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Showing 1 to 20 of 181 for “"Dictatorship"”.
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Critique of normative motherhood and of nature as an object of appropriation in Libertad Demitrópulos’s dictatorship and post-dictatorship novels
… representations of motherhood and nature in the dictatorship and post-dictatorship novels of Argentine writer Libertad Demitrópulos, focusing on the literary strategies through which her work challenges patriarchal, colonial, and extractivist discourses. Although recent literary studies have …
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Militant memories: family, gender and politics under Pinochet’s dictatorship
… or movements during the time of Pinochet’s dictatorship. The analysis focuses on two aspects of activism which have usually been neglected, namely family and gender relations.
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The Military Dictatorship in Brazil and the Photojournalism (1964-1985)
… photojournalism in the press during the military dictatorship. The aim it is to understand how the relationship between the newspapers «Folha de S. Paulo» and «Jornal do Brasil» with the military that were in power for two decades evolved. The hypothesis was that both newspapers elaborated a …
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A New Perspective on the Early Roman Dictatorship, 501-300 B.C.
… A close reading of narratives describing early dictatorships and an analysis of ancient epigraphic evidence, however, reveal inconsistencies in the traditional model. The purpose of this thesis is to introduce a new model of the early Roman dictatorship that is based upon a reexamination of the …
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Sound Matters in Poetry, Music, and Arts Under Dictatorship in Brazil
… “Sound Matters in Poetry, Music and Arts Under Dictatorship in Brazil,” shows how experiments with sound across three different fields—poetry, popular music, and fine art—established new models for poetic, musical, and artistic interventions in which sounding and listening practices were set to …
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Tracing Violence Against Women from the Francoist Dictatorship to Democratic Spain
<p>What happens to women’s rights when a country transitions from an authoritarian regime to a democratic state? This thesis examines how Spain’s transition from authoritarianism to democracy impacted the advancements of women’s rights through a specific analysis of violence against women. While …
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Plan Perquenco and Chile's Indigenous Policies Under the Pinochet Dictatorship, 1976-1988
… of Chiles indigenous policies under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), taking as its focus a pilot project for indigenous Mapuche integration known as Plan Perquenco. Existing scholarship provides important analyses of the impact of the military regime's 1979 indigenous …
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From “Total Destruction” to “Total Dictatorship”: The Influence of Ernst Jünger’s Visionary Fascism
<p>This paper seeks to answer one central question: How can the life and work of Ernst Jünger help illuminate the development of fascist ideas, culture, politics, and power across Europe from 1920-1945? The components of that question are: what were the core elements of Jünger’s aesthetics, …
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Legacy of one party dictatorship : collective memory and contestation in Malawi 1994-2004
… authoritarian past. The memory of the one-party dictatorship was reactivated on numerous occasions to address contemporary political challenges. Focusing on the period during the second term of the first democratic government when there was a debate on whether or not to extend the terms of office …
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Activism in transition: generations and political subjectivation in the Chilean post-dictatorship student movement.
… process of political subjectivation in the postdictatorship student movement in Chile. To do so, it compares the life stories of two generation of activists: those involved the 1997 student mobilization and those involved in the 2011 mobilization. Through the use of a narrative perspective, the …
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Race under dictatorship: the political articulation of blackness in the Dominican Republic and Brazil
… offer important insights into how dictatorships manipulated local, regional, and transnational notions of blackness in an effort to create an idealized—but often contradictory—racial citizenry. At the same time, these discursive venues contribute to our understandings of …
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Evolution of a Nation after a Dictatorship: How Law, Politics and Society of the 1973 Dictatorship in Uruguay and of the Subsequent Return of Democracy in 1985, Potentially Helped Evolve the Nation of Today.
… or evolution that happened during the dictatorship and then over the last 30 years. I break down the process of changes that happened legally and politically, how the dictatorship and its leaders used law to destroy rule of law, and how society changed.</p> <p>This thesis assesses the …
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Creating the Present From the Ideological Margins of Society: Pseudo -Autobiographies in Post -Dictatorship Spain
… a generation ignorant of the Civil War and the dictatorship. The conclusion examines the role these novels play in the authors' work as a whole. It questions whether the historical novel, and particularly the pseudo-autobiography of historical figures, can be considered effective forms of battle …
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The Impact of State Violence on Women During the 22 Years of Dictatorship in The Gambia
… thesis investigates the gendered dynamics of dictatorship in The Gambia by exploring the impact of state sanctioned violence on women during former President Yahya Jammeh’s twenty-two years of tyranny in the country. During the two-decade long brutal reign under Jammeh, Gambians from all walks …
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Evangelical Dictatorship Driving the Guatemalan Civil War: Reconsidering Ríos Montt, the “Savior of La Nueva Guatemala”
… through his administration, for Ríos Montt’s dictatorship. It traces the origins 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 …
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A convergence of bodies in the Anthropocene: post-dictatorship memory in Patricio Guzmán’s triptych (2010-2020)
… acts of violence committed during the Pinochet dictatorship on three natural landscapes (the Atacama Desert, the Patagonian waterways, and the Andes mountains). It argues that, when read together, the documentaries lend themselves to an interdisciplinary analysis of how we might remember state …
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Stories from adults stolen as babies during Argentina's last dictatorship (1976-1983): a narrative inquiry into identity restitution
… been stolen as babies by the last Argentinean dictatorship, were found in subsequent decades as adults. Conversational interviews were carried out after researcher’s immersion in already available public stories. Interweaving subjective and communal dimensions of experience, their stories were …
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Milton Nascimento and the Clube da Esquina: popular music, politics, and fraternity during Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964-85)
The student, Holly Holmes, accepted the attached license on 2017-04-10 at 23:42.
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