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Showing 1 to 20 of 331 for “"Utopian"”.
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Altered states: feminist utopian literature
… interrogates the interaction between feminist utopianism and altered states of consciousness in fiction from 1970 onwards. The thesis develops further both Lyman Tower Sargent’s definition of utopianism as “social dreaming” and Tom Moylan’s understanding of critical utopia. It also develops and …
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Utopoly - A Utopian Research Method
This thesis is an account of Utopoly, a new utopian research method that incorporates a game. It is the result of research provoked by a question concerning the validity of using games in the field of utopian studies. My research set out to develop methods that would complement utopian literary …
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Queering the Museum: Utopian Futurity in Contemporary Exhibitions
Queering the Museum: Utopian Futurity in Contemporary Exhibitions expands the history of American art beyond its tightly policed borders to include curators, viewers, artists, and artworks as key players in contemporary queer exhibition surveys in U.S.-based museums. Exhibition histories are not …
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Ideology and Change in an American Utopian Community
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The Ends of Utopian Thinking: Marx, Adorno, Bloch
My dissertation is concerned with utopian thinking in Critical Theory. It examines the changing conceptions of radically different social orders held by the associates of the Frankfurt School. Its aim is to investigate utopian thinking as a theoretical tool of a system of thought that is oriented …
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Phantasms of Hope: The Utopian Function of Fantasy Literature
… However, Ernst Bloch’s Marxist theory of a utopian anticipatory consciousness and his concept of nonsynchronism recognize a progressive, utopian function within the archetypes and allegories of fairy tales, a precursor to modern fantasy. Bloch argues that archetypes are not static entities …
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Queer Utopian Theory for Transformative Change in Theatre Organizations
… role of theatre organizations. By defining Queer Utopian Theory (QUT), analyzing calls to action in the Canadian theatre sector, and employing three focus groups, I created a Queer Utopian framework for Canadian theatre organizations to answer the research question: What is the utility of the …
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The Rendered Body: Queer Utopian Thinking in Digital Embodiment
The rendered body is pure possibility, but it has been treated with an imaginatively limited lens that belies its potential for radical reimagining. I want to challenge those imaginative limits, especially in regard to gender and how gender is read on digital bodies. In order to do this, I will …
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What is Music For?: Utopian Ecomusicologies and Musicking Hornby Island
This dissertation concerns making music as a utopian ecological practice, skill, or method of associative communication where participants temporarily move towards idealized relationships between themselves and their environment. Live music making can bring people together in the collective …
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Hope for a Davidic king in the Psalter's utopian vision
… this is best described using the category of utopian hope rather than eschatological expectation. In order to advance the scholarly conversation, the dissertation carefully examines two key psalms in Book Five (110; 132) and then details the way in which these psalms contribute to the …
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A Case for Utopian Dreaming: Feminisms within Canadian Artist-Run Centres
… asked to educate our desires. This grounding in utopian methodology leads me to specifically ask: how can artist-run centres benefit most from incorporating intersectional feminism and anti-oppression work into their daily operations? To think through this question, I consider a selection of …
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Learning Performances of Dislocation, Receptivity and Hybridity in Women's Utopian Writing
… explore two arguments: (a) The understanding of utopian writing as the literary supplement of political philosophy fails to see how Western questions about the good life, the good society, and good education have been founded on the colonial supplement of an imaginary, natural and amorphous, …
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Chronicle of confinement: A tale of Dystopian Chains and Utopian dreams
… existing prison models, the thesis envisions a utopian prison environment centered on rehabilitation and social reintegration. This approach challenges the conventional punitive model and aims to address the pressing issues of high recidivism rates and the marginalization of ex-offenders. The …
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A Utopian failure The One-Tonne Challenge, climate change and consumer conduct
The object of this study is a program of government that has, as its immediate objective, the modification and regulation of consumer conduct deemed pertinent to climate change. Drawing from the analytical grid and conceptual tools of governmentality, this study has organized and analyzed an …
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Exiles, Knowledge, and Power: Utopian and Dystopian Worlds in Early Modern England
… access knowledge, often through the creation of utopian and dystopian worlds, which either leads to their exilic identities and disempowerment or allows them to renegotiate their identities from the periphery to the center of power. The triadic relationship among the terms exile, knowledge, and …
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Perspectives on Technology in Eighteenth-Century Encyclopedias, Travel Literature, and Utopian Fiction
… technology is taken up as a literary topic in utopian science fiction and in dystopian criticisms of the technical later in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it had acquired much different connotations from the historical context of the eighteenth century.
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Utopian Expectations as Observed Using SWOT Analysis at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, Virginia
… intelligence cycle and researches the degree of Utopian development, as observed at Busch Gardens Williamsburg (BGW), Virginia, utilizing a common business and competitive intelligence tool, known as the SWOT. The research uncovered numerous aspects apparent at the target, BGW, many of which …
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Utopian Hope vs. Merely-Political Combat: Directionality for the Kingdom of God
… work inside the 'academy' to diverse accounts of utopian and/or dystopian imaginaries within diverse fictional stories. Identifying what utopia picks out conceptually, however, is challenging, not least due to the limitations inherent in the ways we perceive the world could be. In this …
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