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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
181

Urgent call of the East

Luskey, Jacquelyn Kate 01 January 8099 (has links)
This collection of loosely-linked personal essays explores the fluid nature of individual and cultural identity. In the opening essay, "Midrash," I utilize my past and my ancestor's immigration story to explain my complicated identity as a Texan, Californian, New Yorker, twenty-something woman, and Jew. This is a recurring element in most of the essays in the collection. The settings and contexts of the essays often set the stage for a sense of Diaspora or loss within my own narrative world. I do not offer these moments in time to merely showcase confusion in one's sense of self, but rather to interrogate the complex and multidimensional identities that today's world forces each of us to inhabit. / Graduation date: 2012 / Access permanently restricted to the OSU Community at author's request.
182

Voyages into Coolitude: A Comparative and Textual Analysis of Kala Pani Women's Cross-Cultural Creative Memory

Bragard, Véronique 15 May 2003 (has links)
Voyages en coolitude: une analyse comparative et textuelle de la mémoire créatrice et interculturelle des écrivaines descendantes de coolies. Il y a plus de 150 ans, des milliers de coolies (indiens sous contrat) étaient « importés » par les colons britanniques et français pour remplacer, dans leurs plantations, les esclaves récemment affranchis (principalement en Afrique du Sud, aux Antilles et à l'île Maurice). Un nouveau système oppressif était né, rappelant insidieusement l'esclavage. Même si des écrivains comme V. S. Naipaul ont été reconnus sur la scène mondiale littéraire, beaucoup d'entre eux ont été marginalisés. Les femmes écrivaines le furent encore plus par le système plantocrate et, plus tard, par des communautés indiennes patriarcales souvent fossilisées. Ce n'est que depuis quelques décennies que ces écrivaines ont pris la plume pour se lancer à la recherche d'une identité et d'un passé fondateurs. Cette quête créatrice mêle soulagement et souffrance en générant une remise en question des origines, de l'identité culturelle, de l'appartenance à une communauté où les femmes sont souvent enfermées dans des rôles définis et étouffants. Ce questionnement est prélude à un processus de métissage, de « massalafication » (mélange d'épices) des composantes culturelles et littéraires héritées. A la lumière du concept de coolitude développé par le poète mauricien Khal Torabully, notre étude est principalement une analyse comparative et textuelle d'une quinzaine d'ouvrages (prose, poésie) couvrant la période 1970-2002 et écrits par des femmes descendantes de travailleurs coolies. Ces écrivaines aux héritages multiples écrivent depuis des mégalopoles occidentales vers lesquelles elles ont entrepris une autre traversée. Notre travail met en exergue les thématiques, symboles, motifs et métaphores récurrents dans ces ouvrages et constitutifs de ce que nous appellerons « l'imaginaire coolie, » un imaginaire de la « cross-culturality, » de la rencontre de cultures. La traversée des Kala Pani (eaux noires car impures) est réexplorée et émerge comme un mythe des origines dans lequel le lien maternel devient mer amniotique, symbole d'identités plurielles. La traversée vers l'ailleurs, une traversée à la fois fondatrice, destructrice et créatrice, constitue le paradigme de notre étude. Si l'Inde reste présente, elle ne constitue plus une mère patrie mais un chaudron de valeurs, de rituels, de recettes dans lequel de nombreuses écrivaines puisent les éléments dont elles ont besoin afin de comprendre et constituer leur identité. A côté de cette traversée transocéanique, le passage du village (lui-même revisité et mythifié) à la métropole dévorante, ainsi que le paysage de l'île (source de nombreuses images) constituent des thématiques récurrentes. Le village qui représente la naissance de la communauté coolie et sa disparition, symbolise également le rapprochement à d'autres communautés. Une analyse de l'attitude des personnages vis-à-vis de leur culture d'origine et de celle du colonisateur révèle l'important itinéraire des générations. Ce sont probablement les métaphores culinaires qui caractérisent le mieux les écrits de ces femmes. La « massalafication » identitaire rend compte d'un processus de construction culturelle à la fois dynamique et unique. Cette massalafication se retrouve aussi dans les choix formels et génériques de ces auteurs: des écrits qui font dialoguer genres, sous-genres, modes, focalisation interne et narration polyphonique. La coolitude, d'après la présente étude, émerge non seulement comme une prise de conscience identitaire liée au coolie trade et à la diaspora, mais aussi, de manière plus générale, comme une affirmation d'une identité plurielle et en devenir, entre l'Inde et l'Ailleurs, entre l'Ailleurs et l'Occident, entre l'Occident et les « patries imaginaires » sans cesse réinventées par les ouvrages littéraires en question.
183

Mede-afhanklikheid en identiteit : 'n pastorale studie / A.M. Steenkamp

Steenkamp, Anna Magrietha January 2007 (has links)
Thesis (M.A. (Pastoral))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.
184

Principal identity and educational change

Wright, Lisa L 11 1900 (has links)
Despite growing consensus that educational reform has changed the nature of school leadership, the contemporary literature provides limited insight into how educational change impacts the identity of those who are centrally involved. Although the principal is deemed to be a critical lynch-pin in school improvement, relatively few studies seek the informative voices of principals to understand the identities assumed as principals engage in change processes, and how principals address consonance and dissonance between their identities and internal and external demands. In this study, interpretive approaches were used to explore the relationship between principal identity and educational change. I used purposeful sampling to select six principals within central Alberta. Multiple individual interviews were conducted with each principal. Additionally, I recorded notes in my researchers journal which also served as a record of my thinking as the study unfolded and as an additional data source. Data analysis involved identifying patterns and themes pertinent to the research questions. Micropolitical analysis suggested that the nature and degree of change was influenced by the four identities principals assumed as they engaged in educational change: (a) organizational architect (visionary and analyst sub-identities), (b) mediator (disseminator, meaning maker, and problem solver sub-identities), (c) awakener (teacher and learner sub-identities), and (d) protector (caregiver and advocate sub-identities). A degree of overlap and reciprocity, as well as competition, between identities and sub-identities existed. Principals assumed identities were derived from access to sources of organizational power. Principals constructed their own understandings and responses to change by assimilating, accommodating (including symbolic accommodation and compromise), or resisting (through evidence-based argument, avoidance, and opposition) new ideas or approaches. Although principals often felt at odds with the prevailing discourses of educational change, they both consciously and inadvertently reinforced dominant ideologies. Expectations for legitimacy and cohesion preoccupied principals thinking and influenced identity salience. Principals identities and responses impacted the potential for change. My key recommendation is that principals need to consider how their identities, positional power, and responses to change shape the nature and extent of educational change. I conclude with further questions and directions for practice, policy, and research. / Educational Administration and Leadership
185

Friendship and gender construction a study of young women between girlhood and womanhood in Hong Kong /

Ng, Ka-man. January 2006 (has links)
Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.
186

Self-guided bibliotherapeutic experiences related to identity issues case studies of Taiwanese graduate students in American university settings /

Wang, Ching-Huang Peter. January 2002 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2002. / Co-Chairpersons: Jerome Harste, Sharon Lynn Pugh. Includes bibliographical references.
187

Social identity in Nahum : a theological-ethical enquiry /

Bosman, Jan Petrus, January 2005 (has links)
Thesis (D. Th.)--University of Stellenbosch, 2005. / Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.
188

Who 'wears the pants'? bisexuals' performances of gender and sexuality in romantic relationships /

Pennington, P. Suzanne. January 2006 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, June, 2005. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-168)
189

Speaking the unspeakable: emotional expressions of identity within journals

Horrocks, Aubrie 15 November 2004 (has links)
Creating a sense of identity is constructed through communicative processes allowing us to participate in interpersonal relationships, and understand who we are. "Much of our emotional life is bound up with the way we narrate experiences..." (Kerby, 1991, p. 48). Because experiences are told from our own perspective, what we tell is significant. It reflects our feelings regarding a situation, and in the telling of the story, we reinterpret the way we understand our life and how we know ourselves. The purpose of this study is to examine the content and structure of the narratives contained within a diary, in order to learn how an individual interprets emotional experiences and constructs identities. It is a unique opportunity to explore how individuals can cope with ambiguity and uncertainty by constructing multiple identities to functionally enact within a variety of environments.
190

Cowboys, pop stars, pimps and players: themes in music videos

Wesley, Chelcie Melissa 29 August 2005 (has links)
Television is something that is a part of the everyday lives of a majority of people in America. The content of what is on television can vary in nature from being positive to being negative. However, what people are exposed to through music videos, in particular, a very popular form of artistic expression, has not been thoroughly investigated. This study uses structural ritualization affect, gender schema theory, media and audience power theories, cultivation theory, agenda setting and framing theories, and (cognitive) social learning theory in order to investigate what people are actually exposed to by watching music videos, in particular, MTV, BET, and GAC.

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