Chua and Rubenfeld point to America's discourse of self-esteem and self-help, which, they write, encourages "embracing yourself as you are" and "feeling secure about yourself," as evidence that non-immigrant Americans are relatively free of parent-induced neuroses.
This Discourse model appears to have its roots in a popular Discourse of self-actualization.
As a discourse of self-fashioning, empowerment resonates with older trajectories of development in Kenya of both the individual and the collective.
Patient participants appeared to be adopting the same or similar neoliberal discourses of self-management and 'expert-patient' approaches widely used in contemporary service provision.
What future smart technology may be able to provide is attractive and effective ways for idea-centered discourse to self-organize around the production of understanding.
The discourse of race and self-identity is something that I feel extremely strongly about.
They are all important books and although the authors take different approaches, this seems like a significant moment in African literary history, a sort of lifting free from postcolonialist literary discourse into one of self-performance.
Development becomes a discourse of the moral evaluation of self, economic activity and social relations.
Through the ideological discourse of photographs taken by the self, of the self, it has become increasingly more standard to post such photos.
One reason for this is that the discourse of 'sustainability' is sometimes confused, self-contradictory and unappealing to voters and consumers.
In fact, the theory of self reliance is located centrally within the discourse of community development and is connected to related concepts like self-help, mutual-help, indigenous participation and rural development.
