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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"sociospatial"”.
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Supporting Social Equity Through Informal Spaces on an Urban Campus
… embodied experiences, this dissertation employs sociospatial analysis to understand and inform the design of educational facilities in ways that support equity and inclusion. Paramount among these considerations is recognizing the experiences, dreams, and abilities of people in the community. …
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The Scalar Politics of Mobility in Detroit
… are constituted and transformed amid changes in sociospatial relations. I position the emerging new mobility ecosystem as one such sociospatial change that presents a productive point of entry into scalar thinking. Building upon a critique of the literature for its relatively thin …
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The strength of a knitted home: retrieving histories through Janet Morton's wool installations
… of marginalized groups is informed by sociospatial histories.
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Family child care physical activity ecology: A qualitative GIS study
… of FCCPs in the qualitative subsample. Sociospatial grounded theory and analytical induction approaches facilitated analyses of narrative data from these FCCPs, and subsequent development of theoretical frameworks shed light on the processes by which they promote physical activity in the …
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O Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida no Rio Grande do Norte: uma análise comparativa da habitação popular em contextos urbanos distintos
… of low-income families; and a series of problems sociospatial such as, real-estate speculation, the rising price of land and housing, towards suburban areas, residential segregation and the level of indebtedness of low-income families. Before the extension of the clipping space defined a priori …
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A political ecology of design : contested visions of urban climate change adaptation
… power? I ground my research in theories of sociospatial power relationships - the social production of space (Lefebvre 1991), urbanization and uneven development (Harvey 1985; Smith 1984), spatial justice (Soja 2010), and the geographies of policy mobility (Peck 2011; Roy and Ong 2011). I …
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Living Language Policy Through Stratified Space: A Linguistic Ethnography in the United Arab Emirates
… governmentality and technologies of the self; sociospatial conceptualizations of scale; and conviviality. This analysis focuses on how subjectivities are produced or claimed within language policy apparatuses as well as how city space is constructed in ethnolinguistic terms. The project offers …
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The socio-spatial construction of consumption: a historical and contemporary analysis
… The theory of modern consumption and the sociospatial terrain upon which it unfolds is developed through the concept of ‘affordance,’ adapted from environmental psychology and a re-definition of ‘possession’ that arises from the inter-relation of being and having. This allows the rejection …
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Wellbeing and Urban Regeneration in China: Towards a People-Centred Urban Agenda
… lies at the nexus of both processes and sociospatial outcomes of regeneration. The framework is contextualised by analysing political and intellectual engagements with the concept of wellbeing in China, revealing a complex picture of urban China in transition - one where wellbeing lies at …
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Urban Informality, Environmental Xenophobia, and Infrastructures of Citizenship: The Political Lives of Nicaraguan Migrants in the Informal Settlement of La Carpio, Costa Rica
… America. This dissertation also analyzes the sociospatial processes have made La Carpio the proper place to locate waste. I argue that the devaluation of migrant bodies and spaces through racism and xenophobia has played an important role in the production of Costa Rica’s uneven urban …
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The Influence of Community Cultural Wealth and Tauhi Va on the Navigation of Pacific Islanders in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
… va through tauhi va, or the caretaking of sociospatial relationships through reciprocity, thus developing Pacific Islander cultural capital to navigate STEM. This qualitative research is based on the successful navigation of PIs in STEM through an asset-based framework and cultural value to …
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Tourism, Geography and Nation-Building : The Identity-Political Role of Finnish Tourism Images
… and promotion of distinctive cultural and sociospatial identities and the simultaneous exclusion of alternative identity conceptualizations. The dissertation positions itself at the intersection of critical political geography, tourism studies, and visual culture. It also draws upon the …
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Global displacements : geographies of work and industrial restructuring in the Dominican Republic.
… this process from the perspective of four sociospatial locations: Dominican firms integrated into transnational production assemblages, the embodied labour geographies of former garment workers, the layered histories of accumulation and disinvestment of the Cibao region and its border with …
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The ‘truth about Ebola’: Insecure epistemologies in post-outbreak Forest Guinea
… epidemic origins, and indicated that complex sociospatial conditions allow for epidemics to emerge. This dissertation adopts a different analytical angle and outlines the technological, epistemological, and affective consequences of framing microbiological research as a search for the origin …
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Non-Governmental Organizations and Anti-Racist Resistance in Greater Rio de Janeiro
… I argue that the NGO is further evidence of the sociospatial logics of neoliberalism in the city where the appearance and presence of NGOs is another facet of the neoliberal state’s self-preservation. While the NGO-ization of resistance is by no means absolute, the NGO-ization of anti-racist …
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Development, Security and Displacement: An Ethnographic Case Study of Rocinha and other Key Favelas in Rio de Janeiro
… and incipient gentrification are increasing sociospatial segregation in Rio de Janeiro. Among the main descriptive contributions this research offers are multiyear (and ongoing) firsthand accounts of the specific tactics used in Rio de Janeiro to remove residents of favelas, and the …
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An exploration of the urban form preferences of Edmonton’s creative workers
Using data collected from the 2011 census and survey results, this study explores the urban form preferences of Edmonton’s creative workers. Edmonton continues to have a diverse economy, which includes a robust industrial sector. Research on creative class theory has not considered certain social …