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“How Do You Define Yourself?” Mobilizing Leadership In The Graduate Employee Union Movement, Kathleen Ragon
“How Do You Define Yourself?” Mobilizing Leadership In The Graduate Employee Union Movement, Kathleen Ragon
Master's Theses
Social movement scholars agree that leadership plays a crucial role in the emergence, structure, and outcomes of social movement organizations (SMOs) and is thus an indispensable area of research. The vast majority of theories of leadership to date have been developed in contexts where participants’ movement identities are relatively stable (e.g., gender, sexual, or occupational) and engagement in the site of contestation will be long-term (e.g., workplace or nation state). However, the recent proliferation of graduate student employee unions poses a challenge to this literature because graduate students’ employment is by its very nature temporary and variable; graduate assistantship appointments …
Transnationalism, Mobility And Identity: The Making Of Place In Flushing, New York City, Shaolu Yu
Transnationalism, Mobility And Identity: The Making Of Place In Flushing, New York City, Shaolu Yu
Doctoral Dissertations
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When The Kola Nut (Cola Acuminata) Meets The Electric Slide: Constructing Transnationalisms, Rita Offiaeli
When The Kola Nut (Cola Acuminata) Meets The Electric Slide: Constructing Transnationalisms, Rita Offiaeli
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation examines how Igbo men and women who are members of hometown associations collectively align, organize and reshape their lives around their ancestral hometown identities as they settle down in the USA. It explores, from an anthropological perspective, the role of hometown associations in cultural reproduction, and the thesis that migrant groups, through these associations, effectively re-locate, maintain and reconstruct forms of ancestral hometown traditions and identities in diaspora. I examine the hometown association and its social space as an institutionalized site for the maintenance of cultural difference by analyzing the retention and blending of Igbo and Anglo-American practices …
Considering Triple Self-Portraiture In The Work Of María Izquierdo, Brooke Lashley
Considering Triple Self-Portraiture In The Work Of María Izquierdo, Brooke Lashley
The Quiet Corner Interdisciplinary Journal
This paper looks to María Izquierdo’s paintings, Prisioneras (Prisoners) of 1936 and Sueño y presentimiento (Dream and Premonition) of 1947, as case studies for activating a theory of triple self-portraiture. The theory reflects how plurality arises in the singular or in single significations of the self and disrupts homogeneity in thinking about identities for the self and others within the genre of self-portraiture. In activating a theory of triple self-portraiture, I found three forms of the self in Izquierdo's works: the self as oppressed (the past); the self as oppressing (the current); and the self as an emancipator (future). Although …