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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"land/place"”.
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Family Music and Family Bands in New Mexico Music
… New Mexico music comes to signify both a family-land-place ethos and personal family relationships through ongoing performances at family-centered dances. In order to encourage multigenerational participation, New Mexico music is characterized by simplicity, recognizability, and tends toward …
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Whakahikita te taitamariki, whakahikita te whānau: The relational vitality of Māori youth in familial contexts
Māori, the Indigenous people of Aotearoa (New Zealand), have been impacted by colonisation, which sought to sever relationships to land, place, and people, and saw the denial and dismissal of mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) and te ao Māori (The Māori world (view)). Given this social and …
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Com-post-humanism: implications for foundation phase environmental education in South Africa
… frameworks combined with multidisciplinary, place-conscious environmental education theories to inform research and educational practices. These theories are not motivated by a Western ideology or take for granted that Western theorists have the answers that all cultures should live by. These …
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Beyond the Tall, Tall Trees: Exploring Land and Digital Literacy in Rural Appalachia
… my hometown, to better understand the way land impacts rural digital literacy sponsorship. With the help of 13 participants, I studied the ways land impacted their access to digital infrastructures and internet access and presented the following questions: how does land impeded access and …
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Tonal Landscapes: Re-membering the interiority of lives of apartheid through the family album of the oppressed
… area. I look at apartheid through District Six land claims and address as well, questions of trauma, memory, and freedom in the aftermath of apartheid. This dissertation therefore seeks to place three seemingly distinct literatures in the same frame: that of photography, that of memory, and that …
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Unsettling Stories: A Settler Reflection on Narrative Phantasies of Land
… and their cultural connection to ancestral homelands in order to appease colonial paranoia and reassert exclusive claim to stolen land. This is not materially, ethically, or spiritually sustainable. This thesis examines the ways in which colonial and indigenous ontologies interact in the past, …
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Notes from the Ground: Science and Agricultural Improvement in the Early American Republic
… is an analysis of systematic studies of the land in the early American Republic, from the 1790s to the 1840s; more specifically, it explores the role scientific and technical practices played within that era's improvement ethic. I argue that science, as seen through the lens of agricultural …