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Showing 1 to 20 of 113 for “"Geographers"”.
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Moslem geographers 800-1300 A.D.
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Looking at what Geographers do – Empirische Beiträge zur Wissenschaftsbeobachtung in der Geographie
The research interest of this doctoral thesis addresses the academic practice of German-speaking geography. It is thus both a "meta-geographical" thesis in the sense of disciplinary science research and a social-geographical thesis that examines how scientists interact with each other as social …
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Geographical Applications for Sound Walks
… is walking. This thesis aims to show how geographers can benefit from using sound walks as thinking tools, representational tools and teaching tools. Drawing on my own experiences producing sound walks, I first examine the ways that sound walk production processes help generate productive …
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Distant places and television news: A phenomenology of viewers' understandings
… of foreign country images should not discourage geographers from including distant place perception within the discipline's scope. Furthermore, the difficulty of doing empirical work on this topic should not intimidate geographers into using only maps or distance estimates to assure that the work …
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An Examination of Selected Ethnic Foodways in the Upper Midwest
<p>Many geographers recognize regional studies as a guidepost of geography. Cultural geographers have long identified the significance of ethnic regions and the differences between various ethnic groups in matters of housing, work, agriculture and diet. In many cases foodways and regional cuisine …
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Just Throw it in the Pot! The Cultural Geography of Hidden Landscapes and Masked Performances in South Louisiana Gumbo Cooking
… at masked performances/hidden landscapes, geographers can get a more nuanced idea of what is actually happening in landscapes and thus realize a true human geography of space. Studying gumbo can help geographers better understand the regional/cultural/historical implications of what a food …
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The professional geographer experience: issues for advancing collegiate geography education
… is: now that they have careers as professional geographers, how do collegiate geography graduates view their program experiences? Specifically, for this investigation questions for selected topics and sub-topics (or areas) were: what was the extent of their initial exposure to these during their …
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Investigating disorientation through the adoption of role-play in contemporary fine art practice
… I move through overlapping terrains of female geographers, cultural and visual theorists, filmmakers, architectural historians and theorists, sociologists, psychoanalysts, art writers and artists.
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Limits of the Black Radical Tradition and the Value-form
… historic defeat never happened. Furthermore, geographers have not reckoned with this defeat. <em>Limits of the Black Radical Tradition and the Value-form</em>begins the process of starting a debate, hoping to ignite radical rethinking around the nature of the Black Radical Tradition, racial …
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The power of geography : universal discourse, global coloniality, and local sovereignty in the sustainable city apparatus
… regarding engagement with power for urban geographers seeking to embrace a ‘relational’ conceptualisation of planning and policy making. Firstly, it highlights a failure to critically problematize what constitutes the ‘local’ institutional contexts of urban planning and policy making in …
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Realising the geo/graphic landscape of the everyday: a practice led investigation into an interdisciplinary geo/graphic design process
… design theory and practice—offers much to geographers and graphic designers in relation to the understanding and representation of place, and the potential of print based graphic design to create interactive, multi-linear spaces of exploration for the reader. The understanding and …
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Reconstructing the Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Daily Life in the 19th Century City: A Historical GIS Approach
In recent years, historians and historical geographers have become interested in the use of GIS to study historical patterns, populations, and phenomena. The result has been the emergence of a new discipline, historical GIS. Despite the growing use of GIS across geography and history, the use of …
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Eastern Washington University and the Ice Age flood debate: processing the papers of EWU Professor Dale F. Stradling
… was part of a new school of geologists and geographers entering the field in the 1950s and 60s. This group largely accepted the theory that the Channeled Scablands had been formed by a series of massive floods during the Ice Age; a theory that had been largely dismissed by geologists and …
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The strength of a knitted home: retrieving histories through Janet Morton's wool installations
… of gender, race, and class. As cultural geographers and architectural historians have argued, and as I argue in the context of Morton’s work, architecture and geography exist in a reciprocal relationship with the social context in which they exist. Consequently, social histories that …
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The unworlding and worlding of agoraphobia
… of existential crisis or catastrophe. Yet, human geographers have largely neglected to attend to the phenomenal nature of this unbounded sense of 'unworlding' disintegration, as well as the wild material forces, agencies and passions at loose in the world that carry the unlimited potential to …
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Everyday geographies of girls' experiences of physical activity: gender, health and bodies
… matter to their own and to our collective life. Geographers studying embodiment demonstrate how bodily materiality, conceptualisation and regulation are crucial to understanding spatial relations at every scale (Longhurst, 2005a). Until recently, children’s geographies have ignored the body and …
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Towards a geography of leisure: control, resistance and transformation within the South African city
For geographers concerned with understanding the social dynamics of space, an investigation of leisure patterns and processes is vital. Studies of leisure will provide geography with a powerful focus for deconstructing the social forces operative within the urban landscape, and thus the …
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Cooperative roles of geographic information science in identifying boundary uncertainty : a case study in The Bureau of Land Management's Manzano Wilderness Study Area
… surveying, this data is currently being used by geographers, cartographers, municipal planners and realtors for display and reproduction. Surveying provides the physical and legal basis for boundary delineation while GIS provides the tools to readily yield information from spatial data, and to …
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Bastions of turf : frisians, terpen and the re-adoption of a "working" landscape
… standards; To use the terminology of cultural geographers the old system "worked". This thesis offers a discussion of why this landscape was created and readopted as a working system.
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I Have Been Somewhere: Place In The South Carolina Poems Of Nikky Finney And Kwame Dawes
… Dawes. Borrowing from cultural and humanistic geographers’ myriad understandings of place, as well as philosophers’, I examine the ways in which Finney’s Rice and Dawes’s Wisteria function as meditations on and transmutations of the South Carolina low country in both its physical and …
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