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Showing 1 to 20 of 142 for “"imaginations"”.
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Spatial Imaginations: The Reconstruction of Memory
This thesis explores Vietnam in 2150 in the aftermath of a devastating flood that erases the past, present, and future memories of the country. Using storytelling as a tool, the thesis will retrace history to reconstruct the contours of the country as a way of remembering. It will re-examine the …
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Nations without nationalisms: on Palestinian and American Indian literary imaginations
… On Palestinian and American Indian Literary Imaginations” approaches settler colonialism as a story that exhibits complex identity politics, competing concepts of humanity, and overlapping narratives of diaspora and trauma. It is also a story that is constantly disputed by Indigenous presence …
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Releasing Our Technological Imaginations: A Translation of Maxine Greene's Aesthetic Educational Theory into the Language of Instructional Technology
This qualitative study is a journey--an attempt to translate personal experience and theory into a practical philosophical guide for teachers who desire to utilize the rich palette of technology in broad, meaningful ways. It begins with a reflection upon the impact that aesthetic educational theory …
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Die "geopolitical imaginations" zweier US-amerikanischer "intellectuals of statecraft" : Isaiah Bowman und Robert Strausz-Hupé; ein Beitrag zur kritischen Analyse geopolitischer Diskurse
In welcher Form lassen sich geographische und linguistische Ansätze zusammenführen, um "geopolitische Imaginationen" - Vorstellungen vom "Eigenen und Fremden", "Welt-Bilder" - analysieren zu können? Die Diplomarbeit macht das linguistische Konzept der Kritischen Diskursanalyse nach FAIRCLOUGH, …
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Archipelagos of Interstitial Ground: A Filmic Investigation of the Thames Gateway’s Edgelands. How Can a Multimodal (Auto)ethnographic Methodology Be Deployed to Shape Geographic Imaginations of The Thames Gateway?
This thesis explores and documents the development of an adapted ethnographic methodology that is defined through its orientation towards the representation and production of landscape. As a result of this methodology, I document the shift within my practice from a topographic photography tradition …
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International aid and the geopolitical imagination after the Cold War: A case study of development aims and aid policies for post-Soviet Russia
… aid policies are informed by geopolitical imaginations. Based on an analysis of contemporary development programmes for post-Soviet Russia, the study examines two aid organizations working in Russia, and the varying degree to which issues of geopolitics underwrite their practice. The thesis …
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Imagining Cambodia: Competing Nationalisms in the Second Kingdom (1993-)
This dissertation examines the national imaginations advanced by political party actors in the Kingdom of Cambodia (KOC, 1993 - ). lt explores three interrelated questions: What do different Cambodian political projects imagine the political contents of the nation to be? How do these competing …
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Reluctant Subjects: The Place of Gay Men in Canadian Media Discourse on HIV
… double helix of biopolitical and humanitarian imaginations, which I argue, require the production of morally worthy subjects for anchoring political and material responses to the pandemic. This is the case because biopolitical and humanitarian imaginations nurture specific ways of collecting, …
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A Woman on the Mind: Aspects of Monomaniacal Love (D'annunzio, Flaubert, Wharton)
… image projected by their imaginations.
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Landscapes of Imagination: A Critical Analysis of Art Textbooks
… and how art textbooks could expand students' imaginations. Using a framework based on the theories of Dewey (1934/1980), Greene (2001), and Eisner (2002), four art textbooks were analyzed for their qualities which expand students' imaginations. The study described a design for an imaginative …
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Planning purposeful imaginative activities in creative contexts for children’s literacy
… phase shows that teachers use their professional imaginations to plan their provision for children to read and write imaginatively – their statutory national curriculum entitlement (DfEE, 2000). We found that children’s literacy improves when they dwell in possible worlds as, for example, …
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Victorian Girls and At-home Theatricals: Performing and Playing with Possible Futures
… spectator experiences might have stretched their imaginations regarding desirable identities and futures. I lean on the following theoretical lenses: Jill Dolan’s “utopian performatives” (2006); object and thing theory (Robin Bernstein 2011; Bill Brown 2001; Andrew Sofer 2003); feminist …
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Territorial Shock and Fragmented Geopolitical Culture: The New Geography of Armenia and Siunik
… to look to ideological tropes of nationalist imaginations as a coping mechanism while facing precarious circumstances. Material geographical realities and discursive or ideological imaginations continue to be in tension in Armenia, especially in Siunik.
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Analysis of errors in generative image and video models
… Users can create images and videos to make their imaginations come true easier than ever before. However, on closer examination, these models make interesting mistakes. In this thesis, we first discuss a systematic way of analyzing errors in generated images relating to projective geometry and …
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A home for all? : exploring discourses that inform the construction of belonging in contemporary South Africa
… how individuals’ lived experiences, memories and imaginations inform the process of constructing belonging.
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The Normativity of Public Freedom: Arendt, Exemplarity, Judgment
… The horizon of figures in our political imaginations is being turned over, revised, innovated, condensed, and expanded with such intensity that it can seem that any presumption of commonality with our peers can feel dangerously optimistic. This condition can make shared orientation feel …
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Reimagining migrant language education from the bottom up: an ethnographic study
… the mismatch between top-down discourses and imaginations of immigrant integration and the reality on the ground in the context of increased migration-driven diversity. To critically examine the phenomenon under investigation, I consider theoretical perspectives on the conceptualisation of …
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Sublime Views and Picturesque Embellishments: Westward Expansion and “Progress” in Gilded Age Guidebooks Illustration
… and the imagery serves to engage the readers’ imaginations and guide the viewers in viewing the picturesque and idealized version of the Western landscape.
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