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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"material semiotics"”.
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Operationalising Uncertainty : The US Military and the New Spatiality of New Security.
… the literatures of critical security studies and material semiotics to explore the operation of the US military, and through it, the operation of contemporary security agendas. Based around fieldwork conducted with 1st Cavalry (US Army) after its deployment in Operation Iraqi Freedom Phase II, …
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Making evidence, making legitimacy : the introduction of HPV (Human Papillomavirus) vaccines in Colombia
… in relation to policy objects. Drawing on material semiotics of numbers, valuation studies and political sociology of science, I undertake a detailed analysis of the calculation and the transformation of data, figures and numbers in their movements between documents, technical committees, …
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Re-conceptualising How We Respond to Secondary Gifted Learners' Needs: A Critical Narrative and ANT Approach Investigating Programming and Placement Within Ontario's Current Public Education System
… “show and tell” methods that drew upon material-semiotics and autoethnography, which gave rise to a more complex, more three-dimensional way of understanding the topography (Hamilton & Pinnegar, 2013) of this status quo phenomenon. A close and meticulous examination of the features, the …
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Colour out of space: colour in the construction and usage of monuments of Neolithic Atlantic Europe.
… review with existing work on colour, and why the materiality and material semiotics of stone are important to this research. The aim of this research is to survey a sample of Neolithic monuments across Atlantic Europe, and see if there are any commonalities, significant patterns, and demonstrable …
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Knowledge Practices in the Modelling of "Socio-Ecological Coevolutions"
… die Epistemologie von Computersimulationen, Materialität in Experimenten, Laborstudien und Ontologie. Modellkonstruktion und –läufe können als Prozess beschrieben werden, in dem Modellformate durch materiell-semiotische Praxen – vereinfachen, experimentieren, und visualisieren – iterativ und …
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The Politics of Post-Industrial Cultural Knowledge Work
… is employed as a tool for the analysis of the material-semiotic properties of differing knowledges, the heterogeneous relations of socio-economic networks, and the global and uncertain conditions of the post-industrial world in which cultural work is embedded. What is colloquially referred to …