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Showing 1 to 20 of 792 for “"the everyday"”.
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The Alchemy of the Everyday
Everyday objects inspire and inform what I do. The personal histories and associations we may have with ordinary things are of great personal interest to me. Often times, these items reflect the social class, education, and background of the owners. I am drawn to these objects and the possibility …
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The Enigma of the Everyday
The articulation of happenstance and of the enigmatic nature of everyday things is one way concepts in my work have been filtered through and informed by memory, emotion and the experience of life that is both lived as a process and inhabited as a space. My current work attempts to embody as much …
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The Enigma of the Everyday
The articulation of happenstance and of the enigmatic nature of everyday things is one way concepts in my work have been filtered through and informed by memory, emotion and the experience of life that is both lived as a process and inhabited as a space. My current work attempts to embody as much …
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The Everyday Poetry of Organizing
The connection between language and the organizing process is an association that the author believes can lead to valuable insights. This dissertation was designed to explore this premise by (1) setting out a new model of organizational communication based on meaning-making as the process of …
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The Aesthetic Attitude in the Everyday
This thesis takes as its starting point a body of literature focusing on what is commonly referred to as ‘everyday aesthetics’. This literature is engaged in the process of chipping away at the intuition that the artwork is the paradigmatic object of aesthetic experience. My aim is to lend support …
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Divine and the Everyday Devil (Short Stories)
Divine and the Everyday Devil contains a scholarly preface that discusses the experiences and literary works that influenced the author's writing with special attention in regards to spirituality and sexuality. The preface is followed by six original short stories. "Evil" is a work addressing a …
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Radical visible pedagogy and specializing the everyday
… to Bernsteinian-type studies allowing for the investigation of the relationship between elements. What has been less prevalent is understanding the relationship between knowledge and pedagogy within the pedagogic discourse. In this study the aim was to explore this relationship as it …
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Responses to the everyday reliefs from the private
In pursuit of an architecture of the everyday, this investigation applies fascinations with and imaginations of the ordinary to architecture's possibilities for relief in today's increasingly privatized notion of the public. Our neoliberal reality dictates an incessant change in urban landscapes - …
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Intellectualizing the everyday : the genre paintings of Adriaen Brouwer
… painter Adriaen Brouwer (1605/06-1638) spent the most productive years (1626-1627) of his short career working in Haarlem as a member of the city's most popular "Rederijkerskamer" (chamber of rhetoric), "De Wijngaartrancken" (the vine tendrils). Brouwer dwells in his genre scenes on the …
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Intersubjectivity and contemporary social theory: the everyday as critique
Traditional analyses of popular or everyday culture have been couched in terms of, on the one hand, variants of the Frankfurt School view that it distorts or offers a false consciousness of an underlying reality, whilst on the other, the response from discourse theorists and more traditional forms …
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A Politics of the Everyday: Identity and Normalizing Power
… arguing that its goal should be altering the very practices by which gender is constituted. This focus on micro-level practices of gender formation reveals that everyday, seemingly innocuous practices constitute the political and should be the target of public action that seeks to redress …
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Distance and intimacy, in the play of the everyday
Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1997.
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Architectures of the everyday in 1920s and 1930s Russia
… is an architectural history of Russian everyday life, or byt, in the first two decades after the October Revolution. In this period, the investigation and reform of byt was a project that vastly crossed the limits of the architectural profession. I survey ways in which the quotidian …
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Children’s Geography and the Everyday Lives of Orphans in Malawi
… half of whom were orphaned because of AIDS. The situation is often framed as an ‘orphan crisis,’ which is a problematic concept because of the shifting definitions of orphanhood, the cultural connotations of abandonment and helplessness associated with orphanhood, and the diversity of causes …
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Children’s Geography and the Everyday Lives of Orphans in Malawi
… half of whom were orphaned because of AIDS. The situation is often framed as an ‘orphan crisis,’ which is a problematic concept because of the shifting definitions of orphanhood, the cultural connotations of abandonment and helplessness associated with orphanhood, and the diversity of causes …
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Hyperrealism and the everyday in creative practice : exegesis, play, novel
The aim of this exegesis, play and novel is to develop a practice-led poetics of everyday theatre and literature. This emerged from a research question about the way the everyday is constituted within my own practice and within contemporary theatre in Melbourne and overseas. The major component of …
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The everyday Bogans: Identity and community amongst Heavy Metal fans
Since the mid-twentieth century some social psychologists have demarcated communities as static entities; conceptual and physical boundaries were placed around communities to facilitate scholarly analysis. This theoretical and methodological bias is contrasted against the consideration of the …
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Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: The Everyday Southern Epic
Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind (GWTW) has long been termed an "epic" of the American South. The implications of that term, however, have not been fully investigated, particularly as they concern generic criteria. How can we assign the generic characteristics of the epic narrative to GWTW? …
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Self-disclosure in the everyday conversations of kindergarten-aged children
… does self-disclosing conversation play in the conversations of young children? Two studies were conducted to investigate how 5 14 year old children self-disclose in their everyday conversations. Both studies video-recorded children’s self-disclosing conversations while they participated in …
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