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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Edward Soja"”.
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Space, place and spatial loss in North African and Canadian writing in French
… Eurocentric discourses on space, leading to what Edward Soja and Henri Lefebvre refer to as the “mystification” of space and spatiality. The main aim of this research is to investigate how the literary treatment of space and place shapes the representations of space, place and spatial loss in the …
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Remapping the U.S. "Southwest": Early Mexican American Literature and the Production of Transnational Counterspaces, 1885-1958
… from spatial theories by Henri Lefebvre and Edward Soja, to describe their vocalizations of the Southwest produced in the face of their respective Anglo counterparts such as Willa Cather and other members of the Santa Fe and Taos writers colonies, Walter Noble Burns, J. Frank Dobie, and …
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Exploding spaces : present and future urban spaces cinematically considered
… interpretation. Specifically, the work of Edward Soja and Michel Foucault provide fruitful lines of examination through an engagement with the spatiality of postmodernism, though postmodernism is not analyzed in itself. The dissertation aims to have current application, in terms of the …
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Examining the impact of residential segregation on rapid transit development in Chicago's South Side
… exist side by side is a prime example of what Edward Soja calls socially produced geographies of institutionalized racial segregation and what David Harvey terms as territorial injustice. Hyde Park with about 26,705 mostly white residents is a thriving economic center that has realized gains in …
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Considering rhythms of emotional proximity: an alternative approach to directing theatre in a violent society
… the spatial trialectics of Henri Lefebvre and Edward Soja, who argue for the insertion of a "thirdspace" in order to counter the limited workings of binaries. This conceptual frame translates into praxis in the form of theatre apparatus such as interruption and disruption of the narrative, …
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Establishing a Framework for Landscape Narrative Exploration Within Seattle's Pioneer Square Historic District
… and further illustrate its re-conception from Edward Soja (1996) before considering how the dialectic and trialectic construction of space can be appropriated into design. Turning my attention to narrative, I outline the construction of meaning in space into spatial narratives using Potteiger …
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Navigating the Gaze: Young People's Intimate Knowledge with Surveilled Spaces at School
… Cindi Katz, Henri Lefebvre, and especially by Edward Soja and his theoretical framework of "Third Space" to situate young people's lifeworlds within the constantly redefined, restructured and reshaped spaces at urban public schools. The concluding chapter challenges mainstream epistemologies of …
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Locating the Destitute: Place in Postcolonial Fiction (V.S. Naipaul, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Octavia Butler)
… spaces through the work of political geographers Edward Soja and David Harvey and their predecessor, a Marxist philosopher, Henri Lefebvre. The etymological sense of the word "destitution" (to be placed outside) organizes my reading of postcolonial "spatial identities" and serves to question what …
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Within the Walls: War, Trauma, and Recovery in Dubrovnik
… present, it also shapes the present; likewise, Edward Soja addressing the sociology of place believes that the social and the spatial mutually construct and transform one another. Still, Schwartz and Soja hesitate on the brink of acknowledging that the material world might have agency. …
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Politics of Space in Ankara: The Spatial Triad as Mobilization and Demobilization
… as philosopher Henri Lefebvre, urban geographer Edward Soja, architect and theorist Christopher Alexander, and sociologist Asef Bayat explain how governments and powerful individuals use architects to shape spaces that reproduce economic and social hegemony. Alexander calls this mode of …
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Sonic, infrasonic, and ultrasonic frequencies : the utilisation of waveforms as weapons, apparatus for psychological manipulation, and as instruments of physiological influence by industrial, entertainment, and military organisations
… Serres, political geographer/urban planner Edward Soja, musician/sonic theorist Steve Goodman, and cultural theorist/urbanist Paul Virilio, this study engages a wide range of texts to orchestrate its arguments. Conducting new strains of viral theory that resonate with architectural, …
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Problemáticas del espacio en la narrativa hispanoamericana contemporánea (1990-2010)
… analyzed by Michel Foucault, David Harvey, and Edward Soja, assumes that space has become a more relevant analytical category than time, due to the emergence of new technologies and media, new forms of capital flow, and because of the preeminence of the image in contemporary times. Following …
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Graffiti as counter-cartography: street art and the cartographic legacy in Bogotá, Colombia
… hip hop or youth sub culture. Henri Lefebvre, Edward Soja and urban theorists consider the relationship between space in itself (physical/geographical) and political space (regimes of power). In particular, their focus is the economy of space in the urban environment, where one’s role in the …
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Rethinking the Community as Temple: Discourse and Spatial Practice in the Community Rule (1QS)
… for a community without a physical temple. Edward Soja’s concept of Thirdspace—social space transformed by material and mental spaces—illuminates how temple, military, and judicial spaces order social and divine relationships for those who followed 1QS. In turn, this spatial practice creates …