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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"public culture"”.
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Indian comics as public culture
… thesis, I examine how these comics function as public culture, creating a platform around which groups and individuals negotiate and re-negotiate their identities (religious, class, gender, regional, national) through their experience of the mass-media phenomenon of ACK. I also argue that the …
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The Crime Victim Movement and United States Public Culture
… media practices within the larger context of public discourse about victimization by crime, violence and disaster from 1964 to the present. This work considers the predilection toward victims' rights approaches to crime and violence within the movement, and their roots in the law-and-order …
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Here comes the bookmobile: Public culture and the shape of belonging
… moments when bookmobiles, by moving purportedly public culture through supposedly shared space, forced Americans to consider what it would mean to hold ideas and objects in common. A set of five thematically distinct and roughly chronological chapters allows the dissertation to touch down in …
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Manly Vice and Virtu: State Specters, Secular Rituals, and Public Culture in Taiwan
… is an ethnographic study of male sociality and public culture in Taiwan. I examine the poetics and politics of disreputable social activities in which cohorts of male friends engage regularly and extensively, including hunting, drinking, and gambling. My analytical point of departure is the …
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Chinese Muslims in the Qing Empire: public culture, identities, and law, 1644—1911
This thesis discusses the issues of public culture, identities, and law of Chinese Muslims in the Qing Empire (1644-1911). It goes beyond current scholarship which focuses on official and elite narratives of Chinese Muslims, and tries to explore the public culture in which ordinary Chinese Muslims …
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Public stories in public dialogue: Structures of a university faculty senate's democratic public culture
… that recognizing the pattern of how and why public stories emerge in public dialogue was an important part of understanding and strengthening a democratic public culture. I studied the public dialogue of the University of Arizona Faculty Senate in part because I belong to this community. I …
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Murder Scenes: Criminal Violence in the Public Culture and Private Lives of Weimar Berlin
… is a study of criminal violence and urban culture in Berlin during the Weimar period. Based on police and court documents and newspaper accounts, it examines how Berliners experienced and made sense of homicidal violence within their urban communities. Criminal violence occupied a peculiar …
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Charitable women from mercantile literati families: women and public culture in late Qing China
… the mercantile literati played a major role in public charity. The scope and types of charity women were involved, however, changed after 1898. By examining two types of charitable activities before the Hundred-Day Reform in 1898—establishing charitable institutions and participating in charity …
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Iconic Images, Visual Appropriations, and Public Culture: Negotiating the Rhetorical Challenges of the USDA Food Pyramids
… use to communicate about food are important to public culture. In this project, I conduct a visual rhetorical analysis of the food pyramids created by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the 1992 Food Guide Pyramid and the 2005 MyPyramid, to explore how these iconic images …
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Longstanding natives and dispersed minorities: Sino-Muslims, public culture, and identification in Late Imperial China, 1600-1912
… sense of collectivity through participating in a public culture they shared with other Chinese people from the 1600s to the 1900s. During the late imperial period, increasing mobility, deepening commercialization, and intensified urbanization in China proper had fostered the growth of a “public …
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Sports, Mass Mobilization, and the Everyday Culture of Socialism in East Germany
… and non-athletic citizens into the broader public culture of socialism. This study of the everyday experience of sports---where state goals and citizen interest overlapped---illuminates state-society relations, the successes and limitations of the state's mass mobilization drives, and …
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Spectacles of the street : performance, power, and public space in antebellum New Orleans
… political, cultural and economic power in the public spaces of the city. The population of New Orleans soared during the early nineteenth century as migrants from other sections of the United States, immigrants from Europe, and slaves from Africa and the Caribbean joined the already diverse …
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Technologies of living substance : tissue culture and cellular life in twentieth century biomedicine
… cultural analysis of the development of tissue culture, that is, techniques for growing living cells and tissues outside of the bodies of complex organisms. The development of these techniques represents an important epistemological shift in biology from in vivo to in vitro experimentation. This …
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Perilous pop: ragtime, jazz and progressive social thought in the early 20th Century Press, 1900-1930.
… for debates about how to reconstitute an "ideal" public in the wake of industrial modernity. For some progressives, the popularization of syncopated pop music signaled the dangerous public incursion of black and working-class cultures, and immigrant groups. For others, ragtime and jazz threatened …
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Heritage, letters, and public history : Dorothea Fairbridge and loyal unionist cultural initiatives in South Africa, circa 1890-1930'
… of the Fairbridge family and its contribution to public culture. This paradigm is turned to the idea of the inventing of heritage for the Union, with a study of the rise of a 'Cape vernacular' architectural style and related topics, at the time of Union. The 'Van der Stel controversy' of 1909 …
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Hegemony and Culturedness: Elites after Socialism in Mongolia.
… liberal democracies elite power often appear in public culture as something tolerable. In structural Marxist terms, the elite frequently feature as a well-articulated ruling class. The notion of a self-conscious ruling class makes for convincing explanations of relations of stark inequality and …
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Abrogated identity : Muslim representation in Hindi popular cinema 1947-2000
… of identity for them as citizens through public culture. But it also sees that the complete disavowal of this cinema is problematic for the Muslim participation in the industry, the possibility of the Muslim spectator pleasurable reading of Hindi films; and the observation that …
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Urban constellations: reading contemporary cityscapes with Benjamin and Baudrillard
… personal and collective memory, and notions of public culture. I argue that we must read Benjamin again after Baudrillard in order to assess the value of both thinkers’ contribution to the understanding of contemporary cities organisation of space and culture. The contingent proximity that is …
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Photographed at...Locating Fashion Imagery in the Cultural Landscape of Post-War Britain 1945-1962
… study focuses on how institutions and spaces of public culture – such as museums, galleries, exhibitions and art schools – were used as locations for editorial photo-spreads published in the British editions of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar between 1945 and 1962. Fashion magazines participate in the …
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Digitisation and access to Archives: Case study of Sarah Baartman and Khoi San Collections
… the implications that digitisation has on Public Access. The aims of the study were to investigate the factors that determined decisions about how to digitise an Archive and how does Access impact digitisation. The data for this study was collected by the help of Archivists. The subjects of …
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