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Showing 1 to 20 of 345 for “"Marginalisation"”.
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Political Marginalisation and Political Violence in the Niger Delta
… analyses the relationship between perceived marginalisation and the willingness of civilians to participate in, and justify political violence in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region. The dominant literature in this area tends to highlight political, economic and identity marginalisation as the …
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Hegemony, marginalisation, and hierarchies: Masculinities in contemporary Pakistani anglophone fiction
… of honour culture, male entitlement, and racial marginalisation on diasporic Pakistani masculinities in Maps for Lost Lovers and the impact of global and political shifts on hegemonic masculine ideals and transnational business masculinity in The Reluctant Fundamentalist. This research maps a …
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Witchcraft accusations and persecution as a mechanism for the marginalisation of women
… accusations and persecution are being used as a marginalisation mechanism of women. The re-emergence of witchcraft beliefs in contemporary society and the prevalence of the violence associated with such beliefs has received little attention within academic literature, yet witchcraft related …
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Modernity, nationalism and global marginalisation: representing the nation in contemporary Taiwanese art exhibitions
This thesis describes and analyses the development of the most prestigious large- scale exhibitions of the Taipei Fine Arts Museums from its opening in 1983 until 2009, concentrating on the Trends of Modern Art in the R.O.C. series of the 1980s , the introduction of the Taipei Biennial in 1992, and …
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Commissioning genetic modification: The marginalisation of dissent in the royal commission on genetic modification
The Royal Commission on Genetic Modification (RCGM) appeared to be a 'public debate'. It sought the participation of people from a cross-section of society according to its broad terms of reference, and invited input on 'options' for the nation. The majority of the public and special interest …
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Claiming voice and identity: Black young Londoners' experiences of marginalisation, critical consciousness and empowerment
… London Black young people perceive and construct marginalisation. It draws on their experiences of marginalisation to advance a contextual understanding of this phenomenon and the use of voice. The study analyses the narratives of Black young people, how they construct their views, and how they …
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The marginalisation of racism : a study of a local education authority project on multicultural education
The study originated from an independent evaluation of a Local Education Authority (LEA) project on multicultural education undertaken by a team of four teachers in two schools; a predominantly white, co-educational rural grammar school and a multi-racial, co-educational urban secondary modern. The …
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On the periphery of hate crime: disability at the intersections of marginalisation, vulnerability and difference
This research explores the nature and impact of disability hate crime from the perspective of disabled people, victims and key informants from criminal justice and other agencies. The evidence base included two focus groups with disabled people, an online anonymous questionnaire with 83 disabled …
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"NEET" or left out?, disadvantaged young people, everyday experiences of marginalisation and "accelerated" transitions in urban Scotland
While social, economic and political transformations inscribed in current neoliberal capitalism have significantly changed contemporary young adulthood, social divisions continue to shape young people's lives and transitions. A considerable body of research has linked socio-economic inequalities …
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(Un)Exceptional: Representations of the Marginalisation of Black Female Queer Desire in Chinelo Okparanta's “Under the Udala Trees” and Leona Beasley's “Something Better Than Home”
… challenges that are a result or cause of this marginalisation. This comparative thesis of Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees and Leona Beasley's Something Better Than Home examines the ways in which religion; notions of secrecy and censorship; as well as compulsory heterosexuality and …
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Enduring intersectional precarity: A history of resistance by women informal traders in Harare (Zimbabwe), c. 1965 to 2022
… forces, including structural racial and gendered marginalisation; socio-economic crises; systemic absence of State support; punitive regulation of the informal sector and a pandemic. While informality is not a new phenomenon in Zimbabwe, its expansion post-economic liberalisation has significantly …
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The role of physical education in South African primary schools
… primary school education sector. Through this marginalisation, Physical Education has been reduced from having full subject status, to being only one of the components of one of the primary school learning areas, namely, Life Orientation. Simultaneously, Physical Education finds itself in a …
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Dochas is Duchas, Hope and Heritage Gaelscoileanna; Transforming Power and Linguistic Ideology
… Education throughout history, focussing on the marginalisation of the language, and current disparities of policy and practice that persist today. Gaelscoileanna emerge in response to the marginalisation of the Irish language in Education. Gaelscoileanna are both produced by and productive of …
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Domestic Work as Decent Work: An Empirical Test of the Predictors of Decent Work To Extend the Psychology of Working Theory
… revealed that the scales used to measure marginalisation, economic constraints, work volition and proactive personality were one-dimensional, and the decent work scale was fivedimensional (complementary values, access to health care, adequate compensation, free time and rest, and safe work …
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Pinnip pinainthu kidakkum oorangattthalkalai kattudaiththal: Reimagining social activism with intersectional subaltern activist consciousness
… pain and suffering. Every instance of marginalisation and oppression, especially in the North and the East of this war-torn ‘teardrop island’ in the Indian Ocean, is a product of multiple crimes against humanity at various levels. Alongside marginalisations and oppressions exist the …
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Can the life stories of adult learners offer insights into the development of understanding and knowledge for critical adult and community education? An exploration of the experimental reflections of four adult learners in Ireland.
… of the respondents spoke of their experience of marginalisation and its effect on their lives, highlighting the contention that societal structures work to marginalise people, those who are perceived as different. Using Human Scale Development theory (Max-Neff, 1991) I will discuss the …
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The effects and socio-economic contribution of Batonga Community Museum in Zimbabwe : an ethnographic field study
… address since its national independence in 1980. Marginalisation of some ethnic groups has been one of the persistent problems in post-colonial Zimbabwe. Of particular significance to this thesis has been the marginalisation of the BaTonga people of north-western Zimbabwe. The marginalisation of …
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'Of the holy londe of Irlande': A reconsideration of some Middle English Texts in late medieval Ireland
… in part, be seen to stem from their respective marginalisation in the shaping of literary histories - literary histories that are in themselves both the product of, and instrumental in shaping, what are arguably post-medieval conceptions of cultural and national identities.<br/>Whilst the …
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