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Deconstructing my universal marginalization
Title
Deconstructing my universal marginalization.
Creator
Nazim, Fathima Asma., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Visual Arts and Art History
Abstract/Description
This thesis is a profoundly personal one. It examines the role of context in creation (authorship) and perception (reading an image) of representation. Born in Sri Lanka during the emergence of one the world's longest lasting civil wars, I never recognized my love and concern for the Island and its ancient history and culture until I traveled to America to pursue a higher education. Ever since, I have constantly found myself in situations where I am regarded as the 'other' or the 'outsider' ;...
Show moreThis thesis is a profoundly personal one. It examines the role of context in creation (authorship) and perception (reading an image) of representation. Born in Sri Lanka during the emergence of one the world's longest lasting civil wars, I never recognized my love and concern for the Island and its ancient history and culture until I traveled to America to pursue a higher education. Ever since, I have constantly found myself in situations where I am regarded as the 'other' or the 'outsider' ; I seem to not fit in completely in this country as well as in my own. In the US I am considered 'eastern' or 'exotic', whereas in my own country, I am considered 'westernized', no longer looked at as a typical Sri Lankan woman. This thesis examines and explores marginalization, orientalism, deconstruction theories, semiotic studies, dialect as well as attire, in the specific context of Graphic Design.
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Date Issued
2010
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2138108
Subject Headings
Marginality, Social, Marginality, Social, Identity (Psychology), Pluralism (Social sciences), International relations and culture, Culture and globalization, Visual communication in art, Graphic design (Typography)
Format
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Mind the gap: buck angel and the implications of transgender male in/visibility
Title
Mind the gap: buck angel and the implications of transgender male in/visibility.
Creator
Stanic, Emilija, Barrios, Barclay, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
This thesis explores the implications of visibility and invisibility of transgender people, their constructed bodies, and how these bodies are used for both personal empowerment and education. By using various gender theorists for support, I argue that the transgender male body obtains power through visibility. Despite the many obstacles transgender males face, putting their bodies in a space of visibility gives them both personal power and the power to educate others about their bodies and...
Show moreThis thesis explores the implications of visibility and invisibility of transgender people, their constructed bodies, and how these bodies are used for both personal empowerment and education. By using various gender theorists for support, I argue that the transgender male body obtains power through visibility. Despite the many obstacles transgender males face, putting their bodies in a space of visibility gives them both personal power and the power to educate others about their bodies and sexuality. In doing a study of the human body and the different definitions applied to it, I show how we, as a society, are restricted by gender binaries and how the transgender body serves as a gap between the socially-constructed terms. Ultimately, transgender people are able to break through these barriers by subverting the definitions and meaning of “male” and “female.”
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Date Issued
2014
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004334, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004334
Subject Headings
Gays in popular culture, Gender identity, Identity (Psychology), Marginality, Social, Sex change, Sex role, Transgender people, Transgenderism, Transsexualism
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relationship between principal leadership actions and business and social justice cultures in schools
Title
The relationship between principal leadership actions and business and social justice cultures in schools.
Creator
Reyes-Guerra, Daniel, College of Education, Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
Abstract/Description
This study detected and explored the existence of two proposed school cultures, the use of leader actions by principals, and the relationships between them, of a sample of 42 public schools in Southeast Florida. A quantitative non-experimental design was used, guided by eight research questions. One instrument, the BSJQ, was created for the purposes of detecting school normative cultures and another, the SLQ, was refined and used to detect principal leader actions. The existence of Business...
Show moreThis study detected and explored the existence of two proposed school cultures, the use of leader actions by principals, and the relationships between them, of a sample of 42 public schools in Southeast Florida. A quantitative non-experimental design was used, guided by eight research questions. One instrument, the BSJQ, was created for the purposes of detecting school normative cultures and another, the SLQ, was refined and used to detect principal leader actions. The existence of Business and Social Justice cultures was confirmed, and three latent cultures of Standards Performance, Democratic Community and Equity Curriculum were discovered. Of the schools participating, 74% had at least one of these cultures. The use of four leader actions was measured and statistically associated with different detected cultures. Managing/Transforming and Bridging actions were associated with all, Bonding was associated with all except the Equity Curriculum culture, and Bartering was associated only with the Business/Standards Performance culture. The schools' context had limited impact on the relationship between actions and culture., Only higher student poverty increased the principal's use of Managing/Transforming actions in schools with a Democratic Community culture. Four principal demographics - years as principal, years at the school, undergraduate major, and level of graduate study - had a actions and school culture. The study reinforces Pisapia's (2009) theory of strategic leadership, develops new instrumentation to measure cultures associated with social justice and accountability, and provides guidance to principals and those who educate them on leader actions associated with desired school cultures.
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Date Issued
2009
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/215295
Subject Headings
Educational leadership, Critical pedagogy, Social justice, Study and teaching, Marginality, Social, School management and organization
Format
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The Subaltern Female Struggle for Power in Courtly Love France and Medieval Spain
Title
The Subaltern Female Struggle for Power in Courtly Love France and Medieval Spain.
Creator
Macbeth, Verna Michelle, Gamboa, Yolanda, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
In medieval France, much of the written literature was dominated by the system of courtly love, in which the married noble woman held the position of authority over her lover or knight. Yet this courtly system was entirely literary and did not change women's subjugated position in feudal society, and even propagated misogynistic ideals. In John Beverly's theory of Subalternity, the struggle for power within different systems is shown as having two main groups, the elite and the subaltern; the...
Show moreIn medieval France, much of the written literature was dominated by the system of courtly love, in which the married noble woman held the position of authority over her lover or knight. Yet this courtly system was entirely literary and did not change women's subjugated position in feudal society, and even propagated misogynistic ideals. In John Beverly's theory of Subalternity, the struggle for power within different systems is shown as having two main groups, the elite and the subaltern; the former having control over the representation of the latter, and therefore control over how the subaltern shapes its selfimage. In medieval, courtly love France, those who manufacture the literary representations of women are male, and those texts that aided in the re-affirming of feudal society; though some women, like Christine de Pizan, resisted those representations. Conversely, in medieval Spain, courtly love does not take hold as a literary phenomenon due to the different cultural and social environment of Spanish noble women.
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000936
Subject Headings
Marginality, Social--France--To 1500, Marginality, Social--Spain--To 1500, Feminism and literature--Europe--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500, Women--Europe--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500, Man-woman relationships in literature, Literature, Medieval--Criticism and interpretation
Format
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From Subaltern to President: Evo Morales, New Social Movements, and Regional Autonomies in Bolivia
Title
From Subaltern to President: Evo Morales, New Social Movements, and Regional Autonomies in Bolivia.
Creator
Barrero, Gabriela Ovando, Horswell, Michael J., Duno-Gottberg, Luis, Florida Atlantic University, Marin, Noemi
Abstract/Description
This dissertation examines the processes of social, cultural, and political change that have taken place in Bolivia since the decade of the 1970s and how they have paved the way for the rise to power of indigenous people and the election of Evo Morales to the Presidency. It also addresses a growing trend toward more radical reforms to State structures after Morales' inauguration, which has created serious institutional chaos and a polarization of civil society. The reforms proposed by the...
Show moreThis dissertation examines the processes of social, cultural, and political change that have taken place in Bolivia since the decade of the 1970s and how they have paved the way for the rise to power of indigenous people and the election of Evo Morales to the Presidency. It also addresses a growing trend toward more radical reforms to State structures after Morales' inauguration, which has created serious institutional chaos and a polarization of civil society. The reforms proposed by the Morales administration and its political party (Movimiento al Socialismo) include a new constitution which aims to re-found Bolivia favoring its Andean ethnic groups, and an indefinite re-election of president Morales. At the same time, his party now in control ofthe muddled Constituent Assembly charged with writing the new constitution, intends to diminish the constitutional mandate of a 2006 referendum, whose results favored autonomias (an administrative and political descentralized State model, similar to Spain's or Peru's) in four provinces, which would allow a more efficient administration of the different geographical, cultural, and productive regions of Bolivia while preserving national unity. This dissertation investigates and recognizes the achievements of Bolivian indigenous movements (not only Andean, but also those from the Eastern lowlands, which in fact were the pioneers in the struggle to regain their rights and identity) and the need to reform a State that should accommodate their rights, values, and traditions along with those of the rest of Bolivians, the mestizos (mixed blood) and the nonindigenous, on the basis of consensus and national solidarity. To reach that goal it defends the necessity to preserve the guidelines of Western participative democracy and freedom in combination with the modalities of indigenous communitarian democracy. This basic concept, if applied, would lead the members of the current Constituent Assembly to write an all-inclusive constitution based on consensus and reciprocal solidarity, while opening the necessary space for national dialogue and development, even in the indigenous communities. This dissertation also proposes the promulgation of autonomias departamentales in accordance with the results of the 2006 referendum. Its thesis underlines that autonomias are the most coherent and viable way to descentralize the administration of the diverse regions of Bolivia in a near future. Autonomies represent a creative system that is capable of untying the asphyxiating knot imposed on the regions (departamentos) by a centrist and vertical State, founded in 1825, which pretended to extend its political and economic control over different historical realities, geographical contexts, and diverse cultural backgrounds whose representatives are today demanding fresh air. Methodologically, the panoramic review and analysis of different texts throughout this dissertation identifies the main causes of the actual social fracture in Bolivia, as well as proposes a set of possible solutions. Each chapter contains the analysis of a primary text, along with the discourse of indigenous leaders, constitutionalists, Bolivian public intellectuals, and my own voice. Among them are Marcial Fabricano, Alejo Veliz, Felix Patzi, Juan Carlos Urenda Diaz, Ana Maria Romero de Campero, Alvaro Garcia Linera and Victor Hugo Cardenas, whose ideological positions, theoretical contributions, and proposals are essential for my construction of a concise analysis and possible solutions to the perplexing challenges facing Bolivia today. This dissertation is based on the recognition that Bolivia is a culturally and geographically heterogeneous country, where coexistence between its diverse ethnic groups and regions -aggravated by profound ideological differences, a proverbial impossibility to govern the country, and the poverty of the majority of its inhabitants- has reached perilous levels of polarization and social unrest. A real change and a real de-colonizing revolution (which inspires president Eve Morales and vicepresident Alvaro Garcia Linera's ideological program) cannot be produced and be real without the implementation of regional autonomies (autonomias departamenta/es) and the strengthening of autonomic indigenous municipalities and territories, already legislated by the actual constitution. NOTE A Spanish version of this dissertation (which includes a Collocutio and three more chapters) follows the present text. Chapters V and VI are focused on the analysis of eastern Bolivia (where a parallel and no less controversial identity, facing the Andean, has emerged: e/ ser crucefzo) and autonomic proposals more in detail. Chapter VII presents the voices of Bolivian public intellectuals (indigenous and non indigenous) who, and for the reasons they explain, are not members of the present Constituent Assembly.
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Date Issued
2007
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000980
Subject Headings
Morales Ayma, Evo,--1959-, Bolivia--Politics and government--21st century, Indians of South America--Ethnic identity, Politics and culture--Bolivia, Democratization--Bolivia--21st century, Marginality, Social--Bolivia
Format
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Author-ity, privilege and violation
Title
Author-ity, privilege and violation: the role of subaltern and the intellectual in the novels of Julia Alvarez.
Creator
Alonso, Raquel., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
Can the subaltern really speak? Invoking Gayatri Spivak's post-colonial theory on the subaltern, this study aims to highlight the necessary, yet problematic relationship between intellectuals and the marginalized groups they seek to represent. This study argues that in the last chapter of Julia Alvarez's How the Garcâia Girls Lost Their Accents, the image of the wailing cat becomes a haunting image regarding Alvarez's own subject-position as a writer, a role that often places her in the...
Show moreCan the subaltern really speak? Invoking Gayatri Spivak's post-colonial theory on the subaltern, this study aims to highlight the necessary, yet problematic relationship between intellectuals and the marginalized groups they seek to represent. This study argues that in the last chapter of Julia Alvarez's How the Garcâia Girls Lost Their Accents, the image of the wailing cat becomes a haunting image regarding Alvarez's own subject-position as a writer, a role that often places her in the center of harsh criticism. Consequently, this project traces the subaltern figures through three of Alvarez's texts -¡YO!, In the Time of the Butterflies, and Saving the World - in order to reveal the paradox that defines their relationship with the privileged body that seeks to be their representative. The subaltern cannot speak beyond the margins without the help of the elite; however, the same position of privilege and power that enables the intellectual to write can quickly become the factor that discredits their right to speak. Consequently, this study also attempts to reclaim the voice of Julia Alvarez, who is herself silenced and thus, rendered subaltern in the literary market by critics who feel that her privileged position complicates her ability to represent the collective.
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Date Issued
2010
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2867330
Subject Headings
Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Marginality, Social
Format
Document (PDF)