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"From the Cracks in the Sidewalks of N.Y.C.": The Embodied Production of Urban Decline, Survival, and Renewal in New York's Fiscal-Crisis-Era Streets, 1977-1983

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This dissertation argues that New York City's 1970s fiscal crisis was not only an economic crisis, but was also a spatial and embodied one. During the crisis era, the news media, residents, and public officials fought to define who could inhabit certain types of spaces and what kinds of practices...

Author:

Matassa, Elizabeth Healy

Keyword:

fiscal crisis, urban decline, New York City, public space, performance studies, and 1970s

GW Unit:

American Studies

Degree:

Ph.D.

Advisor:

Osman, Suleiman

Committee Member(s):

Dent, Alexander S., Kosek, Joseph Kip, Peña, Elaine, and Chacko, Elizabeth

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Thesis or Dissertation
Gaps, Flows, and Networks: Social Space and the Cultural Work of Communication Theory in Social Science, Sci-Fi, and Political Movements, 1937 -1980

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This dissertation examines the disparate theories of mass communication produced and circulated by social scientists, through films and the popular press, and political activist movements between the late 1930s and the end of the 1970s. It analyzes communication theory as a cultural practice, not...

Author:

Lierow, Lars

Keyword:

Propaganda, Feminism, Science fiction films, Media activism, Black arts movement, and Communication Theory

GW Unit:

American Studies

Degree:

Ph.D.

Advisor:

McAlister, Melani

Committee Member(s):

Kosek, Joseph K., Dent, Alexander S., Miller, James A., and Heap, Chad

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Thesis or Dissertation

"From the Cracks in the Sidewalks of N.Y.C.": The Embodied Production of Urban Decline, Survival, and Renewal in New York's Fiscal-Crisis-Era Streets, 1977-1983

Gaps, Flows, and Networks: Social Space and the Cultural Work of Communication Theory in Social Science, Sci-Fi, and Political Movements, 1937 -1980

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