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The Conflict and Concord in Self-Representation of Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-26)Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth as writers and speakers would consistently obfuscated permissible discourse, subverting the expectations as imposed on African Americans during nineteenth-century America. By obfuscating ... -
‘Oh, England! My Lionheart’: Englishness and the Countryside in Art Between the Wars
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019)This dissertation explores the interwar work of Stanley Spencer (1891-1959), Cecil Beaton (1904-80), and Eric Ravilious (1903-42) in relation to their representations of the English countryside and what they meant to notions ... -
Reflecting on the Mirror in the Fifteenth Century: The Case of Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019)The mirror invites a multitude of possible interpretations when used in artworks during the Renaissance. It can be represented as a symbolic attribute for both vice and virtue, depicted as a torture implement ... -
Franki Raffles’s Lot’s Wife: A ‘Reinvented Documentary’ for a Feminist Art of Knowledge Production
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015)This dissertation examines Lot’s Wife,a black and white photographic project that was almost completed in 1994. The project, partly funded by the Wingate Trust Scholarship, is comprisedof texts and photographs ... -
Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Infrastructure Investment Decisions
(University of Edinburgh, 2020-09)The Scottish Parliament has committed to achieving net-zero territorial emissions by 2045, as set by the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019. Designing and delivering appropriate infrastructure ... -
Watch Me Watching: Surveillance Art and the Politics of Observation
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019)In the recent decades, with the rapid proliferation of surveillance systems for both political and commercial uses, there is a surge of artistic endeavour –which is often termed as ‘surveillance art’ –that address critical ... -
Anachrony and the Archive: On the Production of Feminist and Queer Temporalities in Contemporary Art
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019)This paper will argue that the ‘archival turn’, and specifically the feminist and queer archival turn, that has emerged within contemporary art, forms a vital and radical gesture of critiquing and re-examining exclusionary ... -
The Utopian Has Arrived: VR and AR in the Art World
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019)It is 1929. The walls around me are covered with various black and white photographs. I am alone in an enormous, grandiose exhibition hall. All of a sudden, I am standing right in front of one of the walls and do not know ... -
Art in Production - The Use of Technicians in Contemporary Art Making
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019)In July 2018, art technicians Simon Harlow and Simon Richardson were interviewed by Lindsay Johnstone for an article in The Independent newspaper that discussed the role of technicians in the contemporary art world. The ... -
The Aesthetics of Reversibility in Modern Art
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019)This study researches a unique form of aesthetic expression in modern art reversibility. The term ‘reversibility’ refers to the property of being able to return to a former state. 1 It is used widely in relation to ... -
Measuring the vulnerability of Scottish soils to a changing climate
(The James Hutton Institute, 2020-09)The second Scottish Climate Change Adaptation Programme (SCCAP) identifies soil health as a priority research area to support sustainable soil management and ecosystem services. This follows concerns over a perceived lack ... -
Anselm Kiefer’s concrete towers: fragile architectures, haunted memorials
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019)This dissertation focuses on a widely known but surprisingly little-analysed phenomenon in Anselm Kiefer’s oeuvre, namely his stacked concrete towers. The towers go by different names, and are each made unique by the ... -
Ultrafast Imaging of photochemical dynamics via x-ray scattering: connecting theory and experiments
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-25)Although photochemical reactivity has been extensively studied, a clear picture of the underlying dynamics is largely missing predominantly because of the extremely short reaction times involved in these processes. ... -
Dynamic spatial segmentation strategy based magnetic field indoor positioning system
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-03)In this day and age, it is imperative for anyone who relies on a mobile device to track and navigate themselves using the Global Positioning System (GPS). Such satellite-based positioning works as intended when in the ... -
High-resolution topography: tools and analysis of the life and death of salt marshes
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-03)Salt marshes are grassy platforms that develop on sheltered coasts with high sediment supply. They may be found on sub-tropical shores where they often coexist with mangrove swamps, or in temperate climates where they ... -
Roles of the Edinburgh, Kelso, and Newcastle dispensaries in charitable relief, 1776-1810
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-26)This thesis explores late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British charitable medical provision through a comparative study of the Edinburgh, Kelso, and Newcastle dispensaries. It is situated within historical ... -
Cultural evolution of scalar categorization: how cognition and communication affect the structure of categories on scalar conceptual domains
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-26)Concepts can be thought of as regions of geometrically structured conceptual domains. Of all such possible regions, only very few are lexicalized, i.e. expressed by natural language in a morphologically simple fashion. ... -
Virtual reality computer program for biomolecule structure determination
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-04)Protein structures are complex 3-dimensional shapes that are experimentally determined using x-ray crystallography and cryogenic electron microscopy. Interpreting the data that these methods yield involves building simplified ... -
Fabric of a nation: weaving visual representations of Norwegian women's work with textiles around the year 1905
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-02)This thesis explores the visual representation of Norwegian women’s textile skills before and after the turn of the twentieth century. It focuses on four forms of visual culture made between the 1880s, and around 1905: ... -
Dostoevsky's storm and stress: Notes from Underground and the psychological foundations of Utopia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-29)Notes from Underground is Dostoevsky’s most intense examination of the fundamental psychological basis of society and politics, and was conceived as a polemical response to the utopian socialism of Nihilists like Nikolai ...
