In 2009 four men were trafficked from their native Bangladesh to work in the Scottish Highlands. They were promised jobs as professional chefs. Instead they were forced into modern-day slavery. This is their story.

Jaclyn Christine Rawls

Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2003. / Advisor: Dr. Sheila Ortiz-Taylor, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Oct. 3, 2003).

This thesis is an exploratory study about adolescents' conceptions of food. It begins from a sociological or social anthropological perspective from which existing studies have illustrated that food and eating can be used in order to create, maintain or dispute social boundaries, symbolising both group membership and individual identity. The thesis draws on data generated through the use of participant observation in three schools and one youth club and through conducting ethnographic interviews with some of these adolescents. The main argument presented in this thesis is that adolescents conceptualise food in terms of 'ways of eating' which are defined on the basis of where the food comes from, 'where it is eaten, whom it is eaten with, who prepares the food. how it is eaten and the type of food eaten. When analysing these ways of eating, clear and consistent patterns emerge which show that adolescents employ different ways of eating in order to define, maintain or contest different identities available to them in the diverse social settings of which they are part. By analysing different adolescent ways of eating at school, home and out I illustrate that there are multiple identities that adolescents adopt or are ascribed in these settings. I suggest that adolescents are best understood as occupying a liminal status which is distinct from the statuses of both child and adult. In all three settings adolescent ways of eating can be understood as both creating and reflecting this distinction through the adoption of a particular 'public adolescent identity'. At other times though adolescent ways of eating can be used as a means of moving from one status to another, most notably as a means of adopting an adult rather than adolescent status. By conceptualising adolescence as a liminal period this necessarily incorporates analysing periods of movement and transition during which statuses, roles and obligations are negotiated and shifted. This thesis gives a preliminary insight into the role which adolescent ways of eating plays in this adoption or ascription of identities.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Victoria University (Melbourne, Vic.), 2007. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.) in English--University of Maine, 2003. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 58).

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The integration of the University of Pretoria into its context has become a critical consideration, if the City of Tshwane Development framework 2010 endeavor to further develop the Hatfield district area as one of the cities nodal activity hubs is to be achieved. How can this are achieved without compromising the universities security when breaking the barriers between. / Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Architecture / unrestricted

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Feb. 29, 2008). Directed by Steve Kroll-Smith; submitted to the Dept. of Sociology. Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-65).

This thesis uses a narrative approach to explore how hallucinations are understood by people with dementia, their carers and community mental health nurses. The study aims to make visible the multiple enactments of realities of hallucinations as they are practiced within a community mental health setting. While existing research shows a growing body of research about experiences of dementia, the experience of hallucinations has been unexplored. Research about hallucinations has predominantly focused on epidemiology or pharmaceutical interventions. The research was conducted in one area of Scotland, using three triadic case studies comprising a person with dementia living at home, their carer and community nurse. Data were collected through conversational interviews. In this study realities are conceptualised as enacted and multiple. The study was informed by an ethic of care approach which critiques the view of people as isolated individuals. People are understood to live in relationships within which they co-construct narratives. It provided an ethical framework to research relationships and data analysis. Data were analysed using voice centred relational analysis, which uses four separate ‘listenings’ for each interview. This method identifies the multiple voices speaking and allows a high degree of reflexivity. I-poems were produced for each of the interviews and some visual illustrations were used in different ways to illustrate the analysis and allow an alternative interpretive perspective on the data. The analysis reveals that people with dementia and their carers contextualise their understanding of hallucinations into their narrative identity. They strive for continuity but also experience them as potential threats. Ambiguity and uncertainty are characteristic of the experience of hallucinations of people with dementia and carers and I suggest that liminality is a useful concept to understand this. Community nurses have multiple, and fluid understandings of hallucinations; they negotiate these different hallucinations within a situated practice enactment. Their decision to act on hallucinations does not depend on whether they relate to consensus reality, but whether they cause distress. The findings of this study highlight the complexities and ambiguities of hallucinations within dementia and shows how they are managed in practice. The theoretical perspectives of enacted realities and ethic of care, alongside creative methods enhances understanding of the ephemeral nature of hallucinations. This study adds to literature challenging the exclusion of the people with dementia from research by demonstrating that they are able to talk about their experiences of hallucinations. The study contributes to the story of hallucinations in dementia by disrupting the fixed boundaries of the dominant discourse that views hallucinations as a clear cut break with reality.