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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"placelessness"”.
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Reading Placelessness and Suburbanization in Richard Yates
The themes of suburbanization and placelessness arise in many of Yates’ novels, exposing the continuing pattern of “conformity at any price” which accompanied the rapidly-changing era of post-World War II America. As suburbanization began to take its toll on the American landscape, a new, …
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Reading Placelessness and Suburbanization in Richard Yates
The themes of suburbanization and placelessness arise in many of Yates’ novels, exposing the continuing pattern of “conformity at any price” which accompanied the rapidly-changing era of post-World War II America. As suburbanization began to take its toll on the American landscape, a new, …
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A city of placelessness : digital nomads and Tallinn's urban future
Placelessness describes a state of people and activities that are not confined to fixed places. By creating a placeless ground for work and social activities, digital connectivity redefines work-live habits, contributing to a growing population of digital nomads: people who utilize remote work and …
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From place to placelessness: Malawian musicians, commercial music, and social worlds in southern Africa
This dissertation examines how social belonging and community ties among Malawians and other individuals in southern Africa articulate with multiple geographic and social scales. As an ethnographic study focusing on musicians, this work demonstrates how musical sounds and practices are integrated …
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Four houses in a row
… as pockets of intolerance that resist the placelessness of modern culture, and that allow us to reach these ends.
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Walking in the Novels of Thomas Hardy
… and suffer the inevitable consequence of placelessness. In particular, the peripatetic and mobile lives of his heroines enact what is considered disruptive female behavior in the nineteenth century. I lastly examine how walking shapes narrative elements to construct the fatalistic region …
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The dream is a lie, but the dreaming is true
… the attributes of sense of place, rather than placelessness, through the observation of what makes a community have the qualities that it does. What is it in its physical, cultural, climatic and historical forms that affects building and spatial form that, through transformation can be used in …
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Piercing together a girlhood : (re)visiting memories of site using nostalgia as a catalyst for coping with atopia
… ability to aid in coping with a feeling of placelessness or atopia. Although nostalgia may indicate a fixation with the past, it can be a valuable and restorative way of emancipating oneself from it.
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Transmisogyny and the Abjection of Girlcock
… beyond the horizon of discourse. I explore this placelessness in classic feminist and lesbian literature written around sexual difference, which has too often prioritized bodily (and more specifically genital) morphology over the full embodied experiences of gender and sexuality. Next I explore …
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Masculinity in Crisis? A study on the Threat to Masculine Identities through Unemployment
… sphere, the unemployed male may have a sense o f placelessness. This thesis investigates an alternative sense of place available to unemployed men and examines its effects on re-affirming alternative masculine identities.
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The trauma aesthetic: (re)mediating absence, emptiness and nation in post-9/11 American film and literature
… identity. These include: falling, timelessness, placelessness and the absent body. By drawing on and adapting existing trauma theories from scholars such as Cathy Caruth and Kali Tal the thesis proposes the trauma aesthetic as a new critical tool for the understanding of post-9/11 film and …
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(re)Constructing the way we build - Skills Development Centre in Delft
… person who doesn't belong and an architecture of placelessness both lack an identity. It can be shaped by history or by the current day. This design dissertation proposes a more situated architectural identity by exploring the relationship between the social and the material in Delft, Cape Town. …
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Engines of culture : learning from the unique public realm of the long distance train
… to Landscape, Human-Scale Design, Grounded Placelessness, (De)Regulation, Duration, and Autonomy. Amtrak can build upon its unique platform by improving the train through more fully realizing these conditions. Abstracted, these principles can also be applied to other, non-train public …
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j u x t a p o s e d: A Revelatory Appraoch to Reconcile Past and Present
… at the forefront of one's mind. In an era of placelessness, Niall Kirkwood states that history's failures are repeating themselves. In efforts to "Hold Our Ground" he make the revelation that spaces built from the 1990's on may deteriorate faster than expected as landscapes evolve. Spaces are …
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Making place through urban restructuring : the case of Mthatha
… its unique qualities giving rise to a feeling of placelessness. Moreover, the influence of global capital has facilitated its commodification in the form of shopping malls and supermarkets which negatively manipulate its local economy and exacerbate this feeling. It is within this context that I …
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Expatriation versus exile : departures and returns in modern American expatriate narratives and post-1948 exilic Palestinian writing
… thesis is to foreground the different modes of placelessness represented by exiled and expatriate characters and their authors. It contends that the possibility of American expatriate protagonists of reconnecting with their roots enables them to choose the routes they desire to follow …
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Representation of displacement in the exhibition Dis-Location/Re-Location
… and immigrant; alienation and belonging; placelessness and locatedness; homely and unhomely that the experience of uprooting and relocating foregrounds. While displacement is understood in terms of trauma and conflict, this condition is also regarded as a generative space of possibility …
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An Architecture of Belonging
As the placeless globalization is accelerating around the world and especially in China, places that have strong ties to the particularities of a locale are desirable destinations to escape the generic monotony of placeless urbanization. The thesis here stipulates that even in a placeless …
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Off the Orbit: Works of Art for Long-Term Space Travellers. Outline of a novel artistic practice
This research combines the arts with human spaceflight. The aim of the investigation is to identify the aesthetic parameters for display in works of art on extended crewed missions. The study claims that, within the research area of human spaceflight, novel working methods should be developed that …
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