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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Associational Life"”.
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Community, Place, and Cultural Battles: Associational Life in Central Italy, 1945-1968
This dissertation is an exploration of associational life in central Italy, an examination of organizations that were central to the everyday experience of tens of thousands of Italians at a time when social, economic and geographical transformations were upending their everyday lives, 1945-1968. …
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Associational Life, Print Culture and Political Thought in Najaf, 1905-c.1941
… interest in Iraqi intellectual and political life during this period, the Najafi Nahda remains a poorly understood phenomenon, especially in English language scholarship. This thesis addresses this shortfall by asking how Najafi public life was transformed by modern political and technological …
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Central Asian Civil Society: Dynamics of Associational Life in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
… relationships, including traditional forms of associational life that can be relatively independent of the state. The study draws upon a multi-locale ethnography in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan including in-depth and focus group interviews, participant observations, case studies, and archival …
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Peshawar’s ‘Emergent Civil Society’: The Potential and Limitations of its Contribution to Peacebuilding
… and reject different forms of violence, by this associational life in Peshawar is what we call an ‘emergent civil society’. The thesis argues against those who claim that civil society cannot exist or flourish in a non-western environment. Civil Society in Peshawar is emergent, as the empirical …
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Participation is not enough : associations and local government in the social fund of Nicaragua
… can be explained by 1) the pre-existing associational life of the community and 2) the regulatory strategy of local government officials. A community's associational life influences participation in at least two ways. First, associations help the community to elect honest and capable …
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A Social History of the Brooklyn Irish, 1850-1900
… and settlement patterns, and the work and associational life of the Catholic Irish in Brooklyn between 1850 and 1900. Over this pivotal half century, the Brooklyn Irish developed a rich associational life which included temperance, Irish nationalism, land reform and Gaelic language and …
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The Vatican and the Making of the Atlantic Order, 1920-1960
… innovation, and the centralization of Catholic associational life, the Vatican helped unite the fates of Western Europe and North America as never before. Following its loss of the Papal States in 1870, the Vatican fought to regain influence on the European continent by pioneering a new form of …
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Citizenship, exclusion, and political organizations : political response to immigrant policy
… political participation, configuring immigrant associational patterns, and influencing immigrant political goals? Sweden's extension of its universalistic welfare state does not seem to alter immigrants' intergenerational integration into the host society. There is little difference in the …
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Conflict sensitivity and religious associations : an action research journey in Southeast Asia
The associational sector has gained recent prominence, and scholars increasingly recognize the dualistic potential of civil society and social capital to promote either peace or violence. However, research to date gives little attention to the large proportion of associations that influence …
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Aluta Continua: Social Movements and the Making of Ghana's Fourth Republic, 1978 - 1993
… to shift emphasis from electoral systems to associational life and broad-based political participation because this is how democracy is going to be sustained in Africa. To put an end to contested elections and perennial military intervention, broad-based local solutions were sought in Ghana …
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A coal mining community in late nineteenth-century Shropshire: frontier settlement or close-knit community?
… but also of marginalisation, often of women. Associational life was not central to most individuals' networks, but they had the greatest social impact through the events that were the most inclusive. It has been shown that friendly societies may have been socially much more significant in late …
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The Most Dangerous Sect: Baptists in Tsarist and Soviet Russia, 1905-1929
… of change in Russian social and public life, of the possibilities or dangers of an emerging civil society. The dissertation argues that, whether positively or negatively disposed toward the Baptists, their contemporaries in government, church, intelligentsia, and revolutionary circles …
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Dependent Independence: Toward a Theology of Southern Baptist Associationalism
… local churches. This dissertation also considers associationalism’s trajectory within the Southern Baptist tradition. Like the Philadelphia Baptist Association, denominational growth broadened associations beyond their initial conception. Specifically, Southern Baptist denominational establishment …
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Laborers in God's Vineyard: William Kiffen and the Formation of Seventeenth-Century Particular Baptist Associations
… authority among the churches. For Kiffen, his associational role did not contradict his understanding of congregational church government but rather complemented it. Chapter 1 is an introduction which includes a summary of Kiffen research, demonstrating the need to highlight his associational …
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Carceral civil society: Citizenship and communities in a U.S. prison
… from free civil society where every aspect of associational life is monitored by the state. This project investigates how people who are incarcerated experience citizenship under these conditions. Rather than conducting research on people who are incarcerated, this project conducted research …
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ORANGEWOMEN SHOW THEIR COLORS: GENDER, FAMILY, AND ORANGEISM IN ULSTER, 1795-PRESENT
The Orange Order is a Protestant fraternal order within Northern Ireland that has branches across the former British Empire. Since its formation in 1795, it has been described as a brotherhood, definitively male with a triumphalist parade culture maintaining Protestant `civil and religious …
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Governance, marketplaces and social capital: the role of Batkhela bazaar in the evolving governance of the Malakand region of Pakistan
… local governance, generate both individual and associational social capital. To understand the implications of this marketplace-generated social capital, the study examines how it is generated by the economically dynamic Batkhela bazaar, and how it impacts on the evolving local governance of the …
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What only heaven hears: Citizens and the state in the wake of HIV scale-up in Lesotho
… expectations of democracy, and the structures of associational life. The dissertation also contributes data towards better understandings of recipient populations' perspectives on accountability, good governance, public-private partnerships, transparency, and participation—approaches currently …
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Most uncommon common men: craft, culture, and conflict in a Canadian community, 1860-1914
… worker, as manifested in various forms of associational life, traditional forms of enforcing community morality and standards, patterns of shop-floor control, and strains of working-class thought. Thirdly, an attempt is made to chronicle the emerging patterns of class conflict, revealed in …
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Black Boston: Negro life in Garrison's Boston, 1800-1860
… slavery has had on all aspects of Negro life, it would be wrong to insist that this emphasis has been misplaced. But while the effects of slavery are, and will continue to be of prime importance in understanding Negro life, the focus should now be directed elsewhere, namely, on the …