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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Historical Change"”.
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Aspiring to be global: Language, mobilities, and social change in a tourism village in China
… Thurlow and Jaworski 2010) in that its sociohistorical transformation involves the re-evaluation of non-local, instead of local, linguistic resources. This study investigates this socio-historical change as an issue for the sociolinguistics of mobility (Blommaert 2010), wherein the English …
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Rhetoric on the Margins of the Second Wave: Feminism, Cultural Memory, and the Transformation of the Political
… reconsider the meaning of ""eventfulness"" and change. By examining the anomalous rhetorical practices and their infectious intensities, new conceptions of feminism's pasts can be created which have implications for our understanding of historical change, eventfulness, and contemporary feminist …
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Vowel harmony in Nez Perce and Korean.
… hand, I will show that in Korean there was a historical change in the type and nature of vowel harmony.
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“Essentially cyclonic:” Race, gender, and disaster in modern mauritius
… were a constituent and proportional force for historical change in twentieth century Mauritius. Whether as moments of acute catastrophe and as specters of future destruction, this dissertation shows that landfalling storms, the months of reconstruction efforts that followed, and the policies …
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Investigation of Neotectonic Activity within the Shallow, Unconsolidated Stratigraphy of the Pearl River Delta Area, Louisiana
… strata of the study area. Geomorphological historical change analyses focused on meander patterns, elongated water bodies and spatial changes in vegetation identify areas where fault motion may have recently occurred. The shallow stratigraphy was then investigated in these locations using …
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Framing the Future: Women's Media and Activism in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Texas
… how ordinary women effected significant historical change. It also examines why these women remain difficult to locate in the historical record, arguing that their erasure reflects the same structural forces their work sought to dismantle. Their legacy carries continued relevance for …
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Joining past and present--an addition to the National Museum of Rome
… past and give us a vital, visual expression of historical change. This thesis explores the nature of interventions into old buildings and the importance they play in maintaining an architectural continuity through time in our built landscape. The study of historical and contemporary examples of …
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Aspiration in Chinese
… and aspiration, and the role of aspiration in a historical change in Chinese. Data based on 144 words with aspiration contrasts were derived from the experiments which involved production and perception by a total of 28 Chinese speakers. On the basis of the measurements of acoustical …
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Japanese Photographic Documentation of Jewish Refugees in Kobe in 1941 in the Context of 1930s Social Documentary Photography
… views on Jewish refugees at a time of great historical change. The project was carried out by six members of the Osaka-based Tampei Shashin Kurabu (Tampei Photography Club), led by Yasui Nakaji. My thesis addresses how these photographs can be read in the context of 1930’s social documentary …
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Revolution, tradition, and order: the Nineteenth Century anarchist experience
<p>A comparative study of the historical philosophies of five anarchists, with a special emphasis on their attitudes regarding the role of social traditions in the process of historical change. The five men so studied are William Godwin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Michael [Mikhail] Bakunin, Peter …
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Carinus Nursing College : an historical study of nursing education and management using the general systems approach, 1947-1987
… this dissertation is to research aspects of the historical development of Nursing Education and Nursing Management at the Carinus Nursing College from 1949 to 1987; to determine and explain how the College has adapted and coped with historical change and to determine whether proposals for the …
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Between bureaucracy and social movements : careers in the justice for janitors
… This research examines the organizational change process and current practices of the largest and most successful of such unions, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). The dissertation starts with a puzzle: while the union is ideologically progressive and strategically …
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The Persistence of Resistance and the Emancipatory Power of the Aesthetic: On Negt and Kluge’s Critical Theory
… to theorize the conditions for a radical social change. I depart from Adorno’s contention that a true historical change requires the construction of what he calls a ‘global’ subject—i.e. a collective of critical and autonomous individuals. Adorno, assuming that capitalism has virtually eliminated …
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Vanished comforts: locating roles of domestic furnishings in Scotland 1500-1650
… may be preferred to the object as evidence of historical change and as units of international comparison. Furnishing a house was cultural activity, and a construction of culture. In this study, objects are regarded as participants in cultural activities, strategies, and the construction of …
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Narrative Epic and New Media: The Totalizing Spaces of Postmodernity in The Wire, Batman, and The Legend of Zelda
… of cultural production while accounting for historical change and differing cultural contexts. The following texts are analysed in depth: the HBO drama The Wire (2002–2008); works adapted from Batman comics, specifically the Dark Knight film trilogy (2005–2012) and the Batman: Arkham video …
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Confronting modernity: urbanization and American fiction, 1880-1930
… industrial city, which serves as the site of the changes and the subject of the fiction. Urbanization made modernity manifest in three ways: the close proximity and racial diversity of city life, the (limited) mobility urbanization offered women, and the growth of consumer culture. Drawing on …
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Dispossession, Realism and the History of Neoliberalism in Peru and Colombia (1964-2014)
… connections between these fields to study the historical dimension in the Peruvian and Colombian novels of the second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century, a period marked by rural violence and dispossession that, by abandoning national industrialization, …
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Representations of Iran in British Documentary, 1920s – 2006
… as well as how the positioning has evolved along historical change inside Iran, in the outside world, and in Iran’s relation with the outside world and Britain; b) reveal how, as mediated text, documentary film acts as part of the broader representational regimes in a social context in which these …
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Travelling Through Time: Tracing the Arrival of Modernity in German-Speaking Women’s Travel Literature on the Orient between 1840 and 1945
… are fundamentally shaped by considerations of historical change which derive their urgency from the context of modernity. Providing three case studies, this dissertation delineates how the discussed authors hope to find in the visited regions the presence of something which connects to Europe’s …
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Sport and the Victorian City: The development of commercialised spectator sport, Bradford 1836-1908
… sporting culture exhibited as much continuity as change. Pre-modern sporting practices, such as the game of knur and spell (presented here as a case study), for example, overlapped with the emergence of codified team sports. Nevertheless, the changes that were wrought in the second half of the …
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