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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"home space"”.
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The Integration of Technology into Home Space in the 2020s
… middle-class and high-end houses, revealed that home space consists of five spaces: living, work and study, resting, service and circulation. A meticulous look at the four-century American housing history disclosed that transformations in the five spaces were profoundly impacted by technology. To …
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The Invasion of the Home Front: Revisiting, Rewriting, and Replaying the First World War in Contemporary Canadian Plays
… of the War. Many of these plays are set on the home front and explore the ways in which the War, in the form of disease, disaster, and intra-communal in-fighting and suspicion, invaded Canadian home space. What they suggest is that the War was not simply launched against an external enemy but …
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Perceptions of Bilingualism and Home Language Maintenance and Loss: A Study of Latino Parents at a San Francisco Bay Area Elementary Charter School
… to their early elementary school children's home language use. To fill the gap in research, this study explores the relationship between first generation Latino parent perspectives of bilingualism, home language maintenance and loss, and the intersection of culture and identity in an …
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Creative Spatializations: New Cartographies in Contemporary Black Canadian Fiction
… black Canadian novels rewrite national space by integrating into it what might be called past and present black spatialities. Regardless of its official policy of multiculturalism, Canada appears unable to reflect the diversity of its population, one of the most multi-ethnic in the …
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Haunted belongings: testimonios of body and home as autoethnography
… as means for interpreting the body and home as affective geographies. Deploying a theoretical framework I describe as ""haunted belongings,"" I recognize how belongings are both material (objects, things, products) and spatial (identity, positionality, placement). I argue that the sense …
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'All in a day's work' The lifeworld of older people in New Zealand rest homes
… in the everyday world of New Zealand rest homes. There is a need to understand how frail rest home residents experience "age". This study focuses on describing and understanding residents lived experiences. As the New Zealand population is ageing, this phenomenological focus adds clarity to …
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Visions of Possibilities: (De)Constructing Imperial Narratives in Star Trek: Voyager
… Trek tradition of exploring the far reaches of space to advance human knowledge, and in doing so writes Western imperial practices of difference into an idealized future. In chapters 2 through 5, I explore how the series highlights American exceptionalism, Manifest Destiny, a belief in endless …
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Invisible men: space, race, and housing in African American literature
“Invisible Men: Space, Race, and Housing in African American Literature” uses an archive of novels written roughly between 1940 and 2000, American Sociology, the philosophy of phenomenology, and ethnography to argue that representations of housing in African American literature form part of a …