Sydney Digital Theses (Open Access): Recent submissions
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Design with/and/for Value
Published 2025Design is increasingly applied across government, business, and policy domains as a means of responding to social and economic challenges. While its strategic potential is celebrated, less attention has been given to ...Open AccessThesis -
Uexküll's Animals: The Experimental Origins of the Umwelt
Published 2026Jakob von Uexküll’s concept of the Umwelt has been influential in many different disciplines spanning both the sciences and the humanities. Given the resurgence of interest in the Umwelt concept in recent decades, it is ...Open AccessThesis -
The Men Question in Chinese Digital Feminism: Embodied Gender Subjectivity and Ugly Affects
Published 2025This thesis examines the controversial phenomenon of yan-nan (misandry) in post-MeToo Chinese digital feminism. Through empirical and theoretical approaches, this thesis situates Chinese digital feminists’ attitudes ...Open AccessThesis -
Actor-training in Australia and the Indigenous student experience : traversing cultural and pedagogical domains
Published 2012There is a diverse range of formal, institutional training opportunities for Indigenous students who aspire to a career in acting. However, it is not only the technical aspects of training that differ from Aboriginal-identified ...Open AccessThesis -
Emotions and the limits of reason : the role of the imagination in explaining pathological emotions
Published 2012The principal aim of this thesis is to inquire into what causes emotional reactions. In particular I ask whether, or to what extent, singular emotional reactions are causally explained by the reasons given for them. I ...Open AccessThesis