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Practice-Driven Changes To Constitutional Structures Of Governance, James A. Gardner Jan 2016

Practice-Driven Changes To Constitutional Structures Of Governance, James A. Gardner

Journal Articles

Among the methods of informal constitutional change, perhaps the least studied or understood is change resulting from alterations in the way governance is practiced. Such changes, typically initiated by political actors in the executive and legislative branches, is probably the most common kind of constitutional change, and is almost certainly the most common source of informal change to structural provisions. In the United States, the best known instances of practice-driven changes to constitutional structure come from the federal level – the rise of a formal party system, for example, or the dramatic twentieth-century expansion of presidential power. Yet by far …

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Limited Transmission Of Emergent H7n9 Influenza A Virus In A Simulated Live Animal Market: Do Chickens Pose The Principal Transmission Threat?, Angela Bosco-Lauth, Richard A. Bowen, J. Jeffrey Root Jan 2016

Limited Transmission Of Emergent H7n9 Influenza A Virus In A Simulated Live Animal Market: Do Chickens Pose The Principal Transmission Threat?, Angela Bosco-Lauth, Richard A. Bowen, J. Jeffrey Root

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Emergent H7N9 influenza A virus has caused multiple public health and financial hardships. While some epidemiological studies have recognized infected chickens as an important bridge for human infections, the generality of this observation, the minimum infectious dose, and the shedding potential of chickens have received conflicting results. We experimentally tested the ability of domestic chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) to transmit H7N9 to co-housed chickens and to several other animal species in an experimental live animal market. Results indicated that an infected chicken failed to initiate viral shedding of H7N9 to naIve co-housed chickens. The infected chicken did, however, …

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American Robins (Turdus Migratorius) And Cedar Waxwings (Bombycilla Cedrorum) Vary In Use Of Cultivated Cherry Orchards, Rachael A. Eaton, Catherine A. Lindell, Jeffrey Homan, George M. Linz, Brian A. Maurer Jan 2016

American Robins (Turdus Migratorius) And Cedar Waxwings (Bombycilla Cedrorum) Vary In Use Of Cultivated Cherry Orchards, Rachael A. Eaton, Catherine A. Lindell, Jeffrey Homan, George M. Linz, Brian A. Maurer

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Some fruit-eating bird species commonly consume cultivated fruit. Species-specific variation in diet preferences could result in varying use of orchards and impacts on the fruit-producing industry. However, species specific studies of avian orchard use are lacking, particularly throughout the fruit-growing season. Our objectives were to quantify the frequency of daily bird visits to orchards and the amount of time birds spent visiting orchards each day over the fruit-ripening season. Birds are well-documented consumers of cultivated sweet cherries (Prunus avium), which are relatively high in sugar and low in proteins and lipids. American Robins (Turdus migratorius) and …

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Muslim Women: Between Culture And Feminism, Hanadi Alotaibi Jan 2016

Muslim Women: Between Culture And Feminism, Hanadi Alotaibi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Women’s rights in Islam became a major subject after the third feminist movement in the United States. When feminism spread globally, many Islamic scholars connected it to Islam. Islamic feminism is a term that takes most of its ideologies from the two primary sources of Islam – the Quran and the Sunnah. This qualitative research explained the bias directed towards women in Islam by using objective reasoning through examples as well as by encompassing any misinterpretation of views regarding women’s rights in Islam. The method used was a content analysis. The findings were that Islam is a feminist religion. While …

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Decolonizing Queer Epistemologies: Section Introduction, R Kulpa, Jm Silva Jan 2016

Decolonizing Queer Epistemologies: Section Introduction, R Kulpa, Jm Silva

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

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A Core Curriculum For Sociology In Uk Undergraduate Medical Education, T Collett, L Brooks, S Forrest, J Harden, M Kelly, K Kendall, Stewart S Macbride, M Sbaiti, F Stevenson Jan 2016

A Core Curriculum For Sociology In Uk Undergraduate Medical Education, T Collett, L Brooks, S Forrest, J Harden, M Kelly, K Kendall, Stewart S Macbride, M Sbaiti, F Stevenson

Peninsula Medical School

No abstract provided.

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A Qualitative Study Of Diverse Providers' Behaviour In Response To Commissioners, Patients And Innovators In England: Research Protocol, Rod Sheaff, Joyce Halliday, Mark Exworthy, Pauline Allen, Russell Mannion, Sheena Asthana, Alex Gibson, Jonathan Clark Jan 2016

A Qualitative Study Of Diverse Providers' Behaviour In Response To Commissioners, Patients And Innovators In England: Research Protocol, Rod Sheaff, Joyce Halliday, Mark Exworthy, Pauline Allen, Russell Mannion, Sheena Asthana, Alex Gibson, Jonathan Clark

Peninsula Medical School

Introduction: The variety of organisations providing National Health Service (NHS)-funded services in England is growing. Besides NHS hospitals and general practitioners (GPs), they include corporations, social enterprises, voluntary organisations and others. The degree to which these organisational types vary, however, in the ways they manage and provide services and in the outcomes for service quality, patient experience and innovation, remains unclear. This research will help those who commission NHS services select among the different types of organisation for different tasks. Research questions: The main research questions are how organisationally diverse NHS-funded service providers vary in their responsiveness to patient choice, …

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Chromosomal Microarray Testing In Adults With Intellectual Disability Presenting With Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders, Kate Wolfe, André Strydom, Deborah Morrogh, Jennifer Carter, Peter Cutajar, Mo Eyeoyibo, Angela Hassiotis, Jane Mccarthy, Raja Mukherjee, Dimitrios Paschos, Nagarajan Perumal, Stephen Read, Rohit Shankar, Saif Sharif, Suchithra Thirulokachandran, Johan H. Thygesen, Christine Patch, Caroline Ogilvie, Frances Flinter, Andrew Mcquillin, Nick Bass Jan 2016

Chromosomal Microarray Testing In Adults With Intellectual Disability Presenting With Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders, Kate Wolfe, André Strydom, Deborah Morrogh, Jennifer Carter, Peter Cutajar, Mo Eyeoyibo, Angela Hassiotis, Jane Mccarthy, Raja Mukherjee, Dimitrios Paschos, Nagarajan Perumal, Stephen Read, Rohit Shankar, Saif Sharif, Suchithra Thirulokachandran, Johan H. Thygesen, Christine Patch, Caroline Ogilvie, Frances Flinter, Andrew Mcquillin, Nick Bass

Peninsula Medical School

Chromosomal copy-number variations (CNVs) are a class of genetic variants highly implicated in the aetiology of neurodevelopmental disorders, including intellectual disabilities (ID), schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Yet the majority of adults with idiopathic ID presenting to psychiatric services have not been tested for CNVs. We undertook genome-wide chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) of 202 adults with idiopathic ID recruited from community and in-patient ID psychiatry services across England. CNV pathogenicity was assessed using standard clinical diagnostic methods and participants underwent comprehensive medical and psychiatric phenotyping. We found an 11% yield of likely pathogenic CNVs (22/202). CNVs at recurrent loci, …

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Inequality In North Dakota : An Investigation, Colin Mummery Jan 2016

Inequality In North Dakota : An Investigation, Colin Mummery

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

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The Role Of Bb0447, A Fibronectin-Binding Protein, In The Invasion Of Fibroblasts By Borrelia Burgdorferi, Ellen Taylor Kiser Jan 2016

The Role Of Bb0447, A Fibronectin-Binding Protein, In The Invasion Of Fibroblasts By Borrelia Burgdorferi, Ellen Taylor Kiser

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Religion, Liberty, And The Jurisdictional Limits Of Law [Review], Edited By Iain T. Benson And Barry W. Bussey, Nicholas P. Miller Jan 2016

Religion, Liberty, And The Jurisdictional Limits Of Law [Review], Edited By Iain T. Benson And Barry W. Bussey, Nicholas P. Miller

Faculty Publications

"In recent years law and religion scholarship in Canada has grown significantly. This distinctive collection of 18 papers addresses, from a variety of angles, the jurisdiction of law itself and limits of law – an important but often overlooked aspect of settling the boundaries of church and state, religion and law."

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Shakespeare And The Cultural Olympiad: Contesting Gender And The British Nation In The Bbc’S Hollow Crown, L Monique Pittman Jan 2016

Shakespeare And The Cultural Olympiad: Contesting Gender And The British Nation In The Bbc’S Hollow Crown, L Monique Pittman

Faculty Publications

As part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad celebrating both the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics, the BBC launched a season of programs, entitled Shakespeare Unlocked, most notably presenting the plays of the second tetralogy in four feature-length adaptations released under the unifying title The Hollow Crown. These plays so obviously engaged with the question of English nationalism suited a year in which the United Kingdom wrestled with British identity in a post-colonial and post-Great Recession world. Through its adaptative and filmic vocabularies, however, The Hollow Crown advances a British nationalism unresponsive to the casualties — often women and …

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The Relationship Between Successful Completion And Sequential Movement In Self-Paced Distance Courses, Janine M. Lim Jan 2016

The Relationship Between Successful Completion And Sequential Movement In Self-Paced Distance Courses, Janine M. Lim

Faculty Publications

A course design question for self-paced courses includes whether or not technological measures should be used in course design to force students to follow the sequence intended by the course author. This study examined learner behavior to understand whether the sequence of student assignment submissions in a self-paced distance course is related to successful completion of the course. The study included 543 students in 89 different general education courses at a private university in the United States during a two year period. Results indicate that students who completed at least one assignment or exam out of the intended sequence of …

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Social Sustainability In The Supply Chain: Construct Development And Measurement Validation, V Mani, R Agarwal, A Gunasekaran, T Papadopoulos, R Dubey, Sj Childe Jan 2016

Social Sustainability In The Supply Chain: Construct Development And Measurement Validation, V Mani, R Agarwal, A Gunasekaran, T Papadopoulos, R Dubey, Sj Childe

Plymouth Business School

Research on social sustainability in developing countries has recently gained importance for both academics and practitioners. Studies in the supply chain management field take either a supplier or a manufacturer perspective that address predominantly corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues referring to the internal stakeholders. Our research integrates the literature on supplier, manufacturer, and customer responsibility and proposes the concept of supply chain social sustainability (SCSS) that refers to addressing social issues within the overall (upstream and downstream) supply chain. Furthermore, we develop and empirically validate scales for measuring SCSS using in-depth interviews and a survey in the Indian manufacturing industry. …

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Cytotoxicity And Chemical Investigation Of The Aerial Parts Of Markhamia Zanzibarica (Bojer Ex Dc.) K. Schum. (Bignoniaceae), Dina M. El-Kersh, Riham S. El Dine, Dina R. Abou-Hussein, Fatma S. El-Sakhawy, Mohamed M. Elmazar Jan 2016

Cytotoxicity And Chemical Investigation Of The Aerial Parts Of Markhamia Zanzibarica (Bojer Ex Dc.) K. Schum. (Bignoniaceae), Dina M. El-Kersh, Riham S. El Dine, Dina R. Abou-Hussein, Fatma S. El-Sakhawy, Mohamed M. Elmazar

Pharmacy

The ethanolic extract of the aerial parts of Markhamia zanzibarica (Bignoniaceae) was tested for its cytotoxic activity against human cervical adenocarcinoma cell line (HeLa). It showed a potent effect with an IC50 of 9.68 μg/ml compared to Doxorubicin (7.28 μg/ml). The fractions obtained from the successive partitioning of the total extract, were tested against the same cell line; the results revealed that n-hexane extract was the most potent 9.23 μg/ml, followed by ethyl acetate, butanol and chloroform fractions with IC50 of 21.2, 22.4 and 49.6 μg/ml, respectively. Column chromatography led to the isolation of oleanolic acid (1), ursolic acid (2) …

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Comparison Of Body Temperature Of Elderly With Adult In South India, Anu Baby Ms, Sulochana B Ms, Latha T Ms Jan 2016

Comparison Of Body Temperature Of Elderly With Adult In South India, Anu Baby Ms, Sulochana B Ms, Latha T Ms

Manipal Journal of Nursing and Health Sciences

Background: Ageing is a gradual process, characterized by continued development and maturation. Every year there is an increase in the elderly population. Body temperature is an indicator of health status. However, thermoregulatory function is thought to decline with ageing. Therefore, it is significant to know the normal body temperature in elderly. Objective: Compare the normal body temperature among adults and elderly using Omron MC-510 tympanic thermometer. Methods: A cross sectional descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. Elderly (n=360) and adults (n=360) were screened for the presence of factors affecting core body temperature. Readings were recorded using Omron MC-510 …

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Gender, Architectural Education, And The Accruing Of Capital, I Troiani Jan 2016

Gender, Architectural Education, And The Accruing Of Capital, I Troiani

School of Art, Design and Architecture

This chapter traces some of the reasons for lack of equal gender progression. It does so through analysis of the relationship between gender and architectural education, from entry to graduation, in order to reveal how the performativity of gender at university influences an individual's prospects to acquire optimal social, cultural, and economic capital in their post-university working life. In the United Kingdom and United States women are now undertaking a vocational architectural education at university at a rate mostly equal to or greater than men. While architecture schools undertake their own internal assessments on gender split and recruitment, there has …

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Exploring The Use Of Thermal Imagery For The Promotion Of Residential Energy Efficiency: Report Prepared For The City Of Vancouver June 2016, Matthew Fox, Steve Goodhew, Julie Goodhew, Sabine Pahl, Lisa Westerhoff, Anne-Mareike Chu, Stephen Sheppard, Stefan Storey Jan 2016

Exploring The Use Of Thermal Imagery For The Promotion Of Residential Energy Efficiency: Report Prepared For The City Of Vancouver June 2016, Matthew Fox, Steve Goodhew, Julie Goodhew, Sabine Pahl, Lisa Westerhoff, Anne-Mareike Chu, Stephen Sheppard, Stefan Storey

School of Art, Design and Architecture

To inform this project, the City of Vancouver partnered with the University of British Columbia to identify best practices communication and engagement with homeowners on large-scale thermal imaging and relevant research on thermal imaging. This report is the result of a joint effort between the University of British Columbia and Plymouth University (UK) intended to provide the City of Vancouver with an overview and recommendations on the use of thermal imaging for energy efficiency retrofits. It summarizes current knowledge on large-scale thermal imaging approaches that can promote the uptake of energy efficiency measures amongst homeowners.The report provides an overview of …

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The Impact Of Corporate Governance And Its Consequences On Csr Disclosure: Empirical Evidence From Islamic Banks In Gcc Countries, Mohd Shukor Bin Harun Jan 2016

The Impact Of Corporate Governance And Its Consequences On Csr Disclosure: Empirical Evidence From Islamic Banks In Gcc Countries, Mohd Shukor Bin Harun

Plymouth Business School Theses

The main aim of this research is to analyse the CSR disclosure and examine its determinants and consequences among Islamic banks in the GCC (Gulf Countries Council). In fulfilling the research aims, annual reports of GCC Islamic banks for the period 2010- 2014 are analysed using manual content analysis, which involves 195 observations of 39 Islamic banks. The CSR disclosure index is constructed based on 11 dimensions using AAOIFI standard no 7, 2010. An ordinary least square (OLS) regression is used to examine the determinants and consequences of CSR disclosure in the sample Islamic banks. The analysis shows a very …

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The Impact Of Leadership Style And Organisational Culture On The Implementation Of E-Services: An Empirical Study In Saudi Arabia, Hamdi Alomiri Jan 2016

The Impact Of Leadership Style And Organisational Culture On The Implementation Of E-Services: An Empirical Study In Saudi Arabia, Hamdi Alomiri

Plymouth Business School Theses

There is a general scarcity of empirical studies investigating the impact of leadership styles on e-Government use in the service industry. This is doubly true of styles such as transformational, transactional and servant leadership. Theorised models propose that leadership style forms the desired organisational culture for implementing e-services, organisational culture being the mediator and the national culture the moderator. This research fills the empirical gap by investigating how leadership forms the organisational culture that facilitates and enhances the implementation and use of e-government in organisations in Saudi Arabia. The research was conducted through the sampling of employees in private and …

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Impact Case Studies Submitted To Ref 2014: The Hidden Impact Of Nursing Research, Daniel Kelly, Bridie Kent, Ann Mcmahon, Julie Taylor, Michael Traynor Jan 2016

Impact Case Studies Submitted To Ref 2014: The Hidden Impact Of Nursing Research, Daniel Kelly, Bridie Kent, Ann Mcmahon, Julie Taylor, Michael Traynor

School of Nursing and Midwifery

The UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 rated the research from 154 universities, and the impact of research was evaluated in 6975 impact case studies. Nursing was returned within unit of assessment (UoA) 3, which also included Dentistry, Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, although nursing research was also submitted within other UoAs. The study aim was to collate and categorise available REF impact case studies involving nursing researchers or on topics of relevance to nursing. Using nurs* as a search term, 469 case study entries were retrieved from the REF database and placed into three categories determined by the level …

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Regarding “Development Of A Postgraduate Interventional Cardiac Nursing Curriculum” By Currey Et Al., Fenella Gill, Gavin D. Leslie, Carol Grech, Jos M. Latour Jan 2016

Regarding “Development Of A Postgraduate Interventional Cardiac Nursing Curriculum” By Currey Et Al., Fenella Gill, Gavin D. Leslie, Carol Grech, Jos M. Latour

School of Nursing and Midwifery

No abstract provided.

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General Practitioners’ Knowledge, Attitudes And Views Of Providing Preconception Care: A Qualitative Investigation, Obiamaka Ojukwu, Dilisha Patel, Judith Stephenson, Beth Howden, Jill Shawe Jan 2016

General Practitioners’ Knowledge, Attitudes And Views Of Providing Preconception Care: A Qualitative Investigation, Obiamaka Ojukwu, Dilisha Patel, Judith Stephenson, Beth Howden, Jill Shawe

School of Nursing and Midwifery

No abstract provided.

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Mass-Participation Architecture: Social Media And The Decentralisation Of Architectural Agency As A Commercial Imperative, Alexander Lorimer Jan 2016

Mass-Participation Architecture: Social Media And The Decentralisation Of Architectural Agency As A Commercial Imperative, Alexander Lorimer

School of Art, Design and Architecture Theses

A key problem in the field of architecture and urban planning since the 1960s has been the marginal role played by the general public in directly shaping significant aspects of the built environment. This thesis draws on theories around participatory planning, and in particular, the seminal 1969 publication ‘Non-plan: An Experiment in Freedom’. Non-plan suggested the potential of digital technology to facilitate self-organising public participation in architectural design and urban planning, while also taking inspiration from consumer- responsive activities across commercial disciplines. Now, half a century later, advancing web-technologies are beginning to facilitate mass-participatory design as a commercial imperative, and …

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No Need To Fix: Strategic Inclusivity In Developing And Managing The Smart City, A Aurigi Jan 2016

No Need To Fix: Strategic Inclusivity In Developing And Managing The Smart City, A Aurigi

School of Art, Design and Architecture

No abstract provided.

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Using Concatenation Cost For Unit Selection Of Homosonic Segments In Concatenative Sound Synthesis, Noris Mohd Norowi, Mas Rina Mustaffa, Eduardo Reck Miranda Jan 2016

Using Concatenation Cost For Unit Selection Of Homosonic Segments In Concatenative Sound Synthesis, Noris Mohd Norowi, Mas Rina Mustaffa, Eduardo Reck Miranda

School of Art, Design and Architecture

This paper studies the issues surrounding the search and selection process in a general CSS system which may affect the synthesis result, namely the homosonic segments. Homosonic segments are first termed in this study, where it refers to audio files which have one or more of the same sonic properties with each other, but do not sound the same acoustically when played due to the limited audio features extracted during the analysis process. These homosonic segments create confusions within the CSS selection engine. This study proposes a robust solution to overcome this issue by introducing the concatenation cost in addition …

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Image Or To Image?, G Corino Jan 2016

Image Or To Image?, G Corino

School of Art, Design and Architecture

The proliferation of images towards an iconic communication in the hypermediacy of social media, of locative media, of Internet of Things (IoT) on one side and the visualization of real-time data, the deep learning algorithm on the other, question the essence of how reality is perceived, created and the nature and role of images itself. The common understanding of what constitutes an image is related to the representation of things and people. In the context of instant messaging, social media and Big Data, distributed and networked IoT, this seems not to be the case anymore. IoT extends the idea of …

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The Affect Of Quantum Phenomena On Media Art (Panel)., Ml Phillips, P Thomas, C Henschke, Wilde F De Jan 2016

The Affect Of Quantum Phenomena On Media Art (Panel)., Ml Phillips, P Thomas, C Henschke, Wilde F De

School of Art, Design and Architecture

This panel will deal with art, media and science via the concept of the ‘spin’ as a fundamental in quantum research where flux and vibration are at the very core. The historical model of media art, science and technology must now include the potential of the quantum phenomena through the emergence of the quantum computer. The subatomic world tantalises us with startling phenomena, but lies deep beneath the surface of human experience, forever hidden from direct observation. Data captured through complex physics experiments reveal quantum behaviours, but unlike scientific meanings constructed to objectively explain such phenomena, the panel will explore …

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New Belgrade After 1999: Spatial Violence As De-Socialisation, De-Romanisation, And De-Historisation, N Bobic Jan 2016

New Belgrade After 1999: Spatial Violence As De-Socialisation, De-Romanisation, And De-Historisation, N Bobic

School of Art, Design and Architecture

No abstract provided.

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Baghdad’S Thirdspace: Between Liminality, Anti-Structures And Territorial Mappings, Sana Murrani Jan 2016

Baghdad’S Thirdspace: Between Liminality, Anti-Structures And Territorial Mappings, Sana Murrani

School of Art, Design and Architecture

Wedged in-between the dense urban grain of Baghdad, blast walls of t-shaped concrete have littered the streets and neighbourhoods since 2003, after the US led invasion. The idiosyncrasy of these walls lies in their exaggerated spatial liminality. They appear, change location and disappear overnight, and on a daily basis, leaving Iraqis to navigate through labyrinths of in-between spaces. This article critically reveals the new social and power structures that have emerged in the context of the city in response to the condition resulting from this unique urban intervention. This uncanny spatial and social condition of permanent liminality will be analysed …

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