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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Civil Disobedience"”.
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The Strains of Conscience: Justifying Civil Disobedience and Conscientious Objection
… ubiquity in debate over the justifiability of civil disobedience and conscientious objection, “conscience” remains an opaque concept. The attempt to define and employ it properly is not a purely academic exercise. The political language and behavior we associate with conscientiousness are empty …
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Thoreau's Confucianism in The Dial, Walden, and Civil Disobedience.
… frame of his philosophy. Thoreau's Walden and Civil Disobedience bear the apparent impact of Confucian thought, in spite of the different social goals between Thoreau and Confucius. However, because of their social differences Thoreau had to distort Confucian thought whenever he resorted to the …
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Paying the Penalty: The Role of Punishment in Theories of Justified Civil Disobedience
<p>The problem of civil disobedience and its justification has received a great deal of attention in the past decade, and it seems safe to say that a consensus of sorts has been reached with respect to the basic questions of (i) whether such dissent can be morally justified in a legitimate …
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Civil Disobedience as a Radical Flank in the Mountain Valley Pipeline Resistance Movement
… turning to radical tactics, including acts of civil disobedience, to fight back against encroaching fossil fuel infrastructure. The fight against the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) is no exception. The MVP is a 303-mile long proposed fracked gas pipeline in Virginia and West Virginia. I apply …
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Towards an Architecture of Civil Disobedience to Reclaim Informal Settlements Right to the City
… simplistic “problems” because of political and civil state tendencies. Global governance promotes human rights yet on the other side of the spectrum aim to decrease informality and poverty causing a stigma of unworthiness towards people living in these settlements (Huchzermeyer 2011). Thus, this …
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A theoretical and practical analysis of the use of violence within contemporary civil disobedience
The phenomenon of civil disobedience, or protest against governmental actions and policies, has a long and varied history. This thesis examines the theories behind, and practice of the concept within a contemporary setting, namely from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present day. The …
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Distributed denial of service actions and the challenge of civil disobedience on the Internet
… this work is the overarching question of how civil disobedience and disruptive activism can be practiced in the current online space. The internet acts as a vital arena of communication, self expression, and interpersonal organizing. When there is a message to convey, words to get out, people …
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Uncivil Disobedience: Beyond the Orthodox View of Resistance and Counter-Resistance
… involves observing the requirements of so-called civil disobedience. In this dissertation, I argue that we should reject the Orthodox View in favour of a view that is both more inclusive with regard to the ethics of resistance and more nuanced with regard to the ethics of counter-resistance. Most …
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Uncivil Disobedience: Beyond the Orthodox View of Resistance and Counter-Resistance
… involves observing the requirements of so-called civil disobedience. In this dissertation, I argue that we should reject the Orthodox View in favour of a view that is both more inclusive with regard to the ethics of resistance and more nuanced with regard to the ethics of counter-resistance. Most …
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Tactical urbanism, public policy reform, and 'innovation spotting' by government : from Park(ing) Day to San Francisco's parklet program
… and potential rewards. Like traditional acts of civil disobedience, TU can be very generative, allowing players to pilot projects on a small-scale, minimizing risk and cost. TU can go beyond spotlighting problems to produce solutions. Both are good, I argue, for government and good for would-be …
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“The Price of a Woolworth’s Burger:” The Importance and Overshadowing of the Nashville Sit-Ins
… demonstrations that used direct action and civil disobedience to target segregation at store lunch counters. The Nashville demonstrations were the last sit-in protests to occur that are discussed in this thesis, which also examines the protests in Wichita and Greensboro. Historians argue …
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Jesus, Socrates, and the State: Political Mythology and Power
… of the sexes, living a good life and nonviolent civil disobedience). </em></em></p>
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Izwe Lethu!: Visions of decoloniality through the re-imagining of electrical services
… in the many social uprisings and moments of civil disobedience. The title translates to ‘Our Land’ in the Nguni languages. My response to the question of land is explained through the design and reconfiguration of three electrical sub-station buildings. The project seeks to uncover alternate …
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Canada's Other Red Scare: rights, decolonization, and Indigenous political protest in the global sixties
… movement of armed standoffs, occupations, and civil disobedience and understood through the broader social, cultural and political frameworks of decolonization during the 1960s and 1970s.
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With All Deliberate Speed : The Pearsall Plan and School Desegregation in North Carolina, 1954-1966.
… lost a single day of classes on account of civil disobedience. This thesis examines the background, development, and effect of the Pearsall Plan on North Carolina's educational, political, and social systems. It also outlines the factors that led North Carolina's leaders to deliberately …
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Open source estrogen : from biomolecules to biopolitics... hormones with institutional biopower!
… biopower. It is a form of biotechnical civil disobedience, seeking to subvert dominant biopolitical agents of hormonal management, knowledge production, and anthropogenic toxicity. The project begins with a speculative question: what if it was possible to make estrogen in the kitchen? …
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An interpretation of Thoreau's philosophy
… admitting his indebtedness especially to "Civil Disobedience", is significant. Hence, a discussion of this subject is in the Oriental chapter. Thoreau was a self-confessed Transcendentalist. He was too close a follower of Emerson not to incorporate in his philosophy the principles of the …
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Undocumented, Unapologetic, And Unafraid: Discursive Strategies Of The Immigrant Youth Dream Social Movement
… strategies of intervention included the use of civil disobedience tactics to petition for the legislation. This study points to a progressive sense of vocality, agency, and empowerment for the DREAM-eligible youth involved in this social movement. Finally, this study offers a discussion about …
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Gandhi as a political organiser. An analysis of Iocal and national campaigns in India 1915-1922.
… the "masses" and for mobilising people short of civil disobedience, was the promotion of campaigns of constructive work. This is particularly clear in his planning and leadership of the Noncooperation movement. Presentation of nonviolent action in the West, by overstressing the "conflict" aspect …
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