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Showing 1 to 20 of 1002 for “"Hegemonic"”.
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Hegemonic masculinity and aggression in South Africa
This thesis explores 'Hegemonic Masculinity and Aggression in South Africa'. It incorporates three separate, but sequential research parts, each building on the findings of the previous part in order to realise general research aims.
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Counter-hegemonic poetics in the work of Isabel Allende
… an influence resolutely at odds with the hegemonic values of bestselling fiction. The argument that Allende's fiction makes use of Marxist insight and argumentwhich I term "counter-hegemonic poetics" - is sustained in chapters four and five. These chapters explore Allende's critique of the …
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Empowerment: A Hegemonic Approach for Women in Informal Settlements
… is deeply rooted in neoliberalism and is a hegemonic governmentality for managing informal urbanization. As a poverty-reduction strategy, empowerment policy has invested in the internal economic potentials of informal residents and especially working women of informality. In this respect, an …
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Schooling Black Males: Hegemonic Discourses, Structural Barriers, and Strategic Resistance
… by both material constraints and oppressive hegemonic discourses. The purpose of this qualitative research study was to understand how such barriers and discourses affected these students and how the students negotiated their experiences in school. This study was designed to describe the …
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A Phenomenological Exploration of the Hegemonic Insider-Outsider in Teacher Education
… and manifestations of the phenomenon of the hegemonic insider-outsider in a teacher education course. My analysis shows how the hegemonic insider-outsider is produced as individual preservice teachers navigate various forms and levels of relationships, dominant discourses, oppressions, and …
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Plomer's portrayal of the family in relation to a hegemonic ideology
… and how colonial texts generally support the hegemonic ideology, that is, they offer a point of view which is racialistic and a picture of blacks which is patronizing and denigratory. With regard to the colonial white population, colonial texts generally portray a strongly patriarchal, often …
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From Shocks to Waves: Hegemonic Transitions and Democratization in the Twentieth Century
… spread of democracy over the past century. These hegemonic shocks lead to bursts of regime change by creating unique incentives and opportunities for domestic reforms, and do so through three sets of mechanisms - hegemonic coercion, influence, and emulation. Namely, shocks produce windows of …
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Discourse, platforms, and racialization: Danish Muslims navigating hegemonic Danishness on social media
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Turning Left: Counter-Hegemonic Exhibition-Making in the Post-Socialist Era (1989-2014)
… of curating has been used to further counter-hegemonic agendas in public art institutions since 1989. The central aim is to provide a fuller, contextualised, and medium specific understanding of the how the institutional exhibition might be used to challenge the hegemony of neoliberalism and …
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Hegemonic conflict in the Caspian region: Accumulation by dispossession and the spatial fix
… by dispossession and Arrighi's concept of hegemonic decline and conflict to understand the uneven development of this region.
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The New Man And The New Lad: Hegemonic Masculinities In Men's Lifestyle Magazines
Men are bombarded with contradictory masculine imagery in the media. The perfect man must be aggressive but not violent, sensitive but not emotional, healthy, active and smart without being an idealist, overachiever or too bookish. Heterocentric male focused lifestyle magazines rival women’s …
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Understanding discursive hegemony in Turkish politics : discursive strategies as instruments of hegemonic projects
… study re-conceptualizes discursive strategies as hegemonic projects and analyzes them with the help of the DHA (discourse-historical approach) in order to see the ways in which the ruling AKP tries to establish and maintain its political hegemony on the discursive level. In order to achieve these …
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Corporate-Community Mining Conflicts in Guatemala: Unsettling Hegemonic Power Relations in Environmental Struggles
<p>This dissertation analyzes corporate-community conflicts around extractive industries in Guatemala with the purpose of better understanding how environmental struggles emerge and take shape. The study uses environmental governance as a framework to analyze the processes, institutions, actors and …
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Kuduro, rap and resistance: Politics of music and activism in ‘new’ hegemonic Angola
… which consider human rights language as a global hegemonic framework engaging with injustices in a depoliticizing manner. Moving away from this theoretical preconceptions, I briefly discuss the extent to which transnational NGOs such as Amnesty International, paradoxically constrains and enables …
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A Feminist Autoethnography: On Hegemonic Masculinity, Failure, and Subversive Play in League of Legends
… three distinct, but interconnected concepts: hegemonic masculinity, weaponized failure, and subversive play. In chapter one, I use Raewyn Connell’s theory of hegemonic masculinity to analyze League of Legends. I argue that gameplay elements such as champion selection, communication, and …
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Decolonial Interstice in Carnaval Montevideano: Murga as Hegemonic Dissent at the Tablado de Barrio
… and identity; what this thesis refers to as hegemonic dissent. From the perspective of Transnational Feminism, and through the methods of critical discourse analysis and ethnography, murga offers its spectators a lesson in critical thinking through its satirical discourse. When complicity …
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Neo-Ottomanist Hegemonic Order and its Implications on Ankara’s Foreign Policy in the Balkans
Probably the first questions that arise when one starts to depict Turkish foreign policy (TFP) towards the Balkans are ‘what does Turkey really do in the region and what does it really want to achieve?’ which practically means that research may focus on the tools and the object of Ankara’s external …
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Don Cherry's Final Rant: Illuminating Canadian nationalism, racial xenophobia, and hegemonic masculinity
… salience of white supremacy, xenophobia, hegemonic masculinity and colonialism in Canadian sports discourse? Drawing on the fields of feminist, anti-colonial and anti-racist studies, and literature in sport studies I conducted a critical discourse analysis of comments on selected national …
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Sweating for democracy: working-class media and the struggle for 'hegemonic Jewishness,' 1919-1941
Using the framework of political economy of media, this dissertation examines the history of the Jewish working class counterpublic in the United States during the interwar period and its relationships to the broader public sphere. Between 1919 and 1941, organic intellectuals, such as B.C. Vladeck, …
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