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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"utopias"”.
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Marginal bodies: actualising trans Utopias
This PhD focuses on transgender subjectivity and explores the ways in which trans is negotiated and compromised by and within social space, with particular attention to the dynamics and socio-cultural norms through which the transgendered body that identifies beyond the gender binary is mediated. …
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The evolution of feminist utopias
The genre of feminist utopias has its origin in the first wave of feminism which rose up in the late nineteenth century. This dissertation follows the evolution the genre, focusing on the changes it reflects in the strategies of utopian writing and, more specifically, on the developments that have …
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Utopias of slow cycling : imagining a bicycle system
This research investigates post-automobility futures by exploring the mechanisms through which the bicycle could reconfigure urban mobilities and catalyse change towards slow living. Drawing upon readings in mobility and utopian studies, the thesis considers three complementary aspects that could …
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Technologies and Utopias: the cyberflâneur and the experience of being online
The thesis examines the historical moment of the transition of the Internet from a technology to a cultural form with widespread social use. It is a moment that contains traces of the utopian dreams of the early users of the Internet at the point when it became a widely available, accessible …
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Erasmian humanism and the utopias of Thomas More and John Milton
… like More’s. In true Erasmian spirit, their utopias blend classical ethics and Christian beliefs and emphasize education and training in virtue. However, virtue was significant to their utopian models for different reasons: More encourages virtue as a corrective and advocates a collectivist …
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Mnemonic sketches: Utopias of mourning in contemporary South African performances of tragedy
This multidisciplinary study locates, at its centre and at the centre of tragedy more broadly, the notion of chorus. My orientation around chorus in this study is based on the one hand, in performance- as in the live moment of present encounter- and on the other hand, in the local context of …
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Food Security in Urban New Zealand: Food Waste, Food Utopias, and Food Values
Despite having an overall high standard of living, from 2015-2016 only 60.8% of households with children in New Zealand reported being fully food secure (NZ Ministry of Health 2019). Even more frustrating is that supermarkets and restaurants in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand are …
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A universal key : utopias and universals in JM Coetzee's The childhood of Jesus
In this investigation, the idea of a universal key, as denoting the unifying forces of language, will be analysed in The Childhood of Jesus using a framework inspired by the theory of forms, as described by Plato in The Republic. In The Republic, Plato structures his argument so that the soul and …
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Moderate utopias : the reconstruction of urban space and modernist principles in postwar France
This thesis explores the implementation of the American Marshall Plan in France and its precipitation of structural changes within the realms of economics, politics, and cultural subjectivity, studying their manifestations in both the built work of the postwar reconstruction and its concurrent …
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"The Architecture of Anti-Utopias: Critiques of Modern Public Housing from London to Orwell"
In my dissertation I analyze how Jack London, Robert Hugh Benson, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell adopt anti-utopian perspectives to show the inherent flaws of supposed utopian belief systems. Building off of Gregory Claeys and Lyman Sargent’s definition of the anti-utopian genre, I attest that …
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Absences, exclusivities and utopias: Afrikaans film as a cinema of political impotence, 1994 - 2014
This thesis develops a conceptual and theoretical framework within which to position contemporary Afrikaans cinema as a cinema of political impotence. Afrikaans cinema is first located within the tensions of democratic post-transitional South African society and linked to the identity politics of …
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Allegories of Mastery: Sex, Science, and the Making of the Modern Body in Renaissance Utopias
This project argues that the seventeenth-century transition from the humoral body to the modern, anatomical body depended on constructions of gender/sex. I examine this process in The Faerie Queene Book 2, The Legend of Temperance (1596), Phineas Fletcher's The Purple Island (1633), Francis Bacon's …
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The Role of Woman in Victorian Society: A Controversy Explored in Six Utopias, 1871-1895
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Enclosed Edens, Contested Waters & Failed Utopias: An Ecocritical Reading of Epistemic Land Claims in Okanagan Literature
… Enclosed Edens, Contested Waters and Failed Utopias: an Ecocritical Reading of Epistemic Land Claims in Okanagan Literature, examines regionally specific literary sites of intersection, conflict and transformation. Focusing on the Okanagan region, which rests in the southern heart of British …
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Utopian Times: The Quest for the Perfect Society in Renaissance Italy and in the New World
… about the historical context of the Italian utopias. Philosophical issues related to the conceptualization of utopia are discussed in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 addresses historical issues concerning the application of utopias in the New World, where More's and Campanella's utopian projects were …
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Discursos utópicos seiscentistas na Inglaterra e América
… esperançosa. Nesta tese estudamos duas dessas utopias: The Law of Freedom de Gerrard Winstanley e The Christian Commonwealth de John Eliot. As visões utópicas destas duas obras fornecem-nos uma introspecção no imaginário político que vigorou durante o Interregnum inglês. Escritas em dois …
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From Heaven on Earth to Smart Cities: How Utopianism Shifted from Social Structures to Digital Built Environments in the 21st Century
… in the 21st century. Yet, many also think that utopias are pre-21st-century texts or designs. In the early 21st century, the concept of a digital city began to be connected to utopian ideas. Smart city, sustainable city,15-minute city, and many more city forms use "utopian" as an adjective. …
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Likeness in Utopia: Situation and Metaphor from Thomas More to Edward Bellamy
… Bloch, the goal of critiquing these literary utopias is not to reject hope but, rather, to educate our own daydreams, to learn and move forward. These chapters examine didacticism and the development of colonial metonymy in Thomas More’s <em>Utopia</em>, the way metaphor operates through time …
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