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Showing 1 to 20 of 99 for “"Fugitive"”.
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Fugitive Testimonies
… fieldwork study (2009–16) to question what is ‘fugitive’ from the family photographic archive. The research borrows the term from Roland Barthes: ‘the Photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony’.1 The research project relates this idea to what goes missing from family albums and posits that …
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A Fugitive Sea
<p>I make images that are fragmented like ominous dreams. Described with sensuous marks of paint, they demand intimacy but reveal vulnerability as they threaten to break apart before the eyes. This thesis examines my journey over the past two years at VCU and describes my artistic beliefs and …
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Praxis and Critique: On Fugitive Politics
… dialectical reflection upon the predicament of fugitive political praxis – forms of political action or claim making compelled to resist or give expression to political wrongs via the very mediums and contexts that sustain their imperceptibility and uninhabitability – this dissertation engages …
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Fugitive Phrases: Arcade Fire, Music, and the Amorous Subject
This dissertation asserts that passionate love is not a feeling, but a process of acculturation to a complete system of information. Niklas Luhmanns work on love as a system of communication is put in dialogue with the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan and Slavoj iek to demonstrate that …
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Africana Unmasked: Fugitive signs of Africa in Tate's British Collection
… created new artworks that indicated hidden (or, ‘fugitive’) African connections with the intention of disrupting complacent assumptions and reimagining unacknowledged (or, ‘masked’) themes. I considered concepts of Africa: described by Mudimbe as ‘discursive formations’ (after Foucault) and …
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Erotic elsewhere: pleasure and fugitive evasion in contemporary Black literature
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Finding Onesimus: Recovering the Story of a First-Century Fugitive Slave
… into the experience of a first-century fugitive slave named Onesimus, who is known to us primarily through Paul’s letter to Philemon (Phlm) in the New Testament. Within this broader purpose, this project challenges a popular historical theory for Onesimus’ flight, the so-called …
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Fugitive Spaces For Cultivating Creativity: A Framework For Value-Centered Learning Environments
… environments aims to cultivate a sense of fugitive space –purposefully constructed out-of-school spaces for practicing radical imagination. These spaces offer transformative creative learning experiences with computing, challenging anti-Blackness in education and embracing liberatory …
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Schooling in the Afterlives: Neoliberalism, Anti-Blackness, and Fugitive Pedagogies in Black Education
… Afterlives: Neoliberalism, Anti-Blackness, and Fugitive Ped-agogies in Black Education examines how Black students and their teachers in an urban charter school on the South Side of Chicago navigate the neoliberal considerations and challenges of a charter school in the wake of anti-Black …
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Fugitive Architecture: Obsolescence, Aspiration, and Adaptation in Vancouver's Urbanizing Industrial Areas
'Fugitive Architecture' is a provocation born as a response to development practices that commodify architecture through the dictum of "highest and best use." In contrast to market-driven aspirational architecture, this thesis problematizes notions of urban decay and renewal, unsettling norms of …
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The Fugitive Slave Law, Antislavery and the Emergence of the Republican Party in Indiana
… states and the Southern slave states was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. For decades slaveholders had complained of the difficulties encountered in reclaiming their fugitive slaves and demanded stronger legislation to deal with the problem. Northerners, however, did not believe that national …
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Flooding as Remembering: A Trickster’s Guide to Fugitive Ecology, Revolutionary Recall, and Speculative Worldbuilding Beyond the Plantationocene
… Louisiana Central Wetlands), self-emancipated fugitives that had escaped enslavement formed autonomous inner worlds in the unenclosed territories between the Mississippi River and Lake Borgne. Known as Maroons, they were led by a leader named Juan San Malò and forged interdependent networks …
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NEITHER NORTHERN NOR SOUTHERN: THE POLITICS OF SLAVERY AND FREEDOM IN PHILADELPHIA, 1820-1847
… maintained a long tradition of abolitionism and fugitive slave activity. Conflicts that arose over fugitive slaves and the kidnapping of free African-Americans forced Philadelphians to confront the politics of slavery. This dissertation argues that until 1847, Pennsylvania was in effect a slave …
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Contemporary Canadian women's fiction a jungian reading of Ying Chen's L'ingratitude, Christiane Frenette's La terre ferme, Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on your knees, and Anne Michaels' Fugitive pieces
… from a place with no time-space limits, as the fugitive pieces which complete the puzzle of Jakob's character. In the final chapter, I suggest that the character of the mother in La Terre ferme breaks free of the traditional boundaries set for the mother in fiction and rescues the fictional …
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Human Health Risk Assessment for Petroleum Refining Industry of the Remaining Air Toxics after MACT I Emissions Reductions
… Methodology included compiling vertical and fugitive emissions from 2002 National Emissions Inventory for sources inside two facilities in Louisiana, 'Motiva Norco' and 'Valero St. Charles' refineries. Six cases were modeled applying EPA criteria, where cancer risks are 'low' if the …
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Partir marron: Un parcours sémantique à travers les trous de la mémoire collective haïtienne
… against the colonial order, that is, the fugitive slave. Specific, in the Haitian lexicography, it stands for a shifty and cunning individual, particularily a " <em>Woule m debò</em> "1. One has to recognize that there is a double meaning associated with the word, and at the same time, the …
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Direct ink writing of microvascular networks
… are constructed by direct-write assembly of a fugitive organic ink. Several advancements are required to facilitate their patterning, including pressure valving, dual ink printing, and dynamic pressure variation to allow tunable control of ink deposition. The hydraulic conductance is measured …
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