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JACQUARD, CHARLES PHILIPPE. "ONEILYRICAL IMAGINISM: A CARTOGRAPHY CROSSING LANDSCAPES." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2018. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=34838@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
Segundo correntes de pensamentos que anunciam a condição distópica promovida pelo que se convencionou nomear capitalismo global integrado, entra em crise a noção de Humano. Guiados via satélite a transitar por mapas digitais, aventa-se que este trajeto histórico nos conduziu até a rua sem saída deste suposto realismo capitalista. É este o cenário labiríntico de uma sociedade do cansaço, em que os poderes governamentais articulados pelo capital se infiltram pela frágil divisão entre cultura e natureza. O sono, segundo o pesquisador Jonathan Crary, simboliza a última fronteira entre as versões mais atualizadas de uma tecnocracia objetiva que se apodera dos corpos para anestesiar o sensível e, portanto, normatizar os modos de vida a partir também da reorganização da percepção. Na esteira, portanto, de respostas acerca do que fabrica mundos – e suas consequentes formas de habitá-lo – e acerca da emergência de ventilar outros possíveis desdobramentos, esta dissertação debruça sobre a experiência onírica ressignificada como gesto estético-político. Pode o sonho agir como uma mediação – ou como manifestação – de disputa de imaginários capaz de despertar para uma forma de vida sympoiética? É pelo reencantamento do mundo, a partir de um lirismo onírico – e onírico aqui no sentido amplo e do senso comum – que este trabalho será conduzido, visando uma exploração topográfica na tentativa de constituir outra paisagem de mundo.
Oneilyrical Imaginism: A cartography crossing landscapes. According to groups of thought that announce the dystopic condition promoted by what has been called integrated global capitalism, the notion of Humanism plunges into a crisis. Guided by satellite to navigate on digital maps, it is revealed that this historical route led us to a dead-end in a supposed capitalist realism. This is the labyrinthic scenario of a society of weariness, in which governmental powers articulated by capital infiltrate the fragile division between culture and nature. Sleep, according to researcher Jonathan Crary, symbolizes the last frontier between the most up-to- date versions of an objective technocracy that seizes bodies to anesthetize the sensory and therefore normalize lifestyles from the reorganization of perception. In the wake, therefore, of answers about what creates worlds - and their consequent ways of inhabiting it - and about the emergence of letting out other possible outcomes, this dissertation focuses on the dream experience resignified as an aesthetic-political gesture. Can the dream act as a mediation - or as a manifestation - in a dispute of imaginaries be capable of promoting a sympoietic way of life? It is t rough the re-enchantment of the world, from a dream perspective – here in a broad and common sense – that this work will be conducted, aiming at a topographic exploration in the attempt to constitute another landscape of the world.
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Thorin, Isak. "Max Walter Svanberg : En semiotisk studie av några av hans verk." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-446414.
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This essay aims to examine the contents of the picture and the connection between viewer and picture in some of the works of Swedish artist Max Walter Svanberg. The methods applied are the semiotic methods of Charles Sanders Pierce and Roland Barthes to analyse the pictures both in themselves, but also in the context of the written material the artist has left behind about his art. Emerging from these writings is that the overall goal of the artist was to awaken the imagination of the viewer. The results show that Svanbergs’ art distances itself from the Icon and approaches a state as Index of the world. The artist shies away from giving one meaning to any part of his art, and always forces the viewer to interpret. The imagination is sprung by the process of interpretation and association.
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Khosla, Rashmi. "Emma : an imaginist /." View abstract, 1999. http://library.ctstateu.edu/ccsu%5Ftheses/1568.html.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Central Connecticut State University, 1999.Thesis advisor: Loftus T. Jestin. " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts [in English]. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 62-68).
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Almeida, Marina Barbosa de. "Imagining pain." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2012. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/94772.
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Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente, Florianópolis, 2011Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-25T15:51:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 297994.pdf: 2120603 bytes, checksum: f399d37e8a1be779e659cfa014006b86 (MD5)
A presente tese reflete sobre maneiras de sermos afetados por representações de violência e sofrimento humano. A discussão parte da incapacidade do discurso midiático em sensibilizar sua audiência quando imagens violentas não são capazes de causar choque e empatia. Em contraste a estas representações, este estudo examina representações literárias e a experiência de leitura de narrativas que são temática e esteticamente violentas. O argumento segue a metodologia proposta por Marco Abel (2007) na qual a representação de eventos violentos é abordada em termos de sua força estética; em termos do potencial da literatura em suspender o significado e a verdade evitando, assim, a transformação da experiência da violência em uma representação da violência. As análises de Beloved (1987) de Toni Morrison, Push (1996) de Sapphire e The Dew Breaker (2004) de Edwidge Danticat ilustram como escritoras negras norte-americanas utilizam o recurso narrativo deferral of truth ("postergar a verdade"). Tal recurso carrega o potencial de subverter o conhecimento do leitor, trazer de volta sensação e oferecer a possibilidade de criarmos novos significados. Desta forma, estas narrativas de violência e dor tornam-se espaços de indeterminação e dúvida, mas também de imaginação, criatividade e reflexão.
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O'Leary, Zina, of Western Sydney Hawkesbury University, of Arts Education and Social Sciences Faculty, and School of Humanities. "Re-imagining apostasy." THESIS_FARSS_HUM_Oleary_Z.xml, 1997. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/364.
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This dissertation investigates the apostate: those who have given up the beliefs of their birth religion; and apostasy: the process of foregoing said religion. Beyond empirically derived determinants of religious defection often provided by conventional investigations in the sociology of religion, this thesis treats apostasy as a potential signifier of societal change. It attempts to see apostasy as a window for examining the location, of not only apostasy, but of socialisation, religion, and religiosity as constructs of modernity. It provides an investigation beyond a traditional analysis of apostasy as an aberration or problematic rupture in religious socialisation. Rather, apostasy is explored as a potential signifier of resistance to modernistic constructions of socialisation, religion and religiosity. It asks whether, commensurate with an emerging postmodern condition, there has been a transformation in Foucauldian 'technologies of the self' (1988:18) that allows more agency in the negotiation of the self, religion and religiosity. Chapter One introduces and contextualises the argument. It lays the theoretical framework for the thesis and situates the work in the literature. Chapter Two presents the methodology, reviews preliminary statistical findings, and offers the apostasy typology. Chapters Three and Four examine religious socialisation and epistemological orientation of religious disaffiliation. Chapter Five discusses post apostatic re-formations of the self and Chapter Six concludes the thesis with a discussion of the potential need for post apostatic religiosity.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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O'Leary, Zina. "Re-imagining apostasy /." View thesis View thesis, 1997. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030404.111958/index.html.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, 1997."A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Humanities at the University of Western Sydney - Hawkesbury."--T.p. Bibliography: p.310-320.
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McDiarmid, Tracy. "Imagining the war /." Connect to this title, 2005. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0054.
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Olsson, CJ. "Imaging imagining actions." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Section for Physiology, Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1910.
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Harvey, Kathryn Nancy. "David Ross McCord (1844-1930) : imagining a self, imagining a nation." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=100618.
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This thesis is about the life of David McCord and the contribution he made to Canadian public memory as founder of the McCord Museum of National History. In his McGilI-sponsored museum, founded in 1921, McCord sought to promote a myth of Canadian origins with narration provided by the objects of his personal collection. Integral to this history was the story of the McCord family, their arrival on this continent and their rise to social prominence. In McCord's version of Canadian history, family and personal myth were conflated with that of nation. Viewed through the prism of his collecting and museum work, McCord's life does not easily fit the Carlylean frame adopted by most biographers. In Canadian biographical writing by historians, the 'truth' about a person's life is revealed by following the modernist recipe of painstakingly recreating a detailed chronology of the individual's life. The approach followed here is an important departure from traditional political biography. Entry into McCord's life does not occur at his biological birth date, but at the moment of his own self-fashioned 'birthing', with the opening of the museum realized near the end of his life. In this biographical strategy, McCord's museum acts as a theatre of memory, where fragments of his life story are reassembled to create a narrative of national origins and of personal redemption. In his selection of objects and their display, and in the creation of an archive and the museum itself, McCord left a very elaborate and lasting record of his response to a set of changes associated with industrialization, a process which, in his lifetime, radically transformed the Montreal of his parents' generation. This thesis traces the connection between the creation of a public museum, founded to promote a collective vision of the Canadian past, and the private world of one collector whose collecting practice was defined as much by his own desire to remember and be remembered as it was by the kinds of objects he collected. What makes David McCord's life and collection so compelling is the opportunity it provides from understanding national history from the intimate perspective of one individual.
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Vukov, Tamara. "Imagining Canada, imagining the desirable immigrant : immigration spectacle as settler postcolonialism." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ54268.pdf.
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Huttunen, Tomi. "Imažinist Mariengof dendi, montaž, ciniki /." Helsinki : University of Helsinki, 2007. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-10-4432-8.
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Saunders, Edward Isaac John. "Imagining Königsberg, 1945-2010." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.607827.
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Broadwell, Emily Catherine. "Re-Imagining Urban Dwelling." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/104100.
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Housing is one of the most critical design challenges of the 21st century. Sparked by increased urbanization, issues around affordability, density, development, and displacement create stress on people and the urban environment. In Washington D.C., an inadequate supply of housing for families forces them to leave the city in search of more comfortable and affordable options. However, families are essential dwellers in a healthy urban fabric.
This thesis explores how architecture and empathic design-thinking can begin to address these issues and contribute to the health of the family unit and a healthy community. My thesis begs the question… what lifestyles are we encouraging by the way we design?
Dwelling is a more appropriate, personal, and empathic term for housing. Dwelling should meet the needs of its inhabitants and support three vital organs of urban life: social activity, peaceful refuge, and theatrical celebrations. A healthy city and a healthy dwelling should include all three. My goal is to re-imagine urban dwelling for families living in the city and how architecture can create intentional moments of connection between people and the city they are a part of – especially how ideas of transparency and movement or air, light and people can be agents of a healthier urban dwelling.
A new mid-rise multi-family dwelling in Adams Morgan, a colorful, diverse, artistic, and eclectic neighborhood in Washington D.C., creates a home that enhances the experience of dwelling for families. My thesis project supports the primary functions of dwelling and secondary functions of food creation through a kitchen incubator. The intention of the building is that it will serve as a space for growth, for individuals and for growing families, that it will be successful as both a well-designed home and a food lab that fosters collaboration and community for chefs and entrepreneurs who are growing their businesses and connections in the city. The building aims to incorporate living elements with nature integrated into the architecture in various ways. This home will be a space that understands the needs of its inhabitants, respects the context of the neighborhood, and supports a healthier framework of the larger city of Washington D.C.Master of Architecture
Housing is one of the most critical challenges of the 21st century facing the architecture, engineering and construction industry. A lack of suitable housing is a result of increased urbanization and issues around affordability, density, development, and displacement. These challenges create stress on people and specifically the structures where they live. In Washington D.C., an inadequate supply of housing for families forces them to leave the city in search of more comfortable and affordable options. However, families are essential dwellers in the city - they should be supported in the modern urban environment. This thesis explores how architecture and empathic design-thinking, a deep understanding of the problems and realities of the people being designing for, can begin to address these issues and contribute to the health of the family unit and a healthy community. My thesis asks the question…what lifestyles are we encouraging by the way we design? Dwelling, the way and act of living, is a more appropriate, personal, and empathic term for housing. In the architect's mind, dwelling should meet the needs of its inhabitants and support three important facets of urban life: social activity, peaceful refuge, and theatrical celebrations. A healthy city and a healthy dwelling should include all three. The goal of this thesis is to re-imagine what urban dwelling feels and looks like for families living in the city and how architecture can be designed to create intentional moments of connection between people and the community they are a part of. A new mid-rise multi-family dwelling in Adams Morgan, a colorful, diverse, artistic, and eclectic neighborhood in Washington D.C., creates a home that enhances the experience of dwelling for families. My thesis project is foremost a dwelling, a space for living, but also a space for food creation through a community kitchen incubator. The intention of the building is that it will serve as a space for growth, for individuals and families, and that it will be successful as both a well-designed home and a food lab that fosters collaboration for chefs and entrepreneurs who are growing their businesses and connections in the city. This thesis seeks to discover how architecture can empower families and communities to have healthier, more inclusive and connected urban city lives.
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Mngomezulu, Nosipho Sthabiso Thandiwe. "Re-imagining the nation." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019999.
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This thesis examines young people’s constructions of nationhood in Mauritius. In 2008, the Mauritian government instituted a Truth and Justice Commission (TJC), set up to investigate the consequences of slavery and indentured labour. Through the Truth and Justice Commission, the Mauritian government indicated its desire to achieve social justice and national unity. Drawing on developments in studies of national identification practices in the 21st Century, this thesis addresses the question of young Mauritian’s locally and globally informed identification practices and asks how their unofficial narratives of nationhood challenge, or divert, or relate to official state narratives of nationhood. The basis of the study emerges from data collected from 132 participants during fieldwork in multiple fieldsites from May to September 2010 as well as research on Mauritian youth on-line from 2011-2014. The advent of the TJC offers an ideal moment to evaluate the dynamics of post-colonial nation-building and nationhood in a selfstyled multi-cultural state. Nationhood, does not exist apriori to the constructions of narratives of the nation, thus the stories told about the nation, imagine the nation into being. By situating the Truth and Justice Commission and other official state narratives alongside young people’s narratives, I argue that contemporary narratives of nationhood in Mauritius represent an intergenerational struggle to define the meaning of the past in the present and consequently outline the future. Reflecting on the ideas and socio-economic and political processes that induce national consciousness, I argue that young people’s narratives of everyday lived experiences are vital for an interpretation of how nationhood is produced in everyday life. The cultural projects of young people – often rendered as liminal or marginal – offer a critical vantage point from where to read constructions of nationhood. Far from being growing pains or childish games, young people’s identity making practices are what Sherry B. Ortner has called “serious games.” This research suggests that official state government narratives of multicultural nationhood in Mauritius narrowly define national identification along communal loyalties, overlooking the dynamism of interculturality and transnationalism in daily practice on the island. Although communalism and rigid colonial interpretations of ethnicity attempt to police and limit the possibilities of alternative modes of being in Mauritius, young people’s identification practices question, challenge, and threaten to disrupt official discourses of ethnic identification in Mauritius Scholarly investigations of young peoples’ lived experiences of nationhood extend theoretical and methodological frames for the study of nationalized subjects and deepen the understanding of the construction of national consciousness. The construction of nationhood always involves narratives of some sort – scholarship on this area has usually focused on official state narratives from social theorists, state governments, and state elites. I argue for the importance of considering subjectivity and lived experience in conceptions of nationhood. In contemporary post-colonial societies, young people are the numerical majority, however, their voices are seldom represented in theories and narratives of nationhood. Whilst young people may appear in state policies (especially education) and official narratives about the future of the nation, their creative imagining and reimagining of narratives of selfhood is often ignored. I examine how young people increasingly are aware of their transnational connections, through participation in transnational youth cultures, and they are consequently increasingly multi-lingual and multicultural. Fixed notions of ethnic identification and discourses of trauma are not at the forefront of young people’s identification of selfhood, rather their ability to take advantage of their multiply situated identification processes allows them new means to evade and transform these narratives. Their identification of selfhood is characterised by a greater degree of dynamism than previous generations had access to, and thus they do not only identify themselves through officially sanctioned national forms of identification. Loyalty to nationhood is thus less predictable, and young people represent a potential threat to the continuation of older forms of nationhood. While official narratives of nationhood may manipulate ethnic and racial cleavages to secure old loyalties, not all young people are persuaded by these notions
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Ginns, Paul William Education Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "When imagining instructions is effective." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Education, 2002. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/18634.
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Learning from worked examples typically involves study activities, involving reading such materials carefully and attempting to understand the information presented. Considerable evidence has amassed regarding the benefits for novices of studying appropriately constructed worked examples paired with practice questions. However, prior research from the cognitive and sports psychology literatures suggests mental practice of worked examples may be an effective adjunct to studying such materials. Meta-analyses of these literatures suggest the utility of mental practice depends upon the degree of cognitive elements contained within a task, and also suggest that some prior knowledge of a task is necessary for mental practice to be effective. The present series of studies aimed to identify conditions under which mental practice is effective in educationally realistic, highly cognitive domains. Based on the above meta-analytic results, mental practice was hypothesised to enhance learning over further study in highly cognitive domains, but only when students either had sufficient prior knowledge, or were able to develop such knowledge over the course of an instructional intervention. Study activities were primarily expected to support knowledge acquisition, while imagining-based activities (mental practice) were expected to support knowledge automation. The experiments herein thus investigated interactions between levels of prior knowledge, complexity of instructional material, and levels of learning from imagination versus conventional study strategies. In Experiment 1, under conditions of low prior knowledge and complex material (HTML), students who studied worked examples outperformed those who imagined. Experiment 2, using simplified but still complex materials and a similar participant pool, found no differences between conditions, but Experiment 3, using stricter experimental design, found a study effect. In Experiment 4, an imagination effect was found under high prior knowledge. Experiment 5, using less experienced learners, suggested those who studied outperformed those whom imagined on acquisition questions. Experiment 6 found a sequence of study then imagination is more effective than imagination then study. The results have broad application for effective sequencing of these instructional strategies, but development of an accurate metric for imagination "readiness" is required to advance theory and practice, and more evidence is needed for a schema automation explanation of mental practice effects.
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Adler, Ira R. "What's in Self-Referential Imagining?" Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/271612.
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The combination of memory-enhancing processes of imagining and of self-reference has been shown to improve memory function, the Self-Imagining Effect (SIE), in healthy subjects and in Persons with neurological damage resulting from traumatic brain injury (TBI). Prior studies Have instructed participants to "imagine yourself' but have not confirmed that self-referential Information is being accessed in self-imagining. The current study investigated the content of Self-referential imagining which may mediate the SIE advantage. Participants, both healthy Persons and persons who had sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and suffer memory Impairment, were instructed to imagine themselves and an "other-person" interacting with various objects and to simultaneously describe their imaginings. The recorded imaginings were Scored for descriptive (location, agent, event and perception/emotion) and referential (self, other Specific, and general) elements. Findings suggest that self-imagining does access self-referential Information and is more content-rich than other-person imagining. The elements found in self-imagining were representative of episodic-like information. Other-person imagining, while not as content-rich, contained proportionately similar descriptive elements. The study provides a Better understanding of the salient features of self-imagining and may elucidate the role of self-referential Knowledge in mnemonic strategies in persons with neurological damage due to TBI.
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Bidgood, Lee. "Imagining Place in Bluegrass Music." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1102.
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Strohminger, Margot. "Knowledge of modality by imagining." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6351.
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Assertions about metaphysical modality (hereafter modality) play central roles in philosophical theorizing. For example, when philosophers propose hypothetical counterexamples, they often are making a claim to the effect that some state of affairs is possible. Getting the epistemology of modality right is thus important. Debates have been preoccupied with assessing whether imaginability—or conceivability, insofar as it's different—is a guide to possibility, or whether it is rather intuitions of possibility—and modal intuitions more generally—that are evidence for possibility (modal) claims. The dissertation argues that the imagination plays a subtler role than the first view recognizes, and a more central one than the second view does. In particular, it defends an epistemology of metaphysical modality on which someone can acquire modal knowledge in virtue of having performed certain complex imaginative exercises.
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Tolley, Rebecca. "Review of Imagining Her Erotics." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2001. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5708.
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Batman, Joshua S. "Re-Imagining the Middle Landscape." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/23719.
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This thesis seeks to tie into the underlying ideology of the middle landscape that has shaped housing development in the United States up to this point, and re-imagine its physical manifestation. An incremental approach is taken in imagining what housing might be in America, considering our myths surrounding the single family house, micro and macro community creation, density, sustainability (regarding the economics of the home and country, as well as our place in an ecosystem), emerging timber construction of tall buildings, and industrialized methods of building. A mix of passive and active green building strategies are employed in making an expanded or "inhabited envelope", which surrounds a 22-story mass timber modular mid-rise residential tower in Red Hook Brooklyn. The base of the tower and development of the city block include a cooperative factory for wood based production, innovative bike storage, bike repair shop, shared use digital fabrication lab, shared use shops (wood, metal, and upholstery), loading dock, laundry, gym, shared use office space, and café.
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Peterson, Eric M. "ON SUPPOSING, IMAGINING, AND RESISTING." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/philosophy_etds/18.
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My research focuses on the philosophy of imagination. Within the analytic tradition, there recently has been a growing interest in imagination. The current research lies at the crossroads of various sub-disciplines of philosophy, including aesthetics, moral psychology, ethics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind. My work joins this choir as a voice from within philosophy of mind.
My dissertation addresses two questions within philosophy of imagination. What I call the Relation Question asks what is the proper relation between supposition and imagination, and what I call the Unification Question asks what is the imagination. With regards to the Relation Question, philosophers answer it in one of two ways: either supposition and imagination are distinct mental capacities (what I call two-nature views) or supposition is a kind of imagination (what I call one-nature views). I argue that both views fail to explain all of the features central to the relation. With regards to the Unification Question, many philosophers doubt it has an answer because there is no clear way to unify the disparate activities of imagination. I argue that this skepticism is the result of mischaracterizing the relation between imagining and supposing. Thus, I answer both the Relation and Unification Questions by arguing that both imagining and supposing (as we typically understand these terms) are both instances of what I call the as-if-true attitude. I call this the as-if-true attitude view of imagining. The explanatory payoff of this is that my view can explain all of the features central to the relation without positing two distinct mental capacities (as two-nature views do) and without getting facts about supposition wrong (as one-nature views do). It also gives us a way of seeing how we might unify the different activities of imagination.
Finally, I demonstrate that my view has application to what is known in the literature as the phenomenon of imaginative resistance. This phenomenon has to do with competent imaginers failing to comply with invitations to imagine certain propositions. It has been noted in the literature that there is variation to this phenomenon, where some people experience it and some do not. Some philosophers attempt to explain this by appealing to contextual factors. Thus, I call them Contextual Variant Views. I argue that these views fail to account for all of variation. I show that from my as-if-true attitude view comes another view that I call Constraint Variant View. I argue that this view can account for all of the variation of imaginative resistance.
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McDiarmid, Tracy. "Imagining the war / imagining the nation : British national identity and the postwar cinema, 1946-1957." University of Western Australia. School of Humanities, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0054.
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[Truncated abstract] Many historical accounts acknowledge the ‘reverberations’ of the Second World War that are still with the British today, whether in terms of Britain’s relationships with Europe, the Commonwealth, or America; its myths of consensus politics and national unity; or its conceptions of national character. The term ‘reverberations’, however, implies a disruptive, unsettling influence whereas today’s popular accounts and public debates regarding national identity, more often than not concerned with ‘Englishness’ as a category distinctive from ‘Britishness’, instead view the Second World War as a time when the nation knew what it was and had a clear understanding of the national values it embodied a time of stability and consensus. This thesis demonstrates that, in the postwar period, ‘British’ was not a homogeneous political category, ‘Britishness’ was not a uniformly adopted identity, and representations of the nation in popular cinema were not uncontested. British national identity in the postwar 1940s and 1950s was founded upon re-presentations of the war, and yet it was an identity transacted by class, gender, race and region. Understandings of national identity ‘mirrored’ by British films were influenced by the social and political context of their creation and reception, and were also a reflection of the cinema industry and its relationship to the state. Both ‘national cinema’ and ‘national identity’ are demonstrated to be fluctuating concepts dominant myths of the war were undermined and reinforced in response to the demands of the postwar present.
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Eyster, Zachary C. "Re-imagining ethics: re-imagining salvation Josef Fuchs, fundamental option, and the soteriological implications thereof /." Click here for download, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1674095671&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Nielsen, Hanne Elliot Fønss. "The Wide White Stage: Representations of Antarctica in Theatrical Productions (1930-2011)." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Gateway Antarctica, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8812.
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This project examines representations of Antarctica in the theatre and analyses these in terms of space and place in order to chart the development of awareness of the continent. As examples of cultural production, plays and their treatment of imagined Antarctic space can provide insights into how attitudes towards the continent have developed and been expressed by revealing the dominant narratives at various points in time. A close reading of nine plays from 1930 – 2011 focuses on the use of mimetic and diegetic space within the theatre, examining the language used, stories told and attitudes present. Such analysis reveals the factors determining the choice of an Antarctic setting, be they ecological, political or metaphorical, whilst shedding light on how attitudes towards place, space and representation have changed within the theatre context.
These plays can be grouped under four thematic headings, namely “In Scott’s Footsteps,” “Retelling,” “Reimagining,” and “Returning.” While Antarctica remains a backdrop in earlier plays, where Heroic Era narratives are foregrounded, more recent productions have seen the continent come to the fore, where it is treated as part of a global web of connections. These plays illustrate a progression in how Antarctica has been represented upon the stage, a progression that parallels how we have thought about Antarctica in general.
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Butler, Jason A. "Imagining an archetypal approach to psychotherapy." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3560879.
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One of the primary pursuits of archetypal psychology has been to "unpack the backpack" of psychology—relying heavily on a methodological stance of via negativa, or description through negation, and deconstruction. This position has resulted in a wealth of critique that, while often controversial and even heretical, has had a significant impact on the field of psychology. It is important to note, however, that this deconstructive approach is also one fantasy amongst many. A move towards seeing through this methodology invokes an immediate encounter with the dismembering influence of Dionysus. It is the Dionysian presence that facilitates the radical re-visioning and tearing apart of stale, violently fixated, and dogmatic theory and practice. Through the work of archetypal psychology, Dionysus has presented as a dialectic partner to the abhorrent one-sidedness of Apollonian natural science psychology. As necessary as this deconstruction has been, James Hillman (2005) himself has noted, every archetypal image has its own excess and intensity. Without an explicitly constructive element, the clinical implications of archetypal psychology will remain largely dormant. Archetypal psychology has yet to produce a work that effectively encapsulates an archetypal approach to psychotherapy (Hillman, 2004). True to its Dionysian form, dismembered pieces of therapeutic method are strewn throughout the literature (Berry, 1982, 2008; Guggenbühl-Craig, 1971; Hartman, 1980; Hillman, 1972, 1975a, 1977a, 1978, 1979b, 1980b; Newman, 1980; Schenk, 2001a; Watkins, 1981, 1984). This study will attempt to gather the disparate pieces of archetypal method and weave them together with dreams, fantasy images, and clinical vignettes in an effort to depict the particular style taken up by archetypal psychotherapy. While respecting the importance of deconstruction and via negativa, the aim of this research is to re-construct and clearly describe the primary elements of a therapeutic method derived from the literature of archetypal psychology using a theoretical design complemented by the alchemical hermeneutic method resulting in a depiction of an archetypal approach to psychotherapy. The face of archetypal psychotherapy that has taken form throughout this study is one in which the phenomenal presentation of psychic image is given radical autonomy and privilege.
Keywords: Archetypal, Dream, Image, Myth, Psychotherapy.
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Hutchings, Kevin D. "Imagining nature, Blake's vision of materiality." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0005/NQ42852.pdf.
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Hutchings, Kevin Douglas. "Imagining nature : Blake's vision of materiality /." *McMaster only, 1998.
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Laycock, Joanne. "Imagining Armenia: orientalism, history and civilisation." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.487804.
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Garforth, Lisa. "Green utopias : imagining the sustainable society." Thesis, University of York, 2002. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/9770/.
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Bailes, Freya Ann. "Musical imagery : hearing and imagining music." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2002. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3452/.
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Musical imagery is defined as the conscious 'inner hearing' of a mental representation of music. In spite of the apparent importance of imagery for musical activity, there is a dearth of empirical knowledge on the subject, due in part to its essentially private and internal nature. Psychological methods of examining the phenomenon are necessarily restricted to indirect research techniques. This thesis explores the intuition that musical imagery is central to musical thought, through an exploration of its occurrence and its character in a variety of musical activities. Three categories of musical imagery are described. First, musical imagery can occur unintentionally - the phenomenon often called 'tune on the brain'. Second, musical imagery may be an involuntary consequence of musical activity. Finally, imagery may be intentional, as in the ‘silent' analysis of musical score. The studies reported progress from unintentional to intentional imagery, combining a variety of methods in increasingly specialised musical contexts to investigate the relationship between imagery and perception. The subject is approached through theoretical discussion, a sampling study, experiments, fieldwork, and interviews with expert musicians. It is argued that musical imagery and perception are separable but mutually dependent cognitive phenomena. The results highlight a shifting relationship between perception and imagery depending upon the contextual factors of image intentionality and musical task. Evidence is provided for the prevalence of 'tune on the brain' episodes in everyday life. The veridicality of imagery for different musical dimensions is also explored, with the experiment finding that tirnbre is a less stable component of musical imagery than timing and pitch. Musical imagery is described as situated between the subconscious influence of mental representations during the pure perception of music, and the rare occurrence of eidetic imagery.
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Baker, Stephen. "Imagining Ulster in the modern world." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274082.
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Paskins, Susan Karin. "Imagining enlightenment : Buddhism and Kipling's Kim." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2017. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/248/.
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In this thesis I situate Kipling’s shaping of Buddhist ideas in Kim against the background of Victorian constructions of the religion, deriving from scholarly, popular, Christian and theosophical positions. Kipling’s presentation of the lama in Kim challenges many of these interpretations since Kipling fashions himself as one who ‘knows’ about Buddhism, just as he claims to be one of the ‘native-born’ who understands India. I trace Kipling’s hostility to the missionary endeavour and also show his deep-rooted antagonism to theosophy, as manifest in three of his short stories as well as in Kim. Comparing Kim and The Light that Failed, I show that both novels deal with Kipling’s childhood experiences in Southsea, the one imagining the adult he could have been, and the other a fantasy of what life could have been like had he stayed in India and fully immersed himself in its religious life. Kipling’s biographical self-positioning thus motivates various degrees of resistance to and recrafting of the Victorian construction of Buddhism. The thesis presents a reading of Kim in which consideration of its religious ideas takes precedence over the post-colonialist analysis that has dominated critical approaches to the novel in recent decades.
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Mitchell, Mary. "Re-imagining family group conferencing 'outcomes'." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31278.
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Family Group Conferencing (FGC) is a family led decision-making approach where practical plans are made by the family to keep children safe and improve their quality of life. FGC has attracted worldwide interest from policymakers, researchers and practitioners for its potential to: involve families in the decision-making process in child and families social work; keeping children safe within a culture of co-operation between the state and families. There is significant empirical research about the impact of the FGC process on families, and its immediate outcomes but less is known about outcomes in the longer-term. This thesis reports on the findings of a retrospective qualitative study, which sought to understand the contribution FGC makes to longer-term outcomes for looked after children at risk of being accommodated, and their families. Eleven FGC examples were studied across five local government areas in Scotland. Each example includes the perspective of different stakeholders in the process including: looked after children, their parents and extended family (n=32), and professionals (n=28) involved with them. Criteria for case selection included: the child and family had originally been referred to FGC service because the family social worker considered the child was at risk of being accommodated; the stages of FGC had been achieved and a family meeting had taken place at least one year prior to the data being collected; the age of the child who was the focus of the meeting was over eight years old wherever possible; and the core family members were prepared to be involved in the study. Individual, joint or group interviews were conducted to provide multi-dimensional perspectives of the FGC phenomena. FGC service documents (n=94) were also analysed, providing data of social activity that occurred prior to the study. This study challenges current outcome focused paradigms, arguing for a more complex and nuanced understanding of outcomes in child welfare, where the child and family,alongside professionals,are valued in the identification and measurement of outcomes. Evidence from this study highlights the need to accept two sets of outcomes when considering FGC contribution: personal and professional. The identification of outcomes in this manner supports three interconnected issues argued throughout the thesis in relation to contribution. Firstly, process matters to the service user and his/her experience of the service and opinion of outcomes. Secondly, what professionals do and how they do it is important to the outcomes of families requiring support -relationships and practice are therefore central concerns in understanding how and why families achieve (or not) longer-term outcomes. Finally, who defines outcomes and to what purpose is significant when conceptualising outcomes. The study draws on empowerment, recognition and partnership theories to better understand FGCs contribution to longer-term outcomes for children and families. The study found the FGC process contributed towards building service users' capacities to reflect on their own and acknowledge others' experiences and situations. Feelings of increased confidence, self-respect and self-esteem, derived from the FGC process, contributed towards improved social relations and a sense of control over their own lives. This increased capacity can support family members to manage future crises and conflict if they arise. FGC offers professional and service users an opportunity to reframe unhelpful attitudes towards each other. In the longer term this can contribute towards families reduced need for social work services and/or improved working relationships between social work and families. This study has significance for all professionals working with looked after children and their families; contributes to the theoretical knowledge applied in social work practice; and is applicable when considering the implementation and impact of child welfare policy in Scotland and internationally.
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Spencer, Alexander. "Re-Imagining the National Park Experience." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1535372504337022.
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Hopper, Keith. "Imagining otherwise : Neil Jordan's counter-narratives." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669873.
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Rivera, Céspedes Ivana. "Metamorphosis imaginis : exploraciones en la mutabilidad de la imagen-materia." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2018. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/153188.
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Woodward, Suzanne. "Imagining possibilities: trans representations in mainstream film." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/16575.
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Trans representations have been a part of film since its inception, and this project is an investigation of the ways that audiences have been encouraged to imagine trans identities and experiences and understand trans issues. Because of the enduring and widespread popularity of these films, and the power and influence of the medium itself, it is important to understand what they enable for mainstream audiences as well as the role they play in cultural discourses about heteronormativity. The ways that the films construct trans narratives and characters tends to be closely tied to the genre they are intended to be part of, and they are understood according to these conventions. This project therefore uses genre analysis to examine mainstream trans representation, in conjunction with the developments in politics and academic discourses that have shaped contemporary understandings of trans stories. The project covers the four genres that dominate in mainstream trans films: comedy, horror, melodrama, and musicals. Each genre is dealt with in a separate chapter, but the links and intersections between them are explored as well. The chapters consider the particular influences, conventions, constraints, and innovations specific to each genre, through close reading of a few key texts, as a way of tracing the shifts that have occurred and the conventions that have endured, and offers suggestions as to why and how these elements survive or transform. Through tracing these developments, this project identifies the ways in which trans representations in popular film have played a role in developing and maintaining the trans visibility in mainstream society, and contributed to cultural discourses and understandings of trans issues. Despite the problems and stereotypes inherent in many of these films, they prevent trans identities from being erased or ignored. The films open up gaps in the heteronormative monolith, which can be ever be fully resealed, and which provide a space for other possibilities to be imagined.Whole document restricted until Jan. 2013, but available by request, use the feedback form to request access.
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Bokhorst-Heng, Wendy D. "Language and imagining the nation in Singapore." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0010/NQ35114.pdf.
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Rasberry, Gary William. "Imagining the curious time of researching pedagogy." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/nq27231.pdf.
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Campbell, Douglas. "Rumours of reality, imagining film as ethnography." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ42054.pdf.
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Sauer, Eric F. "Imagining the impossible insurgency in the U.S.A." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/5739.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.As the United States focuses on external threats will internal threats sufficient to enable the overthrow of the United States government materialize? Most contemporary literature prescribes a myriad of solutions to counter a foreign nation's insurgency after it has already manifested. A prudent way to counter an insurgency is to identify it and prevent it before it starts. To know when an insurgency is developing is difficult, but is an important measure for any government to pursue to ensure its survival. Historically, the United States has not been immune to insurgent impulses. Although not necessary for insurgent mobilization, a Perfect Storm of converging existing conditions (globalization, demographic shifts, anti-Christian attitudes, and increasing domestic militarization) may threaten America's white non-Hispanic Christian population and potentially foment an insurgency. Current trends suggest this may already be happening in an area within the United States. This research seeks to determine the mechanisms by which an insurgency could manifest itself in the United States and assist the U.S. government in considering how to preemptively counter a domestic insurgency.
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Beauchamp, Bridget Anne. "Imagining coherence : the construction of professional identity." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368191.
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This thesis explores the notion that the construction of coherence in professional identity is an act of imagining. The first stage of the inquiry focused on what it means to be a facilitator in person-centred encounter groups and learning programmes and was conducted through interviews with facilitators. In the second stage another interview study was undertaken, this time with counsellors whose training had been in the person-centred therapeutic tradition. The focus here was on how those interviewed claimed or assembled professional identity. The inquiry was made complex because throughout the two stages I was undertaking a person-centred learning programme and then starting in professional practice as a counsellor. This insider status and the question of whose professional identity was being constructed both demanded and enabled new ways of looking. I argue that carrying out research where it would seem not to be possible, because the relation between the researcher and what is being researched is complex, needs ways of looking consonant with the context of that research. Thus my self as researcher became both a site and a tool in the inquiry. An incident during my learning programme is told as a story and, being constructed as critical to the inquiry, is examined. Connections are made between the choice of methodology, the conduct of the research and the practice of counselling and facilitation. I suggest that participants in the research, facilitators, counsellors and the researcher, discursively constructed professional identity by positioning who they were and what they thought they were doing, momentarily, that is in the moment of talking or writing, within the discourses variously available to them, within stories of their lives and in relation to their notions of self.
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Lim, Francis Khek Gee. "Imagining the good life in the Himalaya." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.412257.
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Loizou, Zacharoula. "Re-imagining the waterfront : The Masthamnen case." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-254560.
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Montt, Strabucchi Maria. "Imagining China in contemporary Latin American literature." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/imagining-china-in-contemporary-latin-american-literature(39f1026f-5a85-4bd5-b9ac-db55a80d2e14).html.
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Since the late 1980s, there has been a steady production of Latin American narrative fiction in Spanish concerning China and the Chinese. Despite the work written about China and its relation to Latin America, no comprehensive examination of the representation of China in literature has been produced thus far. This thesis analyses nine novels in which China is the main theme, exploring how China has been represented in Latin American narrative fiction in recent decades. Using 'China' as a multidimensional term informed by Sara Ahmed's understanding of 'strangerness' (2000), this thesis first explores how the novels studied here both highlight and undermine assumptions about China that have long shaped Latin America's understanding of 'China'. Secondly, using theories of the fetish, it shows 'China' to be a kind of literary/imaginary 'third' term which reframes Latin American discourses of alterity. On one level, it is argued that these texts play with the way that 'China' stands in as a wandering signifier and as a metonym for Asia, a gesture that essentialises it as an unchanging other. On another level, it argues that the novels' employment of 'China' resists essentialist constructions of Latin American identity. 'China' is thus shown here to be a symbolic figure in Latin America, serving as a concept through which criticism of the construction of fetishised otherness becomes possible, as well as criticism of the exclusion inherent in essentialist discourses of identity, such as those contained in mestizaje. These discourses of mestizaje have traditionally emphasised racial and cultural mixture, and have excluded the Chinese from discourses of Latin American identity. As a result, 'China' is used here to deconstruct bound identities, interrupting discourses of otherness within Latin America. From this perspective, it is argued that these novels tend to gesture towards an understanding of identity as 'being-with', and community as inoperative, as developed by Jean-Luc Nancy (1991, 2000), whilst taking a cosmopolitan stance, as developed by Berthold Schoene (2011). The novels have been divided between those that set their stories in China, such as Cesar Aira's 'Una novela china' (1987); those that explore Chinese communities in Latin America, such as Ariel Magnus' 'Un chino en bicicleta' (2007); and those that focus on Latin American travel to China, such as Ximena Sanchez Echenique's 'El ombligo del dragon' (2007). Indebted to Ahmed's, Nancy's and Schoene's theoretical perspectives, Chapter 1 explores how 'China', as both a physical space and a discursive context, foregrounds negotiations of power in the histories of both China and Latin America. Chapter 2 studies how 'China' is used to recall and interrogate the notion of an indistinct 'oriental'. The final chapter seeks to understand the ways in which the novels articulate travel to China as a means of challenging Eurocentric structures and 'national' epistemologies. Ultimately, by disclosing the complex operations through which 'China' is represented in Latin American literary discourses, this study explores possible further reconfigurations of Latin American notions of identity and community as non-essentialist and in constant development.
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Samman, Amin Thomas. "Re-imagining the crises of global capital." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2013. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3970/.
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This thesis explores the imaginary dimensions of economic crisis through a study of the interface between practices of historical representation and processes of social construction. Its core argument is that a sense of history cannot be disentangled from the phenomena that it strives to apprehend. As a result, there can be no fixed and objective relation between the evolution of global capitalism and its long history of crises. Instead, the very intelligibility of both ‘crisis’ and ‘history’ is produced through an iterated telescoping of time, whereby more or less distant events and episodes are grasped together in ways that lend meaning to those of the present. This argument is taken forward via an in-depth and quasi-historical analysis of the 2008 crisis. Focusing on how past crises figure within the pronouncements of international policymaking organisations and the commentary of the global financial press between 2007 and 2009, it develops a typology of different practices of historical representation and the various interpretive functions they are capable of performing. In so doing, it makes a theoretical contribution to the constructivist and cultural political economy literatures on the discursive negotiation of crisis.
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Doeleman, Sheperd S. (Sheperd Samuel). "Imagining active galactic nuclei with 3mm-VLBI." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32655.
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Lee, Juney M. Arch Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Form follows flow : re-imagining the skyscraper." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87144.
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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2014.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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Skyscraper is a by-product of 19th century American industrialism. spirit, and disaster. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was a catastrophe that necessitated dense and rapid reconstruction, both of which the high-rise provided. The accidental discovery of this new typology forever changed the contemporary urban habitat. Demand required density, which produced profit. Relentless pursuit of maximum mass and profit in 20th century New York City transformed the skyscraper into shameless public display of cash cows for the elitist few of the capitalist society. Enslaved by its financial incentives, the promise it once held was negated by repetitive banality. Today, starchitects are desperately prolonging the life of a typology that has not been invested with new thinking or ambition since its inception (Koolhaas, 2004). The intensification of density it initially delivered has been replaced by carefully-spaced isolation to maximize its visual superiority. Skylines of emerging civilizations have become test sites for celebrity architects to display their brands which are more Interested in its private agenda than greater public good. By 2050, 70% of the world's population will be living in urban areas (United Nations, n.d.). In 2012 alone, 66 buildings taller than 200 meters were constructed worldwide (CTBUH, 2013). In an age when explosive growth is not imminent, but inevitable, the developing societies continue to "adopt the skyscraper as the symbol of its modernity" (Koolhaas, 2004). Skyscraper is a critical architectural specimen that will not only symbolize that growth, but also accommodate and sustain it. The typology was born out of necessity. pushed to the limits through its financial objectives, and is now polluted with vanity of celebrity architecture. The objective of this thesis is not to design the "perfect" skyscraper: Rather, it challenges the century-old methods of envisioning and designing skyscrapers in order to resurrect its urban significance. The typology must be re-imagined in its totality through the fundamental understanding and re-investigation of the flow of elements that make the skyscraper possible.
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Burns, John Mitchell. "Repression, Memory, and Globalization: Imagining Kurdish Nationalism." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108032.
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Thesis advisor: Ali BanuaziziThis project involves the examination of Kurdish nationalism in regard to the formation, transmission, and materialization of political memory. Focusing on developments of the 20th and 21st century, this analysis contextualizes the mobilization of Kurdish political consciousness within the modern forces of globalization, digital technology, mass media, and international governance. Substantial attention is paid to the role of radio, TV, and the Internet in the processes of national imagining and political discourse. NGOs and superstate institutions like the UN are also examined, as they play a fundamental role in integrating human rights language and sub-national movements like the Kurds. Additionally, the ways in which these developments are manifested through public spaces of memory provide insight into the parameters and aspirations undergirding Kurdish national identity. This project seeks to claim that traditional definitions and typologies of nationalism are insufficient, and that the nation, seen as a community of memory, provides better access points to understand how nations are created in the modern age
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2018
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Scholar of the College
Discipline: Political Science
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Keegan-Bole, Arthur Bert Jordan. "Imagining soundworlds : portfolio of compositions 2012-2016." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.730826.
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