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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"spatial mobility"”.
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Social and spatial mobility along the Kuiseb River in the Namib Desert, Namibia
This study seeks to explain the unusually high rate of circulation of individuals between local domestic units of the rural settlements along the Kuiseb River as well as between these and domestic units in the closest urban centre. It is argued that these movements form part of a general state of …
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Impossible Subjects: Racial Politics, Citizenship, and Spatial Mobility in Chilean Cinema of Late Neoliberalism (2011-2020)
… Subjects: Racial Politics, Citizenship, and Spatial Mobility in Chilean Cinema of Late Neoliberalism (2011–2020) Sandra del Valle Casals This thesis explores contemporary entanglements of racial and class politics as portrayed in Chilean films of the past decade (2011-2020). In Chile, the …
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Using a non-modal method for system identification of highly damped and high modal density mechanical structures
… and massive dynamic data acquisition with high spatial density makes the new non-modal system identification techniques feasible. The proposed non-modal system identification method is based on the singular value decomposition (SVD) of the spatial mobility matrices that are acquired by the SLDV …
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Culture, place and identity in a mobile community
… by the confines of a specific locality due to spatial mobility. My dissertation examines if and how mobile individuals may create community, the culture of one group, and the significance of place amidst mobility for creating community in modernity. I analyzed three years of ethnographic field …
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The Meaning of Success: Young Women and High Academic Achievement in Rapidly Developed Areas. A Comparative Study of Contemporary Rural Vermont, USA and Leinster, Ireland
… operationalised as a means for social and spatial mobility among an unexpected group, young women from blue-collar areas and family backgrounds. Delving into the effects globalisation, capitalism and rapid economic development have on rural young people and communities, this qualitative …
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Identity, work, and mobility amongst Bolivian market vendors in El Alto and São Paulo
… their real and aspired processes of social and spatial mobility articulate different identities in the intersections of gender, race, and class. The thesis draws on a multi-sited ethnographic research, carried out over a nine-month period between October 2015 and August 2016, at the markets of …
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Teenage serial homicide offenders: a typology.
… contact with victim, murder location and spatial mobility. Such findings are discussed and explanations of each are given.
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The complexity of the future of work
… income inequality as well as decreasing career mobility and spatial mobility for workers. Although a given technology impacts demand for only a narrow set of workplace skills, modern empirical work relies on coarse labor distinctions between cognitive and physical or routine and non-routine work …
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Ageing and Mobility- Making the Connections
Abstract Spatial mobility in later life has received much attention by researchers and policy makers in recent years as part of discourses around active ageing and ageing independently. Here mobility is predominantly conceptualised in terms of its function for ensuring older people’s well-being and …
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Peasants, Servants, and Sojourners: Itinerant Asians in Colonial New Spain, 1571-1720
… textiles. This study explores the social and spatial mobility of chinos to show how trade between and within the Americas and Asia opened a new chapter in the social history of the early modern world. This project expands the study of Latin American history in three ways. First, it analyzes …
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Un voyage vers une photographie feminine: The gender politics of body and space
… as a political device. The concept of gendered spatiality is also central to this study. In the first chapter I describe my journey photography, linking the traditions of travel and landscape aesthetics to feminist theories of the body. In particular, I discuss my 'politics of location' which …