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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"memory making"”.
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Making Memory, Making Meaning: Memorial Museums and the Participatory Audience
… States history. My work examines this meaning-making dynamic in case studies of four memorial museums: The 9/11 Memorial Museum, The Legacy Museum: From Slavery to Mass Incarceration, Manzanar National Historic Site, and Carthage Jail. By combining textual analysis of museums with data from …
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'Tense Pasts, Present Tensions': Postcolonial Memoryscapes and the Memorialisation of the Second World War in Perak, Malaysia
… is memorialised in Perak, Malaysia. It considers memoryscapes (or memory practices and sites) within the state dedicated to the war, established not only by state agencies but also grassroots actors. In terms of findings, the thesis first highlights how the Perak state has sought to …
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Unsettled Landscapes: The Narrative and Material Capacities of Landscape in the Post-War Croatian Hinterlands
… of much research on the dynamics of conflict and memory within the built environment. This dissertation proposes an expansion beyond this attention to urban, social and cultural memory-scapes, a shift in the frame toward landscape, focussing on the historical violence in Croatia and its legacy for …
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A river of memory: landscape, narrative and identity in the Lee Valley, Co. Cork, Ireland
… which people engage with their localities though memory, individually and collectively, remains an important cultural issue with key implications for questions of heritage, preservation and civic identity. In recent decades, cultural geographers have argued that landscape is more than just a view …
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The role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in junior primary phase: A case study of environmental studies in selected grade two rural classrooms
… ICT enhances learners' attention and memory, making abstract subjects easier to teach. With ICT, teachers can personalise learning. ICT use in Junior Primary was hindered by many factors. These included a lack of projectors, computers, internet connectivity, teacher ICT training, …
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Atomic quantum memory for photon polarization
… as high as 84%. We construct an atomic quantum memory for arbitrary optical polarization states using this technique on two spatially overlapped atomic samples. The two samples constitute a quantum memory making use of a bijective mapping between a photon polarization and a shared collective …
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Unforgetting the Dakota 38: Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Resurgence, and the Competing Narratives of the U.S.-Dakota War, 1862-2012
… projects a nuanced light onto the history and memory of the mass hanging of thirty-eight Dakota men on December 26, 1862 following the U.S.-Dakota War in Southcentral Minnesota. This thesis investigates the competing narratives between Santee Dakota peoples (a mixture of Wahpeton and …
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Gender, Community and the Memory of the Second World War Occupation of the Channel Islands
… the construction of frames of Second World War memory in the post-occupation Channel Islands, and considers the impact of gender on both this memory-making process and the resulting popular representations of their shared past. It first explores the gendered tensions and fractures of the …
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What’s in a face? Reframing the expressive portraiture of third century Roman emperors
… third-century Roman emperors through the lens of memory—both cultural and cognitive. Traditionally interpreted as visualizations of military severity, personal cruelty, or psychological instability, these emotive images—marked by furrowed brows, tensed musculature, and averted gazes—have often …
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Building / Unbuilding
… environments destabilizes past collective memory-making while received mythologies are losing their power to define national narratives for the masses. The not-so-distant future is clouded with apocalyptic visions and existential threats. The present is haunted by both the past and future. …
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THE EFFECT OF EMOTION AND CULTURE IN ONLINE NEWS IMAGES ON MEMORY AND ATTRIBUTION ASSESSMENT OF SUBSEQUENT TEXT
… influential "heuristics" that jointly define the memory specificity and attribution judgment of the news text. This study pursued the concept of "culture" as it affects processing at a psychological level from both a dimensional perspective and a dynamic-constructivist approach. From a dynamic …
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Presentation, Structure, and Storytelling of Perinatal Loss Memory Boxes
… the healthcare professionals who care for them. Memory boxes are a customary component of perinatal bereavement care, intended to support continuing bonds by preserving tangible connections between bereaved parents and their baby. Traditionally, these boxes contain items that hold significance …
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Making memory: techne, technology, and the refashioning of contemporary memory
… the nature and relevance of the canon of memory? Do interactive technologies affect the ways we remember and persuade? I argue that my interpretation of <i>techne</i> suggests possibilities for the creation and production of new types of memory in combination with digital media. To …
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The Afterlives of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, 1536-c. 1700
… who experienced it or to the evolution of this memory in later generations. This thesis probes the nature of the diverse afterlives of the dissolution between 1536 and c. 1700. On one hand, it seeks to account for the persistence of the narratives of monastic corruption and the expediency of …
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Oudano as praxis: archives, audiotopias and movements
… status of archive to point to their role of memory making in social and cultural movements. Methodologically, I relied on Archival research and Practice-as-Research (P-aR) to interweave my (performance and curatorial) practice and historical research. The thesis is a collection of six papers …