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Showing 1 to 20 of 123 for “"The liminal"”.
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The Liminal Shift
Malawi is currently identified as one of the poorest countries in the world, based upon economic factors and the large dependence of the country on foreign aid. Poverty is endemic, but how does one measure factors such as happiness and contentment that exists in many communities? How does one …
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Paradoxical Religious Posture: Occupying the Liminal Space
<p>In what follows I would like to investigate the concept of liminal space, which is the axis of conflict made possible through existing and/or artificial polarities. The discussion will concern the political, cultural and social situations that create the need for attention to the multiplicity of …
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NAVIGATING THE LIMINAL ZONE: Designing Future-Oriented Educational Environments
This thesis seeks to address emerging future questions by envisioning the future of educational architecture, considering the evolving dynamics between people, machines, and collaborative learning environments. While machines will play a significant role, human interaction, collaboration, and …
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The Liminal South : Explorations of Black Time, Space, and Memory
… art exhibition that tangibly extract and display the ways I view the U.S. American south and my interactions with it. Inspired by the narrative photography of Carrie Mae Weems and her “Kitchen Table Series,” the project focuses on multiple generations of my own family in order to document my …
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Earth. Water. Sky. The Liminal Landscape of the Maya Sweatbath
This dissertation investigates the ancient healing tradition of the Maya sweatbath, its landscape, and rituals, which after three millennia is still practiced today among the contemporary Maya. Frequently overlooked because of its size, the ancient Maya sweatbath's location in ancient ceremonial …
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Musicking in the liminal Space between Community Music and Music Education
The study explored musicking, social capital, and social justice as connection points in the liminal space between community music (CM) and music education (MusEd). Musicking encapsulates active human involvement in music-making opportunities (Odendaal, Kankkunen, Nikkanen & Vakeva, 2014:165-168). …
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An Autoethnography on the Liminal Spaces in an Intensive Care Unit
Liminality is an in-between space that, as for the teenager who is neither fully child nor adult, accompanies new norms, routines, and expectations while simultaneously remaining in flux. This thesis explores the history of liminality, its presence in the literature, and then applies Victor …
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The Liminal Space of Dreams: Narration of Dreams in Graphic novel and Comics
<p><strong>This essay explores the dream as a narrative in graphic novels and comics, examining its character as a subconscious experience depicted by means of visual storytelling. Focusing on psychological, symbolic, and aesthetic functions of dream narrative, I demonstrate that dream narration …
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Landscape’s Constitutive Agency in Macpherson's Ossianic Collections: The Liminal Sublime in Ossian's Landscape
… Ossianic Collections has sought to place them within their social and cultural context, away from the authenticity debate. This included considerations on Ossianic topographies, which determine the influence of Ossianic geographies on subsequent travel tourism and landscape observations …
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Perceiving Hysteria: Representations of the Liminal Position of Fibromyalgia in Unconventional Women’s Narratives
Located in the intersection between life writing and the stream of the medical humanities concerned with disability, this dissertation critically analyses representations of what I frame as the liminal position of Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) in women’s unconventional literature. Engagement with the …
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The liminal event and its symbols: on the intersection of human and technology
This thesis is an exploration of practical and theoretical modes of constituting hybrid subjectivities on the intersection of human and technology. Taking as a point of departure the posthuman and postphenomenological perspectives, I develop an approach to articulating hybrid subjectivities, where …
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Contemporary Art and the Liminal Space: Refuge for the Divine in an Empirical World?
This research explores whether a concept of the divine can have alternative expression outside of religious bodies in contemporary art and utilises this notion in the idea of liminality, which is defined as a transitory rite of passage between different states of self. Since the liminal is a …
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Lost Elysium: space as a metaphor for the liminal in a post-Catholic world
This thesis was submitted as part of a PhD by Prior Publication. It explores the motivations for my writing, and examines the formative early experiences, and early artistic habits and reading in which my life as a writer are rooted. The thesis is divided into two parts, an essay called ‘Lost …
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From the Liminal to the Land: Building Amazon Culture at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
… year in August, thousands of womyn from around the globe make a journey that takes them from the liminal world of patriarchal marginalization, oppression, and violence to the safety of a land where they build a matriarchal culture of families, homes, and sacred traditions. This new culture binds …
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Everyday Tragedies: People with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in the Liminal Spaces of a Level I Trauma Centre
… impact on a person’s ability to function, on their selfhood, on their families, and on the spaces where they can exist in the world. Individuals with sTBI in Ontario are often transported to Level I Trauma Centres, as textually mediated by the provincial Life or Limb Policy, to ensure access …
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The Power of the Liminal: A Study of the Role of Harbours in Political Economies of the Bronze Age Aegean
The predominant settlement system in the Bronze Age Aegean, in which the palaces were located inland and controlled large agricultural catchments, paired with the fact that many of the resources, especially copper and tin, which these palaces relied on could only be obtained through maritime …
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Virtual voices and contrapuntal melodies: exploring the liminal experiences of part-time, adult learners as they embark on undergraduate, online study
Using liminal spaces as a heuristic tool, this study explores the experiences of fifteen adult learners as they complete the first academic module of their part-time, online degree. Online undergraduate programmes enable adult learners to make decisions of how their aspirations are best met. The …
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Islam, Modernity, and the Liminal Space Between: A Vertical Case Study of the Institute of Traditional Islamic Art and Architecture, Amman, Jordan
<p>This dissertation investigates the development and function of the Institute of Traditional Islamic Art and Architecture in Amman, Jordan. A vertical case study using grounded theory methodology, the research attempts to create a rich and holistic understanding of the Institute. Specific areas …
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The Meeting of Two Minds in the Intermediate State: The Art Therapist as a Guide in the In-Between, Immersed and Assisted by Contemplative and Transpersonal Theory
<p>The primary goal of this research was to explore the space which arises between the art therapist and the client’s minds when working in a “we” state of togetherness. Six professional art therapists who had experience with the liminal space were interviewed about their lived experience. From the …
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