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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"place and space"”.
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Finding (a) place in later life: Exploring the role of place and space in shaping older people's experience of social exclusion
Meaningful relationships with place in later life are known to support the maintenance of identity and provide a sense of belonging and continuity. The accessibility and safety of living spaces and neighbourhoods are also critical to enable older people’s independence, support their continued …
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Libraries and the Missing Narrative: Practitioner Explorations in the use of Design Psychology and Environmental Autobiography for Library Buildings and Designs
… as a research method of Environmental Psychology and Design Psychology informs this study of the meaning and experiences of libraries described by six library-building design practitioners. Participants were guided through an adaptation of Toby Israel’s (2010) Design Psychology Toolbox (hereafter …
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“Where Are We?": New Directions and Global Turns in the American Southern Gothic of the 21st Century
This thesis, “‘Where Are We?’: New Directions and Global Turns in the American Southern Gothic of the 21st Century,” charts new directions and global currents in American Southern discourse and regional studies, specifically by examining the modern Southern gothic mode. Modern imperialist practices …
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Lactis : an agriculture and training facility on the Irene dairy farm
In Africa and specifically in South Africa, agriculture is the sector from which most rural communities derive their financial income, it is also the source of food for both rural and urban communities. The greatest challenge that Agricultural development faces is the means by which …
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Frames of Digital Blackness in the Racialized Palimpsest City: Chicago, Illinois and Johannesburg, South Africa
The United States and South Africa, exemplars of "archsegregation," have been constituted within an arc of historical racialized delineations which began with the centering, and subsequent overrepresentation, of European maleness and whiteness as the sole definition of Man. Globally present and …
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Visitors Pass: The Story of a Group of Pakistani Immigrant Students at Sawyer High School
… has changed the localized sense of "home" and "local cultures" on a global scale. In fact, "Globalization lies at the core of current sociocultural experiences, especially in processes of identity construction, communal practices, subject positioning, and agency" (Santiago-Irizarry, 2008). …
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A palimpsest-image: place, space and film geographies
This thesis argues that landscape, place and the material image can be an emotional and narrative catalyst in the context of essay/documentary/art house films. It proposes the notion of the palimpsest-image as an orbit around three gravitational vectors: the relationship between place and space in …
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Mobile & Wired: Tweens In An Interactive Mobile World
This study has sought to deepen understandings of what is happening when pre-adolescent children aged 9-13 (tweens) use mobile technologies for intentional and/or unintentional learning as they participate in formal and informal activities in their everyday lives, exploring the skills and digital …
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A Feminist Approach to Understanding ESL Identity Development: A Case Study of Korean Women in U.S. Universities
Current literature and approaches to identity construction within L2 contexts often fail or underemphasize the important roles that strategic identity and discursive-place identity play in second language acquisition processes. This study explores how education, English discourse, and American …
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Where is my geography, where is your geography.
… women who are seeking to be settled in Ireland. The connection between thinking and living with the prospect of space and self are seeing in the paper in dialectical division of self and space, which space is verified in geographical manner. Analysis of texts reviewed in the research is …
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Duality of Ground: Re-envisioning Space of Death in New York City
The territory of death spans a wide range of space and time scales. New York City has, for centuries, been developed around and above the remains of the dead. Cemeteries, therefore, serve as a constant reminder of the mutability of urban ground and its profound notion of impermanence and …
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Maiden’s Fashion As Eternal Becomings: Victorian Maidens and Sugar Sweet Cuties Donning Japanese Street Fashion in Japan and North America
… children’s clothing, Rococo aesthetics, and Western Punk and Gothic subculture. It is worn by teenage girls and women of a wide range of ages, and through the flow of related media and clothing aided by the Internet, Lolita style has become a global phenomenon. Wearers of the style are …
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Stories of Stonewall Warehouse: Queer Memories of Space and Place and its Potential for Queer Worldmaking
This thesis examines queer public memory and how queer people communicate the significance of queer space, place, and worldmaking through their memories. Through a qualitative study of Stonewall Warehouse, the only gay bar in San Marcos, Texas that closed in 2023, I utilized autoethnography and …
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Prizefighting in mid-Victorian Britain.
… the transformation from bare-knuckle prizefights and major international bouts in the early 1860s to glove boxing in the 1870s. It challenges the common portrayal of a simple decline due to disorder and waning aristocratic support. Instead, it emphasises a nuanced transition marked by geographic …
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IN FLUX: Land, Photography and Temporality
… that investigates the perceptual mechanisms and conceptions of land as a site of constant change. It utilises photographic practice as a form of visual communication. The aim is to examine the roles of movement and memory in the perceptual experiences of the environment through a …
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"Getting together to play football" A participatory action research study with the Positive Mental Attitude Sports Academy
… about the positive effects of engaging in sport and physical activity dominate sport and health policy. Furthermore, there have been calls for alternative approaches to conventional mental health treatment, such as sport and physical activity, to be researched. Understanding how such …
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Marketing Marginalized Neighborhoods: Tourism and Leisure in the 21st Century Inner City
… of tourism development in Berlin-Kreuzberg and Harlem, New York. Grounded in a discussion of the forces reconfiguring urban development as well as tourism in the advanced capitalist world, it examines how, by whom, and with what effects the two neighborhoods are re-imagined, re-constructed, …
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The Farming Community in Crisis: The Information Needs of Cumbrian Farmers During the UK 2001 Foot and Mouth Outbreak and Role of Information and Communication Technologies (Icts)
The UK 2001 foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreak constituted the biggest crisis ever to affect the UK farming system; it was one of the worst epidemics of its kind in the world. Farmers and rural communities were disrupted and traumatized as FMD spread rapidly through the whole of the country. The …
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Teacher Education ICT Appropriation Model TEAM: A Model for ICT Appropriation in Early Childhood Initial Teacher Education
… programmes are only beginning to use information and communication technology (ICT) as part of their curriculum. There is limited research or practice knowledge about how student teachers learn to use ICT for pedagogical purposes. This doctoral study investigated how student teachers might be …
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