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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Discursive struggle"”.
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Towards a neoliberal citizenship regime: A post-Marxist discourse analysis
… citizenship regime proceeded via debate and struggle over unemployment and taxation policy. Debates over unemployment and taxation in New Zealand during the 1980s and 1990s reconfigured the targets of policy and re-ordered social antagonism, establishing a neoliberal citizenship regime and …
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Troubling Dominant Discourses: Developing A Framework Of Subversion And Applying It To Autonomous Activism
… within Western society is caught up in a discursive struggle whereby the suppression of social movements is enacted, in part, through a multitude of abjection processes that are executed through such practices as social interactions, psychological mechanisms, written text, and visual …
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Christian-Muslim dialogue in post-revolutionary Egypt: the influence of the humanist discourse
… argues that: Firstly, there has been a stronger discursive struggle among people taking top-down and bottom-up approaches in inter-religious dialogue since the 2011 revolution. It has been also against a backdrop of occasionally aggressive religious discourse. Secondly, today’s interfaith …
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Europeanization of Foreign Aid: Managing Post-9/11 Fragile, Conflict-Affected States
… amidst frame-contestation within interactive discursive-struggle, and their subsequent adoption and adaptation (or resistance thereto). In doing so, the thesis reveals changes within institutional framing of problems and solutions, institutional path-dependency and associated cultural values. …
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Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Foreign Policy Discourse: Iranian Threat, Gulf Crisis and the Question of Khalijism
… policies toward Iran evidenced by their discursive struggle concerning the Iranian threat, but also because the GCC’s identity is in crisis. This serves to question the meaning of Khaliji identity as it underpinned the establishment of the institution on the ideas of solidarity, unity, …
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Utterance and Authorship in Dialogic Art: or An Account of a Barcamp in Response to the Question, ‘What is Dialogic Art?’
… The barcamp’s collation tracks the contributors’ discursive struggle to co-author dialogic art as a dialogue-based approach to contemporary art practice. ‘The dialogic’ that qualifies this art accretes through the barcamp as an artistic disposition preoccupied with the constitutive agency of …
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Framing Power: Discursive Contestations and the Influence of External Actors in the African Union’s Key Issue Areas
Alice Musabende Framing Power: Discursive Contestations and the Influence of External Actors in the African Union’s Key Issue Areas. ABSTRACT This dissertation investigates the dynamics of the power relationship between the African Union and non-African external actors. For many authors, this …
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The lived experience of economic migration in the narratives of migrants from post-communist Poland to Britain
… The migrants’ narratives were full of discursive struggle while constructing their experience of migrating. Firstly, the interviewees made an effort to present their migration as rational. Secondly, they were trying to rationalise their financial needs to refute accusations of greed for …
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Ideologies of Nature and Sustainability: A critical discourse analysis
… or service for humankind). Through this discursive struggle for neoliberal ascendency, basic capitalist ideologies of nature have been reasserted and brought to the foreground. In this respect, I hope to capture the essential and invariant ideological core of the capitalist view of …
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How Critical is Talk? Discourses of Development Education among Facilitators in Ireland
… (2014), the framework identifies different discursive positions when it comes to DE - technical, liberal, North-South, critical and post-critical discourses. The thesis highlights that though DE facilitators largely draw on a critical discourse of DE, they also draw on each of the other …
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Performative Riffing: Theory, Praxis, and Politics in Movie Riffing and Embodied Audiencing Rituals
… of U.S. popular culture might enter into struggle over ideologically loaded cultural texts and reclaim a space for embodied audiencing in the cultural marketplace. Chapters 4 through 6 are dedicated to site- and text-specific inquiries into the current state of performative riffing and …