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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Claim-making"”.
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Mediating Gender Violence: "Witnessing Publics," Activism, and the Ethics of Human Rights Claim Making
… of resources. Far from protective, human rights claims, explored here as "evidence," often obscure both social inequalities and the response of state-level policies to these inequalities, especially for marginalized women.
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Claiming the state : citizen-state relations and service delivery in rural India
Who makes claims on the state and how? This dissertation examines the processes through which citizens seek to secure public resources from the state and, by extension, the patterns of participation and citizen-state relations that emerge. Using the case of rural India, I explore whether and how …
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Ethnographies of Contentious Criminalization: Expansion, Ambivalence, Marginalization
… arena and make it subject to and the space of claim-making. This study not only challenges the belief that criminal law can be applied in an independent and neutral manner. Taking a constructivist perspective on the prosecutorial narrative and analyzing how mobilization and discursive action of …
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Minorites, military service, and the legacies of post-war reconstruction in the British Isles, 1918-1939
… histories have considered the legacies of claim-making on the part of non-white colonial subjects in this period, rarely has analysis been set in the context of post-war reconstruction, memory of wartime pledges, and the impact of military service on both the self-history and identity of …
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Praxis and Critique: On Fugitive Politics
… political praxis – forms of political action or claim making compelled to resist or give expression to political wrongs via the very mediums and contexts that sustain their imperceptibility and uninhabitability – this dissertation engages simultaneously in an immanent critique of the ‘primacy of …
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The Role of the State in Urban Development: The Case of Urban Waterscapes in Cairo, Egypt
This dissertation explores the making of infrastructure in Middle East cities in the face of rising urban inequalities and grassroots mobilisation efforts. National governments and international donors continue to provide apolitical technical explanations to infrastructural failures in Cairo, but …
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Defeating Cap-and-Trade: Contrarian Access, Organised Disinformation, and the Influence of Fossil Fuel Money in Congress
… and machine learning methods, contrarian policy claims were systematically identified and linked to measures of legislative engagement. The analysis reveals three main findings. First, contrarian witnesses, often aligned with the fossil fuel industry, were disproportionately invited to testify, …
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Imagining Modernity in the Uganda Prisons Service, 1945-1979
… networks. Others summoned it as a source of claim-making, using it to call on the state to provide them with greater benefits and treat them as respectable public servants. Finally, visions of penal modernity and professionalism were contested throughout the periods under study, leading …
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Contesting Austerity: A Comparative Approach to the Cycles of Protest in Portugal and Spain under the Great Recession
… which come to shape the kinds and forms of claim-making involved. Rather than focusing solely on social movements, the dissertation looks at a plurality of actors and claims. Following a cycle-based approach, the focus of the analysis falls on the relations between institutional and …
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The Accommodation City : Private Low-income Housing and Urban Space in Dhaka and Mumbai
… to re-create the everyday negotiations and claim-making that defines, negotiates, and contests in-between housing spaces. Using a critical local focus, this research advances an emerging agenda in urban studies that examines ‘in-between’ housing, positioned within a larger story of the …
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'You are all my people': building disabled community in Uganda's microentrepreneur economy
… In this space, obligations turn on what I call ‘claims in relationship,’ a concept that blends theoretical work on dependence, clientelism, and obligation. My interlocutors use two diverging discourses. One, characterised by the word ‘obulema’ [disability] is closely associated with legal …