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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Localism"”.
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How does localism for standards work in practice? The practitioner’s view of local standards post Localism Act 2011
… thesis examines the new regime brought in by the Localism Act 2011 for promoting and maintaining standards of conduct of members of English local government. It asks how practitioners can improve their practice in the implementation of new legislation addressing the issue of standards of behaviour …
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Growing Support: Localism, Nonprofits, and Food Access in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… This thesis explores the emergence of food localism practices by food advocacy professionals as a capacity-building tool for New Orleans residents to increase community food security and develop a sustainable local food economy. This paper finds although alternative agro-food networks have …
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The impact of broadcast localism on Delaware Valley news and talk radio
… was to the examine the influence of Broadcast Localism on news/talk radio in the Delaware Valley to determine how it might impact the future of the medium as a viable public relations tool. A non-scientific snowball survey of 19 Delaware Valley public relations professionals was used to …
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THE ONTOLOGY OF DIFFERENCE: NATIONALISM, LOCALISM AND ETHNICITY IN A GREEK ARVANITE VILLAGE
This thesis focuses on the dilemma caused by visible differences which are used etic-ly to envisage a group as an ethnic group. The Arvanites are a group of Albanian speaking Greeks who have been living in Greece for one thousand years. They are thought to have come to Greece as mercenaries. The …
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Scalar Politics: Sustainability planning under Localism and the delivery of London's Olympic legacy
… Scalar politics: Sustainability planning under Localism and the delivery of London’s Olympic legacy Andrew Hoolachan This thesis seeks to address a research gap concerning the relationship between the Localism Act 2011 and planning’s central purpose of achieving sustainable development. In …
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The Paradox of Localism: Exploring rhetoric and reform promoting the devolution of power, from 1964 to 2017
The Localism Act 2011 is one of many reforms over the past few decades aimed at English local government and its service delivery areas, with the expressed aim to empower citizens and oversee democratic renewal. However, localism has been marked by two fundamental contradictions. Firstly, despite …
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Aspects of a Localized Ocean: A Cultural Ethnography of Surfing
… project evaluates the way in which culture, localism, and globalism (also referred to in this thesis as (g)localism) performatively converge in surfing communities. Localism, in accordance with the sport of surfing, include various communicative forms of aggressive behaviors by surfers, meant …
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Encouraging greater public participation in neighbourhood planning : an ethnographic examination of the impact of the Localism Act 2011 in England
… role for civic action through the adoption of localism (Corry & Stoker, 2002: Brownhill and Downing, 2013: Bailey, 2017 & Bradley, 2016a) Legislative changes were introduced in the Localism Act 2011 and subsequently amended in the Neighbourhood Planning Bill 2017 (see DCLG et al). This …
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Essays on the behavioral political economy of housing
… the election. The second paper explores how localism, the belief that the interests of established members of the local community trump those of newcomers and outsiders, and liberalism, a preference for egalitarian norms, jointly shape attitudes toward housing growth. I use a novel survey …
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Call school: A history of rural education in the Midwest to 1918
… In particular, the rural traditions of pietism, localism, and pastoralism are examined as major components of agrarian ideology. Each in a significant way suggests that rural people often believed there were limitations to the benefits of common schools.
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One Nation, Separate Spheres: An Examination of Red Power Activism Between Two Mohawk Communities
… efforts to bring about social change. The localism of native activism before the occupation of Alcatraz also extended to intratribal divisions which is illustrated by two separate activist events in the Mohawk communities of Kahnawake and Akwesasne.
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Local Identity in a Capital: Negotiating the Local and the National in Late Ming Nanjing
Can localism take place in a capital? This paper investigates how the native literati in late Ming Nanjing visualized their identity in terms of the local or the national. By analyzing 3 different genres of works by these literati (the biji, pictorial guides and religious writings), I argue that …
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Making It Work: Small-Town System Building in Homelessness Service
… skirted ownership, the American tradition of localism prevailed, and in the early 1980s homelessness services were developed by non-profit entrepreneurs quite separate from existing systems of health and social services. Within a decade, federal intervention began to suggest—and then …
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Growing pains: the local food movement in northern Colorado
… movements. Critics often undermine the power of localism movements and claim that local food is a short-term trend that will not impact the larger market. In my thesis, I explore the local food movement in Northern Colorado. My analysis draws on fieldwork I conducted in 2009-2010 and includes …
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Cultures of Technoscience: A Study of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Mri) Research in the United States and India
… dominant/dominated, or globalism/localism. The development of MRI, since its birth in the early 1970s, has been located within a transnational network. This network has been constituted by a fairly flexible flow of scientists, knowledge, and artifacts across national boundaries. …
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Vending Vice: The Rise and Fall of West Virginia State Prohibition, 1852--1934
… defined by intense political and social localism to an outlook more closely aligned with Progressive-era activism. In other words, before the turn of the twentieth century, West Virginians accepted localized liquor proscription, but tended to avoid more bureaucratic or statewide …
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To what extent is the New Deal for Communities an appropriate basis on which to tackle social exclusion?
… socially excluded areas and its commitment to localism and devolved decision-making.
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City of Ambition: Franklin Roosevelt, Fiorello La Guardia, and the Making of New Deal New York
… price control, and the roles of federalism and localism in New Deal statecraft.
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