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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Human & social geography"”.
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African Caribbean educational experiences in Preston: A case study
… and qualitative methods. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) is used to analyse the survey data while Nvivo is used to analyse the interviews conducted. Both packages yielded significant results. The research concludes that while racism remains a widespread educational experience among …
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Differential rates of vandalism in a new town: Towards a theory of relative place
… the housing market, macro economics and social and cultural structures. In explaining vandalism no one theory, such as defensible space, will do. We need to take into account a multitude of factors - such as the relative desirability of housing areas, tenants self selection processes, …
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The political ideology of Subhas Chandra Bose: A reappraisal
… is variously described as either a fascist or a socialist, or both by modern historians, who cite his similarities to western politicians and politics of the time, and his links with them. The work subsequently explains in detail the individual aspects of Bose's political maturation, by examining …
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Financing Lancashire's industrial development
Historians of industrial financing have often adopted a single-firm or single issue approach, emphasising prominent companies that have bequeathed documentary riches on which detailed studies can be based. However, historians concede that such firms were untypical, as most businesses disappeared …
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The role of Independent Human Rights Institutions for Children in Africa in raising Awareness about Children's Rights among children
… 2 2002. It explores ways of using Independent Human Rights Institutions for Children (IHRICs) to raise awareness about children’s rights among children; so that children can participate and lead in realising their rights. A review of the literature focussed on theories of childhood as a social …
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Sectarianism in the north west of England, with special reference to class relationships in the city of Liverpool 1846 - 1914
… working-class anti-catholicism. within a broader social context whilst retaining. sight of the intricacies of the subject itself. Chapter One describes the city of Liverpool in the nineteenth century, with a view to providing not just a backdrop to the thesis but Pýso revealing some of the forces …
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The Scaling of Power in West Cumbria and the Role of the Nuclear Industry
This thesis explores the relationship between a global industrial actor and its regional host, and what that can tell us about neoliberalism and globalisation. The relationship between the nuclear industry, in particular the Sellafield site, and the West Cumbrian region where it is located is the …
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Male values and male violence
… perceived threats and challenges and how age, social support and alcohol consumption influence aggressive responses. The observations also generated data that indicates that inter-male conversations may have ritual elements and may be used to maintain and acquire status. The Masculinity …
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An immanent critique of the African regional human rights system: Theory, practice and reforms
… thesis is an immanent critique of the African human rights system. It, therefore, examines the practice of human rights as set by the African people as opposed to purely external transcendental forms of critique. This is carried out by studying the theory of the African regional human rights …
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Irish republicans and Basque abertzales: to what extent is the Irish peace process an effective model for a Basque peace process?
This thesis will attempt to explore and identify what it sees as the essential components of the peace process in Northern Ireland in its political and historical context and assess the extent of its applicability to a Basque peace process. In exploring the usefulness of the Irish peace process as …
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Minority Christian groups in the third reich: their strategies for survival: a comparative study
… between the major churches and the National Socialist regime was inevitable, there has been little written on the relationship between the Nazis and the Christian sects. This work takes five of the largest and most representative sects in Gennany and examines what happened to them during the …
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Aspects of agrarian change in south-west Lancashire
… in a way which suited the local economic and social setting. In terms of farm size, labour structure and land use, the farmers of south-west Lancashire fell outside contemporary (and subsequent) perceptions of best practice. Lancashire developed a highly specialised and productive agricultural …
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Research into the impact of digital technology on contemporary Hollywood cinema
Since Jurassic Park (dir. Steven Spielberg), released in 1993, the use of computer generated images, or COl, in mainstream Hollywood cinema has become a dominant tool in contemporary flimmaking. Until now the impact of CGI has been scarcely written about, mostly confined to small sections of …
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"A certain middling thing": Locating identity in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair
This thesis aims to delineate and subsequently test a model of individual identity that draws on a number of aspects of cultural theory as well as of communication studies. The model is envisaged as dynamic in form, postulating that identity is not solely the result of the individual's expression …
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Lancashire and the exclusion crisis
Recent research has concentrated upon studies of local communities in the earlier part of the 17th Century. Historians have tended to close their studies by 1660. Furthermore research has tended to concentrate upon Southern counties. Therefore, a fundamental objective of this thesis is to examine …
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The sins of the father: a study of patrilineality in Colm Toibins' The Heather Blazing and Dermot Bolger's The Valparaiso Voyage
Inspired by Anthony Clare's notion of a "masculinity in crisis", my thesis explores two narratives written by male authors from the Irish Republic in an effort to determine if (and how) an ongoing and often heavily resisted "feminist" and gendered "revolution" (Clare 4) has shaped men's …