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Arnold, Heinz. "Harvey, David, Spaces of Hope / [rezensiert von] Heinz Arnold." Universität Potsdam, 2004. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2009/3088/.
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Martinez, Felipe Pasini Paez [UNESP]. "Interpretação da crise financeira mundial sob a perspectiva de David Harvey." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/123125.
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000823788.pdf: 2258273 bytes, checksum: a752c5d705ea91bb4451c45e2db8b5f7 (MD5)A economia mundial vivencia um período de recessão, em que há baixo dinamismo e crescimento insignificante da atividade produtiva. Tal cenário é proveniente da crise financeira global de 2008, que em decorrência da configuração do sistema financeiro internacional, se espalhou de forma sistêmica para o lado real da economia mundial. Além de suas especificidades, e com exceção de seu escopo e sua gravidade, a presente crise econômica não se difere das últimas crises que atingiram o globo nos últimos trinta anos. Decorrente da junção de dois capitais altamente especulativos, o capital financeiro e o capital imobiliário, essa crise tem origem na luta incessante do capital em buscar alternativas de valorização dados os limites inerentes à sua natureza, ou seja, ao tentar evitar que o capital passe por períodos de desvalorizações (crise), surgem mecanismos alternativos que alongam e adiam esse destino, mas que ao mesmo tempo atuam no sentido de elevar a gravidade e a complexidade dessas crises. Assim sendo, o objetivo do presente trabalho é interpretar a crise econômica atual através da perspectiva marxista de David Harvey e de seu arcabouço teórico, tentando esclarecer e identificar sua origem e suas consequências para a ordem econômica vigente e para o atual padrão de desenvolvimento
The world economy experiences a recession, where there are low dynamism and insignificant growth of productive activity. This scenario comes from the global financial crisis of 2008, as a result of the international financial system configuration, and spread systemically to the real side of the global economy. In addition to its specificities, and with the exception of its scope and severity, this economic crisis is not different from past crises that hit the globe over the past thirty years. Resulting from fusion of two highly speculative capital, financial capital and real estate capital, this crisis originated in the incessant struggle of capital to seek alternative for its appreciation given the limitations inherent in their nature, in other words, to try to avoid capital depreciation periods (crisis), alternative mechanisms arise that stretch and delay this fate, but at the same time act to raise the severity and complexity of these crises. Therefore, the aim of this work is to interpret the current economic crisis through the perspective of marxist David Harvey and his theory, trying to clarify and identify its origin and its implications for the current economic order and the current pattern of development
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Martinez, Felipe Pasini Paez. "Interpretação da crise financeira mundial sob a perspectiva de David Harvey /." Araraquara, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/123125.
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Orientador: Eduardo StrachmanBanca: José Ricardo Fucidji
Banca: João Machado Borges Neto
Resumo: A economia mundial vivencia um período de recessão, em que há baixo dinamismo e crescimento insignificante da atividade produtiva. Tal cenário é proveniente da crise financeira global de 2008, que em decorrência da configuração do sistema financeiro internacional, se espalhou de forma sistêmica para o lado "real" da economia mundial. Além de suas especificidades, e com exceção de seu escopo e sua gravidade, a presente crise econômica não se difere das últimas crises que atingiram o globo nos últimos trinta anos. Decorrente da junção de dois capitais altamente especulativos, o capital financeiro e o capital imobiliário, essa crise tem origem na luta incessante do capital em buscar alternativas de valorização dados os limites inerentes à sua natureza, ou seja, ao tentar evitar que o capital passe por períodos de desvalorizações (crise), surgem mecanismos alternativos que alongam e adiam esse destino, mas que ao mesmo tempo atuam no sentido de elevar a gravidade e a complexidade dessas crises. Assim sendo, o objetivo do presente trabalho é interpretar a crise econômica atual através da perspectiva marxista de David Harvey e de seu arcabouço teórico, tentando esclarecer e identificar sua origem e suas consequências para a ordem econômica vigente e para o atual padrão de desenvolvimento
Abstract: The world economy experiences a recession, where there are low dynamism and insignificant growth of productive activity. This scenario comes from the global financial crisis of 2008, as a result of the international financial system configuration, and spread systemically to the "real" side of the global economy. In addition to its specificities, and with the exception of its scope and severity, this economic crisis is not different from past crises that hit the globe over the past thirty years. Resulting from fusion of two highly speculative capital, financial capital and real estate capital, this crisis originated in the incessant struggle of capital to seek alternative for its appreciation given the limitations inherent in their nature, in other words, to try to avoid capital depreciation periods (crisis), alternative mechanisms arise that stretch and delay this fate, but at the same time act to raise the severity and complexity of these crises. Therefore, the aim of this work is to interpret the current economic crisis through the perspective of marxist David Harvey and his theory, trying to clarify and identify its origin and its implications for the current economic order and the current pattern of development
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Lapyda, Ilan. "A \"financeirização\" no capitalismo contemporâneo: uma discussão das teorias de François Chesnais e David Harvey." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8132/tde-30092011-095732/.
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A dissertação procura compreender o fenômeno da financeirização no âmbito do capitalismo contemporâneo. Uma série de transformações iniciadas nos anos 1970 assinalou o declínio do regime de acumulação fordista e a provável emergência de uma nova fase do capitalismo. Sua característica fundamental consiste em um movimento de financeirização, decorrente em parte de mudanças desenvolvidas na esfera financeira. Seus traços mais destacados são o aumento exponencial das transações, tanto em termos absolutos como em relação às atividades produtivas; a liberalização e desregulamentação de mercados e das atividades financeiras em todo o mundo; o surgimento de novos agentes e instituições ligados às finanças. Processo este que desembocou no aumento da importância do capital financeiro nos circuitos de valorização. O caráter recente deste fenômeno ainda não permitiu que fossem estabelecidos consensos teóricos sobre a questão. Por conta disso, a dissertação debruça-se sobre as obras de dois pensadores marxistas, François Chesnais e David Harvey, buscando estabelecer semelhanças, diferenças e, sobretudo, as complementaridades de suas contribuições. A escolha de Chesnais se impõe pelo papel destacado que o assunto ocupa em sua obra. Harvey, por sua vez, concede primazia à discussão das relações das finanças com os demais aspectos que caracterizam o capitalismo na atualidade.The dissertation seeks to understand the phenomenon of \"financialization\" under contemporary capitalism. A series of transformations started in the 1970s which began out the decline of the \"Fordist\" regime of accumulation and the possible emergence of a new phase of capitalism. Its key feature is a movement of \"financialization\", which results in part from changes in the financial sphere. Its distinctive aspects are the exponential increase in transactions, both in absolute terms and in comparison to productive activities; liberalization and deregulation of financial markets and activities around the world; the emergence of new actors and institutions related to finance. This process led to an increased importance of financial capital in the circuits of valorization. This new moment has not yet allowed to establish a theoretical consensus on the issue. For this reason, the dissertation focuses on the works of two Marxist thinkers, François Chesnais and David Harvey, seeking to establish similarities, differences and, above all, complementarities of their contributions. Choosing Chesnais is imposed due to the prominent role the subject occupies in his work. Harvey, in turn, prioritizes the discussion of relations between finance and other aspects of capitalism today.
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Saavedra, Roque Martin. "Destructive Capitalism, an Investigation on the Inner Logic of Capital." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35421.
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This research, while centered upon capital development, will concentrate its efforts on explaining the urgent contingencies behind its destructive aspects. If capitalism in order to advance must destroy the past, what are the sources and effects of this inexorable tension between creation and destruction? Moreover, what are the principles of this contradictory logic that determines destruction in order to make progress?
This research will not investigate the totality of the destructive history behind capitalism. The time frame in analysis only covers the emergence of neo-liberalism at the beginning of the 1970s until today. This particular choice responds to the fact that neo-liberalism in itself is a strong example of the more destructive aspects of capitalist practice. I will not focus this research on a particular place, or a particular society. Instead, I will treat the topic from two theoretical perspectives, Joseph Schumpeterâ s notion of creative destruction and David Harveyâ s theory of geographical uneven development, along with his theorization of the spatial/temporal fix. Questions of space and development associated with capital will also integrate this research.
What this research will show is that the inexorable confluence between creation and destruction in capitalist practices to counter the overwhelming perspective of capitalism, as a progressive force in social terms, is an eminently political task that requires, not only imagination, but also, the necessary connection between apparent unconnected issues in order to unravel the perplexities of contemporary political and social thought.
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Ganic, Kenan. "Kampen om mening - En studie om hur Malmö stad, byggherrar och media skapar bilden av utbyggnadsområde Hyllie, Malmö." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22640.
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Hyllie, a large scaled urban development project in the Southern of Malmö, hopes to contribute to Malmö Municipality’s goal to be the worlds greatest in sustainable development year of 2020. The city of Malmö together with 20-something developers are building at the urban development area and by now the area is full of large scaled buildings and the pile of construction permits for a new modern bathhouse and offices, cultural centers, hotels and thousands of homes are constantly increasing. Just because of all the large-scale investments in this area, I examine the cultural aspects of urban planning in Hyllie in this paper. By studying the struggle for meaning and how it is negotiated between the municipality and commercial entities through a cultural analysis tool build mostly with geographer David Harvey’s theories about a transformation in urban governance from managerialism to entrepreneurialism, I come to the conclusion that the city of Malmö is leaning towards a planning strategies where the focus is on economic growth. As the post-industrial society is highly digitalized offering constant access to information I also look at how the media reports on the creation of meaning in new Hyllie. A transformation is revealed, showing that media year after year becomes less critical and even starts to contribute to the image of Hyllie as the city of Malmö and developers want.
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Sneddon, Andrew Graeme. "Confusions of meaning in the concept of place : an investigation into the role place occupies in influencing the production and reception of the artwork." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31517.
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This practice-led research examines ideas surrounding the interpretation of place; the representation and experience of place are explored in my practice and throughout the thesis. The practice and thesis develop an interdependent relationship where one informs the other and each provides a critical platform whereby existing beliefs are brought into question and new ideas emerge. During the research period the practice is tested against different circumstances in a variety of situations and novel responses are generated. The thesis critically analyses approaches to interpreting place through a number of formats and a variety of sources. Both practice and theory are examined through peer-reviewed conference papers, artist-in-residence programmes and publications allowing new ideas to be explored and scrutinized by the academy. A working method that recognizes the importance and usefulness of serendipity and sagacity is established, bringing together my practice and the theoretical scope of the research. My primary focus is to understand and develop critical responses to the experience and representation of place within the realm of contemporary art practice. The work of W.G. Sebald and the secondary literature surrounding his work plays a significant role in providing ways of dealing with the entanglement of knowledge. Period Drama is both the name of an artwork and the name I have given to a conference paper. Both explore the convoluted and complex methods involved in realizing a site-specific work that challenges fiercely-held beliefs about place. My intention throughout the research has been to examine a variety of approaches that explore the representation and experience of place within contemporary art practice. Prominent within this examination has been the highlighting of the need to belong to a particular place and the sense of displacement generated when this need to belong is challenged or the nature of this connection is questioned.
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Meier, Florian [Verfasser], David [Akademischer Betreuer] Elsweiler, Christian [Akademischer Betreuer] Wolff, and Morgan [Akademischer Betreuer] Harvey. "Re-finding Tweets - Analyse der Personal-Information-Management-Praktik Re-finding im Kontext der Social-Media-Plattform Twitter / Florian Meier ; David Elsweiler, Christian Wolff, Morgan Harvey." Regensburg : Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1173974830/34.
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de, Brouwer Samuel. "Le marxisme et la question postmoderne au cours des années quatre-vingt : l'apport de Marshall Berman, Fredric Jameson et David Harvey à l'étude des transformations culturelles et sociales du capitalisme avancé." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/42791.
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Notre thèse de maîtrise en histoire de la philosophie s’intéresse au débat esthétique, sociologique, politique et philosophique qu’a suscité l’apparition de la notion de « postmoderne ». Plus précisément, nous nous penchons sur l’intervention marxiste anglo-américaine dans ce débat au cours des années 1980 à travers l’examen de trois auteurs — Marshall Berman, Fredric Jameson et David Harvey — qui y ont contribué de manière significative. Afin de lever le voile de la confusion quant aux diverses significations attachées au champ lexical de « postmoderne », nous aurons recours au concept heuristique de la « question postmoderne » qui permet de distinguer trois niveaux de signification — culturel-esthétique, théorie du changement social, philosophico-historique —, mais aussi de les rassembler et de discuter du « postmoderne » dans sa généralité. La réponse marxiste à la question postmoderne fut hautement dépendante des interventions de Daniel Bell et Jean-François Lyotard et leur présence dans ce travail permettra de comprendre le contexte intellectuel et conceptuel avec, notamment, la nature de la transition entre le modernisme et le postmodernisme esthétiques, l’émergence d’une société postindustrielle et l’idée d’une postmodernité comme crise de légitimation des métarécits de la modernité. Nous examinons de quelle manière Berman, Jameson et Harvey ont traité de la question postmoderne dans leurs écrits s’étendant du début des années 1980 à la fin de cette décennie. L’on pourra voir que ce marxisme anglo-américain ne s’oppose pas de prime abord aux notions de « postmodernisme » ou de « postmodernité », bien qu’il craigne les illusions idéologiques qui accompagnent ces notions et tendent à obscurcir le rôle joué par le capitalisme dans les transformations sociales et culturelles.
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Hoyte, Catherine, and n/a. "An Australian Mirage." Griffith University. School of Arts, Media and Culture, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20040719.103628.
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This thesis contains a detailed academic analysis of the complete rise and fall of Christopher Skase and his Qintex group mirage. It uses David Harvey's 'Condition of Postmodernity' to locate the collapse within the Australian political economic context of the period (1974-1989). It does so in order to answer questions about why and how the mirage developed, why and how it failed, and why Skase became the scapegoat for the Australian corporate excesses of the 1980s. I take a multi-disciplinary approach and consider corporate collapse, corporate regulation and the role of accounting, and corporate deviance.
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Hoyte, Catherine. "An Australian Mirage." Thesis, Griffith University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367545.
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This thesis contains a detailed academic analysis of the complete rise and fall of Christopher Skase and his Qintex group mirage. It uses David Harvey's 'Condition of Postmodernity' to locate the collapse within the Australian political economic context of the period (1974-1989). It does so in order to answer questions about why and how the mirage developed, why and how it failed, and why Skase became the scapegoat for the Australian corporate excesses of the 1980s. I take a multi-disciplinary approach and consider corporate collapse, corporate regulation and the role of accounting, and corporate deviance.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
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School of Arts, Media and Culture
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González, Cámara Noelia. "Migrantes, procesos de irregularización y lógicas de acumulación y exclusión: un estudio desde la filosofia política." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/69961.
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A lo largo de la investigación se realiza un análisis teórico de la condición del migrante irregular como producto de la tensión que tiene lugar entre la lógica territorial del poder político y la lógica expansiva del poder económico capitalista. Partiendo de los estudios que han tratado de actualizar el pensamiento de la filósofa Hannah Arendt para dar cuenta de la situación del migrante irregular, se propone retomar el planteamiento de esta filósofa sobre imperialismo de ultramar donde desgrana la relación contradictoria pero concertada que en ocasiones pueden desarrollar Estado y capitalismo y que tiene lugar bajo la misma forma en la producción de irregularidad migratoria. El análisis de este proceso se completa con una interpretación de la producción de irregularidad como un mecanismo de acumulación por desposesión, noción desarrollada por el geógrafo David Harvey.The condition of irregular migrant is analyzed in this research as a product of the tension between the territorial logic of political power and the expansive logic of capitalist power. First, I pay attention to the studies that review Hannah Arendt's thought in order to account the situation of irregular migrant and I propose to apply her study of overseas imperialism to the production of migrant irregularity because it shows the contradictory but intertwined relation that can be developed between State and capitalism. Furthermore, the production of migrant irregularity will be interpreted as a process of accumulation by dispossession, according to David Harvey's proposal. The last part of the dissertation explores to what extent migrant struggles and claims can be understood as a struggle against accumulation by dispossession.
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Falaise, Cynthia. "Les Zones franches d'exportation au carrefour entre les politiques d'exception et les cycles d'accumulation du capital." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32294.
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En érigeant un cadre théorique réunissant les concepts de fixation spatiale et d’état
d’exception, la présente thèse vise à brosser un portrait des Zones franches d’exportation (ZF) à la lumière du cas salvadorien entre les années 1980 et 2000. L’objectif est de proposer des pistes de réflexion quant au caractère exceptionnel des ZF et leur insertion dans les cycles d’accumulation capitalistes. Sont ainsi abordés les discours légitimant la création des ZF et leur maintien, les moyens financiers, juridiques et logistiques déployés pour permettre leur construction, les relations de pouvoir exceptionnelles qui caractérisent les rapports intra et extra-ZF ainsi que les intérêts que les ZF servent. Cette thèse se veut donc une tentative de compréhension du processus général à l’oeuvre derrière les ZF, dans l’objectif de mieux cibler les possibilités de résistance.
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This thesis aims to analyse the emergence of export processing zones (EPZ) through a theoretical framework that combines the concepts of spatial fix and state of exception. Taking as an illustration the Salvadoran case in the 1980-2000 period, the objective is to suggest means for reflecting on the exceptional character of the EPZ and their insertion in cycles of capitalist accumulation. The thesis will also explore the discourses legitimizing the creation and the retention of EPZ, the logistical, juridical and financial means deployed to allow their construction, the exceptional power relations that characterize the intra and extra-EPZ relations and the interests served by EPZ. This thesis is thus an attempt to encompass the general process behind the EPZ, in order to identify the resistance possibilities.
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Harter, David Verfasser], and Carl [Akademischer Betreuer] [Beierkuhnlein. "Eco-evolutionary responses of plants to spatial and temporal climatic variation / David Harter. Betreuer: Carl Beierkuhnlein." Bayreuth : Universität Bayreuth, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1097378837/34.
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Harter, David [Verfasser], and Carl [Akademischer Betreuer] Beierkuhnlein. "Eco-evolutionary responses of plants to spatial and temporal climatic variation / David Harter. Betreuer: Carl Beierkuhnlein." Bayreuth : Universität Bayreuth, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1097378837/34.
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Lehnert, Matthew R. "Ghost Hunting and A Moroccan Forest: a geography of Madness." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1372856199.
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Nováková, Hana. "Jak se (také) dělá divadlo v Londýně." Master's thesis, Akademie múzických umění v Praze.Divadelní fakulta. Knihovna, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-263147.
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The thesis examines contemporary British theatre focusing on the dynamic between a playwright, a director and an actor, which is very different in the UK from continental Europe. Describing specific London productions as well as the history of modern British theatre, it tries to identify what are the defining characteristics of British directing, acting and playwriting. Each chapter focuses on one of these elements and defines British theatre in realation to the Czech scene. By comparing selected productions of the same British play in Prague and London the author draws attention to the possible difficulties that might arise while staging British drama in a different cultural context.
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Aromokeye, Adeyemi David [Verfasser], W. Friedrich [Akademischer Betreuer] Michael, W. Friedrich [Gutachter] Michael, and Harder Prof Dr [Gutachter] Jens. "Iron oxide driven methanogenesis and methanotrophy in methanic sediments of Helgoland Mud Area, North Sea / Adeyemi David Aromokeye ; Gutachter: Friedrich Michael W., Prof. Dr. Jens Harder ; Betreuer: Friedrich Michael W." Bremen : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1173896511/34.
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Rohr, David Christian [Verfasser], and Harmen [Akademischer Betreuer] Thies. "Der barocke Claustro von Lima - Proportion und Gliederung barocker Architektur im Vizekönigreich Perú, 1570 - 1815 am Beispiel des klösterlichen Arkadenhofes in der Stadt Lima, Perú / David Christian Rohr ; Betreuer: Harmen Thies." Braunschweig : Technische Universität Braunschweig, 2008. http://d-nb.info/1175829692/34.
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Barr, Kara E. "“A Crucible in Which to Put the Soul”:Keeping Body and Soul Together in the Moderate Enlightenment, 1740-1830." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397587644.
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Block, Shelley R. "Nineteenth-century literary women and the temperance tradition temperance rhetoric in the fiction of Lydia Sigourney, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4675.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on January 29, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Ring, Marian-Ellen. "Towards an adequate theory of universalizability." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=69655.
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This thesis looks at two theories of universalizability: Immanuel Kant's deontological one and R. M. Hare's utilitarian one. It also looks at criticisms of both theories by David Wiggins. It concludes that his arguments against Hare are decisive because the moral theory that follows from Hare's version of the claim that moral judgements must be universalizable is incompatible with several basic requirements on moral theories. Wiggins' criticism of Kant, on the other hand, centres on a technical point that is overcome by an interpretation of Kant's tests for the universalizability of maxims that is given by Onora Nell. Finally the thesis argues that Kant's rational theory of ethics is superior to Wiggins' subjectivist claims because it both reflects our common sense conception of ethics and provides a rational basis for evaluating moral judgements.
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Follett, Danielle. "La Harpe éolienne et le hasard : Coleridge, Emerson, Thoreau, Cage." Paris 8, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA083355.
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La harpe éolienne est un instrument musical qui se compose d’une caisse de résonnance en bois et de cordes au travers desquelles le vent s’engouffre et produit ainsi des sons. Cet objet élémentaire devient une figure poétique, d’abord au XVIIIe siècle en Angleterre, puis à l’époque romantique dans les autres pays européens et aux Etats-Unis. Au cours de son développement, la harpe éolienne apparaît à la fois comme un instrument réel, un topos littéraire et philosophique, le modèle d’une activité cognitive et le modèle d’une pratique artistique. Nous retraçons l’histoire de ce dispositif à travers les œuvres de Samuel Taylor Coleridge, de Ralph Waldo Emerson, de Henry David Thoreau et de John Cage. L’esthétique propre à la harpe éolienne est celle de l’automatisme, où l’artiste cède une partie de l’initiative de la création à un autre agent que lui-même. Nous examinons donc les origines romantiques de l’utilisation contemporaine des méthodes aléatoires en esthétique, et avançons l’hypothèse qu’il existe une filiation majeure bien que souterraine entre les expérimentations d’avant-garde menées après-guerre et certaines formes du romantisme. Nous étudions donc en détail un type de relation qui se noue entre l’artiste et la nature ou l’environnement, avec ses enjeux métaphysiques et épistémologiques. L’ouverture de l’œuvre d’art à la vie, à la nature, et à l’imprévu que l’on peut constater au XXe siècle semble trouver un précédent dans la figure romantique de la harpe éolienne. C’est à l’histoire de cette ouverture esthétique que ce travail est consacréThe aeolian harp is an instrument that consists in a wooden sound box with strings, and that emits a sound when exposed to the wind. This simple object became a poetic figure first in eighteenth-century England and then during the romantic era in Europe and the United States. The wind harp has taken the form of a literal instrument, a literary and philosophical topos, a model of cognitive activity and a model of artistic practice. This thesis traces the history of this device through the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and John Cage. The aesthetics that corresponds with the wind harp is that of automatic spontaneity, in which the artist yields a part of his or her creative agency to another entity. The thesis examines the romantic origins of the contemporary aesthetic use of aleatory methods, and argues that there exists a strong though underground relation between post-war avant-garde experiments and certain forms of romanticism. It thus studies in detail a certain relation between the artist and nature or the environment, alongside the metaphysical and epistemological issues this relation implies. The twentieth-century opening of the artwork to life, nature and chance appears to have a precedent in the romantic figure of the wind harp. The history of this aesthetic opening is the subject of this thesis
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Monteau, Martine. "L'insaisie, Jacqueline Lamba (1910-1993) : éléments de recherche biographique dans le contexte historique." Paris 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA010502.
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L 'Art, la poésie c' est le précipité de la beauté dans l'émotion. II n’ y a jamais eu que deux émotions-moteurs : I' amour, la liberté : ainsi la Méthode rédigée en 1944 par le peintre Jacqueline Lamba pour sa première exposition à New York, pose les valeurs qui ont conduit sa vie et son oeuvre. Restituant la chronologie, notre thèse, relevant de la biographie et de l'esthétique, s'appuie sur des sources primaires et des entretiens. Avec André Breton, puis David Hare, elle épousa le surréalisme et partagea l'aventure collective menée dans les conflits sociopolitiques. Se détacher des emprises lui fut salvateur. Son retour en France, en 1951, est un commencement. La peinture claire de sa maturité s'exprime dans le paysage, dessin sur le motif l'été, « souvenirs» peints de Provence, à Paris. Sortie de l'oubli, Jacqueline Lamba apparaît aux prises avec son histoire et avec l'histoire, luttant, dans la transition du XXe siècle, pour l'accession de la femme à l'artiste.
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Williams, Katherine J. "Translating Brecht : versions of "Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder" for the British stage." Thesis, St Andrews, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/761.
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Crawford, Karie Eliza. "Turbulent Times: Epic Fantasy in Adolescent Literature." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2002. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/84.
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This thesis is a development of the theories presented by Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, and Bruno Bettelheim concerning archetypes, the anima/animus concept, the Hero Cycle, and identity development through fairy tales. I argue that there are vital rites of passage missing in Anglo-Saxon culture, and while bibliotherapy cannot replace them, it can help adolescents synthesize their experiences. The theories of Jung, Campbell, and Bettelheim demonstrate this concept by defining segments of the story and how they apply to the reader. Because of the applicability, readers, despite their age, can use the examples in the book to help reconcile their own experiences and understand life as it relates to them. The works I examine include J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, Orson Scott Card's Alvin Maker series, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea trilogy, and David Eddings' Belgariad. Though it is impossible to test the effects of reading such works on readers, the possibility of those effects exists. Bettelheim's work, The Uses of Enchantment, discusses similar themes and he provides scientific support through his use of anecdotal evidence. Following his example, I have tried to include evidence from my own life that exemplifies the effect reading epic fantasy has had on me.
The aspects of epic fantasy in relation to going through adolescence I examine include the concept of responsibility and its relation to progress and maturity; gaining a social identity; and reconciling oneself to the dark side within and without, in society. These aspects are found within the superstructure of the Hero Cycle and the actions and motivations of the characters—archetypes—within the cycle. They are also present in real life and necessary concepts to understand to be accepted into society as a mature contributor.
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Griffith, Joseph K. II. ""That That Nation Might Live" - Lincoln's Biblical Allusions in the Gettysburg Address." Ashland University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=auhonors1399998979.
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Stanley, Philip. "Legislating the Danville Connection, 1847-1862: Railroads and Regionalism versus Nationalism in the Confederate States of America." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3510.
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This thesis examines the effect regionalism had upon North Carolina and Virginia during the 1847-1862 legislative battles over the Danville, Virginia, to Greensboro, North Carolina, railroad connection. The first chapter examines the rivalry between eastern and western North Carolina for internal improvement legislation, namely westerners’ wish to connect with Virginia and easterners’ desire to remain economically relevant. The second chapter investigates the Tidewater region of Virginia and its battle against the Southside to create a rail connection with North Carolina. The third chapter examines the legislation for the Danville Connection during the American Civil War in the Virginia, North Carolina, and Confederate legislatures. Through an examination of voting patterns and public opinion, this thesis finds that, despite Confederate President Jefferson Davis’s designation of the Danville connection as a military necessity, regionalism overcame Confederate nationalism during this instance.
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Reitsma, Regan Lance. "Personal ideals and rationally impotent desires." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1190123916.
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Rowe, Peter Anthony. "The roles of the cathedral in the modern English Church." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1859.
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A cathedral of the Church of England is the seat of the bishop and a centre of worship and mission. The history of this institution is followed from the English Reformation, which it survived, through to the Commonwealth, which it did not. Restored on the return of the monarchy, it then survived with little further trouble until the nineteenth century, when a lot of its income was diverted to the provision of churches and ministers for the populous urban and industrialised areas, which the Church could not fund in any other way. It was the subject of investigation by two Royal Commissions in the nineteenth century and three church-inspired commissions in the twentieth. These commissions stressed the links that should exist between cathedral, bishop and diocese, which the nineteenth century diocesan revival also encouraged, and suggested changes in instruments of governance to achieve this. Some proposals came to nothing, but others were brought into law. Unlike the Roman Catholic cathedral, the Anglican one never lost its autonomy. The religious situation in Britain today is considered in the light of some contemporary sociology and psychology, and it is recognised that the continued decline in the fortunes of the Church is tied up with the massive subjective turn which characterises contemporary culture. The cathedral has not shared the mistrust which faces the Church, and its various roles are discussed in the light of its continued hold on public affection. The conclusions reached are that, although the cathedral now has strong links with bishop and diocese, it should retain its independence within relationships of interdependence with them, to enable it to harness the popularity which it enjoys to remain a centre of worship, but primarily to concentrate on being a centre of mission. Appropriate ways of achieving that are discussed.
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Means, Michael M. "Adaptive Acts: Queer Voices and Radical Adaptation in Multi-Ethnic American Literary and Visual Culture." VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5773.
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Adaptation Studies suffers from a deficiency in the study of black, brown, yellow, and red adaptive texts, adaptive actors, and their practices. Adaptive Acts intervenes in this Eurocentric discourse as a study of adaptation with a (queer) POC perspective. My dissertation reveals that artists of color (re)create texts via dynamic modes of adaptation such as hyper-literary allusion, the use of meta-narratives as framing devices, and on-site collaborative re-writes that speak to/from specific cultural discourses that Eurocentric models alone cannot account for. I examine multi-ethnic American adaptations to delineate the role of adaptation in the continuance of stories that contest dominant culture from marginalized perspectives. And I offer deep adaptive readings of multi-ethnic adaptations in order to answer questions such as: what happens when adaptations are created to remember, to heal, and to disrupt? How does adaptation, as a centuries-old mode of cultural production, bring to the center the voices of the doubly marginalized, particularly queers of color? The texts I examine as “adaptive acts” are radical, queer, push the boundaries of adaptation, and have not, up to this point, been given the adaptive attention I believe they merit. David Henry Hwang’s 1988 Tony award-winning play, M. Butterfly, is an adaptive critique of the textual history of Butterfly and questions the assumptions of the Orientalism that underpins the story, which causes his play to intersect with Pierre Loti’s 1887 novella, Madame Chrysanthéme, at a point of imperial queerness. Rodney Evans, whose 2004 film, Brother to Brother, is the first full-length film to tell the story of the black queer roots at the genesis of the Harlem Renaissance, uses adaptation as a story(re)telling mode that focalizes the “gay rebel of the Harlem Renaissance,” Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987), to Signify on issues of canonization, gate-keeping, mythologizing, and intracultural marginalization. My discussion of Sherman Alexie’s debut film, The Business of Fancydancing, is informed by my own work as an adaptive actor and showcases the power of adaptation in the activation of Native continuance as an inclusive adaptive practice that offers an opportunity for women and queers of color to amend the Spokane/Coeur d'Alene writer-director’s creative authority. Adaptive acts are not only documents, but they document movements, decisions, and sociocultural action. Adaptation Studies must take seriously the power and possibilities of “adaptive acts” and “adaptive actors” from the margins if the field is to expand—adapt—in response to this diversity of adaptive potential.
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Fanning, Sarah Elizabeth. "Changing fictions of masculinity : adaptations of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, 1939-2009." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/8524.
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The discursive and critical positions of the ‘classic’ nineteenth-century novel, particularly the woman’s novel, in the field of adaptation studies have been dominated by long-standing concerns about textual fidelity and the generic processes of the text-screen transfer. The sociocultural patterns of adaptation criticism have also been largely ensconced in representations of literary women on screen. Taking a decisive twist from tradition, this thesis traces the evolution of representations of masculinity in the malleable characters of Rochester and Heathcliff in film and television adaptations of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights between 1939 and 2009. Concepts of masculinity have been a neglected area of enquiry in studies of the ‘classic’ novel on screen. Adaptations of the Brontës’ novels, as well as the adapted novels of other ‘classic’ women authors such as Jane Austen, George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell, increasingly foreground male character in traditionally female-oriented narratives or narratives whose primary protagonist is female. This thesis brings together industrial histories, textual frames and sociocultural influences that form the wider contexts of the adaptations to demonstrate how male characterisation and different representations of masculinity are reformulated and foregrounded through three different adaptive histories of the narratives of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. Through the contours of the film and television industries, the application of text and context analysis, and wider sociocultural considerations of each period an understanding of how Rochester and Heathcliff have been transmuted and centralised within the adaptive history of the Brontë novel.
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Vice, President Research Office of the. "Newswire." Office of the Vice President Research, The University of British Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2677.
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UBC's Drs. Walter Hardy, Doug Bonn and Ruixing Liang were awarded the 2006 Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering.
A partnership between Dr. Helen Burt's reseach laboratory and Angiotech Pharmaceuticals has earned the 2006 NSERC Synergy Award for Innovation.
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Furtado, Robert. "The right to the city: redefining multiculturalism in the modern global." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3980.
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Global capital is transforming the spaces in which we live, thereby transforming culture: this thesis challenges a set of liberal assumptions about culture and cultural transformation by elaborating upon this very hypothesis. Specifically, it argues that cultural identities are being formed in global cities, where disjunctive global flows of cultural, financial, technological, ideological, and human capital intersect. These global flows are creating cultural contexts of choice that can be as central to individual and group identities as national institutions or inherited or native cultural norms. And as these modern contexts of choice emancipate the imagination from the influence of national institutions, they enable peculiar new forms of agency. I use Arjun Appadurai’s notion of imagination and his model of “scapes”—cultural landscapes formed by intersecting flows of capital—to explain how the global is becoming the decisive framework for social life. In contrast, I use Will Kymlicka’s model of multicultural citizenship and Jeremy Waldron’s model of cosmopolitanism primarily to demonstrate the limits of a class of liberal theories of cultural accommodation that oversimplify the relationship of the individual to culture, and of culture to modernity, and which ignore the role of “scapes” in constituting cultural identities. To conclude, I propose an alternative, three- dimensional and ultimately non-comparative treatment of culture inspired by Henri Lefebvre’s concept of the right to the city.Graduate
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Herrick, Michael. "KENTUCKY AND SLAVERY: THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1792." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10222/13125.
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Slavery, protected by the United States constitution, expanded as new territories opened up. Heated debate over abolition accompanied slavery’s expansion. In Kentucky’s constitutional convention of 1792, antislavery sentiments for abolition were countered by an argument for protecting slavery. This thesis analyzes the proslavery argument of lawyer George Nicholas who opposed the antislavery argument of minister David Rice. Analyzing that debate, this thesis argues that an entrenched, economic and legal, proslavery argument overcame a humane, moral, antislavery argument. Including an analysis of the consequences for African Americans, the thesis concludes how and why a growing minority of slaveholders was able to perpetuate slavery in the second constitutional convention of 1799. Consequently, Kentucky presents an important case study of how slavery took hold and expanded in a state where the majority did not own slaves.
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Richards, Jo-Anne. "The Imagined Child." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/19674.
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This PhD comprises a work of fiction and a dissertation, both of which explore childhood, children and parenthood.
The Imagined Child, the novel, closely examines the nature of parenthood, the expectations
inherent in the parent-child relationship, and the responsibilities that society imposes on
parents. It explores the strains of guilt and blame that surround all primary relationships:
every child is damaged in some way – through nature and nurture. How they deal with that
damage determines the kinds of adults – and ultimately the kinds of parents – they become.
The dissertation approaches childhood as a literary device. It explores the ways in which four
novelists from different historical periods have characterised and thematised childhood. It
presents ‘childhood’ as a social construct and considers the ways in which childhood and
parenting have changed in recent, Western history. It then focuses on the research into and
literary representations of children in Africa to explore the versions of childhood inherited by
African, and particularly South African, children and how this differs from American or
European models.
Textual analysis was employed to examine the representation of childhood in four texts:
Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield (1850), L.P. Hartley’s The Go-Between (1953), Harper
Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), and Michiel Heyns’s The Children’s Day (2002).
An examination of research and literature shows a very different trajectory for childhood in
Africa than in Europe, and reveals that childhood on the continent has never been consistent,
in life or literature. There is, in other words, no universal “African childhood”.
The literary children of South Africa are examined not only to show how differently
childhood is experienced in diverse segments of society, but also to measure the temperature
of the times.
The differing versions of literary childhood, and their varying treatments, provide a gauge for
the zeitgeist in South African society from the 1990s. The dissertation argues that an
examination of literary children provides insight into the development of a new democracy.
The dissertation and the novel, taken together, suggest that through the real and imagined
children of literature can be gained a sense of ourselves.
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Hart, Hendrik, Niki Lazaridou Moquist, Mary Gerritsma, and Lynda Kosowan Hines. "Perspective vol. 11 no. 3 (Apr 1977)." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/251325.
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Bragg, Abigail Nicole. "The Eugenic Origins of Indiana's Muscatatuck Colony: 1920-2005." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/24083.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)This thesis examines the widely unknown history and origins of Muscatatuck Colony, located in Butlerville, Indiana. The national eugenics movement impacted the United States politically, medically, legally, and socially. While the United States established mental institutions prior to the eugenics movement, many institutions, including ones in Indiana, were founded as eugenic tools to advance the agenda of achieving a “purer” society. Muscatatuck was one such state institution founded during this national movement. I explore various elements that made the national eugenics movement effective, how Indiana helped advance the movement, and how all these elements impacted Muscatatuck’s founding. I investigate the language used to describe people that were considered “mentally inferior,” specifically who the “feeble-minded” were and how Americans were grouped into this category. I research commonly held beliefs by eugenicists of this time-period, eugenic methods implemented, and how these discussions and actions led to the establishment of Muscatatuck in 1920. Muscatatuck Colony, though a byproduct of the national eugenics movement, outlived this scientific effort. Toward the mid and late twentieth century, Muscatatuck leadership executed institutional change to best reflect American society’s evolving thoughts on mental health and how best to treat people with mental disabilities. Muscatatuck Colony reveals a complicated narrative of how best to treat or care for people within these institutions, a complex narrative that many mental institutions share.