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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"Militancy"”.
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Militancy, commitment, and Marxist ideology in the fiction of Dan Billany
Dan Billany (1913-1943?) published only four novels, yet in those novels he engages in the debates that preoccupy Britain in the 1930s and 1940s. Billany’s view of the period, however, differs from that of his more famous contemporaries. As a young working class man, he challenges contemporary …
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On Cinema and Revolutions: Tricontinental Militancy and the Cinema of the Palestinian Revolution
This thesis explores and analyses the Cinema of the Palestinian Revolution as an expression of Third Cinema, a political and aesthetic project created and sustained by filmmakers throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America during the 1970s. The research is an attempt to place the Cinema of the …
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A comparative assessment of the socio-economic dimension of Niger delta militancy and Boko Haram insurgency: towards the security-development nexus in Nigeria
… dimension (drivers and effects) of Niger Delta Militancy and Boko Haram insurgency, within the ongoing debate on the nexus between security and development. Using the mix of Root Cause and Rational Choice theories (2RCs), the study through qualitative methods, demonstrates the relative …
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Uplifting The Black Race - only males need apply : Black male militancy in Malcom X, Panther, Boyz n' the hood, and Get on the bus
… the films articulate black manhood through militancy and its subsequent sexual appeal. Since the focus of these films is intentionally on the male characters, the black woman's role in the liberation struggle is portrayed as being of little consequence. This is not to say that the narratives …
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Connection and Resistance: Civilian experiences of violence in conflict zones and their impact on civilians’ political preferences for violent and nonviolent resistance
… is state use of force successful at containing militancy, and when might it simultaneously, or instead, radicalize members of the civilian population? I present a new theory evaluating social isolation and social connection as mechanisms affecting civilians’ political preferences in response to …
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The structuration of industrial relations in the South African garment manufacturing industry : 1968-1986
… been maintained and perpetuated by the lack of militancy on the part of the Unions, and an explanation of the observed lack of militancy is provided by the examination of action around the bargaining in the respective industrial councils.
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Johannesburg, 1917 to 1930 : a preliminary study of the protest and conditions of the African people
… Yet, as suddenly as it began, the popular militancy of the 1917 to 1920 period evaporated; in its stead came a period of dominance by petty bourgeois organisations accompanied by a decline of working class protest. This dramatic change in the quality of working class resistance merits …
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Attitudes of Principals Concerning Their Role as a Result of Professional Negotiations in the State of Washington
… follow in the future as a reaction to teacher militancy.
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Studying Janus behavior : how support, deterrence, grievances and organizational structure shape violent and peaceful behaviors
… personalities, simultaneously including militancy and nonviolent mobilization in their toolbox of behavioral options. In order to be seen as legitimate actors in the political arena, these groups eventually must forswear violence. However, environmental incentives for violent behaviors …
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Afro-Canadian activism in the 1960s
… increasingly militant in the 1960s. The rise in militancy in the Afro-American leadership of the 1960s was one factor contributing to the new era of black politics in Canada. Increased immigration from the West Indies also encouraged the proliferation of Afro-Canadian organizations dedicated to …
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Why Refugees Rebel: Militarization in Jordan and Worldwide
… marginalization from the host state, militancy entrepreneurs and political opportunity. This framework is applied to in-depth case studies of two refugee groups, Palestinians and Iraqis in Jordan. Why did Palestinians militarize from 1964 to 1970, but not earlier or later? Why have …
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Sectoral clashes and forgotten classes : rural workers and the Peronist state, 1946-1948
… a case study illustrating the 1946-1948 labor militancy among harvest workers in the province of Santa Fe, this study examines why rural workers failed to appear alongside their urban counterparts in the union movement under Perón. The Santa Fe harvest strikes demonstrate how rural workers …
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African American women and tenant management of public housing: A case study of Stella Wright
… working-class Black tenants blended grassroots militancy with political savvy as they successfully fought for community control of public housing from the high-rises to city hall to Washington, D.C. Building upon social networks and indigenous leadership within the project, tenant organizers …
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Insurrection in Black: Reading Race and Revolt in the Long Nineteenth Century
… violence: “Insurrection in Black” brings black militancy to the center of the long nineteenth century’s literary and cultural life.
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The Anti-Plantation Uprising: Indigenous Kinship, Territories, and Communal Politics in Guatemala, 1966-1982
… stories of Maya communal politics and individual militancy from the standpoint of indigenous narratologies of the war. This dissertation reinterprets one of Latin America’s Cold War paradigmatic cases from the standpoint of indigenous villagers.</p>
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The Anti-Maynooth Campaign: A Study in Anti-Catholicism and Politics in the United Kingdom, 1851-69 (Protestantism, Ireland)
… political State was one which excluded religious militancy from considerations of practical politics.
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White labour and the 'social democratic' movement in the Transvaal; the South African Labour Party, the South African Trades and Labour Council and their trade union affiliates, 1930 - 1954
… is generally considered to have dampened the militancy of the white workers by institutionalising the trade unions within a statutory collective bargaining system. The South African Labour Party served as the junior partner in the famous 'pact' coalition government from 1924. The South African …
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Public Health and the Politics of Haussmannization in Nineteenth-Century Paris, 1830-1870
… of poverty, crime, and working-class militancy in response to the arrival of cholera and the increase in working-class unrest during the July Monarchy. Hygienists hypothesized that these issues stemmed from workers' moral degeneration and constituted public health crises due to their …
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