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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Culture Wars"”.
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Reading the Culture Wars in the New Academic Novel, 1984-Present
… of political correctness, the so-called theory wars, the growth of contingent labour, and the elevation of a corporate logic above educational concerns—document the emergence of neoliberalism as the dominant logic of American higher education and the American university’s transition away from …
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CULTURE WARS AT THE SCHOOLHOUSE GATE: SCHOOL BOARD DECISION MAKING & STUDENTS’ SPEECH RIGHTS
… Library Association, 2023). After studying culture war conflicts, Hunter (1991), Zimmerman (2002), and Harman (2019) posit that the bounds of pluralistic living, such as whether to include or exclude educational materials with LGBTQIA+ characters, are never settled for good. Instead, culture …
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The right, rights and the culture wars in the United States, 1981-1989
… explores how the American right fought the culture wars of the 1980s in the context of the rights revolution and the regulatory state. It does so by examining divisions over anti-abortion measures in Congress, controversies surrounding allegations of discriminatory withholding of medical …
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INSPIRING PUBLIC TRUST IN OUR CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: ARCHIVES, PUBLIC HISTORY, AND THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE IN PHILADELPHIA
The so-called culture wars of recent years have created an ethos of caution in our cultural institutions. Museums often avoid exhibits and programming that might prove controversial for fear of public backlash. This paper examines how public historians and archivists might work together to devise …
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Safe Space: A novel and accompanying critical study into the participatory culture in fandom and a historiographic approach to the fragmentation of popular culture in select novels by Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon.
… fiction fandom – a symbolic battle in the Culture Wars.<br/><br/>The investigation uses a historiographic, long durée (or long term) approach to test the hypothesis that periods of cultural anxiety are related to a loss of confidence in great hegemons. The research interrogates the concept …
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The Exodus Experiment: Theatrically Bridging the Cultural Gap
… volatile subjects that divide our contemporary culture: homosexuality and religion. Twenty-nine people with various backgrounds and worldviews were interviewed for this project. The words from these interviews were used to create the beginnings of a script for a play that explores the issues of …
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Restart the ‘World’ with Revolutionary Ruptures: Imagining Identity through War & in Crisis – Apocalyptic Rhetoric & the American Civil Religion
… the American civil religion and the American culture-wars. Crisis compels identification to make sense of unfamiliar events according to one's origin myth; adaptive 'editing' for familiarity permits those in-crisis to shape/eliminate anything that contradicts their moral-truth to consolidate …
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An allergy and Novelists of the past, historians of the present
… coming to a head during the ‘history’– and ‘culture wars’ declared by then-Prime Minister John Howard shortly after his election in 1996. These wars coincided with the so-called ‘memoir boom’ in which personal autobiographical narratives and first-person, present-tense fiction rose in …
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The role of context in meaning and understanding
… are here examined in light of the so-called 'culture wars' in the U.S.A.
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Evangelical Dictatorship Driving the Guatemalan Civil War: Reconsidering Ríos Montt, the “Savior of La Nueva Guatemala”
… of this relationship back to the American culture wars of the Cold War era, with close attention to televangelists and the counterculture youths involved with the Jesus Movement. Secondly, this thesis examines how American evangelicalism successfully entered and transformed the Guatemalan …
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Narratives of Exclusion: Gender, Sex, Islamophobia, and Violence in American Political Discourse
… of each of my three case studies reveals that culture wars around religious liberty, reproductive control, immigration, and gun violence serve as extensions of imperialism and white Christian nationalism. At the end of this work, I propose a framework for ameliorating such discursive violence. …
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Profession of Faith: Congressional Websites and Religious Expression in the 112th Congress
<p>The idea of culture wars in politics suggests that American voters have polarized according to their positions on moral issues, and a religious gap in the electorate also contends that voters are polarized on these issues according to their religious beliefs and practices. Research shows that …
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Educational Encounters: (Re)Writing Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil and the U.S.
… with Robert Stam and Ella Shohat’s framework of “culture wars around the postcolonial Atlantic” to explore how universalist ideals—largely inherited from French philosophical and political traditions—persist and transform within Brazilian and U.S. literary contexts. By placing these authors in …
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Community, Place, and Cultural Battles: Associational Life in Central Italy, 1945-1968
… social change, and experimented with alternative cultures. At the same time, these organizations themselves were being transformed from unitary centers that expressed the broad solidarity of the anti-fascist Resistance to loose federations of fragmentary single-interest groups. They were tangles …
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Robert Zemeckis, Hollywood & the American Dream, 1978-1994
… this run coincided with the peak years of the culture wars, an era in which questions around American national identity and US history since the 1950s were being loudly debated, interrogated and redefined within the broader cultural sphere. Zemeckis’s films offer a unique opportunity to explore …
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"Getting right with Reagan: conservatives and the fortieth president, 1980-2016"
… and the people who were at the heart of the culture wars of the 1980s, were not present in the museum’s exhibits. Throughout the 1990s conservatives framed themselves as fulfilling the Reagan Revolution and they attempted to use Reagan to achieve electoral success. By the 2000s, however, …
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Honor, Shame, and Redemption: Explicating the American Evangelical Right's Moral Worldview Regarding Same-Sex Marriage and Abortion
… as the seminal political issues in a burgeoning culture wars narrative. While previous literature in the sociology of religion and political science fields has examined conservative evangelical political mobilization around these issues, this literature has not adequately considered the primacy …
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Intellectual freedom and the politics of reading: libraries as sites of conservative activism, 1990-2010
… 21st centuries that brought libraries into the culture wars crossfire. Pro family library challenges went beyond objections to particular materials in order to target library policies of open access, collection diversity, and patron privacy. Pro family activists also mounted an explicit critique …
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The “Identity Biennial” & the Politics of the Interstice
… for the role it played in the late-century culture wars, multiculturalism, and renewed debates on the quincentenary of Columbus’ 1492 “discovery” of America. Yet, artworks like Willie Varela’s film A Lost Man (1992) and Miguel Gandert’s photo series Tierra O Muerte (1988) remain …
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Measuring and Understanding Public Opinion on Human Evolution
… evolution are often neglected in studies of “culture wars” and the nature of mass belief systems more generally (Berkman and Plutzer 2010; Freeland and Houston 2009). Gallup and other survey organizations have polled about evolution, but offered limited response categories that mask complexity …
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