This thesis presents an interactive system for investigating the emotive content of music. This system takes an empirical, computational approach that involves the subject directly in the process of creating emotional ...
King, Stephen Edward(University of Limerick, 2011)
Eastern Asian martial arts have been becoming more and more popular in Western
societies since the 1960s. However, the last ten years have witnessed an exponential
surge in the popularity of professional martial arts, ...
This study develops conceptual tools in which Community Music practices in the United Kingdom (UK) can be analysed and understood. From a proposition that suggests that the effectiveness of Community Music has been reduced ...
This thesis investigates the different dimensions of the memory concept in Günter Grass‟s autobiographical text Peeling the Onion, published in 2006, building on theories by Jan and Aleida Assmann, Maurice Halbwachs, Astrid ...
The issue of immigration is one of the most debated fields in European politics, especially in terms of the interaction between a representational framework of identities and policy making instruments within legal structures. ...
This thesis explores the inequalities and privileges women experience by combining
motherhood with paid employment. Examining the experiences of thirty ‘working mothers’ through an intersectional1 lens, this thesis reveals ...
Ni Chathain, Siobhan(University of Limerick, 2011)
This is an empirical investigation of the processes whereby the boundaries and meaning
of citizenship are re-constituted through state-driven practices of regulating migrants and migrants’ responses to such practices. The ...
Traditional approaches to welfare state literature have tended to be dominated by a
concentration on welfare regimes and a subsequent focus on fitting countries into
classifications. This thesis seeks to go beyond these ...
This dissertation analyses specific transnational Christian social forces in relation to states, societies, and markets. It is argued here that Pentecostal, charismatic, and fundamentalist Christian institutions and ...