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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Forms of Action"”.
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AS VÁRIAS FORMAS ORGANIZACIONAIS DE ATUAÇÃO EM RESPONSABILIDADE SOCIAL CORPORATIVA E SEUS IMPACTOS INTERNOS NAS ORGANIZAÇÕES OS GRANDES BANCOS NO BRASIL
… disseminating research on the internal impacts of various organizational forms of action in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of the main Banks established in Brazil. It also aims at identifying the principal motivating factors of the banks acting in this area. The focus of this work is to …
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The Rise Of The Social And The Change In The Political: A Consideration Of Arendt, Habermas, And Foucault
<p>I explore parallels within the work of Hannah Arendt, Jürgen Habermas, and Michel Foucault. I examine the unexamined connections and commonalities among the works of these three preeminent political theorists with the aim of understanding our common, contemporary construction of "the political." …
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Negotiating Expertise: The Strategies Writing Program Administrators use to Mediate Disciplinary and Institutional Values
… budget, teaching faculty, and other aspects of writing classes for first year students as part of a university's general education curriculum. Throughout their daily tasks, the directors of these programs must work with the requirements of their institution, must build relationships with …
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On healthcare and healing - my inquiry into learning from giving birth too soon - learning from and for liminality
This thesis follows a decade of living life as inquiry. After giving birth prematurely, 400 days spent in neonatal units and years of community-based healthcare interventions for my children, I turned to both action research and healthcare improvement as a path to self-recovery and …
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Os media digitais nos processos de identidade, pertenças transnacionais e integração : estudo de caso de imigrantes brasileiros no concelho de Grândola
… flows worldwide, regulatory institutions of world trade, network communication or international migration – we witnessed the outbreak of a world increasingly articulated worldwide. In this "network society", the digital media have transformed the social life, creating new forms of action …
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The Management of Oppression: Focussing on relationships between refugees and the British state in Newcastle upon Tyne
… Marxist analysis to investigate the role of interests, consciousness and unpaid activity of refugees and asylum seekers in shaping their relationships with the British state, including case studies from the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. I argue that antagonism between the British state and …
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The 'Feminization' of the Everyday: Examining the Gendered Nature of Worker Resistance within the Transnational Call Center Industry
… 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. Further, by …
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A New Story for the Anthropocene: Partial Knowledge and the New Weird in Jeff Vandermeer's Annihilation
… for the Anthropocene. Due to the complexity of the concept as well as the different ways that disciplines approach how they study and write about the Anthropocene, it is challenging to settle on one dominant narrative or way of thinking about the Anthropocene. Because the Anthropocene forces …
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Youth-adult Partnerships Creating Positive Environmental Change
… they typically act with adult guidance. The role of adults, however, is largely absent in literature around youth participation in environmental action. This research explored through phenomenological interviews with 33 practitioners (e.g., teachers, extension educators, community organizers) …
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Valuing disorder: perspectives on radical contingency in modern society
… the relationship between social and individual forms of ordering social life on one hand, and the emergence of a number of ‘spheres’ of disorder in the experience of life on the other. In modern society such evidence of disorder can only be characterised in terms that reinforce the negative or …
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Three Essays on Dynamic Games with Incomplete Information and Strategic Complementarities
This dissertation consists of three essays that adopt both theoretical and empirical methods of analysis to study certain economies in which the incomplete information and the strategic complementarities between players are important. Chapter 1 explains the topics discussed in the subsequent …
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Social Stratification, Cultural Identities, and Politics of Leadership: The Consolidation of a National Culture at a Papua New Guinean University
… in Papua New Guinea (PNG) experience processes of social stratification and differentiation. In particular, I describe and analyse how students and staff reflect on and enact reciprocal obligations to their kin, how different cultural identities are forged and strengthened at university, and how …
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Musikskap : Musikstunders didaktik i förskolepraktiker
… music activity in preschool settings. The aim of the study is to describe and to analyze the didaktiks in music activity in preschool settings. The aim of the study is also on research basis to try out concepts that denote and capture the figuration of music activity. The overall research …
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"We Came Here for Work": Recollections of Globalisation and Changes to Work in a New Zealand Single Industry Town
… with intensification in the mobilisation of goods, services, capital and people by scholars focussed on organisational research. Kelsey (1997) and Stiglitz (2003) are among those scholars who hold that this intensification has been enabled by processes of change in the political economy. …