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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"actants"”.
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Didactique du lexique adaptée aux francophones du Nouveau-Brunswick: syntaxe et actants, régionalisme, polysémie et parasynonymie
"Les recherches et évaluations nationales et intemationales démontrent que les élèves francophones du Nouveau-Brunswick ont bien de la difficulté en français, et Les recherches et évaluations nationales et intemationales démontrent que les élèves francophones du Nouveau-Brunswick ont bien de la …
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From designer through space to spectator : tracking an imaginative exchage between the actants of a scenographic event
The aim of this enquiry is to deepen the understanding of the author's practice as theatre designer, scenographer and visual dramaturge in a postdramatic milieu. This study creates a theoretical frame for a research-led performance that is especially dependent on the release of 'active energies of …
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Rhetorical Resonances: An Affective Logic of Emergence in Space and Time
… to consider the resonance and trajectories of actants (individuals, groups, and institutions) in conflict. The first case study examines the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville and the discursive equating of antifa and the Alt-Right. The second case analyzes the controversy surrounding a …
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The Ark of the Covenant as a Material Actant: Adapting New Materialist Concepts for Cause and Effect
… of divine, human, nonhuman, and material actants whose entanglements with one another produce events that drive biblical narratives. Through this “material actantial” lens on the Ark-related passages, it emerges firstly that YHWH invites rather than compels human participation in actions …
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The Emergence of Ecosystems-Based Fisheries Management from the Groundfish Crisis in New England: An Actor-Network Theory Analysis
… produced by networks of associations between actants, human and non-human, material and semiotic, and not strictly as a policy prescription informed by experts on biology, ecology, and socio-economics. This analysis identifies and elucidates the multiplicity of the groundfish crisis as it is …
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Mobility, *Being, Global Network: A Technography of Laptops and Cellphones
Mobility refers to the movement of actors and actants in ever-shifting arrays that comprise actor-networks; movement in physical terms, but also conceptual movements such as transience in identity. Being refers to a Heideggerian state of 'pure being', moments of revelation in which the truth about …
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Allopoietics in Real Time: Unfolding Among Art, Publics, Space, and Time
… to produce outcomes beyond the sum of their actants, emphasizing collective unfolding over isolated creation. Liquid Media expands the notion of interfacing beyond traditional media to include publics, space, and time, conceptualizing these as mutable and entangled actants. These concepts …
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Overrepresented Man: Genre, Violence, and Hegemony
… violence (including both state and non-state actants), and the traditions and technologies of anti-colonial theoretical modeling, material praxis, and political work engendered by the rich, interdisciplinary body of Black Feminist thought. To address the continued practices of social, …
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Ethical Becoming, Ethical Fetishism, and Capitalist Modernity: An Ethnography of Design Education
… floor plans, they were affected by multiple actants and forces. The design actants and affective forces constituting student designs are identified to reveal the relations of design. These relations were often concealed and devalued through the hegemonic design logic of capitalist modernity …
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Klonopin Collectifs, the “Charms” of Diverted Pharmaceuticals and Other Pleasures of Non-Medical Prescription Drug Use
… instead a result of networks of heterogeneous actants. Using interview data collected among young adults about their early non-prescribed pharmaceutical episodes, and comparing these experiences to those of accomplished users, I will illustrate how, during initial periods of transparent …
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Klonopin Collectifs, the “Charms” of Diverted Pharmaceuticals and Other Pleasures of Non-Medical Prescription Drug Use
… instead a result of networks of heterogeneous actants. Using interview data collected among young adults about their early non-prescribed pharmaceutical episodes, and comparing these experiences to those of accomplished users, I will illustrate how, during initial periods of transparent …
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We have lost one another
… that recognises people and land as equal actants in the struggle for social cohesion and social justice.
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Betting on technology : the diffusion of mobile live-streaming apps within news startup actor-networks
… the adoption decision was shaped by a network of actants that in this case included newsroom personnel; the technology companies that created the apps; the South by Southwest Interactive conference; publicists; competing news organizations; the apps themselves; and, above all else, the audience. …
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Knowing Misha the Polar Bear: Multi-naturalism, biography, and conservation in Svalbard.
… within a dynamic actor-network, human actants come to understand Svalbard polar bears. I acknowledge that these encounters are not valueless, instead they are culturally, socially, and politically situated in significant disciplinary, epistemological, and technological histories and …
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Objects As Polyagents: Tracing The Histories Of The Gweagal Spears
… 1998) through their interaction with various actants in complex and ever-expanding networks of association (Latour 1993; 2005). It does so by analysing how such objects become symbols for multiple histories, presences, and political agendas throughout their social lives (Appadurai 1986; …
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Discomfort food : how a market for synthetic foods is being assembled : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Geography at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
… Foods. This assemblage, which includes human actants referred to here as 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, is represented in two major empirical themes. First it is demonstrated how The Movement is attempting to immaterially disassemble conventional Animal Agriculture, by discursively cleaving it from the notion …
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Exploring the Support Networks of those Caring for Loved Ones on Texas Death Row
… include Texas statutes, money, and stigma. Key actants providing support include other supporters of capital offenders, one’s appeals attorney, and nonprofit activist and religious organizations. Understanding the impact experienced by the supporters under study will allow professionals to make …
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The Infrastructures of Occupation: Iraq, 2003 – 2012
… and practices with Iraqi material and social actants. The second chapter examines financial infrastructure, analysing the occupying regime's attempts to produce the instruments of monetary policy, while conjuring a new figure of financial subjectivity. The third and final chapter focuses on …
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CLIMATE AS ASSEMBLAGE: IMAGINING AN ECOLOGICAL METAPHYSIC
… light numerous and diverse nonhuman forces, or actants, and taking these seriously requires a reconceptualization of agency that can be broadly disseminated across these instead of restricted to human subjects only. This revision—distributive agency—fits particularly well with climate, and I …
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Is Anyone There? The Collapse of Information and Communication Technologies in the Social Worlds and Arenas of Police, Fire and Emergency Medical Services
… arising from the incorporation of nonhuman actants (such as outside technologies and geographical landscape) and human heterogeneity (numerous workers belonging to various social worlds with multiple needs and uses); and, (b) the various social worlds' ideological and organizational contexts …
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