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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Infrastructure studies"”.
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Infrastructural Dramaturgy and the Politics of Disability Art and Performance
This dissertation draws on performance studies, critical disability studies, and critical infrastructure studies scholarship to investigate the infrastructural politics of contemporary disability performance. Throughout, I show how disability performance enacts modes of infrastructural inversion …
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Censored Regression Models With Applications to Infrastructure Degradation Studies
Motivated by consulting in infrastructure studies, we consider the estimation and inference for regression models where the response variable is bounded or censored. In these conditions, least squares methods are not appropriate, although they are widely used. This dissertation develops a …
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A residual infrastructure. The rise and obsolescence of big satellite television dishes in Colombia
… and users conceived of them. Grounded in infrastructure studies of media and Latin American communication and science and technology studies, this dissertation looks at three particular aspects: the role of informal infrastructures in the development of technological modernity, the labor …
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The social shaping of cloud computing: an ethnography of infrastructure in East St. Louis, Illinois
… which is a common measure of poverty. Previous studies have focused on the impact of computerization on social workers and welfare organizations. This research instead uses a “social shaping of technology” perspective to analyze the ways in which broader social, institutional, and technical …
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Living clean and shopping green: Environmental domesticity and the nineteenth-century roots of ecoconsumption
… the scholarly binary between environmental studies and domesticity studies, illustrating domestic literature’s ability to inform and disrupt extractive capitalism’s seemingly endless loop of production and consumption.
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The Smart City in Motion: Food Delivery Apps as Mobile Infrastructure in Seoul
… that forms a distinct, if fluid, urban infrastructure. With a focus on Baemin, the most used South Korean food app, this thesis explores how the ongoing creation of this emergent infrastructure contributes to a particular version of the smart city. Drawing on critical scholarship of …
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A History of the Night in South Africa, 1860s-1980s
… cultural and social history, infrastructural studies, and the emerging field of ‘night studies’, to present a new way of understanding the territory’s past. The first two chapters detail the legal and material infrastructure – specifically racialised curfew legislation and the uneven provision …