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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Everyday spaces"”.
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'Mad, bad and dangerous to know': exploring the everyday spaces of older, mental health service users
… daily service user life is played out within everyday mental health spatial contexts. These spaces incorporate the psychiatric institution, the mental health day centre and the home. Using interviews, ethnography, poetry and visual ethnographies, service users’ experiences are analysed by …
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Walking and talking : topographies of memory in Kingston-upon-Hull
… memory narratives within the unglamorous, everyday spaces of the city, drawing upon ideas of memory as a fluid and dynamic process that is under constant negotiation. It is increasingly argued that we can read places as possessing multiple, overlapping temporalities that have the potential …
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Žaidimas avangardiniame mene: hermeneutinis ir semiotinis požiūriai /
… "Fluxus" art, and play. Avant-garde art uses everyday life itself (everyday objects, everyday spaces, etc.) as creative material. The paper argues that "Fluxus"'s main creative principle is play, gags. The basis of play in "Fluxus" art shows aspects of everyday life that would not appear …
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Teenage citizenship geographies: Rural spaces of exclusion, education and creativity
… engagement. For some, the deficit of meaningful spaces of citizenship results in frustrated relations with key decision-makers. Others are engaged in their own practices of citizenship, devising creative ways in which to carve out and reconstruct everyday spaces and identities. Contributing to …
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Spatial narratives: redefining permanent gendered spaces for temporal female traders in Eveline Street, Katutura, Windhoek
… eight traders are women. As noted by Huda Tayob, spaces occupied by female traders are sites of refuge and care within a highly contested urban realm. In Eveline Street, Katutura, Windhoek the capitalist uneven spatial development has led to continued movement from rural areas to the city. Yet the …
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a creative inquiry: how context affects design
… disruptions, and interventions to the spaces that go unnoticed and are considered mundane. I find inspiration in the opportunity that these informal, everyday spaces provide for a spontaneous response. The implications of this research will offer new and novel approaches for designers, …
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Racial integration : a social intervention on a South African university campus
… 'hyper-segregation' has been well documented in everyday spaces where diverse groups of people coexist. Of significance, these patterns of racial isolation are also prevalent in contexts where contact conditions are among the most optimal: university campuses. Despite the hope that naturally …
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Reclaiming the voices and spaces for the youth of Vilakazi Street: Exploring spatial reform in Orlando West
… community of people who have reclaimed the spaces as their own. This research serves to gain a deeper understanding of Vilakazi Street (as a catalyst to transformation) - an emerging high street in a culturally rich neighbourhood of Orlando West. Furthermore to understand the missing links …
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Inhabited perspectives on the North Coast 500: Re-making local heritage in touristed communities of the Scottish Highlands
… of representation and discourse but also in the everyday spaces, activities and meanings of individual inhabitants’ lives.
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Knowing what I know now : black women talk about violence inside and outside the home
… legacies for the body and encounters in public spaces that leave feelings of discomfort. Fifteen participants were interviewed in total: six formed a sample of experts who work in violence support services, research and health services; and nine victim-survivors participated in a two or three …
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The Poetics of sensory-spatial experience in varieties of leisure consumption and the diversity of cultural ecology.
… of culturalcommercial leisure consumption spaces - tourist domains, museum/gallery visits, indulgent/leisure food 'dreamscapes' and music/mobile consumption zones. The findings can be encapsulated within three broad headings, namely that:- (i) Leisure spaces create heightened, personally …
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Bridging the past and the present “Rediscovering Prieska's forgotten cultural landscape”
… “lost generation” has led to shifts in marginal spaces, with the Korana community noting rural-to-urban migration that diminished daily activity in these neighborhoods. Geospatial analyses suggest that the location of the lost she-goat has the potential to reshape the social geography and …
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The difference that difference makes: leisure, space and teenage wheelchair users
… has been a paucity of research regarding the everyday issues and experiences of 'disabled' teenagers. This thesis presents an understanding of the encounters and experiences of teenage wheelchair users in a range of public and private leisure spaces. The thesis contributes to expanding debates …
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Negotiating normativities: Counter narratives of lesbian queer world making in Cape Town
… family. Their queer place making strategies in everyday spaces in Cape Town demonstrate how they rework racialised notions of belonging to incorporate the queer body (at times ephemerally) to make Cape Town home. Their creation of lesbian social networks and communities, embodied in lesbian …
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Postmodern tourism as signification: definitional constructs of authenticity in the context of tourism and their influence on the urban tourist experience
… of Authenticity influence the preference for Everyday Spaces, Shopping and Entertainment Sites, and Night Spots; 5) the definitional construct of Self-Discovery only influences the preference for Night Spots; 6) the definitional construct of Self-Involvement is the most influential factor …
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Everyday landscapes of immgrant integration in post-socialist Berlin: integration projects, othering and meanings of work.
This research examined everyday landscapes of belonging and responses of local population to recent immigrants in one of the new urban areas of immigrant settlement in Germany, namely neighborhoods of eastern Berlin, Marzahn. Once the largest socialist-era housing estate in the former East Germany, …
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Beauty in everyday landscapes: film as a method of investigation of sensual perception, human action, movement and landscape performance in cities
… market as a place of discovery of beauty in everyday landscapes. There will also be a presentation of research in definitions of beauty and a literature review in everyday landscapes and urban agriculture. Part two explains the methodology used for this study, including the use of film as an …