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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Reappropriation"”.
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Netwars: Information Technologies, Global Politics and the Reappropriation of Space
"This dissertation tracks political ruptures within the ""network society"" of the kind I loosely call ""netwars""---temporary radical democratic convergences in protest against Empire, the inequities of global capital and globalized governance regimes, or in resistance to being tracked and …
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Version and subversion: Control versus reinscription and reappropriation in the postmodern landscape
This thesis questions and discusses some current trends that appear to place new restrictions on urban space both through overt and also less obvious means of surveillance and control. It is argued that these measures may compromise the social interactions possible within some urban sites as they …
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Localness : a village proposal for mixed use reappropriation of the industrial landscape
… are now large tracts of underused land. The reappropriation of urban and suburban industrial space provides the opportunity to create mixed-use, vital spaces relating well to pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Such reappropriation deals with the site not only visually, but also in terms of the …
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The reappropriation of the Victorian in the novels of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter
In their novels, Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood display more influence from Victorian literature than may be immediately apparent. While they have both written historical novels that have been embraced by Neo-Victorian studies, the influence of the literature of the nineteenth century goes …
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INDECISION 2008: REAPPROPRIATION AS POLITICAL ARGUMENT IN THE DAILY SHOW'S COVERAGE OF THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
… political trends, politicians, and campaigns. Reappropriation uses video as an argument against the original producers of that content, one of the tools used to highlight the problems with the political and current media coverage. The effectiveness of using reappropriated video is analyzed …
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Performing "Camp, Vamp & Femme Fatale": Revisiting, Reinventing & Retelling the Lives of Post-Death, Retro-Gothic Women
… of textual poaching to the authors' and cast's reappropriation of cultural narratives about female vampires. The chapter goes on to survey the narrative, cinematic and critical work on women as vampires. As many of the texts were developed as part of the fantasy role-playing game Vampire: The …
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Neo-vernacular trends towards the recent past in Greece
… are created to match this past image. The reappropriation of old forms includes what can be called the neo-vernacular as a way to meet emotional demands, economic needs or as one mode of intellectual justification for architecture in our times. The origins of the present preservation …
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The metaphorical value of lace in contemporary art: the transformative process of a practice-led inquiry
… that encompass lace and the body, addressing the reappropriation from a fabric that once signified only wealth and status to a material that now adds a sexual charge to garments through the relationship it has with skin.
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« Le désert progresse » : mirages postmodernes de l’Ouest américain dans les fictions françaises et québécoises
… postmodern estrangement to a more autonomous reappropriation of the desert, especially in the Québécois context, where decolonial and ecological concerns reshape the desert imaginary.
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“Everything and Nothing”: Exhibiting Irishness at the Chicago World Fair of 1893
… complex negotiation was the appropriation and reappropriation of signifiers from colonial and nationalist ideologies abroad and in the United States. Places like the Chicago World's Fair, where signifiers and meaning-making were essential to its function, became like a palimpsest, with Irish …
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Critique of normative motherhood and of nature as an object of appropriation in Libertad Demitrópulos’s dictatorship and post-dictatorship novels
… argues that Demitrópulos performs a subversive reappropriation of dominant narratives by constructing alternative forms of motherhood and by representing nature beyond its reduction to a passive resource. Drawing on feminist, ecofeminist, and decolonial perspectives, the dissertation explores …
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Economic structure and individuality: an essay on contradiction
… of concrete Utopias), In this humanist reappropriation of history, the communist vision has been correctly typed as under-defined in crucial ways, including in the field of development of what Marx termed rich individuality. The overall assessment of the Marxian project remains, however, …
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Post-GDR memory--cultural discourses of loss and assertion in reunified Germany
… Rathenow and Thomas Brussig - chapter two), reappropriation (Jana Hensel and Jakob Hein - chapter three), and nostalgia/anti-nostalgia (Andrea Hanna Hünniger and the GDR museum - chapter four). Age and social position at the time of rupture fostered different perspectives regarding the …
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If These Hills Could Speak
… collective tactic for repair, resistance, and reappropriation in response to an ongoing, imposed socio-political order. For these hills to speak again, the ruins must be transformed. This thesis begins that process by applying acts of pidginization learned from below to the three ruins. It …
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The Student Augustinian Values Institute: Assessing its Impact of Enhancing the Understanding and Experience of the Augustinian Core Values of Veritas, Unitas, and Caritas Upon Students in Augustinian Secondary Schools
… order that has responded to this call to reappropriation in modern times by viewing the world in which they are called to serve through an Augustinian lens. Sharing with other religious communities of men and women in the Post Vatican II reality of declining vocations to religious life and …
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Private Preservation: Using Garden City-Inspired Legal Tools to Preserve Communities and Heritage
… Howard’s Garden City vision, and analyzes how a reappropriation of privatism and communal land ownership and management can work to preserve communities and heritage as an alternative set of tools to public preservation. Using the law of property to explore private legal and economic preservation …
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The wired wilderness : electronic surveillance and environmental values in wildlife biology
… made such control fragmentary and open to reappropriation. Wildlife radio-tracking created vulnerabilities as well as capabilities; it provided opportunities for connection as well as for control. I begin by showing how biologists in Minnesota and Illinois in the early 1960s used …
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Re-animating dead space: the dislocation and relocation of affordances in interdisciplinary performance environments
… spatial organisation; and disassociation and reappropriation: there were six events with a focus upon the implication of these ideas and their evolution into each event. Following observation of a poststructural emphasis upon personal experience and (subjective) micronarratives, rather than …
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Radio After Radio: Redefining radio art in the light of new media technology through expanded practice
… the autonomous potentialities offered by the reappropriation of obsolete technology and the proliferation of new infrastructures and networks promised by the exponential development of new media. Switch Off takes as its overarching theme the possible futures for FM radio, incorporating …
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The Persistence of Resistance and the Emancipatory Power of the Aesthetic: On Negt and Kluge’s Critical Theory
… thinking. According to Negt and Kluge, the reappropriation of aesthetic forms, further, can enable the collective articulation of common interests and needs, and the resignification of imposed identities. This motivates the formation of counter- public spheres, i.e., oppositional social …
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