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Livornese, Karen Elizabeth. "Unfinished myth." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53292.
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I have always claimed that places are stronger than people, the fixed scene stronger than the transitory succession of events. This is the theoretical basis not of my Architecture, but of Architecture itself.Master of Architecture
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Ashman, Adrian F. "Unfinished business." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1999.
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Dammert, Juan Luis. "Supe: Arguedas’s unfinished novel." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/79433.
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Tuvo varios nombres: «Harina Mundo», «Mar de Harina», «Jonás», «El pez grande», y fue un proyecto literario que emprendió José María Arguedas después de la publicación de Todas las Sangres (1964). Con él quiso novelar «la transformación del puerto de Supe», lugar donde había pasado los veranos entre 1943 y 1963 y que conocía muy bien. Como sabemos, Arguedas terminó convirtiendo ese proyecto inicial en El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo, una novela límite y relato ambientado en el puerto de Chimbote. Dos capítulos de esta novela sobre Supe fueron publicados en vida del escritor, «Mar de Harina» y «El Pelón». En este artículo recojo información que da luces sobre estos textos y sus personajes, ya que fueron tomados de la realidad. Me baso en fuentes orales, tanto de mi memoria personal y familiar como de las conversaciones tenidas con pobladores actuales del puerto en un conversatorio en 2004 sobre los personajes descritos en el inacabado proyecto novelístico.It had several names, «Harina Mundo», «Mar de Harina», «Jonás», «El pez grande», and was a literary project that José María Arguedas started after the publication of Todas las Sangres (1964). The novel was intended to tell the story of ‘the transformations of Puerto Supe’, a fishing town he knew well, for he spent there the summer of 1943 and 1963. As we know, Arguedas later transformed this project into his last novel called El zorro de Arriba y el zorro de Abajo, which took place in the port of Chimbote.Two chapters of the unfinished novel about Supe were published while Arguedas was still alive: «Mar de Harina» and «El Pelón». In this article I present information about those chapters and the characters they portray, given that they were taken from real life. For this purpose, I draw on oral sources, such as my personal memories and the conversations I held in 2004 with the current inhabitants of Supe, about the characters of this unfinished project.
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Gassner, Gunter. "Unfinished and unfinishable : London's skylines." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2013. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/804/.
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How is the city seen from a distance? With regard to ‘world cities’ and their battle for recognisable city-images, this is an aesthetic, political and historiographical question. How does a particular representation of the city’s past become useful for economic globalisation? This thesis analyses the relationships between history, power and profit as played out on a city’s skylines. It is conceived as a politicisation of the aesthetics of skylines, which speaks to the increasing power of aesthetic arguments in developer-driven urbanisation processes. My focus is on professional debates attending the development of the City of London’s ‘formal skyline’ prior to the economic recession; debates between architects, historians and townscape consultants, which revolved around the visibility of the emerging high-rise cluster that is located adjacent to listed buildings and conservation areas. I show how the conservatism that is encapsulated in concerns with the visual protection of historic landmarks is being transformed into ‘progressive’ arguments for constructing iconic towers. This transformation results from professionals’ pre-occupation with a single static viewpoint as providing a ‘definitive’ and easily marketable image of London, their fetishisation of St Paul’s as a building that needs to be visually enhanced, and their insistence to produce a unified skyline that is rooted in a linear historical narrative of continuity and change. In my critique of the intrinsic marriage of historical-aesthetic concerns with the prosaic pressing interests of finance capital I draw on two different traditions: the British Townscape movement and the idiosyncratic admixture of Marxism, Messianism and Modernism in the writings of Walter Benjamin. I challenge the prevalent understanding of ‘the new London skyline’ as a representative, aesthetically pleasing, compositional whole and argue for an understanding of skylines as unfinished and unfinishable, adversarial processes that is based on four conceptualisations: a cinematic skyline, which involves the notion of Surrealist montage, grounded in radical disjunction, unresolved tensions and contradictions; a non-auratic skyline, breaking with the conception of skylines as ‘enframed paintings’, foregrounding disruptive elements and providing for shock and distraction rather than contemplation; a multidirectional skyline, which attests manifold and marginalised histories that run counter the conventional historicist ideal conception of historical progress; an allegorical skyline in which meanings are multiplied and mortified and the unity and purity of the symbolic and the power of the iconic are fractured and fragmented, subject to political construction in the present.
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Herrmann, Andrew F. "Living a Father's Unfinished Narrative." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/812.
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Spellmire, Adam. "Unfinished Quests from Chaucer to Spenser." Thesis, Tufts University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10118638.
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Late medieval English texts often represent unfinished quests for obscurely significant objects. These works create enchanted worlds where more always remains to be discovered and where questers search for an ur-text, an authoritative book that promises perfect knowledge. Rather than reaching this ur-text, however, questers confront rumor, monstrous babble, and the clamor of argument, which thwart their efforts to gather together sacred wholeness. Yet while threatening, noise also preserves the sacred by ensuring that it remains forever elsewhere, for recovering perfect knowledge would disenchant the world. Scholarship on medieval noise often focuses on class: medieval writers tend to describe threats to political authority as noisy. These unfinished quests, though, suggest that late medieval literature’s complex investment in noise extends further and involves the very search for the sacred, a search full of opaque language and unending desire. Noise, then, becomes the sound of narrative itself.
While romance foregrounds questing most clearly, these ideas appear in a variety of genres. Chapter 1 shows that in the House of Fame rumor both perpetuates and undermines knowledge, so sacred authority must remain beyond the poem’s frame. Chapter 2 juxtaposes the Parliament of Fowls and the Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale, in which lists replace missing quest-objects, the philosopher’s stone and certainty about love. Chapter 3 centers on Piers Plowman, which becomes encyclopedic as one attempt to “preve what is Dowel” leads to another, and Will never definitively learns how to save his soul, the knowledge he most wants. Chapter 4 turns to Julian of Norwich’s search for divine “mening” and her confrontation with an incoherent fiend, an anxious moment that aligns her with these less serene contemporaries. Chapter 5 argues that Thomas Malory’s elusive, noisy Questing Beast at once bolsters and undermines chivalry. The final chapter looks ahead to Book VI of The Faerie Queene, where the Blatant Beast, a sixteenth-century amalgam of the fame tradition and the Questing Beast, menaces Faery Land yet, as a figure for poetry, also contributes to its enchantment. In trying to locate and maintain the sacred, these unfinished quests evoke worlds intensely anxious about “auctoritee.”
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Chahine, Melissa. "On the Unfinished and Failure in Art." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18230.
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My work consists of wooden structures in the shape of rectangular prisms with varying heights. The structures are wrapped with wool but because of the heavy handedness of the pull, the structures have twisted through time and now result in distorted, warped structures. Some works in the series are more transparent as they are intentionally left unfinished, revealing the process through its imperfections. The structures continue to twist and warp through time, creating an infinite work that dance in the space, giving the work a human quality. Although the first work failed as the aim was only to create a straight edged rectangular prism, the outcome was more of a success as it created a more intriguing work that formed relationships. There is a fascination in the unfinished and failed works of artists, which is something I explore. I look at the types of unfinished works, those that are literally unfinished and those that appear unfinished. Both types of unfinished works reveal the process and create a picture of the artist in the studio working. There is a fascination in the unfinished as the viewer is able to add to the work through imagination, or in some works physically. Therefore, the process becomes of more importance than its progress. There is a questioning of whether an artwork is truly a failure. Some artists intentionally invite failure into their work as there is a chance success can emerge from it. I believe that a work is truly a failure when it does not meet the artist’s expectations. When a work is intentionally made to fail it gives an impression of failure. Deconstructivist architecture is warped and looks as if it may break at any moment, also giving an impression of failure. Whether intentional or not, it is the failed works that are more intriguing rather than the plain geometric abstract structures. Failure and the unfinished no longer carry negative connotations, but are now embraced.
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Abrahams, Brent Nicholas. "Unfinished lives: The biographies of Nokuthula Simelane." University of the Western Cape, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6246.
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Magister Artium - MA (History)Nokuthula Simelane, born near Bethal in Mpumalanga, joined the ANC's armed-wing uMKhonto we Sizwe (MK) as a courier while studying at the University of Swaziland in the early 1980s. In 1983 she set out on a mission to South Africa on the pretext of purchasing clothing for her up-coming graduation. Simelane was however abducted, and has since not been heard from nor has her body been found. Her disappearance was one of those examined by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of South Africa. These are some facts about Simelane. This thesis seeks to explore how Simelane's biographies manifest themselves across multiple genres and in so doing determine their similarities and differences, with a view to understanding the difficulties of producing the biography of a missing person. The genres of biography I examine relation to Simelane are: the TRC's Amnesty Committee (AC) hearings, the Human Rights Violations Committee (HRVC) hearing, their transcripts and the TRC reports; a documentary film called Betrayal directed by Mark Kaplan; and a statue of Simelane located in Bethal sculpted by Ruhan Janse van Vuuren.
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Periard, David Andrew. "Personality's Influence on Burnout: An Unfinished Puzzle." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1387277737.
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Herrmann, Andrew F. "The Ghostwriter: Living a Father’s Unfinished Narrative." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/478.
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Book Summary: Who are we with-and without-families? How do we relate as children to our parents, as parents to our children? How are parent-child relationships-and familial relationships in general-made and (not) maintained? Informed by narrative, performance studies, poststructuralism, critical theory, and queer theory, contributors to this collection use autoethnography-a method that uses the personal to examine the cultural-to interrogate these questions. The essays write about/around issues of interpersonal distance and closeness, gratitude and disdain, courage and fear, doubt and certainty, openness and secrecy, remembering and forgetting, accountability and forgiveness, life and death. Throughout, family relationships are framed as relationships that inspire and inform, bind and scar-relationships replete with presence and absence, love and loss. An essential text for anyone interested in autoethnography, personal narrative, identity, relationships, and family communication.
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Maxson, Brian Jeffrey. "An Unfinished Letter Book from Renaissance Italy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5462.
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Brunner, Markus. "The unfinished state : Demokratie und Ethnizität in Nigeria /." Hamburg : Inst. für Afrika-Kunde, 2002. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/363856218.pdf.
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Connolly, Thomas. "Poetics of the Unfinished: Illuminating Paul Celan's Eingedunkelt." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10452.
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This thesis aims to challenge a number of critical assumptions that have unnecessarily restricted the way we read Paul Celan's work, and poetry in general, by reading an unfinished cycle of poems called 'Eingedunkelt.' The poems were written during the Spring of 1966, when Celan was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital in Paris, and have received little critical attention since their initial partial publication in 1968, their more extensive publication in 1991, and the exhaustive publication of the transcription of all genetic documents in 2006. The thesis consists of three chapters, the last two of which are divided into two parts. The opening chapter confronts the poems in 'Eingedunkelt' as they are now available to us as genetic documents, and engages with current theories of genetic criticism to explore new ways of reading and creating meaning within the avant-texte. Although studies of Celan's work have proliferated since his death in 1970, very few critics have been willing to look beyond the formulation of the poetics Celan defines in his 1960 Büchner prize speech 'Der Meridian.' Chapters Two and Three therefore seek to identify the presence in 'Eingedunkelt' of alternative ways of thinking about poetry that do not necessarily conform to the poetics most explicitly outlined in 1960, and that allow for the very real possibility that Celan's conception of his poetic task was often challenged and maybe even transformed. Through Celan's engagement with Stéphane Mallarmé and Jean-Paul Sartre, Chapter Two identifies the development of a poetics of suicide, according to which each poem rehearses the poet's final and greatest creative act in his or her own self-destruction. Chapter Three recognizes the existence of a counter-poetics of life through Celan's lifelong interaction with the paintings of Rembrandt van Rijn, in which the material qualities of dried oil paint, which mimic the organic qualities of human skin, offer a way to create a living, breathing, but also decaying memorial to those who died in the Shoah. This provides the platform for Celan's poetic critique of both the 1963 - 1965 Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, and Peter Weiss's 1965 dramatization of the Trial, 'Die Ermittlung.'
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Zuidervaart, Lambert. "Unfinished Business: Toward a Reformational Conception of Truth." Association for Reformational Philosophy, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/250091.
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This essay presents an emerging conception of truth and shows how it appropriates Herman Dooyeweerd’s conception. First I compare my “critical hermeneutics” with other reformational models of critique. Then I propose to think of truth as a dynamic correlation between (1) human fidelity to societal principles and (2) a life-giving disclosure of society. This conception recontextualizes the notion of propositional truth, and it links questions of intersubjective validity with Dooyeweerd’s emphasis on “standing in the truth.” While abandoning his idea of transcendent truth, I seek
to preserve the holism and normativity of Dooyeweerd’s radical conception.
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Fernández, Ruiz-Gálvez María Encarnación. "The effective universalization of rights. An unfinished assignment." Derecho & Sociedad, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/118569.
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The vocation of universality of human rights is an inherent feature of the concept of human rights since its inception and gives them their sense and their own meaning as instruments of progress, emancipation, human liberation, but also protection, protection for the weakest person, for the voiceless, for those who can not defend their rights themselves. The vocation of universality of human rights requires a constant effort to overcome the exclusions, reappearing always under renewed forms, and advance toward the effective universalization of human rights, for which it is necessary to overcome the individualistic interpretation of the rights that links them exclusively to autonomy and leading to the exclusion of broad sectors of people of title and / or benefits of rights.La vocación de universalidad de los derechos humanos es un rasgo inherente al concepto de derechos humanos desde sus orígenes y les confiere su sentido y su significado propios como instrumentos de progreso, de emancipación, de liberación humana, pero también de tutela, de protección de los más débiles, de los sin voz, de los que no pueden defender por sí mismos sus derechos. La vocación de universalidad de los derechos humanos exige un esfuerzo constante por superar las exclusiones, que reaparecen siempre bajo formas renovadas, y por avanzar en la universalización efectiva de los derechos humanos, para lo cual es necesario superar la interpretación individualista abstracta de los derechos que los vincula, exclusivamente, a la autonomía y que conduce a la exclusión de amplios sectores de personas de la titularidad y/o de los beneficios de los derechos.
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Wolf, Barbara F. "Alaska Native subsistence and sovereignty: An unfinished work." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278811.
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Alaska Native cultures are based on subsistence fishing, hunting and gathering, which also remain important sources of food supply. The 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) extinguished all aboriginal rights to territory, hunting and fishing, creating Native corporations to own Native land in fee simple, instead of reservations with land in trust with the U.S. government (Indian country). ANCSA led to the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), which protects subsistence activities on federal land. Alaska followed ANILCA's subsistence guidelines on state land, until the preference was found unconstitutional in 1989. Subsistence and sovereignty today are linked to a network of interacting institutions such as tribal governments, Native corporations, ANCSA, ANILCA and court decisions. The thesis examines these and argues that institutional changes must occur for Alaska Natives to be sovereign and protect subsistence resources and culture. Suggestions include restoring Indian country to Alaska, resource co-management, and amending ANILCA.
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Harle, Matthew. "Remains to be seen : a study of unfinished projects." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2016. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/195/.
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This thesis considers the imprint of unfinished work upon cultural history. It asks how one might record, interpret and situate abandoned and unfinished works within critical discourse. It explores the various opportunities they present to both disrupt and imaginatively develop existing perspectives on cultural production, the creative process, and the intellectual construction of everyday life. Discussing a range of unfinished projects from literature, film and architecture kept in public archives, this study attempts to find a renewed poetics of abandoned work that can displace the melancholy selectivity that pervades the topic. In addition to this, the project hopes to contribute to growing discourses on archives, ruins and fragments, where a consideration of the remains of unfinished work would broaden and problematise these conversations. The introduction considers the critical and cultural history of leaving work unfinished, identifying various critical motifs and absences that this project can address. The first chapter examines the legacy of an unfinished socialist city planned and partially built in 1914 called Llano del Rio; exploring how the abandoned settlement is mediated through its archival collection and material remains on the outskirts of Los Angeles. The second chapter then delves into the National Archives to investigate abandoned plans for London in the 1960s, demonstrating how unbuilt plans possess an under-researched intertextual and cultural function in their abandoned state. The third chapter traces a set of texts through literary and cinematic archives, charting the abandonment of Harold Pinter and Joseph Losey’s unfilmed Proust Screenplay. It maps the project’s afterlife and its contemporaneous relationship with the decline of cinema theatres in the 1970s, tracing the concomitant processes of unfinishing work and ruination. The fourth chapter looks at the papers of Muriel Spark and B.S. Johnson, considering their unfinished work and project proposals, from Spark’s brief narrative sketches to Johnson’s rejected ideas for television programmes. It sees corresponding tactics taken by the two writers, both authors using their unfinished work as a resource to reuse and recycle for texts that are eventually completed. Alongside this discovery, it reads unfinished work as a form of life writing, skirting autobiography and creative output. The conclusion draws these findings together and considers the potential for unfinished work to form its own critical rubric in the context of broader academic discourse.
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Chicoine, Dominique. "Fragments ; suivi de Brèves." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22572.
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This thesis on literary writing consists of a critic and of a fiction.The critic entitled Fragments, attempts to bring out the characteristics of fragmentary writing. The theoretic analysis concerns the generic problematic of such writing and its effects on lecture. The last part of the text is devoted to the social context in which the fragmentary writing takes place.
The creation Breves contents fourteen short stories. Representing different generations, the characters of Breves are seized in a particular moment of thier lives. Most of the characters are part of a couple; nevertheless, they cannot get away from loneliness.
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Hjälm, Michael. "Liberation of the Ecclesia : The Unfinished Project of Liturgical Theology." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kyrkovetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-158782.
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This dissertation is a critical study of the paradigm of Liturgical Theology. Focus in this systematic inquiry has been on the Russian school with the focal point in the works of Alexander Schmemann, who was active in the late 20th century. The main question of the thesis concerns the relation between theory and practice in Liturgical Theology. It is claimed that the relation between theory and practice corresponds to the relation between ritual action and communicative action. The former concerns the identity founded on the unavoidable alterity immanent in life, but also transcending life through a holistic encounter with life, which enables us to express a holistic attitude to life and the entire world. The latter concerns the equally unavoidable rationalization of life which gives rise to a continuous atomization of life through science and the process of acquiring facts and data. The thesis makes use of different theories for the reaching of an explanatory theory in connection to theory and practice. Foremost the Theory of Communicative Action in the works of Jürgen Habermas and the re-interpretation of disclosure by Nikolas Kompridis is used. It is claimed tthat ritual action is connected to a primary disclosure attached to otherness with the intention of revealing the identity of the Ecclesia. Without identity, we are left with a never-ending debate and a continuous atomization where every answer exponentially provokes more questions. Communicative action then is connected with a secondary co-disclosure with the intention for the reaching of mutual understanding, making subjects accountable and responsible. Without communicative action we are bound on a long walk into the never ending sea of being. The missionary imperative in the Ecclesia is dependent on the co-existence of ritual action and communicative action.
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Alhoudail, Mamdouh Ali. "Air carrier liability : unfinished unification of private international air law." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=98601.
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On 31 November 2003 the 1999 Montreal Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air entered into force. Its purpose was to consolidate and modernize the Warsaw system and to reunify the provisions of several international instruments of private international air law under one legal instrument. The Montreal Convention consolidates the positive elements of the Warsaw Convention, the Hague Protocol, the Guadalajara Convention, the Guatemala City Protocol and Additional Protocol Numbers 3 and 4. It also simplifies and modernizes the requirements of documentation relating to the carriage by air of passengers, baggage and cargo. Most importantly, the Montreal Convention modernizes of the liability regime for death and injury to passengers by adopting the passenger liability regime in the IATA Inter-carrier Agreement. It also modernizes the liability regime for damage to baggage and cargo and the delay. In spite of the foregoing, the Montreal Convention fails to advance the unification of private international air law any further than the Warsaw Convention.This thesis analyzes the provisions of liability regimes under the Warsaw System and the 1999 Montreal Convention. Chapter one studies the liability regime established under the original Warsaw Convention and the subsequent attempts by states, air carriers and other interested entities to update it. Chapter two analyzes the new regime of unlimited liability established by the 1999 Montreal Convention. Chapter three examines the liability of the air carrier for damage caused by terrorist activities. In an effort to demonstrate the innovative elements of the new Convention and to encourage states to ratify it, chapter four surveys the main benefits that have accrued to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its national air carrier upon ratification of the 1999 Montreal Convention.
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SALES, MARIA LEILA. "REFUGE, ADDRESS UNFINISHED CREATURE: RECOGNITION AND RIGHTS OF DISPLACED PEOPLE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2013. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=23901@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
O presente texto tem como objetivo relatar o universo do refúgio na cidade do Rio de Janeiro; analisando os fatores socioeconômicos e culturais que permeiam o movimento de entrada e permanência dessa população no município. Aborda principalmente questões relativas aos direitos humanos, problematizando ao mesmo tempo, sua existência por vezes abstrata, fator que dificulta a inserção dos deslocados na sociedade, aumentando com isso, as fraturas existentes entre eles e o Estado-Nação. Fez-se uma tentativa no sentido de compreender quais os lugares ocupados pelos deslocados nessa nova territorialidade em que se privilegia o fim das limitações comerciais e econômicas, garantindo livre fluxo de capitais em detrimento do próprio fluxo da vida humana.
This text is intended to provide a report on the refuges universe in Rio de Janeiro by analyzing social, economic and cultural aspects which permeate the motion and permanence of this population. It approaches questions concerning the human rights, arguing at the same time its own existence, sometimes abstract, which makes difficult the social insertion of the refugees and increases the rupture between this social group and the state-nation. There was an attempt to understand the places occupied by the refugees in this new territoriality where the end of commercial and economic limitations and the free flow of capital is encouraged rather of the flow of human life.
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Palmer, Claire Helen. "Unfinished business : legalisation and implementation in business and human rights." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c296ae90-ad73-49c9-a0b3-b1170ca30930.
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The thesis explores the nature of transnational legalisation by identifying one emerging norm - corporate accountability for human rights violations - and tracing its promotion through three separate pathways of legalisation. At the domestic level, the thesis discusses the jurisprudence of domestic courts that have contemplated assuming extraterritorial jurisdiction over alleged human rights violations of transnational corporations (TNCs) in other states. At the international level, the thesis considers developments in the United Nations (UN), which in 2011 launched a new normative framework to bolster the accountability of TNCs in respect of human rights. At the transnational level, the thesis discusses the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), and the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs), which have been selected as representative of the range of hybrid schemes increasingly developed by government and industry representatives to ameliorate the impact of TNCs on human rights. The thesis also develops a framework with which to analyse these trends by adopting (and further developing) the liberal institutionalist tool of legalisation, which is described in Kenneth Abbott et al's 'The Concept of Legalisation'. This thesis argues that this classic framework can be adapted and reimagined in the context of the transnational legal system, which is characterised by thick configurations of agents working across a multiplicity of issue areas. I suggest that in applying the classic framework in the transnational context, there appears to be an omitted variable - that of implementation, which exists alongside obligation, precision, and delegation. Implementation refers to the specific actions taken by agents to translate legal or law-like principles into practical, workable instructions for courts, governments, companies and other non-state actors to follow. The thesis argues that an increased focus on implementation generally leads to more effective or greater legalisation. The empirical chapters demonstrate that efforts in implementation are often undertaken for the purpose of strengthening one or more other legalisation characteristics in the long run. This suggests that agents will be willing to accept lower levels of obligation, precision and/or delegation if they believe a focus on implementation will help strengthen these characteristics over time.
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Baker, Raquel Lisette. "Undoing Whiteness: postcolonial identity and the unfinished project of decolonization." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6542.
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In my dissertation project, I engage in a discursive analysis of whiteness to examine how it influences postcolonial modes of self-styling. Critical whiteness studies often focuses on representations of whiteness in the West as well as on whiteness as physical—as white bodies and white people. I focus on representations and functions of whiteness outside of the West, particularly in relation to issues of belonging and modes of postcolonial identification. I examine Anglophone African literary representations of whiteness from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to query how whiteness both enables and undermines anticolonial consciousness. A central question I examine is, How does whiteness as a symbolic manifestation function to constitute postcolonial African identification? Scholarship on the topic of subjectivity and liberation needs to explicitly examine how whiteness intersects with key notions of modernity, such as race, class, progress, and self-determination. Through an examination of postcolonial African literary representations of whiteness, I aim to examine the aspirations, unpacked stereotypes, and fears that move us as readers and hail us as human subjects. Ultimately, through this work, I grapple with the question of identification, understood as the system of desires, judgments, images, and performances that constitute our experiences of being human. I begin by looking backward at the satirical play, “The Blinkards,” written in 1915 in the context of British colonization of the Gold Coast in West Africa (present-day Ghana), to develop an understanding of postcolonial identification that includes an examination of the artistic expression of a writer conceptualizing liberation through notions of cultural nationalism. I go on to examine a selection postcolonial African literatures to develop an understanding of how racialized socio-cultural realities constitute forms of self-hood in post-independence contexts.
I hope to use my argument about representations of whiteness in African literatures to open up questions fundamental to contemporary theories of identification in postcolonial contexts, as well as to make a philosophical argument about the ethics of whiteness as it undergirds transnational modes of modernity. One main point I make in relation to postcolonial theories of subjectivity is that notions of identification are tied up in local, regional, and global circuits of capital and cultural production. In chapter 2, I look at an early (Grain of Wheat 1967) and recent novel (Wizard of the Crow 2006) by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (Kenya), who locates African postcolonial subjectivity as deeply embedded in local traditions, myths, and storytelling circuits. By fluidly mixing the contexts of the local, the national, and the global, Ngũgĩ astutely challenges naturalized conventions that position black identities and blackness as always inferior to whiteness. Ngũgĩ represents postcolonial consciousness as a space whose local relationships are deeply informed by global structures of race, economics, and politics. Situating African postcolonial identification within global circuits of migration, capitalism, and colonialism, Ngũgĩ engages the pervasive significance of whiteness through representations of sickness and desire, suggesting that postcolonial identification is performed through beliefs and practices that are situated within a global racial hierarchy.
From there I go on to analyze a contemporary short story cycle by post-apartheid generation South African writer Siphiwo Mahala. Through his work, I continue to explore the issue of performative identification constituted through desire and aspirational notions in which whiteness works as a moving signifier of cultural and social capital. The main question I address in this chapter is, What is the meaning of whiteness in post-apartheid South Africa? Through this examination, I use my analysis of representations of whiteness to reflect on the politics of entanglement as a way to move beyond racialized and geographic modes of identification, to challenge conceptual boundaries that undergird modernity, and theoretical possibilities of a politics of entanglement in relation to broader issues of identification and belonging in postcolonial contexts.
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Wangman, Pauline Turner. "Unfinished journeys : narratives of slavery from Olaudah Equiano to Toni Morrison." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/27614.
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Despite the obvious way in which slave narrative is 'married' to historical context as both public testimony and personal, imaginative expression of a specific experience, slave narrative presents the reader with unfinished journeys. The narratives which are the focus of this study are partial autobiographies, to the extent that Olaudah Equiano, Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass each lived beyond the experiences about which they wrote. This is most obvious in the case of Douglass, who wrote three autobiographies. We are fortunate that Douglass wrote and re-wrote his life, and it is not unreasonable to wish, however fancifully, that Equiano and Jacobs had done the same. It is impossible to predict what their imaginary autobiographies would contain, beyond details of their lives in freedom which have come to us through historical sources, but it seems safe to assume that, like Douglass, Equiano and Jacobs would have opened doors that remained closed in the first narratives, in order to re-vision the past and shed light on the present. Indeed, the very act of imagining the slave narrator as creative agent beyond his or her journey to freedom, opens readers' minds to the possibilities of slave narrative. This is the imaginative journey performed by the fictional narratives of slavery, Dessa Rose and Beloved, into the world the slaves made, to probe and specify experiences in slavery and freedom. For the slave narrator, 'storying' his or her life was a beginning, not an end: their lives in freedom awaited them, and that long-awaited and cherished freedom was no more predictable or pre-determined than was the experience of slavery. 'Storying' slavery was a cathartic process through which the past was given meaning and order, and through which the storyteller could return to an image of the unrealised self in order to make it whole.
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MUNIZ, ANA PAULA DE ALMEIDA. "FOUCAULT IN THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY: ASPECTS OF AN UNFINISHED WORK." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2009. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=14938@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIORCONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
Esta dissertação tem por objetivo traçar um percurso em torno da História da Sexualidade de Michel Foucault. Partindo de uma contextualização deste empreendimento no todo do projeto de Foucault, a dissertação destaca seu inacabamento: a morte de Foucault deixa como legado à filosofia o caráter urgente das questões que levanta em torno de três noções fundamentais, que caracterizam o que se convencionou chamar de período da ética. Subjetividade, sexualidade e natureza humana aparecem então como chaves para compreender a significação da História da Sexualidade no panorama da filosofia contemporânea.
This dissertation aims to follow a path along Michel Foucault s History of Sexuality. By placing this undertaking within the context of Foucalt s project as a whole, the dissertation emphasizes its unfinished character: Foucault s death leaves a legacy to philosophy by revealing the urgent character of three basic notions, which form what is conventionally called the Ethics Period. Subejctivity, sexualilty and human nature are instrumental keys to the understanding of the History of Sexuality within the context of contemporary philosophy.
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Martinez, Amanda Rose. "The unfinished miracle : how plastics came to be lost at sea." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60842.
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Thesis (S.M. in Science Writing)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, Graduate Program in Science Writing, 2010.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Plastic trash is an increasingly significant source of pollution in the world's oceans. In some remote ocean regions, it is aggregating by the ton. This thesis investigates plastic trash as an emerging marine contaminant, with a specific focus on: the history of plastic trash in the ocean; areas of aggregation; potential sources; remediation efforts; behavior of the material in terms of degradation in the marine environment; impacts to sea life and marine ecosystems; and scientific research, both ongoing and planned, that will attempt to determine further potential impacts to marine ecosystems and human health. The second part of this inquiry provides a brief explanation of what plastics are, the history of plastic polymer development and the significance of the material's incredible contributions to society. It explores briefly the growing social backlash against plastic as a result of the publicized impacts of plastic ocean trash, and concludes with an argument, which states that the problem of plastic marine pollution is not due to the nature of the material itself, but rather lies in the ways we have chosen to use it.
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Böhnke, Dietmar. "Scots and Saxons: Notes on an Unfinished Project, or: Conspicuous VerSchwendung." Edition Hamouda, 2014. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A34493.
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Blaul, Holger. "Vergangenheitspolitik im Rahmen demokratischer Konsolidierung - das 'unfinished business' des südafrikanischen Systemwechsels." [S.l. : s.n.], 2006.
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Perry, Stephen George. "The unfinished landscape fractal geometry and the aesthetics of ecological design." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/50512/1/Stephen_Perry_Thesis.pdf.
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During the late 20th century it was proposed that a design aesthetic reflecting current ecological concerns was required within the overall domain of the built environment and specifically within landscape design. To address this, some authors suggested various theoretical frameworks upon which such an aesthetic could be based. Within these frameworks there was an underlying theme that the patterns and processes of Nature may have the potential to form this aesthetic — an aesthetic based on fractal rather than Euclidean geometry. In order to understand how fractal geometry, described as the geometry of Nature, could become the referent for a design aesthetic, this research examines the mathematical concepts of fractal Geometry, and the underlying philosophical concepts behind the terms ‘Nature’ and ‘aesthetics’. The findings of this initial research meant that a new definition of Nature was required in order to overcome the barrier presented by the western philosophical Nature¯culture duality. This new definition of Nature is based on the type and use of energy. Similarly, it became clear that current usage of the term aesthetics has more in common with the term ‘style’ than with its correct philosophical meaning. The aesthetic philosophy of both art and the environment recognises different aesthetic criteria related to either the subject or the object, such as: aesthetic experience; aesthetic attitude; aesthetic value; aesthetic object; and aesthetic properties. Given these criteria, and the fact that the concept of aesthetics is still an active and ongoing philosophical discussion, this work focuses on the criteria of aesthetic properties and the aesthetic experience or response they engender. The examination of fractal geometry revealed that it is a geometry based on scale rather than on the location of a point within a three-dimensional space. This enables fractal geometry to describe the complex forms and patterns created through the processes of Wild Nature. Although fractal geometry has been used to analyse the patterns of built environments from a plan perspective, it became clear from the initial review of the literature that there was a total knowledge vacuum about the fractal properties of environments experienced every day by people as they move through them. To overcome this, 21 different landscapes that ranged from highly developed city centres to relatively untouched landscapes of Wild Nature have been analysed. Although this work shows that the fractal dimension can be used to differentiate between overall landscape forms, it also shows that by itself it cannot differentiate between all images analysed. To overcome this two further parameters based on the underlying structural geometry embedded within the landscape are discussed. These parameters are the Power Spectrum Median Amplitude and the Level of Isotropy within the Fourier Power Spectrum. Based on the detailed analysis of these parameters a greater understanding of the structural properties of landscapes has been gained. With this understanding, this research has moved the field of landscape design a step close to being able to articulate a new aesthetic for ecological design.
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De, la Garza Andrew. "An unfinished revolution : Babur, Akbar and the rise of Mughal military power /." Connect to resource, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1210269616.
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Pang, Josh. "World Game| An MS Thesis on Engineering Buckminster Fuller's Unfinished Computer Game." Thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10600417.
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My thesis explores the idea that Buckminster Fuller’s World Game is really a formal calculus capable of representing world-scale sustainability problem-solving according to the fundamental principles of a (blockchain) database + (Fuller projection) map + (machine learning) simulation in the form of a game . These computational media comprise an operational formalism which embraces all effective procedures for world-scale problem-solving. If this hypothesis is true, then that would mean World Game’s comprehensive use of the aforementioned fundamental principles are necessary for a sustainable Earth-scale civilization. Furthermore, the protocol for solution formation in the form of World Game “game” is sufficient for solving the problem of “making the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone”—the objective of World Game. If this hypothesis of sufficiency is true, that means World Game’s principles are in effect synonymous with the process of making the world work. In plain English, a problem-solving engine like World Game is necessary for the survival of humanity, period.
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Scott, Julie F. "Unfinished sympathy : embodiment of faith in an American fundamentalist Christian intentional community." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26921.
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Much previous work on Intentional Communities (ICs) tends to 'fail' to fully 'understand' such social forms due to an over-emphasis on the division between theory and practice. One possible methodological route out of this impasse is to apply the paradigm of embodiment. Embodiment of faith is explored in relation to one such IC, God's Way Community, in southern Missouri (USA). The extent of this embodiment is located within a range of social spheres, including belief, everyday ritual, language, gender, work, and spatial constructs. It is argued that to achieve 'understanding' (in the sense of Weber's 'verstehen') of ICs, and similar types of 'extraordinary' forms of belief, it is necessary to dissolve the theory/practice (and by implication subject/object) divide inherent in much previous work on this subject. This is also made possible through the application not only of embodiment theory, but also through the use of a number of methodologies which could be loosely labelled 'post-structuralist'. This includes, for example, the application of historical analysis and cultural contextualisation. Such methodological approaches also affords an opportunity to challenge the prevailing stereotypes of such forms of beliefs, and so create new levels of 'sympathy' towards them.
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Schecter, Danial. "Rubens' unfinished gallery of Henry IV : one half of 'un bel composto'." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq64192.pdf.
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Goffi, Federica. "The Sempiternal Nature of Architectural-Conservation and the Unfinished Building and Drawing." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29312.
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Conservation is today often interpreted as the preservation of a still-shot, an understanding informed by the belief that by displaying photographic memory of the past, it is possible to gain access to it. Naturalistic representation is unequivocal and presents the onlooker with a single meaning. The dominance of the photorealistic image as model for memory, should be challenged by undermining the notion that architectural representation is a portrayal of likeness, restoring its full potential as an iconic representation of presence.
A micro-historical study of the Renaissance concept of restoration, focused on Tiberio Alfaranoâ s 1571 ichnography of St. Peterâ s Basilica in the Vatican, offers an alternative paradigm in order to inform, critically, contemporary theory and the practice of the renewal of mnemic buildings. The hybrid drawing (1571) extends beyond the opera of graphic architecture, realizing a real effigy.
Alfarano factured a track-drawing, providing memory traces on the drawing-site, which, acting like a veil, bear marks of the buildingâ s presence within time. The ichnography makes visible a â hallowed configurationâ , conceived as a substratum for the imagination of conservation. This defines a collective daydreaming strategy, from which multiple authors can imagine possible futures. Ambiguity and polysemy inform the drawing, generating an equivocal space where unforeseeable inventions occur by the process of future predictions by recollecting memories. This invites merging multiple stories.
Grasping the significance of Alfaranoâ s drawing, one begins to comprehend the mistaken belief in the primacy of photo rendering to access a building and conserve its essence. Any essence cannot be achieved through exact visual reconstruction, rather through a chiasmus of past and present form, expressing allegoric significance.
The retrospective and prospective character of the architectural-conservation process can be experienced through the intermediacy of hybrid-drawings directing the gaze simultaneously in two directions; a pre-existent condition engages in dialogue with future design. This is a condition absent from todayâ s practice, where measured drawings and design drawings are often kept separate. Seen this way, architectural drawings could rejoin these two temporal conditions, through metaphoric or literal transparency, and allow for a real transformation within continuity of identity.Ph. D.
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Daehnke, Nadja. "Unfinished man : questioning difference through the pictorial recontextualisation of socio-medical documents." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13912.
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Bibliography: leaves 75-80.In this dissertation and series of paintings I wish to focus attention on the interconnection between knowledge and power. This is commented on in relation to socio-medical disciplines. The argument proposes that knowledge is a product of vested interests and should thus not be regarded as transcendent of the context in which it is used. This study examines attempts to naturalize race, class and gender through scrutiny and analyses of the human body. Section One considers specific historical cases which illustrate the use of knowledge as a disciplinary force. Surveillance, classification, objectification and an understanding of science as neutral are identified as central to the construction of difference. These themes are investigated with regard to: Lavater's physiognomy, Charcot's understanding of hysteria, the influence of photography on nineteenth century science, eugenics, degenerationism and racial definitions in South African law from 1948 to 1994. This section draws on scholarship and research published predominantly in the areas of sociology, medical history, anthropology and ethnology. Section One is intended as a parallel text to the series of paintings produced. Section Two offers a personal interpretation of some trends, methods and materials used throughout the series of paintings. The paintings comment on the themes of classification, objectification and discrimination mentioned in Section One. The series also reflects on the mutability of knowledge and the continuing relevance of past doctrines. Primary strategies employed in the paintings are decontextualization and recontextualization of pre-existent texts, an emphasis on aesthetics and attempts to involve the viewer in the acts of looking and interpretation. Section Three consists of reproductions of the twenty paintings made for a Masters of Fine Art degree. Sources and processes used in the paintings are listed.
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Toji, Simone. "The way of the unfinished : approaching migrant lives in São Paulo through resonance." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9785.
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In following several international migrants in the city of São Paulo, I found that inarticulate moments of hesitation, uncertainty, or suspension punctuated their trajectories. These fleeting and subtle instances revealed that people's lives were pervaded by a certain ‘messiness' that pointed out the limits of understanding life and the world through scientific standards of generalisation and coherence. Requiring a different attitude concerning the making of anthropology, ‘messiness' compelled my ethnographic account to admit that: firstly, people, places and situations, held a ‘mystery' that my efforts of scientific disclosure could never clarify completely; secondly, each attempt to live in the world became a very singular experimentation. In order to ethnographically do justice to the ‘mystery' and ‘singularity' I found in the lives I followed in São Paulo, this account found in Levinas's work inspiration to develop a phenomenological approach. This phenomenological approach combined two movements. The first movement searched for a way of incorporating the faltering occasions of inarticulacy in people's lives through imagination, signalling the limits of understanding these lives through objective knowledge, and proposing to appreciate them through processes of human recognition. This procedure was crafted as a ‘poetics of resonance', an aesthetic operation converting lived experience into written expression in a way that imagination can offer a sense of what it is to live a particular life or experience in its richness. The second movement in this phenomenological approach refers to the recognition of a human life in its singularity, attempting to substantiate it ethnographically in the form of particular ‘life-journeys', which is an approximation to what Levinas described as ‘uniqueness'. As follows, seven specific life-journeys are presented, organised as ‘journeys of being', ‘in-be(ing)tween journeys', and ‘journeys of becoming', according to the elements of affiliation each research participant stressed in their respective course shared with me. From the richness of these ethnographic particulars, insights for migration and urban studies were derived from the phenomenological approach undertaken. The ethnographic evidence questioned a sense of complexity based on categorisation in migration studies and suggested that for the portrayed life-journeys a concept of immensity is more appropriate than a concept of identity. Concerning theories about the urban, the mobility manifested by the life-journeys in São Paulo and beyond conveyed, not a city of ethnic neighbourhoods, but a city of ‘rough' experimentation, according to people's positionality and their ability to find their own ways in the city and in the world.
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Hoel, Camilla Ulleland. "The completion of Edwin Drood : endings and authority in finished and unfinished narratives." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7572.
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Through an analysis of the reception of Charles Dickens’ unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood this thesis establishes the centrality of the figure of the author as the perceived sanction for the completed text. Through an initial analysis of completed narrative, in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Holmes stories, it shows that the ending is of particular importance as the point at which the reader can look back over the whole and confirm or disconfirm the provisional interpretations which have been made during the reading. It only makes sense to talk of unfinished texts or unfinished narratives in the context of a creative authority, generally identified as the author. An analysis of the reception of unfinished serial narratives of the late Victorian period, specifically the unfinished works of William M. Thackeray and Robert Louis Stevenson, confirms the centrality of the figure of the author in attempts to reconstruct the missing ending. The main body of the thesis provides a period-based analysis of Droodiana, the completions of and speculations about Dickens’ unfinished novel. In the analysis of the strategies employed to justify completions, and the responses to these, it establishes not only that the attempts to take on the authorial authority are perceived as sacrilegious, but that the perception of the completion-writers’ lack of the authority to posit an ending affects whether completions are read as able to complete the story: the willingness to submit to the ending (and revise provisional readings in light of it) is dependent on the perception of the authorial authority of the writer. The analysis shows that while the author-function develops over time, there is some continuity from the late Victorian period towards the present. The analysis of Droodian speculations trace their origin and development through a series of periods, showing that the variety of plots proposed masks a common concern with arriving at Dickens’ intended plot: a desire to identify the creative intention with the plot that would provide the most satisfying ending produces an increased variety over time.
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Jones, Iona Mahima. "Unfinished business : the development of racial(ised) identity in people of mixed parentage." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1999. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/50770/.
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In a society concerned with 'racial' purity and anxious to protect 'racial' boundaries people of mixed parentage are presumed to experience pressure, internal and external, to be aware of 'racial' differences and their own perceived ambiguous position. Some commentators believe that people of mixed parentage 'do not fit' into society If only they would pretend to be 'like the rest of us' then everyone would be happy There are few, if any, representations of coherent identities. The main concern of my research is to discover the factors which influence the development of racial(ised) identity in people of mixed parentage. An understanding of personal and social identity is an important part of my research I investigate how people of mixed parentage express their racial(ised) identity and question whether racial(ised) identity formation is ever really finished.
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Calleros, Juan Carlos. "Unfinished transitions : democracy, the judiciary and the rule of law in Latin America." Thesis, University of Essex, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.418353.
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Lehto, Mandy. "The unfinished civil war and the politics of remembrance in Finland, 1918-1928." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272110.
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Pech, David. "“An Unfinished Phrase”: Philosophy of life and language in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27494.
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Virginia Woolf’s novel, The Waves, is an expression and exploration of an authorial and philosophical crisis. The crisis is authorial, in that Woolf expresses deep uncertainty about the relation of the act and product of writing to life, and the crisis is philosophical, in that Woolf grapples with problems that are epistemological, ontological, aesthetic, and linguistic. Woolf’s authorial and philosophical crisis can be understood as part of the broader crisis of modernity. I argue that the crisis of modernity can be read as a crisis of “imaginaries,” and that the project of Woolf and the Modernists was to imaginatively develop new vocabularies with which to express, understand, and make, modern life. I suggest that the character Bernard pursues the central imaginative project of The Waves – to find the set of “perfect” phrases with which to tell the “true” story of life. I examine his attempts to find a semantically meaningful vocabulary by moving away from prose towards poetry. Correspondingly, I examine Bernard’s dissatisfactions with “telling” life through narratives, and consider whether the characters’ lives are better understood as episodes, or through Woolf’s profound “moments of being.” I explore the characters’ attempts to form a fulfilling vocabulary shared amongst a narrowing circle – as friends, as a couple, or as individuals. I also discuss the important role of silence in The Waves. I conclude by analysing Bernard’s final soliloquy, which closes the novel. I argue that his soliloquy presents a complex and philosophically compelling vision of life as vacillation, as evidenced by the “wave” motif, which runs through The Waves.
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Cafley, Julie Meredith. "Leadership In Higher Education: Case Study Research of Canadian University Presidents with Unfinished Mandates." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32385.
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Within Canada, the ever-changing context of universities is paralleled by an increased number of unfinished presidential mandates, approximately 16 in the past ten years. “Never has Canadian university presidential leadership been under greater scrutiny than it is today” (MacKinnon, 2004, p. 132). The trend of an increasing number of unfinished mandates of university presidents in Canada leads to some important questions that require further exploration. Through an in-depth series of interviews with six of the 16 Canadian university presidents with unfinished mandates, this research dives deeply into leadership experiences and highlights patterns and trends within the individual trajectories leading to their shortened mandate. More precisely, the leaders’ transitional process within their presidential role is examined in order to gain insight into the challenges of transition, particularly for the person at the top of the organization. The findings are focused on the themes of board governance and communication, university transitions, relationships within the executive team, the role of the predecessor, and diversity and leadership. This dissertation contributes a unique piece of research to the higher educational literature, and also provides concrete recommendations to improve transitional practices for leaders within the higher education environment.
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Malcolm, Wanda M. "Relating process to outcome in the resolution of unfinished business in process experiential psychotherapy." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0026/NQ39287.pdf.
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Tsai, Michelle Y. "Enacting an unfinished narrative event : the lived experience of sensorimotor processing in Therapeutic Enactment." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/12928.
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Self is a perpetually rewritten script. As bodily sensations, rather than cognitive interpretation, create emotional states, awareness of bodily sensations is critical to one’s experience and expression of self (Kepner, 1987; Damasio, 1999). This qualitative study was designed to discuss the lived meanings of sensorimotor processing in group-based Therapeutic Enactment in order to shed light on the gestalt process of change involved. Utilizing the descriptive phenomenological psychological method (Giorgi & Giorgi, 2003), the present study purported to answer the qualitative research question: “What is the lived experience of sensorimotor processing when individuals complete an unfinished or uncompleted narrative event or action through Therapeutic Enactment?” Qualitative data were collected using in-depth phenomenological interviews and Kagan’s (1975, 1980) interpersonal process recall (IPR) method from 3 participants who have recently completed a Therapeutic Enactment Director Training workshop. Data analysis yielded 3 situated descriptions in respect of the structure of sensorimotor processing within the context of Therapeutic Enactment. The dynamic interplay between the phenomenon of sensorimotor processing and the nature of in-process change in Therapeutic Enactment was highlighted and compared across all 3 situated descriptions. Consistent with what is proposed in contemporary therapeutic practice (van der Kolk, 1996/2007; Ogden, 2003), all 3 participants appear to have established new connections between their cognition and associated affect through enacting an unfinished or missed sensorimotor action. The findings bring to light that experiencing of one’s sensorimotor self is at the heart of therapeutic change for individuals affected by trauma. This study adds to the understanding of how being in touch with one’s disowned bodily self can promote the integrative functions of higher-level cognitive and emotional processing.
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Hamidin, Abd Hamid. "Unfinished business : the implementation of Land Titles Ordinance in coastal Kenya, 1908-1940's." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.518934.
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The thesis examines the history of colonial land administration in the coastal region of Kenya between the 1890s and 1940s. Prior to the coming of British colonialism, customary law and Islamic law had governed land disputes in the region. Colonial intervention brought a new concept of land ownership and a new structure for the registration of titles and ownership. The Land Titles Ordinance of 1908 (LTO) was introduced to solve the conflict between Islamic law and customary practice. The L TO was implemented with an eye towards other government policies, notably the creation of designated Native Reserves for the African population and the provision of adequate labour supply for colonial commercial activities. The operation of the L TO was therefore complicated by a number of competing interests. Initial attempts to implement the L TO were only partly successful, and proved to be very costly. As a consequence, government ceased to actively apply the Ordinance in 1922. The thesis will assess the outcome of these early phases of this land reform. By the early 1920s, the colonial government had defined the legal boundaries between different categories of land. However, the LTO had undermined and further complicated existing understanding of Islamic law and customary practice as these related to land. It will be shown that the terms of the LTO in adjudicating ownership contradicted the prevailing local understanding in several important ways. As a result, some Africans found themselves to be denied access to land they believed to be rightfully theirs, while other groups, most notably among the elite were able to exploit the new circumstances to enlarge their personal land holding. One feature of these changes was that ethnicity became an increasingly important determinant of access to land. During the early 1930s, the government sought to again resolve outstanding land questions with the appointment of the Land Commission. This commission concentrated on the White Highlands of central Kenya but also collected a vast amount of data on land problems at the coast. Chapter Five of the thesis examines this material in detail, in particular the special report of Sir Ernest Dowson. Dowson's study emphasized the need to complete the unfinished business of the L TO and provided a scheme for accomplishing this. Over the next decades, however, government showed lack of will to tackle the problems. As a result, land issues in the coastal region remain unresolved. The thesis concludes with some comments on the continuing importance of land litigation at the coast in the 1950s and beyond.
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Bradley, Karen A. "Unfinished business : Missouri's Natural Streams campaign and the changing conditions of environmental action/research /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9841206.
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Crane, Samuel. "Unfinished Business! The myth that the settler government has lawful transnational jurisprudence sovereign authority." Thesis, Federation University Australia, 2022. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/187194.
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As a First Nations person belonging to the Bulluk-Willam people of the Woiwurrung nation from the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station, Wadawurrung in Geelong, and Monaro peoples in Cooma, I’m a duty-bound to educate not only the First Nations peoples, but the wider community of the 60,000 plus years history of the continent now known as Australia. The former British Empire and successive settler governments failed to recognise the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth of the colonisation of Australia, its unlawfulness and the injustices that had been created. For the benefit of the reader, I have chosen to use the term “First Nations peoples” rather than “Indigenous people and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people”. I argue that First Nations peoples had lawful transnational sovereign authority, which included being the holders of citizenship rights and having a system of jurisprudence self-governance where they had entered into legally binding treaties and land rights agreements prior to the arrival of Lieutenant James Cook on 29 April 1770 (de Costa, 2006; Diamond, 1997; Kenny, 2008; Presland, 1994; Trudgen, 2000). The Act of Settlement 1700 (UK) denounced the monarch’s lawful right to be a sovereign ruler over citizens, which means it was also applicable to their vice-regal representative. I argue that same lawful sovereign authority had been given to each person from each language belonging to the First Nations peoples residing on the continent of Australia and its surrounding islands. Even the first convicts and “free settlers” held lawful sovereign rights and not their monarch. The Law of Nations under European law (de Vattel, 1844) concluded that the First Nations peoples had lawful sovereignty, a civil society, and a political system of independent self-governance. However, the unlawful acquisition of Australia was to provide both an international trading base for the United Kingdom after the end of the American Civil War and a convict outpost (Blainey, 1966; Dallas, 1978; Frost, 2011, 2013; Hawkesworth, 1774). Thus, an extinguishing of the lawful determinations of transnational jurisprudence sovereign authority (B. McKenna & Wardle, 2019) validated a self-governing colony of Australia. The extinguishment of the First Nations peoples’ lawful transnational jurisprudence sovereign authority continued when Australia became a federated nation with its United Kingdom Constitution, An Act to Constitute the Commonwealth of Australia (UK). Yet, it was, and still remains, a quasi-system of governance (Quick & Garran, 1902). However, after the end of the First World War when Australia joined the League of Nations in 1920, all levels of the parliamentary systems, the Constitution and the judiciary became null and void (G. Butler, 1925). The Mabo v. Queensland (No. 2) HCA 23; 175 CLR 1 (3 June 1992) decision refuted the myth that the continent, now known as of Australia, was previously terra nullius, a land belonging to no one. Since the 1980s, federal governments, via a system of defensive nationalism and popular sovereignty (de Costa, 2006), had gifted themselves an unlawful sovereignty and nation-state independence (B. McKenna & Wardle, 2019). Finally, since 26 January 1788, Australia has had an ongoing independent sovereign nation-state identity crisis and has been suffering from internal and external haemorrhaging. Appendix A details the first action needed by going outside all domestic parliaments and courts to the Government Legal Department in London to rectify the unlawful system of governance, judiciary, and regal representatives. This was first suggested by John Newfong in 1972 at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy (Newfong, 1972). The second action lies in Appendix B, the Sovereign Australia Constitution Act (Aus).Masters of Art
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Friggieri, Albert. "Creative process, unfinished product : Friedrich Schiller's dramatic fragment 'Die Maltheser' : history, sources, reception and themes." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.535887.
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Miller, Eula E. "Shaping conversations: nurse lecturers' emotional management in higher education: the unfinished business of widening participation." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.593892.
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Chevalier, Fabienne HeÌleÌ€ne Gabrielle. "To complete or not to complete : a conversation analytic investigation of unfinished turns in French." Thesis, University of Essex, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.422243.
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