This dissertation examines connections between material culture and colonial society as evidenced in a range of written works and architectural projects that together shaped the social and urban histories of Lahore, the capital city of Punjab Province in British India (1849–1947…
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This research presents an analysis of the life stories of four adult literacy learners studying on a Skills for Life course in a Further Education context in the south west of England, three of whom are returning to education for the first time in their adult lives. Drawing on d…
This thesis aims to develop an analytical framework that will combine the insights of critical discourse analysis and a range of feminist perspectives on discourse as social practice. This framework is then employed in an investigation of women's participation in a number of 'co…
The primary task of this thesis is to explain what the relationship between social practice and the socially emergent self is, and to concurrently explain why this relationship is of significance to an accurate theory of social practice itself. A subsequent aim of this is to exp…
Oda Projesi, an artist collective based in Istanbul, breaks down barriers of prejudice among clashing cultures by investigating Istanbul's public and private space custom. Turkish territory has a long history of occupation, which has produced a myriad of often-contrary ideas and…
This thesis analyzes Signal Fire, a Portland-based arts organization founded in 2008. The organization produces extended, reading-intensive, and practice-oriented backpacking artist residencies in wild places. My own participation as both artist and researcher in a summer 2019 p…
In this dissertation, I claim that collaborative research produces better data, interpretations, and ethical outcomes. I argue for an expanded toolkit of representational practices in anthropological archaeology. To do so, I compare how archaeological knowledge is created and be…
Building upon the "tools and techniques" for socially engaged art that Pablo Helguera proposes, this dissertation provides an in-depth exploration of cross-disciplinary qualitative methods (such as oral history and citizen science) as artistic tools for engagement. In my project…
Trellis has been used as a structure to support plant growth for thousands of years. Drawing from traditions of participatory performance, conceptual art, and social practice, The Trellis Project (L’art du Treillageur) utilizes the trellis form as a historical and aesthetic refe…