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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Politics of Space"”.
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Politics of Space in Ankara: The Spatial Triad as Mobilization and Demobilization
… Marxist, and postmodernist critiques of power, architects continue to play a role in assimilating and, sometimes, marginalizing the population through a mode of spatial production that contributes to climate change, structural racism, income inequality, social isolation, and numerous …
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Chicana /O Murals of California: Indigenist Aesthetics and the Politics of Space, 1970--2000
By depicting images of indigenous culture and history from the Americas, these artists embraced an aesthetic that rewrote their place in U.S. history and society. Indigenism, as an ideology and aesthetic, emerged during the early decades of the twentieth century in various parts of Latin America, …
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Packaging poverty: tourism, violence, and the politics of space in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
… tourists, residents, and community activists in/of Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on participant-observation at Rio de Janeiro’s State Ministry of Tourism, on critical analysis of popular discourse and of federal and state urban planning policies and programs, this dissertation explores the …
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Desiring machinations of Matertekhnologi
Desiring Machinations of Matertekhnologi is an Individualized Multidisciplinary thesis that synthesizes feminist frameworks with new media art to investigate the mediated body in relation to communications technology. The thesis illustrates contemporary, twenty-first century artists working with …
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Localizing memory scapes, building a nation: Commemorating the second world war in Singapore
… its involvement in the Second World War, and the politics of space associated with the production and consumption of a??locala?? war memoryscapes. Specifically, the thesis deals with three issues. First, it explores how the state has tried to mobilize its memories of the war a?? no less as a tool …
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The corral and the slaughterhouse: knowledge, tradition and the modernization of indigenous reindeer slaughtering practice in the Norwegian Arctic
… is a contribution to the ethnography of contemporary indigenous reindeer pastoralism in Norway: specifically, to the study of the neglected fields of reindeer killing and slaughtering practice. Its central contention is that in recent decades, the proliferation of human powers vested …
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Modernisation and the New Left in sixties Britain
The aim of this thesis is to explore the relationship between the New Left and modernisation, and to suggest that modernisation provides a powerful means of understanding the underlying dynamics of Britain's history in the 1960s. This relationship is understood in terms of a politics of space. The …
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Dreamlands and Ecotones: How can a photographic language be constructed to explore the politics of landscape on the political equator?
… question: to what extent can the practice of landscape photography be used to make visible the politics of landscape in borderland territories? Introduced by architect Teddy Cruz, the ‘political equator’ suggests an alternative politics of space through which to critically consider …
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Modernity in Miniature: Maoism and the Beijing Department Store
… constructing a colonial form in the center of the socialist capital, I attempt to unravel the complex intersection of economic development and egalitarian mass action in the early Maoist period. Constructed in 1955 during the first Five Year Plan, the Department Store sheds light on the …
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Beaches, People, and Change: A Political Ecology of Rockaway Beach after Hurricane Sandy
<p>This dissertation uses restoration practices of Rockaway beach post-Hurricane Sandy as a lens to investigate tensions between nature and society on urban coasts. By focusing on this New York City beach, this dissertation aims to examine the interaction between the beach, residents, city and …