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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Historical Present"”.
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A position on architectural education
… which we live. Contemporary thinking shapes our historical present and reinterprets our historical past. This world is shaped by many keyhole views. The cornerstones of knowledge are built on a foundation of theory and objective reality. However, the fundamental underpinning of knowledge and …
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Approaching devices in personal narratives in Lambayeque, Peru
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Praxis and Critique: On Fugitive Politics
… insights to exceed his philosophy’s particular, historically sedimented limitations – the dissertation aims to rethink the interpretation of fugitive praxis in the historical present by salvaging his critical conception of mediation. Critical political interpretation, I will argue, neither …
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Critique and neoliberalism in Michel Foucault
… of "desubjection" and the history of the present. Critique thinks the identity of its historical present on the basis of what escapes this identity. It participates in these escapes by exploring how they challenge the concepts of extant critical discourse and illuminate the existing order …
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Catastrophic Christianity: an Iconological Study of the Messianic Idea in American Protestant Christianity Circa 1900-1940
<p>A historically variegated emblem of trust and faith, the messianic idea is the offer of religion to the people for salvation from the coming catastrophe. This dissertation analyzes the messianic idea in "America." The foci of the study are popular messianic figurations that serve as heuristic …
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Problems of representation and representativeness in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's fiction
… in the conflicting discursive formations of two historical junctures of Kenyan resistance to colonial rule (the female circumcision debate and the Mau Mau insurgency) , in which 'woman' is mobilized as a metaphor for the Kenyan social matrix by Gikuyu nationalist/traditionalist discourses. …
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Diamonds as Development: Suffering for Opportunity in the Canadian North
… on integrating and reframing past failures with present aspirations for “the good life”. At the height of the diamond boom in 2007, future imaginaries were largely associated with high wage job creation in the rapidly expanding industrial sector. Based on 18 months of fieldwork among those said …
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"Consuming the ""authentic"": globalized nostalgia and the politics of hybridity through culinary tourism and heritage foodways. A case study of Galicia, Spain."
This work interrogates the historical present through the lens of culinary tourism and heritage foodways, positing that the contemporary interest in authenticity and heritage are emblematic of a populism that has the potential to be emancipatory and liberating or reactionary. I read these …
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Composing Paradoxes Feminist Process in Sound Arts and Experimental Musics
… ways in which the category of “woman” has been historically silenced, erased, ignored and disqualified from and misrepresented within dominant historical sound and music histories. I then ask what representations of “woman” might have materialised within this relational paradigm that “privileges …
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And then I was like, “No way!”: A variationist study of be like in young Cape Town speech
… as one of the prominent examples of ongoing historical changes in English. This has been documented internationally, but the degree to which this change has taken place in South African English remains understudied. This dissertation conducts an apparent-time study of quotative systems in …
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Ambient Lyric: Apollinaire and the Social Imaginary of Twentieth-Century US Poetry
This thesis presents a history of how poetry in the twentieth-century US became understood as a means to mediate social complexity, explored via the reception of the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Apollinaire becomes a crucial figure, I argue, because the articulation that he gives of his …
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Global gamers, transnational play, imaginary battlefield: encountering the gameplay experience in the war-themed first-person-shooter, Call of Duty
… industrial model, and by repeatedly simulating historical/present/fictional war events and adopting militaristic stories, creates an adrenaline-pumping interactive gaming experience that the global gamers find very difficult to resist. Before 2011 the most iconic war-themed first-person-shooter …
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Writing History Under Erasure: Radical Historiographical Practices in Lebanese Postwar Art
… truth-claims of history or the possibility of historical knowledge as such, but to reconfigure the task of historical inquiry as a process of critical reconstruction and interpretative disclosure. Accordingly, this dissertation considers how the above artists’ “radical historiographical …