The Idea of Place: Space and Culture 20th Anniversary Conference
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- 3Rob Shields
- 2Axel Pérez Trujillo Diniz
- 2Boffa, Adriana
- 2Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon
- 1Coleman, Karly
- 1Eric Tebby
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2017-05-01
Title: Species of Spaces: Rhetorical, Dialogic, Precarious Justine Lloyd Abstract In the early 2000s I guest-edited a special issue of Space and Culture on ‘dialogic spaces’ (Vol 7.1 2004). At the time, this notion was formulated to get at the ways in which “culture and space are always already...
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2017-05-07
Mahmoudi, Mohadeseh., Halpenny, Elizabeth.
The number of immigrants in global cities continues to grow, and as a result, various challenges arise to engage newcomers in the host societies. According to Berry (2010) integration is the most preferable acculturation strategy for immigrants to adapt to their new environment. For immigrants,...
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2017-05-10
Axel Pérez Trujillo Diniz, Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon
This paper explores spatiality in the study of internet memes. During the last presidential election in the United States, the ¨Pepe the Frog¨ internet meme was repurposed as a white supremacy symbol by members of the Alt-right internet political movement as a way to claim back the character from...
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These are the places in your neighbourhood: Bicycling and attachment to place
2017-05-05
Since a bicycle is one of the few things from childhood that is still potentially used in much the same way in adulthood, the experiential aspect of the user's attachment to their bicycle over time is a powerful generator of memory, emotion and also of place. This amalgam of memory, emotion,...
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Power point slides for Carnival to Conflict presentation
2017
From November 2013 to February 2014 Ukrainian's, protesting the government of President Victor Yanukovych, barricaded themselves in Kyiv's central square, the Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square). Over these months the space became what some observers have called a "city within a city." It...
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2017
Sandra Zagarell (1988) introduces “narratives of community” as texts that are constructed around central social structures, and can be thought of as textual manifestation of communities. These communities are represented in the form of social institutions and normative rules that individuals seem...