For Christian professional youth workers, the transition from student to employee positions them at the interstices of convergent and competing discourses. This thesis argues that Christian youth workers can position themselves within these discourses by articulating an authenti…
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This thesis conducts a critical investigation into digital literature—a genre of literary expression that is integrated with, and articulated using, digital computing systems and infrastructures. Specifically, it presents a framework for evaluating the expressive capacities of t…
This practice research study explores the law as a medium of art and performance-making in order to gain insights into how aesthetics is part of, or characterises aspects of, law. The research was conducted through creating a series of performative artworks culminating in two ma…
This thesis examines pain in performance art and, as the subtitle suggests, it addresses notions of bearing witness by examining art practices that cross the boundaries of performance art, social practice, illness, activism, and other forms of confrontation with the male body. B…
This thesis examines the powerful appeals to psychology that are made in contemporary popular debate in Britain about parents. It focuses on the political implications of psychological discourse and the knowledge claims on which it rests. Using feminist and discourse theory, it …
Identifying (with) performance: Representations and Constructions of Cultural Identity in Contemporary Theatre Practice - Three Case Studies discusses ways in which contemporary live performance affirms, challenges or constructs collective models of cultural identity by addressi…
Performance measures do not just capture an organization's 'good performance'; they intervene in the valuation and construction of what counts as 'good' so it can be valued, enacted, and measured. This is the central theme of this thesis. Using a performativity lens, and drawing…
This thesis outlines an exploratory study which was undertaken to gain an understanding of the factors influencing good educational outcomes in areas of disadvantage. This empirical study adopts a mixed methods and staged approach in order to: firstly, identify schools located i…
Acting upon Livestock's Long Shadow to mitigate climate change, mass extinction, and other social-ecological crises requires fundamental changes in food practices. Labelled as "ethical consumers", vegans, vegetarians, and meat-reducing carnists already attract considerable atten…
Scottish institutions within the educational networks, including Government, local authorities, and schools, are entangled in performative activities dedicated to improvements in student attainment. Secondary school performance in Scotland is measured nationally predominantly by…
My dissertation focuses on the performativity of gender identity projected in German literary works around 1800. I focus on the one hand on definitions of essential femininity, and on the other hand, on the way these definitions are called into question through the strategies of…
This project brings together three distinct forms of cultural practice—Anorexia Nervosa, staged fasting, and hunger strikes—and the spaces in which their enactment is most extreme: clinic, theater, and prison. It articulates the similarities between these practices—specifically,…
This thesis offers a gender variant perspective on Anti-Discrimination legislation and litigation. Using queer theory, feminist legal theory and critical race theory, this thesis analyzes current debates within the trans movement regarding the use of rights based litigation and …
Holy Stitches, Batman, or, Performative Villainy in Gothic/am is an interdisciplinary examination of gothic affect and deviant fashion in the narrative construction of villainy. It asks not just what a villain looks like, but what it means to look like a villain. A villain is a …
This thesis critically examines previous studies which sought to clarify the relationship between democracy and the 2016-17 Candlelight Demonstration in South Korea – the largest street agitation in that nation’s history. Under the influence of its underlying conception, or figu…
This study examines the conditions of political intelligibility for popular assembly. What are the normative constraints by which some forms of public gathering can appear politically intelligible while others cannot? I investigate this question by conceptualizing what I call th…
Many scholars have examined the decolonization movement of the CHamoru people of Guam however, little attention has been placed on how CHamoru expressive culture is a significant arena embedded in such calls for social justice. This thesis investigates the contested ground and o…
In this dissertation, I analyze three books from Svetlana Alexievich’s Nobel Prize-winning cycle, Voices of Utopia, in their initial and later heavily revised editions and demonstrate how Alexievich turns oral history into literature. The first three narratives of the cycle, The…
Doom is not the act of judgment, but the world that judgment creates. This dissertation posits doom (derived from the Old English dóm, meaning judgment) as a performative: one that extends consequence over extremely long durations, exceeding a single lifetime to reach across gen…