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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Looting."”.
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Race & Crime on the Evening News: New Orleans in the Days after Hurricane Katrina
… framed crime, the perpetrators of crime and "looting." Media perpetuation of myths such as residents shooting at helicopters and the focus on "looting" and crime had on initial rescue and recovery efforts are also discussed. Results illustrate that the focus on crime, criminals, and looting …
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"A nation can stay alive when it's culture and history stay alive" : Afghanistan's ongoing battle to protect its cultural heritage from looting, war, and terrorism.
… have heard the story and seen the images of the looting in Iraq, especially at the Baghdad Museum. While the world was quick to react to the events in Iraq, similar events occurring for the past thirty years in Afghanistan have largely been ignored. The archaeological record in Afghanistan …
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The historical re-evaluation of cultural heritage in modern post conflict situations
… to us all in both current times with the looting of the Iraqi Museum in Baghdad and in the past as seen in the bombing of many cities during World War Two. The reasons for destruction are often complex and difficult to determine despite much speculation in the news. What is perhaps given …
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Politics as Loot: Reflections on Theories of Decline in Political Thought
… Furthermore, by uncovering the anxiety of the looting of political inheritances present within the fear of political decline, this thesis shows how the apprehension of politics falling into the wrong hands is often embedded within the terrible fantasies of the passing of a political …
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Three Essays on Moral Self-Regulation of Honesty and Impression Management
… moral hypocrisy and impression management. The "looting game" is presented which lets participants loot money from a charity box being subject to altruistic punishment from observers. For their punishment decision observers are provided with a history of participants’ past actions. This design …
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Materialising Power: The Role of looted European Cultural Objects in Nazi Elite Self-fashioning
… ideology, and self-fashioning. It argues that looting was not a by-product of war but a deliberate strategy central to Nazi cultural policy, disguising theft as legality while reinforcing the regime’s symbolic authority. Focusing on Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, and Heinrich Himmler, the study …
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A Call To Arms: The Militarization of Natural Disasters in the United States
… streets after a natural disaster, reporting on looting and crime, and keeping citizens in a controlled environment, our expectations after a natural disaster strikes have gone from lending a helping hand to ensuring surveillance and uncertainty about crime are the predominant focus. </p>
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Female camp followers with regular army forces during the American Revolution
… orders against straggling, riding the wagons, looting, and the illegal sale of alcohol in an effort to control the women's behavior. Such efforts only achieved intermittent success.
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A Safe House for Orphan Parts an Architectural Proposal for a US Center for Illicit Antiquities
… architectural opportunities to tell the story of looting in relation to terrorism.
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Chinese Benteng Women’s Participation in Local Development Affairs in Indonesia: Appropriate means for struggle and a pathway to claim citizen’ right?
… disaster furthermore has led to massive looting that severely impacted Indonesians of Chinese descendant, including unresolved mystery of the most atrocious sexual violation against women and covert killings of students and democracy activists in this country. Since then, precisely …
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Essays on institutional persistence, contract structure, and authority
… practice often leads to illegal excavation and looting for the black market, which damages objects and destroys important aspects of the archaeological record. Chapter Two argues that many of the goals for export bans could be better accomplished through the use of long-term leases which would …
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American archaeology and the conceptualization of preservation : Edgar Lee Hewett and the crafting of the 1906 Antiquities Act
… protected the ruins of America's deep past from looting and destruction; at the same time, sites were made available to scientific teams and curious citizens. Balancing scientific and popular interests, Hewett's work as a promoter and advocate of America's prehistoric period ignited an historical …
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The differential impact of war and trauma on Kosovar Albanian women living in post-war Kosova
… displaced. Moreover, rape and torture, looting, pillaging and extortion were committed. The aim of my dissertation is to rewrite aspects of the recent belligerent history of Kosova with a focus on how history is created and transformed through bodily expressions of distress. The …
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The head of chief Mkwawa and the transnational history of colonial violence, 1898-2019
… of colonial collecting as constitutive to the looting and exhibition of colonial artefacts. The continued display of a skull in Tanzania demonstrates the moral challenges colonial legacies pose for successor regimes. Focusing scholarly attention on Mkwawa’s head as a symbolic object, therefore, …
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The 1914 forced displacement of the Ottoman Greek population of Phocaea: an online interactive documentary.
… digital ark of memory about the June 12-13, 1914 looting of the coastal towns of Old Phocaea and New Phocaea (in what is now Turkey) by Ottoman government-backed irregulars, with the aim of forcefully expelling the local Ottoman Greek population. An instance of ethnic cleansing, the events easily …
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Origins of Roman art
… their insatiable appetite for art. Systematic looting after successful military campaigns was not able to satisfy such greed. Needless to say, Greek art was most desirable. But new ways had to be found to fill Roman demands for art. Romans were not known as great inventors but rather as …
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Explaining cohesion, fragmentation, and control in insurgent groups
… military power. Rather than encouraging looting and thuggishness, resource-wealth can fuel highly cohesive and disciplined armed organizations. The interaction of social bases and external support generates empirically distinct trajectories of organizational cohesion. Mechanisms …
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HIDDEN IN THE COAT: GEOMICROBIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF ROCK ART ECOSYSTEMS AND CHALLENGES FOR THEIR SUSTAINABLE PRESERVATION
… the threats of human development, vandalism, looting, inadequate tourist management and natural weathering. It is fundamental to understand how rock art was made and its state of preservation before we can proceed with any preservation issues. Technical analysis of pigments and ochre …
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The politics behind the establishment of United Nations-mandated fact-finding missions: the case of Myanmar
… one of the most impoverished states in Myanmar, looting and killing nine police officers and injuring another five. In turn, military and police targeted and attacked Rohingya armed groups, killing many innocent civilians. On 24 March 2017, the European Union, supported by the United States, the …