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Skoufias, Emmanouil. "Narratives in landscape photography : the narrative potential of transitional landscapes." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2006. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/92756/narratives-in-landscape-photography-the-narrative.
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The aim ofthis thesis is to use practical and theoretical research to investigate the relationship of transitional landscapes with narrative. As transitional landscapes I refer to the photographic depiction of unorganised spaces situated between the rural and urban zones. The research engages in practical fieldwork and theoretical study. It comprises a written thesis and a visual output (photographic project). The theoretical part examines the historical framework focusing in the postmodern re-evaluations oflandscape photography. My research investigates if the iconographic austerity of transitional landscapes leads to interpretive austerity or on the contrary enhances their range of interpretations. The research methodology is influenced by theories that acknowledge the importance of the reader and it is qualitative and experimental. The research employs as key method visual questionnaires, which focus on the capacity of single images to prompt narrative interpretation. The groups of people that the questionnaires are distributed to, vary in their approach and regard of landscape and narrative. The results from this survey indicate how we perceive transitional landscapes, the type of narratives they suggest and what prompts them to interpret the images as specific narratives. The main findings ofthe study revealed that: 1. The iconographic austerity of transitional landscapes appears as a fertile ground for narratives as indicated by the high percentage of respondents who wrote narratives, the high percentage of narratives compared to descriptions and transformations and the respondents approach more as narrators rather than observers. 2. The respondents seemed to wish to categorise the transitional landscapes more as an urban or rural environment rather than a transitional environment. 3. A darker, closer to black & white landscape image is more responsive to narratives rather than the normal exposure and colour version of the same landscape image. Furthermore, transitional landscapes seem more narratively responsive in their blurred version. 4. Transitional landscapes create more pessimistic than optimistic responses justifying landscape theories based on the psychological approach to landscape. The findings are employed as a creative tool, creating the form and the content of the photographic project, which also incorporates the actual stories of the respondents for transitional landscapes. The photographic project displays two main narrative strategies in photography: a) Narratives created solely by images and b) Narratives created from combinin~ text and image. It progress from strategy a to b in four steps, gradually shifting from vertical panoramic landscapes to horizontal panoramic 'wordscapes'. The original co.ntribution to knowledge is in both the artwork and the method of producing it as I am extendmg the boundaries of what is currently considered as the landscape genre not only in terms of collective authoring but also about the transition of the visual sign to the word sign, thus examining our processes of making sense of signs and the subjective nature of interpretation. In my.concerns for transitional landscapes, I am investigating an aspect of a landscape genre, which has been marginalized in both traditional photographic history and subsequent critical debates.
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Roberts, Hayden. "Portraits and Landscapes in Family Narrative." TopSCHOLAR®, 1998. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/330.
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This thesis works from my interest in how individual perspectives affect family narratives and constructions of family history. Narrative exists chiefly in story form, but it also exists in people's mind, helping them to understand material culture, customs, and other forms of folk expression. These folk ideas define us and bind us socially. The way we arrange things in our minds, make sense of life experiences and the narratives we about create these experiences, define our social ties, such as family. Before one can understand the collective or group perception of itself, one must understand how each component or person in that group look at it separately. These individual perceptions can be seen in the portraits and landscapes of people and places that each family member generates, receives from others, and gives status to within the family's collective concept of folklore and history. While the meaning that people derive from family narratives and history is individualistic, the organization of these folkloristic forms is structurally consistent. Most people order and develop family narratives and history in much the same way. In my thesis, I address how family narratives and perceptions of family history form from individual perspectives, but also look at how family members convey their point of view by using the same structural elements, which I call narrative and visual vignettes. These vignettes exist in all forms of expression and documentation, from short anecdotal stories to photographs. Each vignette is separate from the next, but if tied together in a sequence as a narrator or organizer deems appropriate, harmony or cohesion of family experience is created. As one looks at these vignettes and examines their connection to one another, one can see that the connections come from conscious ordering and editing. This limited recounting of past events generally provides only one perspective, making them more like opinions or editorials than complete chronicles of history. For this study, I surveyed previous scholarly works associated with family folklore. Following that review comes a broad discussion of family folk groups, the use of folklore in those groups, the establishment of my own definition of family folklore, and an analysis of the dynamic of family and the organizing principle of family narratives. Then I turn specifically to family narratives and the construction of family history, examining this through my own immediate and extended family. I highlight how family history is constructed from varying types of vignettes and discuss the presence of these vignettes in material forms (family heirlooms and pictures), written accounts (such as letters and manuscripts that my grandfather collected), and oral storytelling. Within these expressive forms, narrative works in two ways: as portraits of family members and as landscapes characterizing the environment or situations involving these members. As this study concludes, no substantial conclusion is made— only a discussion of how it can influence family folklore scholarship.
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Banis, David. "The Wilderness Problem: A Narrative of Contested Landscapes in San Juan County, Utah." PDXScholar, 2004. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1972.
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Wilderness preservation has been at the center of debates about public land policy for almost half a century, and nowhere has the controversy been more intractable than in Utah. Despite its vast expanses of unsetded and undeveloped red rock desert, managed primarily by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Utah has less designated wilderness than in any other state in the West. In this study, I focus on San Juan County in southeast Utah to study the conflict over the designation of wilderness. The controversy pits local residents and state politicians against state and national environmental groups, with the BLM shifting positions in between.
I analyze and interpret the wilderness debate from three different perspectives. The fIrst explores the history of the Utah wilderness debate from the first BLM wilderness inventory in the 1970's through its re-inventory in the 1990's. I examine the influence of national, regional, and local forces such as institutional change within the BLM, in-fIghting among Utah-based environmental interest groups, and the sagebrush rebellion and county supremacy movements. The second perspective incorporates the spatial analytical techniques of geographical information systems to provide a relatively objective view of landscape characteristics used to defIne wilderness. I interpret the landscape as a continuum of varying degrees of wildness, a product of inherent naturalness and the influences of human impacts. Lastly, I examine the personal views of the meaning of wilderness through the words of actual participants in the debate. In an analysis of the statements of both county residents as well as the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, I explore the mental images and ideas that influence the ways in which people value and understand the desert environment.
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Swanner, Leandra Altha. "Mountains of Controversy: Narrative and the Making of Contested Landscapes in Postwar American Astronomy." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10781.
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Beginning in the second half of the twentieth century, three American astronomical observatories in Arizona and Hawai'i were transformed from scientific research facilities into mountains of controversy. This dissertation examines the histories of conflict between Native, environmentalist, and astronomy communities over telescope construction at Kitt Peak, Mauna Kea, and Mt. Graham from the mid-1970s to the present. I situate each history of conflict within shifting social, cultural, political, and environmental tensions by drawing upon narrative as a category of analysis. Astronomers, environmentalist groups, and the Native communities of the Tohono O'odham Nation, the San Carlos Apaches, and Native Hawaiians deployed competing cultural constructions of the mountains--as an ideal observing site, a "pristine" ecosystem, or a spiritual temple--and these narratives played a pivotal role in the making of contested landscapes in postwar American astronomy.History of Science
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Majonen, Tina. "Iceland: : Imagined and Experienced Landscapes." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-353911.
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This thesis is a journey through a layered Icelandic landscape, where the representations and imaginings of outside travelers are in focus. Departing theoretically from narratives of the land- scape, I will discuss how the Icelandic landscape has been created as an imagined geography, and analyze the stories, representations and images infusing its experience and re-creation. Through the hermeneutic method of interpretation, the thesis travels from medieval times to con- temporary with the help of a wide use of actors and their choice of imaginative transportation, including books, maps, diaries, artwork and magazines. The reader will explore a wide array of narratives, which also show how the landscape takes place and becomes imbued with meaning during the act of traveling and interaction with the landscape, whether in body or in mind. Fur- thermore, I discuss the narratives of the landscape through representational acts, and argue that these create meaning for both the individual and collective experience. Whilst the narrative of the landscape shifts depending on time, place and the individual’s experiential baggage, certain common paths have been identified and expanded upon. Yet, these exist within a rugged process where the landscape moves back and forward in Western imagination.
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Piper, Paige M. "Deathly Landscapes: The Changing Topography of Contemporary French Policier in Visual and Narrative Media." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1469133497.
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Solis, Israel. "(Re)creating a hero's narrative through music| Different musical landscapes in six live action Batman films." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3606914.
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This dissertation uses an interdisciplinary approach that analyzes and compares the film scoring processes of Danny Elfman, Elliot Goldenthal, James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer in characterizing the fictional hero Batman in film. This is accomplished by applying Classical Hollywood film scoring principles from the golden age of cinema, Juan Chattah's pragmatic and semiotic typologies regarding musical metaphoric expression, and psychology. This amalgamation demonstrates how the aforementioned film composers consider varying structural aspects of their music, i.e., formal design, melodic contour, harmonic gestures, and cadential formulas, in (re)creating and establishing their individual artistic trademarks on a comic book character within canonical and non-canonical storylines. The study includes soundtracks from Tim Burton's Batman and Batman Returns, Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, and Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. The result is an analysis that: 1) enhances what little is known about the music for these films; 2) allows for the recognition of the film scoring creative process behind film sequelization; 3) enhances musical and psychological interpretations of the Batman character; and 4) offers an expansion of Chattah's metaphorical typologies.
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Solis, Israel. "(Re)Creating a Hero's Narrative through Music: Different Musical Landscapes in Six Live Action Batman Films." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/311589.
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This dissertation uses an interdisciplinary approach that analyzes and compares the film scoring processes of Danny Elfman, Elliot Goldenthal, James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer in characterizing the fictional hero Batman in film. This is accomplished by applying Classical Hollywood film scoring principles from the golden age of cinema, Juan Chattah's pragmatic and semiotic typologies regarding musical metaphoric expression, and psychology. This amalgamation demonstrates how the aforementioned film composers consider varying structural aspects of their music, i.e., formal design, melodic contour, harmonic gestures, and cadential formulas, in (re)creating and establishing their individual artistic trademarks on a comic book character within canonical and non-canonical storylines. The study includes soundtracks from Tim Burton's Batman and Batman Returns, Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, and Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. The result is an analysis that: 1) enhances what little is known about the music for these films; 2) allows for the recognition of the film scoring creative process behind film sequelization; 3) enhances musical and psychological interpretations of the Batman character; and 4) offers an expansion of Chattah's metaphorical typologies.
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Pietilä, Laura. "Contaminated and Scarred: An Exploration in the Landscapes and Narratives of the Anthropocene." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-420076.
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In this thesis, I explore and analyse narratives around toxic and scarred landscapes. The aim of the thesis is to understand human views and experiences of anthropogenic environments through narratives of contamination and toxicity. Some concepts used throughout the thesis are landscape, heritage, ghost, and trauma. The research is situated in the transdisciplinary field of environmental history and utilises multidisciplinary academic research, art works, and several different media outlets as sources of data. Many brief examples of toxic sites are given along the way to demonstrate discussed themes in practice, but two specific landscapes are explored in detail. These are Bikini Atoll in Marshall Islands, an island remaining radioactive to date due to Cold War era weapon testing, and the town of Teckomatorp in Sweden, a remediated site of a chemical industry scandal. Furthermore, an academic environmental justice project Toxic Bios (KTH, Stockholm) is analysed as a medium of narrative creation and several visual artists’ works are brought up alongside news articles and cinematography. This thesis is an exploratory journey and it aspires to contribute to bridging academic disciplines as well as encouraging expression of individual stories and subjective viewpoints in narrations of scarred landscapes. Findings of the thesis link to previous research on landscapes as experienced and temporal – toxic landscapes are narrated constantly through many perceptions, storylines, and branches of research. Some reoccurring themes are sickness, environmental justice, tensions between local and global levels of narration, fascinating but controversial depictions of toxicity’s aesthetics and individual experiences of dramatic pasts in non-dramatic present. Individual stories, counter-hegemonic narratives, and transdisciplinary practices are needed in order to create deeper understanding of living in the Anthropocene.
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ARAUJO, THAMIRIS OLIVEIRA DE. "IDENTITY LANDSCAPES IN THE DISCOURSE OF ENGLISH TEACHERS FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS: A STUDY OF NARRATIVE AND EVALUATIVE PRACTICES." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2014. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=24960@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
O objetivo do meu estudo é buscar entendimentos acerca do processo de (re)construção das identidades de professores de inglês como língua estrangeira e da representação de suas práticas docentes, em particular, aquelas desenvolvidas em escolas municipais do Rio de Janeiro. O presente trabalho se insere na área da Linguística Aplicada contemporânea (Moita Lopes, 2006; Fabrício, 2006), sendo assim, a arquitetura teórica ilustra seu caráter multifacetado e interdisciplinar, tendo como base conceitos e processos identitários (Hall, 2011; Bauman, 1998; Moita Lopes, 2003; Bucholtz e Hall, 2005; Snow, 2011; Duszak, 2002), práticas narrativas (Labov, 1972; Linde, 1993; Bruner, 2004) e práticas avaliativas (Labov, 1972; Linde, 1993; Martin e White, 2005). Conduzi esta pesquisa de cunho qualitativo-interpretativo em uma reunião na qual, além de pesquisadora, assumo o papel de participante junto a três professoras de inglês. Os dados analisados são as histórias e relatos de docência contados por nós em uma entrevista não- estruturada. Os resultados mostram que avaliações de AFETO, JULGAMENTO e APRECIAÇÃO permeiam nosso discurso, atuando como recursos linguísticos que me permitem entrever identidades pessoais, sociais e coletivas das participantes e de outros atores sociais envolvidos no processo de ensino-aprendizagem, como os alunos, a direção escolar, os outros professores, etc. Os dados revelam paisagens identitárias complexas, que não podem ser vistas como definitivas na constituição do professor de inglês, mas que viabilizam a percepção de como esse grupo de professoras, no qual me incluo, representa o seu trabalho na rede municipal, através de elogios, críticas e denúncias.
My study investigates the identity construction of English teachers as a foreign language and the representation of their teaching practices, in particular, those developed in public schools in the city of Rio de Janeiro. This study falls within the area of contemporary Applied Linguistics (Moita Lopes, 2006; Fabrizio, 2006), so the theoretical framework illustrates its multifaceted and interdisciplinary approach, based on identity concepts and processes (Hall, 2011; Bauman 1998 Moita Lopes, 2003; Bucholtz and Hall, 2005; Snow, 2011; Duszak, 2002), narrative practices (Labov, 1972; Linde, 1993; Bruner, 2004) and evaluative practices (Labov, 1972; Linde, 1993, Martin and White , 2005). I conducted this qualitative and interpretative research in a meeting in which, besides being the researcher, I assume the role of a participant together with three English teachers. The data is composed by stories we told about our professional experiences in a research talk. The results show that evaluations of AFFECTION, JUDGEMENT and APPRECIATION permeate our discourse, acting as linguistic resources that allow me to glimpse at personal, social and collective identities of the group of participants and of other social actors involved in the teaching- learning process. The data reveals complex identity landscapes, which can not be seen as definitive in the constitution of the English teacher, although they enable us to perceive how these group of professionals represent their work in public schools, through praise, criticism and complaints.
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Papas, Maria. "Familiar places — (Re)creating “home”: an exegesis." Thesis, Curtin University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2376.
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My thesis — a novel and an accompanying exegesis — addresses the question: what is ‘home’? What are the ways in which it has been and can be understood? And in particular, how can it be represented in narrative fiction so as to take into account its many intricate facets? Framed by my understanding of the relationship between mental inscapes and outward landscapes, I propose that ‘home’ is not so much a geographical space as it is an interpretation of that space, and that, in prose, this interpretation is based on the subjective viewpoint of a narrative focaliser.This said, in my creative practice I explore experiences of ‘home’ through two alternate focalisations. I represent ‘home’ in several ways: as the tension point between nurture and neglect; as a space of transience and fluidity; as an experience of familiarity; and as part of the everyday process of the creation of self. Drawing upon the landscape, culture and community of the places I have lived in — Bunbury, Albany and Perth — and the years I have spent traversing the roads within and between, this is a novel in which the sense of home (or the homelike moment) is constructed out of movement, communication and sociality. This is a novel in which ‘home’ is not just a place; it is an activity.Relative to my creative practice, my exegesis details how the construction of my novel was based on a triangulate relationship between personal experience, theoretical readings and the exemplar of fiction. Each chapter examines ‘home’ from a certain theoretical point of view, and in turn the representational applications of these points of view are studied via a close reading of Thea Astley’s A Descant for Gossips and in my own work. Finally, it is this understanding — point of view, perception, focalisation — that forms the basis of both my creative and theoretical work.
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Soffer, Jessica E. "Narrative Landscape: Sculpting Form through Memory." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1306499756.
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Nelson, Velvet. "LANDSCAPE AND POSTCOLONIALISM IN BRITISH WEST INDIES TRAVEL NARRATIVES, 1815-1914." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1144161405.
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CHACEL, Marcela Costa Da Cunha. "Narrativas transmidiáticas como ferramentas Publicitárias." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2013. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/15771.
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O cenário contemporâneo, convergente, tecnológico, de multiplataformas midiáticas e pluralismo de linguagens, reconfigurou paradigmas anteriores, potencializou outros, além de trazer algumas mudanças, em especial, no que diz respeito ao volume de informação, acarretando numa crise da atenção. Acrescenta-se aí o fato de que os consumidores, antes vistos como sujeitos passivos, nessa conjuntura, assumem um novo comportamento cada vez mais participativo. Diante disso, a publicidade tem encontrado significante dificuldade para atingir tais consumidores, os quais não dão tanta credibilidade aos discursos publicitários tradicionais como outrora. Por essa razão, a publicidade tem fugido da abordagem imperativa e se redesenhado de modo tal que a marca e os produtos assumem um papel secundário, buscando, no entretenimento e em fenômenos próprios do cenário atual, novas estratégias para atingir os consumidores. Dentre essas estratégias está a utilização de narrativas, sobretudo, no que se refere ao desenvolvimento de mundos ficcionais para construir a mensagem publicitária. Neste sentido, este trabalho aponta para uma nova tendência para a publicidade: as narrativas transmidiáticas (histórias contadas através de distintas plataformas de mídia com cada uma contribuindo de forma nova e pertinente para o todo), entendendo tais narrativas, suas características e estrutura e analisando como podem se configurar como ferramentas publicitárias.
The current landscape, convergent, technological, of multiple media platforms and pluralism of languages, improved old paradigms, developed others, and also, brought some changes, in particular, as regards the amount of information, causing the attention crises. Added to this is the fact that consumers, once seen as passives subjects, in this context, assume a new behavior increasingly participatory. In this circumstance, advertising has encountered significant difficulty in achieving these consumers who do not give much credibility to the speeches of traditional advertising as before. Because of that, advertising has fled the imperative approach and redesigned itself such that brand and product play a secondary role, looking for, into the entertainment and into the current landscape, new strategies to reach consumers. Among those strategies is the use os storytelling, especially, as regards the development of fiction worlds to construct the advertising message. In this sense, this work points to a new trend for advertising: transmedia storytelling (narratives told across different media platforms which each one contribute in a new and valuable way to the whole), understanding those narratives, its characteristics and structure, also analyzing how it can be configured as advertising tools.
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Stubbs, Glenn E. "Remembering a Workplace Disaster: Different Landscapes—Different Narratives?" Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1427661080.
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Maeda, Tamaki. "Tomioka Tessai's narrative landscape : rethinking Sino-Japanese traditions /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6235.
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Comninos, Alexia. "Incisions / Insertions: re-inscribing narrative into a city landscape." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22983.
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Dating back to the late 1700's from the skirt of Devil's Peak down to what used to be the shoreline of Cape Town, this once walled off city has undergone plentiful re-inscriptions of the landscape till today. Remnants of the old French line fortifications remain along the slope of Trafalgar Park, disregarded and lost in the city 'scapes. The reading and re-tracing to pre-existing and existing layers of the precinct has been developed through blackout art methods of incisions and insertions to acknowledge the pre-existing and the existing in order to create a new narrative for this land without a landscape. In establishing the character of the narrative and the architecture thereof, the imagination of the space transcribed from archetypes - people - from the surrounds and what could be their ultimate feeling for what should be placed forms the landscape and how their individual expectations meet with others. The narrative is split twofold, the one is that the moments along the Bigger story is the park intervention - traces of the incision old fort wall - strung into the city block and the other is the pedestrian insertion armature which cuts through the site, providing for a short cut to the train station. The path aims to take the pedestrian through a series of spatial experiences through the site. These experiences are shaped by the tectonic expression. The architecture of the new is at constant dialogue with the existing, playing on a series of incisions and insertions. The cross pollination of the varying programme in the precinct facilitates this dynamic spatial experience through the link.
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Cameron, Hannah M. "Contesting the Commemorative Narrative: Planning for Richmond’s Cultural Landscape." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5480.
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Abstract: New Orleans, Baltimore, and Charlottesville are reevaluating the presence of Confederate statues in their built environment. Known as the Capital of the Confederacy, Richmond’s cultural landscape is visible through the connection of two historical spaces, Monument Avenue and Shockoe Bottom. Both serve as a powerful case study for how the commemorative narrative of these spaces is contested today and how barriers that exist influence urban planning processes and outcomes.
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Pietrantoni, Nicole Susonne. "Encountering landscape: printmaking & placemaking." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/572.
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The landscape has long been the focus of my artistic research. Yet no matter how often I return to it, I continue to wrestle with how to engage, respond to, and conceptualize landscape and my place in it. I recognize "that which is real (the actuality of one's experience) butting up against the forms of cultural representation that encode it." There are two primary ways that I encounter landscape: 1) through my body and a phenomenological orientation; 2) through layers of discourse, stories, and representations. While the landscape and its features may be neutral space and objects, it is a site fraught with highly charged stories and competing systems of representation, narration, and perception surrounding the same events, time, and place.
To this end, my thesis is guided by the following questions: what stories shape my interaction with and understanding of landscape and nature? How have I been disciplined by cultural and historical scripts, media, and technology? How does a lineage of art history influence a particular way of picturing and framing the natural world? And finally, what stories do I perpetuate or contribute in my work as an artist to this discourse about landscape?
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Simonson, Wendeth Ann. "Seeing the landscape, a search for hidden narratives." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ53225.pdf.
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Ford, Linda Mae, and linda ford@deakin edu au. "Narratives and Landscapes: Their Capacity to Serve Indigenous Knowledge Interests." Deakin University. School of Education, 2005. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20070614.105953.
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The thesis is a culmination of my research which drew on tyangi wedi tjan Rak Mak Mak Marranunggu and Marrithiel knowledge systems. These awa mirr spiritual knowledge systems have guided our Pilu for millennium and have powerful spiritual affiliation to the land and our continued presences. The understandings of the spiritual connectedness and our practices of relatedness have drawn on Pulitj, our deep awa mirr spiritual philosophy that nourishes us on our country. This philosophy gave us our voice and our presence to act in our own ways of knowing and being on the landscapes created by the Western bureaucratic systems of higher education in Australia to bring forth our Tyikim knowledge systems to serve our own educational interests.
From this spiritual Puliyana kunun philosophical position the thesis examines colonising constructions of Tyikim peoples, Tyikim knowledge systems in education, Tyikim research and access to higher education for Tyikim students. From the research, it is argued that the paradigm, within which the enclave-derived approach to Indigenous higher education is located, is compatible with the normalising imperialistic ideology of higher education. The analysis of the Mirrwana/Wurrkama participatory action research project, central to the research, supported an argument for the Mirrwana/Wurrkama model of Indigenous higher education. Further analysis identified five key pedagogical principles embedded within this new model as metaphorically equivalent to wilan~bu of the pelangu. The thesis identifies the elements of the spirituality of the narrative exposed in the research-in-action through the Marri kubin mi thit wa!. This is a new paradigm for Tyikim participation in higher education within which the Mirrwana/Wurrkama model is located. Finally, the thesis identifies the scope for Tyikim knowledge use in the construction of contemporary bureaucratic and institutionalised higher education ngun nimbil thit thit teaching and learning experiences of Tyikim for the advancement of Tyikim interests. Here the tyangi yigin tjan spiritual concepts of narrative and landscape are drawn upon both awa mirr metaphorically and in marri kubin mi thit wa Tyikim pedagogical practice.
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Sanders, Jeffrey R. "Sacral landscapes : narratives of the megalith in north western Europe." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/2671.
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The construction of archaeological narrative is influenced by a number of factors. Some come from within disciplinary boundaries, whilst others are traced from the wider influences of social, cultural or academic contexts. This thesis examines three areas identified as Neolithic ‘landscapes’, all of which have been the subject of archaeological investigation since the 19th century. The history of research of these areas allows an evaluation of how these disparate influences interact. In this way, the three landscapes act as an arena in which to explore aspects of the archaeological approach itself. This leads to a critical examination of the interpretative tools available to the archaeologist. How concepts such as ‘landscape’ are formed and affect discourse is explored. Wider themes of demarcation, typology and the underlying assumptions of research are investigated in relation to the interpretation of the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of North Western Europe. The large span of time that these periods encompass allows exploration of change from the short to very long term, although this is not always utilised within archaeological accounts. The treatment of time is therefore considered in conjunction with explanations of change in prehistory. A powerful approach to time is suggested by combining aspects of the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Fernand Braudel and the potential for this is evaluated against the archaeological record of the three areas. How the assumptions of the archaeological approach are acted out within the historiography of each area highlights a number of recurring metaphors that are used to interpret the material record. These promote a portrayal of Neolithic life that combines with the range of influences from the history of archaeology itself to promote an idea of the prehistoric mentalité. A very durable and underlying type that constantly resurfaces in these accounts is the idea of the ‘sacral landscape’, which is the central topic of this thesis.
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Ford, Payi-Linda. "Narratives and landscapes their capacity to serve indigenous knowledge interests /." Click here for electronic access to thesis: http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au/adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20070614.105953, 2005. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au/adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20070614.105953.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Deakin University, Victoria, 2005.Submitted to the School of Education of the Faculty of Education, Deakin University. Degree conferred 2006. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 211-225)
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Phillion, JoAnn. "Narrative inquiry in a multicultural landscape, multicultural teaching and learning." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0004/NQ41272.pdf.
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Bergman, Malin. "Residual Care - Stories from an Extractive Landscape." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-276795.
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Told through a story, the thesis explores the complexities of care and mining in relation to residual architecture. It approaches our world in a humble manner and aims to decentralise the human through proposing spaces of care for human and non-human alike. The project travels through the Boliden Area, a mining district in Västerbotten, situated in the North of Sweden, where the mining company Boliden has dominated the area since the beginning of the Swedish Gold Rush in 1924. To me, narrative is a mode of proposing an alternative reality to challenge existing paradigms of capitalism, anthropocentrism and power in order to find alternative ways of living, caring and practicing architecture. I believe that telling the story of something silent or neglected, such as many tales of the North of Sweden, is in its own way an act care. The story is divided into three chapters where each explore different modes of care expressed through architectural interventions. Every chapter focuses on an existing situation or site in the Boliden Area.
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Fernandez, Pablo Sebastian Moreira. "Narrativas urbanas de um caminhante." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/252028.
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Orientador: Wenceslao Machado de Oliveira JuniorDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação
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Resumo : Perder-se, andar a deriva, vagar sem rumo, lançar-se de encontro à multidão, caminhar pelas ruas sem um traçado pré-determinado, movimentos do corpo que conduzem o olhar ao conhecimento e ao encontro das almas que habitam a cidade. Não uma cidade que se apresenta só em sua materialidade, mas como um lugar interior, imaginado, construído a partir das lembranças de quem a percorreu na infância, cidade que acolhe o acaso e o imprevisível. Assim, a fotografia e a escrita dos contos e dos ensaios desta dissertação são entendidas como modos de linguagem que se encontram e se complementam num diálogo, na intenção de criar narrativas a partir das experiências de quem hoje caminha e vivência as ruas do centro da cidade de Campinas-SP
Abstract : To get lost, to drift loosely, without guidelines, to launch the researcher against the crowd, to walk on the streets without plans, to allow the body to guide the eye in the direction of both knowledge and the souls who live in the city: these are the objectives of this work. The city is not only studied in it¿s materiality, but also as a place within, imagined and build from the memories from someone who knew it from childhood, one city that hosts both chance and the unpredictable. The pictures, the tales and the research itself are kinds of languages that meet and complete each other in dialogue, intending to create stories based on the experience of people who live and walk on the streets of downtown Campinas ¿ SP
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Sibanda, Sabello Malcom. "Scenes of lamentation : a scenographic approach to landscape narratives." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60205.
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Protests, often violent have become a major talking point in South African politics.
This dissertation focuses on three matters: decolonisation of public spaces in South Africa, the
notion of landscape narratives in re-interpreting landscapes of contestation and using a scenographic
approach in communicating landscape narratives.
Decolonisation of public spaces
The problem that this dissertation aims to address is how public spaces in South Africa can be
re-imagined so that they represent all inhabitants of the city they (public spaces) occupy.
The landscape narrative
The protests concerning the decolonising of public spaces in South Africa is an issue of narratives.
The protests are not a reaction to the actual design of the spaces, but they are a reaction to the
narrative that these spaces represent. The main issue regarding narratives in landscapes is whose
story gets communicated and whose story is left out. For that reason, the notion of landscape
narratives is investigated.
Scenography as an approach to landscape narratives
This dissertation focuses on the application of scenographic principles in representing and
communicating narratives in public spaces. Scenography is researched as an alternative approach
to dealing with landscape narratives because scenography emphasises on the design of performance
spaces where the narrative is performed, rather than the design of elements that represent the
narrative. This approach is important because the aim of the investigation is to move away from the
use of symbols and signs in communicating narratives in public spaces. The vandalism of statues
in South African public spaces is a testimony of why symbolism might not be the best narrative
approach.Mini Dissertation (ML (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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Stewart, Kirsty. "Nature and narratives : landscapes, plants and animals in Palaiologan vernacular literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2c1ad3f2-6ca1-4a5b-b682-fbb0bfc58fd2.
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This thesis identifies the role of nature within Palaiologan entertainment literature. The texts on which this thesis focuses include a selection of the Palaiologan novels, namely the Achilleid, Velthandros and Chrysandza, Kallimachos and Chrysorroi and Livistros and Rodamni, as well as two other, more satirical works, The Synaxarion of the Honourable Donkey, and An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds. These texts seem to be different from earlier works in which nature is prominent, utilising such material in an innovative way. The study of these texts provides us with information both on the Byzantine view of the natural world and on the use of literature during a particularly troubled period of Byzantine history. My main questions therefore are how nature is portrayed in these texts and what can this tell us about the society that produced them. The study of these vernacular texts indicates that the natural world is given a prominent place in the literature of the period, using landscapes, plants and animals in diverse ways to express assorted ideas, or to stress particular aspects of the stories. The animals and landscapes provide hints of the plot to the audience, which the authors sometimes then subvert. The authors draw on earlier Greek material, but parallels with literature from other cultures show similarities which imply a shared medieval perspective on nature with local differences.
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Finnegan, Jordana T. "Rewriting colonial histories race, gender, and landscape in new Western narrative /." view abstract or download file of text, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3190516.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2005.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 303-333). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Garman, Keli L. "The Art of Designing a Meaningful Landscape through Storytelling." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32181.
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Meaning in the landscape is a concept that is receiving attention from many landscape architects asking the questions: how is meaning found in the landscape, or what makes a landscape meaningful? While there are many design processes that incorporate meaning into the design, it is the art of storytelling that the thesis investigates. The research for the thesis and a comparison analysis is performed on three texts, which explore meaning in the landscape. The three texts are Marc Treibâ s â Must Landscapes Mean?â ; Matthew Potteiger and Jamie Purintonâ s Landscape Narratives, and Mark Francis and Randolph T. Hester, Jr.â s The Meaning of Gardens: Idea, Place, and Action. Applying these approaches to case studies has resulted in the finding of common ideas between the three texts. The commonalities led to my position that storytelling can be used as an approach to design, and that landscapes designed as a story narrative can be meaningful. The design project investigated the strength of the position on a site in the West Potomac Park in Washington DC. The story for the project is a Japanese folktale that communicates the culture of Japan. The project is a case study that explores if the set of design principles within the storytelling approach can invest meaning into a landscape.Master of Landscape Architecture
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Krehbiel, Beth Ann. "Narratives of Wounded Knee." Kansas State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/32870.
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Master of Landscape ArchitectureDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Laurence A. Clement
Research suggests that Native Americans, Chicanos, and African Americans are groups underrepresented in the North American memorial landscape. The fluid nature of a group and individual’s identity (and the memory that shapes it) contributes to the underrepresentation in commemoration and memorials. As communities and the associated identities continue to blend and overlap moments of positive cultural exchange can take place, but at times the outcomes are in the realm of contention and conflict. The collaborative nature of landscape architecture together with the profession’s ability to understand and interpret complex systems and narratives can fully engage and bring form to the morally imaginative, creative act of peacebuilding. The concept of shifting and variant meaning led to this study that considered the question- How might memorials be designed as reconciliatory agents in cultural landscapes with conflicting histories? This study engaged the concept of memory and identity with Oglala Lakota, on the Pine Ridge Reservation, regarding the tragedy of Wounded Knee, through adapted ethnographic approaches in interviewing, site visits, extensive literature review, mapping and design inquiry. The design inquiry responds to social, economic, and ecological narratives to inform the design of the reconciliatory-minded memorial. The initial premise of the project was situated in the understanding that events with contested meaning are difficult to memorialize because there are so many differing voices; irreconcilable in the built form. While that is true in some contexts, initial findings suggests these groups are underrepresented because it is difficult to memorialize that which is a contemporary social justice or inter-demographic issue. In light of this and further research, the author believes that memorials seeking to honor demographics or events that directly affect contemporary groups might be contextually more appropriate, and act as mediators, if they focus forward rather than solely and solemnly reflect the past. Conceptual sketches conclude this study, offering possibilities for design expression, which might be realized with community participation.
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Volante, Margaret Ann. "Biographical landscapes : nurses' and health visitors' narratives of learning and professional practice." Thesis, University of East London, 2005. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/1266/.
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The thesis illuminates biography, learning and practice and advances understanding of the development of professional knowledge and practice. The purpose of the research was to inform the pedagogical development of practice learning using a biographical perspective to investigate how nurses and health visitors use professional practice experiences to learn and generate knowledge and understandings of practice. The research is set within the healthcare policy context of lifelong and lifewide learning. The literature review builds on my own experiences. An argument is developed for practice learning to be located within a universal knowledge system that provides for the subjective and contextual complexity of nursing practice knowledge and learning. The research strategy is grounded in the theoretical perspectives of interpretive phenomenology and interaction ism. Nine specialist community nurses and health visitors participated in the life story interview of biographical narrative interpretive method. Three transcripts were selected for in-depth analysis of subjective meanings of learning and professional practice. Case comparison of biographical process structures shows how biographies construct a resource for ways of knowing the world that is incorporated into professional agency. Five profiles of formal practice learning were accessible for documentary and textual analysis. Two patterns of orientation were reconstructed from this analysis: a learning practice constituted as a process of identifying and meeting learning needs through client-centred practice and public institutions constituted as a process of support and self-surveillance of the formal learning programme. These mirror biographical learning resources which seem to both construct professional knowledge and constitute the practice learning action environment. Discourse analysis of accounts of client care situations from follow-up narrative interviews with four nurses and two health visitors showed continuity of how individuals learn and do the process of knowing practice through their own personal theories-of-practice. Thematic analysis across the findings has led to the creation of a model of biography, learning and practice and utilises the concept of biographicity to inform pedagogical development of practice learning. The research makes a significant contribution to the body of knowledge on implicit, non-formal and formal learning and the development of professional knowledge at a micro practice action level of client-professional interaction.
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Knapp, Riamsara Kuyakanon. "Environmental modernity in Bhutan : entangled landscapes, Buddhist narratives and inhabiting the land." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709242.
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Zhao, Yanji. "The Journey from Chinese Landscape Paintings to Architecture." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491318233161403.
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Haybittle, Sarah. "Correspondence, trace and the landscape of narrative : a visual, verbal and literary dialectic." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2015. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/1a2dce72-a10a-402c-8e5e-55ead371f0dc.
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This thesis examines what literary theory can bring to the practice of visual story telling. Through praxis it examines underlying systems and techniques relative to works of fiction, investigating what impacts and advances narratology can bring to visual communication approaches and methods. This thesis will argue that literary concepts and methods produce new thinking and perspectives on visual methodologies, by establishing a dialectical relationship between the visual and verbal in creative practice; and in respect of literary theory and visual communication.
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Watson, Jennifer Ann. ""I Quit," A Contradiction." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397687803.
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Iams, Steve. "The Big and Small Stories of Faculty in the Changing Landscape of Higher Education." The Ohio State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1618581386020611.
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Figueiredo, Luiz Afonso Vaz de. "Cavernas como paisagens racionais e simbólicas: imaginário coletivo, narrativas visuais e representações da paisagem e das práticas espeleológicas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8135/tde-03012011-110013/.
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O objetivo do presente trabalho foi analisar os processos que levaram à invenção das práticas espeleológicas e do fenômeno espeleoturístico, sua produção social internacional e inserção no contexto brasileiro. Considera-se que o desenvolvimento da espeleologia como atividade de múltiplo sentido, técnico, esportivo, científico, lazer e contato com a natureza foi determinante para a geração do deslocamento e fluxos de pessoas para regiões onde existam sítios espeleológicos. Considera-se, como ponto de partida, que essa é a base apropriada pelo mercado, visando à implantação do turismo em cavernas. A abordagem teórico-metodológica multirreferencial parte dos conceitos da fenomenologia da imaginação de Bachelard e dos aportes da geopoética e da geografia humanístico-cultural, com contribuições também da percepção ambiental e da topofilia (Tuan). Pretendeu-se estudar o imaginário coletivo e os aspectos simbólicos da relação das sociedades humanas com as cavernas. Procurou-se, ainda, verificar as dinâmicas e fatores determinantes do processo espeleoturístico. Os procedimentos metodológicos enfatizaram uma análise das narrativas visuais e da produção de sentidos a partir das práticas discursivas de percepção da paisagem relativas às cavernas brasileiras, sua visitação turística e a proteção ambiental, destacando um estudo de caso no Vale do Ribeira (SP). Foi realizada uma ampla análise documental, utilizando materiais diversificados (textos filosóficos, religiosos e literários) coletados em bibliotecas, livrarias e alguns casos também em meio eletrônico. As imagens foram recolhidas em websites ligados ao tema caverna ou áreas afins, seja de entidades oficiais ou blogs e fotologs pessoais. Realizou-se também uma análise fílmica de 42 produções cinematográficas. O levantamento fotogeográfico e sociocultural das práticas espeleológicas e espeleoturísticas foi produzido durante as viagens de campo, realizadas entre 2000- 2010 em vários pontos do Brasil, com ênfase para o Alto Ribeira, e também em outros países (Portugal, Cuba), gerando um corpus com milhares de fotografias, acrescidas de outras disponibilizadas por colaboradores. Utilizou-se, ainda, métodos diversificados de entrevista, tais como gravações de depoimentos orais e entrevistas eletrônicas, por meio de questionário próprio, com 21 espeleólogos, sendo que 18 deles propiciaram dados sobre a representação do ser espeleólogo. Questionários sobre as representações sociais de cavernas foram incorporados ao estudo, aproveitando material que vimos produzindo no âmbito da Seção de História da Espeleologia da Sociedade Brasileira de Espeleologia (SBE), desde 1998, envolvendo 461 indivíduos. Os sujeitos principais são estudantes da educação básica ou do ensino superior, contrapondo moradores de áreas urbanas paulistas ou das proximidades das áreas de sítios espeleológicos, como no caso de Iporanga (SP). Os resultados demonstraram as influências do imaginário poético e do conteúdo simbólico das cavernas no desenvolvimento da atividade espeleológica e espeleoturística. As representações da paisagem cárstica e das práticas espeleológicas apareceram com extrema riqueza, tanto nos depoimentos, quanto nos documentos relacionados com temas filosóficos, religiosos, literários ou cinematográficos. É de fundamental importância ampliação dos processos educativos na formação do espeleólogo e dos cavernistas, a difusão das práticas espeleológicas e disseminação da espeleologia, aproximando racionalidades e subjetividades. Isso nos permite repensar sobre nossa relação histórica com o mundo subterrâneo, as interações da espeleologia e do turismo ao longo da trajetória da sociedade contemporânea.The aim of this study was to analyze the processes that led to the invention of speleological practices and speleotourist phenomenon, and its international social production and its insertion in the Brazilian context. It is considered that the development of speleology as an activity of multiple meaning, technical, sporting, scientific, entertainment and contact with nature was crucial to the generation of movement and flows of people to areas where there are speleological sites. It is, as a starting point, that is the appropriate basis for the market, to the deployment of tourism in caves. The theoretical and methodological approach multi-referential starts of the concepts of the phenomenology of the imagination of Bachelard and the contributions of geopoetic and of the humanistic and cultural geography, with contributions also from the environmental perception and topophilia (Tuan). It was intended to study the collective imaginary and the symbolic aspects of the relationship of human societies with the caves. It is also to verify the dynamics and determinants of the speleotourist process. The methodological procedures emphasized an analysis of visual narratives and the production of senses from the discursive practices of landscape perception relating to Brazilian caves, tourist visitation and environmental protection, highlighting a case study in the Ribeira Valley (SP). It was performed an extensive documentary analysis, using varied materials collected in libraries, bookstores and in some cases also in electronic media. The images were collected from websites on speleology or related areas, or in websites of authorities or personal blogs and fotologs. There was also a film analysis of 42 film productions. The photogeographical and sociocultural survey of the speleological practices and cavingtourism was produced during the field trips, conducted between 2000-2010 in several places in Brazil, with emphasis on the Upper Ribeira Valley, and also in other countries (Portugal, Cuba), generating a corpus with thousands of photos, plus others photos provided by collaborators. It was used, yet, varied methods of interview, such as recordings of oral and electronic interviews, through the questionnaire, with 21 cavers or speleologists, of which 18 propitiated data about representations of to be a speleologist. The questionnaires on the social representations of the cave were incorporated into the study, using material that was produced under the History of Speleology Section of the Brazilian Speleological Society (SBE), since 1998, involving 461 people. The participants involved are students of basic education or university level, contrasting with urban dwellers of São Paulo or nearby places of speleological sites, such as Iporanga (SP). The outcomes they demonstrated the influences of the imaginary poetic and of the symbolic content from the caves into the development from speleological activity and speleotourist. The karst landscape representations and speleological practices appeared with extreme wealth, both in the testimonials and documents of philosophical, religious, literary and film themes. It is essential to increase the educational processes for the formation of cavers and speleologists, the spread of the speleological practices and the dissemination of caving, approaching rationalities and subjectivities. This allows us to rethink our historical relationship with the underworld, the interactions of caving and tourism along de trajectory of contemporary society.
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Näsström, Anna. "Mémoire de licence Quand un paysage naît, un autre meurt : – Une analyse écocritique du roman Naissance d'un pont." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Franska, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-21116.
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Ce mémoire est constitué par une analyse écocritique du roman Naissance d'un pont, écrit par Maylis de Kerangal. Le but général du mémoire est d'examiner comment ce roman décrit la relation entre l'homme et la nature. Nous examinons surtout les stratégies narratives employées par l'auteure pour transmettre l'image de cette relation et en plus, nous discutons le rôle joué par les différents paysages se retrouvant dans le récit. Finalement, l'analyse comprend aussi une brève réflexion sur la capacité éventuelle du roman d'influencer l'attitude du lecteur envers l'écologie. L'analyse des stratégies narratives se concentre sur le rôle du narrateur, ainsi que sur la présence et la fonction des perspectives éthiques, des noms symboliques et des figures de style. Ces stratégies contribuent à dépeindre une variété d'idées par rapport aux modes de vie de la société humaine, alors que les descriptions des paysages démontrent la relation complexe entre cette société et les paysages naturels et construits respectivement. Naissance d'un pont semble promouvoir une attitude à l'égard de la nature qui est plus humble que celle dominant dans la société moderne. Afin de pouvoir juger la capacité du roman de transmettre ces valeurs au lecteur, il serait pourtant raisonnable de tenir compte de plusieurs facteurs, tels que la complexité du langage et le niveau de crédibilité de l'histoire.This essay consists of an ecocritical analysis of the novel Naissance d'un pont, written by Maylis de Kerangal. The essay's overall purpose is to examine how this novel describes the relationship between humans and nature. Above all, we look at the narrative strategies used by the author to convey the image of this relationship and moreover, we discuss the role of the different landscapes figuring in the novel. Finally, the analysis also includes a brief reflection on the novel's potential to influence the reader's attitude towards ecology. The analysis of narrative strategies focuses on the narrator's role, as well as the presence and function of ethical perspectives, symbolic names and figures of speech. These strategies contribute to depicting a variety of ideas concerning human lifestyles, whereas the descriptions of landscapes demonstrate the complex relationship between the human society and the natural and constructed landscapes respectively. Naissance d'un pont seems to promote a more humble attitude to nature than the one dominating in today's society. In order to evaluate the novel's capacity to transmit these values to the reader, it would however be reasonable to take several factors into account, such as the complexity of the language and the story's credibility level.
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Temperton, Barbara Temperton Barbara. "The Lighthouse keeper's wife, and other stories (novel) : and Ceremony for ground : narrative, landscape, myth (dissertation) /." Connect to this title, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0005.
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Rose, Mitch. "Monumental vistas : narratives of heritage and the landscape of the Giza Plateau." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272143.
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Dellenbaugh, Mary Hartshorn. "Landscape changes in East Berlin after 1989." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät II, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16993.
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Die Arbeit behandelt eine Reihe zusammenhängender Veränderungen, die nach dem Fall der Mauer im Ostteil von Berlin stattfanden. In drei Aufsätzen wird die Geschichte des unmittelbaren Wandels der Diskurse über Raumtypologien dargestellt, die symbolische Aneignung beschrieben, die in den Aushandlungsprozessen um die Schaffung einer vereinten Berliner Innenstadt stattfand und die Auswirkungen der Veränderungen in der diskursiven und symbolischen Neuausrichtung am Beispiel der Entwicklung zweier Berliner Bezirke veranschaulicht. Die Ergebnisse entstammen dabei einem Methoden-Mix aus verschiedenen Ansätzen der semiotischen Analyse und Diskursanalyse sowie der Auswertung demographischer Daten. Das Projekt gliedert sich in fünf Leithypothesen: H1: Semiotik ist eine effektive analytische Methode für die Untersuchung von Kulturlandschaften. H2: Die symbolische Landschaft Ostberlins nach 1990 wurde von einem „westlichen“ kulturellen Mythos beherrscht, der sich im symbolischen Kapital und im Architekturstil der neuen/alten Hauptstadt niederschlug. H3: Der Wandel der symbolischen Landschaft Ostberlins nach 1990 ist Ausdruck eines auf die Zeit vor dem zweiten Weltkrieg verengten historischen Narrativs. H4: Die diskursive Übertragung hatte konkrete Auswirkungen auf die räumliche und demographische Entwicklung der Ost-Berliner Bezirke. H5: Die Ursache für die Stigmatisierung Berlin-Marzahns direkt nach der deutschen Wiedervereinigung lag primär in dieser diskursiven Übertragung. Die fünf Hypothesen werden in dem Projekt erfolgreich überprüft und bestätigt. Der Methoden-Mix erweist sich als gut geeignet für die strukturelle Analyse von Kulturlandschaften. Sowohl diese Analyse als auch die daraus entwickelte Theorie, dass die Symbole der herrschenden ökonomischen, politischen oder kolonialen Macht, die in die Kulturlandschaft eingebettet sind, „gelesen“ werden können, weisen vielversprechende Anknüpfungspunkte für weitere Forschungskontexte auf.This dissertation describes a range of connected changes that took place in the eastern half of Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The three articles tell the story of immediate changes to discourses about built spaces and built space forms (article 1), symbolic appropriations in the negotiations surrounding the creation of a new unified Berliner inner-city (article 2), and the effect of the changes in discursive and symbolic restructurings in the subsequent development of two Berlin districts with different built space types (article 3). Under the framework of grounded theory, this project operationalized several semiotic analysis techniques for the study of the cultural landscape and combined these with discourse analysis and demographic data to derive the results presented in the three articles described above. The project was guided by five hypotheses: H1: Semiotics is an effective analytical method for the analysis of cultural landscapes. H2: The symbolic landscape of East Berlin after 1990 was dominated by a western cultural mythos which pervaded the symbolic capital and architectural style of the new/old capital city. H3: The changes to the symbolic landscape of East Berlin after 1990 reflected a very specific and narrow pre-WWI historical narrative. H4: This discursive transference had tangible material effects on the material and demographic development of the Eastern districts. H5: The stigmatization of Berlin-Marzahn directly after German reunification was primarily due to this discursive transference. All five hypotheses could be successfully tested and validated from the empirical research. The mix of methods presented in this project proved well-suited to the structural analysis of cultural landscapes. Both it and the theory developed, namely that the narrative of the dominant power, economic, political, or colonial, can be “read” by examining the symbols embedded in the cultural landscape, would benefit from further research in other contexts.
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Edwardes, Christian. "Peregrinations with maps and landscapes : narrating the spaces of practice in fine art." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2016. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/9192/.
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For some art historians the notion of geography has never had as much importance in art as in recent years. At the same time numerous geographers have been engaged in a diverse range of artistic practices from installation to new genre public art. Often engagements between geographic theory and contemporary art practices are rooted in the peripatetic activities of the mid-century urban avant-garde. Recently, however, artists have been grappling with a number of problems that are distinctly geographic, from studies of place, location and situation to counter-cartographic excursions aimed at reframing our understandings of the world. Yet few of these engagements reflect on the geographies of the studio, or on the constructed situations in which work is created. Whilst this study begins with an intention to map a series of subject-environment relations in various urban and rural locations, it quickly turns to the complex geographies of the space that is determined as a ‘studio’ and on the processes of constructing an environment for creating works. The research is rooted in what has been variously termed practice-led, practice-based or simply artistic research. As such research is conducted principally in and through a personal creative practice, but in the course of navigating art-geography relations the research draws on a number of post-representational theoretical strands. In doing so the study navigates between the studio and location, event and representation, in order to show how artworks are implicated in, and co-productive of, nebulous spatial relations that are not enclosed by the surface of the image, the frame of the studio wall or the site of exhibition. Central to this thesis is the argument that artworks remain fundamentally ontogenic—both acting on future works and continuously remade in each reflective revisit.
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Paphitis, C. "The place of folklore in archaeological landscapes : narratives and identity in medieval to modern Britain." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2014. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1453663/.
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This research explores the relationship between archaeology and folklore through folk narratives about sites and landscapes in Britain and their association with changing socio-political contexts from the medieval period to the present day. Whilst the potential for folklore to contribute to archaeological investigations has been noted by a number of researchers in recent years, and projects and publications in this field have increased, a vast majority focus upon the problems of undertaking such work, yet fail to address these by developing explicit theoretical and methodological approaches. The use of folklore in archaeological research thus remains a marginal and often mistrusted exercise, seen here to rise in part from a lack of understanding of the development of folklore as a discipline and how folklorists approach and interpret their materials. Taking an interpretive approach to legends and landscapes, a strategy for examining historic and contemporary folklore is developed in order to scrutinise changing engagements with archaeological sites and landscapes through time, and the role of archaeological sites in the development of narrative traditions. Using the folk figure Arthur as a thematic focus of this thesis, and employing archaeological, folkloric and historical data, as well as primary data gathered from the completion of questionnaires by site visitors and local residents, ethnographic archaeologies of case study sites across England, Scotland and Wales were undertaken. As well as reorienting Arthur studies away from debates about his historicity towards discussions over meanings of his representation, this investigation reconstructs the complex biographies of these sites to reveal their political appropriation through folklore in the construction of local and national identities. Further, this thesis sets out an agenda for the use of folklore in archaeological investigations as a form of reciprocal, retrospective and interpretive public archaeology, engaging and assessing multiple voices through time and their connections to place.
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Dzegede, Anyeley Yawa 1976. "Historical and cultural narratives in landscape design : design applications for Miami Beach, Florida." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65721.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (p. [94]-[97]).
Narrative landscapes are designed environments that use physical elements, spaces and stories to convey messages and make place. Through the use of narrative landscapes, designers can relate the historical and cultural significance of particular places and peoples. The designer must be concerned not only with the contents of the story, but with the role of the readers, the community and in the ideologies and worldviews these narratives imply. The issues involved with creating narrative in the landscape are in the incorporation of the stories and elements of the past and the use of symbolic and didactic media. In our multicultural and highly mediated society, landscape designs for public places should be pluralistic and multi-dimensional. A pluralistic design conveys the stories of personalities, communities, historic events, and places and is made within a community process or with community input. The multidimensional aspect of narrative designs emanates from the blending of abstracted or symbolic forms of communication and didactic forms that carry a series of messages. Narrative landscapes were examined to determine how designed elements and sequencing tell stories in the landscape. The information gathered was used to develop a potential design approach for the Indian Creek Corridor in Miami Beach, Florida.
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Millman, Zoe K. "Landscape narratives and the construction of meaning in the contemporary urban canal-scape." Thesis, Birmingham City University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.631694.
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The research explores the ways in which individuals within a diverse urban society perceive and interact with the regenerated urban canal-scape examining the process and dynamics by which individuals construct personal meanings relating to the canal landscape with emphasis on the central canal area (Brindleyplace) of Birmingham, UK. Specific phenomenological and performative methodologies are developed to elicit qualitative, self-reflexive landscape responses focussing on the use of walking in the landscape, combined with narrative-representational approaches, both vision and language-based. Data are collected using a series of in-situ and ex-situ studies including: collaborative ‘Walking-and-Talking’ exercises; semi-structured interviews, or ‘Conversations’; self-reflexive exercises such as diaries and a remote postcard study and participant-observation exercises based on group activities in the canal-scape. Findings suggest that individuals’ landscape perceptions are constructed through experiences and memories of other landscapes, both physically known and those only imagined. Participants display congruencies and divergences regarding notions of iconic landscape components and perceptual themes which may be contrary to the established norms of canal-scape meaning. The study stresses the use and importance of individual narratives as indicators of how participants think about and use the landscape as part of their life activities, how they perceive it, how they project themselves onto it, construct meanings around it. Results indicate that the locomotive-narrative methodologies developed in response to the research parameters are highly conducive to the evocation and expression of multi-modal landscape perceptions, including references to memories and associations.
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Barraclough, Eleanor Rosamund. "Landscape and the semiotics of space in the Íslendingasögur : mapping Norse identity in saga narrative." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609163.
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Viljoen, A. J. (Albertus Johannes). "Tswaing, a place of commemoration and reminiscence : making the natural environment accessible to all." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31584.
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The Tswaing Meteorite Crater, formed 220 000 years ago, on the farm of Zoutpan, (or also known as the Pretoria Saltpan), had been a topographic and geological riddle for a long period of time. The gathering of salt from the crater was its main attraction for many groups that flocked to the crater, which later became an important beacon of infrastructure, becoming the largest producer of Soda and Salt in the Transvaal in the early 1900’s. Knowledge is an intangible quality of the cultural landscape and its history which can be lost in the blink of an eye if it is not preserved, commemorated and conserved for future generations. Through the investigation of Inclusive Design and the application of its principles, the narrative which is Tswaing, can be made accessible to all by revealing the concealed narrative of the place, tangible and intangible, through time. The afterthought or lack of design for disabled individuals can be seen in many projects. By ensuring accessibility is part of the design process from the onset of the project, valuable resources are not needlessly wasted later. As a result the cultural landscape and its secrets can be uncovered and shared with all.Dissertation ML(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Crider, David. "Constructing and Performing an On-Air Radio Identity in a Changing Media Landscape." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/243908.
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The radio industry is fighting to stay relevant in an age of expanding media options. Scholarship has slackened, and media experts say that radio's best days are in the past. This dissertation investigates how today's radio announcer presents him/herself on the air as a personality, creating and performing a self that is meant for mass consumption by a listening audience. A participant observation of eleven different broadcast sites was conducted, backed by interviews with most key on-air personnel at each site. A grounded theory approach was used for data analysis. The resulting theoretical model focuses on the performance itself as the focal point that determines a successful (positive) interaction for personality and listener. Associated processes include narrative formation of the on-air personality, communication that takes place outside of the performance, effects of setting and situation, the role of the listening audience, and the reduction of social distance between personality and listener. The model demonstrates that a personality performed with the intent of being realistic and relatable will be more likely to cement a connection with the listener that leads to repeated listening and ultimately loyalty and fidelity to that personality. The successful deployments of these on-air identities across multiple channels (in-person, online, and through social media as well as broadcast) suggests that the demand for relatable and informative content will persist, regardless of radio's future delivery mechanisms.
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Thaxton, Christopher T. "Gasland: The Rhetoric of Images in the New Media Landscape." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1487.
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Josh Fox's film Gasland, released in 2010, started the national debate concerning the process of hydraulic fracturing and launched the term "fracking" into the public consciousness. Gasland, nominated for four Emmy Awards, was the winner of the 2010 Environmental Media Award for Best Documentary, the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize, and the Yale Environmental Film Festival Grand Jury Prize. Using the momentum from the film's popular reception, Fox and the Gasland team successfully established a grassroots movement that was responsible for helping create the Frack Act and a moratorium of fracking in the Delaware River Shed.
This thesis intends to determine what made Gasland so influential. Through a rhetorical criticism and media analysis, I will show how Fox's film ignited the debate on domestic natural gas production and has created a multi-public literacy that enables social change.