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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"utopian visions"”.
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Literature of utopia and dystopia. Technological influences shaping the form and content of utopian visions.
… ground for the expansion of the imagination. Utopian literature offers a vast archive of information concerning the relationship between scientific and technological progress and social change. Alterations in the most basic machinery of society inspired utopian authors to write of distant and …
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Sketching Tom Gill: Art, history, and a creative exploration beyond the frame of ST Gill's utopian visions of colonial South Australia.
… exploration beyond the frame of ST Gill’s utopian visions of colonial South Australia posits that these works are studiously composed and highly crafted, and are therefore an unreliable way to view South Australia’s colonial history. Utilising the principles of ‘blind space’ developed by …
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Digital Regionalism: Identity, Place and the Ottawa Train Station
… ethos was born of a staunch distrust to the utopian visions of Internationalism, succeeding in a retreat back to an architecture of local identity. With the onset of the globalized 21st-century architecture practice, digital design tools have subsequently come to homogenize a transnational …
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A search for spiritual integration
… me this journey has included an exploration of utopian visions and a spiritual ideal, as well as the struggle to integrate spirituality into my life. I consider contextual issues and the process of painting as being equally important and integral aspects of these paintings. Contextually this …
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Model Villages
… in India and Germany, the study investigates the utopian visions of ideal rurality underlying these projects and how they are realised in practice. It examines how model villages function as arenas of social, economic, and spatial change, shaped by varying ideological and political frameworks. …
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Adaptive urbanism : shaping rapid growth in Nairobi
… It also embodies a critique of these projects Utopian visions that sought to 'solve' the 'problem' of the city and the totalizing approach these took.
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Blood, Water and Mars: Soviet Science and the Alchemy for a New Man
… in Soviet science and technology show the strong utopian and even religious foundations of Soviet society, which invariably centered around forging a new environment and, in so doing, a new variety of human to inhabit it. In the minds and experiments of some of the radical men behind Russia’s …
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When Companies Rule: Corporate Political Authority in India, Kenya and South Africa
… motivated by one or more of three key factors: utopian visions of the society their governance can deliver, a desire to counter resistance to business operations from labour, community groups or other stakeholders, and internal bureaucratic power struggles which take governance policies as a …
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Diminishing Returns: An Anthropological Study of Iraqis in the UK
… formation of the diasporic community in light of utopian visions of a past colored by colonial struggle and high national aspirations, and in light of subsequent political developments that resulted in oppression, exile, and even occupation after 2003. I read the displacement of Iraqis as an …
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Managing nature, constructing the state: the material foundation of Soviet Empire in Tajikistan, 1917-1937
… by decentralized authority. In Tajikistan, utopian visions of technological prowess were implemented mainly by horses, camels, and human hands, often challenged by the rugged physical environment. Third, I compare Stalin-era enterprises in Tajikistan to other instances of postcolonial …
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Envisaging Community in Twenty-First Century US Film and Television: Neoliberalism, Relationality, Ecologies
… numerous contradictions and ambivalences in its utopian visions of ecological futurity and in its satirical and humorous thematisation of social responsibility under neoliberalism. In Chapter 3, I focus on Schrader’s *First Reformed* (2017), examining its engagements with nationalism, religion, …
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Fantasies of citizenship: adolescence and temporality in young adult literature
… imagines the adolescent as a figure for utopian possibility and critical citizenship—what I argue is a kind of transformative citizenship—engaged in interrogating normalizing discourses of race, gender, sexuality, and community. Challenging the notion that children’s and YA literature …