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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Claims-making"”.
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Taiwan's language curriculum and policy: A rhetorical analysis of the DPP's claims-making
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The World Is Broken: The Social Construction of a Global Corruption Problem
… sociological research for the empirical study of claims. The analysis makes use of archival data to open up the pre-negotiation talks on illicit/corrupt payments at the OECD and the UN and study the process of claims-making, as well as document discursive strategies such as controversy management …
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FRAMING RIGHTS-CLAIMS: COLLECTIVE IDENTITY GROUPS IN THE TURKISH PUBLIC SPHERE
… collective identity groups frame their rights claims in the public sphere by exploring what types of framing processes specific groups of activists adopt. My empirical focus is on how certain social movements in Turkey has framed their rights claims in the restrictive nature of the public …
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A Constructionist Analysis Of Same-sex Marriage
… of same-sex marriage by providing insight into claims-making efforts to define same-sex marriage as a social problem. My findings shed light on this topic from a social constructionist perspective by examining the use of rhetorical idioms of the claims made by opposing parties in the debate over …
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The great American debate: A constructionist approach on the media's coverage of government bailouts
… 'bailout' and 'rescue' interchangeably. Through claims-making and by using the words rescue and bailout interchangeably, the media has socially constructed the word rescue as synonymous with the word bailout and has implied that the bailouts were voluntary and necessary to avert economic disaster …
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'No easy fix': The Supervised Injection Site Debate in Canada
… theoretical contributions of Joel Best (2008) on claims-making and the construction of social problems, this thesis explores the SIS debate in Canada and the assertions advanced with respect to the implementation of SISs. Building on the available literature, the author identifies numerous types …
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Peace Negotiations and Remaking Political Community in Somalia
… of political community formation and peace-making in Somalia? Drawing primarily on original archival research, extensive interviews and personal memoirs, I trace the ways in which representation modalities in international peace negotiations, such as the “4.5 clan formula”, engender multiple …
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Online Community Response to YouTube Abuse
… on social problems literature about rhetoric in claims-making and social movement literature about credibility in framing to understand the construction of YouTube abuse and relationships between member role in the community and their frames/the reception of those frames. I also draw on feminist, …
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Care and Political Representation: Exploring the Challenges of Contemporary Representative Democracy with an Account of Democratic Care Ethics
… representation and incorporates representative claims-making into the meaning of “democratic”; and it distils insights from care ethics to express the idea of caring representative democracies. The first of the two moves hinges on the identification of a uniqueness to democratic engagement, and …
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Alevis in Britain: emerging identities in a transnational social space
… institutions that promote it strengthen Alevi claims on the transnational level in both their interactions with the Turkish government and translocal activities. They not only use this human rights discourse instrumentally in their claims making but also argue that it is a component of their …
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Struggles for refugee and migrant inclusion - An ethnographic study into the practices and politics of ‘doing’ inclusion in civil society organizations
… negotiate inclusion through transformative claims-making for societal membership. The dissertation makes three main contributions to organization studies and the emerging field of critical inclusion studies. First, it broadens our understanding of the dynamics of power and politics connected …
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"If We Are Nothing Without Them, Then They Are Also Nothing Without Us": Cross-Class Political Mobilisation in Urban Pakistan
… contributions. First, it emphasises that claims-making in urban contexts necessitates the formation of cross-class political relationships because of the mutual and fluid contributions of citizens belonging to different class groups. This lies in contrast to previous framings of class …
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Meth, fear and government: a case study of political pressure and public policy-making in British Columbia.
… outcome of ‘society’s ills,’ and explores the claims-making activities including public policy, that construct a ‘social problem’ like meth. This project draws on semi-structured interviews with members of citizen groups, policy-makers in the B.C. provincial government, representatives from …
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Infinite Art: The Problem of 'Making' for a Christian Metaphysics
This thesis is a philosophical exposition of ‘making’ in the Christian tradition. I argue that a defensible Christian metaphysics stands or falls with the coherence of its understanding of the existential modalities of producers and products and the cognitive structure of productive knowledge or …