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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Capitalist State"”.
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Immigration, Anti-Terrorism and Islam: Capitalist State Control of Muslim Populations in Contemporary Britain
… construction of these policies as the necessary state response to a threat to the nation. The analysis outlines that the threat facing the nation is portrayed as a coordinated threat from immigration and terrorism. Moreover, the core concern of the thesis is New Labour's role in constructing a …
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Gaseous State: A Historical Geography of Natural Gas and the Capitalist State in an Age of Climate Change
… a set of social forces and crises pushed forward state energy regulation. As states struggle to end greenhouse-gas emissions from fossil fuels, the threat of climate change demands new explanations for how energy policy emerges. In this dissertation, I explain the period of U.S. natural gas …
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The elusive transformation--politics and economy during the formative decades of the capitalist state in Turkey, 1908-1930
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1990.
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Level of Service: Design Standards, Imposed Car Dependence, and the Production of Urban Space in the Capitalist State
… discourse of urban transportation in the United States. Using this analysis, the paper describes how the widely accepted use of LOS as a quality measure for urban streets acts as mechanism of the capitalist state's spatial logic of managing urbanization around production and consumption to …
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The Limits of Social Citizenship: Unemployment Insurance and the Reproduction of the South African Racial Capitalist State, 1937-2023
… worker to consolidate the South African racial capitalist state in the hands of the White minority. Drawing from Tiffany Willoughby-Herard’s path-defining Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Commission and the Racial Logic of White Vulnerability, I demonstrate how the ‘deserving’ White was …
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To Want Something Better is to Want Something Worse: A Critique of the Labour Party’s (Continual) Adaptation to the Capitalist State
… changing the structures of the British (capitalist) state in the image of its (erstwhile) constituency base: the working-class.
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Civil Unrest in the Untied State of America: Facing the Threat
… purpose and function of the police in a modern state. It draws mainly from the ideas put forth by Walter Benjamin in his 1921 essay, Critique of Violence, and focuses exclusively on the events surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement. By applying political theory to concrete events, it …
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Expedient benevolence : international development and the United Kingdom
… from a colonial ruler to a neo-liberal capitalist state. Starting with the inter-war period, it looks at the changing position adopted by the British state vis-a-vis development aid to its colonies up to the formation of the Department for International Development in the late 1990s. The …
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‘It’s Not a Protest, It’s a Process’: A Critical Analysis of State Power, Class Struggle, and the Occupy Movement
… conceptual concerns, pertaining to matters of state power, in the context of the war of position in the advanced capitalist state and the neoliberal conjuncture. Presented within this specific depiction of the convoluted process that is class struggle, there is also a consideration of potential …
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Farmer knowledge in alternative agriculture: Community learning and the politics of knowledge
… includes an examination of the influence of the state in the historic formation of settler-farmer identities on the Canadian Prairies, the interactions between capitalist state and civil society actors in the establishment of food safety regulations in Canada and the US, and new farmer knowledge …
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From Neoliberalism to Socialism: Reimagining Socialism in Africa
… trade policies, low foreign investment, and state development. These austerity measures were designed to usher in an era of financial growth that would enable Africa to join the ranks of developed countries. However, these neoliberal policies, while further integrating African states into the …
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The penal system of colonial Natal : from British roots to racially defined punishment
… that system to the penal systems of the advanced capitalist states as well as its essentially unique character. The continuities between penal practice in Natal and elsewhere in the capitalist world do not seem difficult to explain; Natal was after all a colonial possession of the world's oldest …
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ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΕΣ ΔΙΑΣΤΑΣΕΙΣ ΤΗΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗΣ ΣΚΗΝΗΣ ΣΤΗ Β' ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ 1924-1935
ΞΕΚΙΝΩΝΤΑΣ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΥΠΟΘΕΣΗ ΟΤΙ Η ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ ΩΣ ΠΡΑΞΗ ΔΕΝ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΤΙΠΟΤΕ ΑΛΛΟ ΠΑΡΑ ΣΥΜΠΥΚΝΩΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΩΝ ΑΝΤΙΘΕΣΕΩΝ ΜΕΣΑ ΒΕΒΑΙΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΒΑΘΜΟ ΣΥΝΕΙΔΗΤΟΠΟΙΗΣΗΣΤΟΥΣ ΣΤΟ ΕΠΙΠΕΔΟ ΟΜΩΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΞΟΥΣΙΑΣ, Η ΕΡΓΑΣΙΑ ΕΠΙΧΕΙΡΕΙ ΝΑ ΔΙΕΡΕΥΝΗΣΕΙ ΜΕΣΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΤΩΝ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΩΝ ΔΕΔΟΜΕΝΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΥ …