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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Sense of home"”.
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Interacting With Domestic Objects: How Men in India Create a Sense of Home Away from Home
… occupationally mobile men in India construct a sense of home through domestic objects and spatial practices within temporary living spaces. Drawing on insights from material culture, anthropology, sociology, architecture, gender study and migration theory, this study explores home-making as an …
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Moving Through Space, Pausing In Place: Vietnamese Doctoral Sojourners’ Transnational Experiences of Identity (Re)Negotiation, Sense of Belonging, and Sense of Home
For the past decades, an increasing number of international students have travelled overseas to study for their doctoral degrees. Vietnamese doctoral students have actively joined this international education-migration flow. As they are a highly mobile group, their sequential movement involves a …
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Visitors Pass: The Story of a Group of Pakistani Immigrant Students at Sawyer High School
… ways by globalization. The phenomenon of transnationalism has changed the localized sense of "home" and "local cultures" on a global scale. In fact, "Globalization lies at the core of current sociocultural experiences, especially in processes of identity construction, communal …
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HOME : collecting narratives, promoting dialogue, and guiding change
Home is where the heart is, the saying goes. The quest for home is ever-present. When looking at the destructive nature of urban planning history - urban renewal, redlining, block busting, etc. - it is imperative to see urban planning's historical impact on the communities vulnerable populations, …
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Being Home: Exploring the idea of home and belonging through art practice
In a time of worldwide mobility, global migration and subsequent cultural blending, our understanding of what makes us feel at home has become more significant. What do we call home, and what determines our sense of belonging? Is home simply a house – a place where we grew up? Firstly, I studied …
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DEAF SPACE AND THE VISUAL WORLD - BUILDINGS THAT SPEAK: AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF
Deaf Space and the Visual World is a set of principles providing understanding of the perceptions and special needs of the deaf. More frequently deaf and hard of hearing school children are attending mainstream public schools, in which deaf-friendly design is not well-understood or implemented. …
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It's the going away and not the arriving
… collection are filtered through the perspectives of women, all in their early through late twenties, and all of whom suffer in varying degrees from estrangement and anomie. Language often proves insufficient, with a consequent breakdown in communication. That which remains unsaid becomes the …
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Inheritances of Injustice/Transference of Freedom: An Intimate Project on Black Women's Intergenerational Relationships and the Consequences of the Punishment System
… the ways in which incarceration and practices of punishment impact, shape, hurt, and displace Black femme lineages. Through a qualitative lens and a specific focus on the current social and political landscape of Los Angeles, this dissertation examines the ways Black women are impacted by …
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Duality
The work seeks to understand the nature of architecture where House and Institution coexist. Specific architectural constructs support the archetype of house in order to provide an instant notion of Home. The constructs range from the visual to the experiential; where reality and imagination find …
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Performing the encounter; a practice-led inquiry
… explores the ethical and relational dimensions of verbatim theatre, focusing on how encounters between theatre-makers, participants, and audiences shape both the creative process and the final performance. Moving beyond traditional notions of representation, it argues that verbatim theatre is …
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Ana Mendieta- a search for identity
… search for identity throughout her life. She often searched for her roots in the earth itself, using it directly in her art and with her own body. This "return to the earth" was a metaphor for her life on many levels. Mendieta refers back to the Earth as a sense of home, literally and …
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Global frameworks, local realities: migrant resettlement in the Russian Federation
… 'return' migration and resettlement experience of members of ethnic Russian and Russian speaking migrant populations who over the period 1991-2000 left their homes in the former republics of the Soviet Union to resettle on the territory of the Russian Federation, their 'historical homeland'. The …
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Aba té Home: Journey to Robben Island
Aba té Home – Journey to Robben Island, is a memoir, reflecting how my creative practise and research leads to a recollection from my childhood. I recalled how the elements of fire, whiskey and the soil came together to create a form of storytelling that rooted my sense of home. By following the …
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A BLENDED DISPLACEMENT; STORIES FROM THE PERIPHERY
… explores various forms and definitions of displacement through relationships, travel, and the sense of home. The thesis explores such subject matter as a creative work of mixed creative non-fiction and fiction. By engaging with controversial terms like expatriate, immigrant, refugee, and …
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Food Preparation And Dining In A Normalized Space Environment The Meal: A Centerpiece For Psychological Survival
… modular multipurpose units as the cooking aspect of space travel creates a more normalized space environment that gives the crew a sense of home away from earth. Bringing a cooking aspect to Mars will create a sense of community and improve the astronauts' mental and physical health. These units …
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The Tunisian Diaspora in Britain: The London Case
The rise of a transnational paradigm in migration studies reminds us that contemporary migrants construct homes and identities through complex networks that cut across their homelands and host countries. The intersection between home, identity and networks is at the centre of the multidisciplinary …
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Young people, home and homelessness : a narrative exploration
This thesis explores the experiences of homeless young people with a particular focus on the process of making the journey out of homelessness. It consists of a literature review, a research paper and a critical appraisal. The literature review comprises a narrative approach exploring the meaning …
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Housing for single-parent families
This thesis poses the question of how we are to house the family of the future. The concept of the strictly nuclear family as a backbone of our civilization is disintegrating under the onslaught of careers, of divorce, of teen pregnancy, and of abusive home life. Though many of these trends are …
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Through The Eyes of Students, How Can International Boarding Schools Become a ‘Home Away from Home’? Exploring Lived Experiences of Boarding Students’ Transition Into an International Boarding School.
This thesis explores the lived experiences of international boarding students at an elite boarding school in the UK and examines how such schools can become a ‘home away from home’. Existing literature is limited, often focusing on ex-boarders’ retrospective accounts, single-nationality groups, …
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Exile and Home: Narrative Identity in the Central American Community of the San Francisco Bay Area
… <p>This research studies the experiences of Central American immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, and is focused on the mimetic power of the narrative to foster within the individual a sense of home, identity, and forgiveness, calling for meaningful action.</p> <p>Theory …
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