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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"ACT UP"”.
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We Can Be Heroes: Sustaining Vitally Engaged Social Heroes in a Heroic Organization (ACT UP/New York)
<p>Contextual factors are particularly important in understanding social heroism, which is characterized by heroic action in the service of existing and emerging community values, principles and ideals (Franco et al., 2011). Social heroism almost always entails serious risks for the hero and …
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The politics of AIDS: An analysis of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power
Since 1987, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) continues to pressure the government, corporate America, and society into confronting the AIDS epidemic. This work analyzes ACT UP as a movement organization. First, the organizational structure of ACT UP is discussed. All aspects …
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AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power: Changing through movement, leadership, and Internet capabilities
… examination of AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) past and present shows a vivid and often extreme organization, branching from Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC). Both groups were formed by Larry Kramer, who has played a large role in the gay liberation movement in the United States. This …
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Furious Acts: AIDS and the Arts of Activism, 1981-1996
In "Furious Acts," I explore the different ways in which art and artistic production were used in AIDS activism between 1980 and 1996 by such artistic and activist organizations as ACT-UP, the Radical Faeries, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Gran Fury, the NAMES Project, and the Gay Men's …
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Essays on DSGE Models and Bayesian Estimation
This thesis explores the theory and practice of sovereignty. I begin with a conceptual analysis of sovereignty, examining its theological roots in contrast with its later influence in contestations over political authority. Theological debates surrounding God’s sovereignty dealt not with the …
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Becoming Otherwise: Sovereign Authorship in a World of Multiplicity
This thesis explores the theory and practice of sovereignty. I begin with a conceptual analysis of sovereignty, examining its theological roots in contrast with its later influence in contestations over political authority. Theological debates surrounding God’s sovereignty dealt not with the …
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HIV/AIDS activism in England, c. 1982-1997.
This PhD thesis examines the history of the groups and individuals who responded politically to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in England. It spans the years of the first confirmed AIDS-related death in the UK, that of Terry Higgins in 1982, until 1997. This was the year after the introduction of highly …
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Cheat River
… the early '90s where he falls in with political activists and a household of misfits. He disappears, and Allison comes to the city to look for him. By retracing her brother's life, she realizes not only what he meant to her but what it will take to survive on her own.
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Ιστορική εξέλιξη των ιατρικών κινημάτων
… αποτελεί ο ακτιβισμός κατά του HIV/AIDS (π.χ. ACT UP), ο οποίος ανέδειξε την έννοια του «επιστημικού ακτιβισμού» και πέτυχε δομικές αλλαγές στις διαδικασίες έγκρισης φαρμάκων και στη χρηματοδότηση της έρευνας, μετατρέποντας το πένθος και την οργή σε πολιτική δύναμη . Επιπροσθέτως, η διατριβή …
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Writing to Shake the World: The Historical Avant-Garde, Political Postmodernism and the Post-Avant-Garde
… John Reed and the early(post)modernist disruptions of the New York historical avant-garde--a way of reading, part revisionist literary history and part popular culture criticism, which is appropriate to both Reed and to contemporary Cultural Studies ideas about reading, identity and culture. …
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'I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It': Silence in American Art 1947–2008
… in each chapter. It asserts that silence is in fact an appropriate framework through which to consider each of these three artists’ practices in these time periods—a framework which has been wholly neglected for each of the three artists in question and indeed throughout later twentieth-century …
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From Archives to Legacies: Chicanx and Latinx AIDS Activism and Consciousness
… demonstrate strategies of AIDS consciousness and activism that are distinctly different from the confrontational and politically symbolic actions of largely white male groups like ACT UP, and, as such, they are often not recognized by scholars and historians as being political or even being about …