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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Social production"”.
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Rhetoric and the social production of knowledge in criticism of Henry V
… are organized through an understanding of the social production of knowledge so as to consider connections between their different critical discourses on Henry V and the possible production of knowledge through their critical interaction. This thesis is not meant to suggest, however, huge …
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Social Production of Hygiene: Domesticity, Gender, and Nationalism in Late Colonial Bengal and India
… were based on discourses of purity, order, reproduction, regeneration, restraint, and regulation. It is important to note here that these modalities constituted a very different ordering mechanism as compared to the medical-scientific discourse of modern and public colonial institutions in …
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The Man Made World: The Social Production of Health and Disablement in Construction Workers
… experience these processes? And finally, how do social inequalities shape bodies? This study finds that race, class, gender, and occupation all play multiple roles in the health and disablement processes of workers. These findings also suggest that a re-conceptualization of disability as a …
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The social production of community garden space: Case studies of Boston, Massachusetts and Havana, Cuba
<p>This research incorporates 'production of space' theory to explore how individual and societal characteristics influence community gardening practices and outcomes for individuals and neighborhoods in Havana, Cuba and Boston, Massachusetts. Methods used for this research include demographic …
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Social Production of Intellectual Disability and the Mechanics of Moral Exclusion: Past, Present, and Future
… they are challenged.</p> <p>I investigate the social construction of intellectual disability by analyzing three distinct, yet inextricably connected, discursive sites. I excavate the genealogy of the formation of the concept of intellectual disability in the United States. I find that …
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The Social Production of the Built Environment: the Case of the Townhouse in Harare, Zimbabwe
This research is concerned with the social creation of built environments in the Third World. The absence of appropriate theoretical frameworks has hampered the research of Third World cities. Recently, however, the opportunity for applying concepts, that have to date been largely confined to the …
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Everyday Heritage, Spatio-temporal Dynamics and Place-making: Rethinking the Social Production of London’s Chinatown on the Backdrop of COVID-19
… interactions between people and things in the social production of Chinatown. The main objective of this doctoral thesis is to demonstrate the cultural complexities of London’s Chinatown from a heritage perspective, challenging the dominant heritage discourses about the area. This study used an …
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The Piratical Ethos: Textual Activity and Intellectual Property in Digital Environments
… property in contexts of electronically mediated social production. With a focus on immaterial production - or the forms of coordinated social activity employed to produce knowledge and information in the networked information economy - this project ultimately aims to demonstrate how current …
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Modeling Socioeconomic Evolution and Continuity in Ancient Egypt: The Value and Limitations of Zooarchaeological Analyses
… and perpetuation of alternative economic and social production strategies in ancient Egypt. This multi-stage analysis formed a necessary first step for future research to identify the processes and ramifications of similar development in other early complex societies.
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Empirical essays on open innovation
… products from firms. This research expands social production theory to explicate the concept of community selection as a key mechanism that enables individuals to choose new product designs that are created via nonmarket innovation. Social production relies, in part, on the ability of …
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A tenuous middle ground : conflicting rationalities and the lived negotiation of low income housing in Cape Town
This thesis explores debates surrounding the social production and interaction of divergent housing rationalities through qualitative research in a low income housing development called Stock Road and in the offices of the para-statal company that developed and administered the area, the Cape Town …
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The production of digital public spaces
… and homogenizing image, its role in the production of space at a local scale is less clear (Kirsch 1995). The aim of this study is to argue for digital public spaces as a concrete programme to support the articulation of a third notion of public space that emerges at the interface of …
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The Production of Digital Public Space(s)
… and homogenizing image, its role in the production of space at a local scale is less clear (Kirsch 1995). The aim of this study is to argue for digital public spaces as a concrete programme to support the articulation of a third notion of public space that emerges at the interface of …
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Placing the City: An Exploration of John Paskievich’s Photographs of Winnipeg's North End as Visual Cartography
… Drawing from Henri Lefebvre's notion of "the social production of space," and Ariella Azoulay's framing of the photograph as an encounter, this thesis argues that these images engage in a practice of 'placing.' Considering the photograph as an active object with the capacity to both produce …
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DUAL DISRUPTIONS: OVERCOMING THE EFFECTS OF DISASTERS AND MIS-, DIS-, AND MAL-INFORMATION ON DEMOCRACIES
… crisis leadership, sensemaking, and the social production of disasters. This thesis finds that the combination of ineffective disaster response, poor leadership, and false information can undermine socially constructed legitimacy, amplify and intensify existing social divides, and create …
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Measuring scientific productivity in co-citation clusters
… literature review surveys models of knowledge production, including measures of scientific products at different levels of abstraction. Data is drawn from authors in ten specialty areas, elites identified by co-citation analysis. These co-citation clusters are analyzed in general, in …
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Reframing theories of evil: ethics, violence and the state
… evil, and how do they contribute to making “the social production and distribution of evil” visible or invisible? In its everyday usage, evil is a category that is often ascribed retrospectively, named after the event, signaling the occurrence of harm. Yet, not every occurrence of harm “appears” …
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Knot/Knotting Practice in Craft and Space
… history with critical theory related to the social production of space. The third part was an exhibition of drawing and knotted objects titled Opening Closures. This document unifies the lines inquiry that define my project. The first chapter presents the art historical justification for …
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Assembling the socio-educational spheres within contested urban environments: The Role of a Community Learning Hub in a Contested Urban Environment
… a networking tool, in a form of facilitating the social construction and distribution of local knowledge & resources within a contested urban location. Through the identification of global and local issues, new perspectives developed through the consideration and incorporation of local …
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Walking in the city--an operational theater
… its residents. Urbanism is recast as a space of social production; the city is a contested site. The city as theatre reveals a totalizing impulse. The theatrical city suggests a scopic tendency, an image of the city grasped as a whole. Theatre itself is much more elusive; its definitions …
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