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Penny, Laura Allison. "Spent, on economic metaphor in post-structuralist philosophy." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq30846.pdf.
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Noys, Benjamin Charles. "The reception of Georges Bataille : post-structuralist readings." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364134.
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Kairis, Zannis. "Revisiting happiness economics through a post-structuralist lens." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10062481/.
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Despite the substantial growth in interest and publications in recent decades, Happiness Economics (henceforth HE) remains a largely problematic scholarly field as is evidenced by the field's failure to accumulate a considerable corpus of consensual knowledge. To the contrary, methodological approaches abound and conclusions often contradict one another. It is this project's contention that these mixed results should not be attributed to either simple methodological errors or to the interdisciplinarity of the field, as it has been suggested. Rather, while clear patterns of significant methodological flaws are, indeed, identified, the author makes the case that they are owed to the precarious theoretical framework that underlies HE, something which explains both their ubiquity and persistence. More specifically, the source of problems is traced in flawed assumptions that pertain, on the one hand, to problematic understandings of meaning and subjectivity and, on the other, to epistemology, broadly construed. The former concerns an unwarranted treatment of both meaning and subjectivity as stable, fixed, and universal, while the latter refers to an ill-conceived positivist framework that is not fit for purpose. Through a categorisation and analysis of the literature, post-structuralism emerges as a uniquely positioned theoretical toolbox to illuminate these difficulties and to clear the ground for a HE that addresses them effectively. In addition, the author proposes neo-pragmatism as the appropriate theoretical backdrop for any future HE projects. It is illustrated that not only is neo-pragmatism congruent with the post-structuralist critique levelled against HE but it also avoids the pitfalls of epistemic nihilism by embracing the sociological character of meaning and knowledge as well as its entailed contingencies. Finally, this project considers the general methodological implications of this intervention, how the quality of already existing literature may be improved, and explores a small number of broad policy implications.
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Leonard, Philip. "Atheses of alterity : Emmanuel Levinas and post-structuralist theory." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.281660.
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Clemitshaw, Gary John. "Citizenship education policy in England : a post-structuralist critique." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14558/.
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The aim of this study is to present a critique of recent citizenship education policy in England and the discourse that it has prompted. It considers the important philosophical and political principles by which both of these are justified, and which often incorporate a commitment to the pursuit of social justice, democratic participation, inclusion and equality. In developing this critique the thesis draws on philosophical ideas which may be referred to as poststructuralism, particularly Foucault's concept of governmentality, and Derrida's concept of deconstruction to examine and expose the universalist principles of enlightenment philosophy upon which recent citizenship policy and discourse are based. In order to achieve this aim the thesis is divided into three parts. Part One provides a narrative account of citizenship education policy in England and considers the enlightenment philosophy on which it has been erected. Part Two develops a post-structuralist critique of enlightenment philosophy and uses this as a basis for reconsidering the project of mass education and schooling in general and citizenship education policy in particular. Part Three of the thesis criticises the discourse that citizenship education has prompted and develops a detailed critique of the particular approach to citizenship education emanating from the position of cosmopolitanism. Put briefly, the main conclusion to be drawn from the inquiry undertaken in the thesis is that recent citizenship education policy can best be understood as an exercise in liberal governmentality, with the aim of shaping "the conduct of conduct" within a normative, disciplinary rationality. However, although this conclusion renders problematic the ambitions of progressive-radical critique, including cosmopolitanism, to prescribe a citizenship education for democracy and social justice, it is suggested that these ambitions can be usefully reformulated through a deconstructive analysis of policy and discourse.
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Chambers, Donna Patricia. "A discursive analysis of the relationship between heritage and the nation." Thesis, Bucks New University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270542.
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Larner, Wendy. "The New Zealand experiment, towards a post-structuralist political economy." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq22170.pdf.
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Larner, Wendy (Wendy Joan) 1963 Carleton University Dissertation Sociology and Anthropology. "The 'New Zealand experiment'; towards a post-structuralist political economy." Ottawa.:, 1997.
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Burke, Penny Jane. "Accessing education : a feminist post/structuralist ethnography of widening educational participation." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2001. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10006638/.
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This thesis represents a small-scale ethnography of access education. Using methods of auto/biography, I study the field of access education through students' life stories, spoken narratives and diary entries, while writing myself and aspects of my own auto/biography into the research. My analytical approach is framed by feminist post/structural theories, drawing on analytical tools such as deconstruction and discourse analysis and conceptual tools including power, collaboration through praxis, reflexivity, subjectivity and experience. The thesis focuses on a group of students returning to learning through various 'access courses' available at their local FE College within the context of burgeoning national policy on widening educational participation. In examining the competing discourses within the field of access education, it reveals the hidden dynamics in which access students are re/positioned in complex, contradictory and multiple ways. The research examines the implications of educational participation for access students and explores the effectiveness of interactive and collaborative approaches to the research and education of marginalised groups. The ethnography situates students and researcher as co-participants. Placing mature students' representations of educational experiences at the centre of knowledge production, the thesis argues that we must understand the backgrounds, interests and experiences of the particular social groups that policy seeks to target. I argue for the revitalisation of lively discussions about pedagogy within access education rooted in reflexive praxis that are committed to a politics of difference and to anticlassist, anti(hetero )sexist and antiracist practices. New forms of access practices that are inclusive and responsive to fluidity and context are presented through the insights of co-participants.
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Macleod, Catriona. "Transforming the research system : contribution of the post-structuralist theoretical framework." Taylor & Francis Group, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014349.
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This article was written by Catriona Macleod as research officer for the University of the Witwatersrand Rural Facility.Full text access available on the Publisher site: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03768359408439761
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Dagman, Asliye. "Forgetful post-structuralist memories : the systematically distorted history of a schizophrenic geography." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.539346.
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This project explores the genealogy of the Cyprus conflict with specific reference to the island's schizophrenic geography and its systematically distorted history. Particular attention is paid to the representation of the politics of space in order to redefine the relationship between prevalent nationalist narratives of history and possible fonns of resistance to them. Beginning with two short sections which highlight the roles of various states in the legislation of memories and the maintenance of physical boundaries, Chapter One provides a detailed exploration of the historical background for the internal and international dimensions of the conflict between Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities. The second chapter analyses the conditions for the emergence of nationalist representations of history, while demonstrating how such narratives have been challenged by Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot individuals. This section also explores alternative ways of historicizing the conflict by discussing the effects of the violence on individuals, with the aim of problematizing assumptions about homogenous communities and generalized responses to the outcomes of the conflict. The third chapter examines a selection of poems by Turkish Cypriot writer Faize Ozdemirciler. This section is concerned with the symbol of the migrating poetic self in her poetry, particularly in terms of its role in the construction of a potential model for creatively rewriting a Cypriot nomadic self. More broadly, the chapter explores poetry as a medium for resistance. The conclusion examines the possibility of emancipation through a conception of self that is in theory against rigid structures and representations as the embodiment of meaning and rationality. The various strands of the thesis are interwoven through a derailed narrative which turns back on itself and goes against boundaries, beginnings, ends and truth telling in the absence of an essential (l)dentity.
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Karlsson, Susanna. "Contemporary international political theory and global environmental politics : bridging artificial divides?" Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/7576bdd8-8ca1-4982-8d96-257d4aeec12e.
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This thesis studies the intersection between contemporary international political theory and global environmental politics. It asks whether concern for global environmental degradation requires a rethinking of the assumptions that underlie international political theory as a field of study within the discipline of International Relations. Answering this question, the thesis introduces three ‗images‘ of international political theory: the liberal cosmopolitan, the critical-theoretical, and the anti-foundationalist. It investigates the contributions of these three images of international political theory to global environmental politics. Assessing, through the three images, the status of contemporary international political theory in light of environmental concerns, the thesis suggests that while international political theory offers many important insights into discussions of global environmental politics it also appears significantly limited when dealing with environmental concerns. Key among its limitations is the human-centred framework and mission of contemporary international political theory that an encounter with environmental concerns helps expose. The thesis argues that international political theory, both to be true to its purpose – that is, the extension of moral and political inclusion in world politics – and to maintain its relevance in the contemporary world, must seek a more thorough engagement with environmental concerns. The thesis contends that a fundamental rethinking of the assumptions that underlie contemporary international political theory forms an important – and necessary – part of this engagement.
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Jones, Beverley. "The rhetoric of research in social science : a post-structuralist consideration of world views." Thesis, Keele University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368976.
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Kahn, Lauren. "Sexual subjects : a feminist post-structuralist analysis of female adolescent sexual subjectivity and agency." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10640.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 159-169).Research and intervention into female adolescent sexual health in the context of HIV/AIDS have been dominated by individualistic, cognitive perspectives, which present sexuality as a site of rational, individual choice and agency. A paradigm shift has occurred in recent years, advanced with the realisation that decision-making around sexual health is not driven by rational reasoning alone but, rather, is complexly intertwined with social/discursive constructions of gender and sexuality which, in turn, are enmeshed with processes of signification and relations of power. Drawing upon feminist, post-structuralist and discourse analytic theoretical, methodological and analytical frames, the study focuses on the discourses available to young women for making meaning out of their experiences with their bodies, their relationships and sexual choices, and explores how gendered constructions of (female adolescent) sexuality alternatively enable or undermine adolescent girls' sexual health.
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Albrechtsen, Lisette Frandsen. "The effects and limits of corporate gender equality standards : A feminist post-structuralist perspective." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Genus, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-162403.
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Based on my research aim of covering a gap in the literature on corporate gender equality standards, I research the effects and limits of corporate gender equality standards through a feminist poststructuralist perspective using the case study of the EDGE standard. Based on a qualitative research design, I build an analytical framework on Carol Bacchi’s ‘What’s the Problem Represented to be’ (WPR) approach to analyze the material in form of the five assessment areas of the EDGE standard. Based on the feminist post-structuralist perspective, my analysis showcases that the EDGE standard as a governance tool is not guided by tangible ‘problems' that exist ‘out there’ but rather through the representation of ‘problems’ as framed in the EDGE standard. The EDGE standard is thus a productive force that give shape and meaning to various problems of gender inequality which at the same time, the standard is also meant to address. I conclude that in some cases, the EDGE standard can have positive effects. However, the lack of an intersectional approach limits the EDGE standard too. This thesis contributes to the field by closing a research gap in the academic literature on the effects and limits of corporate gender equality standards analyzed through a feminist poststructuralist lens.Jeg undersøger virkningerne og begrænsningerne af ligestillingsstandarder i organisationer gennem en feministisk poststrukturalistisk analyse af organisationsstandarden ’EDGE’. Baseret på mit mål om at afdække manglende forskning af ligestillingsstandarder anvender jeg et kvalitativt forskningsdesign som bygger på Carol Bacchis 'What’s The Problem Represented To Be’ for at analysere materialet i form af de fem vurderingsområder i EDGE-standarden. Med baggrund i det feministisk post-strukturalistiske perspektiv viser analysen, at EDGE-standarden som et styringsværktøj ikke styres af konkrete 'problemer', der eksisterer 'derude', men snarere styres gennem repræsentationen af 'problemer' som de indrammes og konstrueres i EDGE-standarden. EDGE-standarden er således en produktiv kraft, der giver form og mening til forskellige problemer inden for diskrimination og ligestilling mellem kønnene samtidigt med at standarden også er udviklet til at tackle disse ’problemer’. Jeg konkluderer, at EDGE-standarden i nogle tilfælde kan have positive effekter, men manglen på en tværgående og intersektionelle tilgange til EDGE’s fem vurderingsområder begrænser imidlertid også EDGE-standarden. Dette speciale bidrager til feltet inden for ligestilling og organisationsstandarder ved at afdække virkningerne og grænsningerne af erhvervslivets ligestillingsstandarder analyseret gennem en feministisk poststrukturalistisk perspektiv.
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de, la Garza Armida. "A post-structuralist approach to national identity after the Cold War : the case of Mexico." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2005. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1764/.
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Despite recognition of the centrality of nationalism for International Relations, there has been comparatively little research from the perspective of this discipline on the way national identities are transformed through time, and on the effect these changes can have in relations among states. Thus the focus of this work on the transformation of Mexican identity in the context of the relation between Mexico and the United States after the end of the Cold War and within the framework of economic integration through NAFTA. The main argument throughout this work is that the meaning of national identity is made through an interaction with the Other, interpreted by means of two sets of discourses: on the one hand, there are those discourses on ethnicity, religion and language that seek to construct a unity out of the people inhabiting a given territory, mainly by pointing out how they are different from those outside territorial boundaries. And on the other, there are the discourses on world politics, which reify the national state as the legitimate political unit of allegiance and construct 'classificatory frameworks' and narratives which shape their interactions. Given the historical link between cinema and national identity, contending representations of the national identity put forward in recent films, both from Hollywood and from Mexico, are analysed to trace the way this process has been forged discursively in the Mexican case, and to assess the degree to which alternative narratives have become successful or failed to hegemonise a new meaning for the national identity.
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Marshall, James. "A post-structuralist analysis of the practices and processes of lawyering in a small town." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310583.
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Vera, Leonardo. "Stabilisation and structural adjustment in Latin America : a reconstruction from Post-Keynesian and structuralist perspectives." Thesis, University of East London, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264408.
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BUCHANAN, David, and daj@iinet net au. "A Bell in the Storm: Persistent unexplained pain and the language of the uncanny in the creative neurophenomenal reference." Edith Cowan University. Education And Arts: School Of International, Cultural And Community Studies, 2006. http://adt.ecu.edu.au/adt-public/adt-ECU2006.0039.html.
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A Bell in the Storm - Persistent unexplained pain and the language of the uncanny in the creative neurophenomenal reference is a doctoral work comprised of three parts. Part 1 is an exegesis Persistent unexplained pain and the language of the uncanny in the creative neurophenomenal reference; Part 2 is The Plays, A Bell in the Storm (produced by deckchair theatre in May, 2005) and the radio play To Fall Without Landing (produced by the Australian Broadcasting Commission for Radio National in October 2005); and, Part 3 the book of monochord poems, Secrets of the Driftwood.
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Johnson, Marshall Lewis. "The 'Uncreated' Voice of a Nation: James Joyce and the Twentieth Century Irish Bildungsroman." OpenSIUC, 2016. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1309.
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The ‘Uncreated’ Voice of a Nation: James Joyce and the Twentieth Century Irish Bildungsroman places James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in conversation with numerous later twentieth century Bildungsromane to argue that texts by Edna O’Brien, John McGahern, Roddy Doyle, Patrick McCabe, Jamie O’Neill, Eimear McBride, Seamus Deane, and Bernard MacLaverty examine the tension between liberation and oppression, hope and despair, to explore the complexities of these tensions untapped by Joyce, paradoxically producing darker conclusions in the Free State/Republic than in the North. I suggest that the postcolonial Irish writer feels greater anxieties about allowing the form of the Bildungsroman any sense of resolution than his/her colonial, Northern Irish counterpart. If one views liberation from colonial rule as a future event, that future is “uncreated” in its brightly-colored potential. If one views liberation from colonial rule as a past event, the present is instead an examination of the failures of revolution and the lingering ghosts of colonial rule that often appear in the guise of these very revolutionary failures.
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Ford, Jackie. "Managers as leaders : towards a post-structuralist feminist analysis of leadership dynamics in UK local government." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.497281.
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This thesis presents a critical exploration of the reported lives and experiences of managers charged with responsibilities as leaders in a UK local government organization. It seeks to propose new ways of theorising leadership by drawing on discursive and psychoanalytic perspectives that develop a more critical, inter-related psychosocial analysis of managers' biographical narratives,in particular, it examines the importance of exploring leadership dynamics through a poststructuralist feminist analysis of discourse(s), identity/ies and gender.
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Miller, Katrina. "Women and science in primary teaching : a feminist and post-structuralist analysis of power/gender conflicts." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.436776.
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Zuniga, Milton. "Alienated Selfhood and Heroism: A Poststructuralist Reading of John le Carré’s Spy Fiction Novels." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1541.
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John le Carré’s novels “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold” (1963), “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” (1974), and “The Tailor of Panama” (1997), focus on how the main characters reflect the somber reality of working in the British intelligence service. Through a broad post-structuralist analysis, I will identify the dichotomies - good/evil in “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold,” past/future in “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,” and institution/individual in “The Tailor of Panama” - that frame the role of the protagonists. Each character is defined by his ambiguity and swinging moral compass, transforming him into a hybrid creation of morality and adaptability during transitional time periods in history, mainly during the Cold War. Le Carré’s novels reject the notion of spies standing above a group being celebrated. Instead, he portrays spies as characters who trade off individualism and social belonging for a false sense of heroism, loneliness, and even death.
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Cullifer, Julie Diana. "The Sovereign State as Political Community: A Revisiting of the Post-Structuralist Critique of the Neorealist State." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31202.
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The continued commitment to and assertion of the primacy of the sovereign state within international relations theory has resulted in a discourse which theorizes and examines only those issues and conflicts of international politics which can be made to fit neatly within the prism of the neorealist discourse. As such, there exists a void in the examination of such issues as the nature and possibilities of alternative forms of political community, or into the political and economic effects these alternative forms of political community (such as social, economic, religious and environmental) pose to the traditional state and the envisioning of a global society. The aim of this thesis is two-fold: first, to renew interest and inquiry into the discursive limitations of the neorealist discourse of difference and negation; and secondly, to call attention to how the practical and discursive constraints of the neorealist conception of the state as political community effects the ability of international relations theory to address current conflicts and issues on the international stage. The intent of this analysis is to spark a renewed interest in exploring not only the emergence of new forms of political community but the possibility of being able to speak about these new forms within a discourse of international relations. Only through a commitment to the critical examination of its discourse can international relations theory uncover new ways to re-envision such concepts as political community and international politics.Master of Arts
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Pohl, Imke Johanna. "Deutsche Einheit and Europäische Einigung: A Post-Structuralist Account of German National Identity Construction through Foreign Policy." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21012.
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This thesis examines national identity in the context of the empirical case of German foreign policy. In this way, the relationship between identity and foreign policy is analyzed. The thesis does not focus on a specific scenario but rather aims at illustrating the development of the relationship by comparing the time periods of 1990-1994 and 2017-2019. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis is to answer the presiding question of how we can understand the relationship between German foreign policy-making and the formation of national identity seen within the context of its evolution since 1990. Subsequently, this thesis will take on the discursive approach of post-structuralism as well as its non-fixed conceptualization of identity. Furthermore, it will put forward the argument that identity is relational and discursive by demonstrating its constitutive and discursively constructed relationship to foreign policy. As a result, this paper presents the underlying structures of German foreign policy discourse that do not only indicate shifts but also construct German national identity. At the same time, the identity perception influences the country’s discourse on foreign policy by legitimizing specific objectives as well as general directions. While the discourse shows shifts in cases such as Othering, new framings of leadership and the ideas towards Europe, a certain continuity in regard to the German conceptualization of identity can be observed.
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Buchanan, David A. "A Bell in the Storm: Persistent unexplained pain and the language of the uncanny in the creative neurophenomenal reference." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2006. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/54.
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A Bell in the Storm - Persistent unexplained pain and the language of the uncanny in the creative neurophenomenal reference is a doctoral work comprised of three parts. Part 1 is an exegesis Persistent unexplained pain and the language of the uncanny in the creative neurophenomenal reference; Part 2 is The Plays, A Bell in the Storm (produced by deckchair theatre in May, 2005) and the radio play To Fall Without Landing (produced by the Australian Broadcasting Commission for Radio National in October 2005); and, Part 3 the book of monochord poems, Secrets of the Driftwood.
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Kale, Nulufer. "The Politicization Of Gender: From Identity Politics To Post-identity." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613815/index.pdf.
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The aim of this thesis study is to understand the significance of today&rsquos feminist politics in Turkey for post-identity politics. When it is considered that identity politics is being widely practiced today, whereas there is still much vagueness regarding the ways of doing post-identity politics, in order to achieve the aim of this study it becomes necessary to make a critique of identity politics and to reveal post-identitarian tendencies through this critique of identity-based political mobilization. In this study, feminist identity politics is analyzed and criticized from the perspective of Judith Butler, who is a poststructuralist feminist questioning identity and its relation to gender politics. These issues are questioned through qualitative research method and semi-structured in-depth interviews are used as the data gathering technique. Five in-depth interviews were conducted with women who consider themselves feminist. The interviews aim at providing individual narrations of the participants to be exposed to deconstruction later on through the analysis process. Therefore, participants are not asked direct and categorical questions about their ideas on specific issues
instead, they are encouraged to talk about how they perceive the gendered world around them and how they respond to it and how these ideas are transferred to the political arena. It was found that the participants perceived sex, gender and sexuality in a dualistic framework to a certain extent and this relative fluidity enables them to realize the importance of doing post-identity politics, but they do not have a tendency to transfer this to the political arena in the near future.
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Kangaude, Godfrey Dalitso. "A feminist post-structuralist critique of the transformative potential of Malawi’s gender equality law to promote adolescent sexual health." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73213.
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Malawi enacted the Gender Equality Act (GEA) in 2013 to address gender inequality and promote sexual health and rights. The question the thesis addresses is whether the GEA itself an artefact of the very culture it would want to transform, could contribute to the transformation of social norms to improve the sexual health trajectories of adolescents. The thesis employs a hybrid approach to addressing the question, using a legal doctrinal methodology in combination with a feminist poststructural methodology of discourse analysis. The important assumption the thesis makes is that the GEA is part of a broader framework of discourse. The GEA as discourse draws upon prevailing discourses that shape people’s experience of sexuality. This is a challenge because the GEA’s conceptualisation of gender inequality and its implementation is influenced by the prevailing dominant gender discourses.
The thesis explains what it means for the GEA to influence social change. It explores the possibilities of it creating a radical world in which society recognises adolescents as social actors and agents who play a role in constituting their gendered and sexual worlds. Enabling the GEA to be transformational requires policy actors to interpret and implement the GEA to open new possibilities for adolescents. Only then can the GEA transcend its existential predicament of itself being an artefact of cultural discourse.Thesis (LLD)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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Bandara, Dhanuka Mr. "T.S. Eliot and the Universality of Metaphysics; a Buddhist-Hegelian critique of post-structuralist and post-colonial theory through a reading of Eliot’s poetry and criticism." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1533313801703122.
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Picardie, Michael. "Towards a philosophy of theatre inspired by Aristotle's poetics and post-structuralist aesthetics in relation to three South African plays." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2014. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/towards-a-philosophy-of-theatre-inspired-by-aristotles-poetics-and-poststructuralist-aesthetics-in-relation-to-three-south-african-plays(031e80c8-04cc-4060-86df-770d67477b26).html.
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I have attempted a reading of Aristotle in terms of mimesis, ethos, mythos, lexis, hamartia, anagnorisis, peripeteia, catharsis and anamnesis - as an existential “being there” (Dasein) of the characters’ freedom and actual historicity - in three of my plays in which I performed or witnessed in productions in England, Wales, three Scandinavian countries, the U.S. and South Africa. I have analysed other Southern African “womanist” performative drama and feminist theatre. I assume with the ancient Greeks that in serious theatre there is theoria, an educated, discursive looking, which involves a dialectics of logos in dianoia intertwined in the mythos – ethical truth in the discourse of the plot. Whilst aesthetics cannot be reduced to psychobiography, creative writing is motivated in part by the author’s and the dramatic subjects’ psychoanalytically understood personal and political unconscious placed in the ethos – the character on the stage. The aesthetics of tragedy relate to both peripeteia (reversals) and anagnorisis (recognition of responsibility) which occur within an arc of development, crisis and denouement of the vicissitudes of purported wisdom in understanding how performative drama and critical theatre have been presented in what has become known as The Struggle in a post-apartheid South Africa and post-colonial Zimbabwe by comparison with historical conditions in South America, India, even China. The values of nous, phronesis and sophia, intuitive, practical and interpretative wisdom are connected to the Nicomachean and Eudemian Ethics with which the tragic-comic hero and his Other are imbued or violate. The post-structuralist aesthetic as developed in the literary theory of the twentieth century is essentially the interaction of synchronic and diachronic language emerging from the signifiance and the semiosis of the chora (the feminine or maternal unconscious) within the de-familarisation techniques of Russian and Czech Formalism. This provides a creative and meaningful limit to a consciousness of being-white and beingblack- in-the-world against disempowering Nothingness or perceived Otherness threatening moral beings. Nothingness and the Other are characterised magically and as witch-craft in oral-cultures which deny the unconscious and resort to paranoia and persecution of Otherness in the subject projected onto the other – the “colonial personality”. Shades of Brown has been re-written as Jannie Veldsman – A Film 8 Scenario and I have incorporated into a revised The Cape Orchard a retrospective anticipation of the coming of the new South Africa. I reflect on what tragic drama on the stage and in real life in South Africa means now that the new South Africa is over its honeymoon period and faces serious problems of failed governance. Within the dialectic of an enlightened rabbinical morality of Hillel the Elder (“What is hateful to you do not do to others….” and “If I am not for myself who will be for me…?”) and Kant’s categorical imperative of human beings as a priori ends, I follow the fortunes of an old Jewish veteran of The Struggle, dating back to the Defiance Campaign of 1952/3. Fugard’s work is exemplary in fostering a sense of Sartre’s Nothingness and nihilation which “haunts” Being and is the space of undecidability in relation to my condition of freedom allowing the transcendence of Being. Being asserts reparation and redemption in the face of the depressive and paranoid subject/object split in the subject’s being-in-the-world. Plays ideally submerge this existentialist, psychoanalytic and Aristotelian dramaturgy in the form of Kierkegaard’s faith and Nietzsche’s will which are part of the Encompassing in Karl Jasper’s metaphysics - the residue of a Judaeo-Christian ethics facing the anomie and aporia of the postmodern. The new South Africa was only ostensibly built on Greek and Judaeo- Christian secular ethics – “truth and reconciliation”. It inherited state, revolutionary and criminal violence, as well as a sophisticated economic infrastructure, masspoverty and a segregated educational, social and welfare system which in the milieu of ANC incompetence and corruption have for the very poor got worse but to the benefit of a new African oligarchy, the beneficiaries of a dysfunctional affirmative action policy. What is to be done? Irigaray’s striking metaphor “the speculum of the Other woman” suggests that we are reflected by the instrument we use for investigating what may be Other to us: “we” are westerners trying to live in Africa. “We” are Other – not as autochthonous as the African majority. But the autochthonous can also behave as Other and may even fail to recognise the Other in themselves. Franz Fanon’s “colonial personality”, like ex-president Thabo Mbeki, misunderstands the colonial Other in himself which, disastrously, he projects and attacks in the imaginary and persecutory Other, only to suffer the return of the Real, as do the dramatic fictions Van Tonder in Shades of Brown, Dianne Cupido in The Cape Orchard and Harry Grossman the old man’s son in The Zulu and the Zeide (inspired by a short story by Dan Jacobson). 9 The Russian and Czech Formalists and Structuralists show us how to foreground the Real through techniques of de-familiarisation which can be applied to modernist and post-modernist “womanist” performance drama and feminist theatre. Defamilarisation, especially in an Africa struggling between failed and successful colonialism and often ruled by more or less corrupt elites, sensitizes us to a moral nihilism which characterises the failed African state - described by Conrad as a “heart of darkness” transcended in aletheia – being oneself in the self-showing light of one’s ethos operating through a personal and political unconscious mystified in the rhetoric of oral-cultures. Playwrights such as Yael Farber, Fraser Grace, Aletta Bezuidenhout and Fatima Dike express a semiosis of the unconscious and the signifiance and “absurdity” of logos suggesting that all is not lost in post-apartheid Southern Africa as regards human values, whilst struggling with the political correctness demanded in The Struggle. A partially successful colonialism in parts of Africa could within a British education system, produce a Wole Soyinka who transcends the propaganda of agit-prop by showing the parabolic arc of tragedy afflicted with peripeteia. The weight of African backwardness is not only the negative heritage of colonialism and slavery but Africa’s immersion in traditional partially modernised, but still patriarchal, often tribally and religiously split oral-cultures. These enable the colonial personality to unconsciously or opportunistically exploit his paranoiac sense of his victimage at the expense of the writing-cultures of development which entail anamnesis and the redemption through anagnorisis.
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Kriznik, Natasha Marie. ""What's the problem of 'health inequality' represented to be?" : a post-structuralist analysis of English public health policy 1980-2011." Thesis, Durham University, 2015. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11328/.
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The analysis of policies designed to address health inequalities, or more broadly speaking “differences in health”, tends to focus on evaluating policies in order to determine their effectiveness and to improve the design of future interventions. Such approaches are concerned with problem-solving as opposed to problem-questioning. Consequently there is little exploration of how the problem of “differences in health” is problematised in these policies, how policy problematisations change over time, and how governable subjects are produced as a result of problematisations of problems. Bacchi’s (1999, 2009) “What’s the problem represented to be?” framework, informed by Foucault’s theory of governmentality and methods of problematisation, archaeology and genealogy, was used to analyse 32 English public health policy documents in order to address these questions. Following the analysis, three problematisations of “differences in health” and their corresponding governable subjects were identified: the Informational problematisation and the “responsible chooser”; the Constraints problematisation and the “constrained chooser”; and the Paternalistic Libertarian problematisation and the “flawed chooser”. The archaeological analysis made it possible to identify underlying frameworks of thought which shaped policy problematisations of “differences in health” at specific points in time. The genealogical analysis suggested that while new problematisations emerged over time as the result of contingent conditions allowing for the development of new ideas, ultimately there was a consistent concern across all the period with understanding how individuals make choices about their health and how best to ensure people made healthy choices in order to reduce “differences in health”. This is clearly demonstrated through the identification of subjects as “choosers” and helps to explain the continuing emphasis within public health on creating the “right conditions” to allow individuals to make healthy choices, and to encourage individuals to govern themselves when making choices about their health.
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Dekel, Ofer. "Anti-essentialist marketing : an alternative view of consumers' 'identity'." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/antiessentialist-marketingan-alternative-view-of-consumers-identity(2ab47e24-4af1-4950-a730-2bea89be02e7).html.
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One problem with the traditional marketing segmentation view of consumer markets is that it treats social categories as an ontology, which somehow becomes independent of its own members. It assumes that the self is required to adjust to its segment. In my research, I follow writers such as Hall (1996) who claim that consumer identity is not a reflection of a fixed, natural, state of being but a process of becoming. The meaning of social economic class, Britishness, religion, masculinity and so forth, are subject to continual change. Identity then becomes a ‘cut’ or a snapshot of unfolding meanings; it is a strategic positioning of the individual, which makes meaning possible. My primary research focuses on one cultural category - second generation British South Asian. This is a group of consumers who are required to negotiate with multiple discourses – local, global, past, present, future, western, eastern, religious, national, popular culture and more - and with many social and cultural categories - British society, South Asian community, county of origin, religion, professional identity and others. The mainstream literature takes an essentialist view when analysing this group treating ethnic minority consumers as acculturating individuals who hold a hyphenated identity and who have to balance pressures from two sides of the hyphen- South Asian and BritishIn my research I take inspiration from Hall (1996) and treat ethnicity in its de-totalised, or deconstructed forms, recognising ethnicity as a concept that cannot be thought of in the ‘old way’ as representing essential, discrete differences between groups. Ethnicity and race are conceptualised here as socially constructed, relationally and culturally locatedMy data collection strategy is designed to help participants (Sample size of 13) to explore the landscape of their self by eliciting life narratives and their constituent attachments. The data were collected in two stages. The initial phase is based on the collection of 2 collages one of self-identity and one of shopping experience. The objective of this phase was to give the participants an opportunity to explore and map the different discursive influences in their lives. The second stage uses a narrative interview where the collages were used as a guide for the structure of the conversation. The findings of this research confirm a picture of self-identity as a ‘Field of Discursivity’ (Laclau and Mouffe, 1985) where self-identity can be viewed as a field in which no one discourse can fully master the others. Consequently, ‘who one is’ becomes an open question, with a shifting answer depending upon the positions available between one's own and others' discursive practices and within those practices. This understanding is the foundation of my claim that traditional marketing discussion rests on a flawed assumption which renders segmentation strategy incompatible with current market reality.
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Baker, Susan. "'Black women' therapists' impressions of the social differences of 'race' and gender in the therapeutic process : a post-structuralist phenomenology narrative exploration." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2018. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/23836/.
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“Thinking about congruence implies [thinking] about difference…If there was no difference there would be no process and [therapeutic] progress.” Schmid, 2001p218 This study uses a hermeneutic phenomenological approach incorporating post-structuralist principles to explore ‘Black’ women therapists’ accounts of their lived experience of social differences (race and gender) in their clinical practice. It aims to provide rich descriptions of the women’s experiences, which are understood as grounded in wider socio-political processes and contexts. This methodological approach was adopted to acknowledge the socially constructed nature of race and gender and reduce the reification of these terms. It allows an explicit focus on the experiences of ’black’ female therapists in their clinical interactions with white male clients, including the extent where these social differences impact on therapists’ concepts of self and the developing therapeutic relationship with white male clients. Ten ‘black’ women psychotherapists from different therapeutic orientations and working in a range of contexts were interviewed about their experiences of working with white male clients. Three distinct but interrelated narrative structures emerged as prominent across the participants' accounts: race and gender as markers of difference; relating through difference; and finding self beyond social division. The study found race and gender, as intersecting contextual factors, could influence therapists’ ‘self-states’ and meaning-constructions within the therapeutic relationship. For most participants, race-related issues were more present than gender-related ones; participants’ accounts underlined the prominence of the internal psychological challenges they experienced when engaging with racial issues in the therapeutic process. In contrast to identity developmental model, the findings suggest therapists' identification with these categories is better understood by the use of subjectivity and positionality, concepts derived from post-structuralist discourse. Such use highlights the shifting, fluid and temporal nature of these social processes. Participants’ accounts suggested that self-reflexivity and relational forms of reflexivity allowed them to find ‘self’ in the context of race and gender differences with clients. Highlighting the significance of these factors for ‘black’ female therapists and the importance of addressing difference related to race and gender within training. The study concludes by making recommendations for the normalising and validation of therapists’ experiences in supervision and training, so that ‘black’ female therapists can be supported to find ‘self’ beyond the social divisions they may encounter in their practice.
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Nagington, Maurice. "Patients' and carers' views of quality palliative and supportive district nursing care." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/patients-and-carers-views-of-quality-palliative-and-supportive-district-nursing-care(e9022919-5506-4d6f-9a2d-64504bd48e22).html.
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Quality of care is conceptualised by professionals and in policy documents as: compliance with ‘best practice’ guidelines; improving satisfaction rates; fiscal efficiency; and ethical care. ‘Quality’ in palliative and supportive district nursing care has been conceptualised in all these ways. However, the empirical research in this area draws mostly on professionals’ and carers’ views with little research addressing patients’ views. With political rhetoric pushing for a ‘patient led’ NHS, research into how patients conceptualise quality in this area is necessary to both critique this rhetoric and/or facilitate its aims. Therefore, this research investigates patients’ and carers’ views on the quality of palliative and supportive district nursing care.Participants were recruited to an exploratory qualitative study resulting in a convenience sample of twenty six patients (all of district nursing caseloads) and thirteen carers. All participants were over eighteen, able to consent, lived in their own homes, were under the care of district nurses, and had palliative care needs. Eighteen participants had a cancer diagnosis, six had a non-malignant diagnosis, one had co-morbidities, and one participant did not disclosed their diagnosis. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with all participants, five participants were interviewed twice. Post-structuralist theories were used with discourse analysis techniques for the final analysis.The findings identify three of the most influential discourses in relation to the morality and quality of care: Firstly, ‘busyness’, and how its performance by district nurses masks patients’ and carers’ ability to critique care, instead producing a pseudo-quality which fixes patients and carers subjectivities. Secondly, ‘power/knowledge’ and the ways in which it prevents patients and carers accessing care which they need, and altering care to suit their needs. Thirdly, ‘the home’ and how it (re)forms district nursing care and district nursing care (re)forms the home; meaning that actions by district nurses must also consider the impact on the home as well as the patients and carers. In conclusion quality care may be produced by: ceasing to measure quality; involving patients and carers with commissioning and directing palliative and supportive care; supporting groups other than district nurses such as patients, carers and third parties to produce and distribute knowledge about district nursing care; increasing patients’ and carers’ ability to communicate with one another about their care.Further research may investigate: how patients and carers with palliative and supportive care needs may be involved in commissioning; the most appropriate wording and means to distribute knowledge about palliative and supportive district nursing care; ethnographic work to explore how district nursing and the home interact; more detailed theorisation of how the material and the discursive can be accounted for within post-structuralism.
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Anderson, Fiona E. "Being 50: A psycho-social study of a cohort of women in contemporary society from a life course perspective." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4898.
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The economic, demographic and social changes of the latter half of the C20th
have influenced the experience of individuals now at 'midlife'. Arguably the
impact of these changes has been more profound for women; specifically in the
UK for those educated to be the wives, mothers and carers of industrial Britain
(Newsom, 1963). Now around 50 years old this group of women are likely to
experience a lengthy period of 'postmaternity' (Sheriff and Weatherall, 2009)
extending to over thirty years in many cases. This research considers the
experience of this metaphorically entitled 'telescopic' cohort (Goldstein and
Schlag, 1999). The major corpus of age related research assumes a linear
developmental progression of life stages (Erikson, 1951, 1968; Gould, 1978;
Levinson, 1978; Levinson, 1996; Klohnen et al., 1996; Miner-Rubinio, 2004).
Drawing on life course theory (Elder, 1995; Runyan, 1982; Super, 1980)
enables this research to explore how women may have changed assumptions
about themselves and their expectations as the social world has changed
around them, moreover offers an alternative to the essentialist, linear,
deterministic models of ageing. This feminist poststructuralist examination of the
experience of women at 'midlife' is divided into two parts; firstly the 'lived life'
which examines demographic changes, and drawing on material from 'Jackie'
magazine, considers discourses of femininity and the expectations for, and of,
girls. The 'told story' is then explored using narrative interview material. How
women 'story' their lives and their understanding of 'self' at midlife is examined
within the context of the changing world and their ageing bodies. The research
revealed that the experience of 'midlife' for this cohort of women is narrated as
a time of change in social circumstances with some 'gains' and some 'losses',
however it is not storied as a time of inevitable 'crisis'. Moreover despite the
plethora of literature portraying the menopause as problematic, this was not
supported by the interview material.
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Anderson, Fiona Ellen. "Being 50 : a psycho-social study of a cohort of women in contemporary society from a life course perspective." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4898.
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The economic, demographic and social changes of the latter half of the C20th have influenced the experience of individuals now at 'midlife'. Arguably the impact of these changes has been more profound for women; specifically in the UK for those educated to be the wives, mothers and carers of industrial Britain (Newsom, 1963). Now around 50 years old this group of women are likely to experience a lengthy period of 'postmaternity' (Sheriff and Weatherall, 2009) extending to over thirty years in many cases. This research considers the experience of this metaphorically entitled 'telescopic' cohort (Goldstein and Schlag, 1999). The major corpus of age related research assumes a linear developmental progression of life stages (Erikson, 1951, 1968; Gould, 1978; Levinson, 1978; Levinson, 1996; Klohnen et al., 1996; Miner-Rubinio, 2004). Drawing on life course theory (Elder, 1995; Runyan, 1982; Super, 1980) enables this research to explore how women may have changed assumptions about themselves and their expectations as the social world has changed around them, moreover offers an alternative to the essentialist, linear, deterministic models of ageing. This feminist poststructuralist examination of the experience of women at 'midlife' is divided into two parts; firstly the 'lived life' which examines demographic changes, and drawing on material from 'Jackie' magazine, considers discourses of femininity and the expectations for, and of, girls. The 'told story' is then explored using narrative interview material. How women 'story' their lives and their understanding of 'self' at midlife is examined within the context of the changing world and their ageing bodies. The research revealed that the experience of 'midlife' for this cohort of women is narrated as a time of change in social circumstances with some 'gains' and some 'losses', however it is not storied as a time of inevitable 'crisis'. Moreover despite the plethora of literature portraying the menopause as problematic, this was not supported by the interview material.
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Balestrin, Patrícia Abel. "Onde "está" a sexualidade?: representação de sexualidade num curso de formação de professores." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/11083.
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Esta pesquisa teve como foco de análise representações de sexualidade presentes num Curso Normal noturno, de uma escola particular católica de Porto Alegre. Inserida no campo dos estudos feministas numa perspectiva pós-estruturalista, a pesquisa tomou como inspiração metodológica a etnografia e a produção de dados se deu a partir de observações sistemáticas ao longo de um semestre, análise documental e entrevistas individuais com as estudantes. A questão central da pesquisa - “Onde “está” a sexualidade num curso de formação de professoras?” - ampliou-se para a discussão de quando, onde e como a sexualidade entrava em cena naquele contexto escolar. Para tanto, foram criados três eixos analíticos que dizem do “currículo da sexualidade” neste curso: o “tempo” da sexualidade; o “espaço” da sexualidade e o “tom” da sexualidade. Esses três eixos se atravessam, e talvez seja possível afirmar que cada representação de sexualidade tem o seu tempo, o seu espaço e o seu tom para se fazer visível. Em relação ao primeiro eixo, enfatizo que, assim como é atribuído um “tempo da sexualidade” no curso (contando com uma aula específica sobre o tema), também na vida humana a sexualidade parece ter um tempo devido para aparecer, para se manifestar, para se desenvolver... Sobre o eixo “espaço da sexualidade”, volto o olhar para pelo menos dois “lugares”: os documentos da Escola e do Curso (mais especificamente o Projeto Educativo da Congregação da qual a escola faz parte, os Regimentos da Escola e do Curso Normal e os Planos de Estudos) e os espaços físicos onde questões de sexualidade puderam emergir – salientando que a sala de aula é um dentre outros lugares os quais desenham uma “geografia da sexualidade” naquele curso. E finalmente, sobre o “tom da sexualidade”, procuro mapear não só os discursos que foram utilizados, mas, principalmente, os modos como esses discursos se articulavam para dar conta das explicações, dos comentários, das recomendações e “dicas” em torno da sexualidade. O tom se refere, pois, ao como a sexualidade entrava em cena neste curso.This research had as its main focus of analysis some sexual representations presented in a night course for Teachers’ Formation of a private Catholic school in Porto Alegre. Inserted in the field of feminist studies and in a post-structuralist perspective, the research had as its methodological inspiration the ethnography. The production of data was done through systematic observations during a term, documental analysis and individual interviews with the students. The core issue in this research - “Where is sexuality in a course to form teachers?” – was amplified to the discussion of when, where and how the sexuality started to become part of the course in that context. Three analytical axes were created in order to explain the “curriculum of sexuality” in this course: “time” for sexuality; “space” for sexuality and “tone” for sexuality. These three axes cross each other and it is possible to state that each representation of sexuality has its own time, space and tone to become apparent. In relation to the first axis, I emphasize that as it is given a “time for sexuality” in the course (being one specific class about the issue) the same happens in human life, the sexuality seems to have only one specific time to arise, to disclose, to develop... About the axis “space for sexuality”, I concentrate in at least two “places”: the School and Course documents (more specifically to the Educative Project of the Congregation which the school belongs to, the Internal Rules of the School and Teachers’ Formation Course and the Study Plans) and the physical spaces where the issues of sexuality could emerge – pointing out that the classroom is a place (among others) which draws the “geography of sexuality” in that course. Finally, about the “tone of sexuality”, I tried to map not only the speeches (informal talks) which were made, but also, the ways those speeches were articulated to favor their explanations, their comments, recommendations and “cues” concerning sexuality. The tone refers to how the sexuality comes on stage in the mentioned course.
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Oliveira, Helena Dória Lucas de. "Entre mesadas, cofres e práticas matemáticas escolares : a constituição de pedagogias financeiras para a infância." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/21369.
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A presente investigação inscreve-se nos campos dos Estudos de Gênero e dos Estudos Culturais que se aproximam dos referenciais pós-estruturalistas, apoiados na teorização de Michel Foucault. Examino que pedagogias financeiras para a infância se constituem na articulação dos discursos da Educação Matemática com os discursos do senso comum, produzindo modos de lidar com dinheiro que educam crianças urbanas inseridas em processos de escolarização contemporâneos. Analiso práticas culturais implicadas no uso do dinheiro, relatadas em diários e entrevistas de crianças que cursavam a quarta série e apresentadas como enredos de problemas escolares de duas coleções de livros didáticos de Matemática para os anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental. Descrevo uma discursividade sobre modos de gerenciar o dinheiro que circulam em várias instâncias culturais, especificamente nos conhecimentos matemáticos escolares. Buscando convergências, reiterações e rupturas entre os discursos veiculados nos materiais empíricos produzidos, e ainda problematizando os efeitos de uma educação financeira ativada por experts, argumento que a naturalização da posse de recursos financeiros e a invisibilidade da imprescindível necessidade dos mesmos na ação de comprar são elementos do campo discursivo analisado que, ao se articularem com a incitação ao consumo, produzem uma pedagogia financeira que apaga as diferenças e as desigualdades sociais existentes. Ainda questiono os atravessamentos de gênero que estão contidos nessas pedagogias que diferenciam meninos de meninas em seus modos de conseguir, gastar e guardar dinheiro, além de reforçar noções conflitantes de feminilidades e masculinidades.This research appears within the fields of Gender Studies and Cultural Studies approaching post-structuralist references, supported by the theory of Michel Foucault. I examine which financial pedagogies for childhood are made on the articulation of Mathematics Education discourses with the common-sense discourse, producing ways to deal with money that educate urban children allocated in contemporary schooling processes. I analyze cultural practices involved in the use of money, reported in diaries and interviews of children who attended the fourth grade and presented as plots for school problems of two collections of Mathematics books for the early years of elementary school. I describe a discursivity about ways of managing money that travels in diverse cultural instances, specifically in the mathematical knowledge from school. Seeking similarities, repetitions and breaks between discourses conveyed through empirical materials produced, and even questioning the effects of financial education activated by experts, I argue that the naturalization of financial resources possession and the invisibility of their essential needs in the action of buying are elements of the discursive field analyzed, that, by relating with the encouragement to consume, produces a financial pedagogy that erases differences and social inequalities. I still question the gender crossings that are contained in these pedagogies that differentiate boys from girls in their ways of getting, spending and saving money, and enhance conflicting notions of femininity and masculinity.
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Müller, Magnor Ido. ""Lá em Casa a Gente Conversa": pedagogias da conjugalidade entre travestis e seus maridos." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/80748.
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Esse estudo, desenvolvido entre os anos de 2009 e 2011, buscou conhecer de que maneira se constrói a conjugalidade entre travestis e seus maridos. Sob uma perspectiva pedagógica investigou as tensões existentes entre o modelo heteronormativo de conjugalidade e esta outra forma de união. Na perspectiva dos Estudos Culturais a pesquisa propôs-se a compreender a aliança destes casais, a produção da masculinidade dos maridos e a sociabilidade vivida pelos pares. Essa investigação foi realizada em classes populares, e é do tipo qualitativo e etnográfico. Durante dois anos conviveu-se com os três casais que participaram do estudo. Foram feitas entrevistas, observações participantes e diários de campo. Foram utilizadas, também, narrativas e observações de outras duas pesquisas anteriores que contemplaram o mesmo campo. As entrevistas foram gravadas, transcritas e posteriormente analisadas a fim de observar os tensionamentos existentes na conjugalidade das travestis com seus maridos. A partir da análise de seus depoimentos, cotejados pela bibliografia de apoio, conclui-se que o modelo de conjugalidade e masculinidade hegemônicos tangencia a aliança entre a travesti e seu marido. A forma de união dos participantes do estudo apresenta ao mesmo tempo semelhanças e rupturas com este modelo.This study done between the years 2009 and 2011 tried to know how to build the married between transvestites and their husbands. From a pedagogical perspective, it was investigated the tensions between the heteronormative model of married in this other form of union. From the perspective of Cultural Studies this research aimed to understand the alliance of these couples, the production of husband’s masculinity and couple’s sociability. This research was done in low income classes, is a qualitative and ethnographic study. For two years the three couples were listened and they answered interview. They also were observed. Stories and comments from two previous studies whith the same people were used. The interviews were recorded, transcribed and analyzed for to observe the tensions existing in the married of the transvestites and their husbands. From the analysis of the interviews, by supporting bibliography, it is concluded that the model of hegemonic masculinity and married is tangent to these couples. This form of married presents with that model similarities and ruptures.
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Pakarinen, Kira. "A Forever Superior French Self in its former pré carré africain? : A post-structuralist foreign policy analysis of Emmanuel Macron's legitimation discourse around Operation Barkhane in Mali." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-45618.
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Notwithstanding the promises of an end to the Françafrique era, France remains the desired external security actor in francophone Africa. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the discursive legitimation strategies of Emmanuel Macron on France’s military activism in Mali, inquiring ‘How did the French President Emmanuel Macron discursively legitimize France’s military presence in Mali before the announcement of the end of Operation Barkhane?’. The aim is further to explore the construction of the French Self and the Malian Other in the legitimation discourse, asking ‘How did Macron construct a French ‘Self’ and a Malian ‘Other’ in his discourse as legitimate reasons for maintaining the intervention?’. By applying an interpretivist, post-structuralist discourse analysis to official statements published between 2017 and 2021, the thesis concludes that Macron’s discursive legitimation strategies remain approximately similar, yet the greater emphasis on rhetorical themes of equal partnership, non-interference in internal affairs, democracy and an ever-increasing multilateralism have taken place in the face of Paris’ damaged legitimacy. Focusing on the construction of the Self and the Other affirms that Macron constructs the MalianOther as significantly different from the French Self even though the country is seen as capable of transformation and cooperation, requiring the compliance of Western advice.
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Naseem, Muhammad Ayaz. "Education, the state and subject constitution of gendered subjectivities inthrough school curricula in Pakistan : a post-structuralist analysis of social studies and Urdu textbooks for grades I-VIII." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85025.
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In this study I challenge the uncritical use of the long held dictum of the development discourse that education empowers women. From a post-structuralist feminist position I show that in its current state the educational discourse in Pakistan actually disempowers women. This discourse constitutes gendered identities and positions them in a way that exacerbates and intensifies inequalities between men and women. Gendered constitution and positioning of subjects also regulates the relationship between the subjects and the state in such a way that women and minorities are excluded from the citizenship realm.Educational discourse in Pakistan is the premier site where meanings of signs such as woman, man, mother, father, patriot, nationalist, etc., are gendered and fixed. It also provides the techniques of discipline and surveillance for naturalization of meaning and normalization of subjects. Urdu and social studies curricula and textbooks for classes 1-8 and 3-8 respectively constitute subjects and subjectivities and relations among them by means such as inclusion and exclusion from the text, hierarchization of the meanings ascribed to the subjects, normalization of the ascribed meanings (so that subjects stop questioning the meaning fixation), totalization (where all theoretical and explanatory differences are obfuscated), and classification of subjects in terms of binary opposites where one is superior to the other.
As a result of such gendered subjectivity constitution and subject positioning, women in Pakistan have been subjected to the worst kind of social, political, economic and juridical discrimination. However, Pakistani women have refused to be passive victims. They have used their agency to put up a spirited resistance against the unequal citizenship status and rights resulting from the gendered subjectivity constitution and subject positioning. In order to make education more meaningful and empowering for the women of Pakistan it is imperative that both women's groups as well as the educational policy makers understand the working and dynamics of the educational discourse in conjunction with the judicial and economic discourses and those of the state and the media. It is only from within the discourses that a change can be brought about.
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Wanderer, Fernanda. "Escola e matemática escolar: mecanismos de regulação sobre sujeitos escolares de uma localidade rural de colonização alemã no Rio Grande do Sul." Universidade do Vale do Rio do Sinos, 2007. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/2061.
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Esta tese é fruto de uma pesquisa realizada com o objetivo de analisar os discursos sobre a escola e a matemática escolar de um grupo de colonos, descendentes de alemães e evangélico-luteranos, que freqüentavam uma escola rural do município de Estrela-RS, quando da efetivação dos decretos que instituíram a Campanha de Nacionalização – uma das medidas do Estado Novo (1937-1945), implementado no Brasil por Getúlio Vargas. Os aportes teóricos que sustentam a investigação são as teorizações pós-estruturalistas, na vertente vinculada ao pensamento de Michel Foucault, e o campo da Etnomatemática, em uma perspectiva construída com o apoio das formulações de Ludwig Wittgenstein em sua obra Investigações Filosóficas. O material de pesquisa examinado consiste em: narrativas produzidas por três mulheres e quatro homens que estudaram naquela escola no período enfocado; cartilhas de matemática e cadernos de cópia e ditado usados na referida instituição; e o texto, intitulado “As escolas do passado”, elaborado por um dos p
This thesis is the result of a research carried out with the aim to analyze the discourses on school and school mathematics of a group of German-descendant, Evangelic-Lutheran settlers who attended a rural school in Estrela-RS, at the time of the Nationalization Campaign – one of the actions taken during the Estado Novo (1937-1945), by Getúlio Vargas in Brazil. The theoretical grounds of the investigation are the post-structuralist theorizations, related to Michel Foucault’s thinking as well as to the field of Ethnomathematics, in a perspective constructed with the support of formulations of Ludwig Wittgenstein in his work Philosophical Investigations. The research material consisted of narratives produced by three women and four men who studied at the school during that period; mathematics textbooks and exercise books for copy and dictation used at the institution, and the text entitled “Schools of the past” , written by one of the participants of the research. The analytical exercise performed with the us
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Almeida, Marcos Adriano de. "Saberes e poderes no espaço escolar: o corpo como foco." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2010. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/2929.
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Saberes e poderes no espaço escolar propõe, a partir das reflexões de Foucault e outros autores, pensar as relações estabelecidas na escola. Como objeto de pesquisa, foi escolhido o corpo, elemento perpassado por saberes e poderes, cenário de lutas, disputas, diferenças, mas também espaço do impossível, de resistência e de ética. Nesse processo, buscou-se, utilizando dados oferecidos pela história, discutir como os discursos, práticas e técnicas construíram a ideia de corpo predominante nos últimos séculos. Na problematização de alguns relatórios de situações ocorridas nas escolas municipais de Juiz de Fora, com objetivo principal de analisar como o corpo se torna alvo de constantes investidas de saberes e poderes na escola, optou-se por adotar a linha teórica pós-estruturalista, compreendendo esse corpo-resistência como um corpo menor. Mais do que encontrar respostas, este trabalho procurou levantar perguntas capazes, ainda que sutilmente, de apontar caminhos, possibilitar outras formas de olhar para esse universo tão desafiador, elegendo, portanto, novas perspectivas.
Based on the reflections of Foucault and others, knowledge and power within the school offers thought about the relationships within the school. In this study the body was chosen as a research subject to be considered the element permeated by knowledge and power, the scene of fights, disputes, differences, but also the space of possible resistance and ethics. In this process, we used dates provided by history to discuss how the discourses, practices and techniques built the idea of body prevalent in recent centuries. With the main objective of analyzing how the body becomes the target of constant attacks of knowledge and power in school, we chose a poststructuralist theoretical line to questioning some situations that have occurred in municipal schools at Juiz de Fora city, Minas Gerais, Brazil. More than finding answers, this study seeks to raise questions that can point the way to enable other ways of looking at this universe as challenging, choosing new perspectives.
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Salvador, Breno. "A ascensão do nacionalismo e a securitização dos fluxos migratórios no espaço europeu: o caso do governo italiano Cinco Estrelas-Liga (2018-2019)." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/21407.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Relações InternacionaisAo longo da década de 2010, intensos fluxos de migrantes e refugiados pelo Mar Mediterrâneo em direção à Europa coexistem com crescentes discursos e movimentos nacionalistas anti-imigração. Nesta conjuntura, a política migratória da Itália é marcadamente securitizada no governo de coligação do autodeclarado antissistema Movimento Cinco Estrelas com o partido populista-nacionalista Liga (junho de 2018-setembro de 2019). Em um país que é uma das principais “portas de entrada” e áreas de trânsito de migrantes na União Europeia, a gestão dos fluxos migratórios neste período (a cargo de Matteo Salvini, ministro do Interior e líder da Liga) é marcada por restrições a resgates e desembarques de migrantes em situação irregular e mudanças legais que crescentemente dificultam condições para concessão de proteção e asilo. Dado que as práticas adotadas são contestadas por diferentes setores sociais ao resultarem em potenciais violações aos direitos humanos e internacional, esta tese propõe-se a investigar de que modo a política migratória italiana é securitizada e gerida através da legitimação de ações excepcionais, em um período em que o país já verificava decréscimo dos fluxos migratórios. Para isto, conduzimos um estudo de caso baseado na síntese entre a teoria da securitização e a teoria pós-estruturalista do discurso, apoiado empiricamente por uma análise de discurso de Salvini e Liga focada em eventos-chave nos quais a imigração é posta no centro da agenda política durante este governo. Esta análise problematiza a influência das retóricas populistas-nacionalistas destes atores na hegemonização de uma antagonização migratória, clarificando a contingência e marcadores identitários de seus discursos que enquadram imigrantes e refugiados como ameaças de segurança. Assim, buscamos evidenciar como o processo ajuda a normalizar a excepcionalidade nas dimensões interna e externa de sua política migratória. Por fim, diante das contestações a esta dinâmica, identificamos projetos alternativos que materializam identidades e práticas mais inclusivas frente a estes desafios migratórios.
Throughout the 2010s, the large flows of migrants and refugees across the Mediterranean Sea towards Europe go side-by-side with growing anti-immigrant nationalist speeches and movements. At this juncture, Italy’s migration policy is marked by a sharp securitization during the coalition government between the self-declared antisystem Five Star Movement and the populist-nationalist party League (June 2018-September 2019). In a country that is a major point of entry into the European Union, the management of migratory flows in this period (in charge of Matteo Salvini, Interior Minister and leader of the League) is marked by restrictions on rescues and arrivals of irregular migrants and legal changes that hamper conditions for granting protection and asylum. Given that these practices are contested by different social sectors and result in potential violations of human and international rights, this thesis aims to investigate how Italy’s migration policy is securitized and managed through the legitimation of exceptional actions, in a period in which the country was already seeing a decrease in migration inflows. For this, we conducted a case study based on a synthesis between the securitization theory and the post-structuralist discourse theory, supported empirically by a discourse analysis of Salvini and the League, focused on key events in which immigration is placed in the center of the political agenda during this government. This analysis problematizes the influence of these actors’ populist-nationalist rhetoric on hegemonizing an antagonization of migration, clarifying the contingency and identity markers of their speeches that frame immigrants and refugees as security threats. We seek to explain how the process helps normalizing exceptionality in the internal and external dimensions of Italian migration policy. Finally, in the face of challenges against this dynamic, we identify alternative projects that materialize identities and more inclusive practices in the face of these migratory challenges.
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Scavone, Naira Maria. "Discursos da gastronomia brasileira: gêneros e identidade nacional postos à mesa." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/13731.
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Esta pesquisa teve como foco de análise representações e discursos sobre as identidades de gênero e nacional no campo da gastronomia brasileira. O trabalho se desenvolveu dentro dos campos de Estudos Culturais, Feministas e de Gênero, numa perspectiva pós-estruturalista. A fonte fundamental da pesquisa foi uma revista de alta gastronomia nacional, chamada Gula. O recorte da análise (textual e visual) ficou entre as publicações de dezembro de 1999 a dezembro de 2005, num total de 73 exemplares da revista. Quais os mecanismos e os discursos que se articulam e constroem o que hoje entendemos como gastronomia brasileira e de que forma esses discursos modulam a noção das identidades de gênero e nacional? Essa foi a questão central que norteou o estudo. Buscou-se demonstrar o caráter cultural e histórico da gastronomia não só pela apresentação e pela articulação de alguns acontecimentos e “invenções” de práticas, produtos, técnicas e comportamentos, como também pela análise das relações de poder envolvidas nos processos de distinção e diferenciação de sujeitos no âmbito do bem comer. Nesta análise, observou-se como são representadas, nomeadas e/ou definidas as identidades de gênero a partir da construção de certo tipo de gosto, definido pela revista como o de alta gastronomia. De modo especial, buscou-se examinar a participação da gastronomia na construção da idéia de uma identidade nacional brasileira, tanto historicamente quanto na contemporaneidade.This research studies the discourses and social representations related to gender and national identity in the field of Brazilian gastronomy. Developed from the perspectives of the Cultural, Feminist and Gender Studies, this work presents a post-structuralist perspective. The main source of the research was a Brazilian gastronomy magazine, Gula. Seventy-three issues, published between December 1999 and December 2005, were analyzed. Which mechanisms and discourses structure what we understand nowadays as Brazilian gastronomy? In which ways these discourses modulate the perceptions of gender or national identity? These were the central questions this work aimed to answer. We have tried to demonstrate the cultural and historical character of gastronomy, not only through the presentation of some events and “inventions” (of practices, products, techniques and behaviors), but also through the analysis of the power relations involved in processes of distinction and social differentiation, in the domain of the “good taste”. This study observes how gender identities are defined, named or represented in close relation to the construction of a certain kind of taste, defined by the magazine as a gastronomical taste. Specially, the research aimed to examine the role of gastronomy in the construction of a Brazilian national identity, both historically and in the present times.
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Ekström, Linda. "Jämställdhet – för männens, arbetarklassens och effektivitetens skull? : En diskursiv policystudie av jämställdhetsarbete i maskulina miljöer." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-79494.
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Issues concerning gender equality are today an integral part of Swedish society. Because of this, even traditionally male-dominated actors are forced to incorporate a focus on gender equality. What kind of tensions may this provoke, and how are these tensions visible in the gender equality policy making of traditionally male-dominated organizations? Against this background, the aim of this dissertation is to analyse how issues of gender equality are “problematized” by three organizations that originate from masculine environments; Män för jämställdhet, IF Metall and Rikpolisstyrelsen. I wish to analyse the meaning that these actors incorporate into the issue of gender equality and from which discourses these meanings are derived. This focus entails a specific theoretical standpoint. Thus, another aim of the study is to discuss the advantages of a post-structuralist approach to the study of public policy. More specifically, I want to develop the use of a range of discourse analytical modes of analysis and to evaluate their utility in capturing the dynamic of problematization processes. The empirical focus of the dissertation is on the years between 2000 and 2008. The research material consists of both formal and informal documents. The analysis shows that questions of gender equality can be problematized in a number of ways. Issues concerning gender equality can be tied to issues of men’s hegemony, men’s gender-specific problems, class-based problems and organizational problems. This wide array of problematizations also illustrates ways in which there still seems to be an underlying conflict over the meanings tied to the concept, even though nobody openly challenges the importance of gender equality reform efforts. I call this situation a “conflictual consensus” and point to the importance of deconstructing this supposed unity and illuminating the kind of power relations that lay hidden beneath it.
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Söderlund, Hanna. "”Jättekul att det är så många tjejer här ikväll” : En interaktionell studie om humor och kön i tv-programmet Parlamentet." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-120169.
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The purpose of this study is to explore how the relation between gender and humour is maintained and challenged in the Swedish TV show Parlamentet. Using an interactional approach based on Judith Baxter’s theoretical framework for feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis, the study focuses on how communicative strategies are used in negotiating for the ideal position of “the successful comedian”. This position is seen as an ideal position in Parlamentet, where comedians do political parody. In the conversation sequences examined in this study, both verbal and bodily semiotic modes have been analyzed using conversation analysis and multimodal analysis. The study focuses on how different communicative strategies encourage or reject the comedians and how this leads to different possibilities in negotiating for a powerful position, the position of the successful comedian. Humour is culturally seen as a male-coded discourse. The relations between humour and gender that are in focus are the hegemonic notions of women as lacking a sense of humour or being less humorous than men. The notions of gender are based on Judith Butler’s theories and hence seen as something performed through discourse and within a rigid regulatory frame where the subject’s possibilities are not infinite. The results of the study show that the female and male comedians do not have the same possibilities in the negotiation for the position of “the successful comedian”. The male comedians are strongly encouraged to a greater extent than the female comedians. The female comedians are also rejected to a larger extent than the male comedians. The male comedians are mostly rejected by the moderator whereas the female comedians are rejected by the moderator, male comedians and female comedians. The female comedians encourage other comedians to a larger degree than the male comedians. A significant finding of this study is that the relations between humour and gender, where women are seen as less humorous than men, are maintained when female comedians through discourse are made less humorous. However, there are strategies in the interaction that do encourage the female comedians or that lead to female comedian’s resist being rejected. These strategies indicate that the hegemonic cultural notions of women as less humorous than men are also challenged in this public discourse.
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Santos, Carolina Correia dos. "Às margens: um estudo ao redor de Os Sertões, Native Son e Cidade de Deus." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8151/tde-30012014-101011/.
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Este trabalho se dedica a Os Sertões (1902), de Euclides da Cunha, Native Son (1940), de Richard Wright, e Cidade de Deus (1997), de Paulo Lins. Buscando construir-se uma leitura crítica criativa, esta tese utiliza o método comparativo de forma a possibilitar que novos aspectos das obras surjam, assim como os elementos hegemônicos e contra-hegemônicos que as constituem, e as suas fortunas críticas. Partindo do entendimento de que os textos críticos e literários sempre se situam num campo maior, político, o presente estudo visa compreender as relações estabelecidas entre as obras, a crítica, a nação e o Estado. Com esse objetivo, além dos textos de Euclides, Wright e Lins, e de algum das respectivas críticas, outras disciplinas e seus teóricos serão mobilizados; entre eles (mas não só): Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ranajit Guha, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari e Jacques Derrida.This dissertation looks at the work of Euclides da Cunha\'s Os Sertões (1902), Richard Wright\'s Native Son (1940) and Paulo Lins\'s Cidade de Deus (1997). It seeks to be a creative reading of the books and their critical fortune by way of a comparative approach, ultimately allowing new aspects, such as hegemonic and counter-hegemonic elements, to come to the fore. The basis of this study is that literary and critical texts are all inserted in a greater political field. This research draws upon neighboring disciplines and theorists such as: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ranajit Guha, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Jacques Derrida.
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Lundegård, Karin. "Bränn mitt bref! : En poststrukturalistiskt inspirerad studie av författaren Marianne Lundegård-Hagbergs utträdande ur historien." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för etnologi, religionshistoria och genusvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-77317.
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Abstract This thesis discusses and analyses a 19th century female author's vanishing from history. The study investigates social relationships as figured and described in the epistolary form, based on letters between the author herself and different members of her family. It also tries to identify the author's position and situation in her time and society according to important themes and motifs in her novels. The main purpose is not to reconstruct history, but rather to show the many complex histories that can also be described, apart from the simplified and generalized one. The aim of this study is to, from a post-structuralist perspective, analyze the position of author Marianne Lundegård-Hagberg, and her role as a performative, discursive person that history forgot.
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Butryn, Renata. "Art therapy and eating disorders : introducing feminist post-structuralist perspectives." Thesis, 2008. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/975933/1/MR45278.pdf.
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This research addresses the phenomenon of eating disorders, specifically anorexia and bulimia, among contemporary Western women, with an aim to examine the usefulness of integrating feminist post-structuralist perspectives into art therapy for the understanding and treatment of female clients. Feminist post-structuralists share a sociopolitical view of eating disorders as attempts to reconcile the oppressive contradictory femininity that is embedded in Western gendered mind-body discourse, within which femininity is equated with the devalued body and construed negatively as the "other" of the masculine mind-as-self. Feminist post-structuralists describe the gendered mind-body discourse as pervading popular culture and psycho-medical theories and treatments, which tends to reproduce the contradictory femininity and undermine recovery. This theoretical study is based on reviews of feminist post-structuralist literature related to eating disorders and of literature on feminist art therapy, postmodern art therapy, and art therapy with eating disorders. The study demonstrates that feminist post-structuralist perspectives can increase art therapists' awareness of: the role of sociopolitical context; patriarchal assumptions in theories of human development and in symbolic representation; gender and power issues in treatment; and how visual, metaphorical, concrete, and embodied aspects of working with images can subvert the gendered mind-body discourse and ultimately reconstruct women's femininity.