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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"International networks"”.
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Flesh yours, bones mine : the making of the biomedical subject in Turkey
… or dead donors have become commodities in the international networks of trade. This dissertation tries to understand religious, political and ethical discourses on this emerging economy and how it creates its subjects in Turkey. By drawing analogies from the early days of anatomy and mental …
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Making the West End modern: space, architecture and shopping in 1930s London.
… in a new way studies of shopping routes and networks, retail architecture, spectacle, consumer types and consumption practices. The study first establishes the importance of shopping geographies in understanding the character of the 1930s West End. It positions this shopping hub within local, …
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German film, world travel: Berlin, Hollywood, Bombay
… travel opportunities were limited and Germany’s international prestige was severely damaged, these films provided a conduit through which Germans could participate in international exchanges. Second, German filmmakers who traveled were able to create a network of industrial connections around the …
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Public engagement in sustainable urban development: From engagement to co-creation through a smart city approach, Windhoek, Namibia
… economic success of Namibia, as the center of international networks and where the government sits, this places a significant responsibility on national and local authorities to sustain the population. Globally, 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected …
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An investigation into the irregular military dynamics in Yugoslavia, 1992-1995
… of command and control, and of domestic and international networks, presents the webs of support that enable and encourage irregular military dynamics. The findings suggest that irregular combatants have participated to such an extent in the perpetration of atrocity crimes because political …
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The impact of civil society networks on the global politics of sustainable development
International networks of non-governmental organisations have assumed increasing importance in global politics over the past two decades. Attention to issues of environment and sustainable development in particular present a strong rationale for their engagement as active participants at every …
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Transnational Women’s Organizing in Colonial Tunisia (1929 – 1963)
This thesis traces the tenure of two international women’s organizations with branches in Tunisia during the colonial period: the Tunisian Section of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), founded in 1929 and active until World War II, and the Union des Femmes de Tunisie …
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Analysis of global airline alliances as a strategy for international network development
… three GALs transported over two-thirds of all international traffic. This thesis studies the reasons that cause an increasing number of airlines to join this collaborative scheme as a way to develop a wider network and to increase profitability by serving international connecting traffic. The …
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Localizing the Holy Land: The Visual Culture of Crusade in England, circa 1140-1307
… The crusade movement concurrently formed dynamic international networks and disturbed geographic, cultural, religious and social boundaries in both the East and West. Because the most immediate zone for cultural and artistic exchange during the Crusades was the Holy Land, it has been the subject …
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British botanic gardens and the biodiversity crisis, c.1960 – c.2000
… Kew began to engage with the initiatives of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and follows through to the early 2000s when many of the projects under discussion evolve into something new or end completely. It is driven by a research question that has deep significance for …
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RETURNED DIASPORA, NATIONAL IDENTITY AND POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN LATVIA AND LITHUANIA
… and information from different national and international networks. This research adds to the body of knowledge on the institutional and cultural legacies of Sovietization. The research also highlights the importance of how national identity is defined in creating political opportunities for …
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Feminism Under and After Franco: Success and Failure in the Democratic Transition
… unusually repressive outlier either within its international networks or among its peers. Rather, in terms of women’s civic participation and economic rights, which were the group’s major areas of focus, the policies that the <em>Sección Femenina</em>pushed aligned with those of organizations …
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Leadership strategies employed in the public sector for promoting urban climate transition: the case of Cape Town, South Africa
… in governance interventions, experiments, and networks, leading the way in resilient, low-carbon, and sustainable urban development, and driving innovative climate governance that spurs climate action. Understanding how to effectively lead the urban climate transition poses a significant …
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The Collecting Habits on an Eighteenth-Century Englishman of Discernment: Charles Rogers, FRS, FRA (1711-1784)
… actively in the intellectual and antiquarian networks of his time through his affiliation with the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society. This dimension of Rogers’ activity has remained underexplored in existing scholarship. His extensive and unpublished correspondence with leading …
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The map defines the territory: Remodelling NGO partnerships for knowledge translation in transition contexts
… in a case study examining support within an international partnership, where findings were seen to diverge from conventional accounts of organisational dependence. Instead case findings pointed to an inter-dependency more alike to a ‘knowledge transfer’ relationship between a younger …
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Policy issue networks: Social network analysis case studies
… policy makers to understand the online policy networks in which they operate. It does so by undertaking SNA at two points in time to quantify the actor nodes of three Canadian public policy networks, comparing the network evolution over time, and visualizing their structure and relationships …
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Peter Oliver and the Miniature in Stuart England
… the biography, commenting on the importance of international networks, questions of nationalism, and cultural traditions from abroad. There are five main chapters, as well as an introduction (I) and conclusion (VII). Chapters II and III focus on Oliver’s biography and his London-based community. …
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The legitimation of science in the early German enlightenment Leipzig, ca. 1687-1750
… of the ways in which supra-regional and international networks centering in the Saxon area operated. Local developments, even when strictly bound to local conditions, signaled the general directions of the Enlightenment movement in Germany as a whole. The processes that allowed science to …
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Un Buenos Aires ibérico: Cultura impresa y modernidades divergentes en el exilio (1936-1959)
… of migratory movements, and the creation of international networks built on fraternity and solidarity. Based on this diverse body of sources, I argue that exiled intellectuals organic to peripheral Iberian nationalisms during the pre-war period played an influential role in the articulation …
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"""When in doubt, deport!"": U.S. deportation and the local policing of global migration during the 1920s"
… global level, I explore U.S. participation in international networks to coordinate deportations, the complexity of addressing shifting borders and imperial landscapes, discourses around other nation's deportation practices, and challenges posed by deportees whose trajectories did not fit simple …
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