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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Historical contextualization"”.
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Painting as a response to a sense of dislocation in the South African social fabric
… of paintings has been developed. A detailed art historical contextualization foregrounds those precedents most pertinent to the formal and conceptual processes informing the Domestic Baggage series.
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The Surprise of a Knight: Excavating Material Legacies through Early Queer Film
… by Surprise and explores contingencies for historical contextualization—methods public historians (archivists and interpreters alike) may adapt to fit similar materials within a broader history of film and queer identity. It explores current methods and future conundrums for best practices …
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Convoluted conjugality: Hymnographic repression, transference and co-optation in the Byzantine sanctoral's commemoration of married saints
… of the hymnography. The third part provides a historical contextualization of the theory and practice of marriage in Middle Byzantium and of the development and codification of the Menaion. The hymnographic texts themselves are categorized and critiqued in the fourth part. The thesis concludes …
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Paper Dolls Ride Shotgun
… myth” (Rafter 7). Thirdly, the novel engages the historical criticism of the crime genre itself, through Scaggs, Hilfer, and Malpas. This historical contextualization is pivotal to understanding the “implicitly or explicitly political stance” on the societies of a crime writer’s day (Malpas 113). …
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An annotated edition of the selected correspondence of Maud, Lady Tree: 1880-1917
… allusions, and provide broader cultural and historical contextualization where necessary. The Appendices consist of an index of recipients and brief biographies of principal correspondents to assist in clarification, illustrations, texts of some speeches, and a chronological list of Maud's …
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Precarious Empowerments: Sexual Labor in the Coffee Shops of Santiago, Chile
… ethnographic narrative with a theoretical and a historical contextualization, <em>Precarious empowerments</em> reveals how differences in terms of class, gender, race, and nationality are integral to the daily practices and the consumption of sexual services in ‘tinted’ coffee shops. Women’s …
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Frames of Digital Blackness in the Racialized Palimpsest City: Chicago, Illinois and Johannesburg, South Africa
… have been constituted within an arc of historical racialized delineations which began with the centering, and subsequent overrepresentation, of European maleness and whiteness as the sole definition of Man. Globally present and persistent, these racialized delineations have been …
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The liminal event and its symbols: on the intersection of human and technology
… experiences, drives this thesis towards re-contextualization of the significance of shock and development of tools and concepts to heal the experiential rift between human and technology. Further, in this thesis, I develop and propose two such conceptual and practical tools, the sign, and …
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Unhappy Consciousness: Recognition and Reification in Victorian Fiction
… but need to be interpreted in terms of historical forms of social misrecognition (such as Marx's analysis of fetishism). Unhappy Consciousness contends that, if we are going to talk about nineteenth century things, we will have to take into account the novelistic misrecognition of the …
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Stateless nation building: early Puerto Rican cinema and identity formation (1897-1940)
… national identity formation as seen through the historical development of cinema on the island between 1897 and 1940. Anchored in archival sources in film technology, economy, and education, I argue that Puerto Rico’s position as a stateless nation allows for a fresh understanding of national …
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'So many ways of being better': Contemporary US fiction and cultures of self-help
… uses comparative and close readings, socio-historical contextualization, archival research, and an original author interview to interrogate the often oblique ways in which eight contemporary writers stage encounters with cultures of self-help and popular psychology in their work. David …
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Society Must Be Defragmented: Data Shadows and Computational Life
… technological substrate. To clarify the historical change, we need to see digitalization and datafication as bound through time, as a continuous colonization of the space of everyday life. My project argues that the former is the technical infrastructure, while the latter allows the …
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"""Empty chairs, broken lives"": The Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum"
… the institution; and, finally, documents a historical context that situates the bombing and the subsequent memorial within a rich and complicated urban history. The dissertation describes the constructed Memorial and the Memorial Museum in Oklahoma City, designed by Hans and Torrey Butzer …
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La Caridad. Lecturas del hogar : historia, espíritu y memoria. Tesauro temático para la contextualización histórica de una publicación del siglo XIX
La descripción limitada de las publicaciones seriadas patrimoniales en Colombia ha abierto una brecha entre los acervos y quienes los investigan, afectando la consulta, la contextualización histórica y la reconstrucción de memoria. Tal es el caso de La Caridad: Lecturas del Hogar (1864-1906), …