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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Critical Geography"”.
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A critical geography of physical activity: Investigating the role of gender in gym environments
This thesis develops a critical geography of physical activity by examining the implications of socio-spatial processes at the scale of the everyday exercise environment for gendered inequities. Around the world, men are more active than women. Meeting recommended physical activity guidelines …
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Building Stories: Critical Geography of Architecture and the Study of Everyday Practice in Detroit, Michigan
… described this new direction as a move towards a critical geography of architecture. This dissertation explores the use of a non-representational framework to study everyday practices through a single case study in the Avenue of Fashion in Detroit, Michigan. This research considers the historical …
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Mapping the other truth in the Shintech case: emancipatory mapping for environmental justice in south Louisiana
… presented through application of concepts from critical theory, critical geography, and the works of Henri Lefebvre to a specific environmental justice struggle in St. James Parish, Louisiana. In 1996 Shintech, Inc. proposed building a polyvinyl chloride facility in St. James Parish, Louisiana. …
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Inheritances of Injustice/Transference of Freedom: An Intimate Project on Black Women's Intergenerational Relationships and the Consequences of the Punishment System
… Pulling on Black feminist epistemologies, critical geography, and critical feminist ethnography, this is an investigation into the intersection of punishment and Black women that is both structural and deeply intimate.</p>
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The Call of the Buffalo: Exploring Kinship with the Buffalo in Indigenous Creative Expression
… Indigenous kinship theory, Indigenous critical geography, and Indigenous histories are foundational for this project. The presence of the buffalo is found within Indigenous oral stories, literature, art, and other forms of expression. Specifically, the dissertation engages with the …
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Socio-spatial experiences of part-time community college faculty
… framed by institutional ethnography and critical geography. Methods included interviews, mental sketch mapping, and document analysis. The combination of methods was entirely qualitative and framed from a constructivist lens. Mental sketch mapping led to reflective spatial narratives that …
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Opening the black box of outer space : the case of Jason-3
… more complex than state-level relations and (2) critical geography -- with its insight into relational spaces and deconstructing power structures -- has a unique place to fill in outer space literature.
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Metamorfoses da paisagem dos manguezais do estuário do Rio Paraíba.
… landscape was analysed under the perspective of critical geography, considering its degradation as a result of the intense processes of globalisation and urbanisation, which transforms it into second nature. The results of this work show the need of public policies scoping the mangrove’s …
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Urban sustainability and the technopolitics of order
… The second literature is one that has emerged in critical geography that sees sustainability as a policy agenda that supports the needs of a capitalist political economy, which will, in the end, amplify rather than solve the world's environmental and social problems. I argue that neither approach …
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Regionalist Social Movements in Contemporary Chile: Production of Space, Place, Territory, and Scale Through Collective Action
… with the concepts place, territory and scale. Critical geography, political geography, and social movements’ studies provide the theoretical framework for the analysis, highlighting the significance of social movements as producers of collective knowledge. This research used a qualitative …
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Art from Place: The Expression of Cultural Memory in the Urban Environment and in Place-Specific Interventions
… to produce work? Under the new streams of critical geography a new sense for the word place has developed, which reformulates the prevalent concept of space by mustering the realms of memory and experience. Streams of ‘place sensitive’ art practice, which make use of the critique of the …
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"The Geography of Letters": Space and the Little Magazine in Bombay, 1960 - 1980
This thesis is a critical study of the anglophone little magazine in late twentieth-century Bombay. The project takes as its focus a period of roughly two decades from 1960 to 1980 and the publications of “second generation” post-independence Indian writers. Deploying a mixed methodology of book …
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Strange(r) Maps: The cosmopolitan geopolitics of Sri Lankan tourism
… political implications of the island geography as the state, including exclusionary identity politics during the the civil war (1983-2009). Using a mix-analysis approach, including interviews, participatory mapping, and autoethnography, as well as feminist, postcolonial, and critical …
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Discerning Neighborhood Characteristics as Contributing Factors to Infant Mortality in Rural Northern Plains Communities
American Indians are distinct in their current geographic isolation and history of exclusionary policies enacted against them. Citizenship and territorial policies from the 1700s through the early 1900s have manifested in the distinctive status of many American Indian communities as sovereign …