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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"conviviality"”.
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Conviviality in Bellville: an ethnography of space, place, mobility and being
… cities. It is a study of how the mystique of conviviality configures amongst a diverse migrant and mobile population that frequents Bellville's central business district surrounding the train station - an area located approximately 25 kilometres from Cape Town, and a prominent destination for …
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Social relations around a communal tap : an ethnography of conviviality in Imizamo Yethu, Cape Town
… idea of water as a total social fact, and also conviviality as theoretical frame, I argue that water is as much a giver of life as it is a catalyst for social living. Water provides an opportunity for residents to meet, exchange stories, and seek survival strategies, further strengthening …
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Digital technology for conviviality : making the most of students' energy and imagination in learning environments
… constructionism to Ivan Illich's notion of conviviality. An emphasis on developing convivial learning environments has been made. The learning activities were developed with a special highlight on the idea of emergent design. The emphasis on conviviality and emergent design allowed a …
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Street as the place for conviviality?: relationships between people, products, and place in Cape Town CBD
This ethnographic study explores the dynamics of encounter and interaction within a shared urban space, focusing on St. George's Mall in Cape Town Central Business District. This vibrant street, lined with stalls operated by migrants and a few South African traders, is a nexus of diverse …
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Upholding civility towards diversity in urban public space: exploring the makings of conviviality and belonging in Cape Town's city centre
This study is concerned with the makings of conviviality in the market spaces in Cape Town's city centre. It investigates the strategies through which diverse actors in the Church Street Antique Market, Greenmarket Square and St George's Mall negotiate - even celebrate - difference. In doing so the …
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Small-Scale Events and Everyday Multiculture in Finsbury Park
… encounters in Finsbury Park act as stimuli for conviviality. It distinguishes specific park spaces where spatial characteristics such as edge conditions, the quality of the physical environment, and strategic placement conjointly influence interactions between different park users. Building on …
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Mobility, space and urbanism: a study of practices and relationships among migrants from African countries in Cape Town, South Africa
… using the framework of incompleteness and conviviality, to understand how migrants in Cape Town foster and sustain social networks, such as hushamwari (friendship) and mutuality inspired by ubuntu. The empirical data reveals that the category “migrant” generates and reinforces particular …
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Developing an evidence-based and UK-adapted Mediterranean style diet for healthy eating in overweight/obesity
… groups, factors such as palatability, cost, conviviality and quality of produce were dominant. Three major themes were iteratively identified using verbatim transcripts of online focus groups: Challenges in Adopting the Mediterranean Diet, Cultural and Social Dimensions of Diet, and Health …
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Water and sociality in Khayelitsha: an ethnographic study
… development patterns. Using incompleteness and conviviality as framework, the study seeks to understand how ideas of social formation, belonging, marginality, and physical and social mobility are produced, reproduced and contested around water. By focusing on the strategies deployed by …
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Navigating extreme weather events: An anthropological investigation
… standing who utilise communal strategies such as conviviality to address the challenges heavy rainfall brings.
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The Middlestage: State-Sponsored Overseas Chinese Academics and China's Managed Cultural Globalisation
… and reimagine their realities whilst seeking conviviality on the middlestage. The thesis discusses and demonstrates how ethnographic fiction can be used as an essential tool for anthropological research.
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Marrying water and soil: adaptation to climate by a smallholder farmer in Zvishavane, rural Zimbabwe
… This study also explores the concept of conviviality and argues that Mr Phiri Maseko's adaptation to climate hinges on mediating barriers between local and exogenous knowledge systems. Ethnographic fieldwork aided by an analytical framework of resilience makes clear that his farming …
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PROPOSTA DE MANUAL PARA SISTEMA DE GESTÃO INTEGRADA PORTUÁRIA
… 26 years of experience, in the daily and direct conviviality with the sore spots of the past and the challenges presented by the future of the Companhia Docas of Rio de Janeiro. The research has the objective of presenting to researchers, students and interested for the System Brazilian, larger …
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De-creating Language Borders at the University of Cape Town: “The Fall of English” and the Rise of African Languages in Education
… borders need to be reevaluated in a quest for conviviality informed by the universality of incompleteness, where fluidity, interconnection, and interdependence are prioritised over the current dominance of English. Grounded in rich ethnographic evidence in the form of student interviews and …
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Terapia ocupacional frente as pessoas em situação de rua
… people in individuals who add nothing to conviviality and social progress, and that thought accepted by much of the population considered productive. One of the groups of people considered to be disposable, are the people in the streets. The study aims to know the acting of Occupational …
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Continuous Curatorial Conversations : An Exploration of the Role of Conversation within the Writing of a Supplementary History of the Curatorial
… within the medium of conversation? What roles do conviviality and hospitality play within the process of conversation?</p> <p>This thesis reflects upon a series of curated projects that explore the sp/pl/ace for curatorial conversation and also reviews a collection of one-to-one recorded …
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Torre de Hanói e função: a matemática pelo viés do jogo.
… for the student establish a link with the conviviality. This way, we describe three specific subjects: Apply the game Tower of Hanoi in the 9º grade of basic education; Check with the good use if the game Tower of Hanoi the students developed abilities and skills to solve mathematical …
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Intimations: videoperformance and relationality
… Were Here (2011) suggests and mocks idealised conviviality, and plays with ideas of liveness. The dissertation is divided into two parts: part one contextualises the project in the framework of theoretical approaches and practices. It maps Lacanian concepts of subjectivity and the gaze; …
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Soomaali Mi'yaa? an ethnographic exploration of Somali identity formation in Cape Town
… while also unpacking my own. Belonging, conviviality, movement, and performance are significant themes throughout this research. As oral history is a historically significant part of Somali culture and society, it is especially important to preserve the Somali voice, and those voices …
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Museum-worthy smartwatches: A medical humanities perspective
… towards ideas of convivial social relations. Conviviality puts the immediate in the larger context and the larger context in the immediate through deliberate connections, but also acknowledging the hierarchies and conflicting interests at play at the small and large scales of existence and …
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