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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Everyday politics"”.
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Everyday Politics of Forced Migration: Refugees, Host Community Members, and the Local Context
… literature on forced migration by explaining how everyday politics influence new social dynamics in cities of arrival. Most of the existing research focuses on the Western context and highlights the cultural differences between the host community members and the refugees who arrive from outside of …
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Power, participation and everyday politics within state-led urban renewal in Hong Kong
… and examines the ways power, participation, and everyday politics shape urban renewal outcomes in Hong Kong. Hong Kong has a long history of state-led urban renewal, which continues to lead to displacement and change the form and function of neighbourhoods. Driven by profit, and a culture in …
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Designing policy feedback : experimental evidence on the everyday politics of the social contract
… The modern social contract generates everyday interactions between citizens and states. In this dissertation, across three papers and three countries, I examine when and how such policy experiences shape attitudes toward government, using experimental methods grounded in a comparative …
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Strangers made intimate: Contemporary ethnic relations and everyday politics in a Sino-Vietnamese border commune
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The World Is Not Yet Completed: Moral Imaginaries and Everyday Politics in Progressive Religious Communities
… civically engaged social actors connect their everyday behavior to wider universes of meaning. I use the concept as a way to anchor discussions of meaning within social movements that privileges the lived, sense-making activities of social actors, showing the co-construction of imagination and …
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Collective Action and Everyday Politics of Smallholder Farmers in Ugbawka: Examining Local Realities and Struggles of Smallholder Rice Farmers
… on an ethnographic research and explores the everyday practice of collective action in Ugbawka in Enugu State by using interviews and participant observation. The study reveals that smallholder collective action is not best fitted into formal institutional arrangement but takes place within a …
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Humour as Negotiation: Digital Cultures of Friendly Political Humour on the Chinese Internet
… or subversive implications and wider impacts on everyday life. I argue that these much-neglected cases of humour are highly relevant to understanding everyday politics in authoritarian societies. Based on ethnographic observations on Chinese social media, discourse analysis of online humour, and …
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Empire's metropolis : money time & space in Colonial Bombay, 1870-1930
… or nationalist resistance by examining the everyday politics of stock and real estate speculation, public clocks, land and private property, maps and topographical surveys, and buildings and streets in colonial Bombay. These "modern" technologies of calculation, coordination and control in …
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The 'Feminization' of the Everyday: Examining the Gendered Nature of Worker Resistance within the Transnational Call Center Industry
… complex relationships that exist between gender, everyday forms of worker agency and resistance, and the global political economy. I argue that the gendered division of labour within the global political economy has led to the development of gendered opportunity structures of worker resistance. …
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Peripheral Alternatives: Media and Tibetan Nationalism in the Chinese Tibetosphere
… Tibetosphere, the struggling land of national politics situated between the two power centres of China and the exiled Tibet. For individual Tibetans on the ground, the small pieces and specific details in everyday life dominate their thoughts and reduce the national motions and political …
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Living With Diversity: Everyday Encounter and the Politics of Tolerance
… examines the relationship between tolerance and everyday encounter to consider how it is embodied, produced, and sometimes compromised by the intimacies of everyday practice. Whilst state mobilisations and discourses of tolerance clearly inflect its practice, the study argues that current debates …
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Moving, waiting, searching across borders: Gendered geographies of violence, disappearance and contestation in southern Mexico
… migrant and body-territory epistemologies of everyday politics, arts-based contestations and performative acts, revealing and making present the bodies, spatialities, and knowledges that populate a geopolitically manufactured border and migration “crisis” in southern Mexico. The research …
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A Feminist Approach to the Study of Norm Implementation in the Global Refugee Regime
… migration studies increasingly engaged with the everyday politics of the refugee regime, it is useful for our understanding of norms to evolve in a similar way. In response, this dissertation asks: how can we advance our understanding of the implementation of people-centred norms in the global …
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Unsettling Times: land, political economy and protest in the Bedouin villages of central Jordan
… and their entanglement with various modes of everyday politics, in order to understand how and why political forms and identity categories are adapted and reproduced, especially in the context of new rural protest movements. This provides a new approach to wider processes of nation-building, …
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Facebook as a disruptor of journalism and political debate in Vietnam
… allowed to say by the older generation and the everyday politics of Facebook exchanges. In doing this, they are shaping the identity of a Facebook generation. Facebook is now being used in ways that make it resemble a public sphere, realising its potential for political expression. A Thematic …
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Wastelands of difference? Urban nature and more-than-human difference in Berlin and Gothenburg
… accounts tracing the implications of recognising everyday urbanities as contingent, yet multifarious, wholes of more-than-human socialities, as defined by anthropologist Anna Tsing. The thesis shows that through the formulation of an expanded notion of more-than- human urban difference, and an …
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(Re)Placing America: Cold War Mapping and the Mediation of International Space
… labor unions, educational publishers, even everyday citizens. As each of these sources confirms, the scope of American commitments had expanded considerably; to account for this expansion, a cartographic impulse underwrote the continually evolving Cold War, and the tensions of art and …
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Competing Populisms: Public Interest Litigation and Political Society in Post-Emergency India
This dissertation studies the politics of 'Public Interest Litigation' (PIL) in contemporary India. PIL is a unique jurisdiction initiated by the Indian Supreme Court in the aftermath of the Emergency of 1975-1977. Why did the Court's response to the crisis of the Emergency period have to take the …