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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"cultural processes"”.
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The Role and Limits of Women’s Rights Movements in Shaping the Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Processes in the Maghreb from Independence Until Present : A Case Study of Tunisia and Morocco
… does not exclusively depend on traditions and cultural norms but on the level of education. Statistical indicators also proved this result which explains why Tunisia has always been ahead of Morocco in terms of the development of women’s rights. • Contrary to the general perception, the …
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Physical Activity Participation among Adolescent Boys with Autism Spectrum Disorder
… PA participation was mediated by wider social, cultural, institutional norms, values, and beliefs (socio-cultural processes). The objective was to understand how the identified socio-cultural processes interacted with bio-physical and psycho-behavioural processes to enhance, shape, and curtail …
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In pursuit of tradition: Local cults and religious conversion among the Sambla of Burkina Faso
… a disjunction between local culture and wider cultural processes and forms of power. My overall concern in this thesis is the macrocosmic dimension of local religious practices.
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The Sparking Cycle : a culture-oriented approach to system change in oppressed communities
… actions that unleash incremental transformative cultural processes. The Sparking Cycle explores how culture-oriented projects can catalyze community-inspired change in contexts of oppression. This thesis argues that such projects can be designed to leverage a traumatic experience in order to …
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AFROBEATS ON SOCIAL MEDIA: TRANSNATIONAL FLOWS, INTERCULTURAL FORMATIONS, AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION
… media practices and Afrobeats on digital socio-cultural processes. Guided by the overall research question: how are digital Afrobeats cultures shaping social interaction on social media?, this research combines a number of techniques and methods to understand Afrobeats’ influence on …
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Everyday Farm Life in the Moxee Valley 1915-1950: Historical Ethnography
… It documents and records the historical and cultural processes of farm life and its evolution for people living in this foremost hop-growing region of the United States. The larger goal is to characterize the community and social processes for use as primary source documentation to create …
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Spatial and Cultural Dimensions of Social Service Access in Majority Black Neighborhoods
… access which highlights both the structural and cultural barriers residents face in accessing the social safety net. In particular, I highlight the cultural processes shaping how residents view the social safety net and the cultural repertoires they draw upon to express agency in meeting their …
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Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of 38Bk1633
… references tying the land to the Etiwan Indians. Cultural resource investigations indicated the presence of early Ashley phase (A.D. 1590-1620) and Late Ashley phase (A.D. 1620-1670) occupations ending prior to the founding of nearby Charles Towne in 1670. I investigate the absorption of Old World …
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE FORMATION OF THE “SEA SCOUT WRECK”: MALLOWS BAY, NANJEMOY, MARYLAND
… a base model from which environmental and cultural processes documented in the historical and archaeological record were applied. From these representative models, resource managers and maritime archaeologists can examine possible future patterns of archaeological site transformation.
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Molding the unshapely structure : rebuilding Boston Chinatown
… and a result of a complex network of vital socio-cultural processes. An increased awareness of these factors is essential in formulating future urban design guidelines for the remodeling and up gradation of the Chinatown district.
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Miestiečio gyvenamosios erdvės modernizacija XX a. Du atvejai: tarpukario Kaunas ir sovietinis Vilnius /
… seen as a reflection of political, social and cultural processes. The PhD thesis emphasizes the principal and structural similarities and differences between two modernization campaigns. In the paper is revealed the influence of different political systems on the processes of modernization of …
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The modernization of the living space of the 20th century urban resident. Two cases: interwar Kaunas and Soviet Vilnius /
… seen as a reflection of political, social and cultural processes. The PhD thesis emphasizes the principal and structural similarities and differences between two modernization campaigns. In the paper is revealed the influence of different political systems on the processes of modernization of …
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Minding the margins: opportunities for an expanded maintenance practice
… as well as ""material objects, images, values, cultural codes, places, cognitive schemata, events, and maps."" (Corner 1999) Stewardship must relate to the entire continuum of nature and culture. Landscape is an ecosystem, so to speak, of interrelated natural and cultural processes. These …
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Traditional Practices and Cultural Resilience: Exploring Pastoralism in Central Sardinia and Celtic Diet Practices
This thesis, entitled Traditional Practices and Cultural Resilience is comprised of two distinct works: Culture and Landscape, Continuity and Adaptation: Pastoralism in Central Sardinia, which investigate the impact of sheep and shepherd relationships on human mobility and the landscape in central …
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Spring Break: The Economic, Socio-Cultural and Public Governance Impacts of College Students on Spring Break Host Locations
… from a rather mild mid-winter vacation to a cultural rite over the past seventy-years, allows students to bring their values en masse to the host locations they visit. While only visiting these locales for a short time, college students nonetheless significantly impact the economic, public …
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Multiculturalism and planning : lessons from Vancouver
… of difference, and the corresponding socio-cultural processes from which it emerged (migration, post- colonialism, and the rise of civil society), are urban manifestations that bear important implications for the city and urban life. Planners today, in policy and practice, must learn new …
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The trouser under the cloth : Ceylon/Sri Lanka, personal space in the decolonization
This thesis examines the processes of decolonization in Ceylon/Sri Lanka, through the expressions of personal space surrounding the event of political independence. Personal space is understood as dress, manners, and lifestyle which extend to the choices made of residential architecture in each …
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From Dismal Swamp to Smiling Farms: Socio-Ecological Change and Making Food in the Holland Marsh
… the complex social, political, biophysical, and cultural processes that account for this significant divergence in ideas about, and uses of, land. Through a chronological environmental history of the area, important historical conjunctures and constellations of institutions, ideologies and …
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Fashion's Influence on Garment Mass Production: Knowledge, Commodities and the Capture of Value
… commodities are complexly embedded in social and cultural processes and in the specificities of place. Although the structures of the global garment production industries have been the subject of numerous studies from a variety of theoretical perspectives, none hitherto have addressed the …
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The glittering thread : the 1954 Royal Tour of Australia
… era and to investigate the political and cultural processes by which it did so. The primary theoretical aim of this detailed case study is to interrogate the means by which the State (represented by the Parliament and the state and federal bureaucracies, with the cooperation of the media) …
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