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Mock, Steven. "Images of defeat in the construction of national identity." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2009. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2735/.
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Numerous cases can be shown of nations that elevate symbols they associate with their own defeat to the centre of their national mythology and construction of history. While this has been recognized and commented upon by scholars examining individual nations, it has yet to be examined in a comparative context as a phenomenon distinct to nationalism and the nation as a modern ideology and social construct. Yet such symbols are sufficiently common in national mythologies, and unusually so in that they can be shown to have been elevated in importance and altered in meaning over the process of nation building, that examination of this particular category of symbols has potential to offer unique insights into "the nation" as a general concept. Nations are modem constructs, yet most identify in continuity with ancient predecessors. The elevation of symbols of defeat serves to negotiate this balance by substantiating the nation's sense of continuity with the traditional ethnic culture on which it relies for its symbolic content, while at the same time rationalising the radical social transformation necessary in order for the community to assert claims in the modern political context. Under certain conditions, such myths can even serve as the very signifiers which give the system its structure and meaning and therefore the effective foundation myths of the nation. As a result, an added desperation, difficult for outsiders to understand, often characterises conflicts over symbols associated with these myths.
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Feklyunina, Valentina. "National images in international relations : Putin's Russia and the West." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1391/.
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This study seeks to analyse the impact of the perceived, projected and self-images of a state on its foreign and domestic policies. It approaches this problem by exploring the evolution of international images of the Russian Federation in the ‘West’ in the years of Vladimir Putin’s presidency (2000-2008) and by examining attempts by the Russian authorities to improve them with the help of foreign propaganda. Russian political elites have always been very sensitive to perceptions of Russia in Western Europe and later in the United States of America. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia’s images in Western countries underwent significant transformation. Although relatively positive in the early 1990s, they became more negative towards the end of Boris Yel’tsin’s presidency before reaching their negative ‘peak’ during Putin’s second presidential term. The energetic efforts of the Russian authorities in the years of Putin’s presidency to promote a more favourable image of the country provide extremely rich material for analysis, which has largely not yet been utilised in the academic literature. To facilitate the analysis of Russia’s perceived images and the effectiveness of foreign propaganda, the thesis includes two case studies that examine the issues at question in greater detail in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Federal Republic of Germany. Based on extensive primary research (elite interviewing and discourse analysis), the study seeks to make a three-fold contribution to the academic literature. Firstly, it is the first systematic examination of Russian foreign propaganda in the post-Soviet period. By analysing Russia’s attempts to improve its image in the international arena, the thesis contributes to the literature in the field of International Political Communication that has already examined public diplomacy campaigns conducted by other, mainly Western, countries. Secondly, it aims to provide a deeper insight into the role of subjective, non-material factors in Russian foreign policy. Finally, it seeks to make a contribution to the social constructivist IR literature by presenting a theoretical analysis of the role of national images in international relations.
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Hutchings, James Forrest. "Monitoring Property Boundaries for the Appalachian National Scenic Trail Using Satellite Images." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32103.
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The Appalachian National Scenic Trail is a unit of the National Park System created by the National Trails Act of 1968. Commonly referred to as the Appalachian Trail, or the AT, this National Park has some of the longest boundaries of any park. The AT is routed more than 2000 miles along the mountains of the eastern United States. The land purchased for the protection of the AT creates a separate boundary on each side of the trail. Monitoring these boundaries for intrusions or encroachments is a difficult and time-consuming task when done totally by field methods. This thesis presents a more efficient and consistent monitoring process using remote sensing data and change detection algorithms. Using Landsat TM images, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), and image difference change detection, this research shows that major boundary encroachments can be detected. Detection of sub-pixel vegetation index decreases identifies specific locations for field inspection. Assuming low cost multispectral Landsat imagery is available, simple NDVI difference calculation allows this technique to be applied to the entire AT one or more times per year. This procedure would improve the response time for encroachment mediation. The producerâ s accuracy for finding possible encroachments was 100 percent and the consumerâ s accuracy for possible encroachments indicated was 78.3 percent. Due to limited image availability, this study only examines change between one pair of Landsat images. Further refinement of these techniques should investigate other Landsat images at other times. Use of other remote sensing systems and change detection algorithms could be the focus of further research.Master of Science
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Poos, Francoise. "The making of a national audio-visual archive : the CNA and the 'Hidden Images' exhibition." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/12429.
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This thesis explores the agency and practices of visual material in the construction of collective memory and national identity. It is grounded in the case study of one particular institution, the Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA) in Luxembourg, and in the institutional life and transformations of a specific body of images, Luxembourg’s Amateur Film Collection and the exhibition Hidden Images mounted in 2007. The CNA is Luxembourg’s central repository for film, photography and sound documents brought together under the rubric of ‘national heritage’. The amateur film archive comprises today about 10.000 objects from the 1920s to the mid 1970s. Made in Luxembourg or by people from Luxembourg, the movies, and even more so the film stills as a condensed version of the archive, represent the nation, yet as an ensemble they remain contained, making a close examination possible. I consider in this context that images are not however only indexical referents, but also, and especially, bundled objects existing materially in the world, entangled in a complex tissue of social interactions and practices, tensioned between document and art work and interwoven with shifting institutional aspirations. Drawing on the work of Ingold, I characterize this as a meshwork, in which everything is connected and visual objects evolve organically, subject to internal and external influences. Thus, this thesis observes the private family films as they meet and mesh with the public institution CNA where they develop new agency as historical documents, as works of art or triggers of collective memory. It explores the filmed material in relation to the national and institutional politics of the CNA’s emergence, the shifting culture of curatorial intention and ambition for the collection, the hierarchies of information within CNA. By making visible the lines, the connections and the nodes of this meshwork, as well as its patterns of disruption and fracture, this study highlights the varying interactions with Luxembourg’s Amateur Film Collection in particular, and, more generally, the performative nature of family photographs and films as they are used to construct images of nationality. The small scale of Luxembourg as a nation-state presents a demonstrable case study of the ecology of images in national identity building and makes an unusually grounded contribution to the wider debate about the ways in which images strengthen a sense of belonging, and how archives and museums use photography and film to construct and articulate visions of nationhood.
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Matei, Hanna. ""We agree to disagree" : a Study of Ghanaian University Students' National Self-Images." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-13436.
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This thesis is based on a field study conducted in Ghana's capital Accra between September and November 2010 where data, in the form of inter alia interviews with Ghanaian university students, was collected. The underlying aim for the study is to gain a deeper understanding for the many times troublesome nation-building process in the African context. The thesis' objective then is to gain a deeper understanding of a part of the "successful" Ghanaian nation-building process and the national identification in Ghana via the concept of national self-images: the affective and cognitive views of the own nation and people. The Ghanaian national identification is explored via the concept which here is divided into two wide dimensions (the Temporal and Relational - primarily based on the works by Bo Petersson and Noel Kaplowitz) and the data is then organised and analysed according to these. The national self-images are further divided into positive respective negative images with presumably disitnct influences on national and political stability. The result from this study is is that the interviewed university students hold predominantely positive images of their own nation, people and polity which may indicate a continued support for the nation-building process. Howeer also osome negative images exist which could hold the potential threat of weakening the support and trust for the national project among the students.
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Renard, Margot. "Les images du récit national : illustrer l'Histoire de France entre 1814 et 1848." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018GREAH033.
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Henri IV et son panache blanc, Jeanne d’Arc en armure, Vercingétorix vaincu amené devant César… ces représentations liées à l’histoire de France nous sont aujourd’hui familières. Pourtant leur origine est ancienne : elles apparaissent dès la première moitié du XIXe siècle dans les arts visuels et dans l’historiographie, lorsqu’émerge la vogue de l’histoire, et spécialement de l’histoire nationale. Le médium de l’illustration, alors en plein essor, devient un agent efficace de la création et de la diffusion de représentations liées à l’histoire de France. En effet, les éditeurs en quête de formules éditoriales plus séduisantes commencent à intégrer des illustrations dans les ouvrages historiques savants, lorsqu’une telle association semblait auparavant délicate. Cette thèse se propose donc d’étudier les illustrations produites pour les ouvrages historiques parus entre 1814 et 1848. Les ouvrages historiques illustrés s’adressent à un lectorat de plus en plus large, que nous distinguons en termes de classes sociales (populaire, bourgeois) et d’âges (adultes, enfants). Les discours comme les illustrations tentent donc de s’adapter aux attentes et aux dispositions de ces divers lectorats, ce que nous étudierons dans le premier chapitre. Une part de la vogue pour les ouvrages historiques illustrés vient de ce qu’ils font écho aux préoccupations contemporaines : la question de la fondation de la France en tant que nation, en particulier, soulève de vastes débats. Notre deuxième chapitre examinera donc l’illustration de l’historiographie des périodes considérées comme fondatrices, le haut Moyen-Age et la Révolution française. Enfin, si l’historiographie illustrée de cette période apparaît très francocentrée, certains ouvrages viennent éveiller l’intérêt des lecteurs pour une histoire aux échelles « micro » ou macro », intéressée par l’histoire régionale et par l’histoire transnationale (troisième chapitre). Au fil du temps et des publications illustrées émergent donc des schémas iconographiques récurrents, contribuant à enraciner un récit historique iconotextuel, hybride de texte et d’images, dans l’imaginaire nationalWhich images pop into the minds of Frenchmen when they recall their national history? Henry IV and his white panache, Joan of Arc in her armor, or Vercingétorix and his long hair. Where do these representations come from? How did they develop and with which narrative? This dissertation aims at studying the origins of these images : the spreading of the illustrated historical narrative in France from 1814 to 1848. Indeed, in these years, a true economy of the illustrated history book emerged. These illustrated narratives – these iconotexts – progressively clarified and strengthened a national history in image on which French identity was leaning on. The illustration of history developed interacting with other historical-focused media: theater, panorama, and especially history painting, standing as a model from which to set apart in order to find its own language. Over the course of time and publications, iconotextual patterns established themselves. Therefore, the illustration of history, spread through a larger and larger audience, contributed to the rooting of a national historical narrative into the collective psyche
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Wang, Xiao Jie. "Demon or angel? :China's discrepant national images in New York Times and China Daily." Thesis, University of Macau, 2012. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2554638.
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Walton, S. J. "Images of the peasantry in Norwegian National Romanticism and the works of Ivar Aasen." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372915.
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Yilmazturk, Emre Ali. "European Identity: Historical Images And The Eu Initiatives." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606900/index.pdf.
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This thesis aims to describe and analyze the historical images of European identity and the contemporary initiatives of the European Union to promote it. By analyzing the common cultural elements that European identity consists of, namely Ancient Greece, Roman Empire, Christianity, Renaissance, Reformations, Enlightenment, French Revolution, and Modernity in terms of the images of European identity, the limits of these common cultural elements and how much they have contributed to the creation of a European identity will be presented. And by examining the contemporary initiatives of European Union to promote European Identity such as creating a European flag, anthem, passport, constitution, this thesis aims to explore and present the prospects for a common European Identity. In this regard, it is the main argument of the thesis that European identity is a limited form of a collective identity, among the multiple identities that a person has.
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Oppenheimer, Melanie. "Volunteering the Australian experience /." [Australia] : Melanie Oppenheimer, 2007. http://www.naa.gov.au/Images/oppenheimer-paper-2007_tcm2-9196.pdf.
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Thesis (PhD) - Marketing and International Studies, Faculty of Business and Enterprise, Swinburne University of Technology, 2008."Public lecture for the National Archives of Australia, presented in Canberra ... 15 May 2007."-t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-215).
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Wells, James Edward II. "Western landscapes, western images: a rephotography of U.S. Highway 89." Diss., Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13524.
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Doctor of PhilosophyDepartment of Geography
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The American West is a land of great diversity and stark contrast. It is also a landscape marked by rapid change as a result of such forces as globalization, population growth, and heightened interest in natural resources (either for recreation or extraction). This dissertation investigates these changes to the region through a repeat photography analysis. Between 1982 and 1984, Thomas and Geraldine Vale traveled along U.S. Highway 89 from Glacier National Park, Montana to Nogales, Arizona. Their subsequent work, Western Images, Western Landscapes: Travels Along U.S. 89 (University of Arizona Press, 1989), contained fifty-three photographs from this journey, representing a cross section of the West from border to border. Nearly every facet of the region was represented, from the remote prairie landscapes of Montana to the bustling Phoenix downtown, and from the largest open pit mine in the world to seldom visited corners of Yellowstone National Park. Between March 2009 and August 2010, I retraced the steps taken by the Vales and successfully rephotographed all of the locations contained within their book. The observed continuity or change is examined thematically in order to address the landscapes and cultures of the West in greater detail. Specifically, chapters within this dissertation visually and textually describe changes that have occurred along national borders, within Native American reservations, throughout the rural landscapes and national parks of the region, within the many resource extraction industries, and within towns and cities of every size. Significant findings, which are well depicted in the photographic pairings, include heightened national security along the borders, problems of overuse in many parks and protected areas, the transition of traditional small towns into communities increasingly dependent upon tourism for survival, and both beautification and revitalization efforts taking place in the urban cores of Phoenix and Salt Lake City. By painting a vivid picture of recent Western geography, this research provides for greater ability for residents and scholars of the region to understand the forces at work within their communities and surroundings.
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MATOS, RICARDO VALADAO SIQUEIRA. "FUNK IMAGES IN THE NATIONAL MOVIES: STEREOTYPES AND ESCAPE LINES IN THE FUNK BALL PICTURES REPRESENTATIONS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2008. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=14181@1.
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Um dos principais aspectos da sociedade brasileira contemporânea é a grande
produção e proliferação de imagens, discursos e narrativas sobre a periferia e a sua cultura.
Os meios de comunicação de massa se apresentam soberanamente como os mais legítimos
divulgadores da realidade da periferia para o imaginário social. Mas podemos levantar os
seguintes questionamentos: como a mídia representa a cultura da periferia? Há uma
glamourização ou uma demonização dos elementos da favela? Que imagens escapam dos
clichês midiáticos? Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar as imagens e os discursos da
mídia sobre o funk carioca. Buscaremos evidenciar os estereótipos imagéticos do cinema
nacional que associam o movimento funk à criminalidade, ao tráfico de drogas, à violência,
ao sexo precoce e à irresponsabilidade juvenil.One of the main aspects of contemporary Brazilian society is the major production and proliferation of images, speeches and narratives about the periphery and its culture. The mass communication media presents itself as the most legitimate reality advisers of the periphery to the social imaginary. But we can raise the following questions: how the media represents the culture of the periphery? Is there a kind of glamour or is there a demonization of the elements of the slum? Which images are beyond the media cliches? This research aims to analyze the pictures and speeches of the media on the “carioca” funk. We highlight the stereotypes imaging of local cinema involving the funk movement against crime, drug dealing, violence, sex and irresponsibility on precocious youth.
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Fleming, Andrew Lawrence. "FOREST CARBON MAPPING AND SPATIAL UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS: COMBINING NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORY DATA AND LANDSAT TM IMAGES." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/584.
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Being able to accurately map forest carbon is a critical step in the global carbon cycle modeling and management process. This project is aimed at enhancing the current methodologies used for forest carbon mapping, and applying a method to account for any errors produced. By doing so, more accurate decisions can be made based on the knowledge gained from forest carbon maps; such as policy decisions on how to manage forests, or how to mitigate climate change. The use of remotely sensed images, in combination with Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data, is one such way of doing this. This study compared three different methods; including linear regression, cosimulation, and up-scaled cosimulation to interpolate forest carbon based on a defined relationship between sample plots of national FIA data and satellite images. An uncertainty analysis was completed in an effort to quantify, and separate the different sources of error produced within a cosimulation mapping effort. The results indicated that the band ratio of TM4 / TM5 + TM4 / TM7 had the highest correlation coefficient, around 0.56, with the FIA forest carbon values. At a resolution of 90 m ×by 90 m, co-simulation predicted carbon values from about 14 Mg/ha, to 135 Mg/ha. The regression model, at the same resolution, estimated carbon values from about -17 Mg/ha, to 2,400 Mg/ha. Up-scaled cosimulation at a resolution of 990 m x× 990 m, predicted carbon values of ranging from 16 Mg/ha, to 133 Mg/ha. The uncertainty analysis was unable to produce any statistically significant results, with all R2 values below 0.1. These results showed that using a linear regression produced some impossible estimates, while cosimulation led to more realistic values. However, no conclusion can be made when comparing the methods based on the map validation techniques used. Although limited validation of the results was conducted, using both the FIA data and some independent sampling data; further work that focuses on validation is recommended.
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Brereton, Michelle Lorraine. "A national scheme using digital images of blood cell morphology to support continuous professional development : evaluating morphology reporting." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2017. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-national-scheme-using-digital-images-of-blood-cell-morphology-to-support-continuous-professional-development(e7c90b23-7148-4b32-bafb-657b578c1708).html.
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The reporting of blood cell morphology, by biomedical scientists using microscopy, is a subjective and relatively uncontrolled process; morphology reports impact directly upon the clinical care of patients, however, no large studies of the processes morphologists employ to reach their conclusions have been undertaken. This thesis chronicles the collaborative process with a national provider of quality assessment services (UK NEQAS(H)); detailing the pioneering developments that culminated in the creation of a national scheme, incorporating digital images of peripheral blood cells and accredited for continuous professional development. Annual exercises, using digital images distributed via the internet, were used to develop, test and create the scheme. Two workshops provided early assessment and feedback from participants. The aim of this research was to then evaluate the responses of the large number of professionals who completed cases, to give insights into how they interpret the blood cell morphology to produce their succinct report. The responses of between 732 and 1,018 participants (median 878) were examined for five digital morphology cases specifically selected to cover a range of morphological features. The subsequent data examination shows that patterns of error and bias were found in the responses that have not been described in blood film reporting before. Where a single morphological abnormality existed (glandular fever or Pelger-Huët anomaly), the ability to identify the feature of interest was high (97% and 84% respectively), however, errors in knowledge-based classification were seen. For complex cases, with multiple abnormal features, additional errors of inattention and premature completion were found; in the case of lymphoma with oxidative haemolysis 68% correctly reported the acute haemolysis, however, only 17% correctly reported both abnormal pathologies. Heuristic methods of decision-making, not considered in morphology reporting before, help the understanding of these patterns of error and bias. Following this research the national scheme will be adapted to support participants by indicating the potential common forms of error found in morphology reporting.
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Belete, Roman Yiseni. "The contest of representation : photographic images of Ethiopian women in national print media, development aid organisations and galleries." Thesis, Durham University, 2014. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10631/.
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The repetition of particular photographic narratives may homogenise women from the non-European world, particularly those from sub-Saharan Africa, who are often portrayed as victims of drought, famine, war and conflict. The research critically analyses the historical and contemporary construction of female bodies in Ethiopia through photographic images. It provides a novel overview of the least explored representational practices, by comparing photographic works commissioned by aid and development organisations with those produced by Ethiopian photographers. It specifically considers how far stereotypical representations are being challenged and deconstructed in contemporary practices of photography in Ethiopia. This project assesses over seventy photographic images, ranging from picture postcards to photojournalism and photo-essays, and seeks to critically interpret them from their site of production to their final presentation in different modes of circulation (Rose, 2003). It triangulates the meanings of images through developing an understanding of the specificity of documentary photographs, the photographers’ intent and the demands of institutions, including the national print media, development aid organisations and galleries. The research argues that some Ethiopian photographers use the photographic image as a medium to confront stereotypes in picturing poverty, drought, famine, malnutrition and HIV/AIDS, there by contesting narratives about Ethiopia and Ethiopians in the process.
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Yale, Nathaniel W. "Images for a Nation: The Role of Conservation Photography in American Environmentalism." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/106.
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Photographs have long been integral in revealing American values, ideals, and identity. Accordingly, a study of environmental, or "conservation," imagery offers insight into America’s relationship with the natural world. In an examination of key figures and their conservation photography work, this thesis explores how the national conservation dialogue has been shaped by powerful images that, in some cases, even led to crucial acts of federal conservation. The first section highlights four photographers and their context and influence in this dialogue: W.H. Jackson’s photographs from Hayden’s 1871 survey of Yellowstone, Carleton Watkins’ work at Yosemite and Mariposa Grove in the 1860s, and the twentieth-century Sierra Club work of Ansel Adams and Eliot Porter. The second section illustrates the imagery and impact of contemporary photographers Mark Klett, David Maisel, and Subhankar Banerjee, each with his own distinctive focus and contribution to conservation rhetoric. Understanding the progression of American environmental imagery and how it has led to contemporary conservation photography informs us about how best to affect change in the current era of ever-increasing environmental degradation.
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Burke, Rachel Jean. "Casualties, contributors, competitors or commodities? : images of the Asian international student population in Australia : reflecting notions of 'national identity' /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18916.pdf.
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Cole, Penelope Rae Walrath. "Scotland on stage: Images of national identity in the plays of Joanna Baillie, Ena Lamont Stewart and Liz Lochhead." Connect to online resource, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3256414.
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Stockwell, Esther Seong Hee, and estock@hosei ac jp. "The relationship between newspaper credibility and reader attitude toward Korea and Koreans." RMIT University. Applied Communication, 2006. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20070125.160936.
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As receivers of information from the media, we are faced with the constant problem of determining what sources are and are not credible. Given that much of what we know of the world around us comes directly from the media (Lippman, 1922), as receivers of messages from the media we realise how important the credibility of a news source is. Many of the attitudes that we form about a wide range of issues in society are formed as a direct result of the coverage we receive through the media, although there are numerous other factors involved such as issue involvement, intensity and closure (e.g., Guttman, 1954). Traditionally a large number of studies have argued that a high credibility source is more effective in causing attitude change than a low credibility source (Hovland & Weiss, 1951; Kelman & Hovland, 1953; Bochner & Insko, 1966; McGuire, 1973), while other experimental research examining the interaction between source credibility and other variables have indicated that there are other factors which have an important mediating effect on the impact of source credibility. To further complicate the issue, researchers have argued that credibility is not a stable attribute that a person assigns consistently to a source. Instead, credibility is highly situational and is a changeable perception by a receiver (Berlo, Lemert, & Mertz, 1969; Smith, 1970; Hayes, 1971; Chaffe, 1982). Also, individual differences of receivers such as age, education, gender, and knowledge about the media and the topic could contribute to the evaluation of source credibility (Westley & Serverin, 1964; Lewis, 1981). In addition, the importance of the issue in the media, the controversiality of the issue, receiver bias, the receiver's involvement with the issue and so on have also been shown to have a relationship with the evaluation of source credibility (Stone & Bell, 1975; Robert & Leifer, 1975; Gunther & Lasorsa, 1986). This thesis thus explores the various complexities involved in the relationship between media credibility and attitude formation by examining the characteristics that play a role in making a news source credible to readers, and then considering those factors that affect attitude change in the receivers of a news message. To achieve this, university students in south-east Queensland were examined in order to investigate attitude change regarding the issue of South Korea as a result of coverage in sources they perceive to be of high and low credibility. The study consisted of three stages: a survey of the university students to determine which newspapers they find to be of high and low credibility, a content analysis of their high and low credibility sources for articles of positive, neutral and negative tone, and finally an experiment which measured subjects' attitude change through reading articles of different tones in high and low credibility sources.
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Lobodenko, Kateryna. "Images fixes – Images animées ˸ les expériences communicables de l’exil russe en France (1920 – 1939)." Thesis, Paris 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA030053.
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Cette thèse se propose d’explorer, à travers la figure de l’émigré russe dans le cinéma et la caricature de presse parus en France dans l’entre-deux-guerres, les différentes représentations de la Russie. Il s’agit, tout d’abord, de la Russie en exil, une Russie mosaïque regroupant de nombreuses ethnicités venues de différents endroits de l’ancien Empire russe, comprenant, en elles-mêmes, une large palette sociale (des aristocrates et notables aux personnes sans rang, ni profession), professionnelle (artistes, hommes politiques, militaires, ouvriers), politiques (monarchistes, libéraux, révolutionnaires socialistes, anarchistes), religieuse, éducative et culturelle. Nous nous intéressons alors aux façons dont cette Russie en exil est perçue et représentée par les artistes nostalgiques de leur passé, caricaturistes et cinéastes émigrés, mais aussi par les réalisateurs français passionnés de l’orientalisme et de la « mode russe » qui en découle. En deuxième lieu, nous appréhendons les manières dont les artistes émigrés traitent de la Russie soviétique, à savoir : des dirigeants bolcheviques, des Soviétiques ordinaires et de leur quotidien. Nous nous penchons, également, sur la notion d’expérience communicable, employée par Walter Benjamin, et sur les différentes façons dont l’expérience de la vie en exil pourrait être transmise au public émigré et françaisThis thesis proposes to explore different representations of Russia through the figure of the Russian emigrant in the film and press cartoons published in France in the inter-war period. First of all, it discusses Russia in exile, a mosaic Russia which contains numerous ethnicities hailing from various locations of the former Russian Empire. These ethnicities thus comprise a large palette of social features (from aristocrats and notable people to those without any titles or professions), professional ones (artists, politicians, military men, workers), political ones (monarchists, liberals, socialist revolutionaries, anarchists), religious, educational and cultural ones. We are therefore interested in the ways that this Russia in exile is perceived and represented by the artists who are nostalgic of their past, emigrant caricaturists and film-makers, as well as French film directors who were passionate about Orientalism and the subsequent “Russian fashion”. Secondly, we capture the ways in which the emigrant artists deal with Soviet Russia, namely the Bolshevik leaders, ordinary Soviet people and their everyday lives. We also look at the notion of communicable experience, which is employed by Walter Benjamin, and different ways in which the life in exile could be communicated both to the emigrant public and to the French one
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Norvenius, Mats. "Images of an Empire : Chinese Geography Textbooks of the Early 20th Century." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för orientaliska språk, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-75397.
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In 1901 the Qing regime, in power 1644-1911, took wide-ranging measures to reform the Chinese Empire. Fundamental changes were carried out within the field of education, resulting in the completion of China’s first modern educational system in 1904. Modern schools mushroomed across China and modern textbooks introducing non-traditional knowledge became common reading in the classrooms. Modern geography textbooks informed schoolchildren about the circumstances within the Empire and, to some extent, about the conditions in foreign countries. Thus these textbooks gave them an idea of their own nation in relation to the rest of the world. The thesis examines the images of the inhabitants of the multiethnic Qing Empire, as encountered in a wide range of textbooks and other teaching materials, on the school subject of geography, used at various institutions of modern learning during the closing years of the Qing era. The focus is on the Han Chinese majority of China Proper (i.e. the eighteen provinces), although the images of the other major ethnicities of the Qing Empire are also examined, as well as the peoples of neighbouring Korea and Japan. This study highlights the extent to which the late Qing era was influenced by Japanese approaches towards reforms and modernization, especially in the field of education. During the process of introducing modern school geography in China, Chinese textbook compilers largely relied on Japanese sources on geography, thereby facing a Japanese, nationalistic and colonial discourse, which implied that Japan, as the most civilized nation in the East, was also in her right to dominate the region. Although Chinese educationalists hardly accepted Japan’s self-proclaimed position as the rightful leader of Asia, they were nevertheless influenced by Japanese descriptions of the continent and its peoples.
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Sjöstedt, Roxanna. "Talking Threats : The Social Construction of National Security in Russia and the United States." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-130585.
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Why are some issues seen as threats? This dissertation attempts to explain the dynamics of threat construction by national decision-makers. The theoretical ambition is twofold: first, the dissertation aims at improving the research on threat construction by suggesting a broad approach that analyzes this process in a structured manner. Second, the dissertation also contributes to the more mainstream International Relations security research agenda, which often under-problematizes this issue. The point of departure is that the link between a condition (e.g. structure) and threat framing (e.g. agency) is not to be taken for granted, and that threat construction is subjective and varies among actors. This assertion is supported by the findings of the dissertation’s component parts. Essay I finds that US security doctrines such as the Truman and Bush doctrines are not routine responses to external threats but rather the natural continuation of a political and societal discourse in which certain norms and identities interact. Essay II finds that a condition that could lay the foundation for a threat construction does not necessarily evoke such a reaction, such as the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Russia. Essay III demonstrates the opposite situation; that a securitization can take place although the contextual conditions do not necessarily point toward such a move, such as US President Clinton’s declaration that AIDS is a threat to the national security of the United States. Essay IV proposes a framework that incorporates explanatory factors from the international, the domestic, and the individual levels of analysis. Such a framework allows for a more refined analysis which better captures the contingent relationships between factors. Taken together, the findings of this dissertation indicate that the correlations between conditions and threat constructions are intricate, and that the explanation of a securitization lies in the interaction of certain social and cognitive processes.
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Otukei, John Richard. "Mapping the forest cover of Uganda with Spot (XS) and Landsat (ETM+) images : (a case study of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda)." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11517.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 122-124).It is well established that land cover information is an essential component in the creation of spatial information systems. Lack of current land cover information constitutes a weakness in land resource management especially in developing countries like Uganda. In response to this need, the thesis reports on a case study on tropical forest mapping in Uganda. The geographic area of study is the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park located in the southwest of the country. Digital image processing techniques were applied to SPOT and Landsat Imagery using Erdas Imagine (8.4) and Arc View GIS software. A combination of original and derived bands (Principal Components, Tasseled Cap and Texture Analysis) was used for the image analysis. Both supervised and unsupervised classification approaches were used. The optimal combination of bands was selected on the basis of secondary correlation analysis of the derived as well as original bands. Further identification of the best bands was based on separability indices. With the band combination selected, four main land cover classes were identified in the forest i.e. dense evergreen forest, evergreen forest, mixed rangeland and brush land. In addition to this, three other land use types were extracted from the imagery within the neighborhood of the forest and these were subsistence farmlands, plantation farmlands (tea plantation) and woodland. The results were confirmed by post processing field inspection.
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Ragnar, de Roode SvenLeif. "Seeing Europe through the Nation : the Role of National Self-images in the Perception of European Integration in the English, German, and Dutch Press in the 1950s and 1990s." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520710.
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Aste, Sofie. "China Through the Looking Glass : Exploring the Swedish China Image Through Framing." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-9670.
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Building on the assumption that the image of China within the Swedish state is pluralist, the aim of this study is to explore this plurality through the lens of Pan Chengxin’s paradigms “China threat” and “China opportunity”. A second aim is to contribute to the theory by applying it in a different context compared to where it originated. This is explored through the method of frame analysis and interpretive text analysis. The study shows that the image is indeed pluralist and differs between entities. Frames that are commonly used by one entity are non-existent in texts by another. There are also differences in emphasis within frames and within entities. Understanding how China is framed and imagined in different parts of the Swedish state can be useful in itself as it helps us understand that the relationship between Sweden and China is complex and dynamic. Furthermore, the study shows that while Pan’s paradigms can be a useful outset point, one cannot understand the Swedish image of China without also looking beyond them. The Swedish China image holds nuances unaccounted for by the theory, particularly in the perception of China as heterogenous to a higher extent than anticipated.
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Gallagher, Elizabeth Frances Ann. "The development of enemy images, a comparative study on Irish children's levels of national identification, intergroup attitudes and understanding of the concept 'enemy." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.552737.
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The present research focuses on children in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and examines the development of national identity, intergroup attitudes and the changes that take place concerning ideas about "the enemy" in children, as they grow older and to chart possible environmental influences on this process. The first study assessed the development of national identity in children living in different geographical locations in Ireland using the Strength of Identity Scale. The data were collected from children living in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Protestant and Catholic children from both locations were assessed. A total of 240 participants took part, 148 of the participants resided in Northern Ireland and 92 participants from the Republic of Ireland. All children were age 7 -and -11- years old. Each child was interviewed individually in a quiet room within their school. Consequently, the data allowed us to examine whether there are differences in the development of national identification as a function of age, gender, and children's geographical location within their country. The findings of the first study showed that the degree of national identification can vary as a function of children's geographical location within that country. Children identified with their national identity to a relatively high degree at the age of 7, and there were no subsequent changes in degree of national identification with age. The study found that Catholic participants exhibited greater affect towards national identity, importance and greater pride of national identity in comparison to Protestant participants in both locations. In addition, it was found that younger children are more sensitive to negative comments about their own national identity than older children. The second study assessed children's ingroup-outgroup attitudes using a trait attribution task and a like-dislike affect measure. The same sampling and procedure was used as that in the first study. Data showed that Catholic and Protestant children attributed more positive characteristics to their own in-group than to the out-groups. They also ascribed more negative adjectives to the out-groups than the in-group. Positivity towards out-groups increased with age with older children showing more positivity towards out-groups in comparison to younger children. The third study assessed children's understanding of the concept 'enemy' and how this develops and changes as a function of age using a short interview schedule of eleven questions, a drawing task and a free association task. The same sampling and procedure was used as that in the first study. The study found that older children viewed enemies more positively than younger children, believing they could be friendly and become friends, suggesting older children are more adept at empathy. Younger children however, thought an enemy could not become a friend. The majority of all children believed they were different from an enemy. In terms of age, when asked whether enemies existed individually or within a group, younger children were more likely to perceive enemies as individuals, whereas older children more often perceived enemies as existing in groups.
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Kern, Émile. "Représentations et images contrastées de Napoléon dans les commémorations : de 1869 à 2009." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011MON30093/document.
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Entre 1869 et 2009, Napoléon Bonaparte fait l'objet de manifestations culturelles à l'occasion de la commémoration des grands moments de sa vie ou de sa carrière politique et militaire. Ces commémorations se déroulent dans des contextes politiques nationaux et internationaux différents. Sous Napoléon III, on note une certaine indifférence, voire même beaucoup de recul pour ne pas trop honorer le fondateur de la dynastie dans un contexte politique difficile pour l'Empereur du Second Empire. La Troisième République alterne entre une attitude prudente et un engagement très fort en 1921. Le moment le plus fort de ces commémorations a lieu pour le bicentenaire de la naissance, en 1969. Les autres bicentenaires, de 1993 à 2009, alternent moments de désintérêt, tensions comme celles soulevées par les polémiques de 2005, et regain de publication chez les éditeurs. Napoléon semble donc un personnage historique difficile à commémorer dans un pays où il continue pourtant d'occuper une place importante dans le paysage culturel, et ce, deux cents ans aprèsBetween 1869 and 2009 Napoleon Bonaparte was much commemorated through cultural events to celebrate the great periods of his life and his political or military career. Those commemorations took place within various national and international contexts. Under the reign of Napoleon the Third, there was a certain indifference, not to say a lot of reluctance to honor the founder of the dynasty, in a difficult context for the Emperor of the Second Empire. During the Third Republic that interest for Napoleon went from a restrained commitment to a very strong undeniably during the bicentenary of his birth in 1969. As for the other bicentenaries between 1993 and 2009, there were times of disinterest alternating with times of tension like that caused by the controversies in 2005, and also times of increased publishing. Napoleon can therefore be seen as a historical character, who cannot be easily commemorated, in a country where he still stands as a very important person in the cultural scene and that even two hundred years after he resigned
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Liddell, E. "Images of the enemy : the SPD's perception of National Socialism in Augsburg, with particular reference to the portrayal of Nazism in the Schwäbische Volkszeitung, 1928-1933." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.536911.
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Lin, Cheng-Ying 1973. "Contrast between two Japanese images, two identities : comparison of Sayonara, Zai-jian and My Diary of Japanomania." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=98552.
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This thesis illustrates a general sense of national identity within the Taiwanese people brought on by the Kuomintang (KMT) and existing throughout the KMT's reign over the island, and contrasts this with the new identity that came to exist in the post-KMT period. Comparisons are centered around two works of literature: Sayonara, Zaijian!, written in 1979 by Chunming Huang, and My Diary of Japanomania, written in 1999 by Hari Xingzi. Louis Althusser's view of history-based on structural materialism, complexity and overdetermination---will be employed to discuss and explain the contrast between Sayonara, Zaijian! and My Diary of Japanomania in order to discover how national subject is formed and how it interacts within ideology.
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de, Roode Sven Leif Ragnat [Verfasser]. "Seeing Europe through the Nation : The Role of National Self-Images in the Perception of European Integration in the English, German, and Dutch Press in the 1950s and 1990s / Sven Leif Ragnat de Roode." Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1073646955/34.
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Landron, Fabien. "Images de la Sardaigne dans le cinéma sarde des années 2000." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030125.
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Une terre exotique aux moeurs archaïques, peuplée de bandits et marquée par la vendetta : c'est ainsi qu'a principalement été représentée la Sardaigne, pendant de nombreuses années, par un cinéma dit “sarde” s‟inspirant des classiques de la littérature deleddienne et de certains faits divers, et le plus souvent réalisé par des non Sardes. L‟image de l'île et des ses habitants a été forgée par le recours à un grand nombre de stéréotypes, parfois perçus comme outranciers par les spectateurs sardes. À la fin des années 80 apparaissent les premiers signes significatifs d‟une “réappropriation” du cinéma sarde par les Sardes eux-mêmes. Progressivement (et surtout dans les années 2000), plusieurs réalisateurs proposent de nouvelles approches des représentations filmées de leur île, jusqu‟à la constitution plus ou moins consciente d‟un mouvement non officiel appelé “nouveau cinéma sarde” : G. Cabiddu, G. Columbu, P. Sanna, S. Mereu et E. Pau en sont les représentants. Cette étude se propose d‟analyser, par le traitement des oeuvres significatives et une approche sociologique du mouvement, le phénomène collectif du “nouveau cinéma sarde” et les démarches individuelles des auteurs qui le composent, plaçant l‟identité au coeur de la question. Partant du modèle imposé par la littérature et le cinéma relatifs à la Sardaigne, les “nouveaux” cinéastes sardes ont su créer une cinématographie sarde basée sur l‟interprétation et la ré-élaboration des stéréotypes, dans une démarche visant à offrir une nouvelle vision de l‟île, de ses habitants et de leurs pratiques, à une instance spectatorielle hétérogène, à travers les différentes formes de distribution de leurs oeuvresAn exotic territory with archaic standards, populated by bandits and marked by vendetta : this is how has mainly been represented Sardinia for many years, by so called “Sardinian” movies inspired by the classics of deleddian literature and some news items, usually directed by non-Sardinians. The image of the island and its people was forged by using a large number of stereotypes, sometimes seen as outrageous by Sardinian spectators. In the late 80‟s had appeared the first significant signs of a Sardinian cinema “reappropriation” by the Sardinians themselves. Progressively (and especially in the 2000‟s), several directors propose new approaches to filmed representations of their island, until the more or less conscious constitution of an informal movement called “new Sardinian cinema” : G. Cabiddu, G. Columbu, P. Sanna, S. Mereu and E. Pau are its main representatives. This study aims to analyze, through the treatment of major works and a sociological approach to the movement, the collective phenomenon of “new Sardinian cinema” and the individual efforts of the authors who make it up, placing the identity to the heart of the matter. Leaving from the model imposed on Sardinia by literature and cinema, the “new” Sardinian directors have created a Sardinian film-making based on the interpretation and re-development of stereotypes, whose wants to offer a new vision of the island, its people and their practices, to a heterogeneous spectatorial instance, through the various forms of distribution of their works
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Barry, Soulemane. "Serait-il possible d'intégrer les Africains dans le récit d'histoire nationale française ? : Étude de l’écologie didactique d’un enseignement d’histoire à l'école élémentaire." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM3016.
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Le travail présenté ici est étude de principe relative à la possibilité d’enseigner à l’école élémentaire, en France, des éléments d’histoire symétrique permettant aux enfants dont les parents sont venus d’Afrique de se penser comme français. Puisque la mémoire nationale est devenue un enjeu politique, il fallait trouver pour eux un lieu de mémoire du même type que : "Nos ancêtres les Gaulois se sont battus contre l'empire romain, etc. ». Nous avons donc expérimenté, dans une classe de CM2 des confins de Marseille et à l’intention des élèves d’une cité qui accueille depuis longtemps les nouvelles générations d’immigrants, la possibilité de leur raconter comment durant la seconde guerre mondiale des Africains alors colonisés se sont mobilisés ont participé à la libération du sol national. C'est parce que leurs ancêtres ont mené ce combat pour la liberté que ces élèves sont présents dans une école française, et qu’ils ont un droit privilégié à la nationalité française : ils participent du combat pour la liberté et la fraternité, des valeurs fondatrices de la France républicaine et ce lieu de mémoire leur permet de participer légitimement de l’identité nationale. C’est aussi pour cela qu'ils ont des états nationaux autonomes. L’analyse didactique de l’expérience montre que l’absence d’une documentation iconographique permettant de montrer ce point de vue africain empêche l’enseignement proposé d’être stable dans le temps, le professeur ne pouvant pas, comme il est attendu d’un professeur des écoles conduisant des enseignements pluridisciplinaires, ni appuyer son récit sur l’ouvrage d’histoire des élèves ni en étudier les documents iconographiquesThe work presented here is mainly a principle study on the possibility of teaching primary school in France some elements of symmetrical history for children whose parents are from Africa to think like French people do. The national memory has become a political issue so that one had to find a place of memory of the same type : « Our ancestors the Gauls fought against the Roman Empire, etc. ». We have experimented - in a CM2 class in the outermost bounds of Marseille with pupils from deprived estates where new generations of immigrants have been welcomed for a long time - the opportunity to tell them how during World War II colonized Africans rallied and participated in the liberation of the national soil up to be a large proportion of the troops landing of Provence. It is because of their ancestors’ fight for freedom that those pupils are present in a French school and that they are allowed access to a special right to become French : they became part of the fight for freedom and fraternity - that are the founding values of the French republic and this place of memory helps them participate legitimately to the national identity. The didactic analysis of the experiment shows that the absence of an iconographical documentation which should highlight the African perspective, prevents the lesson from being stable in time because the teacher cannot support his account on the pupils’ history book nor study its iconographic documents such as expected from a school teacher lecturing multidisciplinary knowledge
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Mattei, Martine. "Traitement statistique informatisé des images de RMN : essai de reconnaissance tissulaire, à propos d'un projet de recherche unissant le plateau d'imagerie de Lapeyronie, le Centre National Universitaire Sud de Calcul et la firme IBM." Montpellier 1, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988MON11105.
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Loo, Theresa Wai Yue. "Nation branding: how the national image of the United Kingdom affects its outputs." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.572508.
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Competition between nations increasingly takes place across all the outputs of a nation, including products, tourism, location for foreign direct investment and many more. A favourable national image for outputs to benefit from is a competitive advantage in the international arena because foreign publics tend to use a nation's image to infer the quality of its outputs. They are more receptive to outputs from certain countries and are willing to pay more for them, such as French perfume, Swiss timepieces, Italian design, et cetera. However, a nation's image is often steeped in stereotypes, which mayor may not be true. Therefore, many nations are undertaking branding exercises to enhance their images. It has been suggested by academics and practitioners that a nation brand can be managed like a corporate brand. While there is a great deal of intuitive appeal to the proposition, there is neither theoretical foundation nor empirical data to support it. This thesis attempts to fill this gap in knowledge by looking at whether there is a basis for nation branding. The possible links between a nation's image, the image of its outputs and how they affect consumer behaviour are examined. This thesis proposes that a nation brand can be conceptualised like a corporate brand because there are similarities between the two. The first similarity is that like a corporation with many products, a nation has many outputs. The second similarity is that both a nation brand and a corporate brand face multiple stakeholders. While a nation has citizens, government, foreign publics that consume its different outputs, a corporation has staff, a management team, consumers of its products and so on. Last, and most importantly, the corporate masterbrand vs. product sub-brand architecture is a suitable structure for conceptualising the relationship between the nation's overall image and the image of its output sub-brands. Since there is little in the literature to guide specific hypotheses, four research propositions were formulated to guide the research. Using the 'theory of reasoned action' (Ajzen & Fishbein, 1980; Fishbein & Ajzen, 1975) as a framework, a theoretical model on how the overall image of the UK affects three of its outputs, namely products (for export), tourism and education, was developed and tested. If there are national images that hold true across different outputs and can predict consumers' intention to consume, then they can be used in a nation branding exercise. In order to test the theoretical model, proper measurement scales to measure the constructs are essential. The scale for the overall national image needs to be generic, so that it can straddle across all the outputs of a nation. A Corporate Character Scale by Davies et al. (2004) was adopted for this purpose. Scales for measuring image of the individual outputs were developed specific to the characteristics of the three outputs. Structural equation modelling was used to test the model against data collected from China and India. After re-specification, a parsimonious model, which showed that Chic (prestigious, refined, elegant) and Enterprise (innovative, cool, trendy) were image dimensions that best represented the UK and affected its three outputs of products, tourism and education in the eyes of Chinese and Indian young adults. Analysis and discussions on the findings are furnished, with suggestions for future research.
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Palla, Florence. "Caractérisation et distribution spatiale des groupements végétaux de la mosaïque forêt-savane du Parc National de la Lopé (Gabon) : apport des traits caractéristiques de la végétation (traits d'histoire de vie) et des images radar PALSAR." Paris 6, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA066377.
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La caractérisation et la distribution spatiale des groupements végétaux de la mosaïque forêt-savane du Parc National de la Lopé (Gabon) ont été étudiées sur la base des inventaires d’un ensemble de 104 parcelles et de 5 transects répartis en 258 échantillons de 800 m². En étudiant la structure de notre modèle d’étude, nous avons montré que la dominance des espèces structurantes était complétée par l’abondance d’espèces locales dans les stades pionniers de la reconquête forestière, expression de leur tempérament et de leur potentiel de dispersion. Les différentes phases observées prouvent que les forêts qui entourent les savanes du Parc National de la Lopé sont des forêts secondaires composées d’espèces qui initient la colonisation ou qui contribuent à la régénération/reconquête des forêts perturbées. Les phases ultimes ne sont pas atteintes pour qu’on puisse parler de maintien à long terme de la mosaïque forêt-savane. L’utilisation des traits d’histoire de vie des espèces des groupements végétaux étudiés, nous a permis de regrouper les espèces en groupes écologiques : 6 groupes floristiques, 5 groupes structuraux, 6 groupes biologiques et 2 groupes fonctionnels montrant leur rôle dans le fonctionnement de la mosaïque forêt-savane. En outre, l’analyse diachronique d’images radar polarimétriques de 2007 et de 2008 et du plan des feux (1995 à 2009) a permis de détecter les changements au sein de la savane suite à la reconquête forestière. On a mis en évidence les trajectoires possibles des successions observées en définissant le gradient des perturbations qui permettrait de maintenir à long terme la mosaïque du Parc National de la Lopé. Après 14 ans de mise à feux régulière sur les savanes, on a pu définir la distribution spatiale des feux et une typologie des savanes en discriminant 6 types de savanes sur la base de critères spatiaux et du statut lié à la perturbation par les feux. La complémentarité des trois approches utilisées : structurelles, fonctionnelle et spatio-temporelle nous a permis de proposer des critères écologiques et spatiaux pour orienter le plan de gestion des feux en cours au Parc National de la Lopé
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Reilly, Ellen J. "The National Guard State Partnership Program : a comparative analysis between the California National Guard and the Missouri National Guard." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2002. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/02Dec%5FReilly.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in International Security and Civil-Military Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2002.Thesis advisor(s): Harold Trinkunas, Paul Stockton. Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-94). Also available online.
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Southcott, Chris. "La Nation et l'appareil militaire : la guerre et les images nationales canadiennes : 1899-1919." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37601349s.
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Calba, Romain. "L'identification nationale dans la France contemporaine. Les formes de l'investissement symbolique dans l'idée de nation." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013MON30016.
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Cette recherche se concentre sur l'analyse des modélisations de l'imaginaire national dans la France contemporaine. A la lumière du processus de mondialisation et de ses multiples dimensions, la forme nationale semble être prise dans l'alternative entre une uniformisation au mépris des « cultures » nationales, et d'autre part une exacerbation des singularités culturelles nationales, la forme nationale étant associée à une valeur positive dans un monde en « crise ». Face à l'alternative entre une loi de succession des formes de groupement et l'essentialisation d'une réalité nationale irréductible, cette recherche aborde la question nationale par l'étude de contenus contemporains de formes symboliques d'objectivation de l'imaginaire national. A partir de l'observation de matérialisations de l'idée de nation, il s'agit de s'attacher aux opérations concrètes de représentation nationale et leur intégration dans des contextes d'énonciation de la « réalité »nationale. Dans un premier temps, l'étude des mots de la nation aborde la construction de la forme nationale comme objet sociologique et les modalités contemporaines de son énonciation, particulièrement les investissements autour de la question de l'identité nationale. Ensuite, à partir de l'image comme forme symbolique d'énonciation des groupes sociaux, nous avons étudié une matérialité particulière de l'imaginaire national, la production philatélique nationale, permettant d'observer les modulations de l'image sociale de la nation. Enfin, l'étude empirique des cérémonies d'accueil dans la citoyenneté française permet d'observer les contenus et frontières contemporaines de l'identification nationale à partir de sa mise en pratiqueThis study is focused on the analysis of the modellings of the national imagination in contemporary France. With the globalization and its multiple dimensions, the national existence seems to be taken in this alternative: on one hand a standardization in defiance of the national "cultures", and on the other hand an exacerbation of the national cultural peculiarities, the national shape being associated with a positive value in a world in "crisis". Contrary to the alternative between a law of succession of the groups and an essentialisation of an inflexible national reality, this study approaches the national question by the study of contemporary contents of the national imagination symbolic forms. From the observation of the contemporary modulations of their contents, this study is based on the observation of concrete operations of national representation and their integration in contexts of the national "reality" statement. At first, the studyof nation's words approaches the construction of the national shape as sociological object and the contemporary modalities of the national shape statement, particularly the investments around the national identity. Then, from the image as a symbolic shape of social groups statement, we studied a particular materiality of the national imagination, the national philatelic production, which allows to observe the modulations of the nation's social image. Finally, the empirical study of citizenship ceremonies allows to observe the contemporary contents and borders of the national identification from its application
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Hansson, Käll Ida. "Möjligheternas nation? : En kvalitativ studie om Norrlands nations image och positionering." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Medier och kommunikation, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-124509.
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Möjligheternas nation? Ida Hansson KällAbstractTitle: A Student Nation of Possibilities? A qualitative study of the image and the positioningof Norrlands nation (Möjligheternas nation? En kvalitativ studie av Norrlands nations imageoch positionering)Number of pages: 41 (43 including enclosures)Author: Ida Hansson KällTutor: Peder Hård af SegerstadCourse: Media and Communication Studies 30hpPeriod: Fall 2008University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science,Uppsala UniversityPurpose/Aim: The purpose of this essay is to identify what students in Uppsala and themanagement of Norrlands nation think of the activities at the nation's daily schedule. Theimage of Norrlands nation will be compared to the nation's profile and identity, its currentlyprofile and position in Uppsala. Proposals of preventive measures will also be presented.Material/Method: I've done two interviews with the management of Norrlands nation andtwo focus group interviews with three students in each group. During the interviews I havefocused on the image, profile and identity of Norrlands nation and its strengths, weaknesses,threats and opportunities to compare in a SWOT-analysis. I've used a semantic differential tocompare Norrlands nation to the two second biggest nations in Uppsala.Main results: Norrlands nation is mostly aware of its strengths and weaknesses that thestudents accentuated during the interviews. The results also show that the nation should try toget stronger at making sure the information about its activities reaches out to the students.Keywords: Image, profile, identity, positioning, student, nation2
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Meijer, Albert. "Be My Guest: Nation branding and national representation in the Eurovision Song Contest." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-208098.
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Since its inception in 1956, the EurovisionSong Contest has been a stage for national representation and an opportunityfor countries to brand themselves. The 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Baku,Azerbaijan is a prime example of nation branding, both for the host country aswell as the participating countries. Hosting the event gives a country the opportunity to present a specific nation brand, but there are other opportunities for those countries which only have a three-minute time-frame for their performance in presenting a national image. These performances are themain subject of this thesis, which main question is: How do nation-states use the Eurovision Song Contest as a means of nation branding? To answer this question, I use three sub-questions. First, I focus on the concept of identity: how does musical performance represent national and European identity in the context of the Eurovision Song Contest? Secondly, I study the translation of national identity into an image that should appeal to all of Europe, by creating a specific nation brand: how do nations use nation branding through culture as a tool to build an appealing image within the context of Eurovision? Lastly, I study the performance of these nation brands in specific cases during the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest: how is a nation-branded image performed in the Eurovision Song Contest? The first two chapters of my thesis consist of an analysis of literature on identity and nation branding in combination with national representation in Eurovision. My third and last chapter consists of performance analyses of 2012 participants, focusing on performances from Romania, Russia, Ukraine and Montenegro, which in 2012 were some of the richest performances in terms of symbolism concerningnational representation.
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Song, Jung Eun. "Considering Nation Branding as a Way to Build International Cultural Relations: The Case Study of the Korean Cultural Centers in the United States." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1285095439.
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Syvak, Oleksiy. "The role of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine in political decision-making process." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03Mar%5FSyvak.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in International Security and Civil-Military Relations)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2003.Thesis advisor(s): Donald Abenheim, Mikhail Tsypkin. Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-68). Also available online.
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Nelms, Emma. "A national front? : masculinity and national identity in the writing of Hanif Kureishi /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2001. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16912.pdf.
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Österberg, Andreas. "Katalogisering av ljudupptagningar : en komparativ studie av Statens Ljud- och Bildarkiv och Sveriges Radios grammofonarkiv = [Cataloguing of sound recordings] : [a comparative study of The National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images and The Grammophone Record Archive of the Swedish Radio] /." Borås : Högsk. i Borås, Bibliotekshögskolan/Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap, 2004. http://www.hb.se/bhs/slutversioner/2004/04-09.pdf.
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Butikofer, Nathan R. "United States land border security policy : the national security implications of 9/11 on the "Nation of Immigrants" and free trade in North America." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03sep%5FButikofer.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2003.Thesis advisor(s): Harold Trinkunas, Paul N. Stockton. Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-179). Also available online.
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Baker, Cynthia Denise. "Image and self-image : the literary search for Brazilian national identity /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3008272.
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Fellmann, Benjamin. "Palais de Tokyo – Monument der moderne kunstpolitik und ästhetik im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert." Thesis, Paris 8, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA080134.
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Projeté pour des musées nationaux et municipaux d’art moderne à l’occasion de l’exposition universelle de 1937, le Palais de Tokyo à Paris est aujourd’hui un centre d’art contemporain international, connu aussi en lien à l’esthétique relationnelle proposée par son cofondateur (avec Jérôme Sans) Nicolas Bourriaud. Une étude de sa genèse jusqu'au site contemporain manquait jusqu’alors. En se fondant sur des expositions centrales et des vastes matériaux d’archives de la politique et administration des Beaux-Arts, cette étude traite dans un premier temps des pensées et institutions l’occupant dès sa conception : MNAM (1937-1977), conception du Centre Pom-pidou, Musée d’Art et d’Essai (1977-1986), Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques (IHE-AP, 1988-1990) préfiguration d’Orsay, Maison de la Photographie (1984-1993), projet du Palais des Images/Palais du Cinéma (1984-1998, avec Cinémathèque, FÉMIS, BIFI), puis Site de créa-tion contemporaine (2002-). Dans un deuxième temps nous présentons son rôle en tant que mo-nument de la pensée du rôle de l’art dans la société: Dès sa genèse dans le contexte d’un échan-ge international sur les musées modernes des années trente, jusqu’au débats contemporains d’une esthétique politique, notamment de l’art relationnel, du discours de l’art participatif, du « New Institutionalism » et l’esthétique philosophique. L'étude se propose aussi d'apporter une compréhension générale de la genèse de l’esthétique relationnelle et ses critiques principales. Le Palais de Tokyo est conçu comme monument, espace d’une mémoire sociale de l’art selon Aby Warburg et un cadre théorique s’appuyant sur Walter Benjamin, qui informe de son rôle décisif dans le développement de critères formels de la théorie sociale de l’art au 20ème et 21ème siècleProjected for national and municipal museums of modern art on the occasion of the 1937 world fair, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris today is an international centre of contemporary art, known, too, by virtue of relational aesthetics brought forward by its co-founder (with Jérôme Sans) Nicolas Bourriaud. A monographic study of its genesis up to the contemporary site was yet mis-sing. This study examines the thought and projects that occupied it, based on central exhibitions and vast materials from the archives of cultural politics and arts administration: National Muse-um of Modern Art (1937-1977), the conception of the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art et d’Essai (1977-1986), Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques (IHEAP, 1988-1990), préfiguration d’Orsay, Maison de la Photographie (1984-1993), a project for Palais des Images/Palais du Ci-néma (1984-1998, with Cinémathèque, FÉMIS, BIFI), Site de création contemporaine (2002-). The study also focuses on its role as monument of the thinking of art’s function in society, from the context of an international exchange on modern museums in the thirties, up to contemporary debates of political aesthetics, particularly of relational art, the discourse of participatory art, ‘New Institutionalism’ and philosophical aesthetics. The study also provides a global view on the genesis of relational aesthetics and its principal critiques. Thus, the Palais de Tokyo is consi-dered as monument, a space of social memory of art following Aby Warburg and a theoretical frame based on Walter Benjamin, informing on its crucial role in the development of formal criteria of theories of art’s social role in the 20th and 21st centuries
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Lim, R. Augustus. "Anti terrorism and force protection application in facilities this report is presented to the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering graduate committee /." Thesis, (2.01 MB), 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03Jun%5FLim.pdf.
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Allen, Keith W. "Future of the U.S.-Japan security alliance : foundation for a multilateral security regime in Asia? /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03Jun%5FAllen.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2003.Thesis advisor(s): Edward A. Olsen, Gaye Christoffersen. Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-119). Also available online.
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Morthland, Samuel P. "Information operations : the need for a national strategy." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2002. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/02Jun%5FMorthland.pdf.
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