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Showing 1 to 20 of 530 for “"Contentious"”.
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Finding order in a contentious Internet
This inquiry started with the simple question, "Who manages the Internet infrastructure and how?" Since, this question evolved into an evaluation of the routing system and the institutions that manage it. This institutional complex is referred to as the number resource system (NRS). NRS authority …
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Racism, Oligarchy and Contentious Politics in Bermuda
… was one of the most significant episodes of contentious politics in contemporary Bermuda, challenging social norms that had been in existence for 350 years. While the trajectory and outcomes of ‘black’ Bermudians’ transgressive social protests could not have been predicted, this analysis uses …
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Ethnographies of Contentious Criminalization: Expansion, Ambivalence, Marginalization
… work analyzes criminalization processes in three contentious episodes: the Chilean-Mapuche territorial conflict, the Spanish-Basque separatist conflict, and the eco-conflict in the United States. Although prosecutors invariably asserted their independence and the democratic mandate to "simply" …
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Transforming histories: the visual disclosure of contentious pasts
The thesis and exegesis examines the potential of visual art to provide fresh forms of engagement with historical story than the archived and the written. The place of memory, forgetting, absence in Australian history, in particular in Indigenous and non Indigenous encounter are investigated. …
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Contentious politics and the making of Egyptian public spaces
… and re-define public spaces, particularly in contentious moments, and how public spaces constitute political identities and influence their political choices. Through making use of the Egyptian case study, I identified three different patterns of constituting public spaces: monopolisation, …
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Medicalized Illiteracies: Learning Disabilities, Contentious Histories, and Writing Studies
Literacy has played a formative role in the creation and maintenance of the learning disabilities label. The condition is contingent upon an expected connection between intelligence and literacy, both understood to be stable, quantifiable capacities. This contingency fuels debate as to the nature …
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Contaminated lands? Local dynamics of contentious mobilization around far-right politics
… mobilization responded to this wave with diverse contentious strategies. However, amid extensive research in electoral politics, the conflict around far-right politics is still scarcely explored within the framework of contentious politics. The thesis aims to address this gap by providing a …
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Violence After Victory: Explaining Variation in State Repression Following Contentious Politics
<p>If conflict onset leads to increases in human rights abuse, how can these abuses be curbed once conflicts have ended? To answer this question, researchers have traditionally focused on a country’s regime type and leaders’ incentive structures. This is insufficient, I argue, because many regimes …
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“Whose Streets? Our Streets!”: Social Memory and Contentious Politics in a Democracy
… Despite globalization and mobile technologies, contentious politics largely continue to take shape through the performances, narratives, and materialities of the street. That is, contentious politics take on particular place characteristics and thus must be studied in diverse places. This …
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Contentious Subjects: Non/violence as Topic and Trope in the Occupy Movement
… teach us about the rhetorical power of embodied, contentious rhetorics, and what does it tell us about the characteristics of movements to come? Social movements are faced with exigencies under neoliberalism to which they often respond differently than the large-scale demonstrations of previous …
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Looking For Leverage: Strategic Resources, Contentious Bargaining, and US-African Security Cooperation
<p>According to much of the international relations literature on security alliances weaker states are rarely in a position to drive hard bargains with their more powerful allies. Yet African states, for example, do not simply endure what they must to be of service to powerful friends. They often …
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Contentious Cosmopolitans: Black Public History and Civil Rights in Cold War Chicago, 1942-1972
This dissertation looks at how teachers, unionists, and cultural workers used black history to offer new ways of thinking about racial knowledge from a local level. Numerous efforts to promote and teach this history demonstrated how dissident cosmopolitan political currents from previous decades …
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Bringing the visual into focus: Street art and contentious politics in Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina
… of visual tools and aesthetic experience in contentious politics. Consequently, political action is often described and understood in ways that are reductive and distorted. This dissertation brings together a range of insights from art and aesthetics, communications and cultural studies in …
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Contentious Politics in the Arab Middle East: Jordanian Salafism and the Social Appropriation of Tradition
… intellectuals seem to play a relevant role in contentious politics, yet this role is still undertheorized. In this project, I analyze this question in the context of contemporary Arab Salafism, a particularly literal interpretation of Sunni Islam. I seek to unpack the processes by which …
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Contentious Activities and Party-State Responses in Contemporary China -- Investigating China’s Democratisation during its Modernisation
… changing culture and value system, remarkable contentious activities have been launched by a wide range of social actors striving for their rights and interests. Underneath the dynamic character of contentions in China, this research will try to test the normative and ethical presumption that …
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A critical analysis of three contentious elements of the South African general anti-avoidance rules
… research assignment critically analyses three contentious elements of the South African GAAR to enhance clarity in its interpretation and application. In Chapter 3, the focus is on the purpose requirement, investigating whether it pertains to the subjective purpose of the taxpayer or the …
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Empowering women activists : creating a monster : the contentious politics of gender within social justice activism
This Master's Research Project has sought to investigate the discursive space for 'gender struggles' within contemporary South African class based social justice activism. It has done so in the form of a qualitative case study, analysing particular 'gender' interventions designed by a left-wing …
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From social movements to contentious politics a comparative critical literature review across the U.S. and China
… review on the studies of social movements and contentious politics in the U.S. and China. Thanks to theories of contentious politics, we can analyze the studies of America’s social movements and China’s collective actions in the same “frame.” By making a comparison, this thesis tries to …
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Contentious comedy : negotiating issues of form, content, and representation in American sitcoms of the post-network era
… have become more distinctive, original, and contentious in the process.
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Political Emotions: Toward a Fresh Perspective on Collective Emotion in Composition Work
… examines theories of emotion in politically contentious discourse in order to better understand the implications for teachers and students in composition classrooms where critical pedagogical practices lead to contentious political work. I suggest that partly as a result of the social and …
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