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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Cultural infrastructure"”.
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Physics, construction, experience : an architecture environment for informal science education
… site associated with existing and developing cultural infrastructure.
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How Coaching Cultures Create Conditions for Belonging to Emerge
… when non-directive coaching becomes embedded as cultural infrastructure, it functions as a systemic leverage point through which belonging emerges as an organizational capability. Five interconnected forces support these conditions: mutually reinforcing feedback loops between psychological safety …
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The Infrastructure of Influence: Transnational Collaboration and the Spread of US Cultural Influence in Colombia, 1930s-1960s
This dissertation examines the growth of US cultural influence in Andean and Caribbean Colombia during World War II and the first half the Cold War (1930s-1960s). Exploring Colombian-US collaboration in educational and cultural arenas, the study articulates a mid-century shift in Colombian cultural …
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Shanghai contemporary : the politics of built form
… form and environment have been conceived as a cultural construction of the conspicuous consumption of global financial marketing and of ostentatious expenditure of the elite. Nostalgic hearkening back to the glory days of foreign occupation does not adequately explain the phenomenon that exists …
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Indigenous Futures: What Makes Indigenous Resurgence Possible?
… resurgence as the regeneration of an Indigenous cultural system and the simultaneous turning away from relationships that reproduce settler-colonial power dynamics. I investigate the conditions of possibility for resurgence through a theoretically informed empirical study of 1) Indigenous …
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Celebratory Insurgency. The Art of Peripheral City-Making
… Latin America have witnessed an explosion of cultural initiatives led by the youth born and raised in the neighborhoods built by their parents. This phenomenon is both insurgent, in its creation of uncharted opportunities for peripheral residents to thrive, and celebratory of the periphery as …
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China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Reordering the Region and Regionalising Higher Education
… higher education (HE) as a policy area, and a cultural infrastructure, has been incorporated into the BRI design. This in turn raises the question of how HE is bringing about a transformation in the wider Belt and Road region. This thesis explores two internally related dynamics. Taking higher …
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‘We Shift You’: Experimental Infrastructures, Race, Gender, and Unity and Difference in Britain, 1980–97
This thesis is a cultural study of four ‘experimental infrastructures’ which emerged in the context of race ‘coming home’ (Stuart Hall) in postwar Britain. The four infrastructures are: a friendship group of art students in Leeds (1981–84); Bazaar: South Asian Arts Magazine (1987–92); Panchayat …
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Leveraging Open-Source and Crowdsourced Data to Evaluate Spatial Justice in Cultural Planning
… in examining just planning outcomes. Focusing on cultural planning as a domain and Los Angeles as a case study, I examined the utility of data for evaluating the fair distribution of cultural resources. This research addressed the following question: What can open-source and crowdsourced data …