Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Materialities"”.
-
Packing materialities: marketising trans prosthetics
This thesis is concerned with the practice of packing undertaken by trans men and transmasculine people, and with the commercialisation of products designed for use in this practice. To pack is to wear an object in your underwear to emulate in some way or shape a penis, and to provide the feeling …
-
Technologies of mining production: space, discourse, new materialities, and media
… knowledge and meaning-making processes transform materialities and discourses. I study the political, extractive, and popular technologies of mining, and demonstrate how even some seemingly anti-technological practices of resistance contain technical dimensions. To articulate the nuances and …
-
Living The Crisis: Identities And Materialities In A Transnational Greek Setting
This dissertation investigates the intersection between political rhetoric and popular ideas about the Greek debt crisis and processes of identification and differentiation within a Greek diasporic community. It documents the significant role the economic crisis has assumed in local political …
-
Frozen Moments. Archival Materialities and Database-Narratives in Chris Ware's 'Building Stories'
Building Stories (2012), le dernier ‘roman graphique’ de l’auteur nord-américain Chris Ware se compose non pas d’un livre, mais d’une multitude d’objets imprimés sous divers formats et réunis au sein d’une boîte en carton surdimensionnée. Le lecteur est invité à trouver son propre parcours à …
-
The underground forest frontier in Mexico's Quintana Roo: competing discourse and materialities surrounding caves and cenotes
The Mexican state of Quintana Roo is home to a complex ecosystem. Beneath the state’s surface is a riddle of flooded caves which form part of the world’s most extensive aquifer, above the surface is a vast tropical dry forest, while along the coast line there is one of the world’s longest coral …
-
Tidal Materialities: Place through Time and Making An Exploration of Coastal Wrack as a Regenerative Architectural Material in Atlantic Canada
This thesis explores washed-ashore seaweed as a regenerative material for architectural thinking and making in Atlantic Canada. Situated within growing concerns about climate change, material extraction, and the environmental impacts of construction, the research asks how coastal wrack might be …
-
Across the River: ferries as a vehicle for exploring riverborderscapes
… through a holistic approach, focusing upon the materialities, experiences and narratives that shape, emerge within and construct this space. These ideas are applied in relation to three rivers that form an everyday border between places at different scales in the South West of England: the River …
-
Ethics beyond immanence: rupturing law’s method through sex research
… non-human). These definitions conflict with the materialities of the body and the materialities of the encounter of sex, which are inclined to ‘push’ at and reterritorialize these boundaries. Legal and ethical frames restrict the ability of law and of research to access the encounter of sex, …
-
'TRACK’ING THE BORDER: MICRO-GEOGRAPHIES OF INFRASTRUCTURAL BORDERS IN GUWAHATI INDIA
… border-dynamics play out. Engaging with the materialities and imaginaries of fractured infrastructure in the locality of Silpukhuri in the frontier city, this thesis argues that local urban spaces within frontier cities are where the most concentrated experiences of bordering are located. The …
-
"DO WE NOT SING THESE TEXTS?": PRESENCE EFFECTS IN PERFORMANCE ART
… art. In Chapter One I describe what is meant by materialities of communication and outline three heuristic features of materiality. In Chapter Two I define performance generally as a mode of action and performance art as a mode of encounter. Chapters Three, Four, and Five utilize the theoretical …
-
Database Assemblages: Understanding Cultural Heritage Collections Infrastructures as Techno-Social Actors
… new collection narratives by establishing novel materialities and relations between object records is balanced with its capacity to remediate and reinscribe the harms of prior modes of categorisation. A second case study focuses on the digital archive of the campaign to legalise abortion in …
-
Warming Homes, Cooling the Planet: An Analysis of Socio-Techno-Economic Energy Efficiency Policy and Practice in the UK
… poor energy efficiency practices, problematic materialities and low incomes. These hugely important issues are made difficult to resolve as a result of the powerful and far reaching social, technical and economic relationships, flows and fixities that constitute energy networks. The thesis …
-
Specious Materials
… of a material that embodied multiple different materialities? Can fake material stand its own ground against its “real” counterparts? Freed from the real vs. fake dichotomy, can these specious materials bring forth a new aesthetic and convey critical meaning?
-
A Decent Place to Stay: Housing Crises, Failed Laws, and Property Conflicts in Washington, D.C
… tax and right to shelter contested some of the materialities, discourses, and practices within the socio-spatial order. I find that the intersections between property, racial equality, and democratic governance were central to struggles over urban development and were constituted in ways that …
-
“Whose Streets? Our Streets!”: Social Memory and Contentious Politics in a Democracy
… shape through the performances, narratives, and materialities of the street. That is, contentious politics take on particular place characteristics and thus must be studied in diverse places. This dissertation examines the contentious politics of Germany, a western democracy with a convoluted …
-
Tangible Things: The Matter of Susan Howe
… verse, and visual design to announce their materialities in order to articulate an ontological claim about matter. <em>That This</em> contains details of Howe’s archival research, minimalist page layouts, and clashing word collages. These elements certainly underscore the physicality of her …
-
Posthumanist Children: Diffracted Readings and Entangled Beings
… child, which I delineate as a figure of multiple materialities, ontological instability, and paradox that appears across children’s literature and media. As the figure of the child has been theorized in multiple ways across children’s literature theory, so do I seek to theorize the figure of the …
-
2.5D: Novel Material Dimensions with 3D Printing on Fabric
… second, a therapeutic garment that explores new materialities for variable flexibility and structure. And last, a shoe concept that addresses possibilities of mass customization and distributed manufacturing. Responding to the challenges faced in the design of these, this thesis also puts forth a …
-
Forging connections: tracing the fragmentary lives of tourist souvenirs in Swaziland and the UK
… in process. Finally it examines how meaningful materialities of tourist souvenirs also emerge out of their multi faceted and enduring presence in producers lives. Overall, this thesis demonstrates how the tourist souvenir creates connections between people and places which are necessarily …
Page 1 of 3