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Marjavaara, Roger. "Second home tourism : The root to displacement in Sweden?" Doctoral thesis, Umeå, 2008. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9789197569682.
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White, Ernestine Bianca. "There's no place (like home) : a graphic interpretation of personal notions of home and displacement." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10891.
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Includes bibliographical references.I was born in Cape Town, South Africa around the tumultuous time of the Soweto uprisings of 1976. The first few years of my life were spent living with relatives and friends of my mother in Langa while she worked in the city in various households as a domestic worker. Her occupation took her away for long periods of time. By the age of two my mother and I moved to Woodstock where we lived with a family that consisted of five adults, who each had children of their own all under one small roof. The house was always full of people.
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Jansen, Zero. "What We Know: Queer Displacement and Reimagining Notions of Home." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1556115428029259.
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Aydin, Paulina. "Home In Diaspora." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-276794.
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What happens when home moves and has to resettle somewhere else because of contemporary invocations of diaspora? In a series of meaningful displacements one might have multiple homes with different reasons for maintaining some form of attachment to each. Through a semi-structured approach, letting narratives unfold as they come up, I ask: What did you leave? What did you meet? What did you get and give? What could that be? An architectural alphabet evolves that tells stories, comes with things and moments but perhaps most important questions the habitual and the culturally specific. How can we understand what a home is if I do not ask what a home was, is for someone else or could be? And not only through the homes we idealize but through the displaced homes that actually have to meet ours. Could this alphabet be used to provoke the limited one we have today and help us towards the prospect of choice by imagining a future whereupon there could, or maybe simply should, be so many more? More to be used to rethink and deviate from a standard mark that negates a past for some and make the transition more than a continuum for others.
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Møllerop, Camilla Våset. "Movement, home and identity: dilemmas of urban internal displacement in Kampala, Uganda." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Geografisk institutt, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-22918.
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The conflict that ravaged Northern Uganda for two decades led to displacement of nearly two million northern Ugandans. The majority remained within the country borders fleeing into IDP camps, towns and cities. This thesis explores urban IDPs’ practices in a migration process and, furthermore, how this process is influencing the notion of home and identity which in turn have an impact on the discussion on solutions to displacement. The empirical data in this thesis were collected in Acholi Quarter, Kampala, using qualitative methods in a period of three months from August to beginning of November 2012. Some of the urban IDPs first moved into camps and then later migrated further to Kampala, while others moved directly to the city. However, common for all migrants was the importance of the social network as a factor enabling them to migrate. Many years away from their place of origin has made them adopt new strategies in order to survive in the urban context. The ‘new’ life in Kampala has inevitably influenced their notion of home and identity. It was a difference between the younger and the older generation’s understanding of home as they related to the past, present and future in a different way. Their identities changed accordingly in a frequent negotiation involving choices of accommodation or resistance of new worldviews. The impact of the changing notion of home and identity has led to an ambivalent attitude to return.
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Mookerjee, Kuheli. "Re-placing home : displacement and resettlement in India's Narmada Valley dam project." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.406066.
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Thiranagama, Sharika. "Stories of home : generation, memory, and displacement among Jaffna Tamils and Jaffna Muslims." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1957.
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The Sri Lankan civil war has been ongoing for over twenty years. Fought out in the civilian areas of the North and East of Sri Lanka, between the Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) it has completely transformed the lives of ordinary people living in the primary battlefields of the North and East. The last twenty years has seen massive internal and external displacement from the North and East as well as the complete reordering of physical and social landscapes of the past, the present, and thus the future. This thesis is centred roughly on stories of one place, Jaffna and the concept of ur/home that Daniel (1984) argues is central to ideas of Tamil personhood. I examine what home means when disproportionate movement occurs and what happens to displaced families and individuals. The thesis examines both Tamils and Muslims from the North, and takes at the heart of its inquiry, the nature of belonging, and who is allowed to belong and who is not. Through a few individual biographies I trace themes of displacements and memory. I look at what people's ideas of home are, and, what happens to these ideas of home in displacement. In particular I examine how people come to find that by inhabiting different places/homes, they may become different kinds of persons. This becomes folded into generational structures. Thus I look at the work of inheritance of property, memory, kinship that different generations attempt to transmit and pass on in an attempt to be related to each other. The intimate and the familial are linked to the ongoing political situation where the interior becomes the repository of stories disallowed in the exterior. I use the metaphor of houses and rooms in my thesis to point to the conditions of internal terror that framed my research. Tamils, living with internal terror, could only tell stories in the spaces of the interior. In contrast working with Muslims, outdoor ethnography was possible. I discuss the freedom to belong, denied to Muslims, and the freedom to speak, denied to Tamils. Thus, I reflect upon the different imaginations of speaking and silence, residence and belonging for different political and social locations within the same history and place. In the end this is a thesis about how individuals reflect upon their lives. While it is not based in Jaffna, it is on Jaffna past, Jaffna present, Jaffna imagined and Jaffna lost. It looks at the specificities of how people deal with the larger human dramas of love, loss, home and the relationship of the self to kin.
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Pozniak, Jolene. "Beneath the multicultural mosaic: representing (im)migration displacement, and home in contemporary Canadian art." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18394.
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This thesis examines contemporary Canadian art practices, which aim to challenge the notion of multiculturalism as a purported 'solution' to the cultural, racial and ethnic diversity that comprises the nation. Specifically focusing on the work of Canadian artists, Jin-me Yoon, Kinga Araya and Ken Lum, I explore the mythology surrounding Canada's liberal pluralist politics and problematize the notion of nationalism as operating through a process of exclusion by privileging a white Anglo-Canadian norm. This system of exclusion complicates further the process of (im)migration, therefore, I explore the psychological and 'unhomely' experience of displacement as expressed visually through artistic practice. Furthermore, as a means of addressing multiculturalism and (im)migration, I acknowledge the need for more global modes of thinking, in proposing reconceptualizations of the notions home and nation that favour mobility, hybridity, and change over stable, static and pure definitions that sustain exclusionary politics.Ce mémoire cherche à examiner des pratiques en art contemporain canadien qui ont pour but de questionner le concept du multiculturalisme en temps que « solution » allégée à la diversité culturale, raciale et ethnique dont est composée l’état-nation canadienne. En étudiant surtout les œuvres des artistes canadiens Jin-me Yoon, Kinga Araya et Ken Lum, j’explore la mythologie qui soutient les politiques pluralistes libérales au Canada. Cette dissertation problématize également la notion du nationalisme comme processus d’exclusion qui privilégie une norme anglo-canadienne de race blanche, compliquant davantage l’(im)migration. J’examine ainsi l’expérience psychologique de la non-appartenance, exprimée visuellement à l’instar de la pratique artis! tique. Finalement, en adressant le multiculturalisme et l’(im)migration de cette approche, je reconnaît la nécessité de penser de façons plus globales. Ma proposition est donc de repenser les notions du « chez-soi » et de la nation en mettant de l’emphase sur les thèmes de la mobilité et l’hybridité et non pas sur des définitions statiques et politiquement exclusivistes. fr
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Gilbert, Gaius F. "No place, like home: a look at nature as artifact and the displacement of place." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66711.
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The city of Guelph, an element within one of the largest conurbations in North America, the Greater Toronto Area/Greater Golden Horseshoe, is utilized as a metonym of a more general problematic. Certain narratives, logics and instrumental rationalities inform the production of this sprawling polycentric agglomeration forming an almost continuous urban and industrially developed area. Spaces and things within the built landscape, iconic, tropic forms and definitions, recurring presences or absences and 'symptomatic' silences within media and public debate provide a means for addressing discursive productions of Nature and identity in a mapping of the present. This materialist analysis addresses the exchanges and relationships occurring beneath and behind the city's surfaces; the nature and dynamics of the socio-ecological inter-play made manifest by urbanized landscapes and the city's metabolism. Artefacts that involve an engineering of material provide rubrics for considering questions attending spaces, representations, and practices related to urbanization. The basis and topographic implications of meta-schemes created to plan and organize the city, from those of the Canada Company to current Ontario Provincial legislation, is examined. Topography is considered as a material organization within a strategic system employing cybernetic apparatuses and reproductions, consisting of texts/artefacts enrolled into structures of political economy. Intertwining natural, cultural and technological systems, Guelph reveals a practiced urban geography that is a condition and translation of relations effected by global capitalism. The built environment involves conflations of object, image and symbolic space, their practices and principles. Institutional practices and historical relations here shape and impinge upon the biophysical ground. Boundaries and the presences and absences entailed are structured, organized aLa ville de Guelph, un élément dans une des plus grandes agglomérations en Amérique du Nord, la plus grande région de Toronto/une plus grande région du Golden Horseshoe, est utilisé comme un metonym d'un plus général problématique. Les certains récits, les logiques et les rationalités instrumentales informe la production de cette agglomération de polycentric tentaculaire formant un secteur presque continu urbain et industriellement développé. Les espaces et les choses dans le paysage construit, idole, les formes de tropique et les définitions, reproduisant des présences ou des absences et les silences 'symptomatiques' dans les médias et dans le débat public fournissent un moyens pour adresser les productions décousues de Nature et l'identité dans une cartographie du présent. Cette analyse de matérialiste adresse les échanges et les relations arrivant en dessous et derrière les surfaces de la ville; la nature et la dynamique de l'inter-jeu le socio-écologique manifeste fait par les paysages urbanisé et le métabolisme de la ville. Les objets qui impliquent une ingénierie de matériel fournissent des rubriques pour considérer de questions assistant des espaces, les représentations, et les pratiques lié à l'urbanisation. La base et les implications topographiques de meta-arrangements ont créé pour planifier et organiser la ville, de ceux-là de l'Entreprise de Canada à Ontario actuel la législation Provinciale, est examiné. La topographie est considérée comme une organisation matérielle dans un système stratégique employant des appareils et des reproductions cybernétiques, consistant en des textes/objets inscrits dans les structures d'économie politique. Entrelacer les systèmes naturel, culturel et technologique, Guelph révèle une géographie urbaine exercée qui est une condition et une traduction de relations a effectué par le capitalisme global. L'enviro
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Hodge, Audre. "Home is where the heart is : patterns of displacement in West Indian and Black American literature." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 1997. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/172.
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Franklin, M. P. "Concepts of displacement and home : seeking asylum and becoming a refugee among the host community of Northern Ireland." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.675462.
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Discourses surrounding the debate on asylum-seekers and refugees continue to be a polemical and topical issue in the UK and other Western democracies. This thesis investigates the meaning of home and belonging from the perspective of members of the refugee community in Belfast. Individuals who seek asylum in a place of safety leave their homes and homelands for a variety of reasons. I focus on the experiential challenges faced by members of the local refugee community following their arrival in a new and unfamiliar environment. An asylum-seeker is required to register his or her intentions with the relevant authorities within a specified time limit. Following an initial screening interview, an individual seeking asylum is provided with emergency accommodation, and shortly afterward attends a substantive interview with UK Border Agency immigration specialists. My research follows the lives of a number of asylumseekers as they progress through the asylum system. Some of them receive their 'papers' and are accepted as refugees with an initial five year Limited Leave to Remain status. Becoming a refugee comes as a great relief but concurrently brings a whole new set of challenges. On the other hand, for the many asylum-seekers who are refused refugee status, there is the uncertainty of the appeals process, fresh claims, further meetings with solicitors and other advisors, and occasionally a descent into destitution with no recourse to funds. I look at some of the coping strategies employed by this heterogeneous group of displaced individuals. There exists a lack of well-established diasporic communities in Northern Ireland. What is it that makes a person 'feel at home?' My thesis explores the meaning of displacement and emplacement by focussing on asylum-seekers and refugees as they negotiate and perform the long process of belonging to something tangible in local society.
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Oktay, Makbule. "Place attachment and perception of home under the impact of internal displacement in rural settlements of northern Cyprus." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2013. https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/f32c7925-e86d-4a3e-bc64-dffb5e0e9f1c/1.
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Home, which is accepted as a centre for human life, can hold diverse significance and bear various meanings for each person depending on a variety of issues, such as personal characteristics and experiences that have been collected throughout a lifetime. The bond between a person and a home and the meaning of home can be transformed over time and as a result of the various events to which the person has been subjected. In this study, internal displacement is identified as an event which has a major impact on the key attitudes and feelings towards home attachment and perception. The aim of this research is to critically examine the impact of displacement on one’s attachment towards one’s former and current places of residence and one’s perception of home. The study takes Cyprus, in particular its northern part, as a case study. Therefore, the study contributes to the fields of home, place attachment and internal displacement studies in general, as well as to the context of Cyprus in particular. The study has investigated using qualitative and quantitative research approaches within a case study methodology. As a part of this, fieldwork research was conducted in four rural settlements located in northern Cyprus. The primary data was gathered during the fieldwork and constitutes the core of the study. Qualitative content analysis, including coding and categorisation, was used for analysing the qualitative data, while descriptive statistics, cross tabulation and the chi-square test were conducted for quantitative data analysis. The study focuses on two groups: locals and internally displaced persons (IDPs). Locals are identified as people who have always lived in northern Cyprus, while IDPs are defined as people who were displaced from southern Cyprus as an outcome of the conflict between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. The study has identified the nature of local Turkish Cypriots’ attachment to their homes and villages, as well as the nature of internally displaced Turkish Cypriots’ attachment to their former and current houses and villages. In addition to this, perceptions of home for both locals and IDPs have been investigated in order to examine the extent to which IDPs have been affected by the displacement. The findings of the study show that displacement has a strong impact on the place attachment of IDPs. At the end of longstanding displacement they developed multiple attachments: attachment to the places where they used to live before displacement, as well as attachment to the places where they lived after displacement. However, compared to people who have not experienced displacement, IDPs have relatively low attachments; as a result, it may be argued that they are lost between two worlds. The study also shows that low attachment does not fully impact the meaning of home for IDPs in a long-term displacement situation. The study indicates that IDPs may feel attached to a place and give similar meanings to home as non-displaced people, but this does not mean that they completely perceive the houses where they live as their homes even after they have lived there for a long time. Length of displacement, political uncertainty and ownership issues which are directly related with perception of a house as one’s home, emerge as key determinants for attachment to and perception of home.
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Stensö, Theodor. "What is the value of home? : A quantitative study on the effects of natural resource extraction on conflict-induced displacement." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-434075.
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Conflict-induced displacement, a relatively novel term, is well researched but not well understood. There is a significant amount of findings on this subject, but many have been disproven at a later stage, leaving behind a research field largely lacking in substantial findings. As conflict-induced displacement has steadily increased over the previous years, this is a significant problem. However, recent findings, hinting at a relationship between natural resource prevalence in armed conflicts and displacement, could help provide an explanation as for what causes these differences. A large-n study looking at 207 cases of armed conflict, varying over relative value of natural resource extraction, is here conducted. The results find that while there is not a statistically significant relationship between the two variables, and this relationship varies depending on whether cross- or within border displacement is the focus, there is some level of covarying relationship.
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Gwynne-Vaughan, Stephen. "A general model of refugee migration, home, displacement, and host-related factors in the resettlement of Somali refugees in Ottawa." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0001/MQ43308.pdf.
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Laskowska, Monika. "A State in Which The Opposing Forces Are Not Equal And Don’t Cancel Out Each Other." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1344798482.
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Dik, Akram A. "Revisiting the concept of displacement: representations of home and identity in contemporary metropolitan post-colonial E(e)nglish fiction (1956 -1990)." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.616977.
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This study uses cultural and literary theory and contemporary metropolitan post Second World War postcolonial fictions to revisit the concept of displacement allowing for an affirmation of the specificity and beginnings of displaced writers' identities and a reassertion of the significance of their starting points meanwhile resisting, precluding, falling into the dangers of cultural and mental ghettoisation and defensive and/or vulgar nationalism. Burdened with colonial history and being 'out of place', writings by displaced writers with their hyphenated identities have altered the literature of England both in its language and its cultural identity. This has promoted the rediscovery, as in the Freudian psychoanalytic context, of materials that have been repressed or 'pushed aside' in cultural translation, but which continue to cause trouble and restlessness in the perpetual journey of displacement. Displacement also troubles the ideas of citizenship and national belonging and offers to the noncitizen the freedom to be 'out of place' which opens doors for cultural translation and filtration. Displacement falls therefore somewhere between nationalism (Oedipal, rigid, imposed, created, closed) and nomadology (anti-Oedipal, open, flexible, creative, free) allowing critical and aesthetic distance, and balancing the central authority between past and present, tradition and modernity, by translating (between) them. Revisiting displacement produces therefore an oscillation between the two at will. It thus celebrates multiplicity and hybridity/syncreticism without falling into the anti-memory and history-free, spatially-attenuated, free-floating, aloof and ontologically rootless concept of nomadism, or the nomadic rhizome. In revisiting the concept of displacement, this thesis is skeptical of nomadology's total and complete transcendence of national and Oedipalised territorial frameworks.
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Karlsson, Lena. "Multiple Affiliations : Memory and Place in Autobiographical Narratives of Displacement by (Im)migrant US Women." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Moderna språk, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-12674.
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Multiple Affiliations explores the autobiographical negotiations of memory and multilocality articulated by five (im)migrant women writers writing from, and being read (primarily) within, the US. Texts as diverse as Korean-American Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée (1982), Polish (Jewish)-American Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation: Life in a New Language (1989), Chinese-American Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976) and China Men (1980), Caribbean/African-American Audre Lorde's Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982), and Pakistani-American Sara Suleri's Meatless Days (1989) highlight how various (cross-race and transnational) experiences of location, dislocation, and relocation resonate with each other and "immigrant America." Whereas the conventional immigration/assimilation paradigm assumes the resolvability of difference, (im)migration, related to the concept of diaspora, is sensitive to "different differences," related to race, class, gender, etc. Further, (im)migration points to the variability and mobility within the immigrant experience. I use the concept of diaspora, not as a metaphor, but as a lens through which to investigate subjectivities that disturb the assumed union between place, culture and identity. I further employ various exigencies of "locational feminism" to take into account shifting, unstable, postmodern identities and, at the same time, pay attention to historical and material particularities. Multiple Affiliations shows how "diasporic" dialectics - negotiations of here and there, continuity and change, roots and routes - continually shape (im)migrant subjectivities, even if the possibility of returning to the homeland is precluded and even if the experience of immigration is not firsthand. Acts of imaginative memory are called upon to re-configure diasporic identity by linking the present and the past, here and there, self and ethnic group, and with marked insistence, to rewrite history, frequendy to trouble national schemes. I propose that, far from inhabiting separate spheres, immigrant and diasporic sensibilities often overlap.digitalisering@umu
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Wilcox, F. Rowan. "Home, neighborhood, and renewal : resident perceptions of forced relocation." Thesis, Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1655.
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Gaudry, William. "Utilisation de l’habitat par le chevreuil (Capreolus capreolus) dans des environnements variables et contrastés." Thesis, Lyon 1, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LYO10317/document.
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Au sein de son aire de répartition, le chevreuil (Capreolus capreolus) rencontre des conditions environnementales variables et contrastées qui engendrent une grande variété de patrons d'utilisation de l'espace. Jusqu'à présent, aucune étude n'a clairement établi un lien entre les différents patrons d'utilisation de l'espace et les conditions environnementales dans lesquelles le chevreuil évolue, ce qui limite notre compréhension des mécanismes impliqués dans le processus de sélection d'habitat. Grâce aux suivis télémétriques de nombreux chevreuils dans 4 sites avec des conditions environnementales fortement variables et contrastées nous avons cherché à établir un lien entre les variations des conditions environnementales et les variations des patrons d'utilisation de l'espace. Ainsi, nous avons démontré qu'en milieu alpin, les chevreuils adaptent l'amplitude de leurs déplacements en fonction des variations spatiales et temporelles de la disponibilité des ressources ainsi qu'en fonction des conditions d'enneigement. Contrairement aux précédentes études sur l'utilisation de l'espace par le chevreuil en milieu de montagne, nous avons montré que les mouvements des chevreuils au sein de notre aire d'étude correspondaient à un processus de sélection d'habitat de troisième ordre (48 cas; 89%) plutôt qu'à de la migration partielle, puisque très peu d'individus (6 cas; 11%) avaient stabilisé leurs déplacements au sein de domaines vitaux distincts au cours des saisons. Par ailleurs, nous avons démontré que le comportement de sélection d'habitat des chevreuils à l'échelle du domaine vital était très variable entre les populations mais également au sein de chaque population. Ainsi dans les forêts les plus pauvres où les ressources sont spatialement séparées au sein de différents habitats, nous avons démontré que les chevreuils étaient contraints de réaliser des compromis, générant des réponses fonctionnelles en sélection d'habitat. Au contraire, dans les habitats les plus riches où les ressources sont disponibles dans toutes les catégories d'habitat, nous n'avons pas observé de réponse fonctionnelle puisque les chevreuils n'étaient pas contraints et donc ne réalisaient pas de compromis. De plus, nous avons démontré que les chevreuils avec une même composition de domaine vital dans différents sites, utilisaient les ressources différemment. Ces résultats démontrent que la façon dont une ressource est utilisée ne dépend pas seulement de son niveau de disponibilité au sein du domaine vital mais varie également en fonction des conditions environnementales. De ce fait, il est impératif de tenir compte des conditions environnementales au sein d'un site pour mieux comprendre les mécanismes impliqués dans l'émergence des différents patrons d'utilisation de l'espace observés chez les ongulés. Enfin, nous avons tenté d'établir un lien entre les variations observées dans les patrons de sélection d'habitat à différentes échelles et la valeur sélective des chevreuils dans les populations de Chizé et de Trois-Fontaines pour lesquelles les données requises étaient disponibles, mais nous n'avons pu mettre en évidence aucun effet du comportement de sélection d'habitat sur la valeur sélective individuelle des femellesAcross its distributional range, the European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) encounters a wide range of environmental conditions that generate marked differences of space use patterns. However, linking variation in space use by animals in different populations facing contrasted environmental conditions to site-specific conditions has not yet been investigated, which currently limits our understanding of the mechanisms involved in habitat selection. Using data collected on roe deer equiped with VHF and GPS collars in four different sites with contrasted environmental conditions, we aimed to fill this knowledge gap by relating variations in space use by animals in variable environmental conditions. We found that roe deer in Alpine environment adapt the magnitude of their movements to the spatial and temporal variation in resource availability, but also to the amount of snow cover. Contrary to previous studies on roe deer performed in mountain ranges, we showed that roe deer movements in the northern French Alps corresponds to the usage of various habitat components within the home range (third order habitat selection process; 48 cases; 89%) rather than as partial migration because very few (6 cases; 11%) roe deer stabilized their activity in distinct home ranges across seasons. Moreover, we found that roe deer markedly differed in habitat selection within their home range, both within and among populations. Roe deer facing poor environmental conditions with spatially segregated resources should trade one resource for another one, which generates a functional response in habitat selection. At the opposite, roe deer benefiting from rich environmental conditions in their home range do not have to trade one resource for another one and therefore did not display any functional response. In addition, our results suggest that a same habitat composition can lead to widely different space use patterns. These findings demonstrate that the way a given habitat type is used in relation to its availability strongly varies in response to environmental conditions, so that accounting for variation in environmental conditions is required to provide a reliable assessment of the mechanisms involved to shape the diversity of space use patterns we currently observed in ungulates. Finally, we looked for linking observed variation in space use patterns to indivudual fitness of female roe deer in the populations of Chizé and Trois-Fontaines for which the required data were available. However, we did not find any evidence of a positive effect of the intensity of habitat selection on individual female fitness
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Garet, Catherine Annie France. "Le grand voyage." AUT University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/903.
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For most writers who deal with displacement, rewriting themselves, articulating and communicating their sense of estrangment is their lifetime work. For displacement forces one to leave behind the familiar and embrace the unknown. In this process of deconstruction, the concepts of home, belonging and identity are renegotiated and questioned constantly. Le Grand Voyage – the working title for the draft of a novel that is presented in conjunction with this exegesis – is a fictional work that is produced out of the implications of displacement, which inscribes itself in a series of explorations I started in 2001, cumulating with two video works Frammento in 2003 and Footnotes in 2004. Le Grand Voyage investigates further the concept of home by questioning the home/mother relationship. The exegesis aims to contextualise the making of Le Grand Voyage by using another woman’s narrative as the main point of reference: Linda Olsson’s Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs (2005). Olsson’s work – like mine – is conceived out of the effects of displacement, and the literary form and structure display symptoms that are characteristics to narratives of displacement. By putting the home/mother/daughter in context, the narrative displays home as a patriarchal construct showing how the idealisation of home/place is predicated on a gendering of home, whereby, as McDermott notes, ‘home is constructed as a maternal, static and past, to which the (male) subjects longs to return’ (2003: 265). The narrative’s point of view is that of daughters but also that of mothers as daughters, and enables not only a feminist discussion of the notion of home but also of motherhood. Therefore, the theoretical approach for this work has encompassed feminists’ writings that have particularly focused their research on space, place and gender. In challenging the dominant form of gender constructions and relations, the first and second wave feminism have empowered many women to leave home in order to shape their own version of identity. I believe it is within the perspective of displacement, of being out of place, that many women continue to find the necessary distance to contest a particular reading of woman and home that still prevails in academic literature and fiction. Thus, an important part of this exegesis concentrates on the critic of home. I want to argue in a feminist way that our ideas of home and belonging still reflect gendered assumptions and are therefore contestable. That displacement as a catalyst for loss, emotional grief and mourning becomes an enabling way for women to rethink home in terms of what was at play rather than in place and to do the ‘memory work’ that feminists ask women to do: to remember in order not to forget because ‘forgetting is a major obstacle to change’ (Greene, 1991: 298). Their attacks on the feminisation of place have opened up for me possibilities to think of home outside the parameters of sameness. They have also enabled me to understand the paradoxical position a displaced person is faced with: if displacement is favored and privileged why then do longings for home still persist for some? – a fact that is well illustrated in the actual resurgence of the preoccupation to belong. The gain in displacement also involves the fact that distance forces one to look at the longing and nostalgia for what they really conceal. In the case of a woman and, motherless daughters, distance, as this exegesis demonstrates, enables the writer to unveil the longings as subversive and fraudulent, tricking women into thinking there was nothing better than the past: home sweet home, the safe, bounded nest where women could be women: could be the mother. With the ‘memory work’ they both learn to think away from the parameters of sameness and the past, outside the nostalgic stances of singularity, safety, boundaries and internalised histories, therefore outside of the maternal, the home/mother relationship. ‘What is home?’ is a difficult question to negotiate for a woman. The exegesis and the first draft of the novel show what is at stake when one asks the question and the responsibility of women when writing about home.
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Salameh, Hadeel J. "Dancing with Birds." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1552037191445985.
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Baumart, Joele Schmitt. "Dinâmica espacial, migração e preferência de micro-hábitat de Aegla longirostri bond-buckup e buckup, 1994 (crustacea, anomura, aeglidae)." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2014. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/3289.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorUnderstanding the population dynamic processes is fundamental to access its viability (health). Great part of these processes is closely related to the organism densities in a studied population. These data can reveal how the population is arranged in the environment and, in adverse conditions, it is possible to forecast the occurrence of dispersion/migration. This study aims to investigate some ecological parameters of an Aegla longirostri population, a freshwater anomuran from the southern Brazil: (i) to estimate the population density, (ii) the substrate preference, (iii) the home range and (iv) the possible dispersion patterns. The study site was the first order stream Sanga do Caranguejo, located in the central region of Rio Grande do Sul State, during 2010 and 2011. For population density and dispersion investigation covo traps were used, distributed through the stream, in different times in the year. The study of the substrate preference used PVC gutters covered by mesh and arranged on the stream substrate, with controlled density population; a surber was used for active search in the stream. The home range analysis used radio telemetry techniques. The population size was estimated in 950 individuals in spring and 210 in autumn (estimated according to the Bayesian Method). With respect to the substrate preference, we found that there is an ontogenetic association regarding the choice. The juveniles, in the first development stages, prefer sandy substrates, while adults (males and females) prefer more complex substrates. The estimates of home range of eglids vary between 8,41 to approximately 45,49 linear meters of stream, and these crustaceans showed the local dislocation, once they perform their activities around a specific point in the stream. To finalize, we identified that the juveniles and adults of eglids are active walkers, not being carried by the flow in a passive way as occurs in larvae stage in other crustaceans. Its activities are related to the environment temperature and density of adult males. We believe that the knowledge about the group has increased, however, as it is a complex group, with a rich evolutionary history, much remain to be investigated about these freshwater crustaceans.
A compreensão dos processos de dinâmica populacional é fundamental para se avaliar a viabilidade (saúde) de uma população. Grande parte desses processos estão estreitamente relacionados com a densidade de organismos da população estudada. Estes dados podem revelar como a população está distribuída no ambiente e, em condições de adversidade ambiental, é possível prever a ocorrência de dispersão/migração. Neste estudo, alicerçado nos fatores ecológicos e biológicos do aeglídeo Aegla longirostri foram investigados: (i) estimativa da densidade populacional, (ii) as preferências de substrato, (iii) a área de vida e (iv) os possíveis padrões de dispersão. Este estudo foi conduzido em um riacho de primeira ordem, Sanga dos Caranguejos, que se localiza na região central do Rio Grande do Sul, durante os anos de 2010 e 2011. Nas investigações sobre densidade populacional e dispersão foram utilizados coletores do tipo covo espaçados pelo riacho, em diferentes estações climáticas do ano. A investigação de preferência de substrato foi conduzida com o uso de calhas de PVC cobertas por malha e dispostas no riacho para o experimento em condições de densidade controlada, e com surber, para busca ativa no riacho. A análise de área de vida foi realizada com a utilização da técnica de rádio telemetria. A população em questão foi estimada em 950 indivíduos na primavera e 210 indivíduos no outono (estimativas segundo o Método Bayesiano). Com relação à preferência de substrato, verificamos que há associação ontogenética quanto à escolha. Os juvenis, nos primeiros estágios de desenvolvimento, preferem substratos arenosos, enquanto que adultos (machos e fêmeas) preferem substratos mais complexos. Estimou-se também que a área de vida desses eglídeos varia desde 8,41 metros até, aproximadamente, 45,49 metros lineares de riacho, e que estes crustáceos apresentam comportamento de deslocamento local, já que realizam suas atividades em torno de um ponto específico do riacho. Observou-se ainda que os juvenis eglídeos, assim como os adultos, são caminhadores ativos, não sendo carregados pela correnteza de forma passiva como ocorre nas fases larvais de outros crustáceos. Suas atividades estão relacionadas com a temperatura do ambiente e com a densidade de adultos machos no riacho. Acreditamos que muito se avançou em termos de conhecimento da ecologia do grupo como um todo, e não apenas para a espécie estudada, servindo este estudo de base para estudo futuros sobre dispersão e área de vida principalmente.
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Kinuthia, Wanyee. "“Accumulation by Dispossession” by the Global Extractive Industry: The Case of Canada." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30170.
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This thesis draws on David Harvey’s concept of “accumulation by dispossession” and an international political economy (IPE) approach centred on the institutional arrangements and power structures that privilege certain actors and values, in order to critique current capitalist practices of primitive accumulation by the global corporate extractive industry. The thesis examines how accumulation by dispossession by the global extractive industry is facilitated by the “free entry” or “free mining” principle. It does so by focusing on Canada as a leader in the global extractive industry and the spread of this country’s mining laws to other countries – in other words, the transnationalisation of norms in the global extractive industry – so as to maintain a consistent and familiar operating environment for Canadian extractive companies. The transnationalisation of norms is further promoted by key international institutions such as the World Bank, which is also the world’s largest development lender and also plays a key role in shaping the regulations that govern natural resource extraction. The thesis briefly investigates some Canadian examples of resource extraction projects, in order to demonstrate the weaknesses of Canadian mining laws, particularly the lack of protection of landowners’ rights under the free entry system and the subsequent need for “free, prior and informed consent” (FPIC). The thesis also considers some of the challenges to the adoption and implementation of the right to FPIC. These challenges include embedded institutional structures like the free entry mining system, international political economy (IPE) as shaped by international institutions and powerful corporations, as well as concerns regarding ‘local’ power structures or the legitimacy of representatives of communities affected by extractive projects. The thesis concludes that in order for Canada to be truly recognized as a leader in the global extractive industry, it must establish legal norms domestically to ensure that Canadian mining companies and residents can be held accountable when there is evidence of environmental and/or human rights violations associated with the activities of Canadian mining companies abroad. The thesis also concludes that Canada needs to address underlying structural issues such as the free entry mining system and implement FPIC, in order to curb “accumulation by dispossession” by the extractive industry, both domestically and abroad.
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Neumark, Devora. "Radical Beauty for Troubled Times: Involuntary Displacement and the (Un)Making of Home." Thesis, 2013. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/977138/1/Neumark_PhD_S2013.pdf.
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This thesis examines the relationship between forced dislocation and home beautification practices. It is the result of an interdisciplinary approach and an arts-based methodology. At the heart of this work lies a double-interrogation: how is the daily appreciation and manipulation of one’s belongings crucial to the experience of creating home anew following forced dislocation and in what ways do these home beautification practices and the repetition of stylized narratives—and other personal and cultural stories of home and its loss—contribute to the perpetuation of violence in places where home is contested?
Home’s properties, associations, and manifestations (or lack-there-of) in the political, cultural, emotional, and embodied realms are investigated using a wide array of materials, including the presentation and analysis of a series of live art events that I convened within the tenure of this cycle of research-creation, historical community pageants, personal stories of home and its loss, as well as salient aspects of housing theory and trauma studies.
This research-creation process leads towards the realisation that deliberate attention paid to the material and immaterial cultures of home may either help transform the traumas of displacement or create new ones. And that furthermore, the beautification of one’s home interior and surroundings is heavily involved in the sense-making process of the (un)making of home.
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Ajulu-Okungu, Anne. "Diaspora and displacement in the fiction of Abdulrazak Gurnah." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/2108.
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Faculty of HumanitiesThis study examines the effects of diaspora and displacement in characters as presented in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise, Admiring Silence and By the Sea. It looks at the role played by these effects in the construction of ideas of home and identity in the characters. Displacement is studied here against a backdrop of a long history of movements brought about by trading activities, exile and voluntary migrations. The texts are set in the east African coastal region, the islands and in Western countries such as England. The study relies on theories of postcolonialism and diaspora for its reading. The introduction places Gurnah’s work within the postcolonial archive by looking at his stance against the existing postcolonial discourses. It is also of importance to consider Gurnah’s biography and attempt to relate this to the view he takes as he narrates this geographical space in a postcolonial era. Chapter two looks at ideas of home as posited by different theorists in relation to the displaced and scattered characters he presents in these texts. Chapter three is concerned with how characters construct their identities against the ideas of ‘otherness’. In this chapter, I argue that Gurnah’s ideas of ‘otherness’ operate outside the (post)colonial idea of the same where the other is defined purely by difference in race. In chapter four I examine the significance of the preponderance of violence in the families presented by Gurnah. I investigate the connection between this perpetration of violence in the family and the idea of an elusive ‘paradise’ which runs through all Gurnah’s texts. The conclusion summarizes my major findings about Gurnah’s presentation of diaspora and displacement in the East African coast and the islands, and how he uses different structures like the home, self and the family to do this.
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WU, DE-WEI, and 吳得瑋. "Leaving Home, Displacement, and Changing Identities: The Case Study of Irregular Yunnanese Migrants from Myanmar to Thailand." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2kx747.
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For most Taiwanese, the issue of Yunnanese migrants on the Thai-Burmese border usually brings to mind scenes from the 1990 movie “A Home Too Far”, where the fierce-ly brave but displaced Kuomintang (KMT) guerillas in the movie has long affected the outside understanding and imagination regarding the Thai-Burmese border. However, review of modern history on population migration at the Thai-Burmese border shows that it cannot be viewed purely as the migration history of KMT stragglers in the 1960s. Up to around the year 2000, due to economic, safety and other considerations, migrants and refugees from Myanmar continued to use channels outside the legal system to enter Thailand, and of which, the Yunnanese migrants who are also cleverly concealed within the descendants of KMT stragglers, have drawn scant attention. This research begins by examining the background on the rise of international human rights discourse, in order to understand how the Thailand government have, after facing international opinions and pressure, steadily increase provision of legal protection in terms of rights to education, health and work for irregular migrants within its border. Secondly, through the life experiences of irregular migrants, analyze how they use iden-tity transformation strategies in order to obtain more advantageous spaces for their sur-vival, and attempt to implement affirmation of their identity. During the research process, in addition to combing through migration related laws and policies, and clarifying the rights enjoyed by the research subjects and the limita-tions they face, the author also carried out in-depth interviews with 11 irregular Yun-nanese migrants in Thailand during 2015 and 2017, in an attempt to profile the inter-viewees’ life images. The research believes that the postnational theory proposed by Soysal (1994/ 2012) where individuals who has their rights guaranteed – under globali-zation – has moved from what previously belong to only citizens, and developed into a trend where non-citizens can also enjoy the same rights. However, traditional form of citizenship has not lost its glamour and has not been completely replaced by postnational citizenship. In addition, a full citizenship still remains what most of the interviewees are in pursuit of.
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Mitchell, Elise. "There's no place like "home" : displacement, domestic space, and ecological consciousness in the work of Elizabeth Gaskell and Susanna Moodie." Thèse, 2016. http://constellation.uqac.ca/3999/1/Mitchell_uqac_0862D_10217.pdf.
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This doctoral dissertation, There’s No Place Like “Home”: Displacement, Domestic Space, and Ecological Consciousness in Nineteenth Century British and Canadian Women’s Writing, offers a reconsideration of Martin Heidegger’s controversial concepts of dwelling and Being (Dasein) in ecocriticism, and, subsequently a rereading of nineteenth century women’s writing through an ecocritical lens. It examines the construction of domestic space in relation to the nonhuman through the work of Susanna Moodie and Elizabeth Gaskell. It posits that their writing addresses the identity and nature of the nonhuman in a way that is consistent with certain aspects of contemporary ecocriticism. First, the theoretical framework of this study brings Dasein into conversation with two theorists that question a hermetic, place-oriented domesticity. Gaston Bachelard’s indoor-outdoor dialectic highlights the dependence of the built environment’s identity on the nonhuman, while Susan Fraiman’s shelter writing de-genders the creation of domestic space and resituates it at the margins of human experience. The result of this conversation is a model of analysis that juxtaposes an uncomfortable Dasein that encompasses the unlimited and unknowable with the human desire for control and contact with the nonhuman.
The ecocritical dimension of Moodie and Gaskell is their marginality, both social and geographical. Their writing about domesticity and home encompasses both a yearning towards and a subversion of Victorian middle-class ideals. The discomfort of this conflicting mindset means that the domestic is decentred and displaced; their coming-of-age narratives mean seeing beyond dilute Romantic conceptualizations of “Nature” and “Home” but not abandoning them completely. A home that facilitates dwelling—a shelter, in other words—must be imperfect and precarious, balancing Victorian middle-class ideals with a mutually recognized relationship with the nonhuman world. A shelter’s interstitial spaces permit the interaction and relationships between human and nonhuman without resorting to fixed identities. Displacement, especially transcontinental displacement in the case of Susanna Moodie, amplifies the experience of uncomfortable human/nonhuman interaction, and thus, permits an ecologically conscious coexistence rather than a domination of the land. The vague, unquestioned “Home” cannot be ecological, then, just as an unquestioned “Nature” that posits a fundamental connection to the land cannot. Moodie and Gaskell demonstrate that “Home” is an illusion, but dwelling in shelter is not.
Notre thèse de doctorat s’intitule There’s No Place Like “Home”: Displacement, Domestic Space, and Ecological Consciousness in Nineteenth Century British and Canadian Women’s Writing. L’objectif de cette thèse consistera, tout d’abord, à une relecture des concepts controversés de l’habitation (dwelling) et de l’existence (Dasein) de Martin Heidegger et, par la suite, à une redéfinition de l’espace domestique du dix-neuvième siècle à l’aide de la pensée écocritique. En concomitance, il s’agit aussi d’effectuer une
lecture renouvelée et novatrice des oeuvres des écrivaines anglo-saxonne et canadienne-anglaise Elizabeth Gaskell et Susanna Moodie, particulièrement par rapport à la relation ténue et complexe entre l’espace domestique et le non-humain que contiennent ces oeuvres, qui convoquent précisément et
étonnamment certains aspects de l’écocritique contemporaine.
Tout d’abord, le modèle théorique met l’habitation en conversation avec deux théories qui questionnent une domesticité hermétique et une orientation du lieu. La dialectique de l’intérieur et de l’extérieur de Gaston Bachelard insiste sur le fait que l’environnement construit dépend fortement du non-humain, tandis que le « shelter writing » de Susan Fraiman « dé-genre » la création de l’espace domestique et le resitue aux marges de l’expérience humaine. Le résultat de cette conversation théorique nous a menés à juxtaposer ainsi un Dasein inconfortable, comprenant l’illimité et l’innommable, à un désir humain pour le contact et le contrôle du non-humain.
La dimension écocritique de Moodie et de Gaskell est leur marginalité, marginalité à la fois sociale et géographique. Leurs écrits domestiques sont élégiaques, tout en questionnant également les idéaux de la classe moyenne victorienne. L’inconfort de cette mentalité conflictuelle produit une domesticité décentrée; les récits du passage à l’âge adulte incorporent une vision qui doit aller au-delà des conceptualisations du chez-soi et de la nature romantiques et diluées, sans toutefois les délaisser totalement. Un chez-soi qui facilite l’habitation un « shelter » doit ainsi être imparfait et précaire, équilibré entre les idéaux de la classe moyenne victorienne et une relation, mutuellement reconnue, avec le non-humain. Les espaces interstitiels d’un « shelter » permettent l’interaction entre humain et non-humain sans fixer d’identité ou d’idéal précis. De plus, le dépaysement, surtout le dépaysement transcontinental, amplifie l’expérience d’une interaction inconfortable entre humain et non-humain. Ultimement, le chez-soi qui n’est pas questionné ne peut pas être écologique et une nature qui insiste sur une connexion
fondamentale entre l’humain et la terre ne peut pas l’être davantage. Il faut, comme on le voit dans les oeuvres de Moodie et de Gaskell, un déplacement et une admission de la faillibilité de l’être humain ainsi que la reconnaissance de l’autonomie du non-humain.
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Willemse, Emma Wilhelmina. "The phenomenon of displacement in contemporary society and its manifestation in contemporary visual art." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4343.
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As an alternative to existing research which states that the phenomenon of displacement resists theorisation because of its complex nature, this study conducts a Phenomenological examination of the nature of displacement in which the interlinked losses in the key concepts of the consciousness of the displaced, namely Memory, Land and home and Identity, are navigated. It is shown that the current consciousness of society mimics these losses with the effect of displacement being experienced as a state of mind by contemporary society. By comparing selected artworks of artists Rachel Whiteread and Cornelia Parker, it is established that although manifested in diverse ways, contemporary artworks reflect displacement according to a set of broadly defined visual signifiers. The visual documentation of a site of displacement in the North West Province of South Africa and subsequently produced artworks underline these findings and highlight the elusive attributes of loss inherent in the displacement phenomenon.Art History, Visual Arts & Musicology
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Fourie, Magdel Suzette. "An investigation into psycho-geographic liminality in selected contemporary South African artworks." Diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29259.
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The global society of today is characterised by global communications, expansive networks and uninterrupted movement of information and people. This study sets out to investigate psycho-geographic liminality, understood as a state of perpetual movement, through the work of selected contemporary South African artists. This liminality is situated between an identity denoted on one hand by fragmentation and fluid change, as a result of transitivity, and on the other hand by a sense of place, which sets up two psychological states, namely displacement and belonging. Transitivity is explored in relation to conditions of post-colonialisation, immigration, emigration and telecommunications within the context of globalisation and is considered in direct in contrast to the concept of place as a physical house, suburb, city or country where one feels 'at home,' denoting a sense of belonging. Through the investigation of relevant theories in sociology, anthropology and philosophy this study proposes that we are in perpetual transit, being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, therefore requiring a new understanding of belonging rooted in a continual flow. CopyrightDissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Wickham, Molly. "Kwin tsaniine das delh = (Returning to the home fire) : an indigenous reclamation." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3597.
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This thesis explores how the Canadian colonial practice of systematic separation of Indigenous children from families and communities has affected displaced Indigenous people and how grassroots community efforts may serve to bring home stolen generations, thereby re-asserting Indigenous control over cultural survival. Given that the thousands of Indigenous children currently in the care of the Ministry of Children and Family Development will grow up disconnected from their communities, this research addresses a dire need amongst Indigenous populations. Through in-depth interviews with displaced individuals, this study seeks to not only illuminate the experiences and needs of displaced people; it also situates this trauma within the context of colonialism. Further, using the Gitdumden (Bear/Wolf) clan of the Wet‟suwet‟en Nation in northern British Columbia as a case study, this research illuminates how a community can strategize solutions for re-integrating displaced community members as a direct response to Canada‟s colonial project.Graduate
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Brown, Natalie. "Missing Homes: Poe, Brontë, Dickens and Displacement." Thesis, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-h5bv-yp77.
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“Missing Homes” examines three nineteenth-century authors whose experiences of displacement from home, professions and/or class influenced their literary innovations. Displacement is not a new theme to scholars of nineteenth-century literature, who have established it as a defining experience of an era characterized by financial crises, industrial development, migration and empire. However, scholarship on displacement has often focused on how novels train readers to manage the experience of displacement and has depicted the emotions like nostalgia that arise from it as potentially compensatory or reconciliatory to the dynamics of capitalism. “Missing Homes” departs from these narratives to explore authors who found displacement anything but manageable or liberating and whose works illustrate a more unstable spectrum of emotional responses to displacement and its dire long-term consequences. Attention to these authors, I argue, offers a parallel theory of nostalgia in which the unsettled longing for a place to call home registers political discontent with the relationship between the individual and the collective rather than reconciles the individual to displacement.
Departing from critics who have focused primarily on the work performed by metaphors and figures of the domestic, “Missing Homes” engages in biographical readings of the lives, economic circumstances and fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte Brontë and Charles Dickens to show how they pursued fantasies of securing homes that could remove them from undesirable personal, economic and political conditions. The failures of these fantasies reveal how conventional narratives describing how individuals might attain security often fail in the face of collective economic conditions in which attaining objects like a home is both economically challenging and often emotionally unfulfilling. Although the variables of their lives were different, I suggest that these authors’ stories of displacement fail to perform therapeutic or intervening work, because the problem of displacement is rooted in material conditions that narrative innovation alone cannot resolve. Instead, readers should derive from these texts and their failures the need for more collective forms of security.