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Showing 1 to 20 of 330 for “"Emancipation"”.
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New Paths to Emancipation? A Critical Reading of Latin American Autonomist Marxism’s Conceptualisation of Emancipation
This thesis examines John Holloway’s theory of emancipation. Holloway is at the forefront of Latin American autonomist Marxism, a school of thought that has furthered a groundbreaking reading of Marx by drawing from a diverse range of critical theory traditions and the experience of radical social …
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Social Construction and the Possibility of Emancipation
In this dissertation, I attempt to accomplish two main objectives. First, I attempt to clarify what social construction amounts to in contemporary analytic philosophy. Research on the social construction of social categories has done some work to delineate and clarify varieties of social …
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Epistemic Emancipation: Essays on Learning about Injustice
This thesis is about a specific kind of emancipation: epistemic emancipation. If emancipation generally is a process of setting oneself or others free from restrictions, then epistemic emancipation is a process of setting oneself or others free from restrictions of an epistemic kind: restrictions …
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Consumer emancipation : technology effects on consumer packaged-goods marketing
The Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry has existed for decades with a high household penetration. Individual firms started out as small family owned businesses and then gradually became more "industrialized" via acquisitions. Historically, a low capital cost of entry, as well as high geographic …
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Agape and Emancipation: The Common Good in Recent Postcolonial Fiction
In this dissertation, I argue that there is a tendency in postcolonial studies to equate injustice with a lack of knowledge. The political task for postcolonial studies is then framed in pedagogical terms: to provide the missing or invisible knowledge that is the catalyst for political change, or …
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The Interdisciplinarity of Tourism Education as an Opportunity for Emancipation
… be developed/extended) that build autonomy, emancipation and critical thinking skills in the student? And how might the interdisciplinary nature of tourism studies allow for opportunities for developing a more ethical tourism studies curriculum? The findings, found through the thematic …
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Coaching for Emancipation: A framework of coaching in oppressive environments
… in oppressive environments to support the emancipation and development of individuals. A review of the literature suggests that the dynamics of oppression affect every aspect of the human condition. Meanwhile, there is limited understanding of how to support individuals in liberating …
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Women's employment in garment factories in Bangladesh : emancipation or exploitation?
… in literature in relation to the issue of their emancipation/exploitation. This ethnographic research examines the implications of waged employment for women participating in export-oriented garment factories in Bangladesh.Within a feminist and broader social science research methodology, this …
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Engines of autonomy: regional organizations leading Latin America’s struggle for emancipation
<p>This thesis intends to show how South American counter-hegemonic regional political organizations bolster, disseminate, and strengthen regional autonomy, especially concerning the historic control of the United States of America (U.S.). I argue that regional organizations are the “engines” of …
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Women and education : social feminism and intellectual emancipation in England and America
… aspect of social feminism was intellectual emancipation for women. Such intellectual emancipation came about through the blending of ideas emanating from prominent cultural and social centers in the western world. Women had been absorbing the reformist ideas of the Enlightenment …
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Black Abolitionists and Masculinity in the Age of American Emancipation, 1833-1863
In an effort to fill a lacuna in the historiography of black abolitionists and gender studies, this dissertation examines black abolitionists’ conceptions of masculinity and their efforts to grapple with manhood in a time of great change and transition. The focus of this work are three escaped …
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The Catholic emancipation movement and the Society of United Irishmen, 1788-1798
The turmoils and character of the present-day Irish people can best be understood through a knowledge of the events which occurred and relationships that existed nearly 200 years ago. For their support of James II in 1690, the Irish Catholics were gradually placed under a system of Penal Laws. …
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Federica Montseny and Mujeres libres : two approaches to women's emancipation based in Spanish anarchism
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 1987.
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Deadweight loss and the American civil war : the political economy of slavery, secession, and emancipation
Two broad positions have dominated the history of economic thought with respect to chattel slavery. The view of the classical economists, dating back as far as Adam Smith and including a good many abolitionists, was that slavery was inefficient and therefore unprofitable. The contrasting position …
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Socioeconomic Emancipation and Integration of West Africa: The Role of the West African Gas Pipeline
… Pipeline (WAGP) is playing in the socioeconomic emancipation and integration of the region as its major purpose. The paper concludes that WAGP’s project has brought significant changes to the region; it has endured negative consequences on communities around the pipeline areas, such as …
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“They Know Too Much Already:” Black Education in Post-Emancipation Era Columbus, GA, 1866-1876
… Columbus’s freedmen school efforts in the post-emancipation era, through those African Americans’ own historical voices and experiences. Though an analysis of archived unpublished letters, local and religious newspapers, census data, government documents, and meeting minutes, this study recovers …
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A Nietzschean investigation of the attainment of consciousness and emancipation by android hosts in HBO’s 'Westworld'
This dissertation is concerned with analysing the mental progression of the android hosts featured in the first season of HBO's series Westworld and it will specifically focus on the development experienced by the two hosts Maeve and Dolores. The analysis will be undertaken by means of the …
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“Emancipation from that Degrading Yoke”: Thomas Jefferson, William Eaton and “Barbary Piracy” from 1784 to 1805
<p> <p>The following essay examines the image of "Barbary piracy" created by two prominent political figures, Thomas Jefferson and William Eaton, and by the American public from 1784 to 1805, and how those images shaped the policy of the American-Barbary War. Eaton‟s Orientalist approach to …
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