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Showing 1 to 20 of 705 for “"Hegemony"”.
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Hegemony and nuclear proliferation
Contrary to longstanding of predictions of nuclear tipping points, the number of states interested in nuclear weapons has sharply declined in recent decades. In contrast to existing explanations, this dissertation argues that the decline is largely attributable to US nonproliferation policies, in …
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Overrepresented Man: Genre, Violence, and Hegemony
This thesis explores the intersections between practices of epistemic production and distribution and material violence. Following the work of Sylvia Wynter, a framework of "genre" is engaged to provide an account of intersectional social identities, disproportionately distributed hegemonic …
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Hegemony and Culturedness: Elites after Socialism in Mongolia.
… By engaging with Gramsci’s concept of hegemony I trace the complicated factionalism among elites within the wider cultural setting of the contested ‘regimes of truth’ of Mongolian public culture.
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Hegemony and rebellion in Pernambuco (Brazil), 1821-1835
This is a study of Pernambuco's socio-political history between 1821 and 1835. It starts with an analysis of the process of independence in Pernambuco, leading to a division of the elites in 1824. Thereafter two factions of the local elites would strive for control of the state apparatus during the …
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The Thatcher era: economic decline and electoral hegemony
The reelection of Mrs Thatcher's Conservative Government to a third term of office in June 1987 was remarkable and deserves repeated and in depth analysis. The performance of the government, and <i>Thatcherism</i> need to be seen in terms of their success in reversing Britain's relative economic …
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Hegemony, Habitus and Identity in Japanese University Men's Rowing
… understandings of the social world and hence hegemony at play. Education in Japan is highly valued and is a site of not only academic learning but also explicit and implicit moral and social education. One of the primary vehicles of this moral and social education is located in sporting …
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BRICS Currency and Dollar Hegemony: Passing of the Torch?
… power to challenge the U.S. Dollar for currency hegemony, creating an unprecedented situation in the global economy. In the present study, the author explores the viability of a BRICS currency acting as a meaningful source of counter-hegemonic power which could, in reality, undermine the power of …
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Hegemony, marginalisation, and hierarchies: Masculinities in contemporary Pakistani anglophone fiction
By being empowered as subjects, authors of Pakistani anglophone fiction present a more nuanced, layered, and complex picture of Pakistan than the Western hegemonic discursive construction of the country as a hub of terror. Contemporary Pakistani anglophone fiction provides an insight into the …
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Threats to the Hegemony of the Communist Party of Vietnam
This document analyses the current threats to the stability of the Communist Party of Vietnam, using as a primary framework the theory of Gene Sharp concerning weaknesses of authoritarian regimes. The thesis concludes that the communist government faces many threats from most segments of society, …
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Climate Impasse, Fossil Hegemony, and the Modern Crisis of Imagination
<p>I argue in this dissertation that “climate impasse” — knowing much and doing little about climate change — has become a defining political, social, and cultural problem of the contemporary period (1980s to the present). Supposing that representations of impasse reveal something about the …
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The construction of "hegemony" in selected nuclear nonproliferation "regime" literature
… that of a constructed U.S. dominance, or hegemony, regarding the formation (Nye), boundaries and elements (Nye and Smith), and maintenance (Nye and Smith) of the nuclear nonproliferation 'regime' (hereafter NNPR). The role of 'learning' within regime theory is also 'critically' reviewed. …
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The construction of "hegemony" in selected nuclear nonproliferation "regime" literature
… that of a constructed U.S. dominance, or hegemony, regarding the formation (Nye), boundaries and elements (Nye and Smith), and maintenance (Nye and Smith) of the nuclear nonproliferation 'regime' (hereafter NNPR). The role of 'learning' within regime theory is also 'critically' reviewed. …
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Households and Hegemony: An Analysis of Historic Creek Culture Change
Culture change in the post-contact Southeast is often defined through the analysis of large socio-political movements and unique historical events, without an appreciation for the role of smaller social groups and individual social actors. This dissertation assesses Creek culture change through the …
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Decolonizing Democratic Hegemony: The Indigenous Movement and Democratization in Ecuador
This thesis examines the role of the indigenous movement in Ecuador on the ongoing process of democratization in that country. My study demonstrates that a comprehensive social movement such as Ecuador's indigenous movement has great potential for having a positive impact on democracy. However, …
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Religion and hegemony : A Gramscian approach to the Chavín Staff God
This thesis uses Antonio Gramsci's theory of the hegemonic process to conjecture the political meanings of the Chavín Staff God icon. This religious symbol appears at Chavín de Huántar around 500 BC and is reconficured in the iconography of succeeding states and egalitarian groups to the present. …
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Blogging the hyperlocal : the disruption and renegotiation of hegemony in Malta
… is being deployed to disrupt institutional hegemony in Malta. The island state is an example of a hyperlocal context that includes strong political, ecclesiastical and media institutions, advanced take-up of social technologies and a popular culture adjusting to the promise of modernity …
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The Rise and Fall of the Crudsades Through Vatican Political Hegemony
<p>Traditionally, the Crusades have been viewed as occurring between the 1095 speech given by Pope Urban II at Clermont until the fall of Acre in 1291, yet recent scholarship has shown this to be inaccurate. By shifting the focus from a chronological start to a definitional origin, this thesis will …
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Regionalisation in Southern Africa : the problem of malign South African hegemony
Includes bibliography.
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