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Showing 1 to 20 of 126 for “"quotidian"”.
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A grammar of edification : constructing our social reality via efficient quotidian management with rhetorical forms
… how that grammar allows for efficient quotidian management, and, thus, why it serves as a tool for managing everyday meaning in our social world.</p>
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Spectacle as Myth: Guanxi, the relational and the urban quotidian in contemporary Chinese art (2005-2008)
… era, China's social fabric and its urban quotidian. It contributes to knowledge in a way of understanding Chinese contemporary art that is firmly rooted in both Chinese and Western historical and cultural theories and from the point of view of a Chinese from the diaspora. Its originality …
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A place for us : the territory of the quotidian in suburban downtown redevelopment-- Needham, Waltham, Watertown
In recent years, planners, architects, and developers alike have all begun to look to suburban downtown redevelopment as a strategy for economic development, housing development, and for creating a social and cultural amenity for town residents. Suburban downtown redevelopment holds the promise of …
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Englewood survival: Black mothers’ coping and resiliency
… how the mothers cope with everyday life, or the quotidian, in Englewood. Woven through this project, providing socio-historical context, is Black feminist thought that aims to bring to the center the complicated nature of being raced, sexed, living in poverty and mothering children. The …
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Architectures of the everyday in 1920s and 1930s Russia
… profession. I survey ways in which the quotidian environment was understood, ordered and envisioned in a variety of practices: bureaucracy, literature, theatre, film, urbanism, and design. The dissertation explores the architecture of discrete geographies, sets of tactics and strategies, …
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The Reconciliation of Art + Sci
… seven questions that investigated if the use of quotidian, everyday, objects as prompts expose the false dichotomy between art and science. Additionally, the research tries to uncover the possible patterns that exist in how disciplines visualize/diagram the relationship between art and science. …
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UNDERNEATH THE STREETS, THE BEACH: DRIFTING TOWARD/FROM A PROTO-POSTSTRUCTURALIST PERFORMANCE OF EVERYDAY SPATIAL SUBJECTIVITY
… through the lens of a drifting practitioner, a quotidian routine in The Commute, and a distinctly urban practice, in The Skateboard Dérive. Functioning as case situations these performance events are used to elaborate, produce, and apply a drifting approach to critical spatial inquiry through …
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A Cinematic Approach to the Practice of Everyday Life: The Case of the Beijing Hutong
… this PhD research sheds light on people’s most quotidian activities augmented by atmospheric experiences in daily lived spaces, and aims to ignite ‘bottom-up’ perspectives to perceive and conceive the inhabited environments, as a way to complement current architectural and planning discourses …
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Unmaking him : Lee Daniels' Empire and the potential black masculine
… current notions of black masculinity within the quotidian. I argue that through re-representing the ways in which black men interact and are intimate, Empire helps to unmake ideals of black masculinity steeped in stabilizing patriarchy and moves to expand what and how black men can be. Through …
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How Far Does the Grid Go?
… ground and find universal truths in the quotidian. They also serve as platforms for engaging obliquely with history, science, archeology, philosophy, and magic realism. My artwork invites viewers to reach interpretations based on their own associations, experiences, and feelings. It thus …
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The Givens-Theus Archive: Collection Management, Memory, and Narrative
… a radical reading of my family’s every day or quotidian material history achieves futurity outside of the institution of the museum. The ability to research, examine, and archive material culture should not be limited to institutions like the museum, which often removes the context and affect …
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Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of 38Bk1633
… point of analysis for viewing changes in quotidian subsistence patterns and how the incorporation of Old World crops influenced Native Americans at this site. The incorporation of Old World crops speaks to cultural processes and interactions, be they localized or diasporic, between Native …
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The language of urban poverty : institutional action, perception, and lived experience within Batu and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
… perceived. Institutional action, perceptions and quotidian experiences with the other then compound the pre-established constructions and stigmas by re-enforcing classist systems, notions of deservingness, ethnic and social stigmas, and the attribution of blame. While urban poverty and the urban …
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At Ease with Mr. Wrong and Other Stories
… title "At Ease with Mr. Wrong"), navigating a quotidian world of partial truths or imagined realities. Overall, the stories hold a common thread of characters attempting to formulate who they are in relation to the people and objects that surround them everyday.
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Horse Grenade
… in life—the fleeting, the transitory, the quotidian—and make them sacred. Its title derived from a conflation of the colloquialism “Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades,” Horse Grenade is concerned with questions of identity and proximity—physical, mental, and emotional—which …
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What meaneth this? A postmodern 'theory' of African American religious experience
… attempting to grasp what is referred to as the quotidian, the ordinary, but primarily as "everyday life." It is my contention that this constitutes a promising approach that African American religionists should consider. Indeed, for almost forty years, there has been one dominant interpretative …
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The Messiness Within: Personal Essays on Peeling Back the Facade
… disease and inflammatory arthritis—into my quotidian life from childhood on. And the final essay investigates my sense of identification with my grandmother, Edith Lansky, whose life was characterized by a desire to repress pain and escape into art and beauty. Presented together, these …
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Nomad: a photographic voyage
… mountain terrain of the eastern Himalayas to the quotidian experiences of the backyard lawn, an extensive image bank of digital still and moving-image material has been accumulated. This image-bank has been drawn from to facilitate the development of new imagery that reflects upon and extends the …
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An archaeology of self
… presence of the artists; the inclusion of quotidian objects and routines as subject matter within art that recontextualises them as worthy of attention; and the extent to which the representation or use of material objects, traces and leavings can retain significant meaning. The latter is …
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Cooking for the Patria: The Seccion Femenina and the Politics of Food and Women during the Franco Years
… way to access Spanish homes and reform the quotidian habits of Spanish women. The ideology of the Sección Femenina emphasized the importance of revolutionary reform beginning with the individual but desired to have a larger impact through housewives to improve the family and greater society. …
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