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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Body politic"”.
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'Training' the Body Politic: Essays on the School Reform Orthodoxy
<p>These essays represent my attempt to grapple with fundamental questions about what I see as the upside-down nature of educational reforms in American society. Why is there a never-ending crisis in America’s public schools? What does it mean when the educational specter from different periods of …
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The Medicalization of the Body Politic in Contemporary Argentine Fiction
"This dissertation examines the relationship between medicine, literature and film during and after Argentina's ""Dirty War"" (1976--1983). It presents an analysis of novels by Marta Traba, Ana Maria Shua, Marta Lynch, and Tununa Mercado, and others, and films by Eliseo Subiela, Luis Puenzo, and …
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Cosmic Justice in al-Fārābī's Virtuous City: Healing the Medieval Body Politic.
… that, far from being incidental to al-Farabi’s political theory, the structural correspondence between the corporeal, cosmic and civil realms, constitutes one of its central tenets. The first chapter demonstrates that, according to al-FarabT, the universe displays a clear hierarchical …
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The 'Body Politic': Russian Funerals and the Politics of Representation, 1841-1921
… yet I assert that the fear of social and political instability that inspired the reactionary tsar's actions had no substantial basis in fact until the 1860s. It was then, during the era of the Great Reforms, that the funeral first became a particularly resonant form of political …
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Musical knowledge, material practices and the body politic in eighteenth-century France
… provided musical metaphors to conjure social and political ideals. Why did music arouse such a widespread interest in this significant period of French history? This dissertation engages with this question using a large body of sources, including print, patents, paintings and engravings, and …
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From Corporal to Corporate: Defining the Body Politic in the Twenty-First Century
… research project illustrates a transition of the body politic metaphor from the second century AD. to present day. From this historical perspective it can be shown that a new body politic exists within Western, capitalist systems with the corporation serving as the head of the body and its buyers, …
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Communication and the Body Politic: Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential Campaign in Philadelphia’s Latino Community
… questions guided these observations: How was political communication produced, disseminated, and decoded through interpersonal, mass, and digital communication by the Democratic candidate, her Latino communication staff, and Northeast Philadelphia Latino residents during the 2016 presidential …
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Do feet have mouths? Slander, metaphor, and the body politic in early modern England
Embargo set by: Colleen Fallaw for item 102806 Lift date: 2019-08-10T21:27:21Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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Life of the People, Body of the People: Re-reading the Imagery of the Body Politic
… traditional interpretations, the language of the body politic is regarded as an essentially marginal turn of phrase which, if it does have any theoretical importance, simply refers to the civil order formed by agents who agree to exit from the state of nature by transferring their right of …
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The Body Politic: Imperial Masculinity, the Great War, and the Struggle for the Indian Self, 1914--1918
… educated elites to one rooted in Gandhian mass politics."
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"Alive & Kicking": Queer Cultural Memory of Toronto's Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement Through Photographs of Violence and Protest in The Body Politic (1971-1987)
… and violence in the gay liberation magazine, The Body Politic (1971-1987). The thesis first develops the theory of queer cultural memory as a type of collective memory specific to queer communities. This memory takes a redemptive form and is informed by “figures of memory” including texts and …
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Transitional Discourses: The (Psycho)somatic Fiction of Juan Jose Millas
… discourse of Letra muerta (1984) links political extremism with the contagion of human bodies and the body politic. Silence and isolation ""cure"" the protagonist's unruly behavior; likewise, the dominant discursive practice of Spain's political transition from dictatorship to democracy …
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The impacts of international non governmental organisation networks on housing policies : a study of Kenya
… in firmly establishing themselves in the body politic of poor Africa countries.
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The Famished Road: Oil Dependency and Socioeconomic Underdevelopment in the Niger Delta
<p>This thesis examines the social and political relationships between indigenous communities within the Nigerian Delta region and the Federal government regarding the management of petroleum resources and its implication for the general socioeconomic development of the Nigerian State. It …
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Rhetorical Genealogy and the Ethics of Eugenics
… of society – from the macroscopic level of the body politic to the meso level where modes of assessment have been deployed purportedly to accurately evaluate human characteristics to the microscopic level of the gene. I employ Foucauldian genealogy to highlight how, despite marked differences …
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Filmic Bodies as Terministic (Silver) Screens: Embodied Social Anxieties in Videodrome
… film genre utilizes spectacles of the human body while alluding to our worst fears beyond the silver screen. "Body horror" is a unique sub-genre that distorts the very nature of human flesh for horrific effect. David Cronenberg's <italic>Videodrome</italic> (1983) is an exemplary body horror …
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Paris and Patronage: Christine De Pizan and Her Writer's Market
… Book of the City of Ladies, and The Book of the Body Politic, to show how she successfully marketed her work, earning her a unique position in history.</p>
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Exploring the Contributing Factors to Achieving HIV/AIDS Epidemic Control in Malawi
… a lack of consensus on foreign aid and a divided body politic in the United States and recent decisions made by the new presidential administration were considered. Keywords: PEPFAR, HIV/AIDS, Congress, Malawi
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Heart of culture
If the urban landscape is the body politic made inertly manifest, then cultural and civil space acts as the heart. Cultural space allows for the societal corpus to gaze into itself. Cultural space however is commonly made to act as gilded cages -held aloft within ivory towers- with a negation of …
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