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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Enmity"”.
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From enmity towards alliance: The United States and German demilitarization, 1942-1947
This thesis examines the rehabilitation of western Germany from a totalitarian enemy to a democratic partner involved in a military alliance. Previous accounts of German remilitarization focus almost exclusively on the growing Cold War tensions after 1945 and argue that the Korean War acted as the …
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Monstrous visions: mechanisms of defense and regimes of visibility
… analyzes the concepts of social defense and enmity by focusing on the aesthetics and politics of monstrosity. Three main historical figures of monstrosity, the Monster of Ravenna, Marie Antoinette, and Henriette Cornier, are analyzed through the Foucauldian framework of power and visibility, …
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The securitisation of ethnic identities and the 1993 genocide in Burundi: an interpretative case study
… By reconstructing particular representations of enmity in historical perspective, the dissertation locates the crux of the Burundian tragedy in the emergence of ethnicised discourses on security. Incidentally, the interpretative analysis reveals a convergence in the subject matter of African …
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Witness intimidation in the industrial court
… they speak in the knowledge of cultivating enmity and possibly of inviting reprisal. It says a great deal for the respect accorded to the law and its processes and for people's desire for justice that adversarial proceedings do not generally find that courage lacking.
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States of Suffering: Marital Cruelty in Antebellum Virginia, Texas, and Wisconsin
… that marriages were often characterized by open enmity, not companionate harmony. Violence and cruelty between spouses generally erupted as part of ongoing struggles for power in the household and in the relationship. As the only book-length study of marital cruelty for a southern state, this …
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"We are Refugees in Our Own Homeland": Land Dispossession and Resettlement Challenges in Post-Conflict Teso, Uganda
… the dynamics that underlie the long history of enmity between Teso and Karamoja regions, including the longstanding dispute over the correct inter-regional border. At the heart of this confounding problem--like most challenges facing Teso--is the issue of tenure rights to an increasingly …
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'Garden of evil' : images of the enemy in American war literature 1962-1990
… sites of conflict and expressions of enmity in therelations of writer, narrator and reader.
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Islamophobia and the Politics of the Human in Contemporary German Mediascapes
… of interreligious/inter-imperial external enmity and western superiority, plays a key role across German(ic) history, from Frankish clashes with early Islam, to the Crusades, Habsburg-Ottoman rivalry, among others, and later, to the Federal Republic’s transformation into an immigration …
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Female Friendship in Greco-Roman Antiquity
… a pair offemale friends as well as concerns with enmity and identity.</p> <p>Part Two contains Chapters Three and Four, which examine the Roman male and female perspectives. The male sources reveal a peculiarly Roman concern with power and hierarchy, while the theme of female speech continues in a …
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Holiness and humanism: a comparative-religions commentary on book 2 of Cicero’s laws, with special reference to Confucianism and Chinese thought
… parallel Confucian-Mohist enmity, and the common substrate of family and family rite; mistaking propriety for agnosticism and tacit knowing for unbelief; reliability of the canonical texts; the sages' descendants and classical explicators; tyranny as the sin of parricide: …
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Prudence and decorum and the invention of american democracy: an examination of the ratification debates for the federal constitution in 1787-88
… the discussion forward without creating undue enmity from the upstate opposition. </p> <p>Throughout the debates federalists patiently explained, defined and redefined the contested terms of the constitution, thus creating through discourse, and energeting and effective form of government.</p>
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The Lived experience of the popular music festival-goer.
… a sense of communitas and of personal angst and enmity in relation to others. Finally, whilst hedonistic behaviour led to a sense of heightened excitement and euphoria, it also engendered shock and concern over the extent of some deviant behaviour.
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The narrative of Ephesians 2:11-22: motion towards maximal proximity and higher status
… an agent, breaking down walls and abolishing enmity, and ultimately is the builder of the structure. The narrative ends with movement into the temple, with Christ as both builder and cornerstone. The writer uses spatial locations in each of the Acts to communicate social relationships; these …
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The Seed in Genesis 3:15 : an Exegetical and Intertextual Study
… serpent and the woman becomes the long-lasting enmity between their respective plural collective seed comprising all human beings. This narrows down into a fatal clash between Satan, the singular serpent, and the Messiah, the singular, individual representative Seed of the woman. Chapter 2 …
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MacKinder meets Buzan: A Geopolitical Extension to Security complex Theory with an emphasis on the Polar Regions
… defined by the social condition of amity or enmity. However, strictures embedded within this typology prevent the same methodology from being used to explain regionalisation when threats arise from non-traditional sources or the affected states lack geographic contiguity. To overcome this …
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The role of cooperation in the development of inter-Korean relations, 1972-2007
… through ups and downs, often characterized by enmity and hostility. The first event in inter-Korean relations was in fact the Korean War (1950-53), which had the specific intent of reunifying the peninsula manu militari. Later, this attitude transformed into a hostile confrontation, until the …
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Problematising the public interest as a tool of neoliberal urban planning
… politics, spatial segregation and entrenched enmity. This raises important distributional issues regarding the public interest and how it is operationalised and understood by planning.<br/><br/>While accepting the problematic and contested nature of the concept, the thesis contends that the …
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An End in Herself: Non-Motherhood in Contemporary French Women's Writing
… nos vies (2008). Rewriting the traditional enmity between mothers and non-mothers, the central themes of un/fulfilment and dis/empowerment are enhanced through several childless figures, who give voice to alternative, extra-familial models of kinship and connection, permitting for a radical …
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Inimicitiae in Tacitus
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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