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Showing 1 to 20 of 114 for “"space and place"”.
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Transcendence as Space and Place
… from the outside world toward introspection and mental clarity. The program consists of one large meeting space and four smaller meeting spaces sited in the Virginia Tech Duck Pond.
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The Experience of Space and Place in World Heritage Site Management
… the relationship between academic discourse and visitor experience at World Heritage Sites, investigating whether it is possible to put ‘’authenticity based on sound research’’ at the heart of the visitor experience (ICOMOS 2011), whilst still “preserving and promoting the spirit of place” …
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A space for women? Space and place in women's novels, 1790 -1820.
… of the novel as a writing site for women writers and traces the ways in which women novelists between 1790 and 1820 represented space within their novels. It identifies how women used both the space afforded by the novel, and the representations of space in the novel, to enter the public sphere. …
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Hispanic-Latino/a Youth Geographies of Commercial Space and Place in Wells Avenue, Reno, Nevada
Commercial spaces are often sites of history, culture, community, and change (Hayden, 1995; Steigemann, 2019). Studying the individual attachments people feel within commercial spaces through experience, connection, and community engages how the process of change that occurs within culturally …
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Threads of place: understanding the intangible memories of space and place – the case of Stellenbosch
… of Die Vlakte, the fractured connection of Kayamandi to the Stellenbosch core, and other neighbourhoods that lie along the peripheries of the privileged and well-resourced centre, are all encompassed in the context of Stellenbosch. The less tangible history of Die Vlakte, a multi- racial …
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Stories of Stonewall Warehouse: Queer Memories of Space and Place and its Potential for Queer Worldmaking
This thesis examines queer public memory and how queer people communicate the significance of queer space, place, and worldmaking through their memories. Through a qualitative study of Stonewall Warehouse, the only gay bar in San Marcos, Texas that closed in 2023, I utilized autoethnography and …
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Staging Geographies and the Geographies of Staging: Space and Place in Shakespeare’s Richard II: Text and Production
… staging across the play’s performance history, and a close reading of the workings of space and place in a selection of contemporary productions. By combining theoretical perspectives and conceptualizations of space and place from cultural geography with existing ideas on theatrical space, this …
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Depictions of space and place in contemporary ghost novels: Fostering the uncanny and reflecting social identities and relationships
This thesis explores depictions of space and place in contemporary ghost novels, relating this to two of my own novels, The Toll House (2022) and Hear Him Calling (2024). In particular, I ask the following questions: How can depictions of space and place foster a sense of the uncanny in …
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Imagining space and place: the representation of Africa through image and text in Andrew Lang's Fairy Books (1889-1910)
… examines the representation of Africa and Africans in Andrew Lang's Fairy Books (1889-1910) considered to be the first global anthologies of fairy tales. Published at the heyday of the British Empire, they presented Africa and Europe alongside each other to the Victorian-era British …
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Space and Place in the Out-of Doors settings of the Farsas Y Eglogas by Lucas Fernandez, Spanish Playwright (1474-1542)
… settings, created in dialogue in the secular and sacred works by the sixteenth century Spanish playwright, Lucas Fernandez, are the focus of this dissertation. Significantly, Fernandez is the only one of his theatrical contemporaries in Spain to place all of his dramas outside. Previously, …
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Land, People, Space, and Place: Constructing a Decolonized Reparative Understanding of the Biblical Creation Myth Through Dialogue Between the Hebrew Bible and Haudenosaunee Creation Stories
… only ubiquitous, but they also help us understand the worldviews and value systems of different societies. This is especially helpful when interactions between two distinct cultural groups lead to unfavourable outcomes, as was the case between the colonial settlers and the Indigenous community, …
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Photographing the invisible: A practice based photographic investigation of different environments using peripheral vision as a phenomenological narrative on the consciousness of space and place
… effect in our interaction with the environment and it can be reduced to a spectacle rather than a multisensory experience through our use of photography. This practice-based research investigates the use of still photography to capture our peripheral interaction with the environment that we …
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Photographing the invisible: A practice based photographic investigation of different environments using peripheral vision as a phenomenological narrative on the consciousness of space and place
… effect in our interaction with the environment and it can be reduced to a spectacle rather than a multisensory experience through our use of photography. This practice-based research investigates the use of still photography to capture our peripheral interaction with the environment that we …
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"We cleared the land with our own hands": space and place in African American community building and freedom struggles in the Missouri Bootheel, 1890-1968"
… on African American community building and Black freedom struggles has demonstrated the centrality of the Black working class to social, political, and economic transformations in the twentieth-century rural South. Yet, our understanding of how African Americans actively engaged in power …
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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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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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Exploring Yoga and the Flow Experience: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Contemporary Yoga Communities
Despite its popularity and existing research demonstrating the positive effects of yoga, little is known about the lived experience of modern yoga practitioners. Yoga is rooted in philosophical and spiritual traditions but has been diluted in its transition to the modern postural yoga practiced in …
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Version and subversion: Control versus reinscription and reappropriation in the postmodern landscape
This thesis questions and discusses some current trends that appear to place new restrictions on urban space both through overt and also less obvious means of surveillance and control. It is argued that these measures may compromise the social interactions possible within some urban sites as they …
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Transforming space and significance - a study of the constitutional court of South Africa
This study examines the process of establishing and building the new South African Constitutional Court as the first intervention in the development of the Constitutional Hill precinct and as part of an endeavour aimed at creating a new national identity. The argument is reliant on the premise that …
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