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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Spatial politics"”.
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(Re)gendering Spatial Politics: Museum as Mediating Space in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writings
(Re)gendering Spatial Politics: Museum as Mediating Space in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writings argues that public artistic spaces, which were not exactly a woman’s sphere during the time, became feminized through nineteenth-century women’s writings. By portraying how the affective relationships …
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Phantoms of the Barrio: Chicana/o urban spatial politics and muralism, 1965-1985
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Racial and Relational Urbanisms: The Spatial Politics of Afro-Colombian Emplacement in Bogotá
… blind to racialised practices of societal and spatial organisation. It maintains that urban space-making is still governed by racial coloniality despite being increasingly challenged by relational ontologies of life. By drawing on longitudinal and mobile fieldwork, the research employed …
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Mapping under uncertainity : spatial politics, urban development, and the future of coastal flood risk
… Despite reform efforts for greater map accuracy, spatial politics may render the computationally efficient 100- year floodplain delineation of questionable effectiveness, equity, and legitimacy for long-term land use planning. Given changing coastal flooding and sea level rise, how can risk …
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The Spatial Politics of Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AK Party): On Erdoganian Neo-Ottomanism
My dissertation analyzes the architectural voice of the Islamic bourgeoisie by evaluating contemporary government-funded urban renewal projects in Turkey. This topic also discusses the counter voices' response to the urban renewal programs which sparked the Gezi Park protests of summer 2013. My …
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Between Violence and Utopia: an ethnography of pedagogy, childhood, and spatial politics in urban Pakistan
… included visual renderings, photo journals, spatial ethnography, archival research for post-colonial remnants, observations, field notes, and ethnographic interviews and focus groups with groups of children, teachers, and community members. Using the work of Ricœur (1970), Arendt (1958; 1968; …
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The Spatial Politics of Philanthropic Action in Turin: The imaginaries of sustainable development and social innovation in the institutionalisation of alternative cultural production as a field of urban governance.
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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From OAU to AU: Territoriality in African Regional Politics
… the national and the continental scales of spatial politics. It argues that continental territoriality in Africa is asserted, practiced, and imagined by the African Union(AU) and the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in ways that simultaneously constitute and support national …
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Challenging Space through Activism: Scaling Local and Global Issues at the 2012 London Olympic Games
… often discussed. My study aims to analyze the spatial effects of the Olympics on a local and global level through the stories of activism.</p> <p>I discuss the ways in which the Olympic games affects space for a host city, through influencing local politics to unleash spatial practices that …
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Literature and the littoral in South Africa: reading the tides of history
… is presented as a space which is governed by the spatial politics of that era, but also challenges them, playing a valuable part in constructing spatial politics, and in turn racial politics, in South Africa. A tidalectic reading of these literatures therefore demonstrates that the littoral allows …
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Heritage movements in the postcolonial city: Contestations between middle-class activisms and urbanisation processes in Kolkata
… Secondly it undertakes a remapping of the city’s spatial developmental logics through these heritage actions and subsequent redefining of state-society relationship. These logics are explored through the third aspect, which is the spatial transformations occurring through distinctive heritage-led …
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Teenage citizenship geographies: Rural spaces of exclusion, education and creativity
… policy development launches new interest in the spatial politics of childhood and youth. With increased focus on teenage apathy and declining civic engagement, citizenship education centres upon creating future responsible citizens. Using questionnaire surveys, group discussions, photography, …
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Here comes the bookmobile: Public culture and the shape of belonging
… twenty-first. In the process, it insists that a spatial politics of shared information was key to constructing and contesting community in twentieth-century America. Grounded in cultural geography, American Studies, and book history, it is an interdisciplinary investigation of the roles that …
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Religious and secular places: understanding the changing geographies of religion in Ireland
… that geographers of religion go beyond the micropolitics of religious spatial expression to connect with broader political processes. I apply three examples from Ireland to show how a relational geography of religion can respond adequately to her call to move beyond the micropolitical. The …
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Epistemic geographies of climate change: the IPCC and the spaces, boundaries and politics of knowing
… change stands at this juncture of science, politics, and the elemental materiality of the nonhuman. High-profile controversies about the physical reality, effects and management of the changing climate point to more deep-seated contestations about the place of science in modern democratic …
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Spatial practices of governing carbon.
… and empirically with debates around the spatial politics of carbon reduction. This thesis helps to fill this gap, and contributes to conceptual debates around low-carbon transitions and the political impacts of carbon management in Western states.Second, the thesis draws from the work of …
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Fuel poverty and transport poverty in the UK: a critical examination of their future evolution in relation to government policy
… Lefebvre, drawing on his vision of emancipatory spatial politics. Insightful primary evidence in the form of 17 expert interviews, taken from the energy and transport sectors, were used to gain a detailed understanding of the impact of government policy on these issues. Thematic analysis of the …
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Gardens of resistance
… due process and dialogue in 2020, the site's spatial politics have also witnessed a plethora of resistances. This thesis questions the role of architecture in envisioning and engaging the tools of resistance in the context of such political sites. It narrates the stories of three actors as …
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Modernisation and the New Left in sixties Britain
… This relationship is understood in terms of a politics of space. The New Left is defined broadly for this purpose as a movement emerging from the dislocating experiences of social, cultural and physical mobility in the postwar period. What is termed the 'modernisation project' is more expansive …
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