Social representations informing discourses of young leaders: a case study of Tanzania by Salles-Haussler, Valeria Cristina

“…The choice of discourse analysis aims at unveiling the Tanzanian culture-specific ideological constructions and the powers that, in interaction, frame and mediate discourses and meaning-making. …”
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Landscape architecture and gender by Smit, Fi

“…The Enquiry phase recognizes this way of knowing as a complex and reflexive condition that includes consideration of a multitude of factors, to approach a design with a gender-sensitive lens is to include a much wider range of considerations than gender alone. Attention to the cultural reproduction of space by virtue of a sensitivity to proxemics, by embracing subjectivity as a design strategy, by embarking on site analysis that involves much more that one view or the layering activity from one vantage point (thereby avoiding the danger of a single story) characterises the enquiry phase, that was continuously informed by the theoretical underpinnings of the Study which was written simultaneously. …”
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Writers and the state: heterotopias of exclusion in the works of Sonallah Ibrahim and Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi by El Taraboulsi, Sherine Nabil

“…A writer as citizen negotiates his relation to the state by means of his writing thereby practicing a form of cultural activism; the macrostructures of state domination proliferate through the microprocesses of the literary work, and it is this relation that is subject to inquiry. …”
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From Manet to GQ: a critical investigation of ‘gentlemen’s pornography’

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Representations of Pan-Africanism in the contemporary post-Apartheid South African high school history classroom by Karadag, Esma

“…This key finding confirms Stuart Hall's (1997) cultural theory on representation, which emphasises the role of cultural and historical contexts in which meaning is ‘fixed' through the systemisation process of ‘encoding' and ‘decoding', thereby reinforcing or challenging existing power structures. …”
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The male world of football media and beer drinking: a case study of sports bars in Cape Town, South Africa by Umansky, Dimitrij

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Just Don't Know How She Does It: a Feminist's Showroom of Subversive Machinations by Robertson, Emily Harriet Bulbring

“…As a point of departure in the development of this project I have focused on how these stereotypes are perpetuated within popular culture. I have taken cues from Pop art especially concerning the way in which these artists have employed images and objects from everyday consumer culture. …”
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Individualism in the Novels of Nuruddin Farah by Moolla, Fatima Fiona

“…Nonindividualist conceptions of the self locate moral horizons external to the subject thereby defined. The novel appears to be the most significant cultural form which mutually constitutes modern subjectivity. …”
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Interactions between social ties and saving mechanisms as a determinant of savings behaviour

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An investigation into rural and urban pupils' alternative conceptions of the concept "animal" by Tema, Botlhale Octavia

“…The study recognises the fact that the concept animal is important to the study of biology and that effective learning of the subject may be hampered if pupils hold different conceptions from those accepted in the subject. …”
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Interpersonal and inter-group trust levels of a group of students at a tertiary institution

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A perspective on ethical agency in complex adaptive systems : providing a philosophical description and analysis of the Cynefin Framework and Sensemaker Suite™

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Power and performativity in prison: exploring male sex workers' experiences and performances of gender and sexuality pre/during/post-incarceration by Lewin, Jan-Louise

“…Negotiation was the process where the subject engaged in an external dialogue with others. …”
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Technology in teaching : a case study at a mathematics department at a research intensive university in South Africa

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Living on an horizon : the writings of Bessie Head by Lewis, Desiree

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Stable carbon isotopes and prehistoric diets in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa by Silberbauer, Francis Bruce

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