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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"contact zone"”.
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Encountering 'Sainaman': Friction at a Papua New Guinea Mining Contact Zone
… PNG mining projects? I frame the Ramu mine as a "contact zone" - a social space where disparate cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other. This thesis examines a series of social interactions between disparate groups and actors, taking the approach adopted in "Mining Encounters" (Pijpers & …
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Encountering 'Sainaman': Friction at a Papua New Guinea Mining Contact Zone
… PNG mining projects? I frame the Ramu mine as a "contact zone" - a social space where disparate cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other. This thesis examines a series of social interactions between disparate groups and actors, taking the approach adopted in "Mining Encounters" (Pijpers & …
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A "stupendous attraction" : materialising a Tibetan Buddhist contact zone in rural Australia
… stupa play a constitutive role by acting as a contact zone (Pratt 1992). Since the Centre is a site of alternate social ordering in which the Buddhists attempt to actualise their universalist ideals in a specific place, I also conceptualise it as a heterotopia (Foucault 1986, Hetherington …
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Weed versus wildflower : mating system ecology in a Taraxacum native-exotic contact zone
Closely related plant species often exhibit differences in ploidy level, mode of reproduction, and traits related to reproduction. Differences in ploidy levels are often associated with mating system differentiation, especially in genera capable of clonal seed production through apomixis, which are …
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Entering the Contact Zone: Encountering the Animal in Children's Fantasy Fiction and Film
This thesis examines the concept of entering the contact zone within the framework of children’s fantasy literature and film. It is conducted at the intersection where children’s literature, philosophy, posthumanism and animal studies meet. The term ‘contact zone’ describes the act of two entities …
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Troubling Literacy in the "Contact Zone" of a Rural High School English Class
… hybridized literacy practices exist in the "contact zone" of the classroom, a "social space where cultures meet, clash, and grapple, with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power, such as colonialism, slavery, or their aftermaths as they are lived out in many …
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Mineralogy and chemistry of clay-rich sediments in the contact zone of the Bullion Creek and Sentinel Butte Formations (Paleocene), Billings County, North Dakota
… in clay mineralogy across the formational contact is localized, chemical analyses of the clay-rich sediments showed a greater amount of iron and sodium in the Sentinel Butte Formation. The increase in iron, probably in disseminated form, i& suggested as the cause of the darker colors …
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Writing in the 'Contact Zone' : the problem of post-colonial translation. A study of the 'Afrikanissmo-Project' and Tsitsi Dangarembga's novel Nervous Condtions in German
Post-colonial translations are located in 'contact zones'. They mediate in the interface of disparate cultures and languages. The multiple determinations and effects of this decisive mediation process are examined in a close reading of the Afrikanissimo-project and the translation of Tsitsi …
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Theatre of the contact zone : a quest for a means to nurse split psychic spaces in public spheres through the transformation of dramatic texts into performance texts
… of an idea of a theatre called Theatre of the Contact Zone. Its main feature is the collaboration between the playwright and the director in the transformation of dramatic texts into performance texts. Within the pragmatics of this theatre the playwright's initial task is to provide a working …
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MATING COSTS, MALE CHOICE DISPLACEMENT, AND THE EFFECTS ON HYBRIDIZATION AND SPECIATION IN THE HAWAIIAN CRICKET LAUPALA (SUBFAMILY:TRIGONIDIINAE)
Contact zones between two closely-related species provide unique laboratories for studying the processes of speciation. This is because, within these zones, species barriers will be reinforced and speciation will reach completion, or the barriers will break down, causing the two species to become …
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Analysis of interface and subinterface cracks with crack-face contact and interface shear yield zones
… interface crack, with two interface shear yield zones and one crack-face contact zone, and for a crack parallel to an interface between dissimilar materials, with crack-face contact zone near one of the crack tips, are studied. These interface crack and subinterface crack problems are formulated …
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A stable isotope study of the Kaap Valley Tonalite, Barberton Mountain Land, South Africa
… along the KVT and Barberton greenstone belt contact zone, and along major shear zones within the KVT.
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Fashioning Brazil: Globalization and the Representation of Brazilian Dress in National Geographic
… drawing upon Mary Louise Pratt’s concept of the ‘contact zone’. Pratt defined the contact zone as ‘spaces where cultures meet, clash and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power’. Photographs since National Geographic’s centenary edition in September …
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Manifest Manhood on the Santa Fe Trail: Trapping and Trading in the American Southwest, 1821-1847
… and New Mexico's market places as a "cultural contact zone" -- what language scholar Mary Louise Pratt has described as social spaces where diverse people and cultures encounter one another in unequal power relationships. Drawing upon letters, biographies, memoirs, and ephemera, this essay …
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Hybrid zone genetics and within-island diversity of the gecko Tarentola boettgeri
… of mtDNA has been maintained after secondary contact. MtDNA analyses used a 608 basepair fragment of the cytochrome b (cyt b) gene from 389 individuals sampled from 14 populations along a 32 km southeast (SE) transect across Gran Canaria. It revealed a low degree of mtDNA admixture and …
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Identification of Recharge Source Areas in a Fractured Crystalline-rock Aquifer in Ploemeur, France
… and granite confined aquifer system. A contact zone, which acts as the main localized flow path through the aquifer, separates the two crystalline units, and a sub-vertical permeable fault zone cross-cuts the crystalline bedrock and contact zone. Using field observations, recharge …
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ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗ ΓΝΩΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΝΕΟΓΕΝΟΥΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΣ ΓΕΩΛΟΓΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΟΡΙΟΘΕΤΗΣΗΣ ΤΩΝ ΖΩΝΩΝ ΙΟΝΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΟΑΠΟΥΛΙΑΣ ΣΕ ΣΧΕΣΗ ΜΕ ΠΕΤΡΕΛΑΙΟΓΕΩΛΟΓΙΚΕΣ ΠΑΡΑΤΗΡΗΣΕΙΣ ΚΥΡΙΩΣ ΣΤΑ ΝΗΣΙΑ ΣΤΡΟΦΑΔΕΣ, ΖΑΚΥΝΘΟ, ΚΕΦΑΛΛΗΝΙΑ
… AND DELINEATION OF THE IONIAN AND PREAPULIAN ZONES OF THE HELLENIC GEOSYNCLINE, MAINLY AT AREAS COVERED WITH NEOGEN AND QUATERNARY SEDIMENTS, MAINLY IN ZANTE, KEPHALLINIAAND STROPHADES ISLANDS. IN ADDITION TO THAT ALL THE GEOLOGICAL FACTORS PERTINENT TO THE CONTACT ZONE ARE STUDIED. THE …
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