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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Humanistic geography"”.
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Feeling nature: naturism, camping, environment and the body in Britain, 1920-1960
… considering 'outdoor cultures' and drawing upon humanistic geography and recent literature concerning issues of embodiment, sensuality, and body culture, my research raises a number of important questions. These include the importance of citizenship and the ethos of outdoor recreation in the …
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#instaworthy presentations of place: a place study of experience among teenagers on Instagram
… and if these representations differ, why? The humanistic geography concept of 'place' and place attachment theory was used as a guiding framework for this study. This study employed a mixed methods approach, completing fifteen interviews with former Rustic Pathways students and textual analysis …
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Geographies that matter: Pregnant bodies in public places
… constituted. I examine examples from time-geography, humanistic geography, medical geography and feminist geography in order to illustrate the ways in which the body is Othered. This Othering of the body in geography serves to marginalise certain individuals and groups, such as women, who …
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Kyiv - A City Symphony: An examination of the conventions of poetic documentary and how they can create a representation of the city of Kyiv, Ukraine
… foundation for this research and insight into humanistic geography has been essential for identifying the ‘meanings’ attached to places, that give them value. These meanings emerge from complex relationships between us, our environment, our physical and sensual experience of place. The research …
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Space, Place and Home: Lived experiences of hospice day care
… ‘place’, is recognised by the field of health geography, and it is suggested there is a need for a focus on how ‘place’ affects CAM and vice versa. There is little mention of hospice as a place for such research, yet as the largest provider of complementary therapies (CT) to cancer patients in …
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The unworlding and worlding of agoraphobia
… of its greater contribution to the discipline of geography, in this dissertation I strive to develop new understandings about the human condition of being in an eventful, material world that infinitely exceeds our ability to subjectively control or understand. By doing so, this dissertation aims …