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Medicalizing Suffering: Postsocialist Reforms Of The Mental Health System In Ukraine, Shelly Ann Yankovskyy
Medicalizing Suffering: Postsocialist Reforms Of The Mental Health System In Ukraine, Shelly Ann Yankovskyy
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation explores how mental health reforms in postsocialist Ukraine, specifically the push for privatized community mental health services, are playing out on the ground through provider and patient perspectives and are mediated by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). I argue that the international agenda promoted in Ukraine that pushes for western neoliberal political and economic reforms has produced cultural and structural discrepancies and tensions which can be seen in the mental health field. As major reforms are promoted, including the shift from state hospitals to private “community-based” services as part of a transition from socialized to privatized or insurance-based care, and …
The Post-Human Gamer: Reflections On Fieldwork In World Of Warcraft, Joshua Stephen Schendel
The Post-Human Gamer: Reflections On Fieldwork In World Of Warcraft, Joshua Stephen Schendel
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation offers a longitudinal digital ethnography of a community of hardcore gamers who currently play, or have played, the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMO) World of Warcraft. The central theme embraces the challenge of identifying and voicing the emic perspective of these hardcore players, presenting them as individuals mediating their real lives (IRL, or "in real life") and virtual lives through social media and online multiplayer technologies, including the maintenance of relationships developed within the IRL and in-game spaces they inhabit. The dissertation offers a critical analysis of the hardcore gaming lifestyle as voiced by the gamers …
The Power Of The Hula: A Performance Text For Appropriating Identity Among First Hawaiian Youth, Cesily Hong
The Power Of The Hula: A Performance Text For Appropriating Identity Among First Hawaiian Youth, Cesily Hong
Doctoral Dissertations
Hawaii is an exotic land with a rich history and a culture imbued with meaning, including the performing arts. Such facets of any land need to be understood and preserved for future generations. The most significant aspect of Hawaiian arts is the hula kahiko, a text in motion, which when performed displays the story of Hawaii's past. The hula was forbidden by Protestant missionaries in the 1820's and was reduced to near cultural extinction. As a result, many First Hawaiians do not clearly understand the richness of their own history. Without this understanding, it is difficult for them to have …