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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"archival work"”.
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Imperial Splendor: Diamonds, Commodity Chains, and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain
This work is based on a wide range of British newspapers and jewelry trade periodicals, particularly Jeweller and Metalworker, archival work done in the Birmingham City Archives on the Birmingham Jewellers' and Silversmiths' Association, the papers of Joseph Chamberlain (University of Birmingham) …
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Making Transsexuality Impressive: Narrative Collage and the University of Minnesota Gender Clinic
Archival work in trans studies has a narrative problem. The desire to make trans stories positively politically-enabling erases the experience of trans people for whom the bad feelings of transition including depression, dysphoria, and suicidality cannot be overcome. This thesis takes up narrative …
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A Pragmatic Legacy: Charles Wilson’s Politics and the Battle for His Archival Heritage
… processing, disorganization, and neglect of archival best practices. This public history thesis confronts these challenges by detailing the efforts to process, preserve, digitize, and finally make the entire collection of documents, audio-visual items, photographs, and artifacts accessible to …
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21st-Century Yiddishism: The Dialectic of Czernowitz and Yiddish Pedagogical Discourse of the Present
… is both historical and comparative, using of archival work, surveys, interviews, close textual readings, discourse analyses, and ideological critique to achieve a synthesis indispensable for investigating the teaching and learning of present-day Yiddish formations and focusing on ad hoc, in …
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Coros y Danzas: Musical Folklore and Spanish Identity in the Early Franco Regime (1939-53)
… to a staunch ally of the Western Bloc. Based on archival work conducted in eight archives throughout Spain, I challenge a rather monolithic view of how the Franco regime portrayed gender roles and Spanish regional cultures at home and abroad according to different geopolitical circumstances. In …
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Keeping up with the Queers: White gay and bisexual men's experiences of relationship intimacy and conflict in Cape Town, 1966-2008
… by the small case study size and by minimal archival work, the merits of this case study can be expanded by further oral history projects.
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Chilean muckrakers: Making investigative journalism in a post-authoritarian and neoliberal context
… methodological techniques (like interviews, archival work, and analysis of agenda) and material (such as administrative records, visual material, and datasets specially designed and collected for the purposes of this research).
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Abandoned Mine Land Impacts on Tributaries in the Upper Yakima River Watershed, Eastern Cascades, Washington
… quality in four tributaries to the Yakima River. Archival work was conducted to determine sites that were mined and contained a mill. Each site was characterized by physical features. Water and sediment samples were collected above, at, and below each AML. Samples were analyzed for pH and heavy …
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Female Elites, Women's Formal Associations, and Political Practices in Urban Mali (West Africa)
This work begins with a critical review of some of the available literature on village politics. It tries to account for the ways that memories of the past have informed people's political practices during the struggle for independence from France. The work continues with discussing a number of …
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Listening to our stories in dusty boxes: Indigenous storytelling methodology, archival practice, and the Cherokee Female Seminary
… to understand the ways our dappled discipline works to create community-based knowledges, and how these knowledges sustained through storytelling can recover the histories in our discipline by opening up our boundaries framed by dominant origin stories. Building on the work of decolonial and …
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Christianity, education and African nationalism: an intellectual biography of Z.K. Matthews (1901-1968)
… thought of ZK, rather they focus on limited archival work and they rely on the ambit of liberalism and Christianity to understand ZK.
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Capturing Appalachia: Visualizing coal, culture, and ecology
… and Ecology, draws on extensive ethnographic, archival, and ecographic research conducted across Appalachia between 2014-2016 to develop an empirically informed sociological image of the interactions between culture, geography, and industry. Of particular interest are the ways that extractive …
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Terminal Illness: The Political Ecology and Political Economy of the Millennium Bulk Coal Export Terminal, Longview, WA
… a mixed-methods qualitative approach that uses archival work supported by semi-structured interviews and adopts the frameworks of political ecology, political economy of natural resources, and environmental governance. I argue in this thesis that the complexity and extended duration of the …
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The Counter-Colonial: The Agency of Architectural Rehabilitation as a form of Resistance in Hebron, Palestine
… as a conceptual and mobilizing framework for tactics of resistance against the ongoing settler colonial project. The counter-colonial establishes epistemological, methodological, and interpretive resistance tactics that recognize the setter-colonial project and mobilize within and …
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Imperial splendor: Diamonds, commodity chains, and consumer culture in nineteenth-century Britain
… brutal control the Company exercised over its workforce and the trade, and condoned it – thus, in a time of depression, the monopolization of the diamond market was an apparent guarantee to the “haves” that they need not find themselves in the “have-not” category in myriad ways. This work is …
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Gender Glitch Matrix: Queer Aesthetics and the Politics of Error in Digital Media
… with the development of a theoretical framework and a review of relevant literature on AI errors and glitch art. Subsequently, the thesis explores the design of glitch prototypes through training and testing machine learning models. Finally, through experiments using these methodologies, …
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The identity and construction of Wreck Baker: a War of 1812 era Royal Navy frigate
… Ontario and the National Archives of Canada. The work in Lake Ontario provided insight into how the ship was built and the archival work provided the historical context that explains the ship's novel construction. Wreck Baker's archaeologically recorded shape, length, and construction were …
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Fridge space : journeys of the domestic refrigerator
… refrigerator and is based upon interviews and archival work in Britain. I unravel intersecting histories and geographies of cooling, discuss a global trade in ice, explore changing understanding of the nature of heat and cold and show how varied ideas and technologies contributed to achieving …
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The Social Life of Death: Mortuary Practices in the North-Central Andes, 11th-18th centuries
… related to the use of tombs, within a framework of changing social organisation. By drawing on the existing archaeological and historic reports, a unique database has been created which catalogues the tombs of the Ancash highlands in a systematic way. This includes basic formal descriptions …
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The evolving role of philosophy within the novels of Samuel Beckett
<p>In recent years the study of Samuel Beckett's work has moved into increasingly specialised and archival areas. With the sheer wealth of work undertaken since the field began in the1960s and the availability of previously unobtainable materials this was somewhat of an inevitability. The sub-field …
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