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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"Cultural geography"”.
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Towards a Cultural Geography of Queer Storytelling through Collective Biography
… research project brings together cultural geography, literary studies, and sexuality studies to establish a cultural geography of queer storytelling through collective biography which uncovers how these texts communicate knowledge, shape identities, create meaning and impact, and …
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Towards a Cultural Geography of Queer Storytelling through Collective Biography
… research project brings together cultural geography, literary studies, and sexuality studies to establish a cultural geography of queer storytelling through collective biography which uncovers how these texts communicate knowledge, shape identities, create meaning and impact, and …
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Ann Arbor and the Ann Arbor Public Schools: A cultural geography
… This study sought to define the dominant cultural groups of Ann Arbor, how they evolved, as well as how they migrated to the region. In addition, a critical component of this study was to explain the relationship between the cultural geography of Ann Arbor and structure of the school …
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Fishing as a way of life: a cultural geography of fishing communities in Castletownbere (Ireland) and Le Guilvinec (Brittany)
Using the lens of contemporary cultural geography, this research develops an understanding of fishing as a way of life in Castletownbere (County Cork) and Le Guilvinec (Brittany) through relational and reciprocal processes. Drawing on the hermeneutics of both Gadamer and Ricoeur, I argue that …
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Just Throw it in the Pot! The Cultural Geography of Hidden Landscapes and Masked Performances in South Louisiana Gumbo Cooking
… Cajun dish. This dissertation is about the cultural and historical geography of gumbo. This study delves into the background, evolution, and how gumbo became a symbol for south Louisiana. In the historical perspective we see that gumbo is not just a Louisiana food but a dish that has ties to …
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"The Visual Voice: ""Armchair Tourism,"" Cultural Authority, and the Depiction of the United States in Early Twentieth-Century Stereographs"
… the academic literature of visual culture and cultural geography. In analyzing the meanings, functions, and modes of communication of the stereograph sets, I take a symbolic interactionist perspective and use interpretative interactionist methods. By comparing and contrasting the two sets, I …
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Reconnecting the Physical and Cultural Landscapes At the Hampton-Preston Mansion In Columbia, South Carolina
… disconnection between the physical and cultural landscapes over the course of the last half of the twentieth century. Using archaeology, anthropological and cultural geography theory as a tool, this thesis intends to provide physical evidence for past landscapes at the property and …
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A changing cultural landscape: Yanchep National Park, Western Australia
… have in the management of Australian natural and cultural heritage. The Park was examined by utilising a methodology that combined a cultural geography approach with Structuration Theory. Yanchep National Park is highly suited to this type of investigation because of its close proximity to a major …
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Artful places: creativity and colonialism in British Columbia's Indian residential schools
… of resistance, and exertions of agency. Cultural products created by children in residential schools, particularly creative art products, allow us to visualize and understand Indigenous response to and evasions of colonial education. When taken together with Aboriginal peoples’ …
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Mapping sound: musical routes in fin-de-siecle Paris
… it through multiple lenses. While the lens of cultural geography would seem a natural fit for a city made newly self-conscious of its spatial properties, however, musicologists have only recently begun to appreciate the insights into rituals of music consumption afforded by a spatial approach. …
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WESTERN MUSIC BY ITS OTHERS: OVERSEAS FILIPINO MUSICIANS AND THE GEOGRAPHIES OF MIGRANT CREATIVE LABOR
This thesis provides a labor and cultural geography of creative production at the global periphery. Using qualitative data collected from 2012-2013 in the Philippines, Macao, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia, the research presents the creative sector of live music performance in hotels, theme …
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ADVANCING YOUNG PEOPLE?S METHODOLOGIES: ARTICULATING CITIZENSHIP DISCOURSES WITHIN ?SAFE SPACES? THROUGH THEATRE
… PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH WITHIN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY. IT HIGHLIGHTS THE IMPORTANCE OF USING CREATIVE METHODS TO UNDERSTAND YOUNG PEOPLE?S CITIZENRY POLITICS IN SINGAPORE. THESE METHODS CREATE A ?SAFE SPACE? OUTSIDE OF FORMAL INSTITUTIONS FOR THEM TO ARTICULATE THEIR VIEWS AND BYPASS …
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A Place for Bourbon? A Geographical Analysis of Bourbon Production in the United States
… leads to a unique dichotomy between the true geography and the understood cultural geography of bourbon. At present, however, there has been little if any research on the spatial distribution and character of the bourbon industry’s expansion. This study utilizes a survey of bourbon distillers …
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Looking at what Geographers do – Empirische Beiträge zur Wissenschaftsbeobachtung in der Geographie
… the academic practice of German-speaking geography. It is thus both a "meta-geographical" thesis in the sense of disciplinary science research and a social-geographical thesis that examines how scientists interact with each other as social actors in the academic field. In this …
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Multiple childhood geographies: giving voice to young people's experience of place
Cultural geography draws attention to the diverse meanings and values of groups in society, however, despite a growing interest in the geographies of children and youth, there have been few recent empirical studies investigating young people’s experience of place. In particular, comparatively …
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Remapping the U.S. "Southwest": Early Mexican American Literature and the Production of Transnational Counterspaces, 1885-1958
… constructions of the Southwest, its history, and cultural formation as a byproduct of westward expansionism. This project argues that early Mexican American writers offer an alternative paradigm of transnationalism for understanding the literature, culture, and geography of the U.S. Southwest as …
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New narratologies: an examination of the interplay between life, land, and story
… studies. This thesis illustrates how land and geography play a role in the maintenance of traditional culture and narratives in the rural communities of DeKalb and Neshoba counties in Mississippi. The first chapter argues that memory through story can yield significant historical findings in …
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Geographies of confinement : America's carceral bulwark, 1973-2022
… considers the prison’s novel importance to the cultural and economic function and survival of the state and nation at-large. The proliferation of the prison, in both real space and the cultural imaginary, has produced barriers to abolition that now appear indestructible and insurmountable. The …
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