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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Material context"”.
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Transgender identification: gender and sex estimation in forensic casework
… signs of gender-affirming surgery (59.2%) or material evidence (47.7%) for use in reporting gender despite uncertainties about Daubert compliance (38.5%). Regarding terminology, respondents prefer “sex” (52.3%) or “biological sex” (34.6%) over other arguably more apt descriptors such as …
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Infrastructures for participation : institutional and technical considerations for new forms of participation in urban development
… as an important aspect to the socio-cultural context within which potential new forms of ‘bottom-up’ online participation are performed, this thesis analyses the practices surrounding the ownership of, as well as the participation in urban planning through the various information communication …
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Making Queer Anti-capitalist Resistance Intelligible: Reading Queer Childhood in the Ruins of Neoliberalism
… studies has shied away from deploying historical materialist theoretical tools. My research addresses this gap by drawing these two literatures into conversation. I do so by investigating how global economic relations provide an allegorical and material context for the regulation, representation …
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Toward functional magnetic applications for multi-material inkjet 3D printing
… to rapidly extend as the library of printable materials continues to grow. This thesis explores printed objects uniquely enabled by the addition of a magnetic ink to the existing repertoire of materials for the MultiFab printer, a high-resolution, multi-material inkjet 3D printer. Magnetic …
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Working together on ecological thinking: relationality and difference.
… of the intrarelations between theory, material/context and the individual practitioner's voice. The works and reflective writings of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison are drawn on in various publications to exemplify ecological thinking in arts practice. Their conception of …
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Computational Gestural Making: A framework for exploring the creative potential of gestures, materials, and computational tools
… gestures, intelligent machine behavior, and material context. I explore the creative power of the thinking hand through the development of fabrication tools embedded with machine learning algorithms focusing on the interactive, material, and performative aspects of the making process. The …
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What is good sex? : young people, sexual pleasure and sexual health services
… use to make sense of these meanings in the context of their everyday lives and relationships. The study uses a situated approach to explore the methodological possibilities for researching sexual pleasure with a diverse group of young people in one urban location and to examine the ways in …
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Physical, social and intellectual landscapes in the Neolithic: contextualizing Scottish and Irish Megalithic architecture
… to time and place is embedded within the material universe. The phenomenon of monumentality is considered in the context of changing narratives of place and biographies of person and landscape, which are implicated in the making of the self and society and the perception of being in place. …
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Ruin[ed] edge[iness] ruined landscape: Inverting and resurfacing the buried ruin with the scarred landscape
… frame that connects this disconnected, scarred context. The buried, dark and grungy social & material context is thus resurfaced through this light, uplifting, vertical transition. This architectural transition also carefully uses structure and tactility, with walls that grow out of the existing …
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Navigating the digital landscape: teachers' digital repertoires in an under-resourced Cape Flats primary school
… practices. It draws on the interconnected socio-material theories of spatiality, assemblage and affect to provide a framework within which their entanglement with digital technology in an educational setting can be observed, described and analysed. The research focuses on the simultaneous array …
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Irving Gill and rediscovery of concrete in California the Marie and Chauncey Clark, 1919-22
… the project. The Clarke House is set within the context of Gill's oeuvre in order to lay the groundwork for a wider critical interpretation. The thesis seeks a methodological approach which would avoid seeing Gill's work as either a purely regionalist phenomenon, or an example of Gill's …
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Sculpting the narrative : the material practice of Epi-Olmec art and writing
… of linguistics and decipherment and not material context or iconographic content. The object of this dissertation is thus to create a robust and working definition for an Epi-Olmec visual culture system, using both inscribed and uninscribed objects to explore the various ways in which …
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Social Media @ Global News Agencies: News(s) Technology in a Professional Culture of Practice
… is employed to highlight the importance of socio-material context for shaping journalists’ work – taking account of how social and technological aspects of GNA infrastructure shape professional culture. Employing a qualitative multi-case study approach, the thesis combines interview analysis, …
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Material Virtuality: Remaking Rio de Janeiro’s Past and Present through Digital Media
… the city and state of Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on material gathered during fieldwork in 2019 and 2020, it examines how a selection of cultural-historical projects use digital media to explore Rio’s past. This thesis argues that, through their exploration of Rio’s past, each of these projects shapes …
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Ideologies of Nature and Sustainability: A critical discourse analysis
… and in particular, to locate them within the material context of the historical trajectory of the capitalist mode of production (CMP). That is, the ideologies of nature explored in this thesis are treated as integral to the historical and dialectical unfolding of the CMP. Many historical ideas …
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Qualitative Inquiry into the Everyday Experiences of Secondary School Students within Significant Spheres of their Lifeworld: Family, Friends and School – Narratives from Lahore
… offer valuable insight into the social and material world that people inhabit. Exploratory research based on the voice of young people has the potential to offer insight into their lived realities. However, research based on first-hand accounts of young people from the Global South is often …
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Houses
… long poem seemed to be the perfect solution for material I was developing. The remainder of this Introduction briefly describes the various ideas and forces at work in Houses.</p> <p>In an important sense, Houses is concerned primarily with the juncture that occurs between physical space and …