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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Material practices"”.
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Musical knowledge, material practices and the body politic in eighteenth-century France
… instruments. Interweaving manifold cultural practices and social actors, it enquires how people defined and experienced what music was, what it did, and who was entitled to practice and appreciate it in eighteenth-century France. I argue that music was conceived as an Enlightened and …
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Facade Design for Material Reclamation Through Digital Fabrication
… and an opportunity for explorations of new material practices and fabrication methods. This thesis seeks to show how digital fabrication can serve as a tool in material reclamation and reuse in architecture. Utilizing the design of a pharmaceutical headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts as a …
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"Speaking others, practicing selves: Power, identity, and communications in ""Apna Ghar"" (Our Home)"
… identity construction through discursive and material practices of battered immigrant women in Apna Ghar (Our Home), a shelter for battered immigrant women in Chicago, Illinois. The project extends current theoretical understandings of the relationships among power, resistance, and identity …
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Making Humanitarian Spaces Global: Coordinating Crisis Response through the Cluster Approach
… spaces are being made through the socio-material practices associated with the Cluster Approach for the coordination of humanitarian action. Drawing on in-depth interviews with humanitarian professionals from the UN, the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement and various humanitarian NGOs, …
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Reflexive Sensemaking and Sensegiving: An Exploratory Study of Human Resources Analytics Practitioners
… a repertoire of sensemaking and sensegiving practices and their underlying activities to explain how practitioners, while drawing on contextual knowledge, reflexively enact cognitive-discursive and material practices of 'pursuing coherence', 'setting up and delivering conversations', …
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The Enchanted Image: The Transforming Imagination of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Through Material Practice and Media Technology
… a work of children’s literature and ignore the materiality of its form. My thesis addresses the question of how the Alice story has been mediated as different images in various forms such as book illustrations, magic lantern presentations, films and stop-motion animations. I argue that these …
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By the Book: Book Collecting, Scrapbooking, and the Making of Modernism, 1880--1950
… and the feminine) that informed the contrasting material practices of book collecting and scrapbooking continues to the present day. It motivates current concerns over the status of the material book in the presence of the digital text and informs debates over the database and the electronic …
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LANGUAGE POLICY AS SPATIAL ASSEMBLAGE: PRACTICE, IDEOLOGY AND AFFECT OF BUSINESS INCUBATION IN THE GUANGDONG-HONG KONG-MACAO GREATER BAY AREA
… language is regulated in interactions between material practices and discursive ideologies bound by affective relations.
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Thinking with the Posts: Towards a New Understanding of Identity Formation and Agency of Aspiring Latina Leaders
… 1997) concept of performativity and the new materialist work of Barad (2007), Coole and Frost (2010), Pickering (1993), and others as a theoretical framework, this dissertation presents three articles that demonstrate the new ways to envisage the agency of human, nonhuman, and material bodies …
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Lost Fragments: A Therapy Center to cope with grief in Richmond, Virginia
… directly associated with program, light, and material. As the project began to evolve, a series of questions of architectural sequence, material practices, and placemaking followed and with every step, a decision was to be made. This constant decision-making was influenced by sets of …
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Ducks and Deer, Profit and Pleasure: Hunters, Games and the Natural Landscapes of Medieval Italy
… their habitats to the dinner table through the material practices and cultural interpretation of a variety of social actors to offer an original and thorough survey of the topic.
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Corporate-Community Mining Conflicts in Guatemala: Unsettling Hegemonic Power Relations in Environmental Struggles
… action. They matter for the imaginaries, material practices and emergent trajectories of environmental struggles. By examining the shifting spatialities of political actions we can reveal the articulations of emergent power relations and make visible some of the power geometries in …
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Dynamics of Open Innovation Practices: Drivers, Enablers and Barriers
… use open innovation to address novel outward practices and assess the sophistication of inward processes. This thesis first discusses the notion of innovation and then reviews the open innovation literature and reveals that little attention has been paid to the practical aspect of open …
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Knot/Knotting Practice in Craft and Space
… architectural form is derived from four basic material practices allies craft and architecture in my project and is the point of departure from which I make my argument. In the second chapter, to consider the methodological concerns of research-creation as a form of knowledge production and …
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Rubbish politics in Buenos Aires
… from actor-network theory and theories of materiality in dialogue with political and democratic theory, worked through an ethnographic study in two different sites, Moreno and Bajo Flores. The thesis makes three main claims. First, the analysis of the ways rubbish became political …
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Home and Away: Home, Migrancy, and Belonging Through Landscape Photographic Practice
… multiple readings of the relationship between material practices and ideas of landscape, Britishness and race. By taking a historical, but not chronological examination of the works the chapters examine aspects of the visual politics of landscape aligned with cultural experience and explore how …
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Thinking the Geoweb: Political economies, `neo'geographies, and spatial media
… forms that spatial data are assuming, and practices around these technologies and information artifacts are referred to by geographers as `the geoweb.' The emergence of the geoweb is fundamentally transforming the ways in which society, space, and technology intersect and are …
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Enacting recovery in an English NHS 'arts for mental health' service
… problems as a conceptual frame, and as a set of practices and policy orientations. I provide a specific empirical account of recovery in practice. “Recovery” has multiple meanings and is enmeshed in on-going challenges to the validity of biomedical psychiatry as a medical science. It emerges, in …
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The performativity of sustainability: Assessing the continuity of artisanal fishing livelihoods in Galápagos' precarious waters
… globally and impose it upon local actors' practices. Such foisting typically promises to resolve socio-ecological problems by providing communities with certainties and stabilities such as redeeming issues linked to threatened eco-systems and local actors' precarious livelihoods therein. …
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Rethinking the rhetoric of remix: copies and material culture in digital networks
… of representation to identify and analyze material practices and rhetorical claims about their cultural influence. Specifically, it identifies and critiques the influence of recording formats qua copies in the history of three forms of composition in popular-music culture—remixes, disco …
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