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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"modes of production"”.
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New Modes of Production and Australian Graphic Design Culture
… David McNicoll in 1983 identified that histories of 'The Australian Women’s Weekly' neglected art director Tom Hughes’s improved format and studio manager Bob Cleland’s pioneering use of colour photography. Thirty-five years later this relationship of designer, photographer, printer and product …
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Modes of production, metabolism and resilience: toward a framework for the analysis of complex social-ecological systems
The field of environmental sociology has undergone drastic change in recent decades, in context of a broader reconfiguration of the terrain of sociological theory and practice. Systems-based approaches to the study of human society, located at the interface between the natural and social sciences …
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Reading Indie Video Games: A Study of Queer Players
Through a series of in-depth qualitative interviews and a discourse analysis of academic publications this study explores the definition of indie video games, relationships between queer players and indie video games that they play, and ways in which queer players relate to games in general. The …
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Le regard et ses voltes : représentation et modélisation spectatorielle dans la production cinématographique des premiers temps
A study on various aspects of early cinema (modes of production, modes of exhibition, spectatorship, etc.). Etude de quelques aspects du cinéma des premiers temps.
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Changing relationship with the land and one another in Pindoyú, Paraguay
… is about agricultural transition in the face of globalization in the community of Pindoyú, Paraguay. Utilizing the extended case study method, the experiences of people of Pindoyú are documented through partcipant observation, individual and household interviews, and auto-ethnographies in …
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The social complexity of woman and child valuation in rural Bangladesh
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation is about the lives of women and girls during a period of economic and demographic change in rural Bangladesh. This bulk of this change, often referred to as economic development, occurs at the intersection of …
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International environmental governance : a case for increased regulation in the carbon markets
… a mechanism for internalizing the social costs of emissions by the major polluters - mainly energy intensive industries and utilities companies, providing heightened financial motivation to adopt cleaner modes of production. It is widely agreed upon that to do so value must be attached to …
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The production of rurality : social and spatial transformations in the Tamil countryside 1915-65
This dissertation advances a critique of the "planetary urbanization" thesis inspired by Henri Lefebvre's writings on capitalist urbanization. Theoretically, it argues that Lefebvrian scholars tend to conflate two distinct meanings of urbanization: a) urbanization understood simply as the …
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Structure of uterine mucosa and its bearing on changes in menstruation and pregnancy: Mode of action of foetal structures and opening-up of maternal vessels; Imbedding of human ovum with account of very early specimen; Function of the decidua
The following thesis embodies the results of investigations conducted over a period of aboi.it one year and a half. A great part of the work was carried out in the Royal College of Physicians Laboratory, Edinburgh. The investigations originated in the discovery of a distinct resemblance between the …
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Essays on Craft and Communities
While previous research has often explored questions surrounding disruption or change, recent crises, and ongoing societal disruptions direct our attention to the challenges surrounding resilience, stability, and the continuity of cherished societal structures, organizations, and institutions. This …
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Uneasy bodies femininity and death : representing the female corpse in fashion photography and selected contemporary artworks
… within a feminist reading, representations of the female corpse in fashion photography and art. The cultural theorist Stuart Hall's theories on the concept of representation are utilised to critically analyse and interogate selected images from fashion magazines, which depicts the female …
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Salman Rushdie in the Postmodern Current: New Venues, New Values
<p>The aim of this study is to prove that Rushdie's recent novels are not postcolonial in the sense that they abandon the colonial/colonized binary, the embrace of hybridity, and the theme of undermining the coercion and domination of the colonial country assumed in postcolonial discourse. Instead, …
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Case studies in the digital fabrication of open-source consumer electronic products
This thesis explores the effects of digital fabrication on the design, production, and customization of consumer electronic devices. It does so through a series of three case studies - a radio, a pair of speakers, and a computer mouse - that combine a custom electronic circuit board with a …
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Fuite hors de l’objet Joseph Kosuth et Robert Smithson ̀la fin des années soixante
The conceptual art of Joseph Kosuth and the earthworks of Robert Smithson mark, at the end of the sixties, a radical break from the modernist and formalist tradition in that they reject the art object. While minimalism signals the end point of a strategy of negation (Adorno) at it has been carried …
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Labour migration and its impact on non-capitalist social formations : a comparative study of the Tonga and Ngoni-Tumbuka in Malawi, circa 1880 to 1940
This thesis is a study of labour migration from Malawi, specifically an examination of the impact of immigrants on the non-capitalist social formations of the Tonga and Ngoni-Tumbuka under colonial-capitalism .until 194-0. It is an attempt to locate and analyse transformations of the major social. …
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Modes of film production in 1950s Italy
… between 1945 and 1959 has been the subject of many studies during the last twenty years. However, the existing literature generally follows detailed examinations of big production companies, that were protagonists at the time, or concentrates on macro studies portraying the situation of the …
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The illusion of the free press: the place of truth in the liberal theory
This thesis offers a critical analysis of the role of the free press in liberal democracies. The purpose is to explore why this institution remains a fundamental element of this political system despite its limitations in the mediation of social reality. Although the critical literature has …
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Transforming sustainabilities: grassroots narratives in an age of transition. An ethnography of the dark mountain project
The framing of sustainability as a goal of aligning human needs with protection of the environment has been pursued through various definitions and frameworks in policies and programmes across a wide range of contexts. And yet, unsustainable modes of production and consumption are accelerating the …
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A Cultural Study Of Two-Tone In The Socio-Political And Economic Context Of The 1970s
… emerged in the late 1970s and achieved the peak of its popularity around 1980. The three bands I focused on are The Specials, The Selecter and The Beat, all from the West Midlands and all with a black and white line-up, which was unusual at the time. I explored the conditions that Coventry and …
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