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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Co-option"”.
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Evolutionary co-option of trap-jaw ant mandible strikes: defensive interactions with antlions
The co-option of existing traits for novel functions is fundamental to many theories of trait evolution, but relatively few studies have examined evolutionary co-option at a behavioral level. Trap-jaw ants in the genus Odontomachus have a rapid and powerful mandible snap that is used during …
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Contest and co-option : the struggle for schooling in the African independent churches of the Cape Colony
… African churches reflected changes in the complex amalgam of forces that constituted the social fabric of ordinary black people in the Cape Colony between 1895 and 1920. These churches and schools were in part a creative response to discriminatory mission church politics, a general decline …
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Mediating the Marginal: A Computational Analysis of Representational Hierarchies, Aesthetic Tourism, and Queer Imagination on Instagram
… technologies, engendering futurity through collective imagination. An ontological trace of visual culture positions media technologies as sites of both regulation of and resistance to racial, sexual, and gender norms.. The rise of computational media and neoliberal sociopolitics has …
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Possibilities for architectural production under capitalism
… question: What effects do architecture and the economic realm have upon one another? I begin with an analysis of a specific trajectory in twentieth-century work on architectural theory and capitalism by Manfredo Tafuri and Fredric Jameson. I then review the historical use, and the contemporary …
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The Strains of Conscience: Justifying Civil Disobedience and Conscientious Objection
… 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 to the point of being …
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The Pandemic of Being a Woman: A Qualitative Analysis of the South African Media on GBV at the Time of COVID-19
A decolonial feminist discourse analysis of the media's reporting on Gender Based Violence (GBV) during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic was conducted. One hundred and fifty articles were collected from the Sabinet database. From this eight discourses were identified: GBV as a pandemic; GBV …
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Kuduro, rap and resistance: Politics of music and activism in ‘new’ hegemonic Angola
… I introduce kuduro music as a vantage point to uncover the political landscape of Angola where critical voices do not emerge with ease. I argue that kuduro, the globally known and disseminated genre of dance music, has been hijacked by the dos Santos government’s populist narrative so that it has …
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From housing rights to housing provision : two case studies in the trajectory of the housing rights movement & the development of community housing in Australia, 1975-1996
… programs, the Victorian Rental Housing Co-operative Program and the Local Government and Community Housing Program, through which community housing principles were introduced into Australian public housing policy. The context for this research is the failure by the housing rights …
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Agency in the Shadow of a co-opted State: Territory, Difference and Democratisation in post-war Guatemala
… form of agency emerges in the shadow of a state co-opted by elite factions and manifests distinct qualities from previous expressions of revolutionary and democratic activism. It is localised and characterised by varied aspects of what I call ‘difference’, an antagonistic stance based on locally …
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Duplication is a prominent mechanism of recent gene birth in Caenorhabditis elegans
… genomes for different species and their comparison has enabled the elucidation of gene birth mechanisms that act over a long evolutionary timescale. However, the lack of several reference-quality genomes for different individuals of the same species has hampered the study of the …
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Semillas de concienca | seeds of consciousness: sowing change from the Ecuadorian highlands
… – in 2022, and this work is the fruit of our collaboration. Focusing broadly on sumak kawsay, a Kichwa principle engaged in Ecuador's 2008 constitution, our research explores Pintag Amaru's understanding, and living out, of the concept. Sumak kawsay has gained recent attention in scholarship …
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A critique of participatory development in Pakistan
… of participatory development, was empirically conducted within a participatory development NGO in Pakistan, namely the Sarhad Rural Support Programme (SRSP). It critically analysed participatory development in relation to micro and macro level forces, such as government, bilateral and …
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Synthetic biology tools for sensing and evolving microbes: CRISPR-diagnostics and transposon-mediated genome re-wiring
… played a fundamental role in the evolution of complex organisms, driving innovation through competition, collaboration and co-option. Transposons, in particular, are an ancient family of MGEs whose diverse functions have provided a rich source of DNA-binding and nuclease domains for their …
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Patterns in the Parables: Black Female Agency and Octavia Butler's Construction of Black Womanhood
This project argues that Octavia's Butler's construction of the black woman characters is unique within the pantheon of late eighties African-American writers primarily through Butler's celebration of black female physicality and the agency the black body provides. The project is divided into five …
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Dancing modernisms : rhythmic bodies articulating cultures of modernisms (1909-1929)
… issues that arise from posing the question: how could the silent dance-body articulate cultural ideas in the early twentieth century, a period which witnessed a dramatic turn of expression in dance, literature and the arts that was retrospectively designated as modernist? In this thesis I read …
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Policy contexts and student identity/ies: a post ’92 university case study
… Anne Boddington- Success in a knowledge economy? Drivers of student identity in a post-92 university environment: a case study. This work concerned itself with the becoming and being of studenthood against a policy environment that appears to position the student as both watchman and …
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The Alternation Fallacy: Turnover without Transformation in Zambia (1991-2015)
Zambia is one of only three countries in southern Africa which has experienced two alternations, but there has been little institutional reform since independence. A time-based comparison of Zambia’s constitution, legislation and institutions from 1991 to 2015 is conducted because the ‘moving …
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Determinants of piRNA precursor transcription and export in Drosophila melanogaster
The piRNA pathway is a conserved, small RNA-based immune system that guards genomic integrity against the harmful effects of transposon mobilisation in animal gonads. The majority of piRNAs originates from discrete source loci named piRNA clusters. In Drosophila germ cells, most piRNAs are produced …
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