Browsing University of Exeter Theses by Title
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Diaspora, Identity and Return: The Kurdish Diaspora in Devon
(University of ExeterHuman Geography, 2016-11-30)This research argues for a more nuanced understanding of the diverse motivations for diaspora movement and return. The study develops contemporary diaspora literature by critiquing the way that concepts of home and homeland ... -
Dickens: Faith and His Early Fiction
(University of ExeterEnglish, 2009-01-09)This thesis, focusing on Dickens' early work ('Our Parish'to The Old Curiosity Shop), explorers the nature and fictional expression of the author's faith and the historical ecclesiastical elements of his writing. Dickens ... -
Dietary nitrate as an ergogenic aid in sprint exercise performance and as an adjunct to sprint training
(University of ExeterSport and Health Sciences, 2017-02-14)In some circumstances, dietary nitrate (NO3-) supplementation can favourably alter the physiological response to exercise. Recent research highlights a potential preferential effect of NO3- supplementation on type II muscle ... -
Dietary Nitrate Supplementation as an Ergogenic and Therapeutic Aid
(University of ExeterSport & Health Sciences, 2014-11-26)Abstract Dietary nitrate (NO3-) supplementation, in the form of NO3- -rich beetroot juice, can elicit a number of biological and physiological effects within the human body, which improve exercise performance and indices ... -
Dietary Nitrate Supplementation: Dose-Response Relationships and Effects on Intermittent Exercise Performance
(University of ExeterSport and Health Sciences, 2016-04-14)Dietary supplementation with inorganic nitrate has been shown to lower the oxygen cost of submaximal exercise and to improve performance during continuous endurance exercise. The objectives of this thesis were: 1) to improve ... -
Differential presence: Deleuze and performance
(University of ExeterDepartment of Drama, 2009-12-11)Abstract This thesis argues that presence in the performing arts can be reconceived, via the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, as an encounter with difference or ‘differential presence’ which is variously defined as immanence, ... -
Digging at Roots and Tugging at Branches: Christians and 'Race Relations' in the Sixties
(University of ExeterHistory, 2016-09-29)This thesis is a study of the ‘race relations’ work of Christians in the sixties in England, with specific reference to a Methodist church in Notting Hill, London. As such, it is also a study of English racisms: how they ... -
Digital Fluidity - Beyond Remediation in Theory and Practice
(University of ExeterEnglish, 2013-08-16)"What is cinema? The emergent digital era poses this question in a new and interesting way because for the first time in the history of film theory the photographic processes is challenged as the basis of cinematic ... -
Dilemmas of stigma, support seeking, and identity performance in physical disability: A social identity approach
(University of ExeterPsychology, 2015-08-07)Physically disabled people belong to a stigmatised group that is subject to negative societal stereotypes of incompetence and dependency on others. In order to maintain a positive sense of self, as well as receive needed ... -
Dino Buzzati and Anglophone Culture: The Re-use of Visual and Narrative Texts in His Fantastic Fiction
(University of ExeterModern Languages, 2010-07-12)This thesis explores the relationship between Buzzati’s fiction and Anglophone culture, particularly the re-use of narrative and visual sources in his works. The analysis of the intertextual stratification in Buzzati brings ... -
Dion Fortune and her Inner Plane Contacts: Intermediaries in the Western Esoteric Tradition
(University of ExeterPhilosophy, 2008-06)Whereas occultists of the standing of H. P. Blavatsky, Annie Besant, C. W. Leadbeater, and especially Aleister Crowley have been well served by academic enquiry and by published accounts of their lives and work, Violet ... -
A Discourse Analysis of Muhammad al-Ghazali's Thought: Between Tradition and Renewal
(University of ExeterPolitics, 2012-09-28)Tradition is characterised by the dynamics of simultaneous innovation and continuity. The Islamic tradition is a case-in-point where its internal elements are reconstructed through transmission, reception and interpretation. ... -
Discourses and Counter-discourses of Iranian National Identity during Khatami’s Presidency (1997-2005)
(2007-11)This thesis expands the discussion on Iranian national identity into the period of Khatami’s presidency. Within the theoretical and methodological framework of discourse analysis this thesis contends that the multiple ... -
Discourses of Heterosexual Female Masochism and Submission from the 1880s to the Present Day.
(University of ExeterSexuality and Gender Studies, 2012-03-09)This thesis offers a critical analysis of psychopathological discourses (sexology, psychoanalysis and psychiatry) and feminist writings that contribute to the construction of representations of heterosexual female masochism ... -
Discourses of Innovation and Development: Insights from Ethnographic Case Studies in Bangladesh and India
(University of ExeterManagement, 2014-12-15)In the 1990s, the topics of development and poverty, once dominated by development economists, appeared on the radar of management, organizational studies and innovation scholars. A huge variety of terms, some historical ... -
Discovering Complexity: Teachers' Collective Responses to Change
(University of ExeterGraduate School of Education, 2009-10-08)This thesis explores a small number of TEFL teachers’ collective responses to an extended change process in their Mexican university context from 1989-2003. The nature of the emergent knowledge arising from this inquiry ... -
The Discovery of Prose Fiction by the Working-Class Movement in Germany (1863-1906)
(University of ExeterModern Languages, 2013-11-15)This study analyses the ‘prose of circumstances’ which implies the ‚discovery of prose fiction by the working-class movement in Germany from 1863 to 1906‘. In its introduction, it points to the prior history in the 1840s. ... -
Discovery Writing and Genre
(University of ExeterGraduate School of Education, 2012-12-14)This study approaches ‘discovery writing’ in relation to genre, investigating whether different genres of writing might be associated with different kinds of writing processes. Discovery writing can be thought of as writing ... -
Discursive Institutionalism and Pension Reform in Greece 1990-2002: Appraising Europeanization from the ‘Bottom-up’
(University of ExeterPolitics, 2010-09-29)The research puzzle of the thesis is to investigate how policy discourse mediates domestic policy adjustment consequent on commitments entered into at the domestic level by the European Union. Conceptually, it adopts the ... -
The Discursive Self: Rethinking the Relationship Between Autonomy and Tradition in Shi’i Thought
(University of ExeterArab and Islamic Studies, 2015-09-28)The concept of autonomy underlies many other issues in moral and political philosophy. This dissertation states that contemporary debates within Shi’i thought view autonomy as individualistic, and that this individualism ...