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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"Nomads"”.
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Elemental shelters for nomads
… society free of constraints, a world of modern nomads. Today, as the number of people displaced by war and climate change around the world reaches 60 million for the first time, the modern architect's dream of global freedom is arriving in the form of global vulnerability. Approaches to the …
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Public Oasis for Nomads
… The building will be similar to an oasis for nomads who would like to go to a place that reminds them of their homelands or for locals to sit by the watering hole and listen to stories of lands far away, while actually experiencing those stories through the building.
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Cosmo House: Diversified Living for Neo-Nomads
… which serve the purpose of those new nomads. 'Cosmo House' is an experience of living where people come to live for few years and can engage with other people, events and experiences and such way they feel it is their new home away from home. The site is in Newark downtown in New …
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Nomads of light : a housing paradigm for the North
… proposes a housing paradigm for the North - nomads of light. Like a light machine, it captures sunlight atmosphere at different times of a day and different times of a year. At a community scale, different families live in a nomadic lifestyle to chase the precious sunshine. At a body scale, a …
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Grey nomads: Retirement, leisure and travel in the Australian context
… group worthy of serious academic research, grey nomads have recently become a topic of interest, in part due to Australia’s ageing population and resultant increases in the number of retirees with the time available to tour Australia and its regions in this manner. Tourism bodies now view grey …
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Creating Nomads: The Importance of Education in Forming the Multitude
… we can hope to educate students to become nomads, as proposed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guttari, instead of educating them to be good local citizens.
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A city of placelessness : digital nomads and Tallinn's urban future
… contributing to a growing population of digital nomads: people who utilize remote work and personal mobility to avoid restrictions of fixed places in their living. Through activities of digital nomads, this thesis explores the potentials of placelessness in shaping an alternative urban future. As …
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Digital nomads : space + narrative computing for the village of Al Araqib
For political reasons, the officially unrecognized Bedouin village of Al Araqib in Israeli's Negev desert is prevented from building permanent structures. While the state of Israel does not issue demolition warrants for new illegal houses, it instead demolishes these houses without a warrant, under …
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Gypsies, nomads, pirates and Indians: counter culture, revolution and the movement of movements
This thesis is geared towards assessing the role(s) ('positive', 'negative', etc.) of certain cultural 'codes' in the constitution of oppositional social movements - including (but not limited to) codes associated with “counter culture”. In orienting itself as such, it takes as its starting point …
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Networking the Nomads: A Study of Tablīghī Jamāʿat among the Borana of Northern Kenya
Tablīghī Jamāʿat (TJ) ist eine transnationale islamische Laienbewegung. Sie wurde von Māwlanā Muhammad Ilyās in den 1920er Jahren in Britisch-Indien gegruendet. In Kenia fasste sie ab Mitte der 1950er Jahre Fuss. Ihre transnationale Partnerschaft begruendete sich mit Kenias Sunni Muslimen …
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Nomads of the Body, Exiles of the Mind: Twentieth Century Transnational African American Mexican Art and Literature
<p>This dissertation examines the migration of African Americans from the U.S. to Mexico; however, these paths extend well beyond the North American continent and intersect with a much larger migration: the African Diaspora. The journeys of Langston Hughes, Audre Lorde, Willard Motley, and …
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E M B O D I M E N T : mental and physical geographies of the neo-nomad
… of belonging. Among the plethora of today's nomads such as refugees, global workers, and immigrants for example, hybrids are species that have mutated. They have become something detached from established orders, and not attached to any specific place. Like nomads, they move and adapt. …
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Managing Work and Leisure in the Digital Age: A Practice Exploration of Digital Nomadism
… many organisations and industries. As digital nomads choose when, where, with whom, and how they perform their work, the traditional binary divide between work and leisure brought about by industrialisation and the capitalistic view of the employment system is collapsing. Literature focusing on …
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A Study Of The Pokot Cultural Worldview: Missiological Implications For Seventh-Day Adventist Witness Among The Pastoral Nomads Of Kenya
… by the settled communities. Unfamiliarity with nomads’ cultural structures and values is partial explanation for why missionaries have failed to effectively connect with the nomads thereby hampering the establishment of a more vibrant mission work in pastoral nomadic regions.</p> <p>This …
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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.
The central focus of my thesis is the symbolism of money and the power it holds in the Riau archipelago and Batam of Indonesia to affect the nature of social relationships. These social relationships in turn affect the different forms of exchange that take place in the archipelago. In particular, I …
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A study on presumptive diagnosis and home management of childhood malaria among Nomadic Fulani in Demsa, Nigeria
… access to an ethnographic study of factors that nomads use for presumption of malaria in children was collected from dry-season campsites in Demsa Local Government Area of Northeastern Nigeria. Mothers of under-five children with previous experiences at presumptive malaria management from 9 …
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Education for all (EFA): reaching Nomadic communities in Wajir, Kenya - challenges and opportunities
… examined and discussed the challenges inhibiting nomads from accessing formal education in the light of Kenya’s domestication of Education for All (EFA) which the government committed itself at various world conferences. The research investigated the disproportionate disparity in school enrolment …
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