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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"imagined spaces"”.
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An imagined space: The dynamics of home in Eve Langley’s novels
This thesis sets out to examine the nature of imagined spaces described in the novels and unpublished manuscripts of Eve Langley (1904-1974), set in Australia and New Zealand from the 1920s to the early 1940s. Specifically, it explores those spaces representative of "home" and those where …
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In pursuit of sound
… in order to determine guidelines for pleasant spaces. Years later, Xenakis composes a musical score that informs the constructed surface of the Philips pavilion. Both pioneers of sonic architecture, and both pushing the technology of sound design. This thesis advances the theory of sound …
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Staging Geographies and the Geographies of Staging: Space and Place in Shakespeare’s Richard II: Text and Production
… enables a more nuanced analysis of the real and imagined spaces of the theatrical event as it facilitates an examination of the materialization of the fictive world and a consideration of the ways in which individual plays intervene in the identities of their places of performance. My test case …
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“Girls Who Kick Butt”: A Cognitive Interpretation of Tamora Pierce’s Adolescent Feminist Fantasy
… that fiction provides vicarious experiences of imagined spaces and situations that can help shape our perceptions of the real world, our social others, and the self. The implications for this are especially interesting for adolescents, as their brains undergo a restructuring during puberty, …
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Reimagining Subject-Other Relations: Embracing the other Without and Within
… between self and other, this project explores imagined spaces that do not “will another empire,” but instead show how to take “history’s pulse / measured with another hand” (Brand 11).
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Tripping the light fantastic: exploring the imaginative geographies of Lord of the Rings ‘film tourism’ in New Zealand
From screen image to imagined spaces, the Lord of the Rings film-tourism experience – that is, tourism to New Zealand apparently motivated by the popular film trilogy which was filmed there – has received much anecdotal attention, yet little scholarly examination. In particular, how tourists are …
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De-Centering Humanitarianism: The Red Cross and India, c. 1877-1939
… was rooted in their own moral, geographical and imagined spaces of allegiance and affection. It was based on pan-Asian, pan-Islamic and anti-colonial conceptions of a supranational ethical community. By the end of the interwar period, the different humanitarian initiatives culminated in a …
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Bordering the Mediterranean: Liminality and Regioncraft at the Center of the World
… into question how the borders that divide these imagined spaces are complex sites of the convergence of practices and discourses acquire their fortitude and who gets to tell the stories that outline their parameters.
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Real and Reimagined contemporary Utopia’s : a mediation and recreation space for migratory and resilient urban communities
… and inclusivity. There is an inherent lack of spaces of community building within the Pretoria CBD, with most space succumbing to decay, a sustained urban sprawl, monofunctional territories, and nucleated densities. New migrants into the city struggle to find formal and informal opportunities …
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City, suburban and pastoral spaces and the formation of identity in Cold War America (1945-1965)
… are examined in chapter one, through the street spaces of Ralph Ellisonʼs Invisible Man (1952), the works of the Beats, Hubert Selby Jrʼs Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964), and Salingerʼs The Catcher in the Rye (1951) illustrating how street identities manage to complicate the purported containment of …
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Exploring the relaxation potential of nature soundscapes and photography through field recordings and meditation nature walks
… from their memories and associations. Online spaces using nature sound and nature images provided similar memories and associations that participants would have to real-world nature spaces. Autoethnographic analysis determined that the researcher coped with anxiety by carrying out the creative …