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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Historical Dynamics"”.
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The philosophical and historical dynamics of Watsuji Tetsuro's cultural phenomenology
This study will examine one of the greatest modern Japanese philosophers, Watsuji Tetsuro. In a long and prodigious life Watsuji produced some of the most insightful works now extant in ethics, cultural identity, and intellectual history. This work will explicate two pillars of Watsuji's …
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Security councils have feelings, too : applying an old tool in a new setting can help bridge the research-practice gap in Arctic geopolitics
… and complicated factors. Not only are larger historical dynamics at play, but polic-makers are also struggling with new technological advancements and their impact on day-to-day interactions that shape policy. This paper works towards a more predictive theory for Arctic Geopolitics by applying …
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HILLARY CLINTON MOBILIZES INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE AGAINST IRAN WITH THE TRADITIONAL RHETORIC OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY
… approach while retrieving the political and historical dynamics which best contextualize Clinton's effort. Given former president George W. Bush's tragic misconstruction of the Iraq WMD threat, and the subsequently restrictive expectations of American foreign policy, Clinton summons a number …
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Arabic-learning among the Minangkabau: attitudes, motivations, and collective religious memory
… Minangkabau learners of Arabic. Concerning the historical dynamics between Islam and Minangkabau, collective religious memory, which Maurice Halbwachs and Danièle Hervieu-Léger suggested, functions as the theoretical foundation of this thesis’ data analysis. Ethnography serves as the approach to …
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"Marimba, por tí me muero": Region and Nation in Costa Rica, 1824-1939
… century to 1939, this dissertation studies the historical dynamics between region and nation. The concept of region employed here is not focused on an economic, geographical, or historical entity but understood primarily as a space and a community imagined by the promoters of regionalism and by …
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The politics of the traditional Korean popular song style T'ŭrot'ŭ
… the song style differently, reflecting on their historical experiences against circumstantial politics. Thus, the history and the practice of t’ŭrot’ŭ has been deeply integrated with the socio-political and historical dynamics of South Korean society.
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The pros and cons of corruption of firm performance : a micro-level study of businesses in Indonesia
… Indonesia, a country which by most accounts is historically one of the most corrupt in Asia, yet has sustained one of highest long term GDP growth rates in the world for almost 30 years. This paper assumes that, rather than being what the World Bank calls a "cancer on development", this paper …
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Media Representations of Gender-Based Violence Against Black Women: A Decolonial Feminist Analysis
… are narrative and physical continuities of the historical dynamics of power and domination against black women, that have founded GBV's present state, and which allow it to continue. These colonial narratives and the violences they perpetuate must be investigated in the various ways in which …
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Fragmented Landscapes: An Archaeology of Transformations in The Pra River Basin, Southern Ghana
… represents Atlantic influences and more recent historical dynamics and transformations of the colonial and post-colonial periods. I examine this fragmented landscape using satellite remote sensing, archaeological pedestrian survey, diagnostic artifact analyses, and limited test excavations to …
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Career Dynamics in the U.S. Civil Service
… a whole, this dissertation traces the historical dynamics of career progression for hundreds of thousands of individuals over multiple decades, elucidating both the career dynamics experienced by civil servants as well as the external influence of those collective dynamics as allocative …
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Conversion as transformative experience: a sociological study of identity formation and transformation processes
… study is the phenomenon of conversion and the dynamics involved in the construction of that process. Establishing the axial age as the horizon from which the process of conversion emerged will be the main theme of the first part of the study. Identifying the ‘birth’ of conversion allows a …
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Images, Institutions and Evolving Nation: Transformations in Australian art, museums, and the cultural imaginary in the 20th century
… ideas and embodied concepts of social and historical experience. It is argued that the records provided by artworks, their interpretation, and their continuing experience accessed through museums, galleries and pictorial libraries, as well as their study as projected by varied academic …
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Images, Institutions and Evolving Nation: Transformations in Australian art, museums, and the cultural imaginary in the 20th century
… ideas and embodied concepts of social and historical experience. It is argued that the records provided by artworks, their interpretation, and their continuing experience accessed through museums, galleries and pictorial libraries, as well as their study as projected by varied academic …
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The international criminal court state cooperation regime : current controversies in historical and theoretical context
… highlights the complex legal, political, and historical dynamics of international criminal law enforcement more broadly, in order to identify the factors most likely to influence the success or failure of the ICC State Cooperation regime in years to come. The dissertation is current to 1 …
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The international criminal court state cooperation regime : current controversies in historical and theoretical context
… highlights the complex legal, political, and historical dynamics of international criminal law enforcement more broadly, in order to identify the factors most likely to influence the success or failure of the ICC State Cooperation regime in years to come. The dissertation is current to 1 …
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Contribution of civilians towards the liberation struggle in Oshikoto and Ohangwena regions, Namibia, 1966 - 1989.
… This qualitative study delves into the intricate dynamics of civilian experiences during Namibia's liberation struggle in the Ohangwena and Oshikoto regions from 1966 to 1989. Utilizing structured interviews with 21 purposively and snowball- sampled participants, the research unveils multifaceted …
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A survey of anticyclonic mesoscale eddies, within the Southern Ocean, and their propagation south from the South West Indian Ridge
… were also to examine both the recent and the historical trajectory characteristics of the southward advecting anticyclonic eddies, to confirm the origin of the two sampled eddies, and to assess the structural differences between the two anticyclonic eddies. This paper plots the behaviour of …
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Land and Colonization: A Nehinuw (Cree) Perspective
… use of the Nehinuw (Cree) language and cultural historical knowledge provides new factual information, and new conceptual understandings on the issue of land and adjoining matters that critique, reaffirm or challenge existing assumptions and misconceptions regarding Indigenous peoples, Algonquian …