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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"DISOBEDIENCE"”.
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The Strains of Conscience: Justifying Civil Disobedience and Conscientious Objection
… in debate over 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 …
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Thoreau's Confucianism in The Dial, Walden, and Civil Disobedience.
… of his philosophy. Thoreau's Walden and Civil Disobedience bear the apparent impact of Confucian thought, in spite of the different social goals between Thoreau and Confucius. However, because of their social differences Thoreau had to distort Confucian thought whenever he resorted to the …
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Uncivil Disobedience: Beyond the Orthodox View of Resistance and Counter-Resistance
… observing the requirements of so-called civil disobedience. In this dissertation, I argue that we should reject the Orthodox View in favour of a view that is both more inclusive with regard to the ethics of resistance and more nuanced with regard to the ethics of counter-resistance. Most …
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Uncivil Disobedience: Beyond the Orthodox View of Resistance and Counter-Resistance
… observing the requirements of so-called civil disobedience. In this dissertation, I argue that we should reject the Orthodox View in favour of a view that is both more inclusive with regard to the ethics of resistance and more nuanced with regard to the ethics of counter-resistance. Most …
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Reclaiming voice through epistemic disobedience: a Black female anti-racist consultant perspective
… Using Mignolo’s (2009) concept of epistemic disobedience and transformative learning theory, this analysis acts as an example, I believe, of the role of storytelling as a powerful tool of resistance. The second public work, The Anti-Racist Organization, is evaluated for its critique of …
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Paying the Penalty: The Role of Punishment in Theories of Justified Civil Disobedience
<p>The problem of civil disobedience and its justification has received a great deal of attention in the past decade, and it seems safe to say that a consensus of sorts has been reached with respect to the basic questions of (i) whether such dissent can be morally justified in a legitimate …
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Civil Disobedience as a Radical Flank in the Mountain Valley Pipeline Resistance Movement
… to radical tactics, including acts of civil disobedience, to fight back against encroaching fossil fuel infrastructure. The fight against the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) is no exception. The MVP is a 303-mile long proposed fracked gas pipeline in Virginia and West Virginia. I apply radical …
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Towards an Architecture of Civil Disobedience to Reclaim Informal Settlements Right to the City
… no evidence of architectural engagement. Civil disobedience tests the statute and forms part of constitutionalism moving towards the process of effecting and affecting the law through any extra-legal action. The division between interior and exterior law is the foundations of all law …
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A theoretical and practical analysis of the use of violence within contemporary civil disobedience
The phenomenon of civil disobedience, or protest against governmental actions and policies, has a long and varied history. This thesis examines the theories behind, and practice of the concept within a contemporary setting, namely from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present day. The …
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Distributed denial of service actions and the challenge of civil disobedience on the Internet
… work is the overarching question of how civil disobedience and disruptive activism can be practiced in the current online space. The internet acts as a vital arena of communication, self expression, and interpersonal organizing. When there is a message to convey, words to get out, people to …
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The distortion of the meaning of bride wealth: significance for the evolution of living customary law in southern Nigeria
… enacted to curb excessive bride wealth. This disobedience is traceable to socio-economic and cultural factors founded on people’s survival needs. This disobedience has great significance for the evolution of living customary law, legal pluralism, and success of development projects in Nigeria. …
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Tactical urbanism, public policy reform, and 'innovation spotting' by government : from Park(ing) Day to San Francisco's parklet program
… rewards. Like traditional acts of civil disobedience, TU can be very generative, allowing players to pilot projects on a small-scale, minimizing risk and cost. TU can go beyond spotlighting problems to produce solutions. Both are good, I argue, for government and good for would-be …
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Examining the Creative Process of Visual Artists: A Phenomenological Study
… formation in the creative process; 3) Creative disobedience: connected to empowerment and agency, and 4) Creativity as a form of problem solving and problem finding. These findings revealed the impact of external factors and how visual artists perceive their creative process to develop their …
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“The Price of a Woolworth’s Burger:” The Importance and Overshadowing of the Nashville Sit-Ins
… demonstrations that used direct action and civil disobedience to target segregation at store lunch counters. The Nashville demonstrations were the last sit-in protests to occur that are discussed in this thesis, which also examines the protests in Wichita and Greensboro. Historians argue that the …
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Jesus, Socrates, and the State: Political Mythology and Power
… sexes, living a good life and nonviolent civil disobedience). </em></em></p>
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El Baile de los que Sobran. Literatura y Negatividad en el Caribe Hispano
… embodiment of psychic and social incoherence and disobedience. This approach allows me to focus on authors and artists from Colombia, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic that not only question identity as a discursive construct, but also through the ways in which the (re)mediation of these discourses …
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Izwe Lethu!: Visions of decoloniality through the re-imagining of electrical services
… the many social uprisings and moments of civil disobedience. The title translates to ‘Our Land’ in the Nguni languages. My response to the question of land is explained through the design and reconfiguration of three electrical sub-station buildings. The project seeks to uncover alternate …
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Canada's Other Red Scare: rights, decolonization, and Indigenous political protest in the global sixties
… of armed standoffs, occupations, and civil disobedience and understood through the broader social, cultural and political frameworks of decolonization during the 1960s and 1970s.
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