Almost Trued: An Urban Exploration

<p>This thesis focuses on the urban environment as a man-made space and the effects of that space on conceptions of the body, the spirit, and the more-than-human world. The author blends the personal with the scholarly to interrogate the ideologies that define how humans perceive the urban space, the narratives that construct it, and the people who enact their identities on the landscape. The author uses biking as a method to experience the landscape and uses observations as points of entry into explorations of semiology, materiality, and identity. This project seeks to offer alternative ways of thinking about the man-made urban environment and the capacity for those spaces to encourage human thriving.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year dc:date.available

2020

Author dc:creator

• Gombis, Madeline

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Amy Hamilton

• Chicago
• urban environment
• semiology
• nature writing
• creative nonfiction
• Nonfiction

Repository record dc:identifier

https://commons.nmu.edu/theses/646

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:commons.nmu.edu:theses-1656