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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Domestic spaces"”.
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Collecting Rooms: Objects, Identities and Domestic Spaces
… manifested in the creation of their spaces. Through the examination of theorists and commentators in the distinct but related fields of cultural theory, sociology and art, the thesis proposes that a collector’s past can be witnessed through memories generated by and within the space. …
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Leisure Island: An Investigation of Suburban Landscapes and Domestic Spaces in South Africa
… crystal blue swimming pools, double garages and domestic workers' quarters. That this domestic space has ‘protected' itself from the stress of the city through the use of high walls, electric fences and wrought iron gates, is an irony worth commenting on. As Silverstone notes, this constructed …
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Sacred and Regenerative Space in the Modern Novel
… Forster, and Virginia Woolf represent and use domestic spaces.
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Kitchen Space, Cauldron Calling: Origins of Psychic Shells and the Poetry of Pain
… physical experiences of pain. In the collection, domestic spaces, particularly kitchens, serve as filters and lenses through which to process anxiety and pain. Conversely, domestic spaces are viewed as areas of both liberation and confinement and the voices of the various speakers throughout the …
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Movement and Motion: Spatial Change in Roman Domestic Religion. Paganism to Christianity, 1st-5th centuries CE
This thesis sets out to examine changes in Roman domestic spaces related to religious practice from the pagan to Christian period. I argue that in their spatial negotiation of pre-existing pagan spaces, early Christian belief was influenced by these pagan spaces. A long process of reinterpreting …
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'Home is where the heart is': everyday geographies of young heterosexual couples' love in and of homes
… that heterosexual bodies that ‘love’, and the domestic spaces they occupy, are mutually constituted and continually reproduced through the everyday practices of homemaking. ‘Couple’ interviews, solicited diaries and self-directed photography, follow-up individual interviews and evaluation …
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Modern Homes? An Analysis of Irish and British Women's Literary Constructions of Domestic Space 1929-1946
… is the necessary sequestration of ‘bourgeois’ domestic spaces from an increasingly ‘modern’ outside world, such a spatial binarism is notably absent in the works of Irish and British women authors from 1929-1946. On the contrary, in these texts, domestic space has multiple functions, not least …
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Urban solarium : thermal performance in Boston
… - as a thermal battery for heating and cooling domestic spaces. In Boston where the temperature frequently goes below freezing in winter time, this thesis challenges existing housing typologies by incorporating thermal mass as a passive solar strategy at the scale of an entire structure. The …
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In Place: Visualising Migrant and Diasporic Home-making in Contemporary London
… project investigates how the visual depiction of domestic spaces and intimate cityscapes can represent the home-making experience of migrants and diaspora members in London and the contemporary urban environments in general. When looking at existing representations of migration and diaspora, it is …
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Domestic surface : a framework for advancement
… of American architects from their clientele. Domestic spaces in production homes are defined by continuous generic surfaces. This thesis recognizes the latent architectural opportunities that current domestic surfaces provide. The thesis aims to establish a framework of design methods and …
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Unmeasured, detached, and isolated: The legitimation of a domesticated identity
… with the symbolic weight of tropical imagery, domestic spaces, and hybrid aesthetics, my work challenges Eurocentric frameworks and examines the figure of the migrant as a socially constructed “stranger.” By foregrounding opacity, disorder, and play, the thesis text and artwork open space for …
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"What shall we use to fill the empty spaces?": Displacement in Frank Norris's McTeague
… leads to a mental break that is reflected in the domestic spaces she inhabits. The places she lives each become smaller and dirtier reflecting her diminished mental capacity. All the while, Trina works to fill her trunk, a substitute domestic space, with coins in an attempt to build value for …
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Infiltrating Montreal through the apartment-hotel: the anticipated mystery and strange familiarity of inhabiting the visited city
… architecture and the permanence of urban domestic life. Its programmatic elements reveal to visitors the unknown domestic spaces of the visited city for the duration of their stay. This thesis examines the oportment-hotel os o didactic architectural device in the specific context of …
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Surety
… who inhabits, navigates, and traverses various domestic spaces, while also attending to the landscape and politics of rural Iowa. Its poems move by recursion and repetition, corrupt linear time, and contend with trauma-related ruptures of chronology and space. Grounded in my memory of living in …
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Roads of Rebellion: Cultural Contributions by Women of the Beat Generation
… the Beat aesthetic and ethos--performed in domestic spaces or from the road--as examples of the complicated negotiation with the dominant culture and Beat lifestyle. Specifically, Joan Vollmer, Joyce Johnson, and Hettie Jones, who did not rebel on the road, instead challenged containment in …
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Reading Reality Television: Publicizing, Promoting, and Commodifying the Self
… expression and publicizing private labor in domestic spaces to success. Pairing a close reading methodological approach with analysis of audience responses on fan blog pages, this dissertation considers the themes of celebrity, labor, surveillance [and consent to it], and the emphasis on the …
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Ibuyambo: reconnecting rural Xhosa people with the natural environment in the contemporary time
… homestead layout and the relationship of its domestic spaces. The case study of this project is Shixini village, Willowvale.
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“I Don’t Want to Cook”: Reconfiguring the Domestic Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
… that considers ways in which the concept of domesticity features in the lives of black and white women in history, there is less discussion of how these women’s unique challenges led them to alter the traditional domestic space. This dissertation first assesses a range of nineteenth-century …
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Realism of the senses: a tendency in contemporary world cinema
… film through a focus on the sheer physicality of domestic spaces and the physiology of a grotesque body. Part III investigates Gus Van Sant’s recent incursion into an experimental-realist style as producing sensory explorations of mental processes of perception in line with the American …
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Containing Meaning: Miniature Pottery on Bronze Age Crete
… sacred areas. When miniature pots are found in domestic spaces, they are often dismissed as objects of household ritual or simple toys. Yet miniature vessels, diverse in form and context, are so pervasive in archaeological investigations of Minoan settlements that they merit further …
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