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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Counter culture"”.
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Stealing Empire : debates about global capital, counter-culture, technology and intellectual property
… concerns about the commodification of youth culture as well as debates about intellectual property and the United States' use of trade agreements as enforcement mechanisms that serve the interests of its own corporations. This thesis presents an overview of copyright and trade agreements in …
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Gypsies, nomads, pirates and Indians: counter culture, revolution and the movement of movements
… (but not limited to) codes associated with “counter culture”. In orienting itself as such, it takes as its starting point certain social movement discourses, asking whether they are not bound up in dissonances arising from the contestation of such cultural codes. More precisely, it observes …
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A naturalistic investigation of women's decisions to leave school: application of three theories to the problem of community college withdrawal
… 1978) "job ceiling" theory, and Willis' (1977) "counter-culture" theory. Eleven white females who originally attended the same institution in the southeastern United States primarily as full-time students and later voluntarily withdrew were selected on the basis of those who would have ordinarily …
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Flashback : the return of psychedelic medicine
… drugs were a part of not only popular culture, but also cuttingedge psychology research. Scientists were studying these drugs in the hope of understanding and treating various psychological and societal ills; but as psychedelics got caught up in the counter-culture, they fell out of …
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Opening German Minds: Drug Users, Social Tolerance, and the Making of West Germany, 1967--1983
"This dissertation examines relations between sub-cultures and mainstream West German society, tracking the shift from confrontational to therapeutic modes of engagement. In the early seventies, West German drug users, alongside student activists and terrorists, appeared as profound threats to …
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Workers' playtime: an enquiry into the relationship between Paris May '68 and the development of British political theatre 1968-1978
… ideas into the consciousness of the nation’s counter-culture - it is appropriate to speak of the appearance of a Situationist Logic within post-’68 political theatre. At other junctures the thesis includes theories which reflect or complement Situationist writings indirectly, philosophy I call …
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Embodied Remedies: Plant Medicine in the Art of Fiona Hall, Janet Laurence and Lauren Berkowitz
… growing belief in the infallibility of medicine, counter-culture scepticism of this paradigm, and a growing interest in alternative approaches to wellness - this dissertation examines how botanical medicine functions as a recurring, yet critically under-explored motif in their artworks. The …
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Embodied Remedies: Plant Medicine in the Art of Fiona Hall, Janet Laurence and Lauren Berkowitz
… growing belief in the infallibility of medicine, counter-culture scepticism of this paradigm, and a growing interest in alternative approaches to wellness - this dissertation examines how botanical medicine functions as a recurring, yet critically under-explored motif in their artworks. The …
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Conspiracy theories and political culture
… the role of conspiracy theories in political culture. It is an investigation into the various aspects of political belief reflected in conspiracy theories. To research the topic a broadly Foucauldian approach is taken. The 'paranoid style' developed by American political historian Richard …
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"Auto"-mobile Beijing : a bicycle network for a renewed "bicycle kingdom"
… intends to be a catalyst for a renewed bicycle culture in Beijing, the capital of the former "Bicycle Kingdom". Beijing, only 15 years ago had more bicycles than any other city in the world, has in recent years undergone a drastic shift to become a city consumed by cars and highways, producing …
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Laborlandschaft : redesigning the industrial laboratory module
… for this thesis applies contemporary corporate counter-culture spatial organizational ideas onto the laboratory module. Central to these concepts is an architecture that is user-oriented and environmentally sensitive rather than managerially-oriented. The spatial organization seeks to flatten …
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The Hollywood Novel : An American Literary Genre
… life styles, such as homosexuality; and the counter-culture movement. As the studio system waned and foreign cinemas exerted influence, location shooting became commonplace. Hollywood, thus, declined as a picture-making center, and a strong adjunct genre of location and international …
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Redrawing the Frontier: A Cultural History of American and Franco-Belgian Western Comics
… a powerful symbolic resonance in popular culture in these years precisely for its ability to concurrently look backward and forward: that is, the Western told of a frontier past rich in action and imperial adventure, but simultaneously formed a mythic expression of its contemporaneous …
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Generation time statistics of Escherichia coli using synchronous culture techniques
… conditions of growth. Synchronously dividing cultures of E. coli are produced by the Mitchison-Vincent density gradient centrifugation technique. Very precise data are yielded by cell number counts at frequent intervals with a Coulter electronic particle counter. Culture growth is followed for …
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Music, Politics and Liquid Modernity : How Rock-stars Became Politicians and Why Politicians Became Rock-stars.
… of Western youth, rock-stars erupted through the counter-culture as potent political figures. Following its sensational arrival, the politics of popular musical culture has however moved from the shared experience of protest movements and picket lines and to an individualised and celebrified …
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Writing the sixties: stardust and golden
… in 2009, recalls this time after an unexpected encounter with an elderly Elizabeth Ryder, the mother of his closest friend from the 1960s. The novel is centred on the lives of two young men balloted for conscription in 1968. Although opposed to the Vietnam War and conscription they are not …
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The healing power : mythology as medicine in contemporary American Indian literature
… world of dualities whereby the hegemonic culture brutalizes a feminine universe, and the counter-culture embraces a feminine universe. This study of Ceremony necessitates exploring the differences between Indian and Euro-American perceptions of landscape. Greta Gaard's studies on …
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Re-Negotiating Czechoslovakia. The State and the Jews in Communist Central Europe: The Czech Lands, 1945-1989
… communities through 1989. It also inspired a counter-culture that came to define post-communist Czech Judaism. By thus identifying intra-state friction as a major determining factor of Jewish-state relations, within the contexts of domestic and international politics and Soviet dominance, this …