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Imagined
My thesis started with drawing as a means to explore architecture. In pursuit of a vision in the seascape, initial drawings were made holding the notion of light and water. Later development of spaces was informed by these drawings. Pure drawing helps me not only with directly expressing what I …
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Imagined nation and imagined womanhood in the Shaw Brothers' musicals
… The female characters are embodiment of an imagined nation to the Chinese diasporic audiences. On the other hand, the genre reflects social changes of Hong Kong after World War II. The female characters symbolize modern women who were gradually getting autonomous under social transition. …
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Third-party imagined interactions: expanding imagined interactions as false memories in understanding interactions
Previous studies have found imagined interactions (IIs) help individuals recall past interactions and plan for future interactions. Those studies have not investigated what occurs when individuals imagine the interactions of others (third-party imagined interactions hereafter TPIIs), how the II …
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Imagined Islands: A Caribbean Tidalectics
<p><italic>Imagined Islands: A Caribbean Tidalectics</italic> confronts islands -at once as a problem, a concept, and a historical and mythical fact and product- by generating a tidalectical encounter between some of the ways in which islands have been imagined and used from without, primarily in …
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Imagined Communions: One Woman's Spiritual Journey
… among individuals across national lines. Imagined communions, an extension as well as a critique of Benedict Anderson's (1991) concept of imagined communities, deliberately connotes Christian religious gatherings as well as the intimacy or rapport among and between writers and readers …
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Imagined space in Sacred Harp singing
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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The Imagined Reproductive Futures of Post-Graduate Students
… at the University of Saskatchewan enact their imagined reproductive futures. This ethnographic research was conducted using the methods of walkabouts, participant observation, and semi-structured one-on-one interviews, and finds that participants draw upon various enactments of “the right time” …
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“It Belongs to Us”: Chinese Youth’s Imagined Futures
The imagined future of young people has become a significant area of research in sociology and youth studies, providing insights into youth identities, agency, and autonomy. In western academia, researchers have adopted a dual approach to exploring imagined futures, distinguishing between …
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Laowai: Contested Identity and Imagined Community among Shanghai's Expatriates
… networks of support as well as the broader imagined community of "Westernness" from which these fictive kinship groups were typically drawn. Analysing transmigrancy through a ritual lens, I argue that this imagined Western community is best understood as an expression of communitas and that …
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Mall re-imagined reconsidering a Cape Town shopping centre
There is a common assumption that shopping malls are "bad" buildings. But this thesis aims to contest this assumption and offer a new way to approach shopping centre design. The shopping mall is not bad in the sens that it functions highly effieciently and serves the retail requirements of both …
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Imagined Common Ground: Rethinking on Language, Translation and Technology
… all. The transnational corporations export their imagined world of synchrony, although it was also those trades and exchanges in the history that cultivated new imaginations (and sometimes violence). Could it be our sense of entitlement to the “feel-at-home”, the immediacy promised by the newest …
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Creating Imagined Homelands and the Politics Behind the Balikbbayan Identity
Balikbayan is a Filipino term used to describe Filipinos who have left the homeland, and have returned for temporary visits. Due to the large economic contribution of balikbayans in the past, the Philippine state has hailed those who occupy this status as Heroes of the Nation. In the recent years, …
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The Effect of Imagined Interactions on Secret Revelation and Health
This study examined the influence of imagined interactions on the decision to reveal secrets and some health outcomes. Recent research has only begun to investigate how individuals decide to reveal or conceal secrets. It is accepted that people base decisions to reveal on predictions of expected …
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The Effect of Imagined Interactions on Secret Revelation and Health
This study examined the influence of imagined interactions on the decision to reveal secrets and some health outcomes. Recent research has only begun to investigate how individuals decide to reveal or conceal secrets. It is accepted that people base decisions to reveal on predictions of expected …
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Transatlantic Surrealisms, Imagined Homelands, and the Poetry of Paul Laraque
<p>Many theoretical treatments of Caribbean and Latin American surrealism(s), most notably Fredric Jameson and Alejo Carpentier’s foundational essays on magical realism, argue that the surrealism of the European metropole is a sophisticated avant-garde movement, in contrast to the blunt tool of …
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"Imagined crusaders: the ""Livre d'Eracles"" in fifteenth century Burgundian collections"
"The following study analyzes the conception and reception of the illuminated volumes of the crusade history the ""Livre d’Eracles"" (hereafter ""Eracles"") as it was conceived and collected in the fifteenth-century court of Burgundy, centered in the Burgundian Netherlands. It considers four …
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Dust imagined : a creative reflection on mortality, anxiety and process
Why do skin, hair and fingernails that are desirable objects, belonging to a whole body and adding to its decoration, cause disgust and become markers of mortality when they are no longer part of the living body? When disembodied and separated into single strands, skin cells and nail clippings they …
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