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Showing 1 to 20 of 245 for “"cultural production"”.
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Universities and festivals : cultural production in context
This thesis critically examines universities as cultural producers within the creative ecologies of their cities, with a focus on the occasions when they produce cultural events for the public. It is a context-specific and empirical study that examines events at three individual universities in …
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Pantheon : visualizing the structure and dynamics of global cultural production
Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2014.
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The Politics of Care: Historical Retrieval in Vietnamese American Cultural Production
… examines care in post-war Vietnamese American cultural production. I argue that care is a significant method of historical retrieval that resists dominant understandings of time, gender, and political action. Vietnamese refugees have often been portrayed as a problem to be solved or objects to …
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Cultural production and identity in colonial and post-colonial Madras, India
All cultural production is a consequence of its context and is infused with meaning and identity. A preoccupation with the visual and symbolic aspects of architectural form and its cultural meaning has led to an increased autonomy of the architectural object. This thesis posits that architectural …
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RAP IN EXILE: SYRIAN DIASPORA, HYBRIDITY AND DIGITAL CULTURAL PRODUCTION IN GERMANY
… examines Syrian rap as a locus of diasporic cultural production among displaced musicians, principally those residing in Germany, to expound how these artists construct and negotiate identity, belonging and political subjectivity through sonic and digital practices. Situated within scholarly …
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Social Change and Documentary Film in Mexico: Violence, Autonomy, and Cultural Production
… of self. I argue that the intersection between cultural production and self production is a crucial locus for examining how social movements help to bring about elusive social and cultural changes that exist outside the grasp of legal and institutional frameworks. These arguments build from and …
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Remaking China Dolls: Imitation and Visual Rhetoric in Contemporary Chinese Cultural Production
Informed by a performative understanding of cultural production, this dissertation investigates contemporary Chinese doll imageries as an emblem of a rhetoric of imitation playing out a variety of possibilities of identities in an increasingly globalized yet unequally developed world. Grounded in a …
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Errant Family Ties: Migratory Identities in Latina and Hispanic Caribbean Cultural Production
This dissertation examines how contemporary cultural production from Hispanic Caribbean and Latina female voices have altered patterns of the traditional family unit and a modern conceptualization of the nation-state. In the literary trajectory of Latin American and Caribbean cultures, the family …
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Queer, Cannibal, Brazilian: The Temporal Politics of Sexuality in Brazilian Cultural Production
… subject formation through contemporary queer cultural productions. It argues that the colonial employment of temporal terms such as origin, progress, development, and copy established longstanding narratives of Brazilian nationality, culture, and sexuality as backward. Through the mixed-race …
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A Secret Third Thing: Explicating the Role of FilmTok Influencers in Cultural Production
The influencer industry continues to experience growth in the mid-2020s. Intersecting with the film industry, hobbyists and aspirational laborers alike now engage in influencer practices on TikTok to make visible their relation to the film world. This study utilizes thematic analysis of …
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"But... the luminous tree!" The Uses of the Imagination in Resistant Cultural Production
… I examine the uses of the imagination in the cultural production of anti-racist and feminist organising groups and artistic formations in the UK, focusing specifically on how the cultural objects they produce can reconstitute a collective desire to resist. I investigate the purpose of the …
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Activistas: Central American Women’s Representation, Writing, and Cultural Production in the United States
… representation of Central American women in US cultural production. This study is separated into four chapters. The first two chapters survey the role of Central American women written from the male gaze through an intersectional feminist lens. The latter half of this study focuses on US Central …
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Fragments and Fantasies of Freedom: Queer Cultural Production during the Spanish Transition (1975-1982)
This dissertation studies queer cultural production during Spain’s Transition to democracy (1975-1982), a period marked by both euphoric possibility and political discord. While conventional historiographies often present the Transition as a successful and peaceful transfer of power from …
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Figuring Women's Work: The Cultural Production of Care and Labor in the Industrial U.S.
… both working-class studies and U.S. literary and cultural studies. To pursue its hypothesis, this dissertation performs a genealogical investigation of service labor, beginning in the antebellum period when housewives and their servants struggled over the meaning of domestic labor in a …
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Creative City and Fields of Cultural Production: Ethnographic Perspectives of “The Arts” in Tampa
… in this research looks at the degree to which cultural change occurs from participatory, grass-roots initiatives, rather than ones emanating from "the top" based on the economic concerns derived from largely quantitative approaches. The experiences and perspectives presented in this thesis …
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THE KOREAN WAVE AS A LOCALIZING PROCESS: NATION AS A GLOBAL ACTOR IN CULTURAL PRODUCTION
… content and intra-regional connections in the production system. This research focused on how three agencies – the government, public broadcasting, and the culture industry – have negotiated their relationships in the process of globalization, and how the power dynamics of these three …
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Third Places as Alternative Spaces of Cultural Production and Consumption in the Neoliberal Creative City
… absorption of neoliberal creative city and cultural planning policy scripts in many cities of the global North, alternative sites of grassroots cultural production and consumption are often overshadowed in size, policy attention, municipal investment, and print media coverage by spectacular …
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“The Taste of This Country”: Jefferson’s Legacy of Cultural Production and The Formation of American Identity
<p>This paper uses three fundamental elements of cultural anthropology, food, customs, and language, to examine Jefferson’s diplomatic strategy as president and understanding how he forged a new culture rooted in republicanism. The legacy of tyrannical British rule spurred Jefferson to establish …
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Global Extraction and Cultural Production: An Investigation of Forms of Extraction Through the Production of Artist-Video
… and identifying its aesthetic form. Through the production of an original body of artistic video work, I explore three disparate sites where ‘extraction’ takes place and employ Science Fiction methods of narrative, the utopian impulse and the ‘alienation effect’ to critique global capitalism. …
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