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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “""consumer democracy""”.
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The role of the media in fostering democracy in Zimbabwe
… Front (Zanu PF) has methodically stifled democracy in the country by compromising the independence of the judiciary, the professionalism of the police; and intimidating the media. Over the last decade, the party has rid both the state media and the judiciary of impartial journalists and …
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America Inc.: The Rise and Fall of a Civil Democracy
… to become the unknowing participants in a consumer culture. In addition to curriculum mandates, children are also controlled by a system that advocates the use of psychiatric diagnoses and subsequent medication as a means to suppress disruptive forms of behavior that are deemed to be …
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From the arsenal of democracy to 0% financing: Promotional communication at General Motors
… to the 1990s and 2000s. Despite their impact on consumer safety and the environment, SUVs are popular worldwide. The promotional communication tactics advanced by GM in the 1990s and 2000s continue to influence public debates over auto safety, CAFE, and the sale of SUVs.
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Global Wreckage and Consumer Illusions: Responses to the Human Effects of Economic Globalization in Sub-Saharan African Francophone Novels and Films, 1973-2006
… the projects of European imperialism. I analyze consumerism as a major feature of globalization, and discuss the linkage of globalization and the consumer society by looking at various theoretical models, in particular that which Jean Baudrillard conceptualized as a stand-in for democracy. I also …
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Democracy as Becoming: A Lived Enquiry into Teacher Perspectives of Philosophy for/with Children (P4C) Practice in Irish Educate Together Schools
… encompassing wider themes of education and democracy in Ireland. Within this exploration is a focus on the articulation and analysis of teachers’ accounts of how they reconcile P4C pedagogies with their own educational outlooks within a P4C/Educate Together context, comprised of both their …
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"Millions of Luxurious Citizens": Consumption and Citizenship in the Urban Northeast, 1800-1865
… republican vision of political economy placed on consumers in the early republic. Through discussions over taxation, tariff and market regulation, middle-class men and women struggled to define their civic rights and obligations as consumers in a capitalist democracy. As they began to imagine …
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A review of knowledge as an integral prerequisite of informed and legal consent
… the Republic of South Africa, 1996, introduced democracy and human rights, specifically the rights to human dignity, privacy, and freedom and security of the person, amongst others. As a result of a recognition of these rights, together with corresponding changes in the doctorpatient …
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Fitness Culture: Making New Persons in Quasi-Socialist Belarus
… to anything resembling either capitalism or democracy. While the possibility for political change has seemed nearly unimaginable under President Alexander Lukashenko’s long tenure, the recent penetration of global consumer culture—in particular, the proliferation of fitness clubs and a new …
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Newspaper campaigns, publics and politics
… responsibility are based on the liberal model of democracy, whereby the press are responsible for informing voters. In campaigning, the press instead adopt the language of representing group interests or protest politics that would fit with a corporatist or participatory model of democracy. These …
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Between a Promise and a Trench: Citizenship, Vulnerability, and Climate Change in Guyana
… through which citizens make claims about racial democracy in Guyana. It shows how government policymaking around climate adaptation--which drew upon the recommendations of outside actors, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations (UN), and various NGOs and …
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BEYOND ORGANIC: DEFINING ALTERNATIVES TO USDA CERTIFIED ORGANIC
… from Western Montana are discussed. Finally, a “Consumers’ Organic Food Literacy Packet” is developed based on the research in an effort to promote consumer literacy of organic foods that further contributes to food citizenry and democracy.
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BEYOND ORGANIC: DEFINING ALTERNATIVES TO USDA CERTIFIED ORGANIC
… from Western Montana are discussed. Finally, a “Consumers’ Organic Food Literacy Packet” is developed based on the research in an effort to promote consumer literacy of organic foods that further contributes to food citizenry and democracy.
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Generational differences in South African consumers' brand equity perceptions
… the transitional years of South Africa’s young democracy during the 1990s, while the members of Generation Y were born during the last decade of apartheid. For the purpose of this study Generation X was classified as those consumers who were born in the period of 1961 to 1981, while Generation Y …
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From bench to bedside, to track and field: The context of enhancement and its ethical relevance
… as genetic tests sold online directly-to-the-consumer (DTC) to measure children's athletic potential raise a conflict between parental reproductive freedom and children's rights to an open future and capacity for self-determination. Chapter 3 turns to how genetic technologies are translated …
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Reforming Tastes: Taste as a Print Aesthetic in American Cookery Writing
… around shared principles of egalitarianism and democracy. Cookbooks and domestic writing soon engaged these discourses, as it was the task of women to cultivate a virtuous citizenry, and—through domestic print culture—to demonstrate the deleterious effect of unrestrained individual appetites on …
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Ghost workers: contemporary French documentary filmmaking in the global age
… employment. The unemployed, the gleaner, the consumer, and the farmer have been foregrounded as new models of subjective emancipation for the proponents of an altermondialisation. Filmmakers themselves have invested their own bodies in the denunciation of the global expansion of …
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Exceptionally un-American? why co-operative enterprises struggle in the United States, but scale elsewhere
… "new economy", predicated on "economic democracy". These alternatives include cooperative ownership of enterprise, promoted by social movements, urban/regional planners, and state/national policy entrepreneurs. This strategy is not new, but has repeatedly appeared in periods of crisis. …
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The Next Best Thing: Bottlefeeding Culture and the <em>Ladies' Home Journal</em>
… <p>At the turn of the century, the emerging consumer culture, with its altered values, was poised to embrace bottlefeeding In the producer culture, breastfeeding seemed natural and appropriate, as lactation allowed a mother to actively produce nourishment for her infant. Furthermore, …
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Capitalist realism : making art for sale in Shanghai, 1999
… in the 1990s, a time when the influx of consumer capitalism was becoming a key mechanism of life in the city. Organized by the artist-curators Xu Zhen, Yang Zhenzhong and Alexander Brandt, the exhibition was divided into two sections, a supermarket and an exhibition space, and included 33 …
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Material Virtuality: Remaking Rio de Janeiro’s Past and Present through Digital Media
… 2015). In the late 2000s, a boom in Brazil’s consumer economy served to make smartphones and social media ubiquitous across the country (Spyer 2017). This thesis focuses on how these two phenomena intersect in the city and state of Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on material gathered during fieldwork …
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