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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Spatial practices"”.
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Spatial practices of governing carbon.
… regions between 2005 and 2009, with a focus on practices of re-imagining, calculating and connecting the region as a 'carbon space'. The PhD contributes to contemporary research on climate change policy in three key ways. First, although some scholars (for example, Bulkeley and Betsill, 2003) …
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Spatial Practices of Icarian Communism
… in Cabet's book, and tracks the group's actual spatial practice over the next seventeen years. During this period, thousands of Icarians led by Cabet attempted to establish an actual colony in the wilderness of the United States. Eventually settling in the recently abandoned Mormon enclave of …
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Images of entanglement : Wittgensteinian spatial practices between architecture and philosophy
… Austrian born philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's practices of philosophy and of architecture. Wittgenstein's philosophy of language is notable for its sharply distinguished early and late work: with the early work most strongly associated with his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) and the …
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Between violence and care: socio-spatial practices of (un)care amid extreme and chronic violence in El Salvador
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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The difference walls make' : cultural dynamics and implications of change in Sāmoan architectural traditions and socio-spatial practices (1940-2006)
… rich cultural traditions, aesthetics, and social practices that are used to manifest, embed, and ‘advance’ social and cultural identities within social communities and physical landscapes. The ethnography describes how traditional open, round or oval house forms reflect and shape Sāmoan values, …
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Proscribed scenes from a monument
… arises from the unstable dialectic between spatial practices and history. By privileging the monument as document of history, scholarship elides the spatial practices and the experiences of architecture's occupants. This study explores the implications of instating these experiences and …
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Spaces of male prostitution: tactics, performativity and gay identities in streets, Go-Go bars and magazines in contemporary Bangkok, Thailand
This research explores the spatial practices of male prostitutes meeting gay male clients in various urban environments in Bangkok, Thailand. The research focuses on the male prostitutes’ spatial practices in three meeting places: the streets around Saranrom park, the gay go-go bars in Surawong’s …
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A spatial structuring approach to IT use and workplace change : what's space got to do with it?
This dissertation uses the disparate spatial practices of radiologists and outpatient physicians to frame a study of the relationship between space, information technology use and workplace change, with a particular focus on relationships of control. Drawing from diverse urban, organization and …
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Space and *Representation in Chicago's Near West Side: A Discourse Analysis
… of understandings of social relationships and spatial practices in the inner city has transposed racist and classist ideological elements onto the built environment.
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Investigating disorientation through the adoption of role-play in contemporary fine art practice
… photography. This research discusses the highly spatialised ways of describing cultural identity, covering aspects of: film, mapping, spatial practices and theory, performativity and translation, as well as a body of art works by the artist- researcher and other contemporary artists. I move …
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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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Taste Untold: Critical Performance Practice and Contemporary Public Space
… and urban design, focusing on the codes and practices of contemporary public space. Underscoring a dependent correlation between research and existing urban sites, the investigation is situated on Granary Square, arguably the most successful privately owned public space made in London in …
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The Politics of Bread: State Power, Food Subsidies and Neoliberalization in Hashemite Jordan
… conflicts that surround this policy, the spatial practices that subsume it and the ways in which it is understood and given meaning. Despite repeated attempts by international financial institutions to eliminate them, authoritarian regimes throughout the region have gone to great lengths …
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Planning under deep political conflict: the relationship between Afforestation planning and the struggle over space in the Palestinian Territories
… not have enough power to deal with the different spatial problems that face planning endeavor. Palestinian planners find their autonomy challenged and abilities limited under Israeli policies of control. Among different actors in the spatial struggle in the Palestinian Territories (PT) are …
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Arts space under (narrative) construction.
… capitals theory and Lefebrve’s notions of spatial practices. By combining a narrative research approach for data analysis with an arts-based research text, this communications case study demonstrates the conscription of artists as characters in the dominant narrative of urban gentrification …
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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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Seeing: The Multiple Narratives of Northern Xinjiang
… Xinjiang through the lived experiences and spatial practices of Kazakh pastoral communities. Beginning from a position of uncertainty and misalignment, the research questions how dominant narratives of modernization and settlement shape the perception of land while obscuring the invisible …
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Encountering city governance: an analysis of street trading in Gaborone, Botswana
… research explored how city governance shapes the practices of informal street trading in Gaborone, Botswana. It investigated how street traders navigate their daily trading and their spatial practices and strategies. Insights were gleaned through in-depth interviews with street traders in three …
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Naples between touristification and commoning: the production of the freed space in the heart of the tourist zone
… The other is the proliferation of the practices of commoning by twelve Freed Spaces, and the parallel experimentation with the new municipalist experience. This work contributes to Critical Urban Studies providing a first socio-spatial analysis of the production of freed space by the …
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