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Showing 1 to 20 of 526 for “"imagining"”.
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Imagining Canada, imagining the desirable immigrant : immigration spectacle as settler postcolonialism
Using early Canadian immigration promotion as a point of departure, this thesis examines one historical and one contemporary site of what it proposes to call immigration spectacle (following Anne McClintock). It argues that immigration spectacle is a social practice of settler postcolonialism …
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Re-Imagining Urban Dwelling
Housing is one of the most critical design challenges of the 21st century. Sparked by increased urbanization, issues around affordability, density, development, and displacement create stress on people and the urban environment. In Washington D.C., an inadequate supply of housing for families …
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Re-Imagining Higher Popular Education
Research Funded by Universal Music Sound Foundation As we move further into a landscape of fragmented, decentralised and un-regulated education providers from YouTube to Tiktok, we need to question the role of Higher Popular Music Education (HPME). Popular Music as an area of study was introduced …
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Re-Imagining the Middle Landscape
… An incremental approach is taken in imagining what housing might be in America, considering our myths surrounding the single family house, micro and macro community creation, density, sustainability (regarding the economics of the home and country, as well as our place in an …
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Promising America: Imagining Democracy, Democratizing Imagination
… and dispositions that can harbor emergent imaginings of democracy.</p>
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CLIMATE AS ASSEMBLAGE: IMAGINING AN ECOLOGICAL METAPHYSIC
Human interventions have resulted in striking changes to the global climate. I work from the understanding of anthropogenic climate change as the product of 250 years of emissions brought about through industrialization and continued by our fossil fuel economies and lifestyles. The instrumentalism …
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Imagining possibilities: Trans representations in mainstream film
Trans representations have been a part of film since its inception, and this project is an investigation of the ways that audiences have been encouraged to imagine trans identities and experiences and understand trans issues. Because of the enduring and widespread popularity of these films, and the …
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Imagining Peace and War: Plymouth 1918-1939
… and responsibility, were often responsible for imagining both peace and war. Plymouth had a significant military presence with the Royal Naval Dockyard Devonport, the Citadel and Mount Batten Air Base; and was identified as a target for aerial bombardment in the First World War, although it …
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CLIMATE AS ASSEMBLAGE: IMAGINING AN ECOLOGICAL METAPHYSIC
Human interventions have resulted in striking changes to the global climate. I work from the understanding of anthropogenic climate change as the product of 250 years of emissions brought about through industrialization and continued by our fossil fuel economies and lifestyles. The instrumentalism …
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Re-imagining primary school children’s citizenship participation
This thesis aims to create new forms of inquiry about younger children’s social realities as citizens at primary school. I recognise children as agentic social actors and as such their lived experience constitutes the central aspect of analysis. The questions which guide this research are: 1. How …
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Re -Imagining Istanbul: Globalization and Urban Change
This study is situated in and seeks to contribute to an expanding body of literature on globalization and cities, and more specifically to the global city theory and research. These studies have drawn attention to the growing significance of particular cities as sites of globalization through which …
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Out of sight : re-imagining Graaff's pool
This paper attempts to set out the parameters for a discussion of my Masters exhibition, entitled Out of Sight. It traces out the progress of this exhibition over the course of two years, attempting to account for the parallel development of my work across the media of sculpture, drawing and figure …
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Form follows flow : re-imagining the skyscraper
Skyscraper is a by-product of 19th century American industrialism. spirit, and disaster. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was a catastrophe that necessitated dense and rapid reconstruction, both of which the high-rise provided. The accidental discovery of this new typology forever changed the …
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Imagining active galactic nuclei with 3mm-VLBI
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 1995.
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Archive As Cyborg: Imagining Archaeologies of the Future
Contemporary art has borrowed from the archive’s organisational structure, critiqued its hegemonic influence on the construction of cultural narratives, and reconfigured its contents to reimagine the past. However, ‘archival art practice’ has not yet extensively explored issues of Big Data, or …
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Imagining National Cuisine: Food, Media, and the Nation
By reading food television as a cultural text, through which the nation is narrated and envisioned, this dissertation examines the evolution of Korean food television and its articulation of Koreanness in contemporary globalization. Theoretically, I suggests understanding the nation as a discourse …
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Re-imagining family photography through Zanele Muholi’s lens.
This study examines Zanele Muholi’s photographs in relation to the genre of family photography. This study questions whether we can consider Zanele Muholi’s photos as part of family photography. Family photography documents events. It captures celebrations, birthday parties and graduations and …
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Utopias of slow cycling : imagining a bicycle system
… mobility by claiming its central role in imagining post-automobility futures. Such sustainable futures can only be achieved once the doctrines of fast mobilities and economic growth are called into question.
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