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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"belie"”.
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Pushing the Limits: Testing, Magnetometry and Ontario Lithic Scatters
… are small artifact scatters on the surface can belie more complex subsurface finds of significant cultural and historical value. As such, there is a need to reconsider the approaches made to the investigation of these sites. Geophysical techniques applied early in a scatter’s investigation, …
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Italian creations : elaborations of collective identity in Milan, Italy
… the contradictions within Italian society that belie the nation-state model, which proposes a congruity between a uniform population and the institutions of governance. These contradictions include the proposed oppositional dichotomy between the people and the state, of a northern and southern …
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The Korean Internet Freak Community and Its Cultural Politics, 2002–2011
… enables its users to speak out their voice and belie the consequences of neoliberalization, which makes up the politics of loser aesthetics in DCinside. As DCinside users challenged the protocols of their predecessors the netizens, so now a more extremist group has evolved to challenge the …
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Chocolate to Rainbow City: the dialectics of black and gay community formation in postwar Washington, D.C., 1946-1978
… through DuPont Circle and Shaw in these years belie the ease with which Washingtonians map and inscribe homogenous racial and sexual identities onto them in the present day. I argue that the social movements formed by black and gay activists after World War II to combat both institutional …
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Individualism in the Novels of Nuruddin Farah
… novel suggests transformations in identity which belie the uniformity of the disengaged, autonomous self which is articulated in the novel as a genre. Tension thus is generated between the social commitment Farah expresses as a writer and the limitations of the form which deny representation to …
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Symphonic Culture in Paris, 1880-1900: The Bande à Franck and Beyond
… on genre, artistic influence, and morality belie the ideological complexities and paradoxes in his Istar. In addition to illuminating these works through reception history, musical analysis, manuscript studies, and the composers' own writings, the dissertation will address three interrelated …
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Envisioning Water: Sustainability and Future-Making in Dubai and Los Angeles
… the city-state’s competitiveness agenda that can belie larger eco-realities, while LA’s fragmented institutional, regulatory, and financing scapes complicate collaboration on recycling projects which span across and exceed individual institutional mandates. Finally, alongside the municipal …
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Non-place and the acceptance of the scantiness of reality
… It generates a series of object- sys t ems that belie traditional representations and understandings of physical space, informing an alternative strategy at urban scale through a broad exploitation of its geometrical possibilities in the way they can be seen, interpreted, combined, shaped, and …
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A descriptive case study of successes and challenges in a scientific collaboration program based in the United States and Benin
… the global North-South divide, they can easily belie a neocolonialist dynamic that poorly supports bi-directional ownership, sustainability and development of capacity or potential opportunities for mutually enhancing the competency, skills, and knowledge of the collaboration’s participants. …
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Controls on long-term drainage development of the Carboneras Basin, SE Spain
… Carboneras Basin, an intermontane basin of the Belie Cordillera, was one of the last of a series of sedimentary basins which underwent transition from marine to continental conditions during the Plio/Pleistocene in this region. The basin is still tectonically active, controlled by surface uplift …
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Queering the body: cross-dressing performance and identity politics in Cantonese opera of post-1950s Hong Kong
… where these perceptions of inauthenticity also belie an ambivalence displayed by Hongkongers toward the cultural, national, and political identities they embody. While hangdang (role-type) and wenwusheng have been defined in historical scholarship on Cantonese opera, my ethnographic study of …
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The other cross-channel neighbor: Imagining and appropriating Belgium in nineteenth-century British literature and culture
… explore questions of literary genre in ways that belie the apparent disorganization of these texts. At a time when British interest in Belgium had not yet waned, Thackeray uses Belgium to question how an increased British access to Continental tourism might change Romantic ideas about travel and …
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Fauxtopia
To all who come to this fictitious place:Welcome.Fauxtopia is your land. Here, age relives distorted memories of the past, and here, youth may savor the challenge of trying to understand the present. Fauxtopia is made up of the ideals, the dreams and the fuzzy facts which have re-created reality... …