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Showing 1 to 20 of 363 for “"Contestation"”.
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Contestation and collectivies: protecting labor organizing rights in the global economy.
… unions, and international institutions in their contestations over labor organizing rights. I call this process norm contestation, as the actors involved participate in a process of contestation regarding a state's obligations to protect labor organizing rights, resulting from the softer …
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The limits of contestation: towards a radical democratic theory of emergency politics
… possibilities for radical democratic political contestation. Attempts to define a situation as exceptional by powerful political elites are a claim that politics must be foreclosed until they decide that the exigency has been resolved and a ‘normal’ state of affairs has resumed. A theory which …
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Media consumption amid contestation: Northern Nigerians’ engagement with the BBC World Service
This study primarily examines the dynamics of the long-term relationship between the BBC World Service and its mainly Muslim Northern Nigerian audiences. It broadly explores the pattern and consequences of Northern Nigerians’ interactions with international media, focusing particularly on their …
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Discourse and Urban Development: Contestation Over Riverboat Casinos in Two Midwestern Cities
This research combines geographic inquiry along with a content analysis of local and national media in order to demonstrate the importance of discourse in the creation of public consent. In order to carry out this research, two cities that considered legalized gambling were selected; one that …
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Spaces of arrival : swamp as a terrain of contestation in Cartagena, Colombia
… Cartagena is full of stories of displacement and contestation with physical manifestations in the border of the swamp. Arrival neighborhoods at the border face a situation of simultaneous uncertain citizenship and ecologic vulnerability. The mangrove forest bordering the Virgen Swamp has been …
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Contestation, confusion and change: urban governance and service delivery in Zimbabwe (2000-2012)
… governance in these cities has been marked by contestation, confusion and change for a range of reason which would seem to be associated with issues of planning and management of urban areas, infrastructure such as provision and maintenance of roads, housing, public transport and water and …
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Varieties of base contestation: anti-U.S. base protests in South Korea and Japan
… project sheds light on different levels of local contestation confronting American military outposts overseas – a puzzle left unanswered by existing studies where prominent anti-base movements are implicitly treated as nationally representative. The dissertation draws from protest activities in 20 …
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Men’s Fashion in the Twenty-First Century: Contestation, Inclusive Masculinity, and the Body
Men’s Fashion in the Twenty-First Century: Contestation, Inclusive Masculinity, and the Body is a critical appraisal submitted as part of my PhD by published work. This thesis brings together five pieces of research published between 2015 and 2022 investigating how innovative men’s fashion has …
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Reciprocity of Sight: The Rhetorics of Contestation and Commemoration on the National Mall
… problems that embody broader tensions between contestation and commemoration. The dissertation takes up three moments in the history of the National Mall when negotiation about contestation and commemoration manifested as public conversations about the meaning of the National Mall. The first …
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Legacy of one party dictatorship : collective memory and contestation in Malawi 1994-2004
… of the past dictatorship, and political contestation over the shared past in order to create a vibrant democratic process. The thesis shows how the new political elites in democratic Malawi tended to utilise the collective memory of the past dictatorship to legitimise their rule, mobilize …
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Spaces of contestation: the everyday experiences of ten African migrants in Cape Town
Xenophobia in South Africa is so overt that it has take a covert form. The 'xenocide' events that took place in 2008 were called xenophobic acts. It is the recurrent denialism of xenophobia on an everyday basis that this project has explored through the narrative accounts of ten African migrants in …
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Staging the Post-conflict City: Tourism, Urban Change, and Symbolic Contestation in Belfast, Northern Ireland
<p>In post-Agreement Northern Ireland, issues of cultural identity have risen to the forefront of regional political and communal discourse. Demands for equality, recognition, and cultural parity of esteem on the part of Protestant and Catholic communities often unfold through disputes over …
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Moving, waiting, searching across borders: Gendered geographies of violence, disappearance and contestation in southern Mexico
… epistemologies of everyday politics, arts-based contestations and performative acts, revealing and making present the bodies, spatialities, and knowledges that populate a geopolitically manufactured border and migration “crisis” in southern Mexico. The research explores bordering practices at the …
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Political Economy of Healthcare in Post-conflict Timor-Leste: Contestation and Ownership in Policy-Making
… in reality, ‘ownership’ becomes subject to contestation among powerful actors with different power resources. Findings on the analysis of the four programmes also suggest that Timorese elites did not worry much about healthcare, rather than it being ‘central’ to their ideology.
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Dynamo in the Desert: Energy Development and Environmental Contestation in the San Juan Basin, 1960-1985
This thesis examines coal-energy development in the San Juan Basin, which is located in the culturally rich and environmentally diverse Four Corners region. Between 1960 and 1985 intensive coal-energy development—in the form of strip mines and power plants—took place in the western portion of the …
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The use of private military and security companies in international society: contestation and legitimation of state practice
… gained strength as legitimacy principles. In the contestation over the state use of PMSCs, conflicting moves toward legitimation and delegitimation do not cancel each other out. Rather, structural and more immediate factors put strategic efforts and inadvertent moves of legitimation at an …
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In-company management education and management development : an arena of contestation? : stakeholder perspectives in accredited in-company programmes
This thesis explores the phenomenon of credentialed in-company management development programmes leading to management education postgraduate awards. The empirical site of the research is four case study organizations each of which had partnership arrangements with one of two UK universities. In …
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The Contestation of the European Nation-state by curators and artists participating in La Biennale di Venezia and documenta.
The dissertation examines the evolution of two prominent international biennale exhibitions, La Biennale di Venezia and documenta, investigating the historical foundations of these biennales and their evolving political significance in relation to the European nation-state. The dissertation then …
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