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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"collective history"”.
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Our Collective History: The Curation Crisis and the Excavation of an Archaeological Repository
… in the United States is linked with a recent history of cultural resource management (CRM)—and academic research projects—having a tendency to survey, excavate, analyze, publish, and move on to the next project, often with little regard for the long term curation of the collections. What …
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Our Collective History: The Curation Crisis and the Excavation of an Archaeological Repository
… in the United States is linked with a recent history of cultural resource management (CRM)—and academic research projects—having a tendency to survey, excavate, analyze, publish, and move on to the next project, often with little regard for the long term curation of the collections. What …
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Working Remains
… labour, and culture that permeate personal, and collective history and memory. Working Remains adopts a self-reflexive and critical approach to representation through painting, installation, sculpture, performance, and video.
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An Uncanny Perspective: Sculptures by Martin Puryear
… a striking lens through which he addresses the collective history of violence and servitude within the African American experience. In applying Freud’s theories to several works by Puryear, this thesis will reveal how elements of the uncanny activate a questioning of narratives around terror and …
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ILIZWE LIFILE
… a tactile exploration of the aspects of cultural history kwaXhosa within South African political history that intersect with my own lived experience. Through drawings, tableau, sculptures and video, I explore how cultural, social and political narratives within the South African post-apartheid …
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Sense of Place, Place Attachment, and Rootedness in Four West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana Bars
… geography as containers of material culture and collective history that influence and are influenced by the people that spend time in those places and utilizes them as the laboratory for collecting empirical data on people-place relationships. Applying ethnographic research tools and theoretical …
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Black Genius: An Achievement Distortion
… in Black community, consciousness, and our collective history, propelling Black people to achieve, persist, and make progress in the face of persistent anti-Blackness.</p>
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Refugee-Led Organizations and the Obstacles They Face: A Comparative Study of Syria Bright Future and the Bhutanese Community Association of Pittsburgh
<p>In the nexus of our collective history, it has been recorded that human-induced political and social conflicts play a powerful role in displacing millions of people. The social insecurity produced by conflict persists long after they have ended, as refugees adjust to new circumstances, cope with …
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The last colour to fade
Drawing on personal recollections and collective history, The Last Colour to Fade offers a meditation on the sea as both a physical and psychological landscape. Memories of my childhood spent on Robben Island are interwoven with historical facts, with narratives borrowed from literature and film, …
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Dammed If You Don't: The Palmertown Tragedy of 1924 in Collective Memory
… events can illuminate much of the community's collective history and restore the fragmented communal memory. The memorialization of the Palmertown Tragedy of 1924 establishes a framework for acknowledging an arduous past and identifying the roots of a town's resilience.
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A Realist Argument for the Self: Emotions and Consciousness in Self-Making
… one that has haunted humanity, throughout our collective history. It is the purpose of this study to add to that questioning, and to attempt a small contribution to a field that has been as widely covered as it is perplexing. We will undertake this effort by firstly examining some common and …
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Is Sorry Really the Hardest Word? Guilt, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation in Contemporary Music
… may be achieved through constructing a collective history that acknowledges the multiplicity of testimony in post-apartheid society. I conclude that these pieces provide a means for people to enact narratives of guilt, forgiveness, and reconciliation and point towards new areas of study …
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Constructing the virtual as a social form
… of these virtual environments, which is a collective, and the presence among others, unencumbered with immediate contexts and limitations. This thesis theorizes on self-craft and space-craft protocols and their manifestations found in the virtual world Second Life, where every single …
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Lenses of Connectivity: Adapting the Impact of Urban Highways on American Cities
… and disturbing affect upon American cities. The collective history, cultural rituals and organic urban fabric of life has been almost completely extinguished in these cities by the false opportunity and instant gratification that comes with so-called 'technological progress.' This, yes this, …
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The uncomfortable chair of the colonial past and racist present an effective approach to white discomfort in the Netherlands
… This myth of innocence is constructed on a collective national level. International literature on white discomfort, however, is often (but not always) focused on the individual's psychology. Therefore, this interdisciplinary thesis explores an additional conception of white discomfort, …
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Danmarkshistorier: National Imagination and Novel in Late Twentieth Century Denmark
… and place, and fusing (individual) memory and (collective) history. Such texts, hybrid narratives between histories and stories of Denmark (or Danmarkshistorier), implicate a Danish national model reader who is alive both to the homogenising contemporary discourse of danskhed (Danishness) and to …
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Emigration, literary celebrity, and the autobiographical turn in J.M. Coetzee's later fiction
… and character, the intersection of personal and collective history, and the social responsibility of the acclaimed writer. It is argued that the slippage of focus from the authorial personas in these fictions to the questions and critical voices they provoke nonetheless conspires to reaffirm the …
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reunion: A Journey Through History, Symbolism, and Fear
… of fear, archetypal symbolism, personal and collective histories were examined through research, archival evidence, video, sound, movement, and installation. reunion, examines not only the powers of personal and collective histories through the symbolic language of archetypes, but also how …
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Truth, trauma and memory a critical analysis of truth commissions with specific reference to Liberia
… of Liberia with a clearer understanding of their collective history and, as a result, lead the country to realise "genuine healing and reconciliation‟ through this process. Through a philosophical and psychological framework this paper seeks to explore the promises and limitations of truth …
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Telling History Through the Stories of Women: Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies and In the Name of Salomé
… texts contesting traditional, male dominated history and redirecting historical and communal foci to the lives of Dominican women. I employ Walter Benjamin's theories found in his essays "The Storyteller" (1936) and "On the Concept of History" (1940) to assist my exploration of Alvarez's …