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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Cartographies"”.
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Critical Cartographies of Transnational Infrastructure-led Urbanization
This thesis is a manifesto that traverses the binaries of land and sea to mediate between the preconceived notions of boundary and territoriality. The contextual landscape of this mediation is within the littoral territory of Gwadar, in the southern coastal region of Baluchistan, in Pakistan. This …
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Women's Studies Worldwide: Cartographies of Transnational Academic Feminism
This dissertation retells the history of women’s studies from a global perspective, challenging traditional U.S. and Eurocentric narratives about this emerging interdisciplinary field. Beginning with questions about why women’s, gender, and sexuality studies has incited backlash across a range of …
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Creative Spatializations: New Cartographies in Contemporary Black Canadian Fiction
My dissertation explores the ways in which contemporary black Canadian novels rewrite national space by integrating into it what might be called past and present black spatialities. Regardless of its official policy of multiculturalism, Canada appears unable to reflect the diversity of its …
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Toward an Architecture of Suspension: Promiscuous Collisions of Transient Cartographies
Many political experts argue that we have tried too hard to fully resolve international and geopolitical conflicts by trying to negotiate full and lasting resolutions. International crises are dangerous episodes that are destabilizing not only to those directly involved but also to the entire …
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Salvage cartographies : mapping, futures, and landscapes in northwest British Columbia
This dissertation examines how the proliferation of digital mapping technologies and the contraction of government research institutions have reformatted contests over resources, sovereignty, and local belonging in the neoliberal era. The two groups at the heart of this multilocale ethnography, …
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Sofa-Surfing: The Cartographies of Young People Utilising Host-Dependent Shelter.
… on uses of space, mobility, and identity (cartographies) and the flows between these cartographies across time. Finally, I theorised the motivational capacity of imagined futures (termed more-than-homeless future identities) to assist an exit from homelessness. Young people (n=41) who had …
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Cartographies of undomesticated ground: Nature and feminism in American women's fiction and theory
"My dissertation examines how American women writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have rearticulated the gendered ideologies of nature. Insights from feminist theory, cultural studies, and interdisciplinary postmodern theories of nature enable me to reveal how women's texts …
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Intimate cartographies : body maps and the epistemic encounter in China and Britain, 1893-1985
… discourses of science. I argue that "intimate cartographies," or maps based on individual encounters of the body, challenged standards of visualizing and describing unseen physiological systems. These maps sat at the intersection of epistemic practices, where the circulation of images, ideas, …
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Cartographies of consciousness-raising : mapping out a feminist approach in the work of Marlene Creates
Between 1987 and 1991, contemporary Canadian artist Marlene Creates (b. 1952) produced three separate "memory map" series of mixed-media assemblages consisting of black and white photographs, text, hand-drawn "memory maps" and in some instances, natural elements selected from the environment. The …
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Cartographies of Black Diaspora and Foster Care Diaspora: Arguments Toward Abolition in the Aftermath of<em> Partus Sequitur Ventrem</em>
… her book, Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle, explaining that Man2 was invented in the wake of Man1 alongside biological sciences, transatlantic slavery, and colonialism for the sake of land expansion, conquest of land and peoples, and the accumulation of capital. …
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Writing the Lagosian Homeland: the ambiguous and precarious African urban in Chris Abani's GraceLand (2004)
… GraceLand published in 2004. While exploring the cartographies of urban space in the novel, the study applies principles and theories of Southern Urbanisms, notably AbdouMaliq Simone, Ato Quayson, Edgar Pieterse and so much more to reading Lagos as a representation of the African urban. The study …
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Tales of Re-Entry to Adult High School Programs: A Rhizomatic (De)(Re)Tangling
… the emerging rhizome. Rhizomatics intra-weave cartographies in creation of the dissertation and challenges the researcher/the reader in becoming (dis)(re)tracted to think something new within reentry programming that is contingent upon openings created by thinking frames of post qualitative …
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Topologies of Regional Cinema: Philippine, Mindanaon, and Southeast Asian Films
… This Land Is Ours (2019), Cinematic Counter-Cartographies of Southeast Asia (2021), and LUMAD (2021), curated with activist intentions, concretising the micro- and macro-regional contexts of Mindanao films in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. The submission is methodologically attentive to …
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Integración de ortofotografía digital en sistema de información geográfica: aplicación a la determinación de la superficie catastral rústica
… hand, there are many cities that only have paper cartographies largely inconsistent in terms of the surface registered in the Cadastral Database and the surface registered in the Cadastral Map. Thus, the four main variables studied are: the cadastral surface obtained in the on-screen …
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Composite City: Towards A Theory of the Composite Urban In Contemporary Multi-/Ethnic Literature
… and the essentializing limitations of colonial cartographies.|Although contemporary fiction has generated literatures reflective of the complexities of the global city, literary theory has neglected to keep up. This is due to the failure of literary theory to encompass the dynamism of global …
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(Re)storying Queer Land Education : pedagogical hub-making of Two-Spirit, Queer, and Trans Indigenous educators
… a suggestion that is called severed Queer cartographies. Lastly, my co-theorists expressed how being in relation with Land encouraged them to gather as gender diverse Indigenous people, a process that is called (re)charging Queer Indigenous zones and create a pedagogical hub that centered …
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Ontological Possibilities: Rhizoanalytic Explorations of Community Food Work in Central Appalachia
… excerpts from the data into four large narrative cartographies. In each cartography, the narrative excerpts are positioned to vibrate against one another; my hope is that these resonances might open lines of flight within the reader and space for new ontological possibilities. For adult and …
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Caractérisation des impacts des changements climatiques sur les plaines inondables du bassin versant de la rivière Châteauguay
… crues printanières de 20 et 100 ans. Ces deux cartographies mettent en lumière que les résultats pour 2080 sont très incertains et qu'il n'est pas possible de conclure actuellement sur l'impact des changements climatiques sur les plaines inondables du bassin versant. L'utilisation de techniques …
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Caractérisation et limitation des biais de mesure de l’élastographie par résonance magnétique
… d'imagerie médicale polyvalente fournissant des cartographies quantitatives de la viscoélasticité des tissus mous. Le champ d'applications de l'ERM est vaste et l'essor progressif de cette technique en milieu clinique témoigne de l'intérêt conséquent qu'elle suscite. Le fort degré …
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