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The rapid diffusion of digital technologies since the 1970s has produced significant cultural change within industrialised societies and this dissertation examines the particular challenge that digital technologies and a burgeoning digital culture po
Externí odkaz:
http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/42615
The temple of the Goddess Kamakhya in Assam is the pre-eminent site of Hindu Goddess worship. It is revered as the yoni pītha, the place where the generative organ of the Goddess is worshipped. This thesis, centred on Kamakhya, explores the Hindu tr
Externí odkaz:
http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/32785
Autor:
Sheringham, Colin J., University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, Centre for Cultural Research
The thesis offers a gastronomic meditation on the ambiguity and complexity of meanings signified by McDonald’s as one of the most powerful food symbols of the late twentieth-century Western society. Using an advance on the structuralist perspective
Externí odkaz:
http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/31861
An investigation of the geological resources of the Southern Highlands was undertaken and over two hundred samples were collected and examined for possible use as stoneware ceramic ingredients. Thirty four of these samples were tested for possible us
Externí odkaz:
http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/29709
Autor:
Blom, Kaaren Rhona, University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, Centre for Cultural Research
The death of a child spectator at the implosion of the Royal Canberra Hospital on 13 July 1997 was an accident that had a profound impact on the local community, prompting a significant cursive response. Promoted as a public spectacle, the implosion
Externí odkaz:
http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/12337
This is an investigation of the enthusiasm, scenes and cultural industry of contemporary modified-car culture in Australia, based on fieldwork research with an online-based car club – where I participated as an enthusiast – and archival research
Externí odkaz:
http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/12284
The thesis inquires into the living value of participatory practices to sustainability. The two problems of lack of recognition of participatory practices and the lack of address of sustainability matters are drawn into one collective inquiry initiat
Externí odkaz:
http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/15784
This thesis examines contemporary cosmetic surgery within a multidisciplinary feminist framework and is particularly interested in anti-ageing cosmetic surgery. It looks at many discursive and concrete examples of cosmetic surgery and casts a net tha
Externí odkaz:
http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/26405
The motivation for writing this thesis derives from the lengthy conflict between Israelis and Palestinians and its effects on Jews who have been engaged politically and intellectually in challenging a paradigm most prevalent among Australian and othe
Externí odkaz:
http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/20925
Autor:
Yipu, Zen, University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, Education and Social Sciences, Centre for Cultural Research
In the so-called postmodern era, when networked media are increasingly ubiquitous in everyday life, where the ‘real’ and the ‘simulation’ become ever more indistinguishable; the physical and virtual intertwine; machines and man merge, and aud
Externí odkaz:
http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/589