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Stuyt, Michel L. J. M. "Legal aspects of commercial activities of private enterprise in outer space". Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=65363.
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Lau, Chi-chung, e 劉治中. "Speed and immobility in urban space and cinema". Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B41508762.
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Ng, Ho-yi Veronica, e 吳可怡. "Postmodern space in Yaumatei". Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31260330.
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Xiao, Han. "Virtual community as a public space : a case study on a Chinese study abroad BBS". Thesis, University of Macau, 2007. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1874191.
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Williamson, Fiona. "Aspects of social relations in the seventeenth century diocese of Norwich : space, identity and agency". Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.501131.
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My research has concentrated on three broad areas of social relations. The first chapter focuses on space and authority in the early modern city and the way in which spatial relations In the urban environment influenced structures of power and social control. The premise is that there were two conflicting mental maps of the city, the first, elite, comprising a rigid and hierarchical top-down view of the cityscape, reinforced in the physical symbolism of built structure, wealth, symbolism and social control. The second was popular, comprising fluid and complex zoning based on individual movement, occupation and religion. The two conceptions of the city were conflicting and can be analysed at their intersections in the records of conflict and the reinforcement of authority. The final section focuses on the impact of city space on gender relations, concentrating in particular upon public and private distinctions and a re-reading of gender within the perimeters of spatial theory.
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Chatterjee, Joyeeta. "Legal aspects of space debris remediation: active removal of debris and on-orbit satellite servicing". Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=119752.
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With the alarming proliferation in the population of orbital debris, scientific analysis has indicated a need to perform space debris remediation through active removal of debris and on-orbit satellite servicing. This thesis aims to study the implications of the existing framework of international space law and public international law on space debris remediation. Following a description of the hypothesis and the research methodology, the introductory chapter explains the current state of the debris environment and the consequent need to perform space debris remediation. With that understanding, the economic and technological feasibility for such an endeavour is also assessed. The second chapter addresses the concerns regarding the current definition of a 'space object' and examines the requirement for the adoption of a separate legal definition of space debris to facilitate space debris remediation activities. The key question of legitimate exercise of jurisdiction and control over space objects, in the realm of space debris remediation, along with contentious issues such as transfer of ownership and/or registry of space objects are discussed in the third chapter. The fourth chapter elaborates on the related responsibility and liability considerations linked to remediation activities in outer space. The final chapter contains a summary of the important conclusions from the earlier chapters and presents some overall observations on the entire analysis.Avec la prolifération alarmante du nombre de débris orbitaux, des études scientifiques ont montré la nécessité d'effectuer un nettoyage des débris spatiaux, par le biais de la suppression effective de ces débris ainsi que la mise en place d'un système orbital de « service » aux satellites. Cette thèse vise à étudier les effets du cadre actuel du droit spatial international et du droit international public, sur la gestion du problème des débris spatiaux. Après une description du postulat et de la méthodologie de recherche, le chapitre introductif (chapitre I) explique l'état actuel de l'environnement des débris spatiaux et la nécessité d'éliminer ces débris. Dans ce contexte, la faisabilité économique et technique d'une telle entreprise est évaluée au chapitre II. Le chapitre III traite des questions liées à la définition actuelle d'«objet spatial» et examine les conditions de l'adoption d'une définition juridique distincte pour les débris spatiaux, afin de faciliter les activités de nettoyage afférentes. La question essentielle de l'exercice légitime de la juridiction et du contrôle des objets spatiaux, s'agissant de leur nettoyage, ainsi que les sujets controversés tels que le transfert de propriété et/ou l'enregistrement des objets spatiaux, sont examinés dans le chapitre IV. Le chapitre V entre dans le détail des réflexions sur la responsabilité liée aux activités de dépollution dans l'espace. La section finale (chapitre VI) comprend un résumé des conclusions importantes des chapitres précédents, et présente quelques observations générales sur toute l'analyse.
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Gilbert, Francis Bertrand. "A culture of chaos: The politics of dynamic space". Diss., The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187356.
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This discussion of chaos theory is concerned with two major issues. On the one hand, I explore what kind of knowledge is linked to chaos theory, and more specifically how as a science it informs the cultural discourses created by postindustrial societies. On the other hand, I probe chaos theory's potential as a model for challenging the existing conception of our world within the prevailing epistemologies of order and predictability. Both of these issues are addressed with in mind the broader framework and question concerning social relations, especially to the extent that those relations, in their spatial dimension, have become an object of scientific discourse. My approach to chaos theory is purposefully eclectic, conjoining the scientific with the social and the political. I believe that chaos theory points to a dynamic, intertextual, and multidimensional universe, and therefore, my interest lies in these connections, in bridging the various elements working together to create our contemporary, postmodern world. Science creates theories and images of nature that have been used to subordinate and control segments of the population through theories of race and sexuality. Thus, to recognize the existence of complexity and instability is to give away powerful conceptual means of political and social control, a strategy in which Western science has been an active participant.
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Stegenga, Paul William. "Postsurgical recovery care : spatial organization and social relationships". Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22979.
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Leith, Sharon. "Assigning value to open space". Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envl533.pdf.
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Klindworth, Kristin Frederike. "Femininity (re-) constructed : Turkish women's negotiations between culture, space and the body". Thesis, University of Northampton, 2012. http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/8867/.
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Serrato, Margaret Gilchrist. "Building based communication research". Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22994.
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Cheng, Chung-yan, e 鄭頌仁. "The ableist city unveiled: disabled people, social injustice and urban space in Hong Kong". Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B36396783.
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Jamieson, Martin. "Creating space to understand school-based community development within a rural Malawian community". Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2018. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/17471/.
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The setting for this research is a rural community in the central region of Malawi. As a qualitative case-study it explores attitudes towards development as well as the processes school-based community development might go through to achieve a permanent increase in adaptability (Taylor, 2005). This adaptability is the ability of local communities to finance and maintain interventions and then adapt to changes in the social and economic environment. This thesis explores opportunities the community may develop to avoid dependence on outside control as they become increasingly self-sustaining. The research questions explore these processes and unpack shifts in community power relations while exploring the impact that faith-based organisations bring to the development process. The research positions the researcher within the lived experience of those researched and uses research instruments developed from qualitative research typologies consistent with Berkowitz, and Srivastava & Hopwood underpinned with a philosophical framework drawn from the ideas of Freire, Chambers and Wells. This research considers seven non-governmental organisations (NGOs), six schools and various authority structures within the research locality to explore their roles and the tensions each brings to the other. Drawing on a constructivist epistemology it explores current thinking and practice regarding school-based community development. Additionally, the thesis looks at teacher professionalism and identity, arguing that for teachers to develop a professional identity a degree of autonomy is needed where self-regulation and opportunity to contribute to training is necessary. This exploration is achieved by gathering data using research instruments that include semi-structured interviews, focus groups discussions and reflexive consideration from journaling and regular reviews with assistant researchers. Reflecting on the empirical data gathered to allow theory to emerge it triangulates research methods to increase reliability. I explore the processes, obstacles and hindrances to establish how self-reliance within school-based community development is approached by NGOs, and use the data to support the argument that NGO activity may be contributing to the erosion of traditional authority structures such as the community chief. It is suggested that the creation of space in which to explore common ground between developmental actors is a first step towards the creation of an empowered community whose ownership of the processes is central to a permanently adaptive development.
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Yang, Qingqing. "In and around Beijing with Mr Yang and others : space, modernisation and social interaction". Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3455.
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The aim of my PhD project has been to understand how Hutong residents' ideas about living space have been different from those living in the high-rise compound and how their concept of living space has been changed by both internal and external factors, meaning additional affiliated functions and governmental city-planning. I conducted my fieldwork in Beijing between July 2009 and September 2012: fourteen months in total, interspersed with trips to St. Andrews. I spent ten months from July 2009 to May 2010 living in a Hutong called Xingfu Street (the word translates as ‘happiness'). Then I moved into a high-rise apartment outside the inner city, called Suojiafen Compound, for a further four months. This study concerns space in the contemporary city of Beijing: how space is humanly built and transformed, classified and differentiated, and most importantly how space is perceived and experienced. In the end I have developed the concept “overlapped” space as a way to detect the “personality” of space in both Hutong and high-rise apartment: how they differentiated from each other and how they have been transformed in different way by the residents inside.
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Roberge, Claire. "L'espace transnational et la localité : le réseautage et la sédimentation du passage". Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=103287.
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Conceptualizing the locality today in the global context means to be able to consider a level of denationalisation of the actor (of a locality) participating in a networked situation with actors from other localities. This thesis introduces a new conceptualization of the locality participating in a transnational network. The network, CEARENAD, involved six localities (Brazil, Chili, Costa-Rica, Senegal, Mauritius and Canada) who co-constructed contents for five years. This research is about presenting not a "mode d'emploi" about whether this particular network was successful or not. What truly motivated me, during and about this research, was to reflect on my observations of this network to build a new conceptualisation about the intertwinments of a locality and another space. This is what this thesis is about. "La sedimentation du passage" renders a rigorous description of the numerous processes which bring the locality to the front line.This study shows the description (Latour: 1987, 1999) of the participative actions of the actors involved in the network. The sedimentation of the passage reveals the repercussions of the mediations between the localities. This theorization activates, in other ways, the denationalization of actors, and, adds to the cultural construct of the network as well as to the possibilities of the Politic (Sassen: 2006).
This is an example of a networked knowledge production while, at the same time, and this may be of most importance, it is also an example of how today's reading of the locality deepens the necessity of participative actions in the mediations and mediatizations (Darbellay: 2006) of materialities in the contemporary globalization. The sedimentation of the passage allows one to read what circulation(s) are actually chosen to be materialized in and for the locality.
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Li, Yue 1968. "Space between buildings in Beijing's new housing". Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=29950.
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In China, a standard of "relatively comfortable housing conditions" is set for the nation, but there is still a need for a parallel goal for outdoor spaces. So far, this issue has not received adequate attention from either the government or practitioners.The purpose of this study is to examine the space between buildings in Beijing's new housing developments. The space between buildings has been chosen as a starting point for this research because it covers largest amount of land and due to its close proximity to homes, it is closely related to people's daily lives.
The quality of outdoor space is defined by a combination of factors. This study uses eight criteria to address the notion of quality: spatial hierarchy; usable space; safety and defense; health and comfort; privacy and territoriality; social contact; aesthetic appeal; and maintenance and administration. These correlated aspects are set as evaluation criteria for the six case studies included in this research. Data and analysis of case studies is used to arrive at conclusions for policy-making and further study.
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Saari, Trent Adam. "Democratizing the City Through the Colonization of Public Space: A Case Study of Portland Food Not Bombs". PDXScholar, 2015. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2393.
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The implementation of neoliberal economic and political policies is often touted as a way to increase overall individual well-being and freedom. While these policies may benefit those already wielding economic security and political power, marginalized populations often bear the negative cost associated with such policies. As deregulation and privatization increases, social safety nets and social spending are dramatically reduced. At the local level, liberalization has resulted in increased surveillance and regulation of public space. Organized resistance to global corporatization and increased economic and political marginalization has occurred across the globe. Resisting neoliberalism is complex as the adaptability of the state and capital requires an adaptive form of resistance. Portland Food Not Bombs provides an empirical example of an oppositional social movement organization that resists neoliberal logic and reclaims public space for collective use by serving free meals. This case study includes participant observation of both Portland FNB chapters conducted at chapter specific meal preparation and serving sites. It also includes ten interviews with individuals who are heavily involved with the SMO. Publicly available documents such as Facebook pages, chapter specific websites, and the FNB website provided important contextual information as well. This study finds that the organizational structure of Portland FNB lends itself to more democratic practices and ideals, coinciding with the values of the respondents. Through transparent, consensus decision-making and a resistance to formal leadership, Portland FNB facilitates a different form of political engagement. By using public space, Portland FNB temporarily alters the physical urban environment by socially constructing a more inclusive space, emphasizing that collectively using public space, is indeed a human right. Portland FNB seeks to create a more just society within the existing institutional framework, while rejecting practices associated with 501(c)(3) organizations and other mainstream SMOs.
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Sharples, Rosemary. "Negotiating 'normal' : space, illness and identity in an alternative mental health resource in Montreal". Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=19743.
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This thesis investigates different spaces in the lives of a group of adults living with long-term mental illness in Montreal. In particular, it is interested in exploring the role and functions of an alternative mental health resource that they all attend, using their narratives as the basis of meaning construction. My intention is to illuminate the complex interplay of identity, social participation, and physical place itself in the 'space' of experience for individuals. The way that a description of one of these elements is often in relationship with the other two, and that these connections can be useful in understanding descriptions of experiences by individuals, which, in David Morris' terms occur in a, "realm beyond language" (1997:p29). Finally, the concept of the 'border' is proposed as a tool to reexamine culture, identity and space, and one that is particularly useful in the context of self-help groups.
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Mysak, Mark. "The Environmental is Political: Exploring the Geography of Environmental Justice". Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30497/.
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The dissertation is a philosophical approach to politicizing place and space, or environments broadly construed, that is motivated by three questions. How can geography be employed to analyze the spatialities of environmental justice? How do spatial concepts inform understandings of environmentalism? And, how can geography help overcome social/political philosophy's redistribution-recognition debate in a way that accounts for the multiscalar dimensions of environmental justice? Accordingly, the dissertation's objective is threefold. First, I develop a critical geography framework that explores the spatialities of environmental injustices as they pertain to economic marginalization across spaces of inequitable distribution, cultural subordination in places of misrecognition, and political exclusion from public places of deliberation and policy. Place and space are relationally constituted by intricate networks of social relations, cultural practices, socioecological flows, and political-economic processes, and I contend that urban and natural environments are best represented as "places-in-space." Second, I argue that spatial frameworks and environmental discourses interlock because conceptualizations of place and space affect how environments are perceived, serve as framing devices to identify environmental issues, and entail different solutions to problems. In the midst of demonstrating how the racialization of place upholds inequitable distributions of pollution burdens, I introduce notions of "social location" and "white privilege" to account for the conflicting agendas of the mainstream environmental movement and the environmental justice movement, and consequent accusations of discriminatory environmentalism. Third, I outline a bivalent environmental justice theory that deals with the spatialities of environmental injustices. The theory synergizes distributive justice and the politics of social equality with recognition justice and the politics of identity and difference, therefore connecting cultural issues to a broader materialist analysis concerned with economic issues that extend across space. In doing so, I provide a justice framework that assesses critically the particularities of place and concurrently identifies commonalities to diverse social struggles, thus spatializing the geography of place-based political praxis.
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Clark, Kevin Amos. "Tactical unions Andrew Sullivan's battle for same-sex marriage in time and space /". Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3036585.
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Elund, Judith. "The gendered body in virtual space : sexuality, performance and play in four Second Life spaces". Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2012. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/544.
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This work is principally an investigation into visual and screen culture, using four specific regions of the three-dimensional virtual world of ‘Second Life’ as case studies. The analysis follows a thematic application of discourse analysis as a basis for critiquing Western screen culture, most importantly the cultural and social conditions that replicate dominant paradigms of power and agency. Of particular pertinence to this study are the framing, representational and spatial practices of gendered and sexual identities within ‘Second Life’ spaces. As is typical of the internet, sexual freedom is a given, yet representational performance (how one appears through their embodied avatar) is predicated on significations from the corporeal. So, within potentially subversive spaces, there is a normativity that persists which reiterates the ideological foundations of identity that are historically and culturally ascribed to. This is particularly prevalent in gendered representation – avatars tend to hyper-gendered expression and the excesses of Western bodily presentation and adornment, so that bodies are seen to move beyond all biological capacity of attainment. That these representational practices carry over into sexually diverse regions is perhaps unsurprising given that gay and lesbian culture has been in a large way subsumed into contemporary mass culture. It is the tensions that occur as a result of the normative acting upon the subversive that forms the basis of investigation, specifically the relationship between corporeal normativity and screen culture as well as the tensions between cultural conservatism, subversive representation and gender conformity.
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Conklin, Tiffany Renée. "Street Art, Ideology, and Public Space". PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/761.
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The concept of the city has come to play a central role in the practices of a new generation of artists for whom the city is their canvas. Street art is a complex social issue. For decades, its presence has fueled intense debate among residents of modern cities. Street art is considered by some to be a natural expression that exercises a collective right to the city, and by others, it is seen as a destructive attack upon an otherwise clean and orderly society. This research focuses on various forms of street art from the perspective of the urban audience. The general aim is to further an understanding of how people interact with and respond to street art. Qualitative and quantitative data were gathered via direct participant observations of street art installations and 139 surveys conducted with residents in Portland, Oregon. Survey respondents distinguished between street art forms; generally preferring installations and masterpieces over tagging and stickers. More respondents considered graffiti to be a form of artistic expression, rather than an act of vandalism. Participant observations indicated that purposefully-designed street art can promote interaction between people, art, and public space. Random urban spectators became active collaborators; using art and performance to express themselves in public. These findings indicate there is a need to reconsider zero tolerance graffiti policies. Overall, these findings also contribute to a more informed discussion regarding the regulation, acceptability, and possibilities of unauthorized artistic expression in cities.
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Offensend, Elizabeth Gillette. "Crafting a Space: A Feminist Analysis of the Relationship Between Women, Craft, Business and Technology on Etsy.com". PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/892.
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In recent years, craft fairs, shows and markets where crafters sell their handmade goods such as pottery, jewelry, handmade clothes and needlework have grown in popularity across the United States. A common intent among individuals in this community echo political statements made by the turn of the century Arts and Crafts movement, while there are political aspects of the community that can also be seen as an extension of the third wave feminist do-it-yourself (DIY) ethic of the late 1990s. This newly enlarged community of crafters that congregates in person also has a strong online presence. Etsy.com plays a large role in this community. The introduction of websites such as Etsy.com to the communities they serve has widespread impacts. The aim of this study is to analyze how Etsy.com impacts the lives of women who use the website to earn income. Following ethnographic traditions, the researcher interviewed five community members. The focus was on thick description of the DIY community and thematization of interview narratives. To meet participant observation criteria, the researcher also volunteered at the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) in Portland, Oregon for 4 months. Additionally, the researcher conducted a textual analysis of blogs, websites, artwork, and other sources of data collected from the online hand crafting community. The study presents and discusses the themes that emerged from the data, including women's work, feminism and technology, the crafters' political statements, the crafters as owners of legitimate businesses, and Etsy.com's impact on local economy. The results paint a picture of the community (both on and offline) and how Etsy.com helps to shape this. The researcher then discusses how to assess the impacts tools such as community websites will have on the communities they serve.
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Bubna-Litic, David C. "Opening a dialogical space between Buddhism and economics : the relationship between insight and action". Thesis, View thesis, 2007. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/39749.
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This interdisciplinary study explores the dialogical space between Buddhism and economics grounded upon an empirical examination of the lived experience of western Buddhist teachers. The goal of Buddhist practice is enlightenment, a powerfully liberating and transformative understanding in which the ordinary sense of self is extinguished. There is a variety of claims made by Buddhist traditions regarding enlightenment, and little agreement as to its exact nature; most Buddhist traditions, however, regard the self as having no essential basis. This view contrasts sharply with those of contemporary economic thought. Modern economic thinking has generally seen Buddhism as one of many religions, and has resisted taking its claims seriously. At the heart of this divide lies a hermeneutic barrier that is not simply between East and West, but has its roots in modernity, which maintains a separation of humans from nature, a distinction between knowledge and power, and a distrust of human subjective experience. By engaging in a dialogical approach, this study attempts to bridge this divide. It builds on experiential corroboration of Buddhist conceptions of self, based on semi-structured interviews of 34 western Buddhist teachers, to critically examine their experiences of insight into the nature of self, its impact on their relationships with others and nature, and its impact on their decisions about everyday economic activities. The purpose is twofold: to examine the nature of realisation experientially and to explore its transformative potential with a view to unfolding implications for economic action. The findings clarify many traditional Buddhist understandings, challenge and validate previous interpretations, and suggest an embodied rather than transcendent view of consciousness and spirituality. The implications for economic thought include a new conception of the economic individual (homooeconomicus), recognising the old conception as based on a misplaced idea of concreteness of self; a new epistemology which incorporates a phenomenological appreciation of life; and a new perspective of agency as the mindful embodiment of a seamless interconnection between consciousness and the social and natural world.
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Holloway, Donell Joy. "Multiply-mediated households : Space and power reflected in everyday media use". Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2003. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1314.
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This study investigates how contemporary Australian families incorporate the consumption of multiple media technologies within their home environments. It uses an approach similar to David Morley's (1986) Family Television where he explored the consumption of television programs in the context of everyday family life. He viewed the household (or family) as the key to constructing understandings of the television audience; where there were gendered regimes of watching, and where program choice often reflected existing power relationships in the home. However since then (a time when most families had only one television set) the media environment of many homes has changed. The addition of multiple television sets, along with newer digital technologies such as computers and game consoles, has introduced a new dynamics of social space within the household. Therefore, the family living room, with its erstwhile shared television culture, has become a less critical site of domestic media consumption. With the migration of television sets and new digital technologies to other spaces in the home, claims over time and space have become even more intimately involved with the domestic use of media technologies. Consequently, this study critically analyses the relationship between media consumption and the geographical spaces and boundaries within the home. Drawing upon interviews with all family members, this thesis argues that the incorporation of multiple media technologies in many households has coincided with significant changes to the spatial geography of these homes, along with a rearticulation of gendered and generational power relationships. Extra media spaces in bedrooms, hallways, home offices and 'nooks’ have freed up the lounge room, possibly allowing for more harmony and accord within the family, but also reducing the amount of time the family spends together. At the same time the newer media spaces become additional sites for gendered and generational conflict and tension. This study uses an audience ethnography approach to explore and analyse media consumption at the micro level, that of the individual within the household/family. Twenty-three in-depth conversational interviews and observations of children and adults living in six technologically rich households in suburban and regional areas of Western Australia formed the basis of this thesis. Themes and issues that emerged from this qualitative research process include the gendered nature of screens in children's bedrooms, the extent to which a media-rich bedroom culture is evident in Australia, the existence of a masculine gadgeteer culture within some families in the study, the social construction of gaming as a gendered (boy) culture, gendered pathways on the Internet and the reintegration of adult acknowledge-based work into the family home. The thesis also addresses digital divide issues relating to inequities in access, technical and social support, motivation and the quality of new digital technologies available in the home.
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Stephenson, Janet, e n/a. "Values in space and time : a framework for understanding and linking multiple cultural values in landscapes". University of Otago. Department of Geography, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20061030.154114.
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When new development threatens a valued landscape it is not just the physical landscape that is being affected, but the collective memories, meanings and identities that the landscape holds. Planning theory and practice currently offer relatively little guidance as to how to address meaning and value, particularly at a landscape scale.
Recent literature from a variety of disciplines has stressed the need to develop holistic models of understanding landscape. Particular emphasis has been laid on the absence of integration of disciplinary approaches, and the need to involve communities in defining what is important and distinctive about their own landscapes.
The thesis sets out to develop a conceptual framework to assist in understanding multiple cultural values in landscapes. Although the primary focus of the research is to address the perceived shortcomings in planning theory and practice, its potential relevance to inter-disciplinary work also forms a major component of the research approach.
Values in landscapes include those expressed by associated communities and those identified through a variety of disciplinary approaches. Using case studies, the research explores the nature and range of landscape values as expressed by those with special associations with particular landscapes. It also examines the nature of the meanings and values ascribed by disciplines with an interest in landscape, and how various disciplines model landscape so as to convey these values.
Analysis of these findings generates a landscape framework consisting of two related models. The Cultural Values Model offers a conceptual structure with which to consider the surface and embedded values of landscapes in terms of forms, practices and relationships. The Dimensional Landscape Model provides a structured way of linking expressed values to the landscape, using dimensional concepts of nodes, networks, spaces, webs and layers.
The landscape framework is found to be useful not only for generating a comprehensive picture of key landscape values, but also in offering an integrated approach that has utility both for planners and for other landscape-related disciplines.
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Granzow, Michael C., e University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "Bringing people to the park : inclusion and exclusion in the production of public space". Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Sociology, 2010, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/2535.
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In 2003 the Rotary Club of Lethbridge, Alberta proposed a revitalization of Galt Gardens,
a small historic park in Lethbridge‘s downtown which was perceived to be the focus of
particular kinds of “negative use.” Over the course of the revitalization the park changed
significantly – public washrooms and a water feature were installed, and private security
guards were introduced. According to the local newspaper, developments have
transformed the park into an “idyllic scene of children splashing and playing, families
picnicking and people strolling” (Gauthier, 2008). This thesis explores the revitalization
of Galt Gardens through a consideration of various texts and practices that (re)produce,
not only the park, but also the “public” (and “non-public”). My analysis focuses on the
ways in which a revitalized Galt Gardens is discursively represented and materially
practiced to include and exclude particular users and uses, with potential consequences
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Van, der Wal Ernst. "The floating city : carnival, Cape Town and the queering of space". Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2614.
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Thesis (MA (VA)(Visual Arts))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.In this thesis I examine the phenomenon of carnival for its corporeal and spatial expressions of fluid identity formations. The visual constitution of multiple gay/queer identities during carnival is commonly regarded as transgressive of the normative order that is ideologically and physically imbedded in the structure of city. I suggest, however, that the various local performances of homosexuality that are mobilised during the Cape Town Pride Parade can be interpreted as simultaneous reinforcements and contestations of sexual stereotypes. By tracing discursive and spatial shifts that have occurred within the South African sexual landscape, I demonstrate how this carnival both transgresses and bolsters heteronormativity. In addition, I explore how race and gender play decisive roles in the constitution of a homonormative gay identity, and investigate how these male, white homonormative assumptions are challenged by a minority of black and lesbian participants. In the process of deconstruction, I also reveal how the interaction between spectator and carnival participant blurs binary constructs of stasis/mobility, subject/object, private/public, and 'normal'/'abnormal'.
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Dirodi, Morgan. "Space, monuments, and religion : the Christianisation of urban space in the Late Antique Levant". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:67edfa1b-532b-4926-b010-6fd878c235c6.
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This thesis investigates the relationship between Christianity and urban monumental space in the late antique Levant. Through the analysis of both textual and archaeological evidence it seeks to clarify both the motives and the stages of the process of Christian takeover of the urban space of Levantine cities from the 4th to the 7th century AD. In doing so Christians were in essence both projecting their growth as the predominant religion and, at the same time, creating an entirely new monumental landscape. The case studies are presented in three separate groups, selected on the basis of the principal strategy that was chosen in the process of Christianisation of urban space. The first section analyses the cases of Gerasa, Jerusalem, Heliopolis, and Petra to illustrate the first of these strategies: the main method for occupying the symbolic space of the city was the construction of a contrast between the surviving ruins of the earlier, Hellenic, temples and the new Christian churches. The second group of case studies includes Scythopolis, Caesarea Maritima, Gaza, and to a certain extent Heliopolis. This section deals with those cities where the main strategy was the physical demolition of all or at least the most pre-eminent Hellenic buildings and their direct replacement with a new, and often grand, church. The third group, and the last, consists of the cities of Bostra, Gadara, Apamea, where rather than having to engage with a major Hellenic monument the main competitor was the secular state whether local or imperial. This is found to have resulted in a search for integration into the landscape rather than active competition.
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Hein, Willius Andreas Alexander. "The influence of space and place characteristics on juvenile antisocial behaviour development : an analysis of the effect of contextual disadvantage in Santiago de Chile". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f8a96ec7-c87b-4a5e-8e0f-2dcb67df291a.
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The fact that social problems cluster in space is not new. Spatial clustering of social problems has been described for several issues such as low educational achievement, crime and drug use, among others. One key factor that has been linked to those problems is the geographical concentration of contextual disadvantage. It has been argued that this observed correlation is only to be attributed to the fact that housing and labour markets create incentives for vulnerable people to cluster in space. Some believe that this clustering generates additional effects leading to poorer outcomes that would not have been observed in the absence of spatial clustering. The literature is unclear on the question of whether there is a "neighbourhood effect" of contextual disadvantage on problems like antisocial behaviour, and how this effect might be transmitted. Neighbourhood studies have been subject to persistent methodological and conceptual shortcomings. These may be partly related to the high costs involved in producing new datasets with adequate spatial measures. The availability of datasets with contextual data is scarce, thus many of the published papers on the subject have drawn on a low number of different studies (usually from the US and Europe). Consequently, the possibility to generalize their findings seems to be limited. In addition, the availability of high quality data (e.g. longitudinal datasets) that can help to rule out known methodological problems is even more restricted. In order to contribute to improving the understanding of how contextual characteristics might influence adolescent antisocial behaviour, firstly, a systematic review of longitudinal neighbourhood effects studies was conducted. In the first part of the thesis, results from the review suggest that the evidence supporting the existence of a direct neighbourhood effect of poverty and concentrated disadvantage on antisocial behaviour is mixed. Contextual effects of concentrated disadvantage also seemed to be highly dependent on model specification, whereby most studies finding significant main effects usually failed to include potentially relevant confounders in regression models. Commonly omitted confounders were related to baseline antisocial behaviour, parenting and peer differential association. Furthermore, evidence was generally unsupportive of the idea that neighbourhood level residential instability, neighbourhood disorder and incivility, social capital and collective efficacy or exposure to violence may have a direct effect on antisocial behaviour. Regarding institutional resources, mixed results were found. Some evidence pointed to the idea that "subcultural" variables (e.g. community level tolerance to deviance) may have an effect on reduced individual level violence. At times, it seemed that more complex models regarding how neighbourhood influences may influence behavioural outcomes might be needed. In the second part of the thesis, data from a longitudinal study, representative of the school population of Santiago de Chile, was merged with independent contextual level information (Census tract, schools and police records) and analysed. By examining the case of Santiago de Chile, a series of ideas regarding how contextual characteristics of activity spaces might relate to the growth of antisocial behaviour diversity over time were explored and tested. Specific attention was paid to examine and discuss how contextual effects might operate, in particular, how contextual disadvantage may influence criminogenic processes of strain, social control and contagion (peer effects). In order to test the proposed hypotheses, a series of hierarchical linear growth models were estimated. No evidence supporting the idea that different types of activity spaces (home based or school based activity spaces) may have differential effects on antisocial behaviour was found. However, results suggest that higher levels of contextual concentrated disadvantage across activity spaces significantly predicted a steeper growth of antisocial behaviour diversity over time. In spite of this, no support was found for the existence of a direct contextual effect once other covariates (i.e. baseline antisocial behaviour, strain, family level social control, contagion effects, among others) had been controlled for. The effect of concentrated disadvantage on antisocial behaviour appears to be mainly indirect; that is, mediated by other covariates. Baseline antisocial behaviour and contagion effects (peer effects) seem to play a relevant role in explaining away the effect of contextual concentrated disadvantage on the growth of antisocial behaviour scores over time. Only partial support for the idea that strain indicators may predict growth in antisocial behaviour diversity over time was found. Additionally, mediation analysis suggests that it may seem unlikely that the effect of contextual concentrated disadvantage on antisocial behaviour would be mediated by increased levels of strain. In spite of this, the effect of family level SES on the growth of antisocial behaviour diversity does seem to be partially mediated by some of the measured strain indicators. Measurement limitations (antisocial behaviour scale could only increase or remain stable) made it difficult to interpret some unexpected findings regarding strain effects. Regarding social control variables, evidence suggested that, even though family level monitoring predicts antisocial behaviour, neither parental attachment nor monitoring seemed to mediate the effect of contextual disadvantage on antisocial behaviour. In relation to school level social control, none of the relevant measures (school value added education and school attachment) significantly predicted antisocial behaviour in the fully specified model. Moreover, none of the hypothesized mediation effects held up, after controlling for other covariates. Regarding contagion effects (measured using peer variables), macro level concentration of juveniles with arrest records failed to predict individual level growth in antisocial behaviour diversity over time. Nevertheless, micro level concentration of antisocial peers in school and/or in activity spaces did predict growth in antisocial behaviour diversity. Results on micro level concentration of antisocial peers where subject to multicollinearity problems and thus were assessed separately. The effect of both variables (concentration in schools and concentration in activity spaces) was partially mediated by best friend's antisocial behaviour. Furthermore, concentrated disadvantage and concentration of deviant schoolmates in activity space interacted to predict a stronger relationship between affiliation to deviant peers and antisocial behaviour . Results are consistent with both geographic propinquity and co-offending process. , because of a low ecometric reliability found for "concentration of antisocial peers in activity space", results regarding this variable are regarded as tentative. An explanatory hypothesis of observed effects was proposed. Results may suggest that the effect of contextual disadvantage on antisocial behaviour is mainly indirect. Contextual disadvantage might be regarded as an expression of spatial clustering (social sorting) of low SES families due to housing and other governmental policies. In average, low SES families display poorer parenting skills, which might provide at least a partial explanation as regards to why higher concentration of antisocial peers (in school or activity spaces) and increased baseline antisocial behaviour scores are observed in disadvantaged contexts. In turn, higher concentration of deviant peers may be facilitating contagion effects. Results suggest that effects of concentrated disadvantage on antisocial behaviour might be due to simultaneous occurrence of compositional and contextual effects.Study limitations, policy implications, and recommendations for future research are discussed.
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Skidmore, Monique. "The politics of space and form : cultural idioms of resistance and re-membering in Cambodia". Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22628.
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The subject of this paper is of cultures of terror, and more specifically of the possibility of resistance in a context of extreme fear. The focus is upon ways in which survivors of the Pol Pot regime devise strategies of embodied resistance, and rebuild notions such as identity and bodily integrity, within a Buddhist framework, to the dominant discourse of terror in contemporary Cambodian society.The paper problematizes the concept of "order" and questions its validity as a dominant paradigm in anthropology. Further, in searching for new ways of theorizing and writing about resistance and terror, it suggests that a more power conscious analysis of popular religion and ritual may prove enlightening.
A theoretical framework is derived from a review of anthropological studies of terror and political violence. Of particular interest is the concept of "spaces of resistance" and the notions of "spaces of violence" and "bodily resistance" which it invokes. From within this framework the Dhammayietra, or peace walk, is considered as an embodied symbol of resistance and empowerment. It is hypothesized that the Dhammayietra may provide a way in which, through the symbolic "washing away" of Khmer Rouge memories; through the creation of new collective memories; and through the reclaiming of a physical manifestation (Angkor Wat) of the Buddhist-centered world view, some Cambodians may be able, at least in part, to emerge from the sensorially numb space which they created in order to survive the bodily, intellectual, and emotional assault upon their persons, culture, and religions by the Khmer Rouge.
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Boanova, Nathalia Guimarães. "Permanência e mutação no discurso do automóvel em São Paulo: uma análise sociossemiótica". Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2017. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/20213.
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Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - PUCSP
The following research aims to investigate how the city of São Paulo, through the plastic traces which constitute its spaces as well as its discursive choices act as a subject which modalizes its citizenships and establishes mechanisms which reinforce a model of mobility that prioritizes the car. Also on how the city places the automobile in the position of a subject which allows it to make-do a city where the traces of terminativity and impermanence are dominant. It also examines the regimes of interaction and meaning that the car establishes with this subject-city and with its other subjects in order to understand whether an axiomatic change is possible in this context or not. The corpus of this dissertation is composed by diachronic and synchronic elements, considering the enunciative choices from the past which have left their marks on the traces of the city, including the cultural and media manifestations concerning our object, as well as the practices of life observed in the metropolis, taken here as a counter-discourse, especially those which occur in Avenida Paulista on the days of Paulista Aberta and at the Minhocão during the hours in which it is closed for the passage of cars. In order to comprehend such a corpus, as well as the discursive matters and the aspectuality of the city, this work grounds itself in the discursive semiotics of A. J. Greimas and the continuity of his work given by the social semiotics of Eric Landowski, key to understanding the regimes of interaction and meaning, especially in regard to the actors of urban mobility. As to the practices of life in the city, we relied on the work developed by Ana Claudia de Oliveira, in the plastic semiotics of Jean-Marie Floch, as well as the concepts of Michel de Certeau and its his theory regarding the enunciations of the city and the rights to urban space. We were able to then establish that the enunciative choices made throughout the years by the destinators of the city have left deep marks which make the existence of counter-discourses capable of ressemantizing these traces difficult, especially considering the fact that they attempt to reconstitute the city as a space of permanence and enjoyment, when its rhythmic trace is still imposed by the speed of the cars and its structure. We understood how this object-subject of value is still the protagonist in this structure and in the ways of living in the city just like the way through which the counter-discourses have been appropriated by the same old private destinators in an attempt to reclaim this political-narrative space of visibility
A presente pesquisa investiga como a cidade de São Paulo, a partir dos traços plásticos constitutivos de seus espaços e escolhas discursivas, age enquanto sujeito modalizador de seus moradores e estabelece mecanismos que reiteram um modelo de mobilidade que prioriza o automóvel e o instala enquanto sujeito que também fazser uma cidade cujo traço dominante se torna a terminatividade e a impermanência. Procura desvendar também, os regimes de interação e sentido que o carro estabelece com essa cidade-sujeito e com os demais sujeitos da metrópole nesse contexto para compreender se é possível uma mudança axiomática nos discursos da cidade. O corpus desse trabalho é composto a partir de elementos diacrônicos e sincrônicos, considerando as escolhas enunciativas do passado que deixaram marcas nos traços da cidade, passando por manifestações culturais e mediáticas que concernem nosso objeto e também pelas práticas de vida observadas na metrópole, vistas aqui enquanto um contradiscurso, em especial aquelas que ocorrem na Avenida Paulista em dias de Paulista Aberta e no Minhocão nos horários em que é a via é fechada aos carros. Recorreu-se à semiótica discursiva de A. J. Greimas e a continuidade dada por Eric Landowski com a sociossemiótica para compreender as questões discursivas e a aspectualidade da metrópole, bem como para investigar os regimes de interação e sentido que ocorrem nesse espaço, principalmente no que se refere aos sujeitos da mobilidade urbana. Quanto às práticas de vida na cidade, nos apoiaremos no trabalho desenvolvido por Ana Claudia de Oliveira, na semiótica plástica fundamentada por Jean-Marie Floch, observando e depreendendo os sentidos da plasticidade das configurações dos elementos de São Paulo, bem como pela conceituação de Michel de Certeau e sua teoria referente às enunciações da cidade e os direitos ao espaço urbano. Averiguamos assim como as escolhas enunciativas feitas ao longo dos anos pelos destinadores da cidade deixaram marcas profundas que dificultam a existência de contradiscursos capazes de ressemantizar esses traços justamente porque se tratam de tentativas de (re)constituir a cidade enquanto espaço de permanência e desfrute quando seu traço rítmico ainda é imposto pela velocidade dos automóveis e de sua estrutura. Compreendemos também como esse sujeito-objeto de valor é ainda protagonista na estrutura e modos de vida da cidade e como os contradiscursos vêm sendo apropriados pelos mesmos antigos destinadores numa tentativa de retomar esse espaço político-narrativo de visibilidade
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吳宪春 e Xianchun Wu. "Apocalypse of humanistic character in participatory design research for configuring habitable space: take GrahamStreet block design of Hong Kong as an example". Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4293073X.
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Walsh, Anna-Claire. "The healing space : intersubjectivity, gender & bibliotherapy in Winnie-the-Pooh, The house at Pooh Corner, The wind in the willows and Peter Pan". Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2006. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/348.
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This thesis carries out a detailed analysis of three examples of canonical English children's fantasy literature using Jesslca Benjamin's psychoanalytic feminism as a 'theoretical framework. , Applied to close readings of chosen texts, Benjamln's concepts offer Important Inslghts Into understandlrig childhood development, relationship dynamics and gender issues. Furthermore, Benjamln's Intersubjective,theory has Implications for litarary uses of psychoanalysis, and for using books as therapeutic mediums In the practice of bibliotherapy.
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ROSHEIDAT, AKRAM N. KH. "TRIBAL SYMBOLISM WITHIN THE BUILT FORM IN THE MIDDLE EAST". The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/555407.
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Bahammam, Omar S. O. "The social needs of the users in public open space : the involvement of socio-cultural aspects in landscape design of the outdoor urban environment in Ar Riyadh, Saudi Arabia". Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/15747.
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With the modern development and urbanisation in the city of Ar Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, public gardens were introduced as the major public recreational facilities. The establishment of the public gardens commenced at the beginning of the 1980s. Since that time, the number of public gardens has reached 34. They vary in size, the smallest is about 3,000 sq. m. and the largest is about 455,000 sq. m. The rapid development of these facilities, in such a short time, did not allow for extensive assessment of the residents' needs. Rather, the design of these gardens emerged without precedent, based on foreign examples. Because of the adoption of foreign design ideas, the outcome did not respond to the socio-cultural aspects which existed in and were respected by the society. The study was an attempt to recognise and understand the relationship between the sociocultural aspects that govern and guide people's behaviour and the outdoor recreational environment. In order to investigate the relation between human behaviour and the physical environment, three research techniques were defined by which the various dimensions and details concerning the socio-cultural aspects which govern human behaviour can be identified, described and clarified. The techniques used are archive search, observing the behaviour-environment and a questionnaire survey. As a results of the analytical process, specific issues which strongly related to the socio-cultural aspects of human behaviour in the outdoors were identified as important in determining the level of compatibility between the intended behaviours and their meanings and the physical setting of the recreational environment. In order to create a coherent built environment that responds positively to the intended functions expected by certain people, knowledge and understanding of their socio-cultural values and behaviours must be acquired and applied in the design process.
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Paulauskas, Rokas. "The reasons that contributed to the different success stories of space RTS games Homeworld and O.R.B". Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för speldesign, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-446472.
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Sometimes games that belong to the same genre achieve different levels of success among the playerbase of the genre. As an example, of two space RTS games Homeworld (released in 1999) and O.R.B. (releasedin 2002), which feature a similar setting and similar gameplay mechanics, Homeworld has beenmore successful. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the reasons for the different popularityof the two games, using game reviews as the primary source of data to learn about the strengths andthe weaknesses of the two games. Thematic analysis has been applied to a total of 27 game reviewsof space RTS games Homeworld and O.R.B. Codes describing various strong and weak aspects of bothgames have been extracted from the texts. The codes have been grouped into various categories traditionallydescribed in game reviews, such as the story line, the UI, the graphics, etc. Using these codesas a basis, a number of explanations have been suggested as to why the game Homeworld has beenmore successful than the game O.R.B. The main reasons discovered are that Homeworld was releasedseveral years before its competitor and that some of important game features of O.R.B. suffered frompoorer technical execution in comparison to equivalent features in Homeworld.
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Reig, Alejandro. "When the forest world is not wide enough we open up many clearings : the making of landscape, place and people among the Shitari Yanomami of the upper Ocamo basin, Venezuela". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669819.
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Gouvêa, José Paulo Neves. "A presença e a ausência dos rios de São Paulo: acumulação primitiva e valorização da água". Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16132/tde-19122016-161242/.
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A presente tese analisa o processo de apropriação privada dos rios de São Paulo e sua participação na produção do espaço da cidade, aprofundando aspectos relativos ao desenvolvimento social, político e econômico, desde sua fundação no século XVI até o início do século XX. Partindo das obras de canalização dos rios Tamanduateí, Tietê e Pinheiros, a pesquisa realiza um recuo histórico até o momento em que os rios e córregos de São Paulo se constituíam como um bem comum e sua principal característica era o uso de suas águas e terras. As diversas atividades relacionadas aos rios e córregos, nos primeiros séculos da ocupação, caracterizam-se pela convivência entre o consumo imediato, a utilização de mão de obra cativa e a obtenção de renda através do trabalho livre, em um momento em que a economia de São Paulo era tímida e a poluição dos rios já era percebida. Durante o século XIX, a partir da cultura do café e da imigração, estabeleceu-se uma economia baseada no trabalho livre assalariado e na valorização da propriedade fundiária. Na cidade de São Paulo, o crescimento populacional e a insuficiência da distribuição de água e esgotamento, associados ao significado econômico da propriedade e a disponibilidade de mão de obra, passaram a representar a possibilidade de valorização do capital a partir do estabelecimento de condições gerais de produção. Os rios de São Paulo foram então incorporados ao processo de provisão de infraestruturas e redes de serviços urbanos. Esse processo de acumulação de riqueza, baseado na expropriação da terra e da água, transformou os rios de São Paulo em recursos econômicos e engendrou um espaço que se caracteriza pela sobreposição do domínio particular sobre o domínio comum.This thesis analyzes the process of private appropriation of the São Paulo and his participation in the production of the city\'s space, Aspects related to social, political and economic development, From its foundation in the 16th century to the beginning of the 20th century. Starting from the Pipelines of the Tamanduateí, Tietê and Pinheiros rivers, the research Historical retreat until such time as the rivers and streams of São Paulo were constituted as a common good and its main characteristic Was the use of its waters and lands. The various activities Rivers and streams, in the first centuries of occupation, are characterized By the coexistence between the immediate consumption, the use of labor And income through free labor, at a In which the economy of São Paulo was timid and the pollution of the rivers was already Perceived. During the nineteenth century, from the culture of coffee and immigration, An economy based on free wage labor was established And in the valuation of land ownership. In the city of São Paulo, the Population growth and the insufficient distribution of water and depletion, Associated with the economic significance of the property and Labor market began to represent the possibility of Capital appreciation based on the establishment of general conditions of production. The rivers of São Paulo were then incorporated into the Provision of urban services infrastructures and networks. This process Of accumulation of wealth, based on the expropriation of land and water, Transformed the São Paulo rivers into economic resources and spawned A space that is characterized by the overlapping of the particular domain On the common domain.
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Luke, Jeremy B. "Parental use of Geographical Aspects of Charter Schools as Heuristic Devices in the School Choice Process". The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366364829.
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Costanzo, Marna S. "Aspects of memory in the Damaraland mole-rat, Cryptomys damarensis spatial learning and kin recognition /". Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07032007-130259.
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Evans, Michaela Skye. "The elusive clean machine : rational order and play in a public railway". University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0106.
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[Truncated abstract] Rational order and play are often conceptualised as oppositional forces. In modern urban life especially, rational order is presented as destructive of a playful orientation towards life eschewing mystery through coherence, spontaneity through predictability, and contingency through systematic planning. In turn, the postmodern debate often asserts the reinvigoration of free, playful, and contingent individuals whose collective acts are destructive of the rationality of modern order with the present, in contrast to the past, offering a condition of enduring and unremitting uncertainty. This thesis explores the dynamic relation between rational order and play in urban society through an ethnographic account of a public commuter railway in Perth, Western Australia. Notwithstanding this ethnographic setting, the thesis addresses questions of broader significance through an analysis of the railway as an instance of public space and state techno-bureaucratic order. I investigate the creative process through which the state attempts to standardise the various operational components of the railway as well as the reasons underpinning the state's desire to produce what I term a 'clean machine'. In turn, I investigate how differentially positioned actors live within this carefully crafted machine. I do so by following the stories, experiences, and practices of: government administrators charged with building the railway; the managers who oversee the network's operation; the staff members who operate trains, clean stations, and discipline passengers; and the railway's end-users, including passengers and graffiti artists. ... In examining the two tensions of rational order/play and revelation/ concealment, I attempt to explicate how it is that people experience life as simultaneously coherent and serendipitous. In the thesis, I document the ways in which railway officials, passengers, and graffiti artists express a pervasive ambivalence towards their experience of the railway system. On the one hand, these actors experience the railway as a system of constraint that produces 'robotic' behaviours and automated transactions. On the other, they see the railway as a liberating space that enables autonomous expression and spontaneous interaction. By examining these contending experiences and associated sentiments, I highlight the railway as a stimulating site within which to explore the meaning and significance of urban modernity. Lastly, this thesis contributes to debate on the challenges posed by the character of contemporary social processes to anthropological research methodology. I illustrate the utility of such methods as written and photographic diaries as well as mental-mapping exercises, but primarily advocate the documentary and analytical advantages of participant observation in a mobile field-site. I assert that while participant observation poses a number of personal and professional challenges in this setting, these challenges uncover the stimulating complexity of contemporary urban life. To this end, I contest emergent academic commentary that propounds the destabilisation of anthropological techniques in what is frequently described as an equally destabilised world.
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Fernando, Harsha. "Railway-related transport nodes and their potential role in creation of public realm". Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25799101.
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Mirza, Hala. "Stories about Culture, Education, and Literacy of Immigrant Graduate Students and Their Familes". Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1062873/.
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Every year many immigrant families become members of United States communities. Among these are international graduate students whose lives and identities, as well as those of their families, are changed as they negotiate between cultures and experiences. In this study, three Saudi graduate students share their stories about culture, education and literacy. This research employs narrative inquiry to answer the following question: What stories do Saudi immigrant students tell regarding their educational beliefs and experiences, as well as the experiences of their children in the U.S. and in Saudi Arabia? The participants' interview texts are the main data source. The three-dimensional narrative inquiry spaces of temporality, sociality, and place help identify the funds of knowledge in place throughout these narratives. Data analysis uses funds of knowledge as a theoretical lens to make visible the critical events in each narrative. These events point to themes that support the creation of a third space in which the participants negotiate being in two cultures as well as their storying across time to understand their own experiences. Themes of facing challenges, problem solving, adaptation, and decision-making connect these stories and support the discussion of findings within the personal, practical, and social justifications for this narrative inquiry. The participants' negotiation of being in two cultures as revealed here serves as a resource for educators in understanding the instructional needs of immigrant families. The findings also have the potential to contribute to changing existing misconceptions about this minority group and other immigrant groups. In a rapidly growing global community as the United States, such narratives provide insights that invite personal understandings and connections among diverse people.
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Rizea, Barbos Carmen Raluca. "Espaces du fantastique urbain et aspects du sacré. Le cas de Mircea Eliade, Jean Ray et Howard Phillips Lovecraft". Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00947719.
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La littérature fantastique au XXe siècle semble est issue d'un triple conflit qui est aussi celui de l'homme contemporain : rupture avec la réalité, crise identitaire et perte de sens de l'univers caractéristiques à l'époque postmoderne, profanisation graduelle de l'espace urbain. Dans ce contexte difficile troublé encore plus par des prévisions alarmistes de l'avenir proche, l'homme contemporain exorcise ses peurs à travers les œuvres fantastiques, il s'invente des monstres pour arriver à supporter le quotidien. Pourtant, l'intrusion de la Surnature ou de l'étrange dans l'espace urbain moderne se rapproche du besoin que les sociétés traditionnelles avaient pour la présence du sacré dans leurs univers. A travers l'œuvre de trois écrivains, Mircea Eliade, Jean Ray et H.P. Lovecraft, l'espace urbain profane devient paradoxalement l'espace fantastique par excellence et le désenchantement du monde moderne se trouve confronté aux anciennes et nouvelles croyances simultanément. Ainsi, l'effet de fantastique urbain revalorise les aspects du sacré et permet des incursions analytiques interdisciplinaires, oscillant entre la littérature et l'histoire des religions.
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Morehead, Elizabeth. "Public Policy and Sexual Geography in Portland, Oregon, 1970-2010". PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/205.
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Drawing on the concept of sexual geography, this study examines the social and political meanings of sexualized spaces in the urban geography of Portland, Oregon between 1970 and 2010. This includes an examination of the sexual geography of urban spaces as a deliberate construct resulting from official and unofficial public policy and urban planning decisions. Sexual geographies, the collective and individual constructions of sexuality, are not static. Nor are definitions of deviant sexual practices fixed in the collective consciousness. Both are continuously being reshaped and reconstructed in response to changing economic structures and beliefs about sex, race and class. Primary documents are used to build a conceptual geography of sexualized spaces in Portland at points between 1970 and 2010 with an emphasis on the policy and urban planning decisions that inform the physical designations and social meanings of sexualized spaces including prostitution zones, pornography districts and gay entertainment areas.
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Wheatley, Donna. "Branded spaces : mental mapping architectural design and experience". Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2011. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/29287.
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In commercial architecture projects, there is often an expectation for architects to integrate
qualities intended to evoke defined user responses. This expectation has become increasingly
prevalent in today’s world of pervasive branding where all assets are considered to have
marketing value. This can be good news for designers by virtue of expanding areas of demand
for their advice, but there has been little in the way of examining this field empirically.
Architectural theory focuses attention on the role of marketing strategies in the external design
of major new buildings and urban spaces rather than on the experience during occupancy of
designed spaces. However, the alignment of spatial qualities of workplaces with corporate
branding is an explicitly practised strategy.
The success of delivering preconceived spatial qualities in new workplaces that are appreciated
by users is the subject examined in this thesis. Users’, clients’ and architects’ perspectives are
considered by constructing mental maps that capture the structure of their thoughts and feelings
about a designed environment. The structural characteristics of these maps are investigated
using network analysis due to its ability to address complexity and interconnectedness.
Conclusions about the significance of spatial elements are drawn from the pattern of association
in the mental maps. The thesis finds that the mental maps representing experience of built
environments consist of constructs that fall into four thematic categories. The differences in
outcomes between stakeholder groups suggest that a range of spatial qualities important to users
go unrecognised by clients and architects.
The results from mental mapping suggest that integrating corporate brand values into a design
appears to be achievable, and that their successful incorporation would also be a desirable
practice from the point of view of the users. The mental maps have a capacity to act as a conduit
for all parties involved in spatial design to communicate with one another. By introducing new
research methods from outside the standard architecture discipline, new insights into
architectural response, perception, and new ways of structuring approaches to design are gained.
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Mountain, Michelle Fiona. ""The secret rapport between photography and philosophy" considering the South African photographic apparatus through Veleko, Rose, Goldblatt, Ractliffe and Mofokeng". Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002211.
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This thesis is an attempt at understanding South African photography through the lens of Nontsikelelo “Lolo” Veleko, Tracy Rose, David Goldblatt, Jo Ractliffe and Santu Mofokeng. Through the works discussed this thesis intends to unpack photography as a complex medium similar to that of language and text, as well as attempt to understand how exploring South African experiences and spaces through the lens of photography shapes and mediates them. Furthermore it also attempts to understand how these experiences and spaces conversely affect the discourse of photography or at the very least our perception of it. Through these photographers and their works it is hoped that ultimately the interconnected relationship of exchanging codes that takes place between photography and society will be highlighted. The example of connectivity or dialogue I believe exists between the medium of photography and the physical/social and psychological spaces it photographs will be mediated through Deleuze and Guattari‟s conception of “the wasp and the orchid” where “the wasp becomes the orchid, just as the orchid becomes the wasp...an exchanging or capturing of each other‟s codes”. Other theorists I will be looking at include Vilém Flusser, focusing in particular on his book Towards a Philosophy of Photography, as well as Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes and others. The main aims and objectives of this thesis are to understand the veracity of the documentary image and whether or not the image harbours any objective truth, as well as whether truth, if it can truly be said to exist in the world, resides between the camera and the seen world. This dichotomy is further complicated by the matter of subject-hood and technical and philosophical understandings of the camera as an apparatus. At no point do I aim to be conclusive, rather it is hoped that by developing the dynamic tension between the theory and the image world that I will be able to bring fresh insight into the reading of a changing South African condition and the subject position of the photographer in relation to this condition.
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Li, Fei. "Segregation in physical and virtual spaces : a time-geographic study". HKBU Institutional Repository, 2011. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1280.
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Soares, Maria Dalva Oliveira. "As contradições do turismo no espaço rural : vida, trabalho, renda e exclusão". [s.n.], 2007. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/257069.
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Orientadores: Maria Angela Fagnani, Sonia Maria Pessoa Pereira BergamascoTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Agricola
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Resumo: o turismo no espaço rural, especialmente o agroturismo, intensifica-se no período da sociedade denominada pós-moderna. Pois, se durante o período da Revolução Industrial houve certo domínio das cidades sobre as atividades rurais, numa sociedade caracterizada como pós-industrial ou pós-moderna, parece haver uma revalorização do campo em função de seu espaço estar mais próximo da natureza, ou melhor, as transformações que aconteceram no seu território foram menores, pelo menos aparentemente, comparando-se àquelas que ocorreram nos espaços urbanos. As diversas modalidades do Turismo no espaço rural são encontradas pelos agricultores como complementação de renda em função das mudanças que ocorreram neste território. Diante da importância atribuída ao agroturismo, a primeira hipótese elaborada baseou-se em que o agroturismo contribui para aumentar a renda, gerar emprego, criar condições para fixar a população no campo, valorizar sua cultura e desenvolver práticas voltadas à apreciação da paisagem e à preservação ambiental. Desta maneira, o agroturismo aparece como uma alternativa para os agricultores familiares. A partir de observações iniciais, tanto em Cunha, como em Santo Antonio do Pinhal, elaborou-se outra hipótese na qual no espaço rural, se, de um lado o turismo é uma alternativa para os agricultores familiares, por outro lado está deslocando a população do campo por conta da valorização das terras, que essa atividade proporciona. Pela falta de alternativas para permanecer no campo, o agricultor vende sua.propriedade, muda-se para a cidade ou volta como empregado para trabalhar na sua antiga unidade de produção. E quem desenvolve o turismo são os neo-rurais, ex-citadinos que vêm fixando residência no campo. Objetivou-se neste trabalho analisar o desenvolvimento da atividade turística no espaço rural, em alguns municípios do estado de São Paulo, buscando entender de que maneira ele pode contribuir para o desenvolvimento local e qual é o papel das políticas públicas para sua concretização. Foram escolhidos os municípios de Cunha, Santo Antonio do Pinhal e Louveira com base no critério de possuir atividades turísticas no espaço rural e de ter presença significativa de agricultores familiares. Na verdade, a busca neste trabalho pela condição e valorização do turismo no espaço rural enquanto um fator de fixação do homem no campo através do aumento de renda e emprego, não se concretizou, com exceção do que se pôde analisar em Louveira. Ao invés disso, o que se detectou foi o fato de agricultores tradicionais darem lugar a atividades turísticas na forma de pousadas no espaço rural, desenvolvidas por uma população originária de outros centros urbanos que buscam atividades alternativas e o sossego do campo. Trata-se de wna nova categoria denominada de neo-rurais, a exemplo do que vem ocorrendo em países da Europa Ocidental
Abstract: The tourism in rural areas, specially the agro-tourism, intensifies in the society period called postmodem. Because, if during the Industrial Revolution there was kind of a domination from the cities on the rural activities, in a society characterized as postindustrial or postmodem, it seems to have a new appreciation on the countryside in function of its space be near to the nature, or in other way, the transformations that happened in its territory were smaller, at least apparently, comparing to the ones that happened on the urban spaces. The different modalities of the Tourism on the rural space are found by the agricultures as an income complementation in function from the changes that happened on this territory. In front ofthe importance attributed to the agro-tourism, the first hypotheses elaborated was based in that the agro-tourism contributes to improve the income, generates employment, create conditions to fix the rural population, values their culture and develop practices towards to the landscape appreciation and to the environment preservation. In this way, the agro-tourism appears as an altemative to the familiar farming. From this initial observations, as in Cunha, as in Santo Antonio do Pinhal, it was elaborated a hypotheses where the rural space, if, in one hand the tourism is an altemative to the familiar faming, in other hand is dislocating the countryside population because of the land valorization, that this activity provides. For the lack of altematives to stay in the countryside, the agriculturist sells his property, moves to the city or goes back working as an employee in his fotmer production unity. And who develops the tourism are the neo-rural, former city dwellers that come fixing residence in the countryside. It was aimed in the research analyzing the development from the touristy activities on the rural areas, in some cities from São Paulo State, seeking to understand in which way it can contribute to the local development and what is the role from the public policies the accomplishment. It was chosen the cities of Cunha, Santo Antonio do Pinhal and Louveira based on the criteria of possessing touristy activities in the rural space and the significant presence from the familiar farming. Actually, this research seek the tourism conditions and value on the rural space as a factor of man fixation on the countryside through the income and employment increasement, it didn't accomplish, with the exception on what was analyzed in Louveira. Instead of this, what was detected was the fact to the traditional framings giving space to the touristy activities in the way of small hostels on the rural space, developed by a population originated from other urban centers that searched for altematives activities and the peace from the countryside. It treats from a new category denominated by neo-rural, as example from what has happening on the Occidental Europe countries
Doutorado
Planejamento e Desenvolvimento Rural Sustentável
Doutor em Engenharia Agrícola