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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Contested Space"”.
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(Un)Homely in Cape Town: contested space and the post-apartheid urban narrative
Negotiation of urban space is particularly pertinent to South African history as a site of social and spatial conflict resulting from the legislative practices and social engineering of the apartheid government in the form of the Group Areas Act (1950). As a postcolonial and post-apartheid city, …
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Graffiti, memory and contested space : mnemonic initiatives following trauma and/or repression in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Graffiti, Memory and Contested Space: Mnemonic Initiatives Following Periods of Trauma and/or Repression in Buenos Aires, Argentina This thesis concerns the popular articulation ofmemory following periods or incidents of trauma in Argentina. I am interested in how groups lay claim to various public …
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Redeveloping division : the legacy of conflict and contested space in post-peace treaty Belfast, Northern Ireland
… has conditioned the restructuring of physical space at various scales, and has itself subsequently been conditioned by those outcomes.
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The Sweet Auburn Curb Market: The Search For Contested Space in the City Too Busy to hate
… practices and products associated with the space, alternate histories and stories of resistance become illuminated. Utilizing oral histories, archival research and anthropological theory to investigate the market, this thesis examines its function as a contested space within the city of …
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The Contested Space of Black Female Sexuality: Communal Norms and Female Sexual Agency in Sub -Saharan Francophone Novels
Reading these novels in the political mode of interpretation allows one to identify how this oppression works and what is at stake in this control: maintenance of racial communal borders, protection of patrilineal descent, and thus male dominance, but also, maintenance of racial dominance, …
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The Contested Space of Community Colleges in the Age of Neoliberalism: The Case of City College of San Francisco Through the Accreditation Crisis of 2012-2017
… the lived experiences of people within the CCSF space are analyzed as they act to either align or resist neoliberalism. Through this analysis an interpretive understanding is offered as to how power dominates through claims to rationality with the erasure of other rationalities, and how …
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What's Cookin'?: An Analysis of Food as a Method of Control in the Penal System
… jails in order to understand how food is a contested space for control between jail staff and inmates. After interviewing and surveying inmates and staff, the researcher was able to propose a model in which inmates and staff use food as a method of control, but mostly indirectly. Both …
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Beyond "real life": Activism and harassment in the social justice blogosphere
… as they attempt to express themselves in virtual spaces. This thesis grapples with the extent of the harassment and offers explanations as to why it takes place. I explore these topics from a philosophical perspective and use logic as my methodology. The first explanation I provide for this …
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The face of the German house : modernization and cultural anxiety in twentieth-century architectural photographs
… of modernization were addressed within the contested space of public discussion, and that these photographs helped produce the political and cultural changes driving major developments in German architecture and urbanism since the 1920s. My study explores the history of the representational …
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Mouth-pieces of the limit: liminal spatial praxis in Israel / Palestine and Northern Ireland
This research explores the shaping of space within the divided/contested contexts of Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine, exploring ways in which space is being produced that transcend the established boundaries of knowledges, practices and places. It stems from the observation that the …
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The Social Construction of a Public/Private Neighborhood: Examining Neighbor Interaction and Neighborhood Meaning in a New Orleans Mixed-Income Development
… processes and how they socially constructed space, leading to the identification of several phenomena that shaped neighbor interaction in River Garden. As with previous HOPE VI neighborhood studies, within-group interaction was prevalent while cross-class interaction remained limited. …
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Growing Toward the Sun: How the Good-Food Movement Catapulted a Small New York City Third-Sector Organization into Rapid Growth, Success, and Many Challenges
… explores the ways that Food Rights navigates the contested space of civil society and the third-sector realm through its LFS efforts--a geography where Food Rights constituents feel they have a say in how local food is grown, distributed, purchased, and prepared. It also considers the complex …
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The Burdens of History: Problems Invoked by Occidental Travel Writing on the Balkans
… that it does not exist. When approaching a contested space that involves a multitude of competing discourses, a hefty responsibility is thrust on both the reader and writer of Balkan representations to retain an awareness of counter and hidden discourses while resisting the urge to define, …
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Scenarios and futures in the governance of sustainable innovation pathways: the case of hydrogen energy
… suggests that the future is unpredictable and contested. Moreover, the act of envisioning, forecasting and planning for possible futures itself influences transitions, because visions and expectations form part of the institutional environment that shapes the behaviour of policymakers, …
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Whose Streets? Our Streets!: Identity, Institutions, and Privilege in Student Activism
… granted by identity privilege and serves as a contested space where social inequities and relations of power and privilege are rejected, interrogated, and reinforced. Student activism, as a subculture and a lifestyle, becomes informal schooling for privileged youth offering lessons which bridge …
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The Competitors: violent women protagonists in popular cinema - a creative and critical thesis
… context discussed and in particular in the contested space created by the violent, competitive woman in film.
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Tanzania’s Mainstream News Media Engagement with National Development
… to the current day Tanzanian media has been a contested space in which different stakeholders have diverse views about the role and functioning of the media. If the media are to play a normative, watchdog role, holding government to account and thus contributing, indirectly, to national …
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Navigating the nexus: Enhancing engagement in New Zealand’s clinical governance landscape
… themes highlight that clinical governance is a contested space influenced by past relationships and governance dynamics. Trust was found to be vital for fostering relationships, shaped by previous experiences. However, trust often eroded due to power imbalances and dissent in governance …
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