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Showing 1 to 20 of 212 for “"utopia"”.
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Thomas Morus: Utopia
In Thomas Morus’ Utopia wird intensiv über die in einem idealen Staat herrschenden Verhältnisse nachgedacht. Für den Lateinunterricht empfiehlt sich dieses neulateinische Werk, weil Schüler durch seine Lektüre zum einen erkennen, dass die lateinische Sprache nach dem Untergang des römischen Reiches …
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Utopia and Oblivion
This project investigates the possibility of expropriating the industrial infrastructure of a now defunct oil refinery for the bioremediation of toxic soils, restoration of functional riparian ecologies, and reinhabitation of the site by human and non-human life. The context of the project is based …
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The social clause: reality or utopia
For my final work at the University of Cape Town, I wanted to find a topic which encompassed the issues I studied during my one year in South Africa. The Social Clause turned out to be the perfect issue for my dissertation because it embraced three of the four courses I followed • Human rights, …
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Envisioning utopia: the aesthetics of black futurity
<p>This paper examines the ways in which black women are addressing and healing from trauma through acts of envisioning the future. The ways in which space, connectivity, and gesture function throughout Solange Knowles' "Cranes in the Sky" music video exemplifies the ways in which "performance of …
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Myths and Blueprints: Enacting Utopia through Fiction
The study of utopia generally takes place in isolation from empirical social science based on its classification as either political theory or literary genre. While both approaches are well-suited to the academic study of a concept that does not exist in reality, each on its own also lacks the kind …
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Beyond romance’s utopia: The individual and human love
This thesis is a critique of romantic love theoretically premised on the analytical psychology of Carl Jung and the humanistic psychoanalysis of Erich Fromm. The aim of this critique is to explore whether there are grounds for postulating a conception of love beyond the current romantic framework. …
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Beyond anti-utopia: towards the labour of freedom
… theory that employs Ernst Bloch’s (1986) ‘utopian ontology of becoming’ to present a different orientation to the contemporary socio-political conjuncture. It describes this latter, whether still predominantly Neoliberal or tending towards a different configuration of capitalism - or a …
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Nurturing utopia : Jeffersonian expansionism in contexts, 1760-1810
This work is a study of what I call the Jeffersonian ideology of westward territorial expansion. It consists of five chapters, all looking at a different aspect of this ideology, and it focuses on the years 1780-1810, a period when (from a broad perspective) Jefferson can be considered to have been …
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Hydropower cities : a new candidate for eco-utopia
The increasing need for water due to incessant growth of population of the world makes it imperative to build water reservoirs in different location of the world. Water reservoirs most of the time are used as a mean to generate energy. Hydropower energy is one of most efficient and renewable ways …
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Models of Utopia: Representations of Nineteenth-Century Paris
… thesis, nineteenth-century Paris illustrates the utopian principles formulated by Karl Mannheim whose conceptualizations concern the social and moral order that makes up human existence. His utopia is characterized by human thoughts, behaviors, and actions. In our analysis of the works by Charles …
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Gendered utopia : women in the Icarian experience, 1840-1898
Etienne Cabet's utopian novel, Voyage en Icarie (1840), depicted a country organized according to the French Revolutionary principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity that he equated with Christ's tutelages. Its National Assembly of citizens exercised the reason that Cabet deemed Nature had …
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Finding Steinbeck's Utopia in Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat
My thesis will explore the idea of utopia that John Steinbeck intimates through the two novels Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row, and how he crafts his utopia in concordant Marxist, social, and ecological frameworks. These two novels possess striking commentaries regarding Steinbeck’s views on social …
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Utopia in performance: re-imagining a coloured identity narrative
… is framed though a critical definition of 'Utopia’, in an attempt to mobilise how the narrative of coloured identity could be explored in the realm of theatrical performance. I propose that it is within a utopian performative space; one that is reflexive of the past and that is non-coercive; …
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The Desire for Utopia in the Critical Study of Religion
… as an expression of the modern desire for Utopia. It investigates how applications of critical social theory occlude the category of experience either deliberately or through methodological slight. Utopia addresses this problematic of representing the existential dimension of social life …
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Utopia And Commons: Enclosure And Blank Slate In The Americas
How can utopia, as a concept and a project, have as its goal the exposure and defense of the commons while its very articulation must posit a tabula rasa to be enclosed, improved, and defended? This question lies at the heart of my own project. I investigate and critique a series of moments that …
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Contesting the Utopia: Power and Resistance in Abusive Lesbian Relationships
This dissertation responds to these concerns by investigating the dissonance between the lived experience of lesbian battering and the dominant domestic violence discourses. The work's title describes the underlying power of utopic understandings of lesbian relationships as articulated by the …
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Information and Utopia: The Aesthetic Transformation of Man's Symbolic Environment
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La Nouvelle Heloise: Rousseau's Fiction and the Impossibility of Utopia
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T20:18:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6915349.pdf: 8499209 bytes, checksum: 159a19a68f057b592a5a460a3f135164 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1969
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