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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Henri Lefebvre"”.
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Play City Life: Henri Lefebvre, Urban Exploration and Re-Imagined Possibilities for Urban Life
… 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 festival are used to explain how play can unsettle current capitalist norms. …
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Technology and social space beyond the modern episteme
… Latour, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, and Henri Lefebvre. It posits an a-modern, machinic approach to technology and the social that focusses on the distribution of agency rather than the modern preoccupation with identity and the Kantian separation of time and space.
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Vibrancy of Public Spaces: Inclusivity and Participation Amidst the Challenges in Transformative Process in the City of Cagayan de Oro, Philippines
… together with western thoughts such as Henri Lefebvre, Alain Touraine and Jürgen Habermas, this study elucidates that the core of perceived, lived and conceived spaces is ‘the Subject.’ Once the Subject utilizes the public sphere to instill social action, social space is ultimately …
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The Empire of Fashion: Taste, Gender, and Nation in Modern Japan
"Following from the work of Henri Lefebvre, I emphasize how the impact of capitalism and the intensification of fashion created a new awareness of the concept of everyday life in modern Japan. I analyze the way in which a peripheral elite disaffected with the government criticized the excessive …
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The spaces of sex : perversion, performance and place in literature between the wars
… of Sex” examines the ways that space, defined by Henri Lefebvre as a theoretical and socially constructed concept, both produces and restricts characters’ expressions of sexuality. “Spaces of Sex” pursues these issues through close readings of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem, …
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Placing the City: An Exploration of John Paskievich’s Photographs of Winnipeg's North End as Visual Cartography
… are phenomenologically local. Drawing from Henri Lefebvre's notion of "the social production of space," and Ariella Azoulay's framing of the photograph as an encounter, this thesis argues that these images engage in a practice of 'placing.' Considering the photograph as an active object with …
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Fear of a Blank Planet
… and concluding chapter examines the writings of Henri Lefebvre on everyday life and, also, the importance that Lefebvre's work has for new directions in cultural studies. The thrust of the argument concerns an almost completely neglected third term in Lefebvre's approach to questions of everyday …
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Level of Service: Design Standards, Imposed Car Dependence, and the Production of Urban Space in the Capitalist State
… Marxist urban theorists, and critical theorists Henri Lefebvre and Michel Foucault, this paper understands such design standards as forms of knowledge that reproduce power structures of capitalism. The paper focuses on an in-depth historical analysis of three watershed moments of federal decision …
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Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: The Everyday Southern Epic
… experience has been defined by such scholars as Henri Lefebvre, Michel deCerteau and Joe Moran as the space in which the life as lived is developed in all its minutia and the manner by which the state acts upon that existence. Using these ideas as a framework, we begin to see how the narrative of …
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Bio-rhythms / Digi-rhythms: Synthesising the Digitally Mediated Body Through Performative Methodologies
… theory of Rhythmanalysis (2004), developed by Henri Lefebvre, rhythm will be adopted as a metaphor for re-thinking our interrelation with digital interfaces, beyond the limiting parameters of a dualistic understanding of the biological body and the digitally-mediated body. This research …
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Die skryf van ʼn lewe: Die funksionaliteit van ruimte in Stephanus Muller se Nagmusiek (2014)
… The influential works of Gaston Bachelard, Henri Lefebvre and Michel Foucault with regard to the house as a place of shelter and protection, social space as a social product and the principle of heterotopia were used as theoretical approaches to the analysis of the text. In this study the …
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The Everyday: Informing the realm of routine practice through design
… early contemporary theorists Michael De Certeau, Henri Lefebvre and Georges Perec to contemporary advocates of landscape architecture, such as Walter Hood and Laurie Olin, have provided a design oriented approach to the understanding on a subject of study that has long been neglected. There lies a …
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A year in the city
… the lived experience in text, as theorised by Henri Lefebvre. The mosaic structure of A Year in the City borrows from Michel de Certeau's theory of walking the city and Walter Benjamin's flaneur. The issue of race is discussed in relation to the representation of white and non-white characters …
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Remapping the U.S. "Southwest": Early Mexican American Literature and the Production of Transnational Counterspaces, 1885-1958
… this term, which draws 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. …
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The café in modernist literature: Wyndham Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Rhys
… study is underpinned by the spatial theory of Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, and Michel Foucault. From this theoretical platform I assemble a conceptual framework and a spatial vocabulary that facilitates the critical engagement with the literary representation of the café. …
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The language of gardens: Ibn al-‘Arabi’s barzakh, the courtyard gardens of the Alhambra, and the production of sacred space
… movement and aesthetics, such as Louis Marin, Henri Lefebvre, Tim Ingold and Martin Seel, this thesis offers an original contribution to the spatial analysis of religion as embodied in the architecture, gardens, and imagination of the Alhambra. Emphasising the barzakh’s role in the interplay …
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Western China on Screen: Cinema and Urban Exploration as Thirdspace
… by drawing on spatial theories first proposed by Henri Lefebvre and further developed in Edward Soja’s Thirdspace theory. This thesis is the first comprehensive academic contribution to deal with the affinity between cinema and the cities of western China. By focusing on the cinematic …
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Adventures in the archaic: Bataille, Devereux, Eliade, and Lefebvre after 1945
… enthusiast, and amateur prehistorian; Henri Lefebvre, a Marxist philosopher turn rural sociologist turned urban theorist; Georges Devereux, a pioneering ethnographer and trained psychiatrist; and Mircea Eliade, one of the best-known historians of religion. In the crucible of the Great …
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Gendered political spaces in international relations : the case of NGO use of information & communication technologies (ICTs)
… frarnework is based initially upon the work of Henri Lefebvre, and identifies three categories of analysis: spatial practice, representations of space and space of representation. In this respect the thesis introduces a form of spatial methodology to the discipline. The thesis argues that these …
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Mapping the other truth in the Shintech case: emancipatory mapping for environmental justice in south Louisiana
… theory, critical geography, and the works of Henri Lefebvre to a specific environmental justice struggle in St. James Parish, Louisiana. In 1996 Shintech, Inc. proposed building a polyvinyl chloride facility in St. James Parish, Louisiana. The community, concerned about the considerable toxic …
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