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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"imaginings"”.
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Imaginings of Africa in the music of Miles Davis
… Using Norman Weinstein’s concept of “imaginings,” I identify myriad ways in which Davis imagined Africa in terms of specific musical qualities as well as in his choice of musicians, instruments utilized, song and album titles, stage appearance, and album artwork. Additionally (and …
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Bureaucracy and its Liberal Imaginings: Victorian Aesthetics of the State
Bureaucracy and its Liberal Imaginings: Victorian Aesthetics of the State endeavors, much like Thomas Carlyle, to understand the crisis of the present through an analysis of the past, but more specifically through fictions of the Victorian past. For it is only there, in the amalgam of stories …
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Jamaican Diasporic Counter-Archives: Performative Archival Imaginings In Ontario, Canada
The colonial foundation of institutional archives in this place called Canada preserved records that narrated the nation as White, patriarchal, and capitalist. In this context, scribal and audiovisual records made by the elite were prioritized. The marginalization of Indigenous peoples, Black …
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Manners of distinction: nineteenth century urban imaginings, performances and bodies of affect in Havana, Cuba
This dissertation offers an anthropological interpretation of cultural discourses about the body found in literature, visual narratives and archival sources throughout 19th century in Spanish colonial Havana. These discourses show a pressing concern with the “manners” of bodies, the ways they …
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Embodying the intangible at Princess Vlei : Capturing memory, history and imaginings in landscape and architecture
… exploration into the history, legend, memory and imaginings associated with Princess Vlei illustrate that landscape is not simply made up of physical attributes, but holds intangible values. The variety of human expression and activity that take place at the vlei define it as a cultural space …
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Picturing India's "Land of Kings" Between the Mughal and British Empires: Topographical Imaginings of Udaipur and its Environs
… images and maps. Systematic studies of alternate imaginings found in contemporaneous pre-colonial Indian art have been all but absent. Addressing this lacuna, this dissertation cumulatively highlights a largely unknown visual archive of images of pre-colonial Indian cities to examine how both …
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Islamic Imaginings: Depictions of Muslims in English-Language Children's Literature in the United States from 1990 to 2010
This research examines changes in the depiction of Muslims in Islamic-themed children's literature over two time strata, one decade before and one decade after the events of September 11, 2001. Random sampling with replacement across the two strata yielded a total sample of 59 books, examined at …
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The dreams and promises of the university: Narratives of first-generation students in doctoral education
… in their family to undertake higher education imaginings about what the university is, and what it may promise, can be of great importance. In the absence of access to university experience via these individuals' parents and sometimes wider social networks, these imaginings may underpin these …
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A perfect wave? : reimagining tourism in Papua New Guinea
… human capacity to imagine or to enter into the imaginings of others."2 Correspondingly, places are essentialised as tourist destinations through the projection of particular images.
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A perfect wave? : reimagining tourism in Papua New Guinea
… human capacity to imagine or to enter into the imaginings of others."2 Correspondingly, places are essentialised as tourist destinations through the projection of particular images.
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Colonial world-making in future technological landscapes: a qualitative comparative case study of the Sophia the Robot and Miquela Projects
… transformation are being reworked into the imaginings of future landscapes promising. Through a comparative case study analysis of the robot projects of Sophia the Robot and Miquela Sousa, the argument presented in this research study is thatthe improved and inspiring future landscapes each …
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Disrupting Euro-Western Onto-Epistemologies (Re)Imagining Possibilities for Mathematics Education Through/With Indigenous Knowledges and Complex Conversations
… a means of guiding my mathematics education (re)imaginings. I adopted a form of story/autoethnography as methodology, hoping that including vignettes of my experiences with interfacings and (re)imaginings might resonate with, and invite readers to think about, broader issues of decolonization and …
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Imagining and improvising with theory and practice : a narrative inquiry with first grade students during reading workshop
… paper is to describe processes, tensions, and imaginings while infusing poststructural theories into conversations with data (Deleuze and Guattari, 1987; Lenz Taguchi, 2010; Olsson, 2009). Currently much of early childhood literacy research (Park, 2011; Scull, Nolan and Raban, 2013; Vera, 2011) …
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'Becoming' and overcoming : girls’ changing bodies and toilets in Zwelihle, Hermanus
… on the experiences, embodied practices and imaginings of adolescent girls in Zwelihle who use predominantly public toilet facilities; and it uses Deleuze and Guattari’s (1987) notion of “becoming-woman” as a lens through which to consider how girls experience their changing bodies. The …
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Navigating the fat queer body: the impact of cultural discourses on identity construction and belonging
… that finding community can create space for new imaginings of their bodies, and that for some, the most liberatory thing to do is to reject all categorization.</p>
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Homes of Capital: Merchants and Mobility across Indian Ocean Gujarat
… account of "homes of capital" pursues mercantile imaginings across long tranches of time routed through the political economic transformations of the period stretching between the tenth and twelfth centuries. I argue that these non-linear imaginings structured by oceanic mobility exist in the …
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The form of possibilities : the body remembered and remembering in the built environment
… remembering – a saturation in words, images, and imaginings – and the creation of a theatrical performance, which engages with what language and ideas actually feel like. How they feel and how they look depend not only upon the nature of my own embodied experience but on the remanent embodied …
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Unruly brides of Christ: virtuous transgression and interruption as ethos in religious women's rhetoric
… Christian modernity. Linking recent feminist re-imaginings of ethos to the rhetorical strategy of interruption, this study seeks to trace how religious female rhetors, who by investing themselves with rhetorical authority, subsequently divested themselves of traditional feminine virtue as they …
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Thinking about “US”: Liberal nationalism and political organizing in Central Iowa
… of how people create, negotiate, and challenge imaginings of their communities and mobilize them through political campaigns and local political organizations. In doing so, this study helps to build on other understandings of political motivation and nationalism while also demonstrating the …
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Social Production of Hygiene: Domesticity, Gender, and Nationalism in Late Colonial Bengal and India
… mechanism and was at the heart of nationalist imaginings of the domestic (family, community, and society at large). What is crucial to understand is not only how the emerging ideologies of a nation were intricately tied to health, well-being, or an imagined community, but also how this exercise …
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