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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"translocal"”.
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A Translocal Approach to Dialogue-based Art
… thesis is a practice-led investigation into a translocal approach to dialogue-based art. The research has been undertaken through the practice of the ‘artist/academic’, drawing on my professional experience in artistic research, academic leadership and teaching, each informing my methods and …
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The Translocal Event and the Polyrhythmic Diagram
… and analyses the key creative protocols in translocal performance practice, and ends with suggestions for new forms of transversal live and mediated performance practice, informed by theory. It argues that ontologies of emergence in dynamic systems nourish contemporary practice in the …
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Local and translocal literacies in an urban 'village' : a sociolinguistic study.
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Locality, Identity, and Geography: Translocal Practices of Huizhou Merchants in Late Imperial China
Recognizing, with local history, the diversity of local environments in China, I try to dispose of the (sometimes inadvertent) implication that these diverse locales were discrete. By highlighting the interconnectedness that was created by the movement of people, this dissertation brings out the …
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British-to-Translocal Super-Club Culture (1991 – 2023): An Interpretation of a Life-World
… of that which I refer to as British-to-translocal ‘super-club culture’ from 1991 onwards as an aspect of EDM club cultures. With this in view, the thesis focuses on the subjective experiences of those who I call ‘super-club’ experients. First I offer an overview of scholarship including …
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Internal migrants and everyday Islam in the Turkish context
… research model is used that incorporates a translocal analytical framework, which enables the relationship between internal migration and religion to be conceptualised. Using the ‘everyday lived religion’ approach and a translocal lens, life history interviews are analysed in order to …
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Under the Radar: The Everyday Resistance of Anarchist Punks in Bandung, Indonesia
… undergirding many of these organizations. Translocal do-it-yourself (DIY) punk rock networks are spaces in which alternative and subversive ideologies are enacted through the everyday implementation of anarchist philosophies and DIY ethics. Here, ‘under the radar’ modes of resistance are …
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Ciudadanía y lugar: geopolítica cotidiana en la periferia del Espacio Económico Europeo
… de las geografías de la ciudadanía migrante y translocal que vive y trabaja en condiciones de vulnerabilidad (y precariedad) en tres ciudades costeras postindustriales –Gijón (España), Nantes (Francia) y Bergen (Noruega)– de la periferia continental del arco Atlántico del Espacio Económico …
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Women as Fish: Physical Movement and Social Mobility in Contemporary Vietnam
… to mostly rural areas in East Asia, and 2) translocal women, who are women from other rural Vietnamese communities who migrate to Hải Thành to marry local men. My dissertation analyzes the relationship between movement and social class. It shows how female migration both sustains and …
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Negotiating differences in mixed marriages - Christians and Muslims in Greece
… and extended families in transnational and translocal networks of social relationships. The research draws on in-depth interviews with Christian and Muslim participants of diverse socioeconomic characteristics and national background. Analysing mixed marriages according to the institutional …
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Fishing for Food and Fodder: The Transnational Environmental History of Humboldt Current Fisheries in Peru and Chile since 1945
… demonstrates how global, transnational, and translocal connections shaped Humboldt Current fisheries as people struggled to understand the complex correlation between fish populations, extractive activity, and oceanic oscillations within a changing geopolitical context.</p>
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Spectacular political experiments: the constitution, mediation and performance of large-scale public participation execises
… popular media initiative and a transnational/translocal social movement event. Engaging with these cases the research explores three, ostensibly different, approaches to and settings of engagement. The study utilises a mix of discourse analysis and participant observation to engage with …
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An intergenerational perspective on migrant senses of identity and belonging: The case of Greek-Cypriot families in South West England, UK
… of identity and belonging and engage with translocal spaces. It does so through exploring findings from forty-eight qualitative interviews and participant observations undertaken in an ethnographic setting. The results reveal how constructions of ethnic identity change across the …
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Alevis in Britain: emerging identities in a transnational social space
… interactions with the Turkish government and translocal activities. They not only use this human rights discourse instrumentally in their claims making but also argue that it is a component of their belief system. In both private and public spheres, Alevis continue to express their identity in …
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Extending our senses: music, nostalgia, space, artefact and the Mediterranean imaginary among the Greek- and Turkish-speaking Cypriot diaspora in Birmingham (UK)
… timeline traces a distant ecumenical past and a translocal native modern with fragmented censorial claims, peaking in diaspora where it recapitulates to the ecumenical and Mediterranean, turning into a contemporary paradigm of pan-Mediterranean culture and performance in diaspora.
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Practicing Ecological Security and Making Multispecies Relations in Anti-Base Resistance: Insights from Environmental-Oriented Anti-Base Activists in Henoko and Takae struggles in Okinawa
… direct action interferences, monitoring, and translocal collaborations. My analysis of activists’ perceptions, experiences, and behaviours in these activities contributes to (Critical) EJ and social movement studies (SMS) literatures by highlighting non-western forms of resistance and …
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Carving the spirits of the wood: an enquiry into Trobriand materialisations
… in an attempt to establish and control the local-translocal flows that shape social life in the Massim. Despite early contact and their ongoing engagement with the wider world, the Trobriand Islands are commonly portrayed as a place where cultural resilience and the continuity of traditional …
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Güeras, Morenas, y Prietas: Mexicana Color Lines and Ethnoracial Sameness-Difference
… women of Mexican descent offer a window into the translocal movement between and among these fluid categories. This research promises to recast mestizaje as an embodied experience and reanimate color as a category of analysis to consider the significance of the overlap of Indo-Hispanic and …
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Just a Click Away from Home: Ecuadorian Migration, Nostalgia and New Technologies in Transnational Times
… for readers far away. With a comparative and translocal approach -and theoretically based on Hall, Appadurai, Boym, Nichols and Portes among others-, this project explores multiple relationships with new technologies determined by gender, age, race, ethnicity, education, computer literacy, …
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Dancing the feminine : performances by indonesian migrant women
… performances are influenced by transnational and translocal (Jakarta or Bali and Perth) engagements gained through: cultural products; their daily lives amongst the Indonesian migrant community in Perth; their annual return trips to Indonesia; and being involved in the local Indonesian consulate's …
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