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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"space/place"”.
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Space, place, and database : layers of digital cartography
… change in the way we represent and interact with space. It is divided into three parts: Part I addresses the role of digitization in maps and lays out framework and vocabulary. Part II examines layers of spatial representations in historical context. Part III opens room for future study in the …
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Space, place and policing in Scotland's night-time economy
There is a growing political discourse in Scotland acknowledging alcohol to be a significant contributor to crime. A significant portion of this is directly related to the evening and night-time drinking based leisure industry i.e. the night-time economy (NTE). The NTE is often characterised by …
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Space, place and the communicative (re)production of Christian practices.
… of this study is to investigate the function of space and materialism in organizing the practices of Christian church members. Using the combined lenses of the Montreal School Model of CCO (Putnam & Nicotera, 2008) and semiotic analysis (Sebeok, 2001) this study examines how the meaning and …
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Space, Place and Home: Lived experiences of hospice day care
… The importance of setting and in particular, ‘place’, is recognised by the field of health geography, and it is suggested there is a need for a focus on how ‘place’ affects CAM and vice versa. There is little mention of hospice as a place for such research, yet as the largest provider of …
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Conviviality in Bellville: an ethnography of space, place, mobility and being
… about multiculturalism and urban public space in globalizing cities. It is a study of how the mystique of conviviality configures amongst a diverse migrant and mobile population that frequents Bellville's central business district surrounding the train station - an area located …
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Space, Place and the Policing of Anti-social Behaviour in Rural Scotland
Anti-social behaviour (herein ASB) has become important socially, politically and culturally in the United Kingdom over the past fifteen years. Successive Governments have prioritised tackling ASB, with a plethora of legislation being introduced to tackle low-level nuisance behaviour. The Crime and …
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Space, place and spatial loss in North African and Canadian writing in French
Assumptions about space, argues the feminist geographer Doreen Massey, are such an integral part of intellectual and everyday discourse that we are often not conscious of their existence and significance, and yet, they have profound consequences for how society is organised. However, these …
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Representations of Space/Place and their Relationship to Trauma in Contemporary Women’s Writing
The thesis proposes a relationship between the fictional representation of female trauma and spatial theory. The trauma narratives reflect issues relevant to traumatised fictional women, as depicted in the following: Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker, Paradise by Toni Morrison, Lucky by …
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Understanding space, place and leisure of women over 85 living in the community
… community and were oriented to person, time and place. It became apparent that participants ordered their lives around a routine that consisted of instrumental, expressive and socially integrated tasks and activities. Moreover participants purposely chose to remain at home because their home …
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Space, place and belonging: informal trading in and around Congolenses market, Luanda, Angola
… the public in and around the Congolenses marketplace in Luanda, Angola. The nation was ravaged by 27 years of civil war until 2002. During this time, most of the city made use of extensive systems of informal provisioning to survive. Since the end of the war, the government has undertaken a high …
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Space is the Place: Space, Place and Transformation in the work of James Attlee
While place and movement are central to much of my published work, this critical appraisal concentrates on two non-fiction travel books: Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey (Attlee, 2007/2020) and Station to Station (Attlee, 2015), as well as one locative digital fiction, The Cartographer’s …
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Regionalist Social Movements in Contemporary Chile: Production of Space, Place, Territory, and Scale Through Collective Action
… spatial features, specifically with the concepts place, territory and scale. Critical geography, political geography, and social movements’ studies provide the theoretical framework for the analysis, highlighting the significance of social movements as producers of collective knowledge. This …
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Battle Mound: Exploring Space, Place, and History of a Red River Caddo Community in Southwest Arkansas
… use areas, such as domestic or community space, can be compared to ethnographic and archaeological data concerning Caddo community structure and landscape use. The research is formulated around three research questions related to spatial organization and settlement patterning, intrasite …
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Make yourself at home: networked domestic space, place and narrative in middle class South African everyday life
Domestic space and place, as well as how we conceptualise the home, are shifting in response to changes in digital and SNS technologies, and our relationships with such technologies. The home is not only the building in which we live, but a networked assemblage of material and digitally mediated …
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The Production of Space, Place, and Food: The Ecology of Money and the Emergence of Transformative Circuits of Money Capital
… that Henri Lefebvre’s (1991) The Production of Space expresses a theoretical blueprint for the construction of an interdisciplinary approach to social science that integrates political economy, ecology, and geoscience under common meta-theoretical commitments. From this foundation a comparative …
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Space, place and the past: the construction of national cinema and identity in the contemporary 'film de patrimoine' in France
This thesis aims to identify a recent genre in French cinema, namely the film de patrimoine. Through a consideration of the social, cultural and economic context and textual features of this body of films, I intend to develop a critical language appropriate for the analysis of this genre. While the …
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Space, place, and nationalism: Constituting, transmitting, and contesting national identity in the urban landscape of Zagreb, Croatia from 1850 to 1940
This study analyzes how urban space in Zagreb, Croatia was used to establish and then contest the trajectory of the Croatia national project between 1850 and 1940. To accomplish this, the study focuses on the extent to which the Croatian national project and the urban project of Zagreb were …
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Manipulating affordances in practice : a hermeneutic phenomenological study of mobility impairment and uses of digital technologies in work
… What was found was that the primacy of space, place and the objects and technologies in that space has heightened significance for people with mobility impairments. When confronted with negative affordances which amount to potential or actual barriers to access and participation in …
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