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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Historical materialism"”.
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Freedom rising : a reconstruction of historical materialism by Debra M. Satz.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1987.
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The problem of hegemony in Gramsci : a critical discussion of Antonio Gramsci'a contribution to a Marxist theory of the state and politics
… Gramsci's contribution towards a revaluation of historical materialism.
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The rhetorical dimension of an apology for slavery.
… focus. Three methodologies will be utilized 1) historical materialism, 2) Dialogism, and 3) Living Systems Theory. Each methodology will focus on different aspects of narratives in both African American and European American communities in order to better understand the rhetorical processes that …
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Towards a political economy of the sacred: a Marxist critique of the sacred dynamics of society
… the study of religion, politics and the economy. Historical materialism, it is also concluded, has many flaws and weaknesses; including idealism, economism and a productivist bias, that make it essential to re-think and to re-materialise the methodology. The product of this work is a unique …
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Problematizing the present and possibilizing the future : designing a critical historiography "history of the present" framework for social studies education.
… the present’ curricular framework for critical historical analysis in social studies classrooms using a Design-Based Research methodology with a Constructivist Grounded Theory approach and an embedded multiple case study. By drawing on various approaches to critical historiography, including …
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People making history : the last ten thousand years of hunter-gatherer communities in the Thukela Basin
… My reasons for adopting a socially orientated historical approach concern the social relevance of archaeology, and the need to generate the best possible insights into past societies. I submit that historical materialism offers a very valuable framework for social historical analysis. The …
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Spatiality of power surrounding "the Nenets'" involvement in local tourism industry development
… broader context of Marx’ political economy and ‘Historical Materialism’, has been developed. The case study locality is in a country with a non-colonial past, being in transition from socialism to capitalism, with the tourism industry at an early stage of its development. Of core interest to the …
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Walter Benjamin and Kitsch Politics in the Phantasmagorical Age
… approach is built on Benjamin’s notion of historical materialism. Thus, I engage with the historical object(s) (e.g., arcades, fashion, technological reproductions etc.) not as “object(s) of experience” but as a “participant(s) in historical experience” (Caygill 2004, 90). Challenging the …
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Regional Differences in the Treatment of Karl Marx by the Founders of American Academic Sociology
… of class, surplus value, capital, capitalism, historical materialism, class consciousness, and property.
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Religion, class and culture : indigenous churches in South Africa, with special reference to Zionist-Apostolics
… establishes the problematic of this primarily historical and theoretical work on indigenous churches in South Africa. The existing literature is surveyed, explanatory themes isolated and a critique of the dominant functionalist framework offered. A different theoretical framework - historical …
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The Public Library as Past Become Space
I use Walter Benjamin’s historical materialism in The Arcades Project to critique contemporary notions related to the understanding of the public library as a place. My critical theoretical approach, grounded in historical research and Benjamin’s theories of modernity, highlights contemporary …
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An examination of the politico-literary strategies of some Third World writers
… this respect. I also used the Marxian concept of Historical Materialism in order to distinguish progressive interpretations from reactionary ones. The critical writing of Ernst Fischer was used in order to show that there was no unbridgeable gap between theoretical work in the "Third World" and …
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"The Most Previous Refuge of Hope": Herbert Marcuse, Alienation and the Space of Possibility in European and American Contexts
… reading of Marx, as found in "The Foundations of Historical Materialism"; the difference between Marcuse's interpretation of Marx and the "standard" mechanistic reading, including a discussion of Marcuse's criticisms of reductionist use of the base and superstructure model of historical …
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Gestão e participação na Escola Família Agrícola da região de Alagoinhas – BA.
… It presents inspirations of dialectical historical materialism with Gramsci (1975) and Saviani (2014) who discuss the hegemonic project ofm society, frontally marking the field of education. Silva (2000; 2003; 2010), Chartier (1986), Nosella (1977) and Queiroz (1997; 2004) contribute to …
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Doing the work : the Black Lives Matter Movement in Austin, Texas
… politics of recognition, intersectionality and historical materialism. Ultimately, I argue that it is Black anger, and not the Sisyphean model of Black love/forgiveness, that offers the most compelling speculative work for the future of Black Studies and Black movements.
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The Marx-Freud synthesis of Erich Fromm : a critical examination and appraisal
… of the way in which Fromm redefines Marx's historical materialism by recourse to Freud's psychological theory in an effort to comprehend the relationship between the economic substructure (base) and the ideological and cultural superstructure more adequately. In so doing, it critically …
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Heritage of the Red Orient : theories and practices of architectural restoration in Soviet Central Asia (1920-1991)
… heritage formulated within the discipline of historical materialism; in Soviet historiography of Central Asian architecture the category of progressive heritage was linked to the mathematics of proportioning and harmonization derived from Neoclassical architectural theory. Thus the …
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Exclusion in the global political economy: a critique of orthodoxy
… and institutions.<br/>This obscures how both the historical construction and political governance of the market produce patterns of social exclusion. To move beyond this failing we employ Marx’s historical materialism as an alternative perspective which brings to light the production of exclusion …
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Novel Properties: Communication, Copyright, and the British Novel, 1710-1774
… Influenced by the assumptions and methods of historical materialism, and aiming to critique romantic notions of authorship, such projects have sought in the eighteenth century a narrative of the 'rise of the romantic author.' Though productive, this approach has sometimes obscured other …
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