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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"Leftist"”.
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A Case Study of Leftist Terrorism in Turkey
… by various groups, expressing ideologies of leftist and rightist organizations, as well as ethnic and religious extremists. This thesis examines DHKP/C as the primary leftist revolutionary group effecting Turkey, exploring its historical background in Europe and the Middle East, as well as …
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Preaching Marxism? The Politics and Ethics of Leftist Muslim Activists in Java
… involved in existing Islamic social or secular leftist political activism. I show that their religious interpretation iii radically critiques modernist approaches that tend to emphasise individual piety and otherworldly salvation and that solidarity with the kaum Mustadl’afin – the downtrodden – …
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The Kuomintang left in opposition, 1928-1931 : the leftist alternative in Chinese politics
… Kuomintang Left started in late 1928 when the Leftist leadership was displaced from the Party Central in Nanking and its positions in the party at regional level were being challenged. The Leftist opposition movement against Nanking can be divided into two important phases. The first phase …
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The Kuomintang left in opposition, 1928-1931 : the leftist alternative in Chinese politics
… Kuomintang Left started in late 1928 when the Leftist leadership was displaced from the Party Central in Nanking and its positions in the party at regional level were being challenged. The Leftist opposition movement against Nanking can be divided into two important phases. The first phase …
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Marxism After Modernism: Anglo-American Leftist Theorisations of Modernism in the Later Twentieth Century
This dissertation considers the manner in which a number of key Marxian intellectuals from the Anglo-American cultural left, including Perry Anderson, Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson, Edward Said, Raymond Williams, Rosalind Krauss and others, have attempted to make sense of both literary high …
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For Tomorrow They Will Not Recognize Us: The American Reception of Soviet Leftist Art
… approach to the reception of Soviet leftist art of the early 20th century in the United States. I explore the ways that Soviet movements like Suprematism and Constructivism were appropriated as a vehicle for political meaning by American institutions and the means by which those …
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The crisis of leftist urban theory in postmodernism : the case of the L.A. 'School'
… into the ways a particular group of leftist scholars approach a city having selected from this heritage particular methods of explanation. In particular it is focused on postmodernism as a significant disruption in Marxist theory of the city. The 'LA School' represents one response to …
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Genealogies of feminism : leftist feminist subjectivity in the wake of the Islamic revival in contemporary Morocco
… is an ethnographic and genealogical study of leftist feminist subjectivity in the wake of the Islamic Revival in contemporary Morocco. It draws on two years (2004-2006) of field research amongst founding members of the Moroccan feminist movement whose activism emerged out of their immersion in …
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Framing Alberta’s NDP: How is the AbNDP, a Vehicle for Leftist Politics, Framed in a Conservative Canadian Province?
Alberta’s identity as Canada’s most conservative province is reinforced by the fact that conservative parties maintained majority governments for over fifty years. However, when the Alberta NDP (hereafter AbNDP), led by Rachel Notley, was elected in 2015, conservative parties during the 2015 and …
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Corporatism and leftist governments: a LISREL analysis on their effects on the economic performance of selected advanced capitalist democracies
… groups and the State, and with the strength of leftist parties in these nations. In reviewing the literature, I have found basically two approaches to corporatism: ( 1) a 'structural' approach, which emphasizes sociological characteristics of the actors, especially labor unions; and (2) a …
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Fight or Flight? Democratic Consolidation and Capital Flight in Latin America
… Typically, as mass mobilization strengthens, Leftist parties embrace the aims of popular movements whose electoral support subsequently increases to levels that allow them to form governments committed to redistribution. Under these conditions, as mobilization and support for the Left …
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ALT-RIGHT OF THE_DONALD AND AUTHORITARIAN COMMUNISTS ON REDDIT: INTERNET MEMES TO BUILD COMMUNITY
… authoritarian communist discourse on Reddit. The leftist community splintered when r/socialism banned a community member because the person made catgirl art. The ban sent shockwaves through the leftist community on Reddit and generated old faction lines between the authoritarians and anarchists on …
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Policies of different governments : persistence and interactions
… other, a right-wing government that succeeds a leftist one chooses more left-wing policies. However, when the preferences of the politicians are sufficiently different, a conservative government selects more right-wing fiscal policies when following a leftist administration in order to address …
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Green Expectations: Politics of the Environment in Pink Tide Bolivia
… moral and political object, in a context of new leftist governance in Latin America? How do people seek to organize and act politically around environmental issues, amidst frayed and tenuous alliances? What specific – and often contradictory – trajectories might ideas about environmental …
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Writers of the Nation: Intellectual Identity in Bulgaria, 1939--1953
… from oblivion of an entire generation of non-leftist interwar intellectuals, who were purged from national and cultural memory after WWII. By focusing on the way in which these writers, their associates and friends negotiated social expectations of service to the nation with personal career …
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Defining ‘Un-Americanism’ in Culture and Art: The Dies Committee’s Investigation of the Federal Theatre Project
… professionals in the theatre, had an undoubtedly leftist bent. However, the hearings were consistently focused on the project's progressive stances on issues of race and gender, and effectively exposed the underlying cultural motivations of the infamous committee.</p>
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The (Re)emergence of eco-fascism : white-nationalism, sacrifice, and proto-fascism in the circulation of digital rhetoric in the ecological far-right.
… is no longer the sole domain of progressive and leftist politics. A recent uptick in violent outbursts by white nationalists espousing eco-fascist political beliefs indicates a troubling trend in environmental politics. Brenton Tarrant, the Christchurch shooter, and Patrick Crusius, the El Paso …
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Transforming Popular Catholicism: The El Shaddai Movement of the Philippines
… their times. Old Catholic notions of suffering, leftist ideologies of struggle and oppression, and old forms of sacred power and mediation no longer speak to the contemporary spiritual and material needs of many Filipinos. Revealing the voice of a marginalized sector of society, El Shaddai …
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Marxist Insurgencies and Indigenous Rights; The Cases of Guatemala and Peru
… the nature of the relationship between leftist armed guerrillas and indigenous rights in the Latin American region. I argue that the ethnic component and indigenous mobilization have greatly determined the political and social achievements of Marxist insurgencies active in many countries …
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The Performance of Gender: Five Comparative Biographies of Women Performers in Musica Popular Chilena
… called la nueva ola. Rebeca Godoy performs for leftist organizations in the canto nuevo style originating from the dictatorship (1973--1990). Javiera Parra, the granddaughter of folklorist Violeta, leads the band Javiera y los Imposibles, which blends experimental performance with Javiera's …
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