettuale” con un ampio respiro critico e un'articolata capacità metodologica, nell’intento di ripercorrere l’emergere di un nuovo paradigma che, nella reciproca influenza fra arte, pensiero e tecnica – memoria delle ragioni originali della Τέχνη greca (come ποίησις ed ἐπιστήμη) – fornisca nuovi orizzonti di sviluppo all’architettura. La tesi ha vinto il premio "Etic 2013-2014. Etica e Tecnologie dell'informazione e della comunicazione" (2014).

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Wu, Chin Chou, and 吳謹州. "A Study of Thermal Responsive Acoustic Phase-Change Droplets in Tumor Theranostics." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21414291436793653757.

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Phase-change droplets (PCDs) encapsulated liquid perfluorocarbon (PFC) by lipid shell are more stable than microbubbles in the circulation. PCDs have potentials for theranostics applications due to their ability of converting from liquid to gas phase under ultrasound excitations (referred to acoustic droplet vaporization, ADV). In order to predict the region of PCDs drug release by ADV and alter the aspect of treatment immediately, we established an integrated ultrasound system to monitor and control the drug release and utilized acoustic-based temperature map to predict the occurrence of ADV. The transmitting pulse was comprised of long pulsing for local tumor heating and short pulsing for vaporizing the thermal sensitive PCDs. The overlapping area between temperature map and ultrasound B-mode image was calculated. The thermal sensitive PCDs were composed of C5F12 and C6F14. The stability, ADV efficiency and cell toxicity of PCDs were estimated. The optimization of ADV threshold (including mixture ratio, temperature, and ultrasound parameters) was also estimated and discussed. We quantified the overlapping area of the ADV region and the temperature map by means of performing different parameters, and established the ultrasound contrast image database to evaluate the relationship between temperature profile and pressure distribution. Then the optimized conditions were applied in mouse tumor model and confirmed the feasibility of prediction ADV location in vivo. The ratio of C5F12 and C6F14 was 7: 3 and the corresponding PCDs were with average size of 1.1 μm and the concentration of 20×109/mL. In the ADV threshold conditions of 8.6 MPa and a 3-cycle pulse, the ADV efficiencies were 29% and 63%, at 37˚C and 41˚C (p<0.01), respectively. By comparisons at 37 ˚C, the cell viability decreased 21% at 41 ˚C (p<0.05), showing heating could enhance the cell membrane permeability and drug uptaken. In vitro phantom testing at 41 ˚C, the overlapping image ratios were 40% and 87%, at 8 and 8.6 MPa (p<0.01), respectively, confirming that the pressure of 8.6 MPa performed higher precision of ADV location. At the same condition, the overlapping image ratio in tumor model was 83%, with no significant difference (p>0.05). In conclusion, our proposed imaging technique provided a useful tool with the thermal sensitive PCDs to monitor the prediction of ADV. Operating ultrasound can monitor the ADV region guided by the temperature map. The heating with ADV process enhanced the cell permeability and precisely released drugs within tumor. Future work is to apply the proposed system to cancer therapy with a real-time monitoring drug delivery/release, and enhancing the efficiency of treatment.

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Cole, Catherine J. "Nature at the Opéra : sound and social change in France, 1750-79 /." 2003. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3077048.

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Cole, Catherine Jean. ""Nature" at the Opéra : sound and social change in France, 1750-79 /." 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3077048.

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CHU, MEI-LI, and 朱美麗. "Change of Performance Style of Henan Opera During the Period of Military System (1953-1996) in Taiwan." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/r2a9sy.

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國立臺南藝術大學
民族音樂學研究所
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Around 1951, like other operas that came to Taiwan due to the war Henan Opera had its own teams set up for entertainment and the relief of nostalgia. At that time, the opera teams in the troops were necessary to encourage the officers and soldiers and relieve their nostalgia. From then on, to merge into a different humanistic environment of a different language, this local opera from outside of Taiwan has been managed and continued to take root here out of Henan with its contingency and function as a way to survive. This study was aimed to organize and review the influence of the accent and music in Henan Opera in the development hardship along with the moving to Taiwan and the performance style in the socio-environment. Moreover, in this study, the hard training and heritage to the operatic players were understood, and how to mix the strictly required basic skills with the absolute program structure and display on performance was analyzed, in order to let operatic aesthetics be achieved.

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Swift, Thomas, L. Swanson, M. Geoghegan, and Stephen Rimmer. "The pH-responsive behaviour of poly(acrylic acid) in aqueous solution is dependent on molar mass." 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/8425.

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Fluorescence spectroscopy on a series of aqueous solutions of poly(acrylic acid) containing a luminescent label showed that polymers with molar mass, Mn < 16.5 kDa did not exhibit a pH responsive conformational change, which is typical of higher molar mass poly(acrylic acid). Below this molar mass, polymers remained in an extended conformation, regardless of pH. Above this molar mass, a pH-dependent conformational change was observed. Diffusion-ordered nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy confirmed that low molar mass polymers did not undergo a conformational transition, although large molar mass polymers did exhibit pH-dependent diffusion.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funded CASE award PhD. Part funded by flocculant manufacturer SNF (UK) Ltd.

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Lowe, Kevin. "Walanbaa warramildanha: standing their ground: honouring Aboriginal standpoint to effect teachers’ professional knowledge." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1312996.

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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Aboriginal Student education achievement in New South Wales languishes at the same levels it has for decades and is seen as one of the greatest challenges for educational policy and practice. One element of this problem relates to the significant social and cultural disconnect between Aboriginal students, their communities and teachers. Teachers have too often been appointed to schools without the requisite professional knowledge that would allow them to make authentic learning and cultural connections to these students. The purpose of the research is to gain an understanding of the nature and dynamics of community and school engagement in four sites with high proportions of Aboriginal students. It investigates the potential for positive interactions between Aboriginal people and schools and teachers’ capacity to develop authentic pedagogic practices that is responsive to their Aboriginal students’ needs and aspirations. It further investigates how these Aboriginal communities articulate their interactions with schools and teachers and how they in turn they are presented within school and teacher discourse. The thesis unpacks Aboriginal community standpoint and the initiation of purposeful collaboration at the cultural interface. The research questions the nature of these relationships and in particular how Aboriginal stakeholders have supported teachers to build their knowledge about Aboriginal students and their community. This research uses a critical Indigenous ethnographic methodology through interviews with Aboriginal community members, teachers and principals in four regional, rural and remote locations in NSW. Furthermore, it was seen that in each school site, there was varying evidence of deep and authentic engagement between Aboriginal people and a number of teachers. It was seen that in these instances, there was a shift in some teachers’ professional knowledge, and teacher engagement. Finally, the research identified that Aboriginal parents and community members have a strong commitment to being party to the development of authentic collaborations with schools. This research argues that teachers need to honour, understand and actively reflect on community history, contexts and aspirations to develop the skills and knowledge to address the particular socio-cultural and educational needs of Aboriginal students.

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Tartakover, Sarah. "Cultural perspectives in school communities: an exploration and representation of cultural identity in pre-service teachers." Thesis, 2013. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/25086/.

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This arts based research consists of a creative product – the film Classroom Conversations around Culture, and an accompanying exegesis – Cultural Perspectives in School Communities: An Exploration and Representation of Cultural Identity in Pre-Service Teachers. Both the film and the exegesis explore the experiences and insights of seven pre-service teachers in their final year of a teaching degree as they undertake their practicum in primary schools in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The research uses portraiture and narrative inquiry methodology to examine a range of issues around pre-service teachers’ knowledge and understanding of cultural identity, racism, diversity and the implications of these understandings on their teaching practice. A re-emerging theme is the manner in which white hegemonic mainstream culture tacitly and overtly excludes people based on their cultural identity and skin colour, and the marginalising effect this has on them. While pre-service teachers are well placed to redress this systemic inequity within the communities they teach by integrating cultural diversity into their teaching and learning, the reflections of the research participants raise a number of associated dilemmas and challenges.

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