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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Exchange Value"”.
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Rhetorically Ascribed Meaning in Marketing: The Role of Narrative in Establishing Exchange Value
Use value and exchange value, concepts explored by Aristotle, are terms dealing with the natural function of an object and the object's worth in an exchange, respectively. In this work, Aristotle's concepts are applied to contemporary marketing practices and other aspects of culture in order to …
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Neoliberal Planning in Practice: Use Value or Exchange Value? A Post-Positivist Investigation of Auckland’s Housing Affordability Issues
… capitalism: the contradiction between use value and exchange value. The main aim of this thesis is to test the validity of this hypothesis in the particular context of Auckland to explore how this contradiction structurally contributes to the housing affordability issues. Political …
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Essays on Methods to Support Ecosystem Accounting
… framework for NCA. By adopting a concept of value, i.e., the exchange value, aligned with SNA principles, this framework aims to provide metrics comparable to widely recognised indicators. This thesis sets within this evolving context, aiming to addressing key issues within Ecosystem …
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Other equators : measures for an international tribunal for the Rights of Nature
… the logic of practices that reduce Nature to its exchange value.
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A sociological analysis of gender in Marxist theory
… of the interaction between labour power, surplus value, exchange value and use value. I also assess the contribution of the wages-for-housework debate to a gender-class analysis. Finally I argue that "gender" makes a fundamental contribution to a possible understanding of the interrelation of …
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The making of ' green ' capitalism in Europe ' s marginal regions : renewable energy production as territory grabbing for accumulation
… thesis investigates the accumulation of surplus value in and around renewable energy generation at the level of production areas, the enclosure and transformative processes it triggers, the class and factional cleavages it entails, and the regulatory mechanisms and legitimation narratives to …
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An approach to the value of information : effectiveness and productivity of information use in research work.
The economics and value of information have been analysed in this study. Efforts have been made to deepen our understanding of the value of information in information work. The literature of information science and economics were reviewed but suitable ready-to-use methods and techniques for the …
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What's 'Awe' The Hype? Motivations to Share Video Game Information
… intent to share. Conceptualized through Social Exchange Theory and Social Identity Theory; the experiment also explored motivations to share based on exchange value, and gamer identity. Implications for our understanding of motivations to share game information based on social networks and …
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Oxygen isotope systematics of nitrification
During nitrification there is an exchange of oxygen atoms between water and nitrite, causing the [delta]¹⁸O of nitrate produced by nitrification to be closer to the [delta]¹⁸O of water than expected. A series of lab and field experiments were set up in order to quantify the exchange, and then …
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Play City Life: Henri Lefebvre, Urban Exploration and Re-Imagined Possibilities for Urban Life
… can open up more urban space and time for use value, above the exchange value that capitalism so efficiently emphasizes. Henri Lefebvre’s ideas about the ongoing production of social space, explicated in his spatial triad, alongside his ideas surrounding a resurgent and possibly revolutionary …
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Potential architecture
… to hold simultaneously opposing states - use and exchange value, resistance and cooperation, independence and regulation - is what at this moment grants architecture immense potential.
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Media and heritage in Ireland: representations of heritage in Irish newspapers and the praxis of determination
… considered as patrimony – was assigned an exchange value but was required to 'pay its own way'. However, from the mid-1990s, the country experienced an economic boom that was heavily dependant on an inflated property market, greatly increased residential and commercial development and heavy …
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Latinidad in London: An ethnographic study exploring how Latin American Londoners represent their ethnic community discursively
… especially in accounting for the contingent exchange value of these semiotic practices.<br/>This study problematises the idea of ’Latin American community’ and operationalizes the concept of latinidad in the London context. It contributes to understanding how language and gender ideologies …
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Carlyle And The Economics Of Terror: A Study Of Revisionary Gothicism In "the French Revolution"
… currency of the sign. Reduced in function to an exchange value, the current sign participates in an arbitrary discourse which Carlyle overcomes with the motivating dynamics of German Transcendental Philosophy. To this end, paper money is exposed as an act of misrepresentation; its validity …
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Privatization of buildings and land : the case of El Salvador
… ways that could recognize either the real asset value or the highest and best use of the real property held by public institutions/State Owned Enterprises (SOE's). Literature on privatization of SOEs considers real property in only an incidental manner. No references were found regarding changes …
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Green-LIT: Shipping Containers in Your Backyard
… process that has forced humans to value themselves solely on whatever aspect of their identity can be clearly defined as private property and thus given corporeal rights and exchange value. This virtual market further abstracts the metabolic processes of the economy from the …
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A sociological exploration of social mixing: young people's friendships in urban schools
… classed, raced and gendered bodies have more exchange value than others. To begin, I show how different demographics of schools constrain and enable the discursive production of the school as space for social mixing, and moreover how this is intimately connected to academic inclusivity or …
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The development of a disruptive innovation response framework within the South African insurance context: adapt, regenerate, transcend (Art)
… digital architecture and alternative forms of value exchange, value creation and capture enabled through networks, platforms, and innovation ecosystems. For a mature industry to navigate potential disruption on this scale and possibly direct disruptive innovation of its own, will require a …
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Architecture as an Apparatus of Governance: (British) Architecture from the Welfare State to the State of Neoliberal Workfare
… was reclaimed as a commodity defined by exchange value and was resubmitted to the operations of the market. Moreover, they implemented in the architectural production technologies of government in the form of performance criteria, entrepreneurship, and risk management, which affected the …
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Public Space for the Privatised individual
… bring people together in spaces to confront and exchange value with civility and the digital spaces reach out to the public beyond physical and social boundaries. They physical strategy is set of Urban furniture that forms a network of spaces throughout the city. This urban furniture can be …
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