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Showing 1 to 20 of 218 for “"imaginaries"”.
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Imaginaries of the Asian modern
In an age of globalization, texts increasingly migrate not only out of their native medium, but their native countries as well. Within the East Asian region, a booming television program trade circulates television texts, both as programs and as formats for re-making within the native culture …
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Thermal Collectives Architectural Imaginaries Beyond Modern Comfort
The era of abundance is over. The urgent need for CO2 emission reductions, combined with the rising price of energy and building materials, as well as restrictions on construction waste, call for alternative modes of building and inhabiting our cities. The notion of “comfort” implies practices of …
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India's Temporal Imaginaries of Climate Change, 1988-2018
… one. The state has fostered these temporal imaginaries through three discursive registers: international politics, climate science, and conservative Hindu ideology. These imaginaries act as a heuristic tool with which to analyze the changing dynamics of political temporality in an era of …
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Tessituras Abertas : pessimistic, yet persistent in other possible imaginaries
The present thesis addresses the compound of aesthetics and politics, motivated by the philosophical inquiry on the political potency of art. By doing so, this thesis also offers an investigation on the enrooted practice of authoritarianism in Brasil, by focusing on the recent institutionalized …
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Georgian Polyphonic Imaginaries: The Politics of Representation in the Caucasus
This study examines the efficacy of new liberal policies designed to recognize cultural difference and improve integration of ethnic communities in Georgia, an emerging democracy in the Caucasus. Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted in the city of Tbilisi over nine months in 2009 to investigate …
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The Globalization of Artificial Intelligence: African Imaginaries of Technoscientific Futures
Imaginaries of artificial intelligence (AI) have transcended geographies of the Global North and become increasingly entangled with narratives of economic growth, progress, and modernity in Africa. This raises several issues such as the entanglement of AI with global technoscientific capitalism and …
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Reading the future : constructing low-carbon imaginaries in urban institutions
A central paradox of environmental sustainability is that the institutions that bring stability to society must become agents of transformative change. In an urbanised world characterised by fossil fuel dependency, the stable ‘anchor institutions’ in major cities are likely to play a central role …
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The use of imaginaries in the solution of real problems
This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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Place imaginaries: Photography and place-making at Te Awa River Ride
… and the subsequent visual constructions of place imaginaries. Drawing on contemporary photographic practice and theory, I position myself as a qualitative researcher engaged in creative practice, specifically lens-based approaches and modes of photographic representation. In contrast to …
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Startup Futures: Entrepreneurs, Investors and Imaginaries of Care in Global India
<p>This dissertation examines the emerging cultures of venture capital-driven, technology-infused startups in India and the multiple ways in which they shape the nation's entrepreneurship landscape. Based on findings drawn from 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork with Delhi's startups, I argue that …
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Unnamed modernisms : national ideologies and historical imaginaries in Beirut's urban architecture
Since the commencement of post-war reconstruction in 1991, Beirut has been radically transformed through a series of large development projects that seek to reconcile the war induced fragmentation of both city and national identity whilst reclaiming its "historic" position as one of a global …
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Alternate Imaginaries for the Kinara: River Ravi’s Edge as a Threshold
… and ultimately, cultivating alternative imaginaries for Ravi. This thesis seeks to illuminate the overlooked narratives of a river and its communities by drawing inspiration from, and centering the voices and legacies of, those most impacted by regressive depictions of a linear …
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Infrastructural Imaginaries: Highways and the Sociotechnical Production of Space in Baltimore
… system. I introduce the term infrastructural imaginaries to account for how the proposal or construction of spatially embedded systems seeks to transform lived material and geographic arrangements. The concept of infrastructural imaginaries expands upon Sheila Jasanoff and San-Hyun Kim's …
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Beyond Marginality: Welfare, Governance and Spatial Imaginaries. Insights from Terre del Monviso
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Biomedical disenchantments: practices, discourses, and imaginaries of transnational biomedicalization in rural Ethiopia
… dissertation examines practices, discourses, and imaginaries of biomedicine within hospital spaces produced by transnational processes in a rural Ethiopian community. I examine how Ethiopian and volunteer American physicians navigate intersections of globalized standards and technologies with …
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From the Edge: the Littoral in Visual and Literary Imaginaries of Mexico
… – the thesis decentres dominant territorial imaginaries in pursuit of an understanding of the country that incorporates, rather than obliterates its vital margins, towards a recalibration of existing, principally inland-centric scholarship. Concerned chiefly with the coastal states of Oaxaca, …
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Playing It Safe: Indian Middle-Class Spatial Imaginaries and Contemporary Visual Trans Representation
… characters within the bifurcated, static imaginaries of 'safe' and 'unsafe' zones of the city, wherein transgender characters seem to be afforded a linear movement between criminal-civil zones and extraordinary-ordinary spatial containers of crime and respectability. Here, the stasis of …
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Poland for Poles: Nationalist Imaginaries and the Reproduction of Sexual and Racialized Otherness
This dissertation examines the complex relationships between both sexual (LGBTQI and otherwise) and racialized (subjects who are read as neither white nor Catholic) others and nation|empire-building. It theorizes Poland as concept (meaning sociological entity shaped by multiple competing actors …
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Marooning The Caribbean: Vitalistic Imaginaries In Virgilio Piñera, Héctor Rojas Herazo And Alejo Carpentier
… intervention in the Caribbean and European imaginaries: by focusing on nuclei of peripheral lived experience within the cosmopolitan center, and as a result of a change in the author's definition of the "marvelous real" into a organismic, baroque movement, the novel is able to disrupt the …
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