Essays about: "Reification"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the word Reification.
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1. Musical interaction in online music education
University essay from Lunds universitet/Musikhögskolan i MalmöAbstract : The present study seeks to examine musical interaction in online education. Although the study focuses on how teachers have adapted their teaching methods to the new circumstances dictated by the still-ongoing covid-19 pandemic, the ambition has also been to investigate how a beneficial music education online could be conducted in order to promote a global teaching environment with sustainable travelling habits. READ MORE
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2. MEDIATING SERIAL VIOLENCE : NORMATIVITY, DEVIANCE & FRAMING IN THE MCARTHUR MURDERS
University essay from Stockholms universitet/JMKAbstract : How do the media react in the face of a violent phenomenon involving actors both embraced and marginalized by society? One such phenomena – the McArthur murders – encapsulates this dynamic considering how the media explained the murders to their audiences. McArthur, a white LGBTQ+ man, murdered over a seven-year period specifically targeting male victims of South Asian or Middle Eastern descent associated with the LGBTQ+ community and geographic area in Toronto, Canada. READ MORE
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3. Gender relations and sexuality in Arab women’s writing: A narratological reading of Hanan al-Shaykh’s novel Ḥikāyat Zahra
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för Asien-, Mellanöstern- och TurkietstudierAbstract : This thesis examines gender relations in the war novel Ḥikāyat Zahra (1989) by the Lebanese author Hanan al-Shaykh. The analysis focuses on interpersonal relations among male and female characters in the novel as well as perceptions of gender and sexuality within a patriarchal order as depicted in the writing of Hanan al-Shaykh. READ MORE
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4. Understanding Reification in the Composition of New Concert Music
University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik, konst och samhälleAbstract : This thesis explores the relationships that exist between reification, the conceptualisation of music, and the composition of new concert music. In general terms, reification can be described as the mental process of conceiving abstract concepts as tangible and concrete things. READ MORE
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5. Drilling for time: ice cores and the synchronization of temporalities in glaciology, 1935-1978
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoriaAbstract : Since their emergence in the 1950’s, ice cores have ventured from being scientific objects of concern to a limited number of glaciologists to becoming one of the most iconic representations of anthropogenic climate change. This thesis aims to historicize the way in which ice cores became enrolled into climate discourse, particularly emphasizing the production and representation of temporalities of the global climate that the ice cores made possible. READ MORE
