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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"civilizing"”.
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Civilizing suburbia
When I began my study of architecture ten years ago, I honestly believed that architecture could change the world. As I look back at how the American landscape has changed since then I realize that architecture has changed the world, but not necessarily in the way I imagined. As our population has …
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Civilizing The Savage: The Women's National Indian Association, 1879-1901
This thesis traces the growth and development of the Women's National Indian Association from its inception in 1879 to its transformation into the National Indian Association in 1901. These findings are based upon original research in primary resource material. The principal sources used include …
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The 'Civilizing Process' and the Politics of Conservative Womanhood in America, 1890-1930
… how these women utilized the concept of the civilizing process to advocate for a more conservative society. Harking back to Victorian constructs, conservative women of this era sought to establish hierarchies of race, gender and morality, deeming these hierarchies central to the preservation …
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Civilizing the Prehispanic: Neo-Prehispanic Imagery and Constructions of Nationhood in Porfirian Mexico (1876-1910)
This work looks at the artistic production of the Porfiriato (1876-1910) with particular attention to the representation of prehispanic cultures and their incorporation into an official historiography. Whilst highlighting the growing popularity of prehispanic and conquest themes, during the last …
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"A Great Civilizing Agent": Architecture at MIT, Drawing Education, and Boston's Cultural Elite, 1865-1881
… professionals in Massachusetts who ascribed a civilizing purpose to art, an idealized category which included architecture. As part of this effort, he was not only the founder of MIT’s architecture department but also a founding instructor at two other cultural institutions in Boston. …
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Press and Parliament, Liberalism and Colonialism: Italy's 1891 Livraghi Affair and the Waning of the Civilizing Mission
… or lawlessness, and the prevailing view rejected civilizing pretensions in Africa, adopting instead an openly illiberal colonial outlook. Journalists were at the center of that change, shaping and disseminating across Italy a vicarious colonial experience that eventually undermined the application …
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A Civilized Society? The Culture of Punishment in Canada
… of online public commentary. Drawing on the de/civilizing process theories of Norbert Elias (1939/2000) and John Pratt (1998, 2002, 2011), it is argued that there is a noticeable dominance of de-civilizing discourses and themes found within the legislation and comment boards. While historical …
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The Basis of Angolan Nationalism
… in Africa is at work. The Portuguese speak of a "civilizing mission," "cultural assimilation," and the "Lusitanization of its colonies. The determination of Portugal to see its policies through and the determination of Angolan nationalists to exact independence and freedom from the Portuguese …
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Mémoire et silence autour de la guerre d’Algérie
… a national myth that included the concepts of a civilizing mission' and the need to revive its 'glorious past. The question of torture during that period proved discordant with the republican ideals of France and the construction of the myth, thus awkwardly moving the country back and forth …
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ON THE BUSINESS OF SOCIALITY: A FIGURATIONAL EXPLORATION OF THE ETIQUETTE INDUSTRY IN POST-REFORM CHINA
… society, and the state. The state-led “civilizing” initiatives for embodying civility to produce modern citizens are discussed in Chapter One by comparing the official doctrines from the New Life Movement (1934-1949) and public propaganda posters found in Chinese cities and towns during …
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Chivalry and Romantic Love in the Courts of Eleanor of Aquitane
… of troubadour poetry extolling women brought civilizing changes to France and England, and merged chivalry and romantic love. The poetry was influenced by a renewed enthusiasm for worship of the Virgin Mary and by the lyric quality of Hispano-Arabic poetry. Based on romance, it differed from …
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Survival of the Fittest: Persistent Memes and Their Victorian Environments
… </p> <p> In the second chapter, I analyze the civilizing meme in Charles Dickens's 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities. This meme has its roots in older tales that deal with just uses and responses to power. In Dickens's adaptation, the civilizing meme offers a solution for peaceful ameliorative …
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An ethnographic study examining food and drink practices in four early childhood settings
… when children's bodies are especially subject to civilizing processes in terms of space; time; focusing on the task not the child; 'body rules'; and future-centredness. I develop the idea that practitioners' bodies are also 'disciplined', not least in the notion that they should act as role models …
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Specters of Ethiopia. The Ethiopian Student Movement and its evocation of the ‘National Question’ during the global-local long Sixties
… societies––under the banner of a universal ‘civilizing mission.’ <br /><br /> Contrary to conventional postcolonial/de-colonial discourses that tend to flatten the ambivalence of modernity as if the dichotomy between the hegemonic presence of modern Europe and the marginalization of the …
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« Le désert progresse » : mirages postmodernes de l’Ouest américain dans les fictions françaises et québécoises
… its colonial connotations – tied to France’s civilizing mission in the Sahara – to a broader metaphor for environmental collapse and civilizational decline. Drawing on narratological, comparative, and ecocritical methodologies, this study identifies recurring textual strategies, including …
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Saving the Children: Discourses of Race, Nation, and Citizenship in America
… between childhood, citizenship, and the civilizing mission: Charles Loring Brace, the founder of the Children's Aid Society; Jacob Riis, author of the famous How the Other Half Lives; Julia Lathrop, resident of Hull House and first director of the U.S. Children's Bureau; and Grace Abbott, …
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"""The friendship of peoples"": Soviet ballet, nationalities policy, and the artistic media, 1953-1968"
… the art form of classical dance as a part of its civilizing mission to spread culture to its own ""backward"" regions. The artistic achievements of these provincial and republic ballet theatres served as a powerful source of propaganda, not only to Moscow and Leningrad, but also abroad, …
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Ideological Violence and Social Change in Canada and the United States from the 19th Century to Present Day
… rates of ideological violence?, Norbert Elias’s civilizing theory and Cas Wouters’s seven social balances (Wouters, 2014) are employed to illustrate the social change of the time period. Further, it introduces the analytical concept of ideological themes, where causality cannot be immediately …
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On the Margins of the Grand Unity: Empire, Violence, and Ethnicity in the Virtue Ethics and Political Practice of Wang Yangming (1472--1529)
… notions were inseparable from the paternalistic civilizing practices of Ming empire, with all the consequences this entailed.
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Visions of Race and Gender: Press Coverage of the French Colonial Expositions of 1922 and 1931
… expositions and championed the success of the civilizing mission, and demonstrates the media's role in perpetuating visions of French universalism. Their vision reveals contradictions found within French universalism that helps form a basis for analysis. This study scrutinizes the dominant …
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