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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"cultural space"”.
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Clashes of civilizations: critical conditions for evocation of hostile attitude toward foreign intrusion of cultural space
… why do people sometimes react to foreign cultural influence in a negative way? Three critical conditions were proposed to account for people’s negative reactions toward intrusion of a foreign element into the sacred space of the local community. These three conditions are (a) perceptions …
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Heart of culture
… is the body politic made inertly manifest, then cultural and civil space acts as the heart. Cultural space allows for the societal corpus to gaze into itself. Cultural space however is commonly made to act as gilded cages -held aloft within ivory towers- with a negation of its civic value. A …
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The space in-between - representing transcultural exchanges through architecture
Cultural diversity in New Zealand society has increased in recent years due to an influx of immigrants. Ethnic precincts are used by both migrants and the local communities to help foster cultural exposure and the exchange of different cultural ideas. However ethnic precincts in New Zealand cities …
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Performance, theatre and identity in twenty‐first century Barcelona: The transnational theatre of Javier Daulte
The contemporary Catalan theatre space is caught up in conflicting discourses that interlink language, politics and identity. Current approaches are unable to account for the phenomena of transatlantic theatre connections, such as the Argentine connection, because they have a tendency to read the …
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Global and transnational flows and local Cree youth culture
… are interpreting and using extralocal flows of cultural symbols, ideas and meanings from a number of sources and creolizing them within their local context. Two sources of cultural flows are focussed on: the mass media and Pan-Indian ceremonies, which were both found to be important factors in …
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City of Life: Re-Imagining the ByWard Market
… redefining the existing ByWard Market Hall as a cultural space. The thesis explores architectural form, program, and circulation patterns, with a view to discovering an architecture capable of supporting a viable urban market for the present. While providing an array of market spaces, this design …
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Detour to Otherness: Cultural Identity Discourse in Contemporary *American, Ukrainian, and Polish Literatures
… literature, the horizontal lines of intercultural exchange or the non-hierarchical ""ethnorelativism of representation"" emerges in American writing only recently, in the works produced as post-traumatic responses to the disturbing intrusions of alterity. Ukrainian identity politics moves …
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Richard Rorty and the Cultural Politics of Literary Criticism
… purposes, I hope to situate Rorty within a cultural space where the literary and political converge.
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Richard Rorty and the Cultural Politics of Literary Criticism
… purposes, I hope to situate Rorty within a cultural space where the literary and political converge.
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Restoration, Resistance, and Reconstruction: Liberty at Last in Clarke County, Virginia, 1865-1879
… to their political and social supremacy created cultural space for African Americans to resist in ways that white people did not find threatening. Blacks took advantage of poor Conservative party discipline and white class schisms to build community institutions, like churches, schools, and …
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That's not what I heard : synchronized sound cinema in Montreal 1926-1931
… as a point of departure into a study of the cultural and social dimensions of moviegoing. This research focuses on Montreal between 1926 and 1931 where the first Canadian demonstrations and exhibitions of synchronized sound cinema took place. Using film critiques, advertisements for theatres, …
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Re-thinking contemporary aesthetic spaces : Diana Thorneycroft and the unacceptable sublime
… thesis is a case study of human responses in the space of the museum. I examine issues concerning behaviour education and training within this space and suggest possibilities for a sort of cultural, theoretical emancipation of the visitor, participant, or "viewer". But by taking the case of Diana …
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YouTube is the New Tube: Identity, Power, and Creator-Consumer Relationships in a New Culture (Cottage) Industry
… meaning and identity is played out in this new cultural space, centering on amateur creators as they navigate tensions and test semiotic relationships with their productions online. I first situate YouTube within a larger context of cultural criticism that sees meaning as socially negotiated by …
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Implications of Colonially Determined Boundaries in (West) Africa: the Yoruba of Nigeria and Benin in Perspective
… international boundary, around the Yoruba geo-cultural space. The primary research question, which the study is centred on, is the assessment of the impact of partition on the Yoruba identity and group relations The study relies on the multidisciplinary approach in the analysis of the boundary …
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Worldview of Janina Degutytė: Poetry, Letters, and Autobiographic Texts /
… A combination of phenomenological and sociocultural methodological approaches allows for the integration of poetry, biographical texts, and letters, unstudied before and hardly ever discussed in previous research, into a single field of analysis. The entire text of the Dissertation is …
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The café in modernist literature: Wyndham Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Rhys
… imaginatively with this important social and cultural space. The study is underpinned by the spatial theory of Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, and Michel Foucault. From this theoretical platform I assemble a conceptual framework and a spatial vocabulary that facilitates the critical …
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Acessibilidade em unidades de informação e cultura: um estudo na Fundação Espaço Cultural da Paraíba (FUNESC)
… which have a meaningful advance at Cultural Space Foundation the FUNESC. Adaptations of sectors were improved to support people with special needs. The research objectives are to analyze the options of accessibility available in the physical spaces of FUNESC for users with some …
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#FashioningIdentity and #PerformingAuthenticity: Communicative, Relational, and Affective Labor in the Digital Frontier of Fashion and Lifestyle Blogging
<p>Fashion and lifestyle blogs serves as a new cultural space, where bloggers are viewed as<em> influencers</em> and set cultural, societal standards of an ideal womanhood. Female bloggers' various forms of labor - specifically, communicative, relational, and affective - establish a blogger's role …
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O bibliotecário e sua contribuição enquanto mediador da informação cultural
… about the acting of librarian as a mediator of cultural information in Culture Centers. Thus,information mediation consists of an intervention performed by a professional who mediates information and a user who needs information. In this context, the research aims to know the contribution of …
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