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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Historical Sociology"”.
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What Happened to Mexican Eugenics?: Racism and the Reproduction of the Nation
This thesis uses historical sociology to explore the ways in which eugenics was carried out in Mexico. Particularly, this research seeks to analyze the historical continuations of eugenic measures and ideas in Mexico and the ways in which this impacts and echoes in the twenty-first century. This, …
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The Irish revolutionary period as a rite of passage: things hidden since the foundation of the state
… of key concepts from Szakolczai's reflexive historical sociology and political anthropology to an interpretation of Irish history during the revolutionary period from 1916 to 1927, and more particularly to an appraisal of the central figure of Eamon deValera. The hypothesis suggests that a …
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Constructing Historical Realism : International Relations as Comparative History
In this study the author seeks to develop Historical Realism as a new approach to International Relations. Drawing on recent theoretical developments in International Relations and Historical Sociology it is argued, first, that a distinction between constitutive and causal theory is necessary and, …
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Constructing Hegemony: The Latin American Boom and the Book Industries of Spain and Mexico, 1963-1967
… research design consisted of interviews, historical sociology, bibliographical and archival research, and cultural, social, and political analysis. The context thus compared is one in which a group of outstanding authors and other actors, such as an editor and a literary agent, fully …
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The Infrastructure of Peace: Socio-spatial planning in UN Peace Operations
… peace studies through an approach informed by historical sociology. I offer an urban planning perspective on peace operations, and specifically its infrastructure building. Through three case studies, this dissertation explores the ‘infrastructural imaginaries of peace’ – infrastructure as …
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The Political Economy of Transnational Drug Trafficking: Criminal Rackets and State-Making in Modern Mexico
… separating the ‘police’ from the ‘criminal’ is historically fluid and at times very thin. Generated by the capitalisation of economic relations, waves of bandits and criminals have often been instrumental to advance the interests of their enabling economic and political elites by forming the …
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Geopolitics, State-Formation and Economic Development in Quebec and Ontario
… period. With a few notable exceptions, existing historical interpretations assume that capitalism was there, at least in embryo, from the colony’s very beginning in the guise of the fur trade, manufacturing, or a local bourgeoisie. By contrast, this thesis brings together, through a comparative …
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A socio-historical analysis of the development of cricket in England since 1800.
… of modern sports have attempted to follow the historical-sociology method advocated by Abrams (1982). Three exceptions to this are the works of Dunning and Sheard (1979), Hargreaves (1986) and Guttmann (1978), all of whom attempt to use different theoretical perspectives in order to reveal the …
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Colonial matriarchs in the British slavery economy: exploring the socioeconomic landscape of mixed-heritage women in Jamaica from 1750 - 1850.
… women during the slavery period. Majority of historical texts are written and referenced from a colonial British, European or an American perspective, while Caribbean academics, writers and contributors to their history are devoid of similar exposure. Data derived from the slavery compensation …
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Decolonising Cosmopolitanism
… My focus is on contemporary debates in historical sociology, international relations/international political economy, and philosophy, and across the spectrum of approaches and methodologies called “critical theory”. In the first part of the thesis, I continue and intervene in the …
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Canadian province-building : the state as educator and entrepreneur in Alberta
… of Alberta, the study is a critical work of historical sociology, in which the shifting social role of a system of educational provision during two transitions of a regional political economy is analyzed. Comparative observations are made in reference to other systems of educational provision …
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The Journalist as Neoliberal Lone Wolf: On Mexico’s Imaginary Reporters and Collaborative Resistance in a Divided Guild
… and how was this discourse created and enforced historically as a benchmark of professionalism? What are the political uses and epistemic blinders of this neoliberal professional gaze? Does the “lone wolf” discourse ignore or distort important parts of everyday journalistic practice? What are the …
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Engaged scholarship at the South African College of Music of the University of Cape Town: An exploratory study of the perceptions and practices of full-time music academic staff
… landscape after 1994. Given the legacy of historical inequalities continuing to permeate all spheres of South African society including higher education, the idea of social-justice-centred engaged scholarship forms the main thrust of the narrative in this thesis. Furthermore, with music …
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Socially necessary labour: countering the regime of speculative capital. A decolonial case-study from the east-central european semiperipheries in the age of illiberal democracy
This thesis provides an in-depth analysis of ‘postartistic practices’ in Hungary and Poland between 2010 and the present day, a period marked by the far-right authoritarian turn of the two countries in the East-Central European (ECE) semiperiphery, commonly referred to as ‘illiberalism’. To gauge …
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An Integral Analysis of the Life and Works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937)
… an overview of Sorokin’s perspective, regarding sociology as a generalizing discipline, which will be applied to phenomenon of horror, demonstrating the continued relevance of Sorokin's understanding. In chapter 3, Sorokin’s sociological theoretical perspective will be described and then united …