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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Spatial Imaginary"”.
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Sequencing the Body: Prisons and the Spatial Imaginary
This thesis spatializes the sequences of occupied and interactive spaces in prison institutions, in an attempt to explore and understand the nature of these spaces and their relationship to the body. Six spaces - exterior, recreation, visitation, the cell block, general population cells, and …
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Second Story Television: Multi-Camera Sitcom Spaces, Objects, and the Suburban Spatial Imaginary
… project investigates the concept of the suburban spatial imaginary with regard to multi-camera sitcoms from the 1990s. I contend that the physical flatness of the multi-camera set construction is tied to the ideological presentation of suburban life. Through a textual analysis of moments in these …
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The Black Spatial Imaginary in Urban Design Practice: Lessons for Creating Black-affirming Public Spaces
University of Washington Abstract The Black Spatial Imaginary in Urban Design Practice: Lessons for Creating Black-affirming Public Spaces Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Rachel Berney Urban Design & Planning The spatial imaginary – as presented in this thesis – refers to an understanding of …
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Reclaiming the spatial imaginary: a photovoice study of resistance to displacement in Woodstock, Cape Town
… of displacement and its resistance have social, spatial, psychological, and political components. Examining these components can contribute to understanding the processes and impacts of gentrification. Reclaim the City (RTC) is a young grassroots campaign that resists evictions and demands …
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Constructing a Spatial Imaginary: The Formation and Re-presentation of Monte Carlo as a Vacation-Leisure Paradise, 1854-1950
… by 1950. It contextualizes how construction of a spatial imaginary, built through a consistent projection of the city’s image, meticulously-crafted through representational space, and mediated, re-mediated, and disseminated by visitors’ accounts, became crucial to Monte Carlo’s lasting success as …
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Uniting States: Narration, Space, and Nation in Four Nineteenth-Century American Travel Novels
… American national identity within a dialectical spatial imaginary where ideologies of spatial transcendence compete with those of local authority and regional difference. ""Uniting States"" maps this spatial imaginary as it operates in four nineteenth-century domestic travel novels, tracing the …
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Disorientations
… States also reinforce and normalize a white spatial imaginary. Conventions of mapping, imaging of land and landscape, and elements of the built environment continue to orient us in a logic of space as property. In my sculptural work, I employ strategies of disorientation and creative repair, …
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Text, Knowledge and Truth In the Duchy of Luxembourg, 1666-1781
… contested historiographical entity and disputed spatial imaginary by revisiting the prejudices of traditional Luxembourgish scholarship, which has favoured teleological and progressivist interpretations of national genesis. Chapter I introduces the idea of the inauguration rite as the epitome of …
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Playing It Safe: Indian Middle-Class Spatial Imaginaries and Contemporary Visual Trans Representation
… criminal-civil zones and extraordinary-ordinary spatial containers of crime and respectability. Here, the stasis of the imaginary is owed to the way in which such spatial arrangements only allow for interpreting transgender mobility within the exclusionary social hierarchies that serve …