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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"spatial discourse"”.
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The house in South Asian Muslim women’s early anglophone life-writing and novels
… the analytic category of autoethnographic spatial discourse in contradistinction to the harem fantasy inflected colonial spatial discourse prevalent at the time in order to describe the representational practice of these twentieth century Muslim women authors, who by virtue of writing in …
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Towards an Articulation of Architecture as a Verb; Learning from Participatory Development, Subaltern Identities and Textual Values.
… explore alternative examples of positive socio-spatial practice and agency. These alternative spatial practices and methodologies are drawn from participatory and grass-roots development agency in informal settlements and contexts of economic absence, most notably in the global South. This …
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On the social reception of material form and space, or, the SUV in the melee
… that have been objectified by various discourses on space and human activity. Using the sport-utility vehicle (SUV) as a multifaceted object in which these representations are seen, the possibility that a single material environment can embody conflicting social roles is proposed. A …
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Rethinking the Community as Temple: Discourse and Spatial Practice in the Community Rule (1QS)
<p>This project is a spatial reading of the Community Rule (1QS) that examines how space is used as a response to the perceived defilement of the Jerusalem Temple and how it addresses the problems of atonement and priestly authority for a community without a physical temple. Edward Soja’s concept …
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A Creative workspace in the City
… that prioritises the pursuit of prioritizing spatiality in the project of architecture today and aims to define space less as a quantifiable object and more as an idea, a way of seeing, act of making and way of engaging culture and society. It is a reflective and critical process of …
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The Sea on the Other Side: The Making of Hamburg and Rostock through the Cold War: 1945-1986
… of Germany. This analysis shows how a particular spatial discourse enabled the City of Hamburg to reorient its port around its newfound position at the edge of Europe’s Western Bloc, and how the new overseas Port of Rostock was conceived in order to serve the needs of the socialist GDR within …
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Alternative Literacies, Resistance, and Spatial Representations in The Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Culture of Zine Publication in New Orleans
<p>Zines are small circulation media that amateurs make and distribute. Inspired by both the lack of ethnographic research on the do-it-yourself (DIY) culture of zine-making in urban studies and the growing interest in ethnographically oriented research in literacy studies, rhetoric, and …