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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Nomadism"”.
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Out Of Place: Stone Architecture And Pastoral Nomadism In Prehistoric Inner Asia
… paradox that underlies precisely the nature of nomadism. Accordingly, this study questions how pastoral nomads relate to stationary structures and the idea of a locale. To do so, it draws on the archaeological record of stone architecture in the Bortala River Valley of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous …
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Global nomadism: a discursive and narratological analysis of identity concepts in the 'mobile professional'.
… the contemporary discourse of corporate global nomadism, proposed by the researcher as an example of the kind of corporate discourses that are emerging to encompass the ideology of neoliberalism and which are inscribed in a particular genre of popular managerial and globalization literature …
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Managing Work and Leisure in the Digital Age: A Practice Exploration of Digital Nomadism
… work market. In this environment, digital nomadism has become a mainstream phenomenon involving an increasing number of workers across many organisations and industries. As digital nomads choose when, where, with whom, and how they perform their work, the traditional binary divide between …
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Cultural and Economic Factors Contributing to Students Dropout in Community Secondary Schools in Longido District
… how poverty determine dropout, find out if nomadism contributes to students’ dropout and examine students’ dropout by class level from 2007-2013 in community secondary schools. A total of 32 teachers were administered with structured questionnaires whereas four heads of secondary schools, …
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Spatial and temporal dynamics of an exploited reef-fish population
… examples of resident behaviour, territoriality, nomadism and migration among fish. Combinations of the above may exist within a stock. Fish movement behaviour may be plastic, but never random. Planktonic stages are capable of influencing their destination and settlement.
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Pastoralists, Peasants, and Politics in Roman North Africa
… of the prehistoric origins of pastoral nomadism in the Saharan neolithic, and trace its gradual infiltration into the Maghrib and its relationship to incipient agricultural sedentarism. The last of the introductory chapters reviews the literature of the Mediterranean elites and reveals …
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Money, magic and fear : identity and exchange amongst the Orang Suku Laut (sea nomads) and other groups of Riau and Batam, Indonesia.
… Suku Laut are regarded as preferring a life of nomadism, and one without a religious orientation towards Islam, as opposed to a life of sedentism guided by the Islamic religion. This thesis explores how this self and other perceptions which have shaped the image of the Orang Suku Laut, have …
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The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Nomadic Behavior in the Clonal Raider Ant, Ooceraea Biroi
… two projects which aimed to 1) discern how nomadism fits <em>into O. biroi's</em> life history, and 2) uncover the sociobehavioral mechanisms that facilitate their emigrations. <em>O. biroi</em> exhibits a phasic colony lifecycle consisting of two stereotyped phases that occur in …
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Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and the politics of dwelling
… between Heideggerian dwelling and Levinasian nomadism, this study will make visible a postmodern relation to home that does not succumb to narrow national particularism nor to rootless, global cosmopolitanism.
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Teresa Vergani: nomadismo, insubordinação, complexidade
… others. The categories of insubordination and nomadism present themselves in this work as operators of thought capable of illuminating reflections conducted by the author regarding her way of comprehending the individual, education, cultural diversity, the world. The work has as a major …
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My ornament : writing women's moving, erotic bodies across time and space : a novel and exegesis
… spatio-temporal territory available in cultural nomadism and transnational feminist practice. Together, these two volumes create a new discursive space by linking seemingly disparate elements and fictional characters to create a region in which women - writing and dancing women - can connect and …
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Nora's Transformative Journey: From A Doll's House and The Little Mermaid to The Way Home
… use women's intercultural performance, feminist nomadism, and postmodern fairy tales and myth portrayal to outline the aesthetic, critical and cultural context of this project. In Chapter Two, I discuss current theoretical constructions of the social and cultural discourse that informs gender …
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Mobile Practices and the Production and Curation of Pottery: A View from the Ancient Southern Russian Steppe Using Portable Methods of Investigation
… identified. By the Early Iron Age, increased nomadism and associated demographic shifts resulted in expanded seasonal cycles leading to increasingly localized and diverse production-curation practice.</p>
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To what extent may health and well-being experiences of Roma migrants in London be perceived and understood through a post-structuralist lens?
… such as voice, culture, identity, agency and nomadism, from a post-structuralist theoretical perspective, the study seeks to explore the wide range of narratives impacting on Roma health and well-being in London and across the UK. The findings locate the health and well-being experiences of …
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Nomadology in architecture: ephemerality, movement and collaboration.
… and collaboration - as ways of reconciling nomadism and architecture. The 'Contexts' section of this thesis surveys Western and global contexts of understanding nomads and nomadology, and how these pertain to architecture. Western conceptions of architecture have inhibited the study of …
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Prevalence and impacts of ants colonizing active bird nests in Illinois
… any bird species. Polydomy and a high degree of nomadism are characteristics which likely predispose ant species like T. sessile to colonizing active bird nests. The association between these ant species and bird nests likely is a facultative commensalism benefiting ants that is widespread in …
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Negotiations of Power and Resistance: A spatial exploration of educational policy and practice with particular attention to the stories surrounding the learning and teaching of Gypsy/Traveller children
… cultural norm of Sedentarism and those of Nomadism, which continues to be a strong cultural characteristic of many Gypsy/Traveller communities. A further finding highlights how community encouragement for the adoption of strict gender roles at a young age is also at the heart of the …
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Scribbling Girls, Becoming Writers: A Speculative Mapping of Girl Writer Characters in Classic and Contemporary Adolescent Fiction
… Guattarian concepts of art, literature, and nomadism, and by considering questions of embodiment through strands of materialist thought predicated upon becoming, my reading method imagines the girl writer as a nomadic subject whose complex writing processes can be captured if we embrace the …
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Post-World War II era of the national mass literacy campaign in Nigeria, 1940-1952: an examination of the roles of the colonial administration and selected non-governmental agencies in the fight against illiteracy
… motivation, linguistic barriers, prejudices and nomadism actually affected the proper mass mobilization of the Campaign.
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